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Geoservices REST API

2013-05-11T00:58:49Z

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This wiki page aims to collate community concerns related to the adoption of the "Geoservices REST API" document as a standard of the [http://www.opengeospatial.org/ Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)]. The page is being collaboratively edited, targeting completion by Wednesday 15 May 2013, after which it will be delivered by the board of the [http://osgeo.org OSGeo Foundation (OSGeo)] to the OGC and OGC voting members.

= Cover Letter from the OSGeo Board =
''Please don't edit this "Cover Letter" statement, which has been approved by the OSGeo Board.''

The board of the [http://osgeo.org Open Source Geospatial Foundation] (OSGeo) is presenting this letter to the OGC. It highlights concerns about the "GeoServices REST API" from many people within the OSGeo community. As always, if there is anything the OSGeo board can do to help, then please let us know.

Signed: Jeff McKenna (OSGeo president),
Peter Batty,
Jáchym Čepický,
Michael Gerlek,
Anne Ghisla,
Mark Lucas,
Daniel Morissette,
Cameron Shorter,
Frank Warmerdam

= Open Letter to OGC and voting members =

''Please don't edit this "Open Letter" statement, comments and discussion should go in the "Further Concerns" section below.''

May 2013

We, the undersigned, have concerns that approving the "Geoservices REST API" as an OGC standard, would have detrimental impacts on interoperability within the spatial industry.

We strongly urge that the proposed "Geoservices REST API", as it stands in May 2013, be rejected as an OGC standard.

People have listed different reasons for concern. They are described below.

== Signed ==
''Please add your name here if you agree with the above statement. Include name, work title (if appropriate), very brief title/involvement in OSGeo if appropriate. (Link to OSGeo profile if appropriate). You may sign as a group, such as the Project Steering Committee of XXX project if you wish, or as Your Name on behalf of YYY company.''

# [[User:camerons|Cameron Shorter]], Geospatial Solutions Director at [http://lisasoft.com LISAsoft], core contributor & coordinator of [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live], OSGeo Board member
# [[Mark Lucas]], Founding member and board of directors for OSGeo foundation, Prinicipal Scientist for RadiantBlue Technologies Inc.
# [[User:Woodbri|Stephen Woodbridge]], Director of [http://imaptools.com iMaptools.com], Contributor and/or PSC of [http://mapserver.org Mapserver], [http://pgrouting.org/ pgRouting], [http://www.pagcgeo.org/ PAGC], and [http://www.postgis.org/ PostGIS]
# [[User:rouault|Even Rouault]], Geospatial developer, OSGeo Charter Member, core contributor and PSC member of [http://gdal.org GDAL/OGR], contributor of [http://mapserver.org Mapserver], [http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/ PROJ.4], [http://trac.osgeo.org/geotiff/ libgeotiff], [http://shapelib.maptools.org/ shapelib], [http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/ libtiff]
# Gerhard Triebnig, Managing Director at [http://eox.at EOX IT Services GmbH]
# [[User:pcreso|Brent Wood]], Environmental Information Delivery Programme Leader, NIWA, New Zealand. OGC member, Aust/NZ OSGEO chapter member, NZOSS Council member
# [[User:Schpidi|Stephan Meissl]], CTO at [http://eox.at EOX IT Services GmbH], contributor to [http://mapserver.org Mapserver], PSC chair of [http://eoxserver.org EOxServer]
# [[User:ticheler|Jeroen Ticheler]], Director of [http://geocat.net GeoCat], project founder and PSC chair of [http://geonetwork-opensource.org GeoNetwork opensource]
# [[User:Just|Just van den Broecke]], Director at [http://www.justobjects.nl Just Objects], contributor to [http://heron-mc.org Heron Mapping Client], secretary of [http://osgeo.nl OSGeo Dutch Local Chapter], member at [http://www.opengeogroep.nl OpenGeoGroep]
# [[User:milovanderlinden|Milo van der Linden]], member at [http://www.opengeogroep.nl OpenGeoGroep]
# [[User:surveyor|Landon Blake]], GIS Department Manager/Land Surveyor at [http://www.ksninc.com KSN], OSGeo California Chapter Board Representative.
# [[User:dmorissette|Daniel Morissette]], President at [http://mapgears.com/ Mapgears], core contributor and PSC member of [http://mapserver.org Mapserver] and [http://gdal.org GDAL/OGR]. Former OGC TC member and involved in the implementation of several OGC WxS services specs in MapServer.
# [[User:blammo|Bob Basques]], GIS Systems Developer at the City of Saint Paul, MN. [http://gis.ci.stpaul.mn.us Public Works GIS (GISmo)], Technical Director at [http://www.sharedgeo.org SharedGeo], OSGeo Charter Member, OSGeo TCMUG local chapter member, Co-founder and PSC member of [http://www.geomoose.org GeoMoose] project.
# [[User:vehrka|Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses]], PM at Omnium Strategic Intelligence, Spain, OSGeo Charter Member, OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Liaison officer.
# Bevan Rudge, Director Lucion Limited, IT Advisor at Conservation Strategy Fund, Esri client
# [[User:Delawen|María Arias de Reyna]], software engineer at [http://geocat.net GeoCat], Spain, member of OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter.
# [[User:Aghisla|Anne Ghisla]], OSGeo Board Member, Italy, member of OSGeo Italian Local Chapter.
# [[User:Michogar|Micho Garcia]], Freelance and member of [http://geomati.co geomati.co], Spain, member of Spanish Local Chapter
# [[User:Madi|Margherita Di Leo]], OSGeo Charter Member, Post-doctoral researcher at the European Commission, JRC, Italy
# [[Jorge Sanz]], GIS Consultant at [http://www.prodevelop.es Prodevelop], OSGeo Charter Member, OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Member, Spain
# [[Pablo Sanxiao]], CTO and co-founder at [http://www.icarto.es iCarto], OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Member, Spain
# [[User:Fsteggink|Frank Steggink]], GIS software developer at [http://www.vicrea.nl Vicrea], The Netherlands, member of the Dutch Local Chapter
# [[User:Olivier.courtin|Olivier Courtin]], [http://www.oslandia.com Oslandia] co-founder, core contributor or/and PSC member of [http://mapserver.org Mapserver] and [http://www.postgis.org/ PostGIS]. OGC TC member.
# [[User:Bolosig|Wladimir Szczerban]], OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Member, Spain
# [[User:AnitaGraser|Anita Graser]], GIS specialist with AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, OSGeo Charter member and QGIS team member.
# [[User:Vmische|Volker Mische]], geospatial software engineer, creator of GeoCouch
# [[User:Ivansanchez|Iván Sánchez]], OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Member, head of [http://www.openstreetmap.es OpenStreetMap Spain], [http://osmfoundation.org OpenStreetMap Foundation] member, [http://hot.openstreetmap.org/ Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team] member, [http://www.idee.es/ Spanish SDI working group] member
# [[User:Gabi|Gabriel Carrión]], Strategy Manager at [http://www.gvsig.com gvSIG association]
# [http://strk.keybit.net Sandro Santilli], OSGeo Charter Member, [http://postgis.net PostGIS] and [http://trac.osgeo.org/geos GEOS] PSC member and core hacker.
# [[User:Javiarch|Javier Diaz]], member of Geoinquietos Bs As [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Geoinquietos_Buenos_Aires], member of the Organizing Committee FOSS4G Bs As 2013 [http://www.foss4g-ba.org/]
# [[User: JoCook|Jo Cook]], Consultant at [http://isharemaps.com| Astun Technology], former Director of OSGeo, Charter Member, founder of UK Local Chapter, Deputy Chair of [http://2013.foss4g.org| FOSS4G 2013]
# [[User: Fpenarru | Francisco José Peñarrubia]], CTO and co-founder at [http://www.scolab.es SCOLAB]. Members of [http://www.gvsig.com gvSIG Association]
# [[User: Ganesh|Shanmugam Ganeshkumar]], Director of [http://www.geoicon.com GeoICON], member OSGeo Malaysia Chapter
# [[User:Barryrowlingson|Barry Rowlingson]], Senior Researcher, Lancaster University and Software Sustainability Institute Fellow
# [[User: Sfkeller|Stefan Keller]], University of Applied Sciences, Rapperswil (Switzerland), Member of Swiss OSM (SOSM) and QGIS association and of organizing committees of pgConf.DE and FOSSGIS 2013, and member of eCH (e-government standards of Switzerland)
# [[User: AndyBMapMan|Andrew Bailey]], OSGeo member, Astun Technology
# [[User: Sanand|Suchith Anand]], OSGeo Charter member, OSGeo Education member, FOSS4G 2013 LOC member
# [[User: krefftc|Carlos Krefft]], GIS software developer at [http://www.cstars.miami.edu CSTARS - University of Miami], OGC and OSGeo Member.
# [[User:Steko|Stefano Costa]], OSGeo member, GFOSS.it member and former board member, Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali (Italy)
# [[User:pebau|Peter Baumann]], [http://www.jacobs-university.de/lsis Jacobs University], OGC member, WCS.SWG chair, editor of 10+ specs (disclaimer: this is an expression of my personal opinion and not in any way endorsed by OGC)
# [[User:pmbatty|Peter Batty]], CTO of Geospatial Division at [http://www.ubisense.net Ubisense], OSGeo board member, former CTO of [http://intergraph.com Intergraph] and [http://www.gedigitalenergy.com/gis.htm GE Smallworld], Technical Committee member of OGC in its formative years c 1995-97
# [[User: BarendKobben | Barend Köbben]], OSGEO Chartered Member, OSGeo.nl Dutch chapter treasurer, Senior Lecturer at [http://www.itc.nl ITC-University of Twente]
# [[User: pcav | Paolo Cavallini]], [http://www.faunalia.it Faunalia], OSGeo member, GFOSS.it member and former president, QGIS-PSC
# [[User: fthamura| FRans Thamura]], [http://www.osgeo.or.id Indonesia], OSGeo Indonesia, organizer]
# [[User: Endofcap| Sanghee Shin]], Founder and CEO of [http://www.gaia3d.com Gaia3D], OSGeo Charter Member, Representative of [http://www.osgeo.kr OSGeo Korean Chapter], Chairman of Open Source GIS Alliance Korea
# [[User: rentairo| Benni Purwonegoro]],Indonesia, IT-Spatial Engineer @ Geospatial Information Agency .
# [[User: jachym| Jachym Cepicky]], Czech Republic, member of OSGeo Board of Directors
# [[User: cappelaere| Pat Cappelaere]], Vightel Corporation
# [[User: JuergenFischer|Jürgen Fischer]], norBIT GmbH, QGIS core developer
# [[User: Maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]], OSGeo Charter member, OSGeo Education member, GIS Professor and Vice Rector for the Como Campus at [http://www.polimi.it/en Politecnico di Milano], Italy
# [[User:Nachouve |Nacho Varela]], GIS Consultant, OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Member, Spain
# [[User:vasile |Vasile Craciunescu]], OSGeo Charter member, OSGeo Romania Local Chapter Leader, Researcher at Romanian National Meteorological Administration, Romania
# [[User:badaveil |Abbas Abdul Wahab]], Asst. Director, Federal Department of Town & Country Planning, Peninsular Malaysia
# [[User:rbraam | Roy Braam]], Software Engineer @ [http://www.b3partners.nl | B3Partners]
# [[User:peteris | Peteris Bruns]], Latvia, GIS Consultant & Software Engineer @ [http://www.sungis.lv | SunGIS]
# [[User:Lutra | Giovanni Manghi]], Portugal, [http://www.faunalia.pt Faunalia], OSGeo member, OSGeo-Portugal
# [[User:Hfpmartins | Hugo Martins]], UK, [http://www.lutraconsulting.co.uk Lutra Consulting], WebGIS Developer, OSGeo-Portugal Member
# [[User:Sabb | Saber Razmjooei]], UK, [http://www.lutraconsulting.co.uk Lutra Consulting], Co-Founder
# [[User:Wellsp | Peter Wells]], UK, [http://www.lutraconsulting.co.uk Lutra Consulting], Co-Founder
# [[User:SGijzen | Sidney Gijzen]], The Netherlands, Researcher GIS @ [http://www.wageningenur.nl/en/Expertise-Services/Research-Institutes/alterra.htm Alterra, Wageningen UR]
# [[User:mfidelman | Miles Fidelman]], US, Principal, Protocol Technologies Group, LLC
# [[User:punkish | Puneet Kishor]], OSGeo Charter Member; [http://www.geology.wisc.edu Geology, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison]; [http://creativecommons.org/staff#puneetkishor Creative Commons]
# [[User:Toze | António José Silva]], Portugal, GIS Consultant, OSGeo-Portugal Member
# [[User:AndreMano | AndreMano]], Portugal, Natural History Society - GIS Department, OSGeo-Portugal Member
# [[User:maurimiranda|Mauricio Miranda]], Argentina, OSGeo Charter Member, OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Board Member
# [[User:pmachado|Paulo Machado]], Portugal, Software Engineer @ PT Inovação
# [[User:alvaro|Alvaro Anguix]], Spain, General Manager at [http://www.gvsig.com gvSIG Association]
# [[Santiago Higuera]], CEO at [http://Mercatorlab.com Mercatorlab], OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Board Member, Spain
# [[Alan Boudreault]], Developer at [http://mapgears.com/ Mapgears], contributor to [http://mapserver.org Mapserver] and [http://gdal.org GDAL/OGR].

= Summary =

''Please don't edit this section - it is now locked to ensure editorial review. You may send comments to Cameron Shorter AT gmail .com''

The document titled "GeoServices REST API" is currently, in May 2013, being considered to be included as one of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards. The vote to accept the document as a standard is unusually contentious; the controversy is the cause of this page.

The document was previously released for public comment and can be found [http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/89 on the request for public comment page] (though public comment has been closed for now).

The document attempts to standardize a suite of web services such as a service which provides map images, a service which provides geospatial feature data, and a service which performs geospatial processing. The standard focuses on interactions via a defined hierarchy of URLs and using predominantly a particular set of JSON schemas.

The adoption of the document is contentious for a wide variety of reasons including:

* the process through which it was developed,
* the language of 'REST' and 'API' used by the document,
* the names of the standard and of the services which are potentially confusing
* the duplication of these new services with other services standardized by the OGC such as WMS, WFS, WCS, and WPS and with work, by those services, of adopting RESTful designs including URL hierarchies and JSON exchange formats,
* the specific format of JSON messages used, and
* the dominance of one vendor of the single complete implementation in the marketplace.

These issues have potential impacts on the use of 'Open Standards' by governments and companies, on the interoperability of software interacting with standards compliant OGC services, on the costs to developers and users of standards compliant software, on the understanding of 'Open Standards' by the public at large, and, possibly, on the reputation of the OGC as a champion of interoperability.

In particular there are concerns by some that adoption of the standard will likely result in a combination of the following:
# The cost to application developers, systems integrators, testers and sponsors to support all relevant OGC standards will be substantially increased.
# Consequently, organisations and/or applications may choose to only support one standard, or only support one standard fully.
# Sponsors (such as governments) who require compliance with OGC standards will discover that applications don't communicate together, due to applications supporting different OGC standards that essentially do the same thing.
# This will result in a diminished importance of OGC, as the "OGC standards" stamp of approval will not equate interoperability.
# After a while, in order to solve interoperability issues, a respected international organisation or program will likely take the initiative to mandate one standard as the preferred standard for all agencies to follow. To date, the OGC has provided this leadership.
# One standard taking prominance over the other will likely lead to the other being neglected or deprecated, resulting in many OGC compliant systems becoming legacy systems in the process. This should be considered an undesirable outcome for a standards organisation.

These issues have been answered by the authors of the Geoservices REST API document who state:

* the process of the OGC has been followed completely
* the specification actually is RESTful and does define an API
* the name, due to the controversy, may be open for modification
* the OGC does not forbid duplication of service functionality, already has duplication between the W*S and the S*S (sensor) family of standards, should not block progress in the name of 'one true way', and harmonization between the services can be considered in the future,
* the JSON format exists and functions, and
* there are alternative implementations for some of these services.

The authors also stress that the existence of a large user base shows the service is useful, that the standardization of the services at the OGC may encourage new implementations,

= Positions on the vote =
''Please don't edit this section - it is now locked to ensure editorial review. You may send comments to Cameron Shorter AT gmail .com''

The discussion raises a number of issues, many based upon complex technical concepts and implications. This makes it difficult for voting OGC members considering whether to support "Geoservices REST API" as a standard. The following provides one analysis of positions on the vote, aimed to simplify and summarize key points, however, it does not necessarily represent the opinions held by all signatories above.

; The pros for accepting the "Geoservices REST API" document as an OGC standard:

:* The OGC should be in the business of developing good standards, not in choosing which standards should be implemented.
:* The proposers of the document want to make a standard and have followed all the rules of the OGC. The work of any such group of members deserves serious, good faith consideration.
:* The need for an integrated suite of services using simple data, which is addressed (partially) by the document, is real. The proposed document is pushing the OGC on this issue.
:* The proposed document could be useful to a number of people.
:* The proposed document is not significantly more broken than the existing standards of the OGC. As one author of standards [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-May/011667.html notes]:
:''"I know how totally impossible it is to write a good standard, so the weaknesses in the existing document seem more acceptable."''

; The cons:

:* The OGC is in the position of recommending interoperable standards for geospatial services. The proposed document is not good enough, not widely enough implemented, and not publicly supported enough, to be considered at the same level as existing standards.
:* Adopting a standard implies a desire to maintain the standard, but OGC's desire to support this approach by has been questioned by some. In particular, the lack of collaboration and willingness to accept recommendations from the community on this version of the "Geoservices REST API" document bodes ill for the future.
:* The overlap in functionality between the proposed services and the existing services, notably with the ongoing work to modularize the existing services, is almost 100 percent. However, compatibility is low.
:* There is already a published document: http://www.esri.com/library/whitepapers/pdfs/geoservices-rest-spec.pdf so there is no need for the document to be adopted as an OGC Standard merely for interoperability with the ESRI implementation.
:* The document, as a new, separate effort, repeats mistakes which were made and since solved by the other services.
:* The document focuses on the past (notably with backwards compatibility and use of only GET/POST) not on the future.
:* The document needs a comprehensive editorial rewrite. (see at end)

; The conclusion:

Both simple answers are bad.

A simple acceptance of the standard would introduce a new set of 'OGC approved' open services. The OGC approval might enable governments to buy a XXXX-new-name-here-XXXX solution instead of a W*S or a S*S solution. The path forwards towards harmonizing the services is unclear. Fixing this document in addition to fixing the W*S services will be a pain.

Simply rejecting the solution would be bad for the OGC. It would place the OGC in the position of picking winners and losers in the standards business. It would mean that the OGC is stuck on the project of fixing the W*S standards to meet some nebulous future functionality without having any path to get there. It would discourage innovation and progress.

Is there a third way?

Well, actually, there is. The natural consequence of either decision is a renewed commitment towards trying to build this thing that we want, an integrated suite of simple services built using simple, well defined resources, accessible and usable using the core HTTP verbs, and discoverable through following links. That's the good way forwards and why to focus work on the next versions of W*S standards (which include JSON bindings), and other modular extensions to OGC services.

= Issues with the document =

''Please don't edit this section - it is now locked to ensure editorial review. You may send comments to Cameron Shorter AT gmail .com''

Beyond the controversy described above, there are issues with the Geoservices REST API document itself. Even if the standard deserves support, these issues should be considered blockers to the adoption of the current, May 2013, document.

The critique is incomplete because it quickly falls into a full editorial review of the text, something which takes a lot of time and effort and is beyond this scope and intent of this Open Letter.

The critique can be found at: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geoservices_REST_API_critique.

Note that some of these critiques hold the document to OGC's current, standards writing guidelines. The OGC has been striving to develop better standards so new standards must meet higher requirements than past standards. The lack of clarity in the proposed document is not substantially worse than many published standards.

= Further Concerns =
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''Please add concerns not addressed above as bullet points below. Try to be concise, and try not to repeat concepts which have been covered above. Points you have previously added, which are now covered above should be removed. Where appropriate, link to external web pages (such as email achieves)''

== Political Concerns ==

* Adopting the standard will expose the OGC to a strong suspicion of acting as a rubber stamp organization under ESRI weight, and will be detrimental to its recognized position as a reference organization for geospatial standards.
* It is a dubious practice that a standardization organisation promotes competing standards, without explicitely obsoleting (or at least recommending) some of them. How is a newcomer to the industry supposed to select the appropriate standard if several ones share the same scope : WFS or GeoServices REST API Feature Service, WMS or GeoServices REST API Map Service, etc. ?

== Commercial Concerns ==

* Promoting standards from an existing implementation made by a single vendor leads to an obvious bias in competition.
* Supporting multiple overlapping standards greatly reduces usability while it increases complexity and cost of development and maintenance.
* Many SME's have invested in supporting existing OGC standards in their products. They will be forced to choose the standards they support (and can explain), resulting in decreased interoperability, confusion and frustration for clients.
* Confusing customers with new, overlapping OGC standards will lower the credibility of companies and of OGC, reducing business opportunities.

== Technical Concerns ==

* The Geoservices REST API overlaps in large proportion with existing OGC standards such as WMS, WCS, WFS, WMTS, CSW, with no effort made to reconcile with those standards.
* The standardization of WKT for Spatial reference systems is unfortunately currently quite weak in OGC standards. Geoservices REST API is tied with ESRI's version of WKT, which is not properly specified in the Geoservices REST API documents, and is known to be incompatible with other OGC documents, which will lead to a larger confusion. See the following [http://lists.opengeospatial.org/pipermail/requests/2012-July/000166.html comment] for more details on this issue.
* The Geoservices REST API is not particularly RESTful - it's a thinly disguised service call, not an address space for RESTful objects that can be operated on.
* At least as far as "imagery" is concerned, OGC standards arguably are substantially more mature, powerful, flexible, and modular then the ESRI "Geoservice REST API" Part 6 (and some design principles suggest that scalability may be hampered as well):
** data model:
*** the ESRI "Geoservice REST API" appears constrained to 2-D imagery, plus optional time stamps. OGC has established a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coverage_data unified coverage model] which fully supports n-D spatio-temporal data. It allows use and exchange of coverages between different services, such as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Coverage_Service WCS], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Coverage_Processing_Service WCPS], WPS, and SWE.
*** OGC coverages support both regular and irregular grids; the ESRI "Geoservice REST API" supports only regular grids, more specifically: only rectified grids with quadrilateral pixels.
*** the ESRI "Geoservice REST API" lacks support for temporal data; it only offers timestamps, measured in milliseconds; this is inconvenient for users and immediately excludes, e.g., geological dates. OGC has established uniform handling of horizontal, vertical, and temporal coordinate reference systems (CRSs), following a deep consensus process with GIS science and backwards compatible with EPSG. The ESRI "Geoservice REST API" specific way of handling coordinates is not known to support this, thereby excluding appropriate timeseries handling in remote sensing, air traffic, MetOcean, etc.
*** OGC coverages provide a concise, versatile model for supporting different binary formats; the ESRI "Geoservice REST API" supports only very few selected 2-D formats, excluding, e.g., JPEG2000, NetCDF, HDF, etc.
*** the ESRI "Geoservice REST API" lacks a clear model of their data structures, it can be deduced only implicitly from the operation mechanics.
** service model:
*** The ESRI "Geoservice REST API" Part 6 lacks conciseness, thereby opening up ways for implementations that are not interoperable. For developers of alternative implementations this may mean they have to acquire ESRI licenses for finding out the intended behavior.
*** Functionality in the ESRI "Geoservice REST API" appears randomly chosen, with no clear concept visible; this burdens implementers while still leaving holes of functionality. For example, this functionality appears restricted to mapping applications and does not easily extend into other domains.
*** It has been said that the ESRI "Geoservice REST API" can be seen as a "wrapper around OGC W*S" services. This is not true for WCS (and WCPS), at least: the ESRI "Geoservice REST API" Part 6 is too poor in functionality and too different in mechanics to accomplish this.
** In summary, the ESRI "Geoservice REST API" Imaging part is at a technological level where WCS departed from some 5 years ago. Inconciseness of the specification at large will make it difficult for third parties to come up with interoperable implementations. The components making up the ESRI "Geoservice REST API" provide natural blocks assignable to the matching SWGs. As for Part 6 of the ESRI "Geoservice REST API", if to become a standard it needs to be discussed in the WCS.SWG for harmonization, clarification, and improvement.

== Methodological Concerns ==

# No public response (nor private to the authors of the comments) has been made to the various comments sent on the OGC Requests mailing list in [[http://lists.opengeospatial.org/pipermail/requests/2012-July/date.html July 2012]] and [[http://lists.opengeospatial.org/pipermail/requests/2012-August/date.html August 2012]] during the 30 day public comments period.
# The Geoservices REST API can not be amended (other than editorial changes in the specification document), because of a requirement of backward compatibility with ESRI implementation. Consequently, the standard is unlikely to improve, or its evolution will be only lead by ESRI.
# OGC standards normally require interoperability experiments and a richer process to ratify a standard such as this one. No explanation has been forthcoming as to why a simplified process is appropriate in this case.
# ESRI/OGC have specifically [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-May/011659.html rejected requests] to openly share their justifications document being selectively sent to OGC voters.

A response (from Adrian Custer):

# The OGC is working to release those documents to the public as of 9 May 2013.
# Work on the next version of the document can take any perspective acceptable to those working on the document. (The OGC has no method in place in case two groups want to evolve the document in two different directions.)
# That is not true, the OGC does not require interoperability experiments or other processes.

= Further Reading =
''Please add links to referenced documents, related news stories or blog posts here.''
* Call for comments on GeoServices REST API: http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/89
* Email archive of OSGeo discussions about GeoServices REST API: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-May/thread.html
* Adrian Custer's summary of technical issues (and original source of some content in this letter): http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-May/011667.html
* "Is OGC Loosing its way?", letter to OGC Voters, from OGC Interoperability Movement Team Leaders, http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-May/011632.html

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Geoservices REST API

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Wiki-Aboudreault: /* Signed */

This wiki page aims to collate community concerns related to the adoption of the "Geoservices REST API" document as a standard of the [http://www.opengeospatial.org/ Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)]. The page is being collaboratively edited, targeting completion by Wednesday 15 May 2013, after which it will be delivered by the board of the [http://osgeo.org OSGeo Foundation (OSGeo)] to the OGC and OGC voting members.

= Cover Letter from the OSGeo Board =
''Please don't edit this "Cover Letter" statement, which has been approved by the OSGeo Board.''

The board of the [http://osgeo.org Open Source Geospatial Foundation] (OSGeo) is presenting this letter to the OGC. It highlights concerns about the "GeoServices REST API" from many people within the OSGeo community. As always, if there is anything the OSGeo board can do to help, then please let us know.

Signed: Jeff McKenna (OSGeo president),
Peter Batty,
Jáchym Čepický,
Michael Gerlek,
Anne Ghisla,
Mark Lucas,
Daniel Morissette,
Cameron Shorter,
Frank Warmerdam

= Open Letter to OGC and voting members =

''Please don't edit this "Open Letter" statement, comments and discussion should go in the "Further Concerns" section below.''

May 2013

We, the undersigned, have concerns that approving the "Geoservices REST API" as an OGC standard, would have detrimental impacts on interoperability within the spatial industry.

We strongly urge that the proposed "Geoservices REST API", as it stands in May 2013, be rejected as an OGC standard.

People have listed different reasons for concern. They are described below.

== Signed ==
''Please add your name here if you agree with the above statement. Include name, work title (if appropriate), very brief title/involvement in OSGeo if appropriate. (Link to OSGeo profile if appropriate). You may sign as a group, such as the Project Steering Committee of XXX project if you wish, or as Your Name on behalf of YYY company.''

