FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 3

=Climate Change Integration Plugfest launched at FOSS4G 2009=

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For information about this announcement, contact:

Sam Bacharach

Executive Director, Outreach and Community Adoption

Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc

tel: +1-703-352-3938

sbacharach@opengeospatial.org

Sydney, Australia. ?? January 2009.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) and the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) have announced a Climate Change Integration Plugfest (CCIP)[1] to be launched at the FOSS4G conference, 20-23 October 2009. [2]

The CCIP will demonstrate standards based interoperability between geospatial applications based on a Climate Change scenario. It consists of a server with multiple virtual machines, each installed with geospatial applications offering standards based web services. All web services will demonstrate a common dataset, and will be accessed by a range of geospatial client applications installed on client computers.

The showcase is designed to be easily rolled out at conferences, testbeds and other events around the world, and is targeted to be launched at the international FOSS4G Conference in Sydney, Australia, 20-23 October 2009.

The showcase is designed to underpin many initiatives, including:


 * Technology demonstrators at conferences
 * Spatial Data Infrastructure development
 * Geospatial training programs
 * Demonstration Software CDs
 * Testing suite programs


 * Open Data programs

Greg Buehler, XXX of the OGC explains ...

Graham de Hoedt, Manager of Climate Information Services at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology says "integration of data and applications are crucial for solving complex problems like the provision/sharing of decadal and multi-decadal climate change related data and information".

Cameron Shorter, Chair of the FOSS4G organising committee and Systems Architect at LISAsoft says "Geospatial users regularly ask how to integrate Open Source, COTS and proprietary software. At FOSS4G, attendees will see the major geospatial applications working together and talk with the implementers about what really works".

Companies or individuals interested in participating in the Climate Change Integration Plugfest should contact (Greg Buehler ...?).

The OGC®[3] is an international consortium of more than 365 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial standards. OpenGIS® Standards support interoperable solutions that "geo-enable" the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT. OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled. Visit the OGC website at http://www.opengeospatial.org/.

FOSS4G is the international "gathering of tribes" of open source geospatial communities, where developers and users show off their latest software and projects. The theme for 2009 is "User Driven", highlighting the power of Open Source to integrate with existing systems.

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) has been created to support and build the highest-quality open source geospatial software. The foundation's goal is to encourage the use and collaborative development of community-led projects, data development and education.[4]

[1] http://external.opengis.org/twiki_public/bin/view/ClimateChallenge2009/WebHome [2] http://2009.foss4g.org [3] http://opengeospatial.org [4] http://osgeo.org