Cascadoss Symposium 2008

Cascadoss International Symposium and Workshop, 16th, 2008 - Jun 19th, 2008 in Warsaw, Poland

The international symposium will bring together both professional developers and (potential) customers of GIS/RS Open Source technology and will, as such, stimulate research & innovation and networking in this field. The workshop part targets GIS-experts with a high level of expertise in GIS and/or programming, such as software service providers and IT/GIS-SMEs.

Event organized within the CASCADOSS project.

Referenes

 * Support for CASCADOSS discussion
 * Announced OSGeo Support for CASCADOSS

OSGeo Talks

 * How GIS Open Source Projects stimulate building of the communities by Markus Neteler
 * Trends in development of Free and Open Source Software for Geomatics by Mateusz Loskot
 * The OSGeo Foundation - an instroduction by Markus and Mateusz

How GIS Open Source Projects stimulate building of the communities
TBD

Resources

 * Community based software development: The GRASS GIS project presentation by Markus Neteler,
 * Producing Open Source Software book by Karl Fogel

Trends in development of Free and Open Source Software for Geomatics
From Dave Mcllhagga's presentation on FOSS4G 2008:
 * value is the solution, not the technology
 * solutions drive the technology - not the other way around

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Resources

 * Open Source Software Economics, IP, and Standards by Stephen R. Walli, China OSS Summit 2007
 * Open Source Radar by Nat Torkington
 * The Total Growth of Open Source by Amit Deshpande and Dirk Riehle, OSS 2008
 * Why Open Source Software? Look at the Numbers! by David A. Wheeler, 2007

OSGeo Foundation
Use information collected in the Generic OSGeo Presentation article and Tyler Mitchell's OSGeo presentation from the FOSSG4 2008.