Although it overlaps with EclipseCon Europe, should there be a similar need in Berlin I could step in over here.
Werner Werner Keil <[email protected]> schrieb am Di., 7. Mai 2019, 13:03: > Martin, > > Thanks for the offer. Not sure if Otavio or someone else from Uom was > able. > > I should speak at JCON in September which is close to my current > assignment. Thus I also limit international talks to countries near by or > events that sponsor the entire trip. > I know it exists for Apachecon but I can't afford to stay the whole time > which they require for travel support. > > Kind Regards, > Werner > > Martin Desruisseaux <[email protected]> schrieb am Di., 7. > Mai 2019, 12:40: > >> Hello all >> >> The ApacheCon North America will have a geospatial track [1] leads by >> the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) for the third year. Unfortunately I >> will not be able to attend that ApacheCon, but I would be interested in >> helping to prepare a talk if someone else volunteers. The talk could be >> an introduction to the recent advancements in referencing by coordinates >> (new conceptual model published conjointly by ISO and OGC, and its >> representation in Well Known Text format) and its implementation in open >> source projects. In particular the GDAL/PROJ community raised $144,000 >> for upgrading their library [2] and completed their work recently. The >> talk could do a comparison of GDAL/PROJ with Apache SIS and possibly >> other open source projects. Having this talk done by someone else than >> me could actually be an advantage for giving a more neutral perspective >> in this comparison. Interoperability between those libraries via GeoAPI >> would also be discussed. >> >> The deadline for submitting a talk is next Monday (May 13th). The >> ApacheCon is in Las Vegas in September. Is anyone interested in doing >> such talk? I would help her/him to prepare the abstract to submit on >> Monday and the slides for September. I may reuse that material myself >> for ApacheCon Europe (Berlin) in October. >> >> Martin >> >> [1] >> https://blogs.apache.org/conferences/entry/the-open-geospatial-consortium-lads >> [2] https://gdalbarn.com/ >> >>
