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 introduction by Markus and Mateusz

Presentation: How GIS Open Source Projects stimulate building of the communities

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

TODO: Update from materials prepared offline

Resources

 * Community based software development: The GRASS GIS project presentation by Markus Neteler,
 * Producing Open Source Software book by Karl Fogel
 * OSbootcamp2008
 * GRASS Community Map(server)
 * QGIS Community Map(server)
 * Mapbender Community Map(bender) login mb/mb

Presentation: Trends in development of Free and Open Source Software for Geomatics

 * Why-FOSS4G Trends:
 * The geospatial industry is moving toward Open Standards. Open Standards facilitates:
 * Interoperability between agencies which increases availability of data (in Europe, see INSPIRE)
 * 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.
 * FOSS4G Interoperability Trends:
 * GDAL/OGR started in 1998 with XX formats, used by GRASS and few others
 * today many raster and vector formats, used by many software packages
 * FDO goes open source in 2006
 * OGC standards are getting implemented in various OSGeo software packages
 * esp. WPS is gaining interest (pyWPS, 52°N implementations)
 * GeoRSS becomes OGC whitepaper
 * FOSS4G WebGIS Trends:
 * Web 1.0: static pages ...
 * Web(GIS) 1.5: a bit dynamic pages
 * grasslinks
 * Web(GIS) 2.0: the "I GIS" Web
 * collective intelligence, crowdsourcing, collective mapping (OSM, ...)
 * GIS meets social Web
 * you and me with GPS: mapping party (new fashion in Italy)
 * Sensor web (SOS)
 * NASA WorldWind, ...
 * Mapserver (p.mapper, ka-maps, ...), OpenLayers, FeatureServer, Geoserver, MapGuide OS, pyWPS...
 * it's all about protocols and mashups
 * Web(GIS) 3.0: the semantic Web or the Geoweb (?)
 * our online data get (spatially) organized?
 * FOSS4G GIS Analytics Trends:
 * also (Desktop) GIS wants to be online: Web Processing Service (pyWPS, 52°N, ...)
 * federated databases
 * GRASS as free GIS backbone
 * distributed and parallel computing (GIS number crunching)
 * FOSS4G Community Trends:
 * Communication technology:
 * 80s: phone, letter, magnetic tape...
 * 1989 (?): GRASS FTP server online - the first FOSS4G GIS server in civil internet?
 * 1991: GRASS Mailing lists started: grass-user and grass-dev
 * Usenet comes up, interfaced with GRASS-MLs
 * 1994 (?): Web is invented - First GRASS Web site (CERL) - see GRASS Web site evolution
 * 1999: remotesensing.org established, hosting PROJ, GDAL, OSSIM, libgeotiff, ...
 * 2000: FreeGIS.org mailing list and portal launched - fundamental for community building
 * 200x: Blogs, Wikis, emails (TODO: number of subscribers in all OSGeo lists; only in GRASS lists >4000), Voip, ... communication is easy
 * National FOSS4G corporations:
 * 2000: GRASS Anwendervereinigung e.V. - 2008: becoming OSGeo-DACH?
 * 2007: Associazione italiana per l'informazione geografica libera
 * 2007: many OSGeo local chapters
 * Conferences:
 * Many GRASS conferences since 80s in USA and Europe, drop in 1995, in Asia Bangkok 2004
 * Mapserver conference 2005
 * Lausanne 2006: Merge of Mapserver, GRASS, EOGEO conferences to FOSS4G conference series, then Canada 2007, now South Africa 2008, next Sydney 2009, ...
 * Annual national conferences:
 * in Italy annual conf since 1999 (first GRASS, now GFOSS.it)
 * in Germany annual conf since 2005 (first Mapserver, now FOSSGIS.de)
 * in Spain: gvSIG conf since 2007 (?)
 * FOSS4G Release Management and Quality Assessment Trends:
 * Code Management
 * 80's: GRASS source code is managed manually by the core developers (hey, no civil internet yet!)
 * 12/1999: one day before Year 2000, GRASS CVS is started (GDAL, Mapserver - no idea)
 * 2007: integrated OSGeo development platform: SVN, trac, wiki, mailing lists, IRC bots, buildbots
 * Release Management
 * till 2006 (?): separated, ad-hoc releases by the individual teams
 * since 2006: attempts to synchronize releases for common feature support etc.
 * since 200x: thorough test cycles with alpha, beta, release candidates (milestones in trac)
 * cross platform tests before releasing (code becomes portable: Linux, MacOSX, MS-Windows, ...)
 * aim: deliver end user product (also requested by now large user communities and distro packagers)
 * Quality Assessment:
 * Implementation of Code submission standards for C, Shell scripts, Tcl/Tk, and Python
 * 2006: GRASS Code Quality Control System started (currently under rewrite to open up for other OSGeo projects)
 * various scientific papers on this
 * supports clone detection and software engineering measures on code style
 * FOSS4G Documentation Trends:
 * 80's started with tutorials
 * 2002: Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS Approach - first FOSS4G book ever
 * 2004 (?): first FOSS4G Wikis come up
 * 2006: OSGeo Education and Curriculum Committee is formed
 * 2007: FOSS4G primer and other book-like initiatives
 * 2008: Many FOSS4G books now available: bookshelf
 * FOSS4G Business Trends:
 * OSGeo Service Providers directory (almost 100 registered)
 * TODO: check covered countries, statistics per continent
 * TODO: check public tenders for open source, anyone having stats?
 * FOSS4G business model - [:Category:Advocacy|Category:Advocacy]
 * See IDABC - Documentation on Open Source Software (OSS)
 * Provide commercial training directly as OSGeo brand? - ongoing discussion...
 * 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 (don't mix this up!) Proprietary GI solutions versus FOSS4G
 * hence FOSS4G == commercial

Resources

 * OSbootcamp2008
 * 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
 * Business: The Economic Motivation of Open Source Software: Stakeholder Perspectives
 * Business: Commercial Support for Open Source Geospatial applications

Presentation: OSGeo Foundation

 * Use information collected in the Generic OSGeo Presentation article and Tyler Mitchell's OSGeo presentation from the FOSS4G 2007.
 * 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