Paul, thanks so much for your tremendous efforts in this regard and spreading the word of OsGeo!
Best regards, Bart -- Bart van den Eijnden OSGIS - http://osgis.nl On May 17, 2013, at 9:52 AM, Paul van Genuchten <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi list at the 2013 edition of Geospatial World Forum held in Rotterdam 13-16 > may 2013 OSGeo cohosted a seminar on Open Source > (http://geospatialworldforum.org/2013/open_pr.htm). This document shortly > describes the key points raised in each presentation. > > Chair/Organiser: Paul van Genuchten - GeoCat/OSGeo.nl - NL > > Just vd Broecke - OSGeo.nl board - NL > Just gave an introduction to 'Open', touching on open data, open standards, > open source and open communities. Also he pointed out the parts of the > software value chain where Open Source companies generally make their > earnings, since the usual business case of selling licenses does not apply > here. > > Marjan Bevelander - Dutch Provinces - NL > Marjan presented on the open source strategy by the cooperating Dutch > regional governments. She explained this on two recent projects, the > implementation of Inspire Directive and the revitalization of Flamingo Geo > CMS. > > Mark Vloermans - Flamingo Geo CMS Community - NL > Mark then continued with his efforts to put a vivid community in place to > support the Flamingo Geo CMS. He claimed a system as user friendly as this, > is very important for the Open Source Sector, since the sector has a very > technical feel. > > Chris van Lith - B3Partners - NL > As one of the partners responsible for implementing Flamingo Geo CMS, Chris > continued with the design motivation of the CMS platform behind Flamingo Geo > CMS. Recent developments around their former Flash based Viewer led him to > claim that any GIS framework should prepare for the inevitable: Any component > of a product can get outdated. In that case you'd need to be productive with > a new component asap, by limiting the dependencies between components and > have components interact using Open Standards. For example > OpenLayers, now basis of many map viewing frameworks, will soon be replaced > by either OpenLayers 3, Leaflet, D3 or ... > > Simone Giannecchini - GeoSolutions - IT > Simone introduced us to the world of enterprise support on open source > geospatial infrastructures. You'll get the best support from the people > actually involved in the projects, in his case geotools, geoserver, > geonetwork. Stay away from forks and vampires, in the end they are no better > than proprietary software. > > Arnulf Christl – Metaspatial - DE > Arnulf set up his presentation around Open Data. Types of open data where > explained (Community driven, Government Data, Proprietary Data in a Freemium > Model (open content?)), types of data licenses (ODBL, Gov Open Data, CCO) and > options these open data licenses offer to SME to create new business > opportunities. As an example he showed us a map based on Open Street Map and > Ordinate Survey data printed on a piece of water resistant cloth. > http://metaspatial.net/conferences/gwf2013_opendata.html > > Andrew Ross - Eclipse Foundation Inc - CA > Andrew pointed our attention to the importance of having a foundation to > manage an open source software project as it gets bigger. Some existing > foundations exist where one can register a project. The Eclipse foundation > recently started a locationtech workinggroup for geospatial initiatives. > > Paolo Cavallini – Faunalia - IT > Paolo notified us on some recent developments in QGIS. His first > inventarization learned that over 50% of the participants in the room have > used QGis at some time. Recent developments include a QGIS server > implementation (WMS,WFS,WFS-t), a central repository with plugin's, a > templated client plot (which can also be used in server implementation), > labels based on expressions. > > Jorge Samuel Mendes de Jesus - ISRIC World Soil Information - NL > ISRIC operates a global database with soil profiles under GEOSS. The > infrastructure for storing, converting, managing and accessing the profiles > is based mainly on Open Source products like Geoserver, pyWPS, Geonetwork, > PostGIS and Django. ISRIC has many temporary international students and they > seem to replicate the ISRIC architecture at their home institutes. > > Oliver Morris & Alex Rushfort - Neftex Inc - UK > Neftex provides geological data services to the mining industry. They operate > a geological world model ranging back to 600m bc. They use an Open Source > stack to deliver the frequently updated data to their customers. The stack > contains PostGis, Geoserver and a WebMapper based on OpenLayers/GeoEXT/GXP. > Compared to their former platforms open source facilitated them to do > advanced spatial representations (like display in a polar projection) without > the interface getting complicated and without substantial loss of performance. > > Discussion > With only a few minutes left we discussed how open source components can > operate together with proprietary products in any SDI. It appears to be > actually the other way around, you won't find any SDI that does not contain > open source components, being it Linux, Apache, GDAL, Mapserver, PostGIS, > QGIS, R and/or Leaflet/Openlayers. Another question from the public stated > that many standards registered at OGC/ISO are actually not that 'open', and > would not really fit in today's track. However it's like open data and open > source, you have many degrees of 'open'. There is no yes-no answer to that. > For sure ISO standards require a fee to download and to vote for an OGC > standard, you have to be a full member. However the idea behind the standards > is to open up the products involved to facilitate interoperability, which > fits very nicely in the 'open' strategy. > > Conclusion > We had a wide range of presentations today, however some keywords where > repeated through all presentations. OGC standards like WMS/WFS/CSW, Open Data > and components like GDAL, OpenLayers, Geonetwork, Geoserver provide enough > collectivity to share experiences. It stroke me that in many presentations it > was mentioned that local organizations which before wouldn't want to work > together, actually start cooperating these days, mayor initiatives like GEOSS > and Inspire seem to be a main trigger in that process. With an attendance > ranging from 25 to 50 the seminar was quite well visited (considering the 8! > parallel tracks), and the exposure as 'conference partner' was quite high. > However the investments were also quite substantial (mainly due to all > speakers needing to pay a considerable entrance fee). Next year the forum > will be held in Geneva (may 2014), anybody interested in taking the lead for > this one? > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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