# [[User:camerons|Cameron Shorter]], Geospatial Solutions Director at [http://lisasoft.com LISAsoft], core contributor & coordinator of [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live], OSGeo Board member
# [[Mark Lucas]], Founding member and board of directors for OSGeo foundation, Prinicipal Scientist for RadiantBlue Technologies Inc.
# [[User:Woodbri|Stephen Woodbridge]], Director of [http://imaptools.com iMaptools.com], Contributor and/or PSC of [http://mapserver.org Mapserver], [http://pgrouting.org/ pgRouting], [http://www.pagcgeo.org/ PAGC], and [http://www.postgis.org/ PostGIS]
# [[User:rouault|Even Rouault]], Geospatial developer, OSGeo Charter Member, core contributor and PSC member of [http://gdal.org GDAL/OGR], contributor of [http://mapserver.org Mapserver], [http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/ PROJ.4], [http://trac.osgeo.org/geotiff/ libgeotiff], [http://shapelib.maptools.org/ shapelib], [http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/ libtiff]
# Gerhard Triebnig, Managing Director at [http://eox.at EOX IT Services GmbH]
# [[User:pcreso|Brent Wood]], Environmental Information Delivery Programme Leader, NIWA, New Zealand. OGC member, Aust/NZ OSGEO chapter member, NZOSS Council member
# [[User:Schpidi|Stephan Meissl]], CTO at [http://eox.at EOX IT Services GmbH], contributor to [http://mapserver.org Mapserver], PSC chair of [http://eoxserver.org EOxServer]
# [[User:ticheler|Jeroen Ticheler]], Director of [http://geocat.net GeoCat], project founder and PSC chair of [http://geonetwork-opensource.org GeoNetwork opensource]
# [[User:Just|Just van den Broecke]], Director at [http://www.justobjects.nl Just Objects], contributor to [http://heron-mc.org Heron Mapping Client], secretary of [http://osgeo.nl OSGeo Dutch Local Chapter], member at [http://www.opengeogroep.nl OpenGeoGroep]
# [[User:milovanderlinden|Milo van der Linden]], member at [http://www.opengeogroep.nl OpenGeoGroep]
# [[User:surveyor|Landon Blake]], GIS Department Manager/Land Surveyor at [http://www.ksninc.com KSN], OSGeo California Chapter Board Representative.
# [[User:dmorissette|Daniel Morissette]], President at [http://mapgears.com/ Mapgears], core contributor and PSC member of [http://mapserver.org Mapserver] and [http://gdal.org GDAL/OGR]. Former OGC TC member and involved in the implementation of several OGC WxS services specs in MapServer.
# [[User:blammo|Bob Basques]], GIS Systems Developer at the City of Saint Paul, MN. [http://gis.ci.stpaul.mn.us Public Works GIS (GISmo)], Technical Director at [http://www.sharedgeo.org SharedGeo], OSGeo Charter Member, OSGeo TCMUG local chapter member, Co-founder and PSC member of [http://www.geomoose.org GeoMoose] project.
# [[User:vehrka|Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses]], PM at Omnium Strategic Intelligence, Spain, OSGeo Charter Member, OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Liaison officer.
# Bevan Rudge, Director Lucion Limited, IT Advisor at Conservation Strategy Fund, Esri client
# [[User:Delawen|María Arias de Reyna]], software engineer at [http://geocat.net GeoCat], Spain, member of OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter.
# [[User:Aghisla|Anne Ghisla]], OSGeo Board Member, Italy, member of OSGeo Italian Local Chapter.
# [[User:Michogar|Micho Garcia]], Freelance and member of [http://geomati.co geomati.co], Spain, member of Spanish Local Chapter
# [[User:Madi|Margherita Di Leo]], OSGeo Charter Member, Post-doctoral researcher at the European Commission, JRC, Italy
# [[Jorge Sanz]], GIS Consultant at [http://www.prodevelop.es Prodevelop], OSGeo Charter Member, OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Member, Spain
# [[Pablo Sanxiao]], CTO and co-founder at [http://www.icarto.es iCarto], OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Member, Spain
# [[User:Fsteggink|Frank Steggink]], GIS software developer at [http://www.vicrea.nl Vicrea], The Netherlands, member of the Dutch Local Chapter
# [[User:Olivier.courtin|Olivier Courtin]], [http://www.oslandia.com Oslandia] co-founder, core contributor or/and PSC member of [http://mapserver.org Mapserver] and [http://www.postgis.org/ PostGIS]. OGC TC member.
# [[User:Bolosig|Wladimir Szczerban]], OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Member, Spain
# [[User:AnitaGraser|Anita Graser]], GIS specialist with AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, OSGeo Charter member and QGIS team member.
# [[User:Vmische|Volker Mische]], geospatial software engineer, creator of GeoCouch
# [[User:Ivansanchez|Iván Sánchez]], OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Member, head of [http://www.openstreetmap.es OpenStreetMap Spain], [http://osmfoundation.org OpenStreetMap Foundation] member, [http://hot.openstreetmap.org/ Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team] member, [http://www.idee.es/ Spanish SDI working group] member
# [[User:Gabi|Gabriel Carrión]], Strategy Manager at [http://www.gvsig.com gvSIG association]
# [http://strk.keybit.net Sandro Santilli], OSGeo Charter Member, [http://postgis.net PostGIS] and [http://trac.osgeo.org/geos GEOS] PSC member and core hacker.
# [[User:Javiarch|Javier Diaz]], member of Geoinquietos Bs As [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Geoinquietos_Buenos_Aires], member of the Organizing Committee FOSS4G Bs As 2013 [http://www.foss4g-ba.org/]
# [[User: JoCook|Jo Cook]], Consultant at [http://isharemaps.com| Astun Technology], former Director of OSGeo, Charter Member, founder of UK Local Chapter, Deputy Chair of [http://2013.foss4g.org| FOSS4G 2013]
# [[User: Fpenarru | Francisco José Peñarrubia]], CTO and co-founder at [http://www.scolab.es SCOLAB]. Members of [http://www.gvsig.com gvSIG Association]
# [[User: Ganesh|Shanmugam Ganeshkumar]], Director of [http://www.geoicon.com GeoICON], member OSGeo Malaysia Chapter
# [[User:Barryrowlingson|Barry Rowlingson]], Senior Researcher, Lancaster University and Software Sustainability Institute Fellow
# [[User: Sfkeller|Stefan Keller]], University of Applied Sciences, Rapperswil (Switzerland), Member of Swiss OSM (SOSM) and QGIS association and of organizing committees of pgConf.DE and FOSSGIS 2013, and member of eCH (e-government standards of Switzerland)
# [[User: AndyBMapMan|Andrew Bailey]], OSGeo member, Astun Technology
# [[User: Sanand|Suchith Anand]], OSGeo Charter member, OSGeo Education member, FOSS4G 2013 LOC member
# [[User: krefftc|Carlos Krefft]], GIS software developer at [http://www.cstars.miami.edu CSTARS - University of Miami], OGC and OSGeo Member.
# [[User:Steko|Stefano Costa]], OSGeo member, GFOSS.it member and former board member, Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali (Italy)
# [[User:pebau|Peter Baumann]], [http://www.jacobs-university.de/lsis Jacobs University], OGC member, WCS.SWG chair, editor of 10+ specs (disclaimer: this is an expression of my personal opinion and not in any way endorsed by OGC)
# [[User:pmbatty|Peter Batty]], CTO of Geospatial Division at [http://www.ubisense.net Ubisense], OSGeo board member, former CTO of [http://intergraph.com Intergraph] and [http://www.gedigitalenergy.com/gis.htm GE Smallworld], Technical Committee member of OGC in its formative years c 1995-97
# [[User: BarendKobben | Barend Köbben]], OSGEO Chartered Member, OSGeo.nl Dutch chapter treasurer, Senior Lecturer at [http://www.itc.nl ITC-University of Twente]
# [[User: pcav | Paolo Cavallini]], [http://www.faunalia.it Faunalia], OSGeo member, GFOSS.it member and former president, QGIS-PSC
# [[User: fthamura| FRans Thamura]], [http://www.osgeo.or.id Indonesia], OSGeo Indonesia, organizer]
# [[User: Endofcap| Sanghee Shin]], Founder and CEO of [http://www.gaia3d.com Gaia3D], OSGeo Charter Member, Representative of [http://www.osgeo.kr OSGeo Korean Chapter], Chairman of Open Source GIS Alliance Korea
# [[User: rentairo| Benni Purwonegoro]],Indonesia, IT-Spatial Engineer @ Geospatial Information Agency .
# [[User: jachym| Jachym Cepicky]], Czech Republic, member of OSGeo Board of Directors
# [[User: cappelaere| Pat Cappelaere]], Vightel Corporation
# [[User: JuergenFischer|Jürgen Fischer]], norBIT GmbH, QGIS core developer
# [[User: Maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]], OSGeo Charter member, OSGeo Education member, GIS Professor and Vice Rector for the Como Campus at [http://www.polimi.it/en Politecnico di Milano], Italy
# [[User:Nachouve |Nacho Varela]], GIS Consultant, OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Member, Spain
# [[User:vasile |Vasile Craciunescu]], OSGeo Charter member, OSGeo Romania Local Chapter Leader, Researcher at Romanian National Meteorological Administration, Romania
# [[User:badaveil |Abbas Abdul Wahab]], Asst. Director, Federal Department of Town & Country Planning, Peninsular Malaysia
# [[User:rbraam | Roy Braam]], Software Engineer @ [http://www.b3partners.nl | B3Partners]
# [[User:peteris | Peteris Bruns]], Latvia, GIS Consultant & Software Engineer @ [http://www.sungis.lv | SunGIS]
# [[User:Lutra | Giovanni Manghi]], Portugal, [http://www.faunalia.pt Faunalia], OSGeo member, OSGeo-Portugal
# [[User:Hfpmartins | Hugo Martins]], UK, [http://www.lutraconsulting.co.uk Lutra Consulting], WebGIS Developer, OSGeo-Portugal Member
# [[User:Sabb | Saber Razmjooei]], UK, [http://www.lutraconsulting.co.uk Lutra Consulting], Co-Founder
# [[User:Wellsp | Peter Wells]], UK, [http://www.lutraconsulting.co.uk Lutra Consulting], Co-Founder
# [[User:SGijzen | Sidney Gijzen]], The Netherlands, Researcher GIS @ [http://www.wageningenur.nl/en/Expertise-Services/Research-Institutes/alterra.htm Alterra, Wageningen UR]
# [[User:mfidelman | Miles Fidelman]], US, Principal, Protocol Technologies Group, LLC
# [[User:punkish | Puneet Kishor]], OSGeo Charter Member; [http://www.geology.wisc.edu Geology, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison]; [http://creativecommons.org/staff#puneetkishor Creative Commons]
# [[User:Toze | António José Silva]], Portugal, GIS Consultant, OSGeo-Portugal Member
# [[User:AndreMano | AndreMano]], Portugal, Natural History Society - GIS Department, OSGeo-Portugal Member
# [[User:maurimiranda|Mauricio Miranda]], Argentina, OSGeo Charter Member, OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Board Member
# [[User:pmachado|Paulo Machado]], Portugal, Software Engineer @ PT Inovação
# [[User:alvaro|Alvaro Anguix]], Spain, General Manager at [http://www.gvsig.com gvSIG Association]
# [[Santiago Higuera]], CEO at [http://Mercatorlab.com Mercatorlab], OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Board Member, Spain
# [[Alan Boudreault]], Developer at [http://mapgears.com/ Mapgears], contribution to [http://mapserver.org Mapserver] and [http://gdal.org GDAL/OGR].

= Summary =

''Please don't edit this section - it is now locked to ensure editorial review. You may send comments to Cameron Shorter AT gmail .com''

The document titled "GeoServices REST API" is currently, in May 2013, being considered to be included as one of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards. The vote to accept the document as a standard is unusually contentious; the controversy is the cause of this page.

The document was previously released for public comment and can be found [http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/89 on the request for public comment page] (though public comment has been closed for now).

The document attempts to standardize a suite of web services such as a service which provides map images, a service which provides geospatial feature data, and a service which performs geospatial processing. The standard focuses on interactions via a defined hierarchy of URLs and using predominantly a particular set of JSON schemas.

The adoption of the document is contentious for a wide variety of reasons including:

* the process through which it was developed,
* the language of 'REST' and 'API' used by the document,
* the names of the standard and of the services which are potentially confusing
* the duplication of these new services with other services standardized by the OGC such as WMS, WFS, WCS, and WPS and with work, by those services, of adopting RESTful designs including URL hierarchies and JSON exchange formats,
* the specific format of JSON messages used, and
* the dominance of one vendor of the single complete implementation in the marketplace.

These issues have potential impacts on the use of 'Open Standards' by governments and companies, on the interoperability of software interacting with standards compliant OGC services, on the costs to developers and users of standards compliant software, on the understanding of 'Open Standards' by the public at large, and, possibly, on the reputation of the OGC as a champion of interoperability.

In particular there are concerns by some that adoption of the standard will likely result in a combination of the following:
# The cost to application developers, systems integrators, testers and sponsors to support all relevant OGC standards will be substantially increased.
# Consequently, organisations and/or applications may choose to only support one standard, or only support one standard fully.
# Sponsors (such as governments) who require compliance with OGC standards will discover that applications don't communicate together, due to applications supporting different OGC standards that essentially do the same thing.
# This will result in a diminished importance of OGC, as the "OGC standards" stamp of approval will not equate interoperability.
# After a while, in order to solve interoperability issues, a respected international organisation or program will likely take the initiative to mandate one standard as the preferred standard for all agencies to follow. To date, the OGC has provided this leadership.
# One standard taking prominance over the other will likely lead to the other being neglected or deprecated, resulting in many OGC compliant systems becoming legacy systems in the process. This should be considered an undesirable outcome for a standards organisation.

These issues have been answered by the authors of the Geoservices REST API document who state:

* the process of the OGC has been followed completely
* the specification actually is RESTful and does define an API
* the name, due to the controversy, may be open for modification
* the OGC does not forbid duplication of service functionality, already has duplication between the W*S and the S*S (sensor) family of standards, should not block progress in the name of 'one true way', and harmonization between the services can be considered in the future,
* the JSON format exists and functions, and
* there are alternative implementations for some of these services.

The authors also stress that the existence of a large user base shows the service is useful, that the standardization of the services at the OGC may encourage new implementations,

= Positions on the vote =
''Please don't edit this section - it is now locked to ensure editorial review. You may send comments to Cameron Shorter AT gmail .com''

The discussion raises a number of issues, many based upon complex technical concepts and implications. This makes it difficult for voting OGC members considering whether to support "Geoservices REST API" as a standard. The following provides one analysis of positions on the vote, aimed to simplify and summarize key points, however, it does not necessarily represent the opinions held by all signatories above.

; The pros for accepting the "Geoservices REST API" document as an OGC standard:

:* The OGC should be in the business of developing good standards, not in choosing which standards should be implemented.
:* The proposers of the document want to make a standard and have followed all the rules of the OGC. The work of any such group of members deserves serious, good faith consideration.
:* The need for an integrated suite of services using simple data, which is addressed (partially) by the document, is real. The proposed document is pushing the OGC on this issue.
:* The proposed document could be useful to a number of people.
:* The proposed document is not significantly more broken than the existing standards of the OGC. As one author of standards [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-May/011667.html notes]:
:''"I know how totally impossible it is to write a good standard, so the weaknesses in the existing document seem more acceptable."''

; The cons:

:* The OGC is in the position of recommending interoperable standards for geospatial services. The proposed document is not good enough, not widely enough implemented, and not publicly supported enough, to be considered at the same level as existing standards.
:* Adopting a standard implies a desire to maintain the standard, but OGC's desire to support this approach by has been questioned by some. In particular, the lack of collaboration and willingness to accept recommendations from the community on this version of the "Geoservices REST API" document bodes ill for the future.
:* The overlap in functionality between the proposed services and the existing services, notably with the ongoing work to modularize the existing services, is almost 100 percent. However, compatibility is low.
:* There is already a published document: http://www.esri.com/library/whitepapers/pdfs/geoservices-rest-spec.pdf so there is no need for the document to be adopted as an OGC Standard merely for interoperability with the ESRI implementation.
:* The document, as a new, separate effort, repeats mistakes which were made and since solved by the other services.
:* The document focuses on the past (notably with backwards compatibility and use of only GET/POST) not on the future.
:* The document needs a comprehensive editorial rewrite. (see at end)

; The conclusion:

Both simple answers are bad.

A simple acceptance of the standard would introduce a new set of 'OGC approved' open services. The OGC approval might enable governments to buy a XXXX-new-name-here-XXXX solution instead of a W*S or a S*S solution. The path forwards towards harmonizing the services is unclear. Fixing this document in addition to fixing the W*S services will be a pain.

Simply rejecting the solution would be bad for the OGC. It would place the OGC in the position of picking winners and losers in the standards business. It would mean that the OGC is stuck on the project of fixing the W*S standards to meet some nebulous future functionality without having any path to get there. It would discourage innovation and progress.

Is there a third way?

Well, actually, there is. The natural consequence of either decision is a renewed commitment towards trying to build this thing that we want, an integrated suite of simple services built using simple, well defined resources, accessible and usable using the core HTTP verbs, and discoverable through following links. That's the good way forwards and why to focus work on the next versions of W*S standards (which include JSON bindings), and other modular extensions to OGC services.

= Issues with the document =

''Please don't edit this section - it is now locked to ensure editorial review. You may send comments to Cameron Shorter AT gmail .com''

Beyond the controversy described above, there are issues with the Geoservices REST API document itself. Even if the standard deserves support, these issues should be considered blockers to the adoption of the current, May 2013, document.

The critique is incomplete because it quickly falls into a full editorial review of the text, something which takes a lot of time and effort and is beyond this scope and intent of this Open Letter.

The critique can be found at: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geoservices_REST_API_critique.

Note that some of these critiques hold the document to OGC's current, standards writing guidelines. The OGC has been striving to develop better standards so new standards must meet higher requirements than past standards. The lack of clarity in the proposed document is not substantially worse than many published standards.

= Further Concerns =
--- DRAFT ____

''Please add concerns not addressed above as bullet points below. Try to be concise, and try not to repeat concepts which have been covered above. Points you have previously added, which are now covered above should be removed. Where appropriate, link to external web pages (such as email achieves)''

== Political Concerns ==

* Adopting the standard will expose the OGC to a strong suspicion of acting as a rubber stamp organization under ESRI weight, and will be detrimental to its recognized position as a reference organization for geospatial standards.
* It is a dubious practice that a standardization organisation promotes competing standards, without explicitely obsoleting (or at least recommending) some of them. How is a newcomer to the industry supposed to select the appropriate standard if several ones share the same scope : WFS or GeoServices REST API Feature Service, WMS or GeoServices REST API Map Service, etc. ?

== Commercial Concerns ==

* Promoting standards from an existing implementation made by a single vendor leads to an obvious bias in competition.
* Supporting multiple overlapping standards greatly reduces usability while it increases complexity and cost of development and maintenance.
* Many SME's have invested in supporting existing OGC standards in their products. They will be forced to choose the standards they support (and can explain), resulting in decreased interoperability, confusion and frustration for clients.
* Confusing customers with new, overlapping OGC standards will lower the credibility of companies and of OGC, reducing business opportunities.

== Technical Concerns ==

* The Geoservices REST API overlaps in large proportion with existing OGC standards such as WMS, WCS, WFS, WMTS, CSW, with no effort made to reconcile with those standards.
* The standardization of WKT for Spatial reference systems is unfortunately currently quite weak in OGC standards. Geoservices REST API is tied with ESRI's version of WKT, which is not properly specified in the Geoservices REST API documents, and is known to be incompatible with other OGC documents, which will lead to a larger confusion. See the following [http://lists.opengeospatial.org/pipermail/requests/2012-July/000166.html comment] for more details on this issue.
* The Geoservices REST API is not particularly RESTful - it's a thinly disguised service call, not an address space for RESTful objects that can be operated on.
* At least as far as "imagery" is concerned, OGC standards arguably are substantially more mature, powerful, flexible, and modular then the ESRI "Geoservice REST API" Part 6 (and some design principles suggest that scalability may be hampered as well):
** data model:
*** the ESRI "Geoservice REST API" appears constrained to 2-D imagery, plus optional time stamps. OGC has established a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coverage_data unified coverage model] which fully supports n-D spatio-temporal data. It allows use and exchange of coverages between different services, such as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Coverage_Service WCS], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Coverage_Processing_Service WCPS], WPS, and SWE.
*** OGC coverages support both regular and irregular grids; the ESRI "Geoservice REST API" supports only regular grids, more specifically: only rectified grids with quadrilateral pixels.
*** the ESRI "Geoservice REST API" lacks support for temporal data; it only offers timestamps, measured in milliseconds; this is inconvenient for users and immediately excludes, e.g., geological dates. OGC has established uniform handling of horizontal, vertical, and temporal coordinate reference systems (CRSs), following a deep consensus process with GIS science and backwards compatible with EPSG. The ESRI "Geoservice REST API" specific way of handling coordinates is not known to support this, thereby excluding appropriate timeseries handling in remote sensing, air traffic, MetOcean, etc.
*** OGC coverages provide a concise, versatile model for supporting different binary formats; the ESRI "Geoservice REST API" supports only very few selected 2-D formats, excluding, e.g., JPEG2000, NetCDF, HDF, etc.
*** the ESRI "Geoservice REST API" lacks a clear model of their data structures, it can be deduced only implicitly from the operation mechanics.
** service model:
*** The ESRI "Geoservice REST API" Part 6 lacks conciseness, thereby opening up ways for implementations that are not interoperable. For developers of alternative implementations this may mean they have to acquire ESRI licenses for finding out the intended behavior.
*** Functionality in the ESRI "Geoservice REST API" appears randomly chosen, with no clear concept visible; this burdens implementers while still leaving holes of functionality. For example, this functionality appears restricted to mapping applications and does not easily extend into other domains.
*** It has been said that the ESRI "Geoservice REST API" can be seen as a "wrapper around OGC W*S" services. This is not true for WCS (and WCPS), at least: the ESRI "Geoservice REST API" Part 6 is too poor in functionality and too different in mechanics to accomplish this.
** In summary, the ESRI "Geoservice REST API" Imaging part is at a technological level where WCS departed from some 5 years ago. Inconciseness of the specification at large will make it difficult for third parties to come up with interoperable implementations. The components making up the ESRI "Geoservice REST API" provide natural blocks assignable to the matching SWGs. As for Part 6 of the ESRI "Geoservice REST API", if to become a standard it needs to be discussed in the WCS.SWG for harmonization, clarification, and improvement.

== Methodological Concerns ==

# No public response (nor private to the authors of the comments) has been made to the various comments sent on the OGC Requests mailing list in [[http://lists.opengeospatial.org/pipermail/requests/2012-July/date.html July 2012]] and [[http://lists.opengeospatial.org/pipermail/requests/2012-August/date.html August 2012]] during the 30 day public comments period.
# The Geoservices REST API can not be amended (other than editorial changes in the specification document), because of a requirement of backward compatibility with ESRI implementation. Consequently, the standard is unlikely to improve, or its evolution will be only lead by ESRI.
# OGC standards normally require interoperability experiments and a richer process to ratify a standard such as this one. No explanation has been forthcoming as to why a simplified process is appropriate in this case.
# ESRI/OGC have specifically [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-May/011659.html rejected requests] to openly share their justifications document being selectively sent to OGC voters.

A response (from Adrian Custer):

# The OGC is working to release those documents to the public as of 9 May 2013.
# Work on the next version of the document can take any perspective acceptable to those working on the document. (The OGC has no method in place in case two groups want to evolve the document in two different directions.)
# That is not true, the OGC does not require interoperability experiments or other processes.

= Further Reading =
''Please add links to referenced documents, related news stories or blog posts here.''
* Call for comments on GeoServices REST API: http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/89
* Email archive of OSGeo discussions about GeoServices REST API: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-May/thread.html
* Adrian Custer's summary of technical issues (and original source of some content in this letter): http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-May/011667.html
* "Is OGC Loosing its way?", letter to OGC Voters, from OGC Interoperability Movement Team Leaders, http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-May/011632.html

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Time: Mon-Wed (9AM - 5PM), Thu (9AM - Noon)

== Venue ==
[http://www.devonshireboston.com/skyclub.html Devonshire Sky Club Conference Room] (42.358187,-71.057593)

Walking distance from all subway lines, rail and bus. From airport, take subway (Blue line) to State Street.

== Agenda ==
'''Monday (March 25th)'''
* 9:00am to 9:30am - Welcomes
* 9:30am to 11:30am - Sprinting
* 11:30am to 1:30pm - Lunch, Informal Presentations
* 1:30pm - 2:30pm - Google Hangout
* 2:30pm to 4:00pm - Sprinting
* 4:00pm to 5:00pm - Cocktail

'''Tuesday (March 26th)'''
* 9:00am to 11:30am - Sprinting
* 11:30am to 1:30pm - Lunch, Informal Presentations
* 1:30pm - 2:30pm - Google Hangout
* 2:30pm to 4:00pm - Sprinting
* 4:00pm to 5:00pm - Cocktail

'''Wednesday (March 27th)'''
* 9:00am to 11:30am - Sprinting
* 11:30am to 1:30pm - Lunch, Informal Presentations
* 1:30pm - 2:30pm - Google Hangout
* 2:30pm to 4:00pm - Sprinting
* 4:00pm to 5:00pm - Cocktail

'''Thursday (March 28th)'''
* 9:00am to 11:30am - Sprinting
* 11:30am to Noon - Farewells

== Hotel ==
We've decided not to get a block of rooms because it seems it is pricier than having people pick the hotel they like best. There are over a dozen hotels name-brand and boutique within walking, all rated above three stars. Should you have specific questions, feel free to email us directly: lr at pcorp.us. We’ll help you find the perfect accommodation.

Our recommendation is to book your own room via Hotwire or Priceline.

For Hotwire, any hotel in the Financial District will be within walking distance.
For Price Line, any hotel within a half mile of 1 DEVONSHIRE PL BOSTON MA 02109 will be within walking distance.

== Costs ==
Participants should plan for the following costs:

* Travel to Boston
* Accommodation for three nights
* Breakfast and dinner

== Project Plans ==
* [[Boston Sprint 2013 Agenda]]
* [https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/wiki/Boston-Codesprint-Agenda MapServer sprint plan]

== Sponsor Demos ==
During the lunch hour, our sponsors will have the opportunity to talk briefly and informally about their products/services and how they use open source.

* Monday - Azavea: GeoTrellis
* Tuesday - TBA
* Wednesday - TBA

== Communication ==
* Please join the mailing list: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/tosprint
* IRC chat during the event: #tosprint Server: irc.freenode.net

== Participants ==
We are planning for attendance of 20-30. Please add your name and the projects you are hoping to sprint and note the likeliness of your attendance.

Indicate if you have already finalized accommodation and travel arrangements.

# Regina Obe - Paragon Corporation - Hostess
# Leo Hsu - Paragon Corporation - Hostess' consort
# Stephen Mather - PostGIS/Raster/PDAL - Attendance assured. Local
# [[User:Woodbri|Steve Woodbridge]] - iMaptools.com - MapServer; pgRouting; postGIS - Attendance assured. Local
# [[User:pwramsey3|Paul Ramsey]] - PostGIS - Arriving Mar 24 @ 18:11 on AC364
# Thomas Bonfort - Terriscope - MapServer - Arriving Mar 24 @ 19:25 on LH424
# Jonas Lund Nielsen - Danish Geodata Agency - MapServer - Arriving Mar 24 @ 19:15 on AC8666
# Howard Butler - Hobu, Inc. - Arriving Mar 24 @ 4:30 on UA1235
# [[User:dmorissette|Daniel Morissette]] - Mapgears - MapServer; GDAL/OGR - Flight/Hotel booked
# [[Jeff McKenna]] - Gateway Geomatics - MapServer - Flight booked
# Olivier Courtin - Oslandia - PostGIS, TinyOWS - Flight booked
# Hugo Mercier - Oslandia - PostGIS - Flight booked
# Stephan Meissl - EOX - MapServer - Flight booked
# Bborie Park - PostGIS Raster - Flight booked
# Steve Lime - MapServer - Flight booked
# Alan Boudreault - Mapgears - MapServer, MapCache; GDAL/OGR - Flight/Hotel booked
# [[User:Djay|Gérald Fenoy]] - GeoLabs SARL - ZOO-Project - Flight booked
# Jim Klassen - SharedGeo - Flight booked
# Michael Smith - US Army Corps - MapServer; PDAL; GDAL/OGR - Attendance assured
# [[User:Dzwarg|David Zwarg]] - Azavea - PostGIS Raster; GDAL/OGR - Very likely
# Norman Barker - Cloudant - Very likely
# [[User:kshepard|Kenny Shepard]] - Azavea - PostGIS - Very likely
# Rob Emanuele - Azavea - PostGIS Raster - Very likely
# Pierre Racine - University Laval - PostGIS Raster - Very likely
# Tom Kralidis - MapServer, pycsw, owslib - Likely
# Michael P. Gerlek (or designee) - OneOcean - PDAL & Friends - Likely
# [[User:Jwalgran|Justin Walgran]] - Azavea - OpenLayers; PostGIS - Likely
# Norman Vine - Likely
# Frank Warmerdam - Google - GDAL; MapServer; PROJ.4 - Likely
# [[User:Mloskot|Mateusz Loskot]] - PostGIS/PDAL - Unlikely
# <strike>[[User:kirk|Kirk McKelvey]] - LizardTech - PDAL/GDAL - </strike> (will sorely miss this - until next year then)

== Individual Preparation ==

* Bring your own computer
* Install subversion and the compiler tools, and come with a working development environment if possible

== FAQ ==

* Is the Boston Code Sprint just a coding event?
** Yes, a coding, testing and documentation event. It is a working session for people who are already participants in open source projects.
* Will it be possible to present new projects during this event?
** No, this is not a presentation-oriented event. People will get together in small groups and work on areas of mutual interest within their projects.
* Will there be presentation time to show case innovative uses of technology?
** Yes, Sponsors and sprinters actively working on projects will have their moment of glory

== Extracurricular Activities ==

Here are some events happening around town that could be of interest:

=== Sporting Events ===
* Hockey - Mon Mar 25 Maple Leafs vs. Bruins
* Hockey - Wed Mar 27 Canadiens vs. Bruins
* Hoops - Tue Mar 26 Knicks vs. Celtics

=== Crashing Parties ===
* Mon Mar 25 7-10 PM [http://ignitelocationtechboston1.eventbrite.com/ Ignite LocationTech Boston] (follow link to register)
* [http://www.meetup.com/avidgeo/ AvidGeo] might be having a meetup around that time too.

== Sponsors ==
We have three sponsorship levels:

* Gold: $2000+, Silver: $1500, Bronze: $750

We encourage sponsors ($750+) to support nutriment and entertainment for the sprinters as they work hard and play hard for four productive days. Contributions will go towards space rental, lunch, and libations (in this order).

Sponsors will receive the following honors:

* Your logo or portrait at the top of this page
* 30-min slot to talk about how you are using FOSS GIS
* Get to stare at us during the sprint and voice your in put in person
* Our undying gratitude, which comes in handy when you least expect it. (Remember that feature you wanted...)

To sponsor, please contact Leo Hsu and Regina Obe (lr at pcorp dot us) directly regarding sponsorship and level of sponsorship you'd like to provide

=== 2013 Sponsors ===
==== Gold ====
EnterpriseDb
==== Silver ====
Mobile Geographics, Airborne Interactive, GeoSynergy
==== Bronze ====
OneOcean, Azavea, Hobu

Boston Code Sprint 2013

2013-03-12T17:47:56Z

Wiki-Aboudreault: /* Participation */

[[Image:boston_codesprint_2012.png|700px|right]]

{| class="wikitable" style="float:right"
! '''Gold Sponsors'''
|-
| [http://www.enterprisedb.com EnterpriseDb]
| [[File:EDB_logo_rgb_300.jpg‎]]
|-
! '''Silver Sponsors'''
|-
| [http://www.geosynergy.com.au GeoSynergy]
| [[File:GeoSynergy_650.jpg‎|600px]]
|-
| [http://www.airborneinteractive.com/ Airborne Interactive]
| [[Image:AirborneInteractive 400.png|200px|AirborneInteractive 400.png]]
|-
! '''Bronze Sponsors'''
|-
| [http://www.azavea.com Azavea]
| [[File:Logo-azavea.png‎]]
|-
| [http://www.hobu.biz Hobu]
| [[File:Logo-Hobu.png‎]]
|-
| [http://www.1ocean.com OneOcean]
| [[File:Bos_code_sprint_oneocean.png|300px]]
|-
! ''Other in-kind Sponsors''
|-
| Paragon Corporation
|}

{|width="290px" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"
|
== Purpose ==
Get together project members to make decisions and tackle larger geospatial problems (as done last year at the [[IslandWood Code Sprint 2012]] and previous years: [[Montreal Code Sprint 2011|Montreal]] (2011), [[New York Code Sprint 2010|New York City]] (2010), and [[Toronto Code Sprint 2009|Toronto]] (2009)). This code sprint is targeting members of the "C Tribe" (eg, MapServer, GRASS, GDAL, Proj, PostGIS, MapGuide, OpenLayers). Other tribes are welcome to join the sprint, of course, but we hope that "C Tribe" members will give this event special consideration.

We have started a [[Boston Sprint 2013 Agenda]] page for preliminary planning of tasks.

== Timing ==
Dates: '''Weekday: Monday - Thursday 3/25-3/28'''
Duration: Four days (9AM - 5PM)

|}
== Venue ==
''' Planned Location: ''' [http://www.devonshireboston.com/skyclub.html Devonshire Sky Club Conference Room] (42.358187,-71.057593) and if needed
spill over into Paragon Offices

Both across the street from Boston City Hall. Right on the [http://www.thefreedomtrail.org/ Freedom Trail] and about 2 blocks away
from the [http://www.fsf.org/about/contact/ Free Software Foundation head quarters].

Walking distance from all subway lines, commuter rail stations, and Amtrak.

