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


 * shared infrastrucutre
 * community health check in incubation phase
 * Through OSGeo foundation projects large, vital communities incorporated into foundation

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
 * FOSSGIS Business Models
 * Commercial Proprietary GI solutions versus FOSS4G
 * FOSS4G == commercial

Trends:
 * The geospatial industry is moving toward Open Standards. Open Standards facilitates:
 * Interoperability between agencies which increases availability of data.
 * Move to Standards based, Commercial Off The Shelf (SCOTS) software. In turn SCOTS software becomes a commodity item which brings the price of the SCOTS software down.
 * Without vendor lock in traps, Open Source successfully competes with proprietary software.

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
 * Don't oppose Free Software and Commercial Software by Jan-Oliver Wagner
 * Dirk Riehle: Open Source Economics - The Economic Motivation of Open Source Software: Stakeholder Perspectives
 * Overview of Free/Open source Desktop GIS
 * "...dass die Idee, Software zu verkaufen, immer uninteressanter wird..."
 * Was motiviert Open-Source-Entwickler?
 * Open Source and Free Software Business Models by WhereGroup

OSGeo Foundation

 * Use information collected in the Generic OSGeo Presentation article and Tyler Mitchell's OSGeo presentation from the FOSSG4 2008.
 * This is nicest looking one but out of date:
 * http://osgeo.org/files/viscom/library/mitchell_2007_locint.pdf
 * http://osgeo.org/files/viscom/library/mitchell_2007_locint.pps.zip
 * And there are ones under a few of these folders too: http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/community/presentations/ (The Victoria and Osaka ones are probably best)
 * Collective Intelligence (crowd-sourcing) and Neo-Geography:
 * GIS versus Collective Neo-Geography
 * Where 2.0 O'Reilly Conference (http://conferences.oreillynet.com/where2006/)
 * GIS is more: data anaylsis!
 * Google Earth (GE) as driving factor:
 * 100 million people downloaded GE
 * Collective sites such as Google Maps Mania (http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/)
 * Public participation tools
 * Google maps mashup due to public API:
 * Social networks
 * Events
 * Places
 * User data:
 * Intangible emotional associations to space
 * Grass-root street data collection (OSM etc)
 * Symbolic locational data
 * OSGeo & OGC:
 * http://www.fossgis.de/wiki/index.php/Abstracts_2008#Die_Open_Source_Geospatial_Foundation
 * http://www.fossgis.de/wiki/index.php/Die_Open_Source_Geospatial_Foundation_stellt_sich_vor
 * http://www.fossgis.de/wiki/index.php/Abstracts07#Digitaler_.22Rohstoff.22_Geoinformation
 * http://www.fossgis.de/wiki/index.php/Abstracts07#OSGeo_-_Eine_Orientierungshilfe
 * OSGeo & Business:
 * OSGeo Service Providers
 * OSGeo Ideas:
 * accredited FOSS4G engineer
 * accredited curriculum
 * more marketing!
 * OSGeo GSoC