= Agenda=
'''Sunday (March 24th)'''

* 5:00pm to 10:00pm - check-in
** ''if you plan to arrive earlier than 4pm or later than 11:55 PM, contact Leo to make arrangements''
** ''You can hang out with rest of Boston hackers if you want''

'''Monday (March 25th)'''

* 8:00am - breakfast
* 8:00am to noon - ''sprinting''
* noon - lunch (in meeting room) informal presentations
* 12 - 1pm (Google Hangout?) - just quick intro from each group
* 2pm to 4:00pm - ''sprinting''
* 4:00pm to 5:00pm - drinks/social hour
* 5:00pm to 7:00pm - dinner
* 7:00pm - watch Hockey somewhere or [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/tosprint/2013-February/000389.html Hangout with Eclipse folks who invited us to their party]

'''Tuesday (March 26th)'''

* 8:00am - breakfast
* 8:00am to noon - ''sprinting''
* noon - lunch (in meeting room)
* 1pm - 2pm (Google Hangout? - dedicated to specific working group )
* 2pm to 5:00pm - ''sprinting''
* 5:00pm to 7:00pm - dinner
* 7:00pm to 8:00pm - walk around Boston the most walkable city :)

'''Wednesday (March 27th)'''

* 8:00am - breakfast
* 8:00am to noon - ''sprinting''
* noon - lunch (in meeting room)
* 1pm - 2pm (Google Hangout? )
* 2pm to 5:00pm - ''sprinting''
* 5:00pm to 7:00pm - dinner

'''Thursday (March 28th)'''
* 8:00am - breakfast
* 9:30am - '''checkout'''
* 8:00am to noon - ''sprinting''
* 11:00am - lunch (in meeting room)
* 12:00pm - hard stop, meeting room closes
* Farewells

== Project Plans ==
* [[Boston Sprint 2013 Agenda]]
* [https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/wiki/Boston-Codesprint-Agenda MapServer sprint plan]

== Sponsor Demos ==

During the lunch hour, our sponsors will have the opportunity to talk briefly and informally about their products/services and how they use open source.

* Monday
** 12:00 - Azavea: GeoTrellis
** 12:30
* Tuesday
** 12:00
** 12:30
* Wednesday
** 12:00
** 12:30

== Sponsors ==
We have three sponsorship levels:

* Gold: >= $2000
* Silver: $1500
* Bronze: $750

We will again be looking for sponsors ($750+) to support food and fun for the sprinters as they work hard and play hard for four productive days. Each sponsorship will be put towards lunch and dinner costs for the sprinters, and potentially bringing in sprinters who might otherwise be unable to attend.

Sponsors get the following benefits:

* Your banner at the top of this page
* 30-minute slot to talk about how you are using FOSS GIS (first come first serve)
* Get to sit with us at the sprint and have input in project road map of an OSGeo project you are interested in
* Our undying gratitude, which comes in handy when you least expect it. Remember that feature you wanted in X :)
* The good feeling that you have contributed to the FOSS GIS movement (priceless and good for the health too)

To sponsor, please contact Leo Hsu and Regina Obe (lr at pcorp dot us) directly regarding sponsorship and level of sponsorship you'd like to provide

=== 2013 Sponsors ===
This is the current list of pledges
==== Gold ====
#EnterpriseDb

==== Silver ====
# Mobile Geographics
# Airborne Interactive
# GeoSynergy

==== Bronze ====
# OneOcean
# Azavea
# Hobu, Inc.

== Budget ==

== Hotel ==
We've decided not to get a block of rooms because it seems it is pricier than having people pick the hotel they like best.

Our recommendation is to book your own room via Hotwire or Priceline.

For Hotwire, any hotel in the Financial District will be within walking distance.

For Price Line, any hotel within ½ mile of 1 DEVONSHIRE PL BOSTON MA 02109 will be within walking distance.

Boston has no major conventions during the Code Sprint. Note: [http://www.eclipsecon.org/2013/ EclipseCon 2013] is running during the same period.

There are over a dozen hotels name-brand and boutique within a ½ mile, all rated above three stars.

Should you have specific questions, feel free to email us directly: lr at pcorp.us.
We’ll help you find the perfect accommodation.

== Costs ==

Participants should plan for the following costs:

* Travel to Boston, variable depending on where you are.
* Accommodation for four nights, $300 to $600 depending on what room you choose and whether you room share.
* Breakfast, dinner and other snacks.
* The sponsorship moneys will be put towards: conference room rent, morning snacks, lunches, dinner (1), social event (?), and trip subsidies (e.g. travel costs for core developers)

== Communication ==

* Please join the mailing list: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/tosprint

* IRC chat during the event: Channel: #tosprint Server: irc.freenode.net

== Participation ==

We are planning for attendance of 20-30. Please add your name and the projects you are hoping to sprint and note the likeliness of your attendance.

For room if you need a room - put either:
single room - if you want your own
room share - if you'd prefer to share or don't care
local arrangements - put if you already have arrangements planned

# Leo Hsu (Definite) Paragon Corporation - PostGIS, pgRouting, PDAL 3/25, 3/18, 3/11, any
# Regina Obe (Definite) Paragon Corporation - PostGIS, pgRouting, PDAL 3/25, 3/18, 3/11, any
# Michael Smith - US Army Corps - MapServer; PDAL; GDAL/OGR - Will definitely be here
# [[User:dmorissette|Daniel Morissette]] - Mapgears - MapServer; GDAL/OGR - flight booked
# [[User:pwramsey3|Paul Ramsey]] - PostGIS - Arriving Mar 24 @ 18:11 on AC364
# Thomas Bonfort - Terriscope - MapServer - flight booked - "any"
# [[Jeff McKenna]] - Gateway Geomatics - MapServer - flight booked, shared room
# Olivier Courtin - Oslandia - PostGIS, TinyOWS - flight booked
# Hugo Mercier - Oslandia - PostGIS - flight booked
# Stephan Meissl - EOX - MapServer - flight booked, room share
# Bborie Park - PostGIS Raster - flight booked, single room
# Howard Butler - Hobu, Inc. - arriving Mar 24 @ 4:30 on United 1235
# [[User:Woodbri|Steve Woodbridge]] - iMaptools.com - MapServer; pgRouting; postGIS - very likely, any
# Norman Barker - Cloudant - very likely - "ANY"
# Steve Lime - MapServer - flight booked
# [[User:kshepard|Kenny Shepard]] - Azavea - PostGIS, very likely, single room
# [[User:Dzwarg|David Zwarg]] - Azavea - PostGIS Raster; GDAL/OGR - 99.73% sure, any, local arrangements
# [[User:kirk|Kirk McKelvey]] - LizardTech - PDAL/GDAL - likely, 3/4, 3/18, 3/25, single room
# Michael P. Gerlek (or designee) - OneOcean - PDAL & Friends - ("possible"), will make own lodging arrangements
# Tom Kralidis - MapServer, pycsw, owslib - Possible
# Jim Klassen - SharedGeo - flight booked
# [[User:Jwalgran|Justin Walgran]] - Azavea - OpenLayers; PostGIS - likely, single room
# Norman Vine - self - likely - any
# Brad Chambers - RadiantBlue - PDAL - likely - single room
# Rob Emanuele - Azavea - PostGIS Raster - very likeable
# Stephen Mather - PostGIS/Raster/PDAL, Definite, local arrangements
# Pierre Racine - University Laval - PostGIS Raster - very likely
# [[User:Djay|Gérald Fenoy]] - GeoLabs SARL - ZOO-Project - flight booked, local arrangements
# Frank Warmerdam - Google - GDAL; MapServer; PROJ.4 - Possible
# [[User:Mloskot|Mateusz Loskot]] - PostGIS/PDAL - unlikely, any
# Alan Boudreault - Mapgears - MapServer; GDAL/OGR - flight booked

Virtual participants (irc #tosprint)

== Room Share ==

If you would like to room share,

# Reserve a room at the hotel, choosing a type with more than one bed.
# Put your name in this section, indicating the amount of space in your room.

Put your names below:

* example entry: B has a triple room, needs two roommates.

== Individual Preparation ==

* Bring your own computer
* Install subversion and the compiler tools, and come with a working development environment if possible.

== FAQ ==

* Is the Boston Code Sprint just a coding event?
** Yes, a coding, testing and documentation event. It is a working session for people who are already participants in open source projects.
* Will it be possible to present new projects during this event?
** No, this is not a presentation-oriented event. People will get together in small groups and work on areas of mutual interest within their projects.
* Will there be presentation time to show case innovative uses of technology?
** Yes, Sponsors and sprinters actively working on projects will have their moment of glory

== Social Events ==

Here are some events happening around town that would be fun:

=== Hockey ===

* '''Mon Mar 25''' 7:00 PM: Maple Leafs vs. Bruins
* '''Wed Mar 27''' 7:30 PM: Canadiens vs. Bruins

=== Basketball ===

* '''Tues Mar 26''' 7:00 PM: Knicks vs. Celtics

=== Crashing Parties ===
* '''Mon Mar 25''' 1:00 PM [http://locationtech.org/content/information-session LocationTech] will be having their meetup as part of Eclipse 2013 which will be in Boston running same days we are.
* '''Mon Mar 25''' 7-10 PM [http://ignitelocationtechboston1.eventbrite.com/ Ignite LocationTech Boston] (follow link to register)
* [http://www.meetup.com/avidgeo/ AvidGeo] might be having a meetup around that time too.

== Getting to the Sprint ==
From Logan Airport -- Take Blue Line to State Street.

== Recaps ==

=== Photos ===

[[Category:Code Sprints]]
[[Category:Past Events]]

Boston Code Sprint 2013

2013-03-12T17:47:18Z

Wiki-Aboudreault: /* Participation */

[[Image:boston_codesprint_2012.png|700px|right]]

{| class="wikitable" style="float:right"
! '''Gold Sponsors'''
|-
| [http://www.enterprisedb.com EnterpriseDb]
| [[File:EDB_logo_rgb_300.jpg‎]]
|-
! '''Silver Sponsors'''
|-
| [http://www.geosynergy.com.au GeoSynergy]
| [[File:GeoSynergy_650.jpg‎|600px]]
|-
| [http://www.airborneinteractive.com/ Airborne Interactive]
| [[Image:AirborneInteractive 400.png|200px|AirborneInteractive 400.png]]
|-
! '''Bronze Sponsors'''
|-
| [http://www.azavea.com Azavea]
| [[File:Logo-azavea.png‎]]
|-
| [http://www.hobu.biz Hobu]
| [[File:Logo-Hobu.png‎]]
|-
| [http://www.1ocean.com OneOcean]
| [[File:Bos_code_sprint_oneocean.png|300px]]
|-
! ''Other in-kind Sponsors''
|-
| Paragon Corporation
|}

{|width="290px" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"
|
== Purpose ==
Get together project members to make decisions and tackle larger geospatial problems (as done last year at the [[IslandWood Code Sprint 2012]] and previous years: [[Montreal Code Sprint 2011|Montreal]] (2011), [[New York Code Sprint 2010|New York City]] (2010), and [[Toronto Code Sprint 2009|Toronto]] (2009)). This code sprint is targeting members of the "C Tribe" (eg, MapServer, GRASS, GDAL, Proj, PostGIS, MapGuide, OpenLayers). Other tribes are welcome to join the sprint, of course, but we hope that "C Tribe" members will give this event special consideration.

We have started a [[Boston Sprint 2013 Agenda]] page for preliminary planning of tasks.

== Timing ==
Dates: '''Weekday: Monday - Thursday 3/25-3/28'''
Duration: Four days (9AM - 5PM)

|}
== Venue ==
''' Planned Location: ''' [http://www.devonshireboston.com/skyclub.html Devonshire Sky Club Conference Room] (42.358187,-71.057593) and if needed
spill over into Paragon Offices

Both across the street from Boston City Hall. Right on the [http://www.thefreedomtrail.org/ Freedom Trail] and about 2 blocks away
from the [http://www.fsf.org/about/contact/ Free Software Foundation head quarters].

Walking distance from all subway lines, commuter rail stations, and Amtrak.

= Agenda=
'''Sunday (March 24th)'''

* 5:00pm to 10:00pm - check-in
** ''if you plan to arrive earlier than 4pm or later than 11:55 PM, contact Leo to make arrangements''
** ''You can hang out with rest of Boston hackers if you want''

'''Monday (March 25th)'''

* 8:00am - breakfast
* 8:00am to noon - ''sprinting''
* noon - lunch (in meeting room) informal presentations
* 12 - 1pm (Google Hangout?) - just quick intro from each group
* 2pm to 4:00pm - ''sprinting''
* 4:00pm to 5:00pm - drinks/social hour
* 5:00pm to 7:00pm - dinner
* 7:00pm - watch Hockey somewhere or [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/tosprint/2013-February/000389.html Hangout with Eclipse folks who invited us to their party]

'''Tuesday (March 26th)'''

* 8:00am - breakfast
* 8:00am to noon - ''sprinting''
* noon - lunch (in meeting room)
* 1pm - 2pm (Google Hangout? - dedicated to specific working group )
* 2pm to 5:00pm - ''sprinting''
* 5:00pm to 7:00pm - dinner
* 7:00pm to 8:00pm - walk around Boston the most walkable city :)

'''Wednesday (March 27th)'''

* 8:00am - breakfast
* 8:00am to noon - ''sprinting''
* noon - lunch (in meeting room)
* 1pm - 2pm (Google Hangout? )
* 2pm to 5:00pm - ''sprinting''
* 5:00pm to 7:00pm - dinner

'''Thursday (March 28th)'''
* 8:00am - breakfast
* 9:30am - '''checkout'''
* 8:00am to noon - ''sprinting''
* 11:00am - lunch (in meeting room)
* 12:00pm - hard stop, meeting room closes
* Farewells

== Project Plans ==
* [[Boston Sprint 2013 Agenda]]
* [https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/wiki/Boston-Codesprint-Agenda MapServer sprint plan]

== Sponsor Demos ==

During the lunch hour, our sponsors will have the opportunity to talk briefly and informally about their products/services and how they use open source.

* Monday
** 12:00 - Azavea: GeoTrellis
** 12:30
* Tuesday
** 12:00
** 12:30
* Wednesday
** 12:00
** 12:30

== Sponsors ==
We have three sponsorship levels:

* Gold: >= $2000
* Silver: $1500
* Bronze: $750

We will again be looking for sponsors ($750+) to support food and fun for the sprinters as they work hard and play hard for four productive days. Each sponsorship will be put towards lunch and dinner costs for the sprinters, and potentially bringing in sprinters who might otherwise be unable to attend.

Sponsors get the following benefits:

* Your banner at the top of this page
* 30-minute slot to talk about how you are using FOSS GIS (first come first serve)
* Get to sit with us at the sprint and have input in project road map of an OSGeo project you are interested in
* Our undying gratitude, which comes in handy when you least expect it. Remember that feature you wanted in X :)
* The good feeling that you have contributed to the FOSS GIS movement (priceless and good for the health too)

To sponsor, please contact Leo Hsu and Regina Obe (lr at pcorp dot us) directly regarding sponsorship and level of sponsorship you'd like to provide

=== 2013 Sponsors ===
This is the current list of pledges
==== Gold ====
#EnterpriseDb

==== Silver ====
# Mobile Geographics
# Airborne Interactive
# GeoSynergy

==== Bronze ====
# OneOcean
# Azavea
# Hobu, Inc.

== Budget ==

== Hotel ==
We've decided not to get a block of rooms because it seems it is pricier than having people pick the hotel they like best.

Our recommendation is to book your own room via Hotwire or Priceline.

For Hotwire, any hotel in the Financial District will be within walking distance.

For Price Line, any hotel within ½ mile of 1 DEVONSHIRE PL BOSTON MA 02109 will be within walking distance.

Boston has no major conventions during the Code Sprint. Note: [http://www.eclipsecon.org/2013/ EclipseCon 2013] is running during the same period.

There are over a dozen hotels name-brand and boutique within a ½ mile, all rated above three stars.

Should you have specific questions, feel free to email us directly: lr at pcorp.us.
We’ll help you find the perfect accommodation.

== Costs ==

Participants should plan for the following costs:

* Travel to Boston, variable depending on where you are.
* Accommodation for four nights, $300 to $600 depending on what room you choose and whether you room share.
* Breakfast, dinner and other snacks.
* The sponsorship moneys will be put towards: conference room rent, morning snacks, lunches, dinner (1), social event (?), and trip subsidies (e.g. travel costs for core developers)

== Communication ==

* Please join the mailing list: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/tosprint

* IRC chat during the event: Channel: #tosprint Server: irc.freenode.net

== Participation ==

We are planning for attendance of 20-30. Please add your name and the projects you are hoping to sprint and note the likeliness of your attendance.

For room if you need a room - put either:
single room - if you want your own
room share - if you'd prefer to share or don't care
local arrangements - put if you already have arrangements planned

# Leo Hsu (Definite) Paragon Corporation - PostGIS, pgRouting, PDAL 3/25, 3/18, 3/11, any
# Regina Obe (Definite) Paragon Corporation - PostGIS, pgRouting, PDAL 3/25, 3/18, 3/11, any
# Michael Smith - US Army Corps - MapServer; PDAL; GDAL/OGR - Will definitely be here
# [[User:dmorissette|Daniel Morissette]] - Mapgears - MapServer; GDAL/OGR - flight booked
# [[User:pwramsey3|Paul Ramsey]] - PostGIS - Arriving Mar 24 @ 18:11 on AC364
# Thomas Bonfort - Terriscope - MapServer - flight booked - "any"
# [[Jeff McKenna]] - Gateway Geomatics - MapServer - flight booked, shared room
# Olivier Courtin - Oslandia - PostGIS, TinyOWS - flight booked
# Hugo Mercier - Oslandia - PostGIS - flight booked
# Stephan Meissl - EOX - MapServer - flight booked, room share
# Bborie Park - PostGIS Raster - flight booked, single room
# Howard Butler - Hobu, Inc. - arriving Mar 24 @ 4:30 on United 1235
# [[User:Woodbri|Steve Woodbridge]] - iMaptools.com - MapServer; pgRouting; postGIS - very likely, any
# Norman Barker - Cloudant - very likely - "ANY"
# Steve Lime - MapServer - flight booked
# [[User:kshepard|Kenny Shepard]] - Azavea - PostGIS, very likely, single room
# [[User:Dzwarg|David Zwarg]] - Azavea - PostGIS Raster; GDAL/OGR - 99.73% sure, any, local arrangements
# [[User:kirk|Kirk McKelvey]] - LizardTech - PDAL/GDAL - likely, 3/4, 3/18, 3/25, single room
# Michael P. Gerlek (or designee) - OneOcean - PDAL & Friends - ("possible"), will make own lodging arrangements
# Tom Kralidis - MapServer, pycsw, owslib - Possible
# Jim Klassen - SharedGeo - flight booked
# [[User:Jwalgran|Justin Walgran]] - Azavea - OpenLayers; PostGIS - likely, single room
# Norman Vine - self - likely - any
# Brad Chambers - RadiantBlue - PDAL - likely - single room
# Rob Emanuele - Azavea - PostGIS Raster - very likeable
# Stephen Mather - PostGIS/Raster/PDAL, Definite, local arrangements
# Pierre Racine - University Laval - PostGIS Raster - very likely
# [[User:Djay|Gérald Fenoy]] - GeoLabs SARL - ZOO-Project - flight booked, local arrangements
# Frank Warmerdam - Google - GDAL; MapServer; PROJ.4 - Possible
# [[User:Mloskot|Mateusz Loskot]] - PostGIS/PDAL - unlikely, any
# Alan Boudreault - Mapgears - MapServer; GDAL/OGR - floght booked

Virtual participants (irc #tosprint)

== Room Share ==

If you would like to room share,

# Reserve a room at the hotel, choosing a type with more than one bed.
# Put your name in this section, indicating the amount of space in your room.

Put your names below:

* example entry: B has a triple room, needs two roommates.

== Individual Preparation ==

* Bring your own computer
* Install subversion and the compiler tools, and come with a working development environment if possible.

== FAQ ==

* Is the Boston Code Sprint just a coding event?
** Yes, a coding, testing and documentation event. It is a working session for people who are already participants in open source projects.
* Will it be possible to present new projects during this event?
** No, this is not a presentation-oriented event. People will get together in small groups and work on areas of mutual interest within their projects.
* Will there be presentation time to show case innovative uses of technology?
** Yes, Sponsors and sprinters actively working on projects will have their moment of glory

== Social Events ==

Here are some events happening around town that would be fun:

=== Hockey ===

* '''Mon Mar 25''' 7:00 PM: Maple Leafs vs. Bruins
* '''Wed Mar 27''' 7:30 PM: Canadiens vs. Bruins

=== Basketball ===

* '''Tues Mar 26''' 7:00 PM: Knicks vs. Celtics

=== Crashing Parties ===
* '''Mon Mar 25''' 1:00 PM [http://locationtech.org/content/information-session LocationTech] will be having their meetup as part of Eclipse 2013 which will be in Boston running same days we are.
* '''Mon Mar 25''' 7-10 PM [http://ignitelocationtechboston1.eventbrite.com/ Ignite LocationTech Boston] (follow link to register)
* [http://www.meetup.com/avidgeo/ AvidGeo] might be having a meetup around that time too.

== Getting to the Sprint ==
From Logan Airport -- Take Blue Line to State Street.

== Recaps ==

=== Photos ===

[[Category:Code Sprints]]
[[Category:Past Events]]

Boston Code Sprint 2013

2013-03-12T17:46:32Z

Wiki-Aboudreault: /* Participation */

[[Image:boston_codesprint_2012.png|700px|right]]

{| class="wikitable" style="float:right"
! '''Gold Sponsors'''
|-
| [http://www.enterprisedb.com EnterpriseDb]
| [[File:EDB_logo_rgb_300.jpg‎]]
|-
! '''Silver Sponsors'''
|-
| [http://www.geosynergy.com.au GeoSynergy]
| [[File:GeoSynergy_650.jpg‎|600px]]
|-
| [http://www.airborneinteractive.com/ Airborne Interactive]
| [[Image:AirborneInteractive 400.png|200px|AirborneInteractive 400.png]]
|-
! '''Bronze Sponsors'''
|-
| [http://www.azavea.com Azavea]
| [[File:Logo-azavea.png‎]]
|-
| [http://www.hobu.biz Hobu]
| [[File:Logo-Hobu.png‎]]
|-
| [http://www.1ocean.com OneOcean]
| [[File:Bos_code_sprint_oneocean.png|300px]]
|-
! ''Other in-kind Sponsors''
|-
| Paragon Corporation
|}

{|width="290px" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"
|
== Purpose ==
Get together project members to make decisions and tackle larger geospatial problems (as done last year at the [[IslandWood Code Sprint 2012]] and previous years: [[Montreal Code Sprint 2011|Montreal]] (2011), [[New York Code Sprint 2010|New York City]] (2010), and [[Toronto Code Sprint 2009|Toronto]] (2009)). This code sprint is targeting members of the "C Tribe" (eg, MapServer, GRASS, GDAL, Proj, PostGIS, MapGuide, OpenLayers). Other tribes are welcome to join the sprint, of course, but we hope that "C Tribe" members will give this event special consideration.

We have started a [[Boston Sprint 2013 Agenda]] page for preliminary planning of tasks.

== Timing ==
Dates: '''Weekday: Monday - Thursday 3/25-3/28'''
Duration: Four days (9AM - 5PM)

|}
== Venue ==
''' Planned Location: ''' [http://www.devonshireboston.com/skyclub.html Devonshire Sky Club Conference Room] (42.358187,-71.057593) and if needed
spill over into Paragon Offices

Both across the street from Boston City Hall. Right on the [http://www.thefreedomtrail.org/ Freedom Trail] and about 2 blocks away
from the [http://www.fsf.org/about/contact/ Free Software Foundation head quarters].

Walking distance from all subway lines, commuter rail stations, and Amtrak.

= Agenda=
'''Sunday (March 24th)'''

* 5:00pm to 10:00pm - check-in
** ''if you plan to arrive earlier than 4pm or later than 11:55 PM, contact Leo to make arrangements''
** ''You can hang out with rest of Boston hackers if you want''

'''Monday (March 25th)'''

* 8:00am - breakfast
* 8:00am to noon - ''sprinting''
* noon - lunch (in meeting room) informal presentations
* 12 - 1pm (Google Hangout?) - just quick intro from each group
* 2pm to 4:00pm - ''sprinting''
* 4:00pm to 5:00pm - drinks/social hour
* 5:00pm to 7:00pm - dinner
* 7:00pm - watch Hockey somewhere or [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/tosprint/2013-February/000389.html Hangout with Eclipse folks who invited us to their party]

'''Tuesday (March 26th)'''

* 8:00am - breakfast
* 8:00am to noon - ''sprinting''
* noon - lunch (in meeting room)
* 1pm - 2pm (Google Hangout? - dedicated to specific working group )
* 2pm to 5:00pm - ''sprinting''
* 5:00pm to 7:00pm - dinner
* 7:00pm to 8:00pm - walk around Boston the most walkable city :)

'''Wednesday (March 27th)'''

* 8:00am - breakfast
* 8:00am to noon - ''sprinting''
* noon - lunch (in meeting room)
* 1pm - 2pm (Google Hangout? )
* 2pm to 5:00pm - ''sprinting''
* 5:00pm to 7:00pm - dinner

'''Thursday (March 28th)'''
* 8:00am - breakfast
* 9:30am - '''checkout'''
* 8:00am to noon - ''sprinting''
* 11:00am - lunch (in meeting room)
* 12:00pm - hard stop, meeting room closes
* Farewells

== Project Plans ==
* [[Boston Sprint 2013 Agenda]]
* [https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/wiki/Boston-Codesprint-Agenda MapServer sprint plan]

== Sponsor Demos ==

During the lunch hour, our sponsors will have the opportunity to talk briefly and informally about their products/services and how they use open source.

* Monday
** 12:00 - Azavea: GeoTrellis
** 12:30
* Tuesday
** 12:00
** 12:30
* Wednesday
** 12:00
** 12:30

== Sponsors ==
We have three sponsorship levels:

* Gold: >= $2000
* Silver: $1500
* Bronze: $750

We will again be looking for sponsors ($750+) to support food and fun for the sprinters as they work hard and play hard for four productive days. Each sponsorship will be put towards lunch and dinner costs for the sprinters, and potentially bringing in sprinters who might otherwise be unable to attend.

Sponsors get the following benefits:

* Your banner at the top of this page
* 30-minute slot to talk about how you are using FOSS GIS (first come first serve)
* Get to sit with us at the sprint and have input in project road map of an OSGeo project you are interested in
* Our undying gratitude, which comes in handy when you least expect it. Remember that feature you wanted in X :)
* The good feeling that you have contributed to the FOSS GIS movement (priceless and good for the health too)

To sponsor, please contact Leo Hsu and Regina Obe (lr at pcorp dot us) directly regarding sponsorship and level of sponsorship you'd like to provide

=== 2013 Sponsors ===
This is the current list of pledges
==== Gold ====
#EnterpriseDb

==== Silver ====
# Mobile Geographics
# Airborne Interactive
# GeoSynergy

==== Bronze ====
# OneOcean
# Azavea
# Hobu, Inc.

== Budget ==

== Hotel ==
We've decided not to get a block of rooms because it seems it is pricier than having people pick the hotel they like best.

Our recommendation is to book your own room via Hotwire or Priceline.

For Hotwire, any hotel in the Financial District will be within walking distance.

For Price Line, any hotel within ½ mile of 1 DEVONSHIRE PL BOSTON MA 02109 will be within walking distance.

Boston has no major conventions during the Code Sprint. Note: [http://www.eclipsecon.org/2013/ EclipseCon 2013] is running during the same period.

There are over a dozen hotels name-brand and boutique within a ½ mile, all rated above three stars.

Should you have specific questions, feel free to email us directly: lr at pcorp.us.
We’ll help you find the perfect accommodation.

== Costs ==

Participants should plan for the following costs:

* Travel to Boston, variable depending on where you are.
* Accommodation for four nights, $300 to $600 depending on what room you choose and whether you room share.
* Breakfast, dinner and other snacks.
* The sponsorship moneys will be put towards: conference room rent, morning snacks, lunches, dinner (1), social event (?), and trip subsidies (e.g. travel costs for core developers)

== Communication ==

* Please join the mailing list: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/tosprint

* IRC chat during the event: Channel: #tosprint Server: irc.freenode.net

== Participation ==

We are planning for attendance of 20-30. Please add your name and the projects you are hoping to sprint and note the likeliness of your attendance.

For room if you need a room - put either:
single room - if you want your own
room share - if you'd prefer to share or don't care
local arrangements - put if you already have arrangements planned

# Leo Hsu (Definite) Paragon Corporation - PostGIS, pgRouting, PDAL 3/25, 3/18, 3/11, any
# Regina Obe (Definite) Paragon Corporation - PostGIS, pgRouting, PDAL 3/25, 3/18, 3/11, any
# Michael Smith - US Army Corps - MapServer; PDAL; GDAL/OGR - Will definitely be here
# [[User:dmorissette|Daniel Morissette]] - Mapgears - MapServer; GDAL/OGR - flight booked
# [[User:pwramsey3|Paul Ramsey]] - PostGIS - Arriving Mar 24 @ 18:11 on AC364
# Thomas Bonfort - Terriscope - MapServer - flight booked - "any"
# [[Jeff McKenna]] - Gateway Geomatics - MapServer - flight booked, shared room
# Olivier Courtin - Oslandia - PostGIS, TinyOWS - flight booked
# Hugo Mercier - Oslandia - PostGIS - flight booked
# Stephan Meissl - EOX - MapServer - flight booked, room share
# Bborie Park - PostGIS Raster - flight booked, single room
# Howard Butler - Hobu, Inc. - arriving Mar 24 @ 4:30 on United 1235
# [[User:Woodbri|Steve Woodbridge]] - iMaptools.com - MapServer; pgRouting; postGIS - very likely, any
# Norman Barker - Cloudant - very likely - "ANY"
# Steve Lime - MapServer - flight booked
# [[User:kshepard|Kenny Shepard]] - Azavea - PostGIS, very likely, single room
# [[User:Dzwarg|David Zwarg]] - Azavea - PostGIS Raster; GDAL/OGR - 99.73% sure, any, local arrangements
# [[User:kirk|Kirk McKelvey]] - LizardTech - PDAL/GDAL - likely, 3/4, 3/18, 3/25, single room
# Michael P. Gerlek (or designee) - OneOcean - PDAL & Friends - ("possible"), will make own lodging arrangements
# Tom Kralidis - MapServer, pycsw, owslib - Possible
# Jim Klassen - SharedGeo - flight booked
# [[User:Jwalgran|Justin Walgran]] - Azavea - OpenLayers; PostGIS - likely, single room
# Norman Vine - self - likely - any
# Brad Chambers - RadiantBlue - PDAL - likely - single room
# Rob Emanuele - Azavea - PostGIS Raster - very likeable
# Stephen Mather - PostGIS/Raster/PDAL, Definite, local arrangements
# Pierre Racine - University Laval - PostGIS Raster - very likely
# [[User:Djay|Gérald Fenoy]] - GeoLabs SARL - ZOO-Project - flight booked, local arrangements
# Frank Warmerdam - Google - GDAL; MapServer; PROJ.4 - Possible
# [[User:Mloskot|Mateusz Loskot]] - PostGIS/PDAL - unlikely, any
# Alan Boudreault - MapServer; GDAL/OGR - floght booked

Virtual participants (irc #tosprint)

== Room Share ==

If you would like to room share,

# Reserve a room at the hotel, choosing a type with more than one bed.
# Put your name in this section, indicating the amount of space in your room.

Put your names below:

* example entry: B has a triple room, needs two roommates.

== Individual Preparation ==

* Bring your own computer
* Install subversion and the compiler tools, and come with a working development environment if possible.

== FAQ ==

* Is the Boston Code Sprint just a coding event?
** Yes, a coding, testing and documentation event. It is a working session for people who are already participants in open source projects.
* Will it be possible to present new projects during this event?
** No, this is not a presentation-oriented event. People will get together in small groups and work on areas of mutual interest within their projects.
* Will there be presentation time to show case innovative uses of technology?
** Yes, Sponsors and sprinters actively working on projects will have their moment of glory

== Social Events ==

Here are some events happening around town that would be fun:

=== Hockey ===

* '''Mon Mar 25''' 7:00 PM: Maple Leafs vs. Bruins
* '''Wed Mar 27''' 7:30 PM: Canadiens vs. Bruins

=== Basketball ===

* '''Tues Mar 26''' 7:00 PM: Knicks vs. Celtics

=== Crashing Parties ===
* '''Mon Mar 25''' 1:00 PM [http://locationtech.org/content/information-session LocationTech] will be having their meetup as part of Eclipse 2013 which will be in Boston running same days we are.
* '''Mon Mar 25''' 7-10 PM [http://ignitelocationtechboston1.eventbrite.com/ Ignite LocationTech Boston] (follow link to register)
* [http://www.meetup.com/avidgeo/ AvidGeo] might be having a meetup around that time too.

== Getting to the Sprint ==
From Logan Airport -- Take Blue Line to State Street.

== Recaps ==

=== Photos ===

[[Category:Code Sprints]]
[[Category:Past Events]]

Boston Code Sprint 2013

2013-03-12T17:46:07Z

Wiki-Aboudreault: /* Participation */

[[Image:boston_codesprint_2012.png|700px|right]]

{| class="wikitable" style="float:right"
! '''Gold Sponsors'''
|-
| [http://www.enterprisedb.com EnterpriseDb]
| [[File:EDB_logo_rgb_300.jpg‎]]
|-
! '''Silver Sponsors'''
|-
| [http://www.geosynergy.com.au GeoSynergy]
| [[File:GeoSynergy_650.jpg‎|600px]]
|-
| [http://www.airborneinteractive.com/ Airborne Interactive]
| [[Image:AirborneInteractive 400.png|200px|AirborneInteractive 400.png]]
|-
! '''Bronze Sponsors'''
|-
| [http://www.azavea.com Azavea]
| [[File:Logo-azavea.png‎]]
|-
| [http://www.hobu.biz Hobu]
| [[File:Logo-Hobu.png‎]]
|-
| [http://www.1ocean.com OneOcean]
| [[File:Bos_code_sprint_oneocean.png|300px]]
|-
! ''Other in-kind Sponsors''
|-
| Paragon Corporation
|}

{|width="290px" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"
|
== Purpose ==
Get together project members to make decisions and tackle larger geospatial problems (as done last year at the [[IslandWood Code Sprint 2012]] and previous years: [[Montreal Code Sprint 2011|Montreal]] (2011), [[New York Code Sprint 2010|New York City]] (2010), and [[Toronto Code Sprint 2009|Toronto]] (2009)). This code sprint is targeting members of the "C Tribe" (eg, MapServer, GRASS, GDAL, Proj, PostGIS, MapGuide, OpenLayers). Other tribes are welcome to join the sprint, of course, but we hope that "C Tribe" members will give this event special consideration.

We have started a [[Boston Sprint 2013 Agenda]] page for preliminary planning of tasks.

== Timing ==
Dates: '''Weekday: Monday - Thursday 3/25-3/28'''
Duration: Four days (9AM - 5PM)

|}
== Venue ==
''' Planned Location: ''' [http://www.devonshireboston.com/skyclub.html Devonshire Sky Club Conference Room] (42.358187,-71.057593) and if needed
spill over into Paragon Offices

Both across the street from Boston City Hall. Right on the [http://www.thefreedomtrail.org/ Freedom Trail] and about 2 blocks away
from the [http://www.fsf.org/about/contact/ Free Software Foundation head quarters].

Walking distance from all subway lines, commuter rail stations, and Amtrak.

= Agenda=
'''Sunday (March 24th)'''

* 5:00pm to 10:00pm - check-in
** ''if you plan to arrive earlier than 4pm or later than 11:55 PM, contact Leo to make arrangements''
** ''You can hang out with rest of Boston hackers if you want''

'''Monday (March 25th)'''

* 8:00am - breakfast
* 8:00am to noon - ''sprinting''
* noon - lunch (in meeting room) informal presentations
* 12 - 1pm (Google Hangout?) - just quick intro from each group
* 2pm to 4:00pm - ''sprinting''
* 4:00pm to 5:00pm - drinks/social hour
* 5:00pm to 7:00pm - dinner
* 7:00pm - watch Hockey somewhere or [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/tosprint/2013-February/000389.html Hangout with Eclipse folks who invited us to their party]

'''Tuesday (March 26th)'''

* 8:00am - breakfast
* 8:00am to noon - ''sprinting''
* noon - lunch (in meeting room)
* 1pm - 2pm (Google Hangout? - dedicated to specific working group )
* 2pm to 5:00pm - ''sprinting''
* 5:00pm to 7:00pm - dinner
* 7:00pm to 8:00pm - walk around Boston the most walkable city :)

'''Wednesday (March 27th)'''

* 8:00am - breakfast
* 8:00am to noon - ''sprinting''
* noon - lunch (in meeting room)
* 1pm - 2pm (Google Hangout? )
* 2pm to 5:00pm - ''sprinting''
* 5:00pm to 7:00pm - dinner

'''Thursday (March 28th)'''
* 8:00am - breakfast
* 9:30am - '''checkout'''
* 8:00am to noon - ''sprinting''
* 11:00am - lunch (in meeting room)
* 12:00pm - hard stop, meeting room closes
* Farewells

== Project Plans ==
* [[Boston Sprint 2013 Agenda]]
* [https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/wiki/Boston-Codesprint-Agenda MapServer sprint plan]

== Sponsor Demos ==

During the lunch hour, our sponsors will have the opportunity to talk briefly and informally about their products/services and how they use open source.

* Monday
** 12:00 - Azavea: GeoTrellis
** 12:30
* Tuesday
** 12:00
** 12:30
* Wednesday
** 12:00
** 12:30

== Sponsors ==
We have three sponsorship levels:

* Gold: >= $2000
* Silver: $1500
* Bronze: $750

We will again be looking for sponsors ($750+) to support food and fun for the sprinters as they work hard and play hard for four productive days. Each sponsorship will be put towards lunch and dinner costs for the sprinters, and potentially bringing in sprinters who might otherwise be unable to attend.

Sponsors get the following benefits:

* Your banner at the top of this page
* 30-minute slot to talk about how you are using FOSS GIS (first come first serve)
* Get to sit with us at the sprint and have input in project road map of an OSGeo project you are interested in
* Our undying gratitude, which comes in handy when you least expect it. Remember that feature you wanted in X :)
* The good feeling that you have contributed to the FOSS GIS movement (priceless and good for the health too)

To sponsor, please contact Leo Hsu and Regina Obe (lr at pcorp dot us) directly regarding sponsorship and level of sponsorship you'd like to provide

=== 2013 Sponsors ===
This is the current list of pledges
==== Gold ====
#EnterpriseDb

==== Silver ====
# Mobile Geographics
# Airborne Interactive
# GeoSynergy

==== Bronze ====
# OneOcean
# Azavea
# Hobu, Inc.

== Budget ==

== Hotel ==
We've decided not to get a block of rooms because it seems it is pricier than having people pick the hotel they like best.

Our recommendation is to book your own room via Hotwire or Priceline.

For Hotwire, any hotel in the Financial District will be within walking distance.

For Price Line, any hotel within ½ mile of 1 DEVONSHIRE PL BOSTON MA 02109 will be within walking distance.

Boston has no major conventions during the Code Sprint. Note: [http://www.eclipsecon.org/2013/ EclipseCon 2013] is running during the same period.

There are over a dozen hotels name-brand and boutique within a ½ mile, all rated above three stars.

Should you have specific questions, feel free to email us directly: lr at pcorp.us.
We’ll help you find the perfect accommodation.

== Costs ==

Participants should plan for the following costs:

* Travel to Boston, variable depending on where you are.
* Accommodation for four nights, $300 to $600 depending on what room you choose and whether you room share.
* Breakfast, dinner and other snacks.
* The sponsorship moneys will be put towards: conference room rent, morning snacks, lunches, dinner (1), social event (?), and trip subsidies (e.g. travel costs for core developers)

== Communication ==

* Please join the mailing list: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/tosprint

* IRC chat during the event: Channel: #tosprint Server: irc.freenode.net

== Participation ==

We are planning for attendance of 20-30. Please add your name and the projects you are hoping to sprint and note the likeliness of your attendance.

For room if you need a room - put either:
single room - if you want your own
room share - if you'd prefer to share or don't care
local arrangements - put if you already have arrangements planned

# Leo Hsu (Definite) Paragon Corporation - PostGIS, pgRouting, PDAL 3/25, 3/18, 3/11, any
# Regina Obe (Definite) Paragon Corporation - PostGIS, pgRouting, PDAL 3/25, 3/18, 3/11, any
# Michael Smith - US Army Corps - MapServer; PDAL; GDAL/OGR - Will definitely be here
# [[User:dmorissette|Daniel Morissette]] - Mapgears - MapServer; GDAL/OGR - flight booked
# [[User:pwramsey3|Paul Ramsey]] - PostGIS - Arriving Mar 24 @ 18:11 on AC364
# Thomas Bonfort - Terriscope - MapServer - flight booked - "any"
# [[Jeff McKenna]] - Gateway Geomatics - MapServer - flight booked, shared room
# Olivier Courtin - Oslandia - PostGIS, TinyOWS - flight booked
# Hugo Mercier - Oslandia - PostGIS - flight booked
# Stephan Meissl - EOX - MapServer - flight booked, room share
# Bborie Park - PostGIS Raster - flight booked, single room
# Howard Butler - Hobu, Inc. - arriving Mar 24 @ 4:30 on United 1235
# [[User:Woodbri|Steve Woodbridge]] - iMaptools.com - MapServer; pgRouting; postGIS - very likely, any
# Norman Barker - Cloudant - very likely - "ANY"
# Steve Lime - MapServer - flight booked
# [[User:kshepard|Kenny Shepard]] - Azavea - PostGIS, very likely, single room
# [[User:Dzwarg|David Zwarg]] - Azavea - PostGIS Raster; GDAL/OGR - 99.73% sure, any, local arrangements
# [[User:kirk|Kirk McKelvey]] - LizardTech - PDAL/GDAL - likely, 3/4, 3/18, 3/25, single room
# Michael P. Gerlek (or designee) - OneOcean - PDAL & Friends - ("possible"), will make own lodging arrangements
# Tom Kralidis - MapServer, pycsw, owslib - Possible
# Jim Klassen - SharedGeo - flight booked
# [[User:Jwalgran|Justin Walgran]] - Azavea - OpenLayers; PostGIS - likely, single room
# Norman Vine - self - likely - any
# Brad Chambers - RadiantBlue - PDAL - likely - single room
# Rob Emanuele - Azavea - PostGIS Raster - very likeable
# Stephen Mather - PostGIS/Raster/PDAL, Definite, local arrangements
# Pierre Racine - University Laval - PostGIS Raster - very likely
# [[User:Djay|Gérald Fenoy]] - GeoLabs SARL - ZOO-Project - flight booked, local arrangements
# Frank Warmerdam - Google - GDAL; MapServer; PROJ.4 - Possible
# [[User:Mloskot|Mateusz Loskot]] - PostGIS/PDAL - unlikely, any
# [[User:aboudreault|Alan Boudreault]] - MapServer; GDAL/OGR - floght booked

Virtual participants (irc #tosprint)

== Room Share ==

If you would like to room share,

# Reserve a room at the hotel, choosing a type with more than one bed.
# Put your name in this section, indicating the amount of space in your room.

Put your names below:

* example entry: B has a triple room, needs two roommates.

== Individual Preparation ==

* Bring your own computer
* Install subversion and the compiler tools, and come with a working development environment if possible.

== FAQ ==

* Is the Boston Code Sprint just a coding event?
** Yes, a coding, testing and documentation event. It is a working session for people who are already participants in open source projects.
* Will it be possible to present new projects during this event?
** No, this is not a presentation-oriented event. People will get together in small groups and work on areas of mutual interest within their projects.
* Will there be presentation time to show case innovative uses of technology?
** Yes, Sponsors and sprinters actively working on projects will have their moment of glory

== Social Events ==

Here are some events happening around town that would be fun:

=== Hockey ===

* '''Mon Mar 25''' 7:00 PM: Maple Leafs vs. Bruins
* '''Wed Mar 27''' 7:30 PM: Canadiens vs. Bruins

=== Basketball ===

* '''Tues Mar 26''' 7:00 PM: Knicks vs. Celtics

=== Crashing Parties ===
* '''Mon Mar 25''' 1:00 PM [http://locationtech.org/content/information-session LocationTech] will be having their meetup as part of Eclipse 2013 which will be in Boston running same days we are.
* '''Mon Mar 25''' 7-10 PM [http://ignitelocationtechboston1.eventbrite.com/ Ignite LocationTech Boston] (follow link to register)
* [http://www.meetup.com/avidgeo/ AvidGeo] might be having a meetup around that time too.

== Getting to the Sprint ==
From Logan Airport -- Take Blue Line to State Street.

== Recaps ==

=== Photos ===

[[Category:Code Sprints]]
[[Category:Past Events]]

Rendez-vous OSGeo-qc 2012

2012-10-12T17:30:30Z

Wiki-Aboudreault: /* Volontaires pour être modérateur de présentations dans la salle OSGeo-qc */

Dans le cadre de l'évènement [http://www.visiongeomatique.com/ VisionGéomatique 2012], le chapitre Québecois de l'OSGeo est fière d'organiser son deuxième rendez-vous les 17 et 18 octobre 2012. [http://www.visiongeomatique.com/ Informations ici]

Pendant les 2 jours du colloque, une salle sera réservée à des présentations liées aux logiciels libres et ''open source''.

=== Volontaires pour être modérateur de présentations dans la salle OSGeo-qc ===

Le travail de modérateur est très simple:
* Présenter le conférencier
* Indiquer au conférencier lorsqu'il ne reste que 5 minutes
* S'assurer que les présentations commencent et se terminent à l'heure prévue
* Coordonner et animer la période de questions
* Poser une ou deux questions pour stimuler la conversation si nécessaire

Cases horaires à combler:

* Mercredi 10h00 à 12h00: Alan Boudreault
* Mercredi 13h45 à 14h45: Julien-Samuel Lacroix
* Mercredi 15h00 à 16h00: Marc-André Goderre

* Jeudi 10h30 à 12h00: Nicolas Delffon
* Jeudi 13h45 à 14h45: ...
* Jeudi 15h00 à 16h00: ...

=== Volontaires pour être présent au kiosque OSGeo-qc ===

OSGeo-qc disposera d'un kiosque dans le salon des exposants. Il est nécessaire d'avoir une ou deux personnes disponibles pour informer le public sur les initiatives, les avantages, les logiciels et la philosophie libre et ''open source''.

* Mercredi matin: Jean-Denis Giguère, 
* Mercredi midi: Yoann Perrot, 
* Mercredi pause: Yoann Perrot, 
* Mercredi fin de journée: Jean-Denis Giguère, 

* Jeudi matin: Jean-Denis Giguère, 
* Jeudi midi: , 
* Jeudi pause: , 
* Jeudi fin de journée: ,

FOSS4G 2011 Breakout Sessions

2011-09-09T14:19:37Z

Wiki-Aboudreault: /* Python */

= Introduction =
During the [http://2011.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G2011 conference] in Denver, there will be conference rooms available for people to hold Breakout Sessions (aka Birds-of-a-Feather).

Breakout Sessions are unstructured timeslots where people can self-organize themselves to discuss topics of interest.

'''Room allocation to be determined'''

== Organising Contact ==

== Timeslots Available ==

Wednesday 5:30pm to 6:30pm and 7:00pm to 8:00pm

= Room Assignments =

== Rooms Available ==

= Proposed Topics =

== GeoMoose ==

*Proposed Topics
**Overview
**GeoMoose 2.6
**Ideas for CodeSprint
**Meet devlopers and learn how you can help.
*Attending:
**Bob Basques (City of Saint Paul)
**Dan Little (GeoMoose)
**Jim Klasen (SharedGeo)
**Brian Fischer (Houston Engineering)
**[[User:EliL|Eli Adam (Lincoln County, Oregon)]]

== Tiling ==

*Proposed Topics
**standardised sqlite schema for tile caches
**TMS/WMTS evolutions:
***Tile merging (i.e. equivalent of WMS LAYERS=baselayer,overlaylayer)
***TMS multiple grids per tileset
***WMTS multiple url endpoints (eg tile1.domain.tld, tile2.domain.tld...): is this still needed now that browsers allow many more connections per server?
**add yours...
*Attending:
**[[User:Tbonfort]]
**[[User:Olt|Oliver Tonnhofer (Omniscale, MapProxy)]]
**[[User:Stvn|Steven M. Ottens]]
**[[User:Lagerratrobe|Roger Andre (Tableau Software, Seattle)]]
**[[User:Springmeyer|Dane Springmeyer (Development Seed)]]
**[[User:Mloskot|Mateusz Loskot (Cadcorp)]]

== GeoNode ==

*Proposed topics:
**Brief overview
**Get involved with the community!
**Meet developers and institutional partners
***Opportunities for work around the world, especially in South America and Indonesia
***Positions available at the World Bank and OpenGeo
**[http://geonode.org/2011/08/geonode-at-foss4g/ Join us for drinks afterwards!]
*Attending:
**Rolando Peñate (OpenGeo)
**David Winslow (OpenGeo)
**Robert Soden (World Bank)
**Ariel Nuñez (World Bank)
**Seb Benthall (UC Berkeley)
**Ben Lewis(Harvard University)
**Matt Bertrand (Harvard University)
**Sachindra Singh (SOPAC)
**[[User:Ortelius|Jeffrey Johnson (OpenGeo)]]
**Jubal Harpster (SpatialDev)
**[[User:Ebwolf|Eric Wolf (USGS, CU-Boulder)]]
**[[User:Wildintellect|Alex Mandel (UC Davis)]]

== Python ==

*Scheduling: let's do this one in the 5:30-6:30 slot and tiling afterwards?
*Proposed topics:
**High fives
**Extension modules, Pyrex, Cython, ctypes
**Python 3
**PyPy
**Packaging and distributions
*Attending:
**Sean Gillies (NYU, Shapely and friends)
**[[User:Ebwolf|Eric Wolf (USGS, CU-Boulder)]]
**Michael Weisman (Urban Mapping)
**Derek Hohls (CSIR, South Africa)
**[[User:Dandye|Dan Dye (WeoGeo)]]
**[[User:Davidfawcett|David Fawcett (MPCA)]]
**[[User:Wildintellect|Alex Mandel (UC Davis)]]
**[[User:Hobu|Howard Butler (Hobu, Inc.)]]
**[[User:Olt|Oliver Tonnhofer (Omniscale)]] MapProxy, Imposm, Shapely, etc. I'm in conflict with the tiling BOF, try to come for the high five at least.
**Marc Pfister (nothing to see here)
**[[User:Lagerratrobe|Roger Andre (Tableau Software, Seattle)]]
**Thomas Emge (Esri)
**Alan Boudreault (Mapgears)

== Opengeoportal ==

http://opengeoportal.org/

*Proposed topics: governance models, federated searching and coordinating code development
*Attending:
**Stephen McDonald (Tufts)
**Patrick Florance (Tufts)
**Chris Barnett (Tufts)
**David Siegel (Harvard)
**Lisa Sweeney (MIT)
**Garey Mills (Berkeley)
**John Ridener (Berkeley)
**Patricia Carbajales (Stanford)
**Renzo Sanchez-Silva (Stanford)

== Spatial Data InfraStructure (SDI) ==

*Scheduling: 7pm - 8pm. Get started with these topics then go get some food/drinks together.
*Proposed topics: data sharing and discovery, metadata, web services, and portals.
*Attending:
**Christine White (Esri)
**Andy Gup (Esri)

== Mobile GIS ==

*Proposed Topics
**General discussion about development of mobile mapping/GIS apps
**"OpenLayers-like" SDK for Android (Android GIS)
**add yours...
*Attending:
**[[User:Danielkastl|Daniel Kastl (Georepublic)]]
**[[User:Hal sk|Haruyuki Seki (Georepublic)]]
**Jaak Laineste (Nutiteq)
**[[User:Dmorissette| Daniel Morissette (Mapgears)]]
**Alan Boudreault (Mapgears)

== Education / Academic ==
* Separate sign up page: [[FOSS4G 2011 Edu BOF sign up]]

== Spatial Databases ==

*Proposed Topics
**Do we need some more
**Where are we heading to (distributed databases?)
**Do the processing within the database or outside?
**Add yours...
*Attending:
**Volker Mische (Couchbase)

== SpatiaLite ==

*Scheduling: let's not conflict with the Python session? maybe we should do something less formal another day if the BOF all conflict too much?
*Proposed topics:
**Community organization strategies
**Meet and Greet

*Attending:
**[[User:Davidfawcett|David Fawcett (MPCA)]]
**[[User:putler|Dan Putler (Anemoi Analytics)]]
**[[User:wildintellect|Alex Mandel (UC Davis)]]

== Add yours below ==

*Add yours below...

[[Category:FOSS4G]] [[Category:FOSS4G2011]]

FOSS4G 2011 Breakout Sessions

2011-09-09T14:18:15Z

Wiki-Aboudreault: /* Mobile GIS */

= Introduction =
During the [http://2011.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G2011 conference] in Denver, there will be conference rooms available for people to hold Breakout Sessions (aka Birds-of-a-Feather).

Breakout Sessions are unstructured timeslots where people can self-organize themselves to discuss topics of interest.

'''Room allocation to be determined'''

== Organising Contact ==

== Timeslots Available ==

Wednesday 5:30pm to 6:30pm and 7:00pm to 8:00pm

= Room Assignments =

== Rooms Available ==

= Proposed Topics =

== GeoMoose ==

*Proposed Topics
**Overview
**GeoMoose 2.6
**Ideas for CodeSprint
**Meet devlopers and learn how you can help.
*Attending:
**Bob Basques (City of Saint Paul)
**Dan Little (GeoMoose)
**Jim Klasen (SharedGeo)
**Brian Fischer (Houston Engineering)
**[[User:EliL|Eli Adam (Lincoln County, Oregon)]]

== Tiling ==

*Proposed Topics
**standardised sqlite schema for tile caches
**TMS/WMTS evolutions:
***Tile merging (i.e. equivalent of WMS LAYERS=baselayer,overlaylayer)
***TMS multiple grids per tileset
***WMTS multiple url endpoints (eg tile1.domain.tld, tile2.domain.tld...): is this still needed now that browsers allow many more connections per server?
**add yours...
*Attending:
**[[User:Tbonfort]]
**[[User:Olt|Oliver Tonnhofer (Omniscale, MapProxy)]]
**[[User:Stvn|Steven M. Ottens]]
**[[User:Lagerratrobe|Roger Andre (Tableau Software, Seattle)]]
**[[User:Springmeyer|Dane Springmeyer (Development Seed)]]
**[[User:Mloskot|Mateusz Loskot (Cadcorp)]]

== GeoNode ==

*Proposed topics:
**Brief overview
**Get involved with the community!
**Meet developers and institutional partners
***Opportunities for work around the world, especially in South America and Indonesia
***Positions available at the World Bank and OpenGeo
**[http://geonode.org/2011/08/geonode-at-foss4g/ Join us for drinks afterwards!]
*Attending:
**Rolando Peñate (OpenGeo)
**David Winslow (OpenGeo)
**Robert Soden (World Bank)
**Ariel Nuñez (World Bank)
**Seb Benthall (UC Berkeley)
**Ben Lewis(Harvard University)
**Matt Bertrand (Harvard University)
**Sachindra Singh (SOPAC)
**[[User:Ortelius|Jeffrey Johnson (OpenGeo)]]
**Jubal Harpster (SpatialDev)
**[[User:Ebwolf|Eric Wolf (USGS, CU-Boulder)]]
**[[User:Wildintellect|Alex Mandel (UC Davis)]]

== Python ==

*Scheduling: let's do this one in the 5:30-6:30 slot and tiling afterwards?
*Proposed topics:
**High fives
**Extension modules, Pyrex, Cython, ctypes
**Python 3
**PyPy
**Packaging and distributions
*Attending:
**Sean Gillies (NYU, Shapely and friends)
**[[User:Ebwolf|Eric Wolf (USGS, CU-Boulder)]]
**Michael Weisman (Urban Mapping)
**Derek Hohls (CSIR, South Africa)
**[[User:Dandye|Dan Dye (WeoGeo)]]
**[[User:Davidfawcett|David Fawcett (MPCA)]]
**[[User:Wildintellect|Alex Mandel (UC Davis)]]
**[[User:Hobu|Howard Butler (Hobu, Inc.)]]
**[[User:Olt|Oliver Tonnhofer (Omniscale)]] MapProxy, Imposm, Shapely, etc. I'm in conflict with the tiling BOF, try to come for the high five at least.
**Marc Pfister (nothing to see here)
**[[User:Lagerratrobe|Roger Andre (Tableau Software, Seattle)]]
**Thomas Emge (Esri)

== Opengeoportal ==

http://opengeoportal.org/

*Proposed topics: governance models, federated searching and coordinating code development
*Attending:
**Stephen McDonald (Tufts)
**Patrick Florance (Tufts)
**Chris Barnett (Tufts)
**David Siegel (Harvard)
**Lisa Sweeney (MIT)
**Garey Mills (Berkeley)
**John Ridener (Berkeley)
**Patricia Carbajales (Stanford)
**Renzo Sanchez-Silva (Stanford)

== Spatial Data InfraStructure (SDI) ==

*Scheduling: 7pm - 8pm. Get started with these topics then go get some food/drinks together.
*Proposed topics: data sharing and discovery, metadata, web services, and portals.
*Attending:
**Christine White (Esri)
**Andy Gup (Esri)

== Mobile GIS ==

*Proposed Topics
**General discussion about development of mobile mapping/GIS apps
**"OpenLayers-like" SDK for Android (Android GIS)
**add yours...
*Attending:
**[[User:Danielkastl|Daniel Kastl (Georepublic)]]
**[[User:Hal sk|Haruyuki Seki (Georepublic)]]
**Jaak Laineste (Nutiteq)
**[[User:Dmorissette| Daniel Morissette (Mapgears)]]
**Alan Boudreault (Mapgears)

== Education / Academic ==
* Separate sign up page: [[FOSS4G 2011 Edu BOF sign up]]

== Spatial Databases ==

*Proposed Topics
**Do we need some more
**Where are we heading to (distributed databases?)
**Do the processing within the database or outside?
**Add yours...
*Attending:
**Volker Mische (Couchbase)

== SpatiaLite ==

*Scheduling: let's not conflict with the Python session? maybe we should do something less formal another day if the BOF all conflict too much?
*Proposed topics:
**Community organization strategies
**Meet and Greet

*Attending:
**[[User:Davidfawcett|David Fawcett (MPCA)]]
**[[User:putler|Dan Putler (Anemoi Analytics)]]
**[[User:wildintellect|Alex Mandel (UC Davis)]]

== Add yours below ==

*Add yours below...

[[Category:FOSS4G]] [[Category:FOSS4G2011]]

FOSS4G 2011 Breakout Sessions

2011-09-09T14:17:51Z

Wiki-Aboudreault: /* Mobile GIS */

= Introduction =
During the [http://2011.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G2011 conference] in Denver, there will be conference rooms available for people to hold Breakout Sessions (aka Birds-of-a-Feather).

Breakout Sessions are unstructured timeslots where people can self-organize themselves to discuss topics of interest.

'''Room allocation to be determined'''

== Organising Contact ==

== Timeslots Available ==

Wednesday 5:30pm to 6:30pm and 7:00pm to 8:00pm

= Room Assignments =

== Rooms Available ==

= Proposed Topics =

== GeoMoose ==

*Proposed Topics
**Overview
**GeoMoose 2.6
**Ideas for CodeSprint
**Meet devlopers and learn how you can help.
*Attending:
**Bob Basques (City of Saint Paul)
**Dan Little (GeoMoose)
**Jim Klasen (SharedGeo)
**Brian Fischer (Houston Engineering)
**[[User:EliL|Eli Adam (Lincoln County, Oregon)]]

== Tiling ==

*Proposed Topics
**standardised sqlite schema for tile caches
**TMS/WMTS evolutions:
***Tile merging (i.e. equivalent of WMS LAYERS=baselayer,overlaylayer)
***TMS multiple grids per tileset
***WMTS multiple url endpoints (eg tile1.domain.tld, tile2.domain.tld...): is this still needed now that browsers allow many more connections per server?
**add yours...
*Attending:
**[[User:Tbonfort]]
**[[User:Olt|Oliver Tonnhofer (Omniscale, MapProxy)]]
**[[User:Stvn|Steven M. Ottens]]
**[[User:Lagerratrobe|Roger Andre (Tableau Software, Seattle)]]
**[[User:Springmeyer|Dane Springmeyer (Development Seed)]]
**[[User:Mloskot|Mateusz Loskot (Cadcorp)]]

== GeoNode ==

*Proposed topics:
**Brief overview
**Get involved with the community!
**Meet developers and institutional partners
***Opportunities for work around the world, especially in South America and Indonesia
***Positions available at the World Bank and OpenGeo
**[http://geonode.org/2011/08/geonode-at-foss4g/ Join us for drinks afterwards!]
*Attending:
**Rolando Peñate (OpenGeo)
**David Winslow (OpenGeo)
**Robert Soden (World Bank)
**Ariel Nuñez (World Bank)
**Seb Benthall (UC Berkeley)
**Ben Lewis(Harvard University)
**Matt Bertrand (Harvard University)
**Sachindra Singh (SOPAC)
**[[User:Ortelius|Jeffrey Johnson (OpenGeo)]]
**Jubal Harpster (SpatialDev)
**[[User:Ebwolf|Eric Wolf (USGS, CU-Boulder)]]
**[[User:Wildintellect|Alex Mandel (UC Davis)]]

== Python ==

*Scheduling: let's do this one in the 5:30-6:30 slot and tiling afterwards?
*Proposed topics:
**High fives
**Extension modules, Pyrex, Cython, ctypes
**Python 3
**PyPy
**Packaging and distributions
*Attending:
**Sean Gillies (NYU, Shapely and friends)
**[[User:Ebwolf|Eric Wolf (USGS, CU-Boulder)]]
**Michael Weisman (Urban Mapping)
**Derek Hohls (CSIR, South Africa)
**[[User:Dandye|Dan Dye (WeoGeo)]]
**[[User:Davidfawcett|David Fawcett (MPCA)]]
**[[User:Wildintellect|Alex Mandel (UC Davis)]]
**[[User:Hobu|Howard Butler (Hobu, Inc.)]]
**[[User:Olt|Oliver Tonnhofer (Omniscale)]] MapProxy, Imposm, Shapely, etc. I'm in conflict with the tiling BOF, try to come for the high five at least.
**Marc Pfister (nothing to see here)
**[[User:Lagerratrobe|Roger Andre (Tableau Software, Seattle)]]
**Thomas Emge (Esri)

== Opengeoportal ==

http://opengeoportal.org/

*Proposed topics: governance models, federated searching and coordinating code development
*Attending:
**Stephen McDonald (Tufts)
**Patrick Florance (Tufts)
**Chris Barnett (Tufts)
**David Siegel (Harvard)
**Lisa Sweeney (MIT)
**Garey Mills (Berkeley)
**John Ridener (Berkeley)
**Patricia Carbajales (Stanford)
**Renzo Sanchez-Silva (Stanford)

== Spatial Data InfraStructure (SDI) ==

*Scheduling: 7pm - 8pm. Get started with these topics then go get some food/drinks together.
*Proposed topics: data sharing and discovery, metadata, web services, and portals.
*Attending:
**Christine White (Esri)
**Andy Gup (Esri)

== Mobile GIS ==

*Proposed Topics
**General discussion about development of mobile mapping/GIS apps
**"OpenLayers-like" SDK for Android (Android GIS)
**add yours...
*Attending:
**[[User:Danielkastl|Daniel Kastl (Georepublic)]]
**[[User:Hal sk|Haruyuki Seki (Georepublic)]]
**Jaak Laineste (Nutiteq)
**[[User:Dmorissette| Daniel Morissette (Mapgears)]]
**[[User:Aboudreault| Alan Boudreault (Mapgears)]]

== Education / Academic ==
* Separate sign up page: [[FOSS4G 2011 Edu BOF sign up]]

== Spatial Databases ==

*Proposed Topics
**Do we need some more
**Where are we heading to (distributed databases?)
**Do the processing within the database or outside?
**Add yours...
*Attending:
**Volker Mische (Couchbase)

== SpatiaLite ==

*Scheduling: let's not conflict with the Python session? maybe we should do something less formal another day if the BOF all conflict too much?
*Proposed topics:
**Community organization strategies
**Meet and Greet

*Attending:
**[[User:Davidfawcett|David Fawcett (MPCA)]]
**[[User:putler|Dan Putler (Anemoi Analytics)]]
**[[User:wildintellect|Alex Mandel (UC Davis)]]

== Add yours below ==

*Add yours below...

[[Category:FOSS4G]] [[Category:FOSS4G2011]]

Montreal Code Sprint 2011

2011-01-18T18:40:07Z

Wiki-Aboudreault: /* Hotel */ added

== Purpose ==

Get together project members to make decisions and tackle larger problems (as done in previous years at the [[New York Code Sprint 2010]] and [[Toronto Code Sprint 2009]]).

We have started a [[Montreal Code Sprint 2011 Agenda]] page for preliminary planning of tasks.

== Timing ==

Dates: Tuesday-Friday, March 15-18, from approximately 9am-4pm

== Venue ==

Communauté Métropolitaine de Montréal (CMM)
[http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=1002+sherbrooke+west+montreal+qc&sll=45.502703,-73.575719&sspn=0.00943,0.014977&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=1002+Rue+Sherbrooke+Ouest,+Montr%C3%A9al,+Communaut%C3%A9-Urbaine-de-Montr%C3%A9al,+Qu%C3%A9bec+H3A+1Y1&z=16 1002, Sherbrooke West, suite 2400, Montreal QC]

* 2 large adjacent conference rooms located on 24th floor of a tower with great view of the city ([[Montreal Code Sprint 2011 - Possible Venues#pictures-cmm |see pictures]])
* Possibility to remove the wall between the two rooms to make a single larger room
* RJ-45 and power plugs in the floor
* Larger room: 14 tables for two = 28 person capacity
* Smaller room: 6 tables for two = 12 person capacity
* Possibility to rearrange the tables to fit our needs (e.g. make tables/teams of 6-8 people for instance)
* Projector in each room
* White boards on the wall between the two rooms (become unavailable if we remove the wall)

== Sponsors ==

We will again be looking for sponsors ($750) to support food and fun for the sprinters as they work hard and play hard for four productive days. Each $750 sponsorship will be put towards lunch and dinner costs for the sprinters, and potentially bringing in sprinters who might otherwise be unable to attend.

To sponsor, please contact Daniel Morissette (dmorissette at mapgears dot com) directly.

=== 2011 Sponsors ===

* [http://www.lizardtech.com/ LizardTech]
* [http://www.azavea.com/ Azavea]
* [http://qpublic.net/ qPublic]
* [http://fargeo.com/ Farallon Geographics]
* ...

== Budget ==

2011 budget coming soon. (The 2010 budget is still available online [http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tMuTwbIOm-O6Bm6v9l7RG4g&single=true&gid=0&output=html here]. Any surplus at the end of the event will be turned over to [http://osgeo.org/ OSGeo]. [http://wiki.osgeo.org/images/1/15/Nyc-2010-receipts.pdf Receipts] for event expenses.)

== Hotel ==

* [http://hotelcantlie.com/ Hotel Cantlie Suites], located 1-2 blocks away: Group rate starting at 99$/night + taxes

We have a group reservation. Here's the link to reserve your room:

https://reservations.ihotelier.com/crs/g_reservation.cfm?groupID=544358&hotelID=12608&languageid=3

== Costs ==

Participants should plan for the following costs:

* Travel to Montreal, variable depending on where you are.
* Accommodation for four nights, $200 to $600 depending on what room you choose and whether you room share.
* Breakfast, dinner and other snacks.
* The sponsorship moneys will be put towards: morning snacks, lunches, dinner (1), social event (?)

== Communication ==

* Please join the mailing list: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/tosprint

* IRC chat during the event: Channel: #tosprint Server: irc.freenode.net

== Participation ==

We are planning for attendance of 20-40. Please add your name and the projects you are hoping to sprint on, if you have a strong intention to attend.

* [[User:Dmorissette|Daniel Morissette]] (MapServer)
* [[User:msmitherdc|Michael Smith]] (MapServer)
* [[User:jfournier|Jason Fournier]] (Pending)
* [[User:dzwarg|David Zwarg]] (PostGIS)
* Frank Warmerdam (MapServer, GDAL, ...)
* [[User:olivier.courtin|Olivier Courtin]] (PostGIS - TinyOWS)
* [[User:pwramsey3|Paul Ramsey]] (PostGIS)
* [[User:jmckenna|Jeff McKenna]] (MapServer)
* [[User:assefa|Yewondwossen Assefa]] (MapServer)
* [[User:aboudreault|Alan Boudreault]] (MapServer)
* [[User:hobu|Howard Butler]] (MapServer libLAS GDAL)
* [[User:tbonfort|Thomas Bonfort]] (MapServer)
* [[User:mpg|Michael P. Gerlek]] (libLAS, C# tribe)
* ...

Virtual participants (irc #tosprint)

* ...

== Room Share ==

If you would like to room share,

# Reserve a room at the hotel, choosing a type with more than one bed.
# Put your name in this section, indicating the amount of space in your room.

Put your names below:

* example entry: B has a triple room, needs two roommates.

Special offer: I, [[User:Aleroux|Alexandre Leroux]], can provide free lodging for the whole event with these parameters: one double bed, private access (we'll let you a key), private kitchen with fridge, private shower and toilet. Internet wifi included. It's a 2-minutes walk from the Snowdon subway station, making it easy to go to the Code Sprint. That would be on the basement of where my wife, daughter and myself live. If interested, contact me directly.

== Individual Preparation ==

* Bring your own computer
* Install subversion and the compiler tools, and come with a working development environment if possible.

== FAQ ==

* Is the Montreal Code Sprint just a coding event?
** Yes, a coding and documentation event. It is a working session for people who are already participants in open source projects.
* Will it be possible to present new projects during this event?
** No, this is not a presentation-oriented event. People will get together in small groups and work on areas of mutual interest within their projects.

== Social Events ==

* TBD...

== Eating Options ==

Some locations recommended by locals:

* Restaurants
** ...
* Bars
**

(Please do not hesitate to add locations to this list)

== Getting to the Sprint ==

=== From Trudeau International Airport (YUL) ===

* ... TBD once the venue is finalized.

== Announcements, News, Recaps ==

*
=== Photos ===

* http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=montrealsprint2011&m=tags

[[Category:Code Sprints]]
[[Category:Events]]

Trac

2011-01-04T17:09:51Z

Wiki-Aboudreault: /* Procedures */

= Summary =

Trac 0.10.3 is running at http://trac.osgeo.org/ (the primary Peer1 host).

* [http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracGuide Trac Guide]
* All data and configurations live under /var/www/trac
* virtual server configurations are under /etc/httpd/conf.d/trac
* [http://trac.osgeo.org/ Existing Instances]
* Actual python is installed in /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/trac
* Frank Warmerdam and Howard Butler have configuration experience, and can help maintain instances.
* available plugins:
** [http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/TocMacro TOC] - multi page tables of contents.
** MediaWikiMacro - provides media wiki like format support (link? details?
** [http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/DoxygenPlugin TracDoxygen] - mix doxygen docs into trac interface (needs extra admin support)
** SecureTickets - The authz policy mechanism provides fine-grained permissions for tickets.

= Procedures =

== Local Customizations ==

The file /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/trac/notification.py was substantially modified to support looking up email addresses in LDAP, and will need to be re-adjusted if we upgrade to a new version of Trac.

* http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/39

== Creating a trac instance ==

$ sudo createdb -U postgres trac_<proj_name>
$ sudo trac-admin /var/www/trac/<proj_name> initenv
$ sudo trac-admin /var/www/trac/<proj_name> permission add <osgeo_userid> TRAC_ADMIN
$ sudo chown -R apache:apache /var/www/trac/<proj_name>

* Make sure to set the db connection to postgres://postgres@/trac_<proj_name>
* Update /var/www/trac//<proj_name>/conf/trac.ini to enable email notification.
* Add virtual host file /etc/apache2/conf.d/trac/<proj_name>.conf enabling LDAP based authentication.
* Logo can be referenced in /var/www/trac/<proj_name>/conf/trac.ini and placed in /var/www/trac/<proj_name>/htdocs
* modify webadmin.* setting in trac.ini to enabled for web based administration.
* Add to /var/www/trac/index.html
* Add the following to /var/www/trac/robots.txt to avoid walking through ticket attachments or svn.

Disallow: /<proj_name>/browser
Disallow: /<proj_name>/log
Disallow: /<proj_name>/report
Disallow: /<proj_name>/changeset
Disallow: /<proj_name>/attachment

Recommended Trac permissions:
anonymous BROWSER_VIEW
anonymous CHANGESET_VIEW
anonymous FILE_VIEW
anonymous LOG_VIEW
anonymous MILESTONE_VIEW
anonymous REPORT_SQL_VIEW
anonymous REPORT_VIEW
anonymous ROADMAP_VIEW
anonymous SEARCH_VIEW
anonymous TICKET_VIEW
anonymous TIMELINE_VIEW
anonymous WIKI_VIEW
authenticated TICKET_CHGPROP
authenticated TICKET_CREATE
authenticated TICKET_MODIFY
authenticated WIKI_CREATE
authenticated WIKI_MODIFY
developers DOXYGEN_VIEW
developers MILESTONE_ADMIN
developers REPORT_ADMIN
developers REPORT_CREATE
developers WIKI_ADMIN
warmerdam developers
warmerdam TRAC_ADMIN
...

SQL Compatability Issue with Postgres

You will have to modify the SQL statement of the ''All Ticket by Milestone'' report. This can be done by accessing the trac report page and click the ''Edit report'' button (You need to be an admin of the trac instance). Check the sql statement of another trac instance and replace the one of the new instance.

== Plugins ==

Installed plugins (do in every trac instance, [http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracPlugins installation guide]):

* http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/TocMacro

== Custom fields ==

See http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracTicketsCustomFields

for example, in trac.ini:

[ticket-custom]
platform = select
platform.label = Platform
platform.options = Unspecified|MSWindows 2K|MSWindows XP|MSWindows Vista|MSWindows CygWin|MacOSX|Linux|Other Unix|All
platform.value = Unspecified

cpu = select
cpu.label = CPU
cpu.options = Unspecified|x86-32|x86-64|OSX/PPC|OSX/Intel|Other|All
cpu.value = Unspecified

== Secure Tickets ==

See http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/SecureTicketsPlugin (Note that the installed plugin has been modified for OSGeo)

The initial behavior of the plugin was to set all tickets private, then let the user
defines what are the public components. It has been modified this to fit osgeo needs.
Since everything is public by default, we'll set manually the private
components and everything else will be public.

'''Using the plugin'''

1- Enable the plugin in trac.ini:

[components]
securetickets.* = enabled

2- Modify the permission_policies in trac.ini:

permission_policies = SecureTicketsPolicy, DefaultPermissionPolicy, ...

3- Define private components in trac.ini:

[securetickets]
private_components = Vulnerabilities, Component2, ...

To allow a user or a group to view the private tickets, you'll have to add him
the permission SECURE_TICKET_VIEW

== Timeline with filename indication ==

[timeline]
changeset_long_messages = false
changeset_show_files = 1
changeset_files_count = 3
default_daysback = 30
ticket_show_details = false

(see for example [http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/timeline here])

== Hotcopy a trac instance ==

$ sudo trac-admin /var/www/html/trac/<proj_name> hotcopy /path/to/copy/trac/to

= Trac Spam =

We have had problems with trac spam when ticket create and ticket modify permissions were set to anonymous (the default). To get around this most (all?) instances have been changed to require authenticated users to do these actions.

But some projects strongly desire to support anonymous ticket creation and modification and at some point this might be viable using image captcha technology to keep out the spammers. A Trac plugin for this is apparently under development, and described at:

http://trac.edgewall.org/browser/sandbox/spam-filter-captcha

= Trac notification forward to project mailing list =

To fwd notifications from trac to e.g. a project developers mailing list, you need to
* set in trac the mailing list address as default (trac Admin section)
* add the trac@osgeo.org address (or trac_osgeo@.., or ...) in Mailman to
** "Privacy options"
*** "Subscription rules"
*** "[Sender filters]"
**** "Non-member filters"
***** "List of non-member addresses whose postings should be automatically accepted."

* As the mail may be addressed to "undisclosed recipients" instead of directly to the list, the messages may be held for moderator approval. To avoid this add "undisclosed recipients" to the list of acceptable aliases at
** "Privacy options"
*** "[Recipient filters]"
**** ''acceptable_aliases''

[[Category:Infrastructure]]

Trac

2011-01-04T16:58:47Z

Wiki-Aboudreault: /* Summary */

= Summary =

Trac 0.10.3 is running at http://trac.osgeo.org/ (the primary Peer1 host).

* [http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracGuide Trac Guide]
* All data and configurations live under /var/www/trac
* virtual server configurations are under /etc/httpd/conf.d/trac
* [http://trac.osgeo.org/ Existing Instances]
* Actual python is installed in /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/trac
* Frank Warmerdam and Howard Butler have configuration experience, and can help maintain instances.
* available plugins:
** [http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/TocMacro TOC] - multi page tables of contents.
** MediaWikiMacro - provides media wiki like format support (link? details?
** [http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/DoxygenPlugin TracDoxygen] - mix doxygen docs into trac interface (needs extra admin support)
** SecureTickets - The authz policy mechanism provides fine-grained permissions for tickets.

= Procedures =

== Local Customizations ==

The file /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/trac/notification.py was substantially modified to support looking up email addresses in LDAP, and will need to be re-adjusted if we upgrade to a new version of Trac.

* http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/39

== Creating a trac instance ==

$ sudo createdb -U postgres trac_<proj_name>
$ sudo trac-admin /var/www/trac/<proj_name> initenv
$ sudo trac-admin /var/www/trac/<proj_name> permission add <osgeo_userid> TRAC_ADMIN
$ sudo chown -R apache:apache /var/www/trac/<proj_name>

* Make sure to set the db connection to postgres://postgres@/trac_<proj_name>
* Update /var/www/trac//<proj_name>/conf/trac.ini to enable email notification.
* Add virtual host file /etc/apache2/conf.d/trac/<proj_name>.conf enabling LDAP based authentication.
* Logo can be referenced in /var/www/trac/<proj_name>/conf/trac.ini and placed in /var/www/trac/<proj_name>/htdocs
* modify webadmin.* setting in trac.ini to enabled for web based administration.
* Add to /var/www/trac/index.html
* Add the following to /var/www/trac/robots.txt to avoid walking through ticket attachments or svn.

Disallow: /<proj_name>/browser
Disallow: /<proj_name>/log
Disallow: /<proj_name>/report
Disallow: /<proj_name>/changeset
Disallow: /<proj_name>/attachment

Recommended Trac permissions:
anonymous BROWSER_VIEW
anonymous CHANGESET_VIEW
anonymous FILE_VIEW
anonymous LOG_VIEW
anonymous MILESTONE_VIEW
anonymous REPORT_SQL_VIEW
anonymous REPORT_VIEW
anonymous ROADMAP_VIEW
anonymous SEARCH_VIEW
anonymous TICKET_VIEW
anonymous TIMELINE_VIEW
anonymous WIKI_VIEW
authenticated TICKET_CHGPROP
authenticated TICKET_CREATE
authenticated TICKET_MODIFY
authenticated WIKI_CREATE
authenticated WIKI_MODIFY
developers DOXYGEN_VIEW
developers MILESTONE_ADMIN
developers REPORT_ADMIN
developers REPORT_CREATE
developers WIKI_ADMIN
warmerdam developers
warmerdam TRAC_ADMIN
...

SQL Compatability Issue with Postgres

You will have to modify the SQL statement of the ''All Ticket by Milestone'' report. This can be done by accessing the trac report page and click the ''Edit report'' button (You need to be an admin of the trac instance). Check the sql statement of another trac instance and replace the one of the new instance.

== Plugins ==

Installed plugins (do in every trac instance, [http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracPlugins installation guide]):

* http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/TocMacro

== Custom fields ==

See http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracTicketsCustomFields

for example, in trac.ini:

[ticket-custom]
platform = select
platform.label = Platform
platform.options = Unspecified|MSWindows 2K|MSWindows XP|MSWindows Vista|MSWindows CygWin|MacOSX|Linux|Other Unix|All
platform.value = Unspecified

cpu = select
cpu.label = CPU
cpu.options = Unspecified|x86-32|x86-64|OSX/PPC|OSX/Intel|Other|All
cpu.value = Unspecified

== Timeline with filename indication ==

[timeline]
changeset_long_messages = false
changeset_show_files = 1
changeset_files_count = 3
default_daysback = 30
ticket_show_details = false

(see for example [http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/timeline here])

== Hotcopy a trac instance ==

$ sudo trac-admin /var/www/html/trac/<proj_name> hotcopy /path/to/copy/trac/to

= Trac Spam =

We have had problems with trac spam when ticket create and ticket modify permissions were set to anonymous (the default). To get around this most (all?) instances have been changed to require authenticated users to do these actions.

But some projects strongly desire to support anonymous ticket creation and modification and at some point this might be viable using image captcha technology to keep out the spammers. A Trac plugin for this is apparently under development, and described at:

http://trac.edgewall.org/browser/sandbox/spam-filter-captcha

= Trac notification forward to project mailing list =

To fwd notifications from trac to e.g. a project developers mailing list, you need to
* set in trac the mailing list address as default (trac Admin section)
* add the trac@osgeo.org address (or trac_osgeo@.., or ...) in Mailman to
** "Privacy options"
*** "Subscription rules"
*** "[Sender filters]"
**** "Non-member filters"
***** "List of non-member addresses whose postings should be automatically accepted."

* As the mail may be addressed to "undisclosed recipients" instead of directly to the list, the messages may be held for moderator approval. To avoid this add "undisclosed recipients" to the list of acceptable aliases at
** "Privacy options"
*** "[Recipient filters]"
**** ''acceptable_aliases''

[[Category:Infrastructure]]

Montreal Code Sprint 2011

2010-11-18T15:31:43Z

Wiki-Aboudreault: /* Participation */

== Purpose ==

Get together project members to make decisions and tackle larger problems (as done in previous years at the [[New York Code Sprint 2010]] and [[Toronto Code Sprint 2009]]).

We have started a [[Montreal Code Sprint 2011 Agenda]] page for preliminary planning of tasks.

== Timing ==

Dates: To be determined, sometimes in January-March 2011

Duration: Four days (over a weekend, Saturday to Tuesday, Friday to Monday, TBD) from approximately 9am-4pm

== Venue ==

TBD, please see our call for venues at http://dmorissette.blogspot.com/2010/11/looking-for-venue-in-montreal-for-osgeo.html

== Sponsors ==

We will again be looking for sponsors ($750) to support food and fun for the sprinters as they work hard and play hard for four productive days. Each $750 sponsorship will be put towards lunch and dinner costs for the sprinters, and potentially bringing in sprinters who might otherwise be unable to attend.

To sponsor, please contact Daniel Morissette (dmorissette at mapgears dot com) directly.

=== 2011 Sponsors ===

* ...

== Budget ==

2011 budget coming soon. (The 2010 budget is still available online [http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tMuTwbIOm-O6Bm6v9l7RG4g&single=true&gid=0&output=html here]. Any surplus at the end of the event will be turned over to [http://osgeo.org/ OSGeo]. [http://wiki.osgeo.org/images/1/15/Nyc-2010-receipts.pdf Receipts] for event expenses.)

== Hotel ==

Group rates will be negociated and published here when available.

== Costs ==

Participants should plan for the following costs:

* Travel to Montreal, variable depending on where you are.
* Accommodation for four nights, $200 to $600 depending on what room you choose and whether you room share.
* Breakfast, dinner and other snacks.
* The sponsorship moneys will be put towards: morning snacks, lunches, dinner (1), social event (?)

== Communication ==

* Please join the mailing list: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/tosprint

* IRC chat during the event: Channel: #tosprint Server: irc.freenode.net

== Participation ==

We are planning for attendance of 20-40. Please add your name and the projects you are hoping to sprint on, if you have a strong intention to attend.

* [[User:Dmorissette|Daniel Morissette]] (MapServer)
* [[User:msmitherdc|Michael Smith]] (MapServer)
* [[User:jfournier|Jason Fournier begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting]] (Pending)
* [[User:dzwarg|David Zwarg]] (PostGIS - Pending)
* Frank Warmerdam (MapServer, GDAL, ...)
* [[User:olivier.courtin|Olivier Courtin]] (PostGIS - TinyOWS)
* [[User:pwramsey3|Paul Ramsey]] (PostGIS)
* [[User:jmckenna|Jeff McKenna]] (MapServer)
* [[User:assefa|Yewondwossen Assefa]] (MapServer)
* [[User:aboudreault|Alan Boudreault]] (MapServer)
* ...

Virtual participants (irc #tosprint)

* ...

== Room Share ==

If you would like to room share,

# Reserve a room at the hotel, choosing a type with more than one bed.
# Put your name in this section, indicating the amount of space in your room.

Put your names below:

* example entry: B has a triple room, needs two roommates.

== Individual Preparation ==

* Bring your own computer
* Install subversion and the compiler tools, and come with a working development environment if possible.

== FAQ ==

* Is the Montreal Code Sprint just a coding event?
** Yes, a coding and documentation event. It is a working session for people who are already participants in open source projects.
* Will it be possible to present new projects during this event?
** No, this is not a presentation-oriented event. People will get together in small groups and work on areas of mutual interest within their projects.

== Social Events ==

* TBD...

== Eating Options ==

Some locations recommended by locals:

* Restaurants
** ...
* Bars
**

(Please do not hesitate to add locations to this list)

== Getting to the Sprint ==

=== From Trudeau International Airport (YUL) ===

* ... TBD once the venue is finalized.

== Announcements, News, Recaps ==

*
=== Photos ===

* http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=montrealsprint2011&m=tags

[[Category:Code Sprints]]
[[Category:Events]]

SAC:Mailing Lists

2010-10-14T16:13:25Z

Wiki-Aboudreault: /* Renaming Lists */

Mailing lists are administered with Mailman on the virtual host lists.osgeo.org. Physically this is the main Peer1 host (same as www.osgeo.org).

= Notes for List Administrators =

== Requesting a new list ==

If your project or activity would like to have a mailing list at lists.osgeo.org please take the following steps:

* First, confirm that there isn't already an appropriate list for this activity, and consider whether OSGeo is the right home for the proposed list.
* File a ticket at http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo (use your OSGeo Userid to login) and make sure the component is set to "SAC". This is the request to the System Administration Committee to create the list.
* Please include the exact name you would like for the list (ie. foo-announce), and the email address of the person who should be the list admin. Also provide the justification for the list, and indicate if it was explicitly requested by an OSGeo Project PSC or project representative.
* Include any special instructions (such pointers to info if the list is actually being migrated from elsewhere).
* Hopefully, someone in SAC will act on the ticket and create the list. When complete the ticket will be updated and closed, and the proposed admin will receive an email with the admin password for the list.
* Review the list settings, in particular ensuring that the short description gets set (ie. review following points)

Generally it is up to the mailman administrator to judge whether a list is justified for creation. The justification doesn't need to be strong, but the list should be OSGeo related, reasonably likely to generate some use, or be requested on behalf of a project.

== All lists ==

* Please set "A terse phrase identifying this list." to something brief and meaningful as this is what is shown on the main lists directory. It is on the ''General'' tab.
* Set "Who can view subscription list?" on the ''Privacy'' tab to "List Admin Only", otherwise anyone can subscribe and then harvest the mailing list.
* Set ''generic_nonmember_action'' on the ''Privacy->Sender filters'' tab to reject as most lists are not actively administered so we prefer to reject rather than holding posts from unsubscribed folks.
* Ensure the "Prefix for subject line of list postings." on the ''General'' tab is set to something meaningful. If the list name is generic (such as "announce") it may be helpful to prefix it with OSGeo-, eg. "[OSGeo-Announce]"
* Be sure to choose a name that does not already have an existing alias, such as: sales, support, www, security. If you need to use one of these names someone will have to edit the /etc/aliases file for you manually.

== Other options ==

* For announce lists (ie. moderated lists) turn on "Emergency moderation of all list traffic" on. It is on the ''General'' tab.

= Outstanding Issues =

# Administrator/moderator permissions. Currently this is a hodgepodge. Some administrators have set the passwords but then others can't help administrate the list. The default admin password is not very secure. It has been suggested that we use some sort of LDAP/http authentication to verify that folks trying to do list admin are in some sort of mail administration group.
# List setting policies. Do we want to mandate more policies than the ones listed above as "Notes for List Administrators"?
# Search. Do we want to do anything special to enable searching the archive? Jason has setup an OSGeo.org grouping on nabble (http://www.nabble.com/OSGeo.org-f18127.html) that makes searching all osgeo related mailing lists effective. We might want to expand on that.

= System Tasks =

== New Lists ==

* Create a new list through the [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/create web admin login], it will show you an error, but the list has been created.
* Then run the following before it will allow any email to be received to the list:
# sudo /usr/lib/mailman/bin/genaliases
* Restarting or reloading postfix is also recommended:
# sudo /sbin/service postfix restart

== Renaming Lists ==

* create new list
$sudo /usr/lib/mailman/bin/newlist listname admins@email lists_passwd
* move original lists archive to newlists archive location
$ sudo cp /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/oldlist.mbox/oldlist.mbox \
/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/newlist.mbox/
* create archive
$ sudo /usr/lib/mailman/bin/arch --wipe newlist
* export subscribers from old list regular and digest members
$ sudo /usr/lib/mailman/bin/list_members -r oldlistname > listname-regular.txt
$ sudo /usr/lib/mailman/bin/list_members -d oldlistname > listname-digest.txt
* import subscribers into new list
$ sudo /usr/lib/mailman/bin/add_members --regular-members=listname-regular.txt --welcome-msg=y newlistname
$ sudo /usr/lib/mailman/bin/add_members --digest-members=listname-digest.txt --welcome-msg=y newlistname
* remove old list
$ sudo /usr/lib/mailman/bin/rmlist oldlistname
* update aliases and check that proper permissions are set
$ sudo /usr/lib/mailman/bin/genaliases
$ sudo /usr/lib/mailman/bin/check_perms -f
* edit postfix aliases - /etc/aliases
oldlist: newlist@lists.osgeo.org
oldlist-request: newlist-request@lists.osgeo.org
oldlist-admin: newlist-admin@lists.osgeo.org
oldlist-owner: newlist-owner@lists.osgeo.org
* update postfix with new aliases
$ sudo /usr/bin/newaliases
$ sudo /sbin/service postfix reload

== Migrate ==

When migrating from another system to osgeo, get the .mbox files, and the whole /var/lib/mailman/lists/<listname> directory, and follow roughly the following steps as root (or sudo each step):

# newlist -q grass-announce warmerdam@pobox.com junk
# cd /var/lib/mailman/lists/grass-announce
# cp ~warmerdam/grass-announce/* .
# withlist -l -r fix_url grass-announce
# /usr/lib/mailman/bin/arch grass-announce ~warmerdam/grass-announce.mbox
# chown -R mailman.mailman /var/lib/mailman/lists/grass-announce
# chown -R mailman.mailman /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/grass-announce*
# genaliases
# /sbin/service postfix restart
# mailmanctl restart

If the list name on the new system is different than on the old system, it may be prudent to fix this up on the mail page of the web admin interface after the ''withlist'' command has been used, and before the archives are imported. (''FrankW'')

== References ==
* Here is [http://www.chris-lamb.co.uk/2007/10/02/renaming-a-mailman-list/ another approach to renaming], though our web admin interface won't actually allow you to do the final rename step

[[Category:Infrastructure]]

Trac

2010-10-14T15:39:27Z

Wiki-Aboudreault: /* Creating a trac instance */

= Summary =

Trac 0.10.3 is running at http://trac.osgeo.org/ (the primary Peer1 host).

* [http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracGuide Trac Guide]
* All data and configurations live under /var/www/trac
* virtual server configurations are under /etc/httpd/conf.d/trac
* [http://trac.osgeo.org/ Existing Instances]
* Actual python is installed in /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/trac
* Frank Warmerdam and Howard Butler have configuration experience, and can help maintain instances.
* available plugins:
** [http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/TocMacro TOC] - multi page tables of contents.
** MediaWikiMacro - provides media wiki like format support (link? details?)
** [http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/DoxygenPlugin TracDoxygen] - mix doxygen docs into trac interface (needs extra admin support)

= Procedures =

== Local Customizations ==

The file /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/trac/notification.py was substantially modified to support looking up email addresses in LDAP, and will need to be re-adjusted if we upgrade to a new version of Trac.

* http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/39

== Creating a trac instance ==

$ sudo createdb -U postgres trac_<proj_name>
$ sudo trac-admin /var/www/trac/<proj_name> initenv
$ sudo trac-admin /var/www/trac/<proj_name> permission add <osgeo_userid> TRAC_ADMIN
$ sudo chown -R apache:apache /var/www/trac/<proj_name>

* Make sure to set the db connection to postgres://postgres@/trac_<proj_name>
* Update /var/www/trac//<proj_name>/conf/trac.ini to enable email notification.
* Add virtual host file /etc/apache2/conf.d/trac/<proj_name>.conf enabling LDAP based authentication.
* Logo can be referenced in /var/www/trac/<proj_name>/conf/trac.ini and placed in /var/www/trac/<proj_name>/htdocs
* modify webadmin.* setting in trac.ini to enabled for web based administration.
* Add to /var/www/trac/index.html
* Add the following to /var/www/trac/robots.txt to avoid walking through ticket attachments or svn.

Disallow: /<proj_name>/browser
Disallow: /<proj_name>/log
Disallow: /<proj_name>/report
Disallow: /<proj_name>/changeset
Disallow: /<proj_name>/attachment

Recommended Trac permissions:
anonymous BROWSER_VIEW
anonymous CHANGESET_VIEW
anonymous FILE_VIEW
anonymous LOG_VIEW
anonymous MILESTONE_VIEW
anonymous REPORT_SQL_VIEW
anonymous REPORT_VIEW
anonymous ROADMAP_VIEW
anonymous SEARCH_VIEW
anonymous TICKET_VIEW
anonymous TIMELINE_VIEW
anonymous WIKI_VIEW
authenticated TICKET_CHGPROP
authenticated TICKET_CREATE
authenticated TICKET_MODIFY
authenticated WIKI_CREATE
authenticated WIKI_MODIFY
developers DOXYGEN_VIEW
developers MILESTONE_ADMIN
developers REPORT_ADMIN
developers REPORT_CREATE
developers WIKI_ADMIN
warmerdam developers
warmerdam TRAC_ADMIN
...

SQL Compatability Issue with Postgres

You will have to modify the SQL statement of the ''All Ticket by Milestone'' report. This can be done by accessing the trac report page and click the ''Edit report'' button (You need to be an admin of the trac instance). Check the sql statement of another trac instance and replace the one of the new instance.

== Plugins ==

Installed plugins (do in every trac instance, [http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracPlugins installation guide]):

* http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/TocMacro

== Custom fields ==

See http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracTicketsCustomFields

for example, in trac.ini:

[ticket-custom]
platform = select
platform.label = Platform
platform.options = Unspecified|MSWindows 2K|MSWindows XP|MSWindows Vista|MSWindows CygWin|MacOSX|Linux|Other Unix|All
platform.value = Unspecified

cpu = select
cpu.label = CPU
cpu.options = Unspecified|x86-32|x86-64|OSX/PPC|OSX/Intel|Other|All
cpu.value = Unspecified

== Timeline with filename indication ==

[timeline]
changeset_long_messages = false
changeset_show_files = 1
changeset_files_count = 3
default_daysback = 30
ticket_show_details = false

(see for example [http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/timeline here])

== Hotcopy a trac instance ==

$ sudo trac-admin /var/www/html/trac/<proj_name> hotcopy /path/to/copy/trac/to

= Trac Spam =

We have had problems with trac spam when ticket create and ticket modify permissions were set to anonymous (the default). To get around this most (all?) instances have been changed to require authenticated users to do these actions.

But some projects strongly desire to support anonymous ticket creation and modification and at some point this might be viable using image captcha technology to keep out the spammers. A Trac plugin for this is apparently under development, and described at:

http://trac.edgewall.org/browser/sandbox/spam-filter-captcha

= Trac notification forward to project mailing list =

To fwd notifications from trac to e.g. a project developers mailing list, you need to
* set in trac the mailing list address as default (trac Admin section)
* add the trac@osgeo.org address (or trac_osgeo@.., or ...) in Mailman to
** "Privacy options"
*** "Subscription rules"
*** "[Sender filters]"
**** "Non-member filters"
***** "List of non-member addresses whose postings should be automatically accepted."

* As the mail may be addressed to "undisclosed recipients" instead of directly to the list, the messages may be held for moderator approval. To avoid this add "undisclosed recipients" to the list of acceptable aliases at
** "Privacy options"
*** "[Recipient filters]"
**** ''acceptable_aliases''

[[Category:Infrastructure]]

FOSS4G 2010 Code Sprint

2010-08-31T17:31:33Z

Wiki-Aboudreault: /* MapServer */

[[Category:FOSS4G2010]] [[Category:FOSS4G]] [[Category:Code Sprints]]
== Organizing Contacts ==

*Wladimir Szczerban, Enric Rodellas

== Code Sprint - what's that? ==

A code sprint is usually organized by a group that is using an open source project and wants to see something done. They fly the developers to a single location and feed them for a couple of days with the necessities of the hacking life (internet, caffeine, electricity). The communication that happens from face to face hacking usually lasts the project for a year or more. You see this a lot in projects like Drupal etc...

== Venue ==

For map and more details see

*Date: '''Friday, 10 Sep 2010''' (the day after the conference).
*Time: '''9am-5pm'''  ([http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2010&month=9&day=10&hour=7&min=0&sec=0&p1=31 timeandate]) 
*'''Where:''' Citilab-Cornellà
Citilab-Cornellà
Phone: +34 93 551 06 60
Fax: +34 93 551 06 78
[http://en.citilab.eu/home/ web Citilab]
Pl. Can Suris s/n
08940 Cornellà de Llobregat (Barcelona)
*'''Rooms:''' A+B+C
*'''[http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=41.359847&mlon=2.061653&zoom=18&layers=B000FTF online maps]'''

More than 100 attendees are expected!

== Motivation and Direction ==

A day, a code base, and your imagination?

Projects can use the time and venue for organizational discussions, development roadmaps, and group resolution of thorny issues in their code bases.

Is this your First Sprint? Here is some background information to get you started:

*http://www.infrae.com/about/activities/sprintathon/tips
*http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2006/10/19/running-a-sprint.html
*Example Sprint (from same people who do GeoServer): http://www.openplans.org/projects/bbq-sprint

Visit FOSS4G past experiences: [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Code_Sprint 2009], [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G2008_CodeSprint 2008], [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G2007_CodeSprint 2007 ]

== Additional Interested People ==

The following people are potentially interested in participating in sprinting activities though have not yet established a Workgroup.

* Frank Warmerdam: GDAL, MapServer, PROJ.4, OSGeo4W
* Mike Smith: GDAL, MapServer, PROJ.4, OSGeo4W
* Ari Jolma: GDAL
* Chaitanya kumar CH: GDAL
* Andrea Aime: GeoServer, GeoTools

= Workgroups =

To participate, copy a project skeleton and start a section below for your project.

== OpenLayers ==

'''Attending:'''

* [[User:Tschaub | Tim Schaub]]
* Christopher Schmidt
* Eric Lemoine
* Xurxo Méndez

'''Goals:'''

* Make OpenLayers 2.x awesomer.
* Make OpenLayers 3.0 a reality (or closer to it).

== 52°North WPS ==

'''Coordinator:'''

*Bastian Schäffer

'''Attending:'''

*Person 1

'''Goals:'''

* Technical disucssions about 52°North WPS

== Geomajas Code Sprint ==

'''Coordinator:'''

*Pieter De Graef

'''Attending:'''

*Pieter De Graef
*Jan De Moerloose
*Joachim van der Auwera
*Dirk Frigne
*Frank Maes
*Oliver May

'''Goals:'''

* Improving getting started documentation
* Create a GeoJson service, so that an OpenLayers client can make use of a Geomajas server.
* Create a Geomajas DataStore for GeoTools.
* Work toward plug-in graduation (documentation + tests)

== PostGIS ==

'''Attending:'''

* Paul Ramsey
* Olivier Courtin
* Mark Cave-Ayland
* Pierre Racine
* Vincent Picavet

'''Goals:'''

* Synchronize fall development goals
* Discuss ISO type extensions
* Discuss official raster integration issues
* Discuss OGR based SQL loader
* Discuss build simplification

== GeoJQuery ==

'''Coordinator:'''

* [[User:Vmische | Volker Mische]]

'''Attending:'''

* [[User:Astrid Emde | Astrid Emde]]
* [[User:Testbaudson | Christoph Baudson]]
* [[User:Jacarma | Javi Carrasco]]
* [[Arnulf Christl]]

'''Goals:'''

* getting started
* ...

== gvSIG ==

Someone asked at gvSIG mailing lists ([http://listserv.gva.es/pipermail/gvsig_desarrolladores/2010-August/004697.html 1], [http://listserv.gva.es/pipermail/gvsig_internacional/2010-August/005857.html 2]) about a possible gvSIG code sprint at Barcelona FOSS4G.

'''(Tentative) coordinator:'''

* [[Jorge Sanz]]

'''Attending:'''

* [[User:Amaneiro | Andrés Maneiro]]
* [[User:nachouve | Nacho Varela]]
* [[User:jpiera | Jorge Piera]]

'''Goals:'''

* Disscuss about how is possible to migrate NavTable to gvSIG 2.0.
* Talk about usability
** TOC
** Labelling and Symbology
** Project Preferences

== LiveDVD ==

Interested in localization of the LiveDVD as asked on the mailing list? http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/live-demo/2010-August/002518.html

'''Attending:'''

* [[User:Danielkastl | Daniel Kastl]]

'''Goals:'''

* Discuss localization
* getting started
* ...

== MapServer ==

'''Attending:'''

* [[User:Dmorissette | Daniel Morissette]]
* [[User:msmitherdc | Michael Smith ]]
* Steve Lime (via IRC)
* [[User:Schpidi | Stephan Meissl]]
* [[User:jmckenna | Jeff McKenna]]
* [[User:aboudreault | Alan Boudreault (via IRC)]]
* ...

'''Goals:'''

* Discuss 6.0 release plans (if enough members of the PSC/Devs are present)
* ...

== Mapnik ==

The Mapnik project is planning a code sprint in London in late september.

Therefore, no current plans for sprinting post foss4g (Dane in particular is going to the beach).

But, get in touch with Dane if you are interested in meeting up during foss4g ([[User:Springmeyer]])

FOSS4G 2010 Code Sprint

2010-08-31T17:30:47Z

Wiki-Aboudreault: /* MapServer */

[[Category:FOSS4G2010]] [[Category:FOSS4G]] [[Category:Code Sprints]]
== Organizing Contacts ==

*Wladimir Szczerban, Enric Rodellas

== Code Sprint - what's that? ==

A code sprint is usually organized by a group that is using an open source project and wants to see something done. They fly the developers to a single location and feed them for a couple of days with the necessities of the hacking life (internet, caffeine, electricity). The communication that happens from face to face hacking usually lasts the project for a year or more. You see this a lot in projects like Drupal etc...

== Venue ==

For map and more details see

*Date: '''Friday, 10 Sep 2010''' (the day after the conference).
*Time: '''9am-5pm'''  ([http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2010&month=9&day=10&hour=7&min=0&sec=0&p1=31 timeandate]) 
*'''Where:''' Citilab-Cornellà
Citilab-Cornellà
Phone: +34 93 551 06 60
Fax: +34 93 551 06 78
[http://en.citilab.eu/home/ web Citilab]
Pl. Can Suris s/n
08940 Cornellà de Llobregat (Barcelona)
*'''Rooms:''' A+B+C
*'''[http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=41.359847&mlon=2.061653&zoom=18&layers=B000FTF online maps]'''

More than 100 attendees are expected!

== Motivation and Direction ==

A day, a code base, and your imagination?

Projects can use the time and venue for organizational discussions, development roadmaps, and group resolution of thorny issues in their code bases.

Is this your First Sprint? Here is some background information to get you started:

*http://www.infrae.com/about/activities/sprintathon/tips
*http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2006/10/19/running-a-sprint.html
*Example Sprint (from same people who do GeoServer): http://www.openplans.org/projects/bbq-sprint

Visit FOSS4G past experiences: [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Code_Sprint 2009], [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G2008_CodeSprint 2008], [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G2007_CodeSprint 2007 ]

== Additional Interested People ==

The following people are potentially interested in participating in sprinting activities though have not yet established a Workgroup.

* Frank Warmerdam: GDAL, MapServer, PROJ.4, OSGeo4W
* Mike Smith: GDAL, MapServer, PROJ.4, OSGeo4W
* Ari Jolma: GDAL
* Chaitanya kumar CH: GDAL
* Andrea Aime: GeoServer, GeoTools

= Workgroups =

To participate, copy a project skeleton and start a section below for your project.

== OpenLayers ==

'''Attending:'''

* [[User:Tschaub | Tim Schaub]]
* Christopher Schmidt
* Eric Lemoine
* Xurxo Méndez

'''Goals:'''

* Make OpenLayers 2.x awesomer.
* Make OpenLayers 3.0 a reality (or closer to it).

== 52°North WPS ==

'''Coordinator:'''

*Bastian Schäffer

'''Attending:'''

*Person 1

'''Goals:'''

* Technical disucssions about 52°North WPS

== Geomajas Code Sprint ==

'''Coordinator:'''

*Pieter De Graef

'''Attending:'''

*Pieter De Graef
*Jan De Moerloose
*Joachim van der Auwera
*Dirk Frigne
*Frank Maes
*Oliver May

'''Goals:'''

* Improving getting started documentation
* Create a GeoJson service, so that an OpenLayers client can make use of a Geomajas server.
* Create a Geomajas DataStore for GeoTools.
* Work toward plug-in graduation (documentation + tests)

== PostGIS ==

'''Attending:'''

* Paul Ramsey
* Olivier Courtin
* Mark Cave-Ayland
* Pierre Racine
* Vincent Picavet

'''Goals:'''

* Synchronize fall development goals
* Discuss ISO type extensions
* Discuss official raster integration issues
* Discuss OGR based SQL loader
* Discuss build simplification

== GeoJQuery ==

'''Coordinator:'''

* [[User:Vmische | Volker Mische]]

'''Attending:'''

* [[User:Astrid Emde | Astrid Emde]]
* [[User:Testbaudson | Christoph Baudson]]
* [[User:Jacarma | Javi Carrasco]]
* [[Arnulf Christl]]

'''Goals:'''

* getting started
* ...

== gvSIG ==

Someone asked at gvSIG mailing lists ([http://listserv.gva.es/pipermail/gvsig_desarrolladores/2010-August/004697.html 1], [http://listserv.gva.es/pipermail/gvsig_internacional/2010-August/005857.html 2]) about a possible gvSIG code sprint at Barcelona FOSS4G.

'''(Tentative) coordinator:'''

* [[Jorge Sanz]]

'''Attending:'''

* [[User:Amaneiro | Andrés Maneiro]]
* [[User:nachouve | Nacho Varela]]
* [[User:jpiera | Jorge Piera]]

'''Goals:'''

* Disscuss about how is possible to migrate NavTable to gvSIG 2.0.
* Talk about usability
** TOC
** Labelling and Symbology
** Project Preferences

== LiveDVD ==

Interested in localization of the LiveDVD as asked on the mailing list? http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/live-demo/2010-August/002518.html

'''Attending:'''

* [[User:Danielkastl | Daniel Kastl]]

'''Goals:'''

* Discuss localization
* getting started
* ...

== MapServer ==

'''Attending:'''

* [[User:Dmorissette | Daniel Morissette]]
* [[User:msmitherdc | Michael Smith ]]
* Steve Lime (via IRC)
* [[User:Schpidi | Stephan Meissl]]
* [[User:jmckenna | Jeff McKenna]]
* [[User:aboudreault | Alan Boudreault]]
* ...

'''Goals:'''

* Discuss 6.0 release plans (if enough members of the PSC/Devs are present)
* ...

== Mapnik ==

The Mapnik project is planning a code sprint in London in late september.

Therefore, no current plans for sprinting post foss4g (Dane in particular is going to the beach).

But, get in touch with Dane if you are interested in meeting up during foss4g ([[User:Springmeyer]])

Live GIS Disc Testing

2010-06-30T15:51:55Z

Wiki-Aboudreault: /* mapserver */

''This page describes how to test each application installed on the [[Live GIS Disc]]. Application test steps describe how an Ubuntu user who is unfamiliar an application can try it out and confirm that everything has been installed correctly within 5 minutes. Test Results document when the application was last verified to be working.''

''This page is maintained at: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Testing and copied onto each release of the LiveDVD.''

= template =

;Tests written for
:.package. [version], arramgong [version]
;Test Description last updated
:.date.
;Steps
''Ideally, steps will reference Quick Start documentation, otherwise use following:''

*.action.

:Verify that ...

*Eg: From menu, select GeoSpatial->Application->Start

:Eg: Verify that a browser opens at url: http://localhost:... and shows the application start page.

*Update the wiki with test results (after these test steps)

----

;test results from .date.
:Run by: FirstName LastName
:System: VMWare Player, 2Gig RAM, on ubuntu 9.0 base
:Version: distribution version: eg: arramagong 3.0 rc2
:Results: Pass, Pass with issues, Fail

*link to bug reports

----

;Add more test results below, most recent results at the top

 

= geopublishing (geopublisher and atlasstyler) =

;Tests written for
:Geopublisher and AtlasStyler 1.4, Arramgong 3.0rc5
;Test Description last updated
:12.03.2010
;Steps
: 

*Go to applications->education-> and open Geopublishing documentation
**Verify that the green page from file:///usr/share/doc/geopublishing/index.html open in a browser
*Scroll to the bottom and click the demo atlas.
*Unzip it do your Desktop
*Go to applications->education-> and start Geopublisher
*Load the atlas.gpa from your Desktop/ChartDemoAtlas
**Verify that Geopublisher load the atlas. You should see a triparted GUI with a map-pool, data-pool and menu area.
*Select File->Export and follow the wizard..
**export online and offline version of the atlas to a ''new directory'' Desktop/ChartAtlasExported
**When the export has finished, click the "open folder" button
**Close Geopublisher
*Go into the Desktop/ChartAtlasExported/DISK folder and run ''start.sh''
**Verify that an atlas opens
**Verify that you see a "Charts available" button at the top right
**Verify that clicking selecting the chart opens a chart window

Let that be the basic testing for Geopublisher now.

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;test results from 16 March 2010
:Run by: Stefan Tzeggai
:System: kvm, 600Mb RAM, on ubuntu 9.10 base
:Version: arramagong 3.0 rc5
:Results: Pass with issues. Two minor problems:

*after export the "open folder" button doesn't work, because xubuntu doesn't support that java desktop integation. but the folder can be openen manually.
*Second problem is, that start.sh has to be set executable manually after export.

= geoserver =

;Tests written for
:GeoServer 2.0.1, arramagong 3.0rc4
;Test Description last updated
:13 March 2010
;Steps

*Select the "Start GeoServer" icon.
*Wait ~ 60 seconds for GeoServer to start.

:Verify the GeoServer web page opens at http://localhost:8082/geoserver/web

*In the firefox browser, click on "Layer Preview", wait ~ 30 secs

:Verify you get a list of map layers

*Select the 'OpenLayers' link on one of the layers (say the TOPP:States)

:Verify you should see a web page with sample data in an interactive map

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;test results from 13 March 2010
:Run by: Cameron Shorter
:System: VMWare Player, 2Gig RAM, on ubuntu 9.10 base
:Version: arramagong 3.0 rc4
:Results: Pass

= gvSIG =

;Tests written for
:gvSIG 1.9 (BN1253), arramgong 3.0rc2
;Test Description last updated
:2010/03/10
;Steps
: 

*Go to applications->education and start gvSIG

:Verify that gvSIG starts correctly

*Create a new view and add some shapefiles from <tt>/usr/local/share/mapserver/demos/itasca/data</tt>

:Verify that the shapefiles are correctly added to the view

*Create a new view and add any of the two TIFF files from <tt>/usr/local/share/mapserver/demos/itasca/data</tt>

:Verify that the raster files are correctly loaded to the view

*If you have Internet access, try to add a WMS layer from the combo list (i.e. the NASA JPL server)

:Verify that a WMS layer can be accessed

*Open the sample project included in the LiveDVD at <tt>/usr/local/share/gisvm/app-data/gvsig/sample-project.gvp</tt>

:Verify the project loads all the data and layouts configured are available.

*You can also try to access any of the other data available from the LiveDVD like the PostGIS Data, or WxS services by the map servers configured

:This tests are related with the correct functioning of the other software installed on the LiveDVD

*Update the wiki with test results (after these test steps)

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;test results from 2010/03/10
:Run by: [[Jorge Sanz]]
:System: Sun Virtual Box 3.1.4, with 700MB RAM for the VM
:Version: distribution version: arramagong 3.0 rc2
:Results: Passed all tests, well I wrote them at this session ;-)

= geomajas =

;Tests written for
:Geomajas 1.4.2, arramagong 2.0/3.0-rc2
;Test Description last updated
:9 March 2010
;Steps
: 

*Click desktop icon "Start Geomajas" which will start the Geomajas startup script. This will in turn start up a Tomcat server.

:Verify firefox opens a new tab at the page http://localhost:3420/geomajas-tutorial/applications/tutorial/html/

*Click on the "Start demo!" link for the Attributes & Features demo.

:Verify that a sample demo page has opened with an application, showing the provinces of Belgium.

*Doubleclick on one of the rows in the attribute table bottom right.

:Verify that a floating window appears, showing the rows' contents in more detail.

*Click on the desktop icon "Stop Geomajas".

:Verify that the Tomcat server that runs Geomajas has stopped.
:*This can be done by refreshing the page. Firefox should give a warning that it is unable to connect.

;test results from 9 March 2010
:Run by: Pieter De Graef
:System: Virtualbox, ~512MB RAM, on Windows XP
:Version: distribution version: arramagong-3.0rc2
:Results: Pass

= geonetwork =

;Tests written for
:Geonetwork, LiveDVD 3.0
;Test Description last updated
:14 March 2010
;Steps
: 

*Click icon "Start Geonetwork" - wait until the server intializes (see load graph in the upper right hand corner)
*open FireFox http://localhost:8880
*you should see a list of active URLs, choose /geonetwork

;Result

*see the opening page of the Geonetwork server

= deegree =

;Tests written for
:deegree 2.3, arramagong 2.0/3.0-rc2
;Test Description last updated
:25 June 2010
;Steps
: 

*Click desktop icon "start deegree" which will run "catalina.sh start".

:Verify firefox opens a new tab at the page http://localhost:8081/

*Click the service links ("deegree-wms", "deegree-wfs", "deegree-wcs") in top left box ("deegree Web Applications").

:Verify they open test pages for WMS, WFS, and WCS. These pages will contain links to
:*"GetCapabilities" (for each of the services)
:*"Test WMS", "Test WFS" or "Test WCS" (depending on the chosen service)
:*a link for the "Generic Client", a client for sending XML requests (http post) to the services.

*Click on "TestW*S"

:Verify you get either maps or xml fragments.
:*TestWMS will contain some images (results of WMS requests), and links for further KVP requests (http get).
:*TestWFS will open a page with several links for WFS requests (KVP). Either one will return XML fragments. There is also a link to the generic client.
:*TestWCS will open a page with several links for WCS requests (KVP). Either one will return XML fragments.

*Click the client link ("deegree iGeoPortal") in top left box ("deegree Web Applications").

:Verify this will open a new tab with a list of available WebMapContexts. Either one of these links (Utah, SaltLakeCity or Playground) should open a full working portal in this tab. Once the WMC is loaded you may switch to the other WMCs by using the drop down box labled "Theme selection"

*Click on the desktop icon "stop deegree"

:Verify the deegree-tomcat process is stopped.
:*click any of the links previously used: you will get a "Failed to Connect" message from firefox.
:*open a terminal and try <code>ps fax | grep deegree</code>. You should not get any results other than the grep itself.

*Update the wiki with test results (after these test steps)

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;test results from 4 March 2010
:Run by: Judit Mays
:System: Virtualbox, ~600MB RAM, on ubuntu 9.0 base
:Version: distribution version: arramagong-3.0rc2
:Results: Pass

= kosmo =

;Tests written for
:Kosmo 2.0 RC1, LiveDVD 3.0
;Test Description last updated
:18 March 2010
: 

;Theming layer with PostGIS backend 

*Select ''Geospatial > Desktop GIS > Kosmo'' in order to start Kosmo - Desktop 
*In the welcome dialog, select the option "''With a new view''" inside the "''Create a new project''" panel and click ''Ok'' 
*In the "''Spatial Reference System selection''" dialog, press the "..." button in order to select the view SRS
*Select "EPSG" as Type
*Enter 2270 in the textfield and click "Search" button; select the CRS given and click the ''Ok ''button
*Click Ok again to set EPSG:2270 as the current view projection 
*In the main menu "''View''", select the option "''Load Dataset...''"
*Select as Format -> "''Database''" (at the top-left corner) and "''PostGIS''" as database type
*Enter '''Database Name''': medford '''User Name''': user '''Password''': user and click the "Connect" button 
*Scroll down, check the box to the left of '''public.medford_zoning''' and click the ''Ok ''button
*Select the medford_zoning layer at left under 'Working' and click the checkbox to make it visible
*Right-click on the 'medford_zoning' layer and choose ''Simbology > Change Styles...''
*Select the "''Colour Theming''" tab; click the "''Enable colour theming''" checkbox
*Choose Attribute => zoning and click the Ok button to apply the changes 
*You should see the zoning areas of Medford coloured by attribute in the map 

''' '''

'''Shapefile and image loading''' 

*Select ''Geospatial > Desktop GIS > Kosmo'' in order to start Kosmo - Desktop 
*In the welcome dialog, select the option "''With a new view''" inside the "''Create a new project''" panel and click Ok 
*Repeat the steps described in the test "Layer Theme with PostGIS backend", but selecting EPSG:26915 as the view projection 
*In the main menu "''View''", select the option "''Load Dataset...''" 
*Select as Format -> "''Image file''" and navigate to ''/home/user/data/mapserver/demos/itasca/'' (or ''data/mapserver/demos/itasca/'' if it starts at the home/user directory) 
*Select the directory "''data''" in order to load all the tiffs inside it as a mosaic and press the Ok button 
*Select the '''data''' layer at left under 'Working' and click the checkbox to make it visible 
*Select as Format -> "''Shapefile''" and navigate inside ''data ''directory 
*Select all the shapefiles and press the Ok button in order to load them 
*Check that all the shapefiles have been loaded on the layer tree at the left. Make them visible by clicking on the checkbox of each one

 

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'''test results from 18 March 2010''' Run by: Sergio Baños System: VirtualBox 3.1.4 with Guest additions, 3Gb RAM, on Windows Vista Version: 3.0 rc5 Results: Pass 

 

= udig =

;Tests written for
:udig , arramgong 3.0rc5
;Test Description last updated
:18 March 2010
;Steps

*open UDig

:Verify you see a Welcome screen

*Close the Welcome display. (Note if you don't close this display, then you can't load layers later on)
*from the Layer menu, choose "Add..."
*Choose Files from /home/user/data/udig/udig-data/data-v1_2/
*select bc_border.shp
*you may also select others, for example all shp files starting with bc_
*click OK

:Verify you see Canadian British Columbia data

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;test results from 14 March 2010
:Run by: Cameron Shorter
:System: VMWare Player, 2Gig RAM, on ubuntu 9.10 base
:Version: distribution version: arramagong 3.0 rc4
:Results: Pass with issues

*Pass with issues:
**If the Welcome screen is not closed, then trying to load a shapefile as described takes the user to a rolling "loading" icon, and message "Adding layers to map" however, it doesn't progress past this.

= openjump =

;Tests written for
:OpenJUMP, arramagong 2.0/3.0-rc2
;Test Description last updated
:8 March 2010
: 

;Layer Theme with PostGIS backend

*Open OpenJUMP
*under the File menu select 'Open...'
*select Data Store Layer
*on the Connection line, click on the database icon (far right)
*click on Add
*enter '''Name''': medford '''Server''': localhost '''Port''': 5432 '''Instance''': medford '''User''': user '''Password''': user
*click OK; click OK in the parent dialog box; you should be back in the Data Store Layer dialog
*from the Dataset: menu choose 'medford_zoning'; click Finish
*select the medford zoning layer at left under 'Working'
*click on the Palette Icon in the menu bar
*select the 'Colour Theming' tab; click 'Enable colour theming' checkbox
*choose Attribute => zoning
*choose a colour theme; click 'OK' to dismiss the dialog
*you should see the zoning areas of Medford in various colours

= postgis =

;Tests written for
:PostGIS, arramagong 2.0/3.0-rc2
;Test Description last updated
:4 March 2010
: 

;Spatial Query with the Graphical Query Builder helper

*Open PGAdmin III from the Development menu
*double-click on 'local'
*under Databases, double-click on medford
*open 'schemas'
*open 'public'
*select 'Tables', click on the 'Execute SQL' Icon above (it has a pencil in it)
*expand the window and click on 'Graphical Query Builder'
*open 'Schemas', double-click on 'public'
*click and drag 'medford_wards' to the work area on the right
*click and drag 'jacksonco_schools' to the work area on the right
*choose 'jacksonco_schools' name, address, city and students
*choose 'medford_wards' council_me (meaning council members)
*click and drag from the_geom in 'medford_wards' to the_geom in 'jacksonco_schools' (you should see a solid line form with an '=' in it)
*click on the 'SQL Editor' tab above, to navigate away from the Graphical Query Builder
*edit the WHERE line to say

ST_Contains( medford_wards.the_geom, jacksonco_schools.the_geom )

*add an additional line

ORDER BY medford_wards.council_me, jacksonco_schools.students DESC;

*the entire query ends with one semicolon ';'
*click on the 'execute query' icon above (a green triangle pointing to the right) you should see a list of council districts, schools, school sizes and the names of council members for each district as a result

 

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;test results from 4 March 2010
:Run by: Brian Hamlin
:System: Virtualbox, 1024mb RAM, on debian 5.03 base
:Version: distribution version: arramagong-3.0rc2
:Results: user tested, passed in less than 5 minutes with no previous experience

 

;New Database

$ createdb -T template_postgis osm_barcelona
$ osm2pgsql -d osm_barcelona /usr/local/share/osm/Barcelona.osm.bz2

Then try to view it in QGIS.

= spatialite =

;Tests written for
:spatialite, LiveDVD 3.0
;Last updated
:14 March 2010
;Steps
: 

*Open a terminal

spatialite /usr/local/share/spatialite/regions.sqlite
select r.NOME_REG, a.Nome from Aeroporti a, reg2008_s r where CONTAINS( r.Geometry, a.Geometry ) order by r.NOME_REG;

;''a graphical view of the same data''

*Run spatialite-gis

open file <tt>/usr/local/share/spatialite/regions.sqlite</tt>

;Result - test please

You should see a set of Airports in Italy

= pgrouting =

;Tests written for
:pgRouting SVN trunk revision 356, arramagong 2.0/3.0
;Last updated
:March 2010
;Steps
: 

*Open a terminal

sudo -u user psql -c "SELECT gid, AsText(the_geom) AS the_geom FROM dijkstra_sp_delta('sydney', 101, 114, 0.003)" sydney
sudo -u user psql -c "SELECT gid, AsText(the_geom) AS the_geom FROM astar_sp_delta('sydney', 101, 114, 0.003)" sydney
sudo -u user psql -c "SELECT gid, AsText(the_geom) AS the_geom FROM shootingstar_sp('sydney', 8, 24, 0.1, 'length', true, true)" sydney

After each command you should see some output which is not hopefully 'library not found' error.

= osm =

;JOSM

*File → Open → /usr/local/share/osm/Barcelona.osm.bz2

;Gosmore

*Open a terminal
*Import data with:

bzip2 -dc /usr/local/share/osm/Barcelona.osm.bz2 | gosmore rebuild

= mapserver =

;Tests written for
:MapServer 5.6.3, OSGeo LiveDVD 4.0
;Test Description last updated
:30 June 2010
;Steps

*Select the "MapServer" icon.
*Wait a few seconds for FireFox to start.

:Verify the MapServer web page opens at <tt>file:///usr/local/share/livedvd-docs/doc/mapserver_description.html</tt>

*In the firefox browser, scroll down to "MapServer Demo" section and click on "Itasca".

:Select "Basic Application" and click on "Initialize".
:Verify you get a map.

*Select the "Query multiple features" tool on the right of the page and click somewhere on the map.

:Verify you get a list of features.

*'''THE GMAP DEMO HAS BEEN REMOVE IN 4.0 ALPHA4, IT IS NOT YET COMPATIBLE WITH PHP 5.3''' <strike>Return to the the initial MapServer web page, <tt>file:///usr/local/share/livedvd-docs/doc/mapserver_description.html</tt> , scroll down to "MapServer Demo" section and click on "GMap".</strike>

:<strike>Verify you get a map and a legend with icons rendered.</strike>

*Return to the the initial MapServer web page, <tt>file:///usr/local/share/livedvd-docs/doc/mapserver_description.html</tt> on the initial MapServer web page, scroll down to "MapServer Documentation" section.

:Verify that the documentation version is appropriate versus the MapServer version.

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;test results from 14 March 2010
:Run by: Cameron Shorter
:System: VMWare Player, 2Gig RAM, on ubuntu 9.0 base
:Version: arramagong 3.0 rc4
:Results: Pass with issues

*Documentation refers to the older 5.4 version

= geokettle =

;Tests written for
:GeoKettle 3.2.0-20090609
;Last updated
:March 2010
;Steps

*Launch GeoKettle.

:Verify you get a window prompting you to select a repository.

*On the "Select a repository" dialog, choose "No repository".

:Verify the GeoKettle application is opened.

*Close any startup tips dialog.
*Select File-> Open
*Select <tt>/opt/geokettle/samples/transformations/geokettle/intersection.ktr</tt>

:Verify you see the "intersection" transformation in the work area, with a big yellow comment box and some step icons.

*Run the transformation in preview mode
**Select Transformation menu -> Preview
**Choose the "Intersecting rows" step (to view the rows that are outputted by that step)
**then click on Quick Launch.

:Verify you see the result in the "Examine preview data" dialog (two rows with four columns: GEOM1_ID, geom1, GEOM2_ID, geom2. The geom1 and geom2 fields should contain MULTIPOLYGON WKT geometries).

----

;test results from 13 March 2010
:Run by: Cameron Shorter
:System: VMWare Player, 2Gig RAM, on ubuntu 9.10 base
:Version: arramagong 3.0 rc4
:Results: Pass

= gmt =

There are 29 example jobs built in, and a script to run them all:

*Open a terminal

cp -r /usr/share/doc/gmt-examples/examples/ gmt-examples
cd gmt-examples/
./do_examples.sh

[whiz .. bang .. whirl]

View results: (type 'q' to quit <tt>gv</tt>)

for PLOT in `find . -name *.ps` ; do
echo "$PLOT"
gv "$PLOT"
done

Cleanup:

cd ..
rm -rf gmt-examples/

= grass =

;Tests written for
:grass 6.4.0rc5, arramagong 2.0/3.0
;Last updated
:March 2010
;Steps
: 

*Double click on the GRASS desktop icon

:Verify you see a slick "Welcome to GRASS" GUI

*Select Spearfish60 for location, User1 for mapset
*Click on [Start Grass]
*In the Layer Manager GUI window add a raster layer
**On the toolbar click the icon with a + and a checkerboard
**On map to be displayed pull down the list and select elevation.dem
*from the PERMANENT mapset and click [ok]
*In the Layer Manager GUI window add a vector layer
**On the toolbar click the icon with a + and a "V" line
**For input map name pull down the list and select roads from the PERMANENT mapset and click [ok]
*Over in the Map Display window toolbar click on the eyeball icon to render

:Verify you see the maps displayed

;See also

*http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/HowToTestGrass6

:(North Carolina dataset is already installed in grassdata/)

*More details in the [http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/doc/descriptions/grass_description.html on-disc help page]
*http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/manuals/html64_user/helptext.html

----

;test results from 14 March 2010.
:Run by: John Tate
:System: VirtualBox v3.0.8_OSE r53138, 2Gig RAM, on ubuntu 9.10 base
:Version: arramagong vm 3.0 rc4
:Results: Pass (including extended test at ...wiki/HowToTestGrass6)

 

= qgis =

;FIXME
:These instructions are not tested! Just off the top of my head.

;open GeoTiff

*where on the disc is one?

:(''if needed geotiff and shapefile export could be added to the GRASS testing procedure to make some'')

;open PostGIS data I

*From the menu: Layer → Add PostGIS Layer ...
*PostgreSQL Connections: [New]

Name: medford
Host: localhost
Database: medford
Port: 5432
username: user
password: user
SSL Mode: allow

Test Connect should show success
select sample point, line and poly layers
view selected data

;open PostGIS data
:(''run the PostGIS test first so that the osm_barcelona DB exists!'')

*From the menu: Layer → Add PostGIS Layer ...
*PostgreSQL Connections: [New]

Name: ________ "OpenStreetMap Import"
Database: ____ "osm_barcelona"

*Click on [Test Connect], with luck you will get a message that the connection to the database was successful.
*Click [Ok] to close the New Database window.
*Click on [Connect] in the top left of the Add PostGIS Table window. You should see a listing of tables come up.
*Click on all of the table names to highlight them.
*Click on [Add] at the bottom.
*After some moments you should see the data displayed in the main map canvas.
*Zoom, pan, query as you like.

This should at least prove to you that the database is correctly populated and running.

;open shapefile

*where on the disc is one?
*From the menu: Layer → Add Vector Layer ...

:Do not select New Vector Layer ... (that's for creating new data, not opening existing data)

*Dataset: [Browse]

: ? where on disc ?

*Ctrl-click on each of the *.shp files in that directory, then click [Open] and finally [Ok]
*After some momements you should see the data displayed in the main map canvas.
*Because the some of the shapefiles use a different map projection than the PostGIS database, things may not line up exactly. In the Settings → Projection Properties, Coordinate Reference System tab, you can tick the [•] Enable 'on the fly' CRS transformation box to overlay them. Be warned that this is computationally expensive and the layer may need to have its CRS set manually.
*Zoom, pan, query as you like. Drag layer names up and down in the left-pane list to change their position in the stack.

;open OSM data

*need to enable plugin?
*open /usr/local/share/osm/Barcelona.osm.bz2

;Test the GRASS plugin

*(it's installed, right?)
*Go menu "Plugins, Pluginmanager, activate "GRASS plugin", OK button: a set of new buttons should appear
*open location/mapset → ~/grassdata/spearfish90/PERMANENT
*click "Add GRASS raster layer" button, select "elevation" map
*click "Add GRASS raster layer" button, select "elevation_shade" map
*click right mouse button in legend on "elevation_shade" map, move transparency to 40%
*click "Add GRASS vector layer" button, select "roadsmajor" map, select layer "1-line" (level 1 is the topological level), OK

= mapnik =

see file:///usr/local/share/livedvd-docs/doc/mapnik_description.html Mapnik Description

= maptiler =

;Tests written for
:maptiler 1.0 all versions
;Test Description last updated
:11.3.2010
;Steps
: 

*you need an GeoTIFF or other raster geodata to test the functionality. So download for example this: [http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/data/gtiff/utm.tif http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/data/gtiff/utm.tif] (when you use Firefox it will automatically save the files into ~/Downloads).
*start MapTiler: click on "Applications" -> "Graphics" -> "MapTiler"
*in the MapTiler application select on the first page "Google Maps compatible" tiles and click "Continue"
*in the second page of wizard add the tiff, it should be ~/Downloads/utm.tif and click "Continue"
*continue trough all other steps in the wizard (default options are fine) and then start "Render"
*when the rendering is finished you will see a link to the directory with tiles, click to open it (it opens in Firefox as a directory)
*open the "googlemaps.html", you should see a black&white overlay displayed on top of Google Maps hybrid layer. You can also open "openlayers.html" to see another presentation of the results.

:Verify that ...

*MapTiler application starts without problems when clicked on the icon
*When you press on "Render" applications starts the processing and does not report any error.

Alternative "real" geodata for testing are for example [http://www.archive.org/details/maps_usgs USGS maps] or [http://www.charts.noaa.gov/InteractiveCatalog/nrnc.shtml NOAA RNCs].

----

;test results from 11.3.2010
:Run by: Klokan Petr Pridal
:System: VMWare Fusion, 512MB RAM in virtual machine, on MacOSX Leopard
:Version: arramagong livedvd 3.0 rc4
:Results: Pass

----

Another way to try it:

#Start MapTiler by clicking the icon on the Desktop
#Load in the second step example raster GEODATA (with georerence/srs)
#Go trough all the steps with 'Next' up to the Render
#Once the render is finished you can click in the GUI to open a folder with tiles. When you open googlemaps.html or openlayers.html then you see your geodata warped to the overlay of popular interactive web maps as Google Maps.

The map tiles are displayed directly from your disk. To publish the map to Internet just upload the folder with tiles to any webserver or Amazon S3"

= marble =

;Tested against ver 2.0

*Click on the desktop icon
*If you have used Google Earth before you should be able to figure this one out without much difficulty.
*In the Settings menu select full-screen mode
*Explore ...
*In the bottom-left corner of the program window there is a subtle tab called "Map View". Click on it.
*Select another map (e.g. 'Precipitation (July)')
*Explore some more ...

= octave =

*Open a terminal
*Start program by typing "<tt>octave</tt>" at the prompt

% Which way to Barcelona from Sydney?
sydney = [-33.8750 151.2005]
barcelona = [41+23/60 2+11/60]

dirn = azimuth(sydney, barcelona);
deg_symb = 176;
disp(['Heading: ' num2str(dirn) deg_symb])

% How far's the trip? (roughly!)
system('proj -le')
wgs84_a = 6378137.0  % major radius of the Earth, in meters
dist_deg = distance(sydney, barcelona)
dist_meters = pi * wgs84_a * (dist_deg / 360.0)
disp(['Distance: ' num2str(dist_meters / 1000) ' km'])

Type "exit" to quit.

= opencpn =

;Activate data

*Open a terminal
*Type "<tt>opencpn_noaa_agreement.sh</tt>" at the prompt

;Run program

(assuming your GPS is not plugged in and <tt>gpsd</tt> is not running)

*Double click the OpenCPN icon on the desktop or type "opencpn" at a terminal
*Left-click recenters the view
*Left-click-drag pans the view
*Mouse-wheel zooms in/out
*The blue bars in the bottom show previews of overlapping maps and clicking on them switches to them.

;More details in the [http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/doc/descriptions/opencpn_description.html on-disc help page]
:and specifically the [http://opencpn.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/opencpn/opencpn/data/doc/tips.html#Getting_Started Getting Started] help page.

= gpsdrive =

*(''copied from install_gpsdrive.sh'')
*More details in the [http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/doc/descriptions/gpsdrive_description.html on-disc help page]

=== Testing ===

==== If no GPS is plugged in ====

*Double click on the GpsDrive desktop icon
*You should see a map of downtown Sydney, after about 10 seconds a waypoint marker for the Convention Centre should appear.
*Set the map scale to 1:10,000 either by dragging the slider at the bottom or by using the +,- buttons (not magnifying glass)
*Enter Explore Mode by pressing the "e" key or in the Map Control button.
*Use the arrow keys or left mouse button to move off screen.
*Right click to set destination and leave Explore Mode

===== Downloading maps =====

*Change the scale setting to 1:1,000,000 you should see a continental map
*Enter Explore Mode again ("e") and left click on the great barrier reef
*Options -> Map -> Download
**Map source: NASA LANDSAT, Scale: 1:500,000, [Download Map]
**When download is complete click [ok] then change the preferred scale slider to 1:500,000
**This will be of more use in remote areas.
*Explore to the coast, click on an airport, headland, or some other conspicuous feature. You might want to use the magnifying glass buttons to zoom in on it better. Use a right click set the target on some other conspicuous feature nearby then demagnify back out.
*Options -> Map -> Download
**Map source: OpenStreetMap, Scale: 1:150,000, left-click on map to center the green preview over your target and what looks like a populated area.
**[Download Map]
**When download is complete click [ok] then change the preferred scale slider to 1:150,000 and you should see a (rather rural) road map. This will be more interesting in built up areas.

===== Overlay a GPX track =====

*In the ~/.gpsdrive/tracks/ directory you will find australia.gpx which is a track line following the coastline.
*Options -> Import -> GPX track
*Hidden folders are hidden in the file picker, but just start typing ~/.gpsdrive and hit enter. You should then see the tracks/ directory and be able to load australia.gpx.
*A red trace should appear along the coastline.
*Check that it lines up well with the coast as shown in map tiles of varying scale.

==== If a GPS is plugged in ====

*Make sure gpsd is running by starting "xgps" from the command line.
*The program will automatically detect gpsd and jump to your current position. This should bring up a continental map as you won't have any map tiles downloaded for your area yet.
*See the above "Downloading Maps" section to get some local tiles.
*If you have a local GPX track of some roads try loading that and making sure everything lines up, as detailed in the above "Overlay a GPX track" section.

That's it.

= mb-system =

*Open a terminal

cd /usr/local/mbsystem/examples/

List summary information about the contents of some bathymetric data files:

cd mbinfo/
./mbinfo.cmd

Grid some sample data and then view it:

cd ../mbm_plot/
./mbm_plot_5.cmd

# which creates this script:
./mbm_plot_test5.cmd

You should now see a nice plot of the seafloor off Baja California.

*(this also acts as a test of the GMT plotting package)

= mapfish =

;Tests written for
: mapfish 1.2, arramgong 3.0
;Test Description last updated
: 2 April 2010
;Steps
: 
* Make sure you have a working internet connection
* Double click on the Mapfish icon on the desktop
: Verify that a browser opens after a few seconds showing a map of the southwestern pacific
* Click the magnifying glass just under the word "Map" at the top of the map.
* Zoom in on Sydney
* Explore

----

;test results from 2 April 2010
:Run by: Cameron Shorter
:System: VMWare Player, 2Gig RAM, on windows XP base
:Version: arramagong 3.0
:Results: Pass with issues

* The application requires an internet connection to work. The liveDVD should work without an internet connection, so it should access maps from a local WMS or similar.
* The application doesn't show off any of the mapfish server functionality, making it difficult to sell its benefits over Openlayers.

= R =

*double click on the R Icon
*at the command line, type demo(graphics) and hit return
*follow the prompt and watch the target window for examples

''If it is possible please add steps here to test the included geostats packages, they are both more interesting and more likely to have problems in the build. tx''

:''e.g. something with r-cran-maps(.deb), gstat, sp, rgdal, or spgrass6 ?''

#Load a library
library(sp)
#list the demos available
demo()
#Run the demo from the sp package
#This will step you through several examples of code and the resulting plots
demo(gallery)

 Some examples to try here:

:http://r-spatial.sourceforge.net/xtra/xtra.RHnw.html

= ossim =

;Tests written for
:Ossim 1.8, arramagong 3.0rc4 + fixes
;Test Description last updated
:16 March 2010
;Steps

;Imagelinker

*Start Imagelinker from its icon from the directory "Spatial Tools" on the desktop

*Select the project file, using <tt>File -> Open Project -> /home/user/data/ossim/ossim_data/landsatrgb.prj</tt>
*Go to the menu bar -> window -> tile
*Select an image window -> select the pan icon -> click on the image -> press the button "propagate"
*Verify you see a 3 gray satelite images.

;OssimPlanet

*Start OssimPlanet from its icon from the directory "Desktop-GIS" on the desktop

*Select <tt>File -> Open Session -> /home/user/ossim/ossim_data/session.session</tt>

*Navigate the scene.
*Go to menu -> Open kml -> /home/user/ossim/ossim_data/*.kml
*Go on the legend tree -> location -> open the trees -> bouble click on the kml location

:you should see the scene zoom to the location

*To test the command line simply run :

ossim-image-info /usr/local/share/ossim/ossim_data/band1.tif

''Note: to turn off the daylight auto-shading, un-check Preferences -> Environment -> Enable Ephemeris''

----

;test results from 16 March 2010
:Run by: Cameron Shorter
:System: VMWare Player, 2Gig RAM, on ubuntu 9.10 base
:Version: distribution version: eg: arramagong 3.0 rc4 + fixes
:Results: Pass with issues

*Imagelinker: These test steps don't give guidance on how to try some of the functionality
*Imagelinker: Tried opening a project, then opening the project a second time and the application crashed

= ugvsigmobile =

;Tests written for
:Unofficial gvSIG Mobile for Linux 0.1.6, arramagong 3.0-rc4
;Test Description last updated
:13 March 2010
;Steps

*Click menu icon "Applications / Geospatial Beta software / Unofficial gvSIG Mobile for Linux".

:Verify a new window opens up (size: 800 x 600 pixels approx.). From now on, buttons on the left side will be called (from top): button 1, button 2, button 3, button 4, button 5 and button 6. Button 1 is a cycle button with four different states corresponding to four different tools, so that active tool is the visible one.

*Click button 5 and choose EPSG:25833 in the top combo box.
*Click button 3, choose "Rome (Italy) Aerial" in the bottom combo box and click on the button located to the right of the combo box (with a little triangle).

:Verify that an aerial image of Rome appears after a few seconds.

*Click button 3, click one of the [...] buttons.

:Verify that a simple file browser opens up.

*By clicking on the folder names (one click) and on the "Parent folder" button, go to the folder /usr/local/share/ugvsigmobile

:Verify that the file CapitolineHill_25833.shp is listed in the box to the right.

*Select that file (click on it once) and click the green "OK" button.
*Check the check box located immediately to the left of the file name (to make it visible on the map) and click on the button located to the right of the [...] button you clicked before (little triangle).

:Verify that the map moves to a bean-shaped little shapefile that contains the Capitoline Hill in the center of Rome.

*Click button 3 and uncheck the check box you checked before (to make the shapefile invisible).
*Click button 5 and choose EPSG:3857 in the top combo box.
*Click button 3, choose "OSM Mapnik" in the bottom combo box and click on the button located to the right of the combo box.

:Verify that the Mapnik tiles appear on the map.

*Open [http://lucasdom.homelinux.org/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=D:/MAPSERVERCARTO/MAPFILES/wms005.map&REQUEST=GetMap&SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.1.1&LAYERS=world_countries,poi&SRS=EPSG:900913&BBOX=-10000000,-10000000,10000000,10000000&WIDTH=500&HEIGHT=500&FORMAT=image/png&STYLES=default,default&TRANSPARENT=TRUE this URL] (it's a simple WMS request) in a new web browser tab or window.

:Verify that you see a map including Africa, South America and Europe, possibly with some colorful icons on it.

*Click button 3 and check the check box tagged as "Waypts".
*Click button 5 and click the "Sync" button.

:Verify that after a few seconds you see a large dialog saying "Sync OK". Click the green (accept) button, which will take you to the map, where new red flags may have appeared.

*Click button 1 several times until a red circle is visible on it.
*Click somewhere on the map. A new dialog will show. Choose random values for the attributes and click the green (accept) button. Repeat this step two or three times.
*Click button 5 and push the "Sync" button.

:Verify that after a few seconds you see a large dialog saying "Sync OK".

*Click the green (accept) button.

*Go back to the web browser tab or window you opened before and click on "Refresh".

:Verify that the points you added appear now on the map.

*Click button 6 and click "Quit"

:Verify that the application diappears.

*Update the wiki with test results.

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;Test results from 13 March 2010
:Run by: Juan Lucas Dominguez jldominguez
:System: Arramagong livedvd 3.0 rc4 ISO within Virtual Box on Windows Vista
:Version: Arramagong livedvd 3.0 rc4
:Result: Pass

= osgearth =

;Tests written for
:osgearth, LiveDVD 3.0
;Last updated
:14 March 2010
;Steps
: 

*Open a terminal

osgearth_simple /usr/share/osgearth/maps/nexrad.earth

;Result - test please

You should see a globe with radar data over some parts of North America.

click to navigate; right-click or scroll wheel to zoom in and out.

hit the 'escape' key to quit

= gdal / ogr =

;Tests written for
:GDAL, LiveDVD 3.0
;Last updated
:14 March 2010
;Steps
: 

*Open a terminal

ogrinfo PG:dbname=medford
ogrinfo PG:dbname=medford -so -al

gdalinfo /usr/share/osgearth/data/terrain/mt_rainier_90m.tif

;Result

You should see a summary of the contents of the medford PostGIS database, and of a geoTIFF of Mt Rainier

= MapGuide Open Source =

;Tests written for
:MapGuide Open Source 2.2.0, LiveDVD 4.0
;Test Description last updated
:June 26, 2010
;Steps
* Start LiveDVD and log in as "user"
:Verify presence of "MapGuide Start", "MapGuide Stop", and "MapGuide Maestro" desktop icons

* Double click "MapGuide Start" desktop icon and enter "user" password if prompted
:Verify that "Starting MapGuide" and "Starting Apache" messages appear

* Open a browser window to http://localhost:8008/mapguide/phpviewersample/ajaxviewersample.php
:Verify that a map is displayed in the center of the screen with a layer legend to the left of the map and an application "Overview" pane to the right of the map.

* Zoom into street level detail and click the pointer icon. Select a parcel.
:Verify that a parcel is selected in blue.

* On the right hand side of the page, click "Tasks" then "Buffer". Set the distance to 20 meters and click "Done"
:Verify that a red buffer zone appears around the parcel.

* Close the browser and double click the "MapGuide Maestro" desktop icon. Login to "http://localhost:8008/mapguide/mapagent/mapagent.fcgi" as user "Administrator" and password "admin".
:Verify that the tree view contains "Samples/Sheboygan".

*Update the wiki with test results (after these test steps)

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;test results from .date.
:Run by: FirstName LastName
:System: VMWare Player, 2Gig RAM, on ubuntu 9.0 base
:Version: LiveDVD 4.0
:Results: Pass, Pass with issues, Fail

*link to bug reports

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;Add more test results below, most recent results at the top

 

= main documentation =

;Tests written for
:arramgong_3.0rc4 + fixes
;Test Description last updated
:15 March 2010
;Steps

*Open Help by selecting he help icon (a yellow sign with a wombat)

:Verify that the firefox web browser opens at file:///usr/local/share/livedvd-docs/index.thml
:Verify that the browser opens with "Home", "Contents", "Contact and Support", "Tests", "Sponsors" tabs.

*Click on the above tabs.

:Verify the respective pages are opened.

*Open the "Contents" tab

:Verify that each project is mentioned.
:Verify that the project version numbers matches version numbers here: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Al9zh8DjmU_RdGIzd0VLLTBpQVJuNVlHMlBWSDhKLXc&hl=en_GB
:Verify that when clicking on each project title, a description page is opened.

*Install a link checker

sudo apt-get install linkchecker

*Run the linkchecker against the installed docs:

linkchecker /usr/local/share/livedvd-docs/index.html 2>&1 | tee /var/log/arramagong/linkchecker.log

:Verify there are not errors in the log file

----

;test results from 13 March 2010
:Run by: Cameron Shorter
:System: VMWare Player, 2Gig RAM, on ubuntu 9.10
:Version: arramagong 3.0 rc4 + fixes
:Results: Pass with issues

*When Firefox starts for the first time, it asks for confirmation for the language pack plugins
*Errors found in the link check

----

= Windows Installers =

;Tests written for
: arramgong 3.0rc5
;Test Description last updated
: 20 March 2010
;Steps

* From a windows computer, or Virtual Machine, insert the LiveDVD.
* Go to the WindowsInstallers directory on the LiveDVD
: Verify the installers are the same version number as the rest of the DVD, as listed at http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Al9zh8DjmU_RdGIzd0VLLTBpQVJuNVlHMlBWSDhKLXc&hl=en_GB
* For each WindowsInstaller, run the installer, using all defaults
: Verify the application installs without errors
* If sufficient time, Open up the application and run the test steps above for the application.

----

;test results from 20 March 2010
:Run by: Jody Garnett
:System: Windows XP, with a burned DVD and 1Gig RAM
:Version: arramagong 3.0 rc5
:Results: Pass with issues

As emailed here: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/live-demo/2010-March/001595.html

FWTools243
* ok

geonetwork-install-2.4.2-0
* ok (is that a real version number?)

geoserver-1.7.6-ng
* warning about needing a jdk; pointed at one on the system and it was fine
* note if you upgrade to 2.0.1 jre is fine
* correction http://downloads.sourceforge.net/geoserver/geoserver-2.0.1-ng.exe
** Note: has been upgraded for 3.0rc6 and Final

gpsbabel-1.3.6
* zip file works
* it would be nicer if the zipfile contained a folder (rather then just files so that users can unzip in one step rather then needing to make a folder first)

gpsVPxp_0.4.18
* zip file works

gvSIG-update-1_1_2-windows-i586
* failed
* asks to install missing components
* hitting yes tries downloading JavaJRE version 1.5.0...
* .. and after 2 hours it did not succeed (and would not cancel)
* system already had a jre6 installed (so above missing component should not of been needed)
** Note: Updated to gvSIG 1.9 stable for arramagong 3.0RC6 and Final.

Kosmo_Desktop_2.0-RC1_windows_jre
* zip file works fine

maptiler-1.0-beta2-setup
* ok

MgServerSetup-2.0.2.3011
* ok

ms4w_3.0-beta7
* zip file is okay
* but an installer is now available for download!
* correction http://www.maptools.org/dl/ms4w/ms4w-2.3.1-setup.exe

OpenCPN_136_Setup
* ok

QGIS-1.4.0-1-No-GrassSetup
* ok

udig-1.1.1
* ok
* includes a jre+imageio+jai
* correction http://udig.refractions.net/files/downloads/udig-1.2-RC1.exe

vcredist_x86
* ok

WinGRASS-6.4.SVN-r41454-1-Setup
* ok

= Mac Installers =

;Tests written for
: arramgong 3.0rc5
;Test Description last updated
: 20 March 2010
;Steps

* From a windows computer, or Virtual Machine, insert the LiveDVD.
* Go to the MacInstallers directory on the LiveDVD
: Verify the installers are the same version number as the rest of the DVD, as listed at http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Al9zh8DjmU_RdGIzd0VLLTBpQVJuNVlHMlBWSDhKLXc&hl=en_GB
* For each MacInstaller, run the installer, using all defaults
: Verify the application installs without errors
* If sufficient time, Open up the application and run the test steps above for the application.

----

[[Category:Live-demo]]

OSGeo Binary Distribution

2010-06-03T11:58:09Z

Wiki-Aboudreault: /* Ubuntu Linux */

This provides the status of current and historical binary packaging of OSGeo software, with the ultimate goal of OSGeo "branded and certified" binary distributions of open source geospatial software for Windows, Linux and possibly MacOS X and Solaris.

= Objectives =

* Offer a painless user experience installing and getting started with OSGeo products.
* Support major operating systems. In order of precedence that likely means Windows, Linux (Intel32), MacOS X and Solaris (Sparc).
* Ensure that all components are inter-compatible avoiding version incompatibility hell.
* Allow progressive installation, with packages pulled over the internet as requested. So the person can install a few packages without having to download everything, and so they can go back and add more packages later.
* Provide an easy to use GUI installer.
* Be relatively distribution/version agnostic - on linux we hope the same binaries will work on Debian, Fedora Core, Suse, Ubuntu, etc. On windows and MacOS X we hope the binaries would work across a variety of relatively recent OS versions.
* Include at least all the OSGeo project software as packages, and dependencies of those packages.
* Suitable for desktop and web service folks.
* Provide a level of quality control
* Simplify the process for projects to update and maintain the various distributions
* Open channels of communication between packagers and application developers.

= Windows distributions =
== OSGeo4W ==
[http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ OSGeo4W] is a windows based stack of GeoFOSS which is based upon cygwin.

'''Goal''': Ease of installation of the whole GeoFOSS stack in windows.

'''Status''': Aug '08: Actively maintained by community, Works well

* Pros:
** Has already packaged many of the key GeoFOSS applications.
** Likely to release first major release at FOSS4G 2008, 29 Sep 2008.
** Has strong developer community.

* Con
** Needs installation
** Needs internet connection for installation

== PortableGIS ==
[http://www.archaeogeek.com/blog/portable-gis/ PortableGIS] is a collection of GeoFOSS applications that run from a USB stick.

'''Goal''': Have the most important applications always with you.

'''Status''': Actively maintained by one person, (Jo Cook)

* Pro
** No installation required, just run the applications

* Con
** Doesn't work right from CD at the moment
** Applications need clean-up (Eg. Java is bundled more than once)
** Only one maintainer
** Project development infrastructure not set up yet.
** Would benefit by alignment with similar projects.
** PortableGIS currently needs to be run from a writable medium (like and USB stick), it won't work on a read-only medium like a CD.

= Linux =

Unlike the Debian-GIS SIG, which already has mailing list / code repository infrastructure, the RPM-using community does not have such infrastructure and would benefit from hosting by OSGeo.

== GIS Virtual Machine ==
http://gisvm.com/

* Has a stable Virtual Machine, packaged in November 2008, based upon Ubuntu 8.10.
* A new version is being developed for FOSS4G in October 2009.

== Live CD\DVD ==
See the [[Live GIS Disc]]

== Debian Linux ==
* [http://pkg-grass.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl DebianGIS] is about improving Debian to make it the best distribution for Geographical Information Systems applications and users. A good deal of GIS related softwares and libraries (e.g. GRASS) are already present in Debian. We have currently an up-to-date GRASS package in main and many other packages.

== Ubuntu Linux ==
* [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGIS Ubuntu GIS]

== GeoLivre Linux ==
* [http://www.geolivre.org.br/modules/mydownloads/ Geolivre Linux]

== Gentoo Linux ==
* [http://gentoo-gis.sourceforge.net/ Gentoo]

== Mandriva Linux ==
* [http://club.mandriva.com/xwiki/bin/view/rpms/Category/Sciences/Geosciences Mandriva] (not really a team but all relevant RPMs there and maintained)
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/FOSS4G_Toolkit_for_Mandriva_2008 Mandriva 2008 RPM] (Osaka City University)
* [http://wgrass.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/foss4g/ Mandriva CD ISO Image] -- maintained by Osaka City University FOSS4G Team

RPM-based distributions, such as Fedora Linux and SuSE Linux, do not have a dedicated GIS teams, but there are several parties maintaining independent RPM archives that could be persuaded to band their efforts together under the aegis of the foundation:
== Fedora Linux ==
* Fedora Extra 6 ([http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/6/SRPMS source RPMS] and [http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/6/i386 i386 binaries RPMS]) contains a few GIS packages like GDAL, geos and proj
* Fedora 7 ([http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Everything/source/SRPMS source RPMs] and [http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Everything/i386/os/Fedora i386 binaries RPMs]) contains a few GIS packages like GDAL, geos, proj and mapserver
* [http://mappinghacks.com/rpm/ Mapping Hacks Fedora RPMs] -- maintained by SchuylerErle
* [ftp://intevation.de/freegis/fedora/ intevation.de Fedora RPMs]
* [http://postgis.refractions.net/rpms/ PostGIS RPMs for Fedora] from [http://www.refractions.net/ Refractions Research]
* [http://www.gdf-hannover.de/software Mandriva and SuSe RPMs] -- maintained by GDF Hannover

== RHEL/CentOS/Scientific Linux ==
See [[Enterprise Linux GIS]]

= Old Technical Notes =
* I think building on the existing [[http://www.maptools.org/fgs/index.phtml?page=home.html FGS]] infrastructure Linux (and possibly other Unix platforms) is attractive. See [[FGSDevNotes]].
* I think the existing MS4W package could potentially be a base for windows distribution.
* William Kyngesburye has done a great deal of work producing MacOS X framework-style packages of GDAL, MapServer, GRASS etc for MacOS X ( http://www.kyngchaos.com/ ).
* GDF Hannover has build RPMs for various Linux distros: http://www.gdf-hannover.de/software This could be a starting point
* Osaka City University has built RPMs for Mandriva Linux distros: http://wgrass.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/foss4g/downloads This could be a starting point too
* Stephan Holl/GDF has written a GUI installer for QGIS0.8 with winGRASS-native integrated (MS-Windows).

= References =
* [[Binary Package Listing]] - an attempt to make a single page pointing to all the currently available binary (and source) packages for each project
* [[Binary Stack Platforms]] - a list of a few platforms where stacks are already (or could) be built upon
[[Category: Software Stack]]
[[Category: Live-demo]]

Live GIS Disc Testing

2010-03-13T17:09:24Z

Wiki-Aboudreault: /* mapserver */

New York Code Sprint 2010 Agenda

2010-02-12T19:07:15Z

Wiki-Aboudreault: /* MapServer */

== Theme ==

[[New York Code Sprint 2010]] : '''Making things work together better...'''

Interoperability makes all the pieces more valuable. With multiple applications represented, this is a great time to fix nagging interoperation issues!

== MapServer ==

* ...
* KML Mapserver, merge David Kana's soc work into trunk - Mike Smith, Thomas B., Y Assefa
* XML Mapfile format - Mike Smith
* rendering plugins:
** migrate AGG rendering, implementations for legend and scalebar, hatch symbology - Steve L, Thomas B.
** migrate raster layer handling, but FrankW won't be here
* object references RFC and implementation (e.g. sharing style or label objects) - Steve L.
* buffer geotransform implementation - Steve L.
* bug squashing party - Daniel M.
* SVG Symbols support (what to do with the outcome of this GSoC project?) - Daniel M, Y Assefa.
* see if we could make any progress towards a [http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/wiki/HidingLayersInOGCWebServices mechanism to show/hide layers in OGC services] - Daniel M.
* one pass query and OGC filter query (ticket: #3305) - Y Assefa
* GSoC project ideas ([http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/soc/2010-February/000884.html applications will be due March 8-12, 2010]) - Daniel M.
* Improvement of the label angle follow algorithm ([http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/2221 ticket 2221]) - Alan B.

== PostGIS ==

* ...
* http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/wiki/DevelopmentDiscussion
* lwgeom API discussion, naming conventions, new functions needed
* lwgeom move to GBOX
* srid = 0 becomes new non-srid
* move LRS functions from ./postgis to ./liblwgeom
* 3d object discussions

== OpenLayers ==

* ...

== libLAS ==

* see if there's anything I can do to help out on the Isenberg front (mpg)

== Geoserver ==

* ...

== GEOS ==

* ...

== Proj4 ==

* ...

== GDAL ==

* evaluate feature set of NITF driver (mpg)
* think about JPEG XR a bit (mpg)
* understand the 3-band-at-once fix for MrSID (et al) driver (mpg)

== GRASS ==

* fix r.in.gdal : subdataset handling (GDAL [http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/486 #486], GRASS [http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/798 #798])

[[Category: Code Sprints]]

Trac

2009-12-10T16:59:17Z

Wiki-Aboudreault: /* Creating a trac instance */

= Summary =

Trac 0.10.3 is running at http://trac.osgeo.org/ (the primary Peer1 host).

* [http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracGuide Trac Guide]
* All data and configurations live under /var/www/trac
* virtual server configurations are under /etc/httpd/conf.d/trac
* [http://trac.osgeo.org/ Existing Instances]
* Actual python is installed in /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/trac
* Frank Warmerdam and Howard Butler have configuration experience, and can help maintain instances.
* available plugins:
** [http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/TocMacro TOC] - multi page tables of contents.
** MediaWikiMacro - provides media wiki like format support (link? details?)
** [http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/DoxygenPlugin TracDoxygen] - mix doxygen docs into trac interface (needs extra admin support)

= Procedures =

== Local Customizations ==

The file /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/trac/notification.py was substantially modified to support looking up email addresses in LDAP, and will need to be re-adjusted if we upgrade to a new version of Trac.

* http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/39

== Creating a trac instance ==

$ sudo createdb -U postgres trac_<proj_name>
$ sudo trac-admin /var/www/trac/<proj_name> initenv
$ sudo trac-admin /var/www/trac/<proj_name> permission add <osgeo_userid> TRAC_ADMIN
$ sudo chown -R apache:apache /var/www/trac/<proj_name>

* Make sure to set the db connection to postgres://postgres@/trac_<proj_name>
* Update /var/www/trac//<proj_name>/conf/trac.ini to enable email notification.
* Add virtual host file /etc/httpd/conf.d/trac/<proj_name>.conf enabling LDAP based authentication.
* Logo can be referenced in /var/www/trac/<proj_name>/conf/trac.ini and placed in /var/www/trac/<proj_name>/htdocs
* modify webadmin.* setting in trac.ini to enabled for web based administration.
* Add to /var/www/trac/index.html
* Add the following to /var/www/trac/robots.txt to avoid walking through ticket attachments or svn.

Disallow: /<proj_name>/browser
Disallow: /<proj_name>/log
Disallow: /<proj_name>/report
Disallow: /<proj_name>/changeset
Disallow: /<proj_name>/attachment

Recommended Trac permissions:
anonymous BROWSER_VIEW
anonymous CHANGESET_VIEW
anonymous FILE_VIEW
anonymous LOG_VIEW
anonymous MILESTONE_VIEW
anonymous REPORT_SQL_VIEW
anonymous REPORT_VIEW
anonymous ROADMAP_VIEW
anonymous SEARCH_VIEW
anonymous TICKET_VIEW
anonymous TIMELINE_VIEW
anonymous WIKI_VIEW
authenticated TICKET_CHGPROP
authenticated TICKET_CREATE
authenticated TICKET_MODIFY
authenticated WIKI_CREATE
authenticated WIKI_MODIFY
developers DOXYGEN_VIEW
developers MILESTONE_ADMIN
developers REPORT_ADMIN
developers REPORT_CREATE
developers WIKI_ADMIN
warmerdam developers
warmerdam TRAC_ADMIN
...

SQL Compatability Issue with Postgres

You will have to modify the SQL statement of the ''All Ticket by Milestone'' report. This can be done by accessing the trac report page and click the ''Edit report'' button (You need to be an admin of the trac instance). Check the sql statement of another trac instance and replace the one of the new instance.

== Plugins ==

Installed plugins (do in every trac instance, [http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracPlugins installation guide]):

* http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/TocMacro

== Custom fields ==

See http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracTicketsCustomFields

for example, in trac.ini:

[ticket-custom]
platform = select
platform.label = Platform
platform.options = Unspecified|MSWindows 2K|MSWindows XP|MSWindows Vista|MSWindows CygWin|MacOSX|Linux|Other Unix|All
platform.value = Unspecified

cpu = select
cpu.label = CPU
cpu.options = Unspecified|x86-32|x86-64|OSX/PPC|OSX/Intel|Other|All
cpu.value = Unspecified

== Timeline with filename indication ==

[timeline]
changeset_long_messages = false
changeset_show_files = 1
changeset_files_count = 3
default_daysback = 30
ticket_show_details = false

(see for example [http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/timeline here])

== Hotcopy a trac instance ==

$ sudo trac-admin /var/www/html/trac/<proj_name> hotcopy /path/to/copy/trac/to

= Trac Spam =

We have had problems with trac spam when ticket create and ticket modify permissions were set to anonymous (the default). To get around this most (all?) instances have been changed to require authenticated users to do these actions.

But some projects strongly desire to support anonymous ticket creation and modification and at some point this might be viable using image captcha technology to keep out the spammers. A Trac plugin for this is apparently under development, and described at:

http://trac.edgewall.org/browser/sandbox/spam-filter-captcha

= Trac notification forward to project mailing list =

To fwd notifications from trac to e.g. a project developers mailing list, you need to
* set in trac the mailing list address as default (trac Admin section)
* add the trac@osgeo.org address (or trac_osgeo@.., or ...) in Mailman to
** "Privacy options"
*** "Subscription rules"
*** "[Sender filters]"
**** "Non-member filters"
***** "List of non-member addresses whose postings should be automatically accepted."

* As the mail may be addressed to "undisclosed recipients" instead of directly to the list, the messages may be held for moderator approval. To avoid this add "undisclosed recipients" to the list of acceptable aliases at
** "Privacy options"
*** "[Recipient filters]"
**** ''acceptable_aliases''

[[Category:Infrastructure]]

New York Code Sprint 2010

2009-11-16T14:54:56Z

Wiki-Aboudreault: /* Participation */

== Purpose ==

Get together project members to make decisions and tackle larger problems (as done last year at the [[Toronto Code Sprint 2009]]). This code sprint is targeting members of the "C Tribe" (eg, Mapserver, GRASS, GDAL, Proj, PostGIS, MapGuide). Other tribes are welcome to join the sprint, of course, but we hope that "C Tribe" members will give this event special consideration.

== Venue ==

The Open Planning Project and OpenGeo will be hosting the event this year, in a penthouse event room ([http://www.flickr.com/photos/philaestheta/3922525728/in/set-72157622375114194/ pic1], [http://www.flickr.com/photos/92995391@N00/4081335110/ pic2], [http://www.flickr.com/photos/92995391@N00/4080572085/ pic3], [http://www.flickr.com/photos/92995391@N00/4080570151/ pic4]) on the top floor of their offices ([http://maps.google.com/maps?q=148+Lafayette+Street+new+york Map]).

[http://openplans.org/ The Open Planning Project] 
148 Lafayette Street 
New York, New York 
10013, USA 
Telephone: 212.796.4220 

== Timing ==

Duration: Four days (Saturday to Tuesday) from approximately 9am-4pm

Dates: Dates are currently being decided. February and early March are again the candidate times, to provide hopefully the cheapest accommodation options.

== Sponsors ==

We will again be looking for sponsors to support food and fun for the sprinters as they work hard and play hard for four productive days. Each $750 sponsorship will be put towards lunch and dinner costs for the sprinters, and potentially bringing in sprinters who might otherwise be unable to attend.

To sponsor, please contact Paul Ramsey (pramsey at cleverelephant dot ca) directly.

== Hotel ==

We are working on a room block at a hotel near the sprint site, more information as it becomes available.

== Costs ==

Participants should plan for the following costs:

* Travel to New York, variable depending on where you are.
* Accommodation for four nights, $300 to $600 depending on what room you choose and whether you room share.
* Breakfast, dinner and other snacks.
* The sponsorship moneys will be put towards: lunches, dinners (?), travel for some sprinters (?), Saturday night social event (?).

== Communication ==

Please join the mailing list at:

http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/tosprint

== Participation ==

We are planning for attendance of 20-40. Please add your name and the projects you are hoping to sprint on, if you have a strong intention to attend.

* [[User:pwramsey3|Paul Ramsey]] (PostGIS, Mapserver, Proj)
* Frank Warmerdam (MapServer, GDAL, Proj)
* [[User:SchuylerErle|Schuyler Erle]]
* [[User:jmckenna|Jeff McKenna]] (MapServer)
* [[User:mpg|Michael P. Gerlek (or someone like me)]] (liblas, anything touching MrSID, other stuff tbd)
* Steve Lime (MapServer)
* [[User:msmitherdc|Michael Smith]] (Mapserver)
* [[User:pnaciona|Perry Nacionales]] (MapServer)
* [[User:Dmorissette|Daniel Morissette]] (MapServer)
* [[User:aboudreault|Alan Boudreault]] (MapServer)

== Room Share ==

If you would like to room share,

# Reserve a room at the hotel, choosing a type with more than one bed.
# Put your name in this section, indicating the amount of space in your room.

Put your names below:

* Schuyler Erle (lives in Brooklyn, can host 1 or 2 guests)
* example entry: B has a triple room, needs two roommates.

== Individual Preparation ==

* Bring your own computer
* Install subversion and the compiler tools, and come with a working development environment if possible.

== FAQ ==

* Is the New York Code Sprint just a coding event?
** Yes, a coding and documentation event. It is a working session for people who are already participants in open source projects.
* Will it be possible to present new projects during this event?
** No, this is not a presentation-oriented event. People will get together in small groups and work on areas of mutual interest within their projects.

== Social Events ==

* To be determined

== Getting to the Sprint ==

=== From Newark International ===

* Follow the signs to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirTrain_Newark Air Train]. Before going up the escalator, buy a ticket to New York, Penn Station at one of the machines.
* Take the Air Train to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newark_Liberty_International_Airport_(NJT_station) rail station] at the end, if you forgot to buy your rail ticket, you have another opportunity here (usually with a lineup).
* Catch a train to Penn Station (usually at platform 1/2), check the board.
* At Penn Station,
** leave the station and grab a taxi, or,
** leave the station and walk to 34th and 6th to pick up yellow line ((N) (Q) (R) and (W) trains) downtown to Canal St Station, walk from there, or,
** follow the signs in Penn to the blue line ((A) and (C) trains) and ride downtown to Canal St Station, walk from there.

=== From JFK ===

* Follow the signs to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirTrain_JFK AirTrain].
* Take the AirTrain to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica_(LIRR_station) Jamaica Station]
* Transfer to the [http://www.mta.info/lirr/html/ttn/pennstat.htm LIRR] (Long Island Railroad) to Penn Station
* At Penn Station,
** leave the station and grab a taxi, or,
** leave the station and walk to 34th and 6th to pick up yellow line ((N) (Q) (R) and (W) trains) downtown to Canal St Station, walk from there, or,
** follow the signs in Penn to the blue line ((A) and (C) trains) and ride downtown to Canal St Station, walk from there.

[[Category:Code Sprints]]
[[Category:Events]]

Toronto Code Sprint 2009

2009-02-01T14:10:34Z

Wiki-Aboudreault: /* Participation */

== Purpose ==

Get together project members to make decisions and tackle larger problems, see the [[Toronto Code Sprint 2009 Agenda]]. We have chosen a mid-North American location because this code sprint is targeting members of the "C Tribe" (eg, Mapserver, GRASS, GDAL, Proj, PostGIS, MapGuide) and many members of the "C Tribe" are clustered in the area. Toronto is also a major travel hub, for sprinters traveling from afar. Other tribes are welcome to join the sprint, of course, but we hope that "C Tribe" members will give this event special consideration.

== Sponsors ==

We have received support from five sponsors, each providing a $500 sponsorship that will be put towards venue, internet and lunch costs.

Thanks to our sponsors!

* [http://www.greenwoodmap.com/ Rich Greenwood]
* [http://www.osgis.nl/index_en.htm OSGIS.nl]
* [http://www.coordinatesolutions.com Coordinate Solutions]
* [http://www.lizardtech.com/ LizardTech]
* [http://www.sjgeophysics.com/ SJ Geophysics]

The event budget is available [http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=plI7bw56S6qHPAj9OEsIMaQ here]. Any surplus at the end of the event will be turned over to OSGeo.

== Timing ==

When: Saturday March 7 - Tuesday March 10, 2009.

Duration: Four days from approximately 9am-4pm

== Venue ==

[http://www.bondplace.ca/ Bond Place Hotel] 
65 Dundas Street East 
Toronto, Ontario 
M5B 2G8 
Canada 
Telephone: +01 416 362 6061 
Toll Free: 1 800 268 9390 
Fax: +01 416 360 6406 

[http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=bond+place+hotel&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=46.898798,78.398437&ie=UTF8&ei=uSc9SZaJJImsNou69e0I&cd=1&cid=43656195,-79378473,14991973577179198590&li=lmd&ll=43.657254,-79.378452&spn=0.042102,0.076561&z=14&iwloc=A Map]

When reserving, please specify "OSGeo" as the block name. There are 15 rooms under block name "OSGeo" or booking #12896. '''The block rate is $79/night.'''

Booking code "TEN" on the web site has an even lower rate ($75) than our block. There are a limited number of these internet specials.

== Costs ==

Participants should plan for the following costs:

* Travel to Toronto, variable depending on where you are.
* Accommodation for four nights, $160 to $400 depending on what room you choose and whether you room share.
* Meals. Dinners at least, lunches and coffee are covered by sponsors.

== Communication ==

Please join the mailing list at:

http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/tosprint

== Participation ==

We are planning for attendance of 20-40. Please add your name and the projects you are hoping to sprint on, if you have a strong intention to attend.

* [[User:pwramsey3|Paul Ramsey]] (PostGIS, Mapserver, Proj) '''attendance confirmed'''
* [[User:Tomkralidis|Tom Kralidis]] (MapServer, Mapbuilder) '''attendance confirmed'''
* Frank Warmerdam (GDAL/OGR, PROJ.4, MapServer, QGIS, OSGeo4W) '''attendance confirmed'''
* [[User:tbonfort|Thomas Bonfort]] (MapServer) '''attendance confirmed'''
* Howard Butler (MapServer, GeoDjango, GDAL, CS-Map, spatialreference.org) '''attendance confirmed'''
* [[User:jmckenna|Jeff McKenna]] (MapServer docs, MS4W) '''attendance confirmed''' (booked someone's couch)
* Steve Lime (MapServer) '''attendance confirmed'''
* [[User:dmorissette|Daniel Morissette]] (MapServer, GDAL/OGR)
* [[User:assefa|Yewondwossen Assefa]] (MapServer) '''attendance confirmed'''
* [[User:Aross|Andrew Ross (or someone else from Ingres)]] (GEOS, GDAL/OGR, Proj.4, CS-Map)
* [[User:Cthibert|Chuck Thibert]] (GEOS)
* [[User:mpg|Michael P. Gerlek]] (GDAL & liblas) '''attendance confirmed'''
* [[User:paragon|Leo Hsu and Regina Obe]] (PostGIS, GEOS, Mapserver) '''Can attend Saturday only'''
* [[User:olivier.courtin|Olivier Courtin]] (PostGIS, TinyOWS) '''attendance confirmed'''
* Stefan Steiniger (OpenJUMP, I know it's a Java project... but it would be a reason to visit Toronto, so let's see ;)
* Mark Cave-Ayland (PostGIS)
* [[User:JulienSam|Julien-Samuel Lacroix]] (MapServer)
* [[User:pnaciona|Perry Nacionales]] (MapServer docs) '''attendance confirmed'''
* [[User:pierre|Pierre Racine]] ([http://postgis.refractions.net/support/wiki/index.php?WKTRasterHomePage PostGIS WKT Raster]) '''attendance confirmed'''
* [[User:jimk|Jim Klassen]] (Mapserver, GeoMOOSE) '''attendance confirmed'''
* Dan Little (Mapserver, OpenLayers, GeoMOOSE) '''attendance confirmed'''
* Alan Boudreault (MapServer, GDAL/OGR)

== Planning ==

* Extra items that would be useful (please sign up if you can bring)
** Wireless hub
** Wireless hub
** Projector
** Screen
** [http://www.pace.edu/emplibrary/EMC%20Flip%20Chart.jpg Flip Charts]

== Room Share ==

If you would like to room share,

# Reserve a room at the hotel, choosing a type with more than one bed.
# Put your name in this section, indicating the amount of space in your room.

Put your names below:

* Steve Lime has a double room, needs a roommate.
* example entry: B has a triple room, needs two roommates.

== Individual Preparation ==

* Bring your own computer
* Install subversion and the compiler tools, and come with a working development environment if possible.

== FAQ ==

* Is the Toronto Code Sprint just a coding event?
** Yes, a coding and documentation event. It is a working session for people who are already participants in open source projects.
* Will it be possible to present new projects during this event?
** No, this is not a presentation-oriented event. People will get together in small groups and work on areas of mutual interest within their projects.

[[Category:Code Sprints]]
[[Category:Events]]

Reflexions Quebec

2008-05-13T16:08:07Z

Wiki-Aboudreault: /* Objectif de cette page */

== Objectif de cette page ==
Cette page vise à permettre la communication et l'échange des idées relatives à la structuration du réseau de géomatique libre et open source au Québec. Une réflexion dans ce sens a été en effet initiée par un certain nombre d'acteurs de la communauté au Québec (Nicolas Gignac, [[User:Tbadard | Thierry Badard]], Daniel Morissette, ...) et certaines discussions et rencontres d'individu à individu ont déjà eu lieu. Une réunion regroupant les personnes ayant manifesté leur intérêt relativement à la structuration du réseau est prévue dans le cadre du colloque [http://www.cgq.qc.ca/colloque/colloque.htm Vision Géomatique 2008] qui se tiendra les 4 et 5 juin 2008 à Ville de Saguenay.

Liste des personnes avec leurs affiliations qui assisteront à cette réunion (à compléter) :

* [[User:Tbadard | Thierry Badard]], OSGeo Conference Committee & Francophone Local chapter, Université Laval (CRG), Québec
* Nicolas Gignac, Sécurité Publique du Québec
* [[User:Dmorissette | Daniel Morissette]], Projet MapServer, Mapgears
* Martin Fafard, Geoprojection.com
* Martin Ouellet, Geocontact.org
* Frédérick Turcotte, Financière agricole du Québec
* Patrice Fradette, Centre de Géomatque du Québec
* Anick Patry, Ministère des Ressources Naturelles et de la Faune du Québec
* Danick Venne, Géomapgis.ca
* Olivier Bégin, Sûreté du Québec
* Luc Lessard, Sécurité Publique du Québec
* Frédéric Hubert, Université Laval (CRG), Québec
* Florian Créac'hcadec, Agence de bassin versant de la rivière du Nord (Abrinord), Saint-Jérôme
* Lesley MacKenzie, Consortech, Brossard
* Steve Toutant, INSPQ, Québec
* [[User:JulienSam | Julien-Samuel Lacroix]], Mapgears
* Alan Boudreault, Mapgears
* ...

Liste des personnes ayant manifesté leur intérêt mais qui ne pourront y assister (à compléter) :

* Marc Bourguignon, Ministère de la Santé et des Services Sociaux du Québec
* Mickael Germain, Université de Sherbrooke
* Karl Gingras, Commission de la Protection du Territoire Agricole du Québec
* Romain Métivier, Ministère des Ressources Naturelles et de la Faune du Québec
* [[User:yjacolin | Yves Jacolin]], OSGeo-fr
* Tahir Tamba, Montréal
* Alain Hotte, CMM, Montréal
* [[User:Aleroux | Alexandre Leroux]], Slashgeo.org et Environnement Canada, Montréal
* Yewondwossen Assefa, DM Solutions, Ottawa
* Sylvie Daniel, Université Laval (CRG), Québec
* ...

== En préparation de la réunion du 4 juin 2008 ... ==

Afin de voir ce qui se fait en géomatique libre et open source au Québec et évaluer les besoins de la communauté, il est demandé aux participants de la réunion du 4 juin ainsi qu'à toute personne interessée au Québec de compléter le tableau ci-après et comportant les rubriques suivantes :

# Les outils OSGeo que vous avez utilisés ? ''Exemple : MapServer, FWTools''
# L'expertise que vous avez accumulée ? ''Exemple : diffusion web, normes OGC, optimisation de MapServer avec Oracle''
# Applications utilisées et/ou développées ? ''Exemple : sécurité civile, interface simple de visualisation, intégration des outils avec des solutions propriétaires (Oracle, ESRI)''
# Vos besoins urgents en géomatique libre ? ''Exemple : partager des ressources, documentation en français, formation personnalisée, étendre le réseau de partenaires gouvernementaux en OSGeo, laboratoire de géomatique libre''
# Vos problèmes rencontrés ? ''Exemple : méconnaissance des bénéfices, obstacle administratif ou informatique''
# Vos ressources qui pourraient être disponibles pour la communauté de l'OSGeo au Québec ? ''Exemple : serveur de données, expertise avec MapServer''

Ces éléments permettront de détailler chacune de nos expériences au Québec et servira de base de discussions.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! organisation / domaine !! outils !! expertise !! applications !! besoins !! problèmes !! ressources
|-
| Sécurité Publique (Nicolas Gignac) || MapServer, Gaia, GeoServer, FWTools, SIG, Oracle || WMS, Oracle, MapServer || Sécurité publique (civile) avec Chameleon, OpenLayers, pmapper, Google || partager des ressources, étendre le réseau de partenaires gouvernementaux en OSGeo, laboratoire de géomatique libre, dynamiser la communauté OSGeo au Québec (facteur de compétitivité), réaliser des événements OSGeo au Qc || obstacle administratif dans la fonction publique, méconnaissance des gestionnaires de solutions matures en géomatique libre || Optimisation de MapServer, contact en OSGeo, serveur d’image, télédétection, GeoServer
|-
| Génie conseil (Yves Moisan) || MapServer, FWTools, outils SIG Python || web || [http://www.r-project.org R], [http://www.ggobi.org Ggobi] || données géographiques de nature municipale et environnementale || || Quelques réflexions personnelles sont disponibles sur [http://www.openplans.org/projects/cogeliq/project-home OpenPlans]. L'information qui s'y trouve sera potentiellement intégrée à la présente page.
|-
| Santé/Services Sociaux (Marc Bourgignon) || Aucun || Diffusion web, Conception d'outils de diffusion, Traitement de données || Géoclip serveur dans lequel sera intégré un module client et serveur pour WMS et GDAS || À moyen terme(1-2 ans): étendre le réseau de partenaires gouvernementaux en OSGeo ||Mécanisme de subvention lourd, Peu de données disponibles à l'échelle d'une ville et dans les domaines qui nous inréresses: Surveillance de la santé, Sécurité civile, Conditions climatiques, Qualité de l'environnement ||BD sur les urgences et autres
|}

[[Category: Quebec]]
[[Category: Local chapter francophone]]

Reflexions Quebec

2008-05-13T16:06:40Z

Wiki-Aboudreault: /* Objectif de cette page */

== Objectif de cette page ==
Cette page vise à permettre la communication et l'échange des idées relatives à la structuration du réseau de géomatique libre et open source au Québec. Une réflexion dans ce sens a été en effet initiée par un certain nombre d'acteurs de la communauté au Québec (Nicolas Gignac, [[User:Tbadard | Thierry Badard]], Daniel Morissette, ...) et certaines discussions et rencontres d'individu à individu ont déjà eu lieu. Une réunion regroupant les personnes ayant manifesté leur intérêt relativement à la structuration du réseau est prévue dans le cadre du colloque [http://www.cgq.qc.ca/colloque/colloque.htm Vision Géomatique 2008] qui se tiendra les 4 et 5 juin 2008 à Ville de Saguenay.

Liste des personnes avec leurs affiliations qui assisteront à cette réunion (à compléter) :

* [[User:Tbadard | Thierry Badard]], OSGeo Conference Committee & Francophone Local chapter, Université Laval (CRG), Québec
* Nicolas Gignac, Sécurité Publique du Québec
* [[User:Dmorissette | Daniel Morissette]], Projet MapServer, Mapgears
* Martin Fafard, Geoprojection.com
* Martin Ouellet, Geocontact.org
* Frédérick Turcotte, Financière agricole du Québec
* Patrice Fradette, Centre de Géomatque du Québec
* Anick Patry, Ministère des Ressources Naturelles et de la Faune du Québec
* Danick Venne, Géomapgis.ca
* Olivier Bégin, Sûreté du Québec
* Luc Lessard, Sécurité Publique du Québec
* Frédéric Hubert, Université Laval (CRG), Québec
* Florian Créac'hcadec, Agence de bassin versant de la rivière du Nord (Abrinord), Saint-Jérôme
* Lesley MacKenzie, Consortech, Brossard
* Steve Toutant, INSPQ, Québec
* [[User:JulienSam | Julien-Samuel Lacroix]], Mapgears
* [[User:aboudreault | Alan Boudreault]], Mapgears
* ...

Liste des personnes ayant manifesté leur intérêt mais qui ne pourront y assister (à compléter) :

* Marc Bourguignon, Ministère de la Santé et des Services Sociaux du Québec
* Mickael Germain, Université de Sherbrooke
* Karl Gingras, Commission de la Protection du Territoire Agricole du Québec
* Romain Métivier, Ministère des Ressources Naturelles et de la Faune du Québec
* [[User:yjacolin | Yves Jacolin]], OSGeo-fr
* Tahir Tamba, Montréal
* Alain Hotte, CMM, Montréal
* [[User:Aleroux | Alexandre Leroux]], Slashgeo.org et Environnement Canada, Montréal
* Yewondwossen Assefa, DM Solutions, Ottawa
* Sylvie Daniel, Université Laval (CRG), Québec
* ...

== En préparation de la réunion du 4 juin 2008 ... ==

Afin de voir ce qui se fait en géomatique libre et open source au Québec et évaluer les besoins de la communauté, il est demandé aux participants de la réunion du 4 juin ainsi qu'à toute personne interessée au Québec de compléter le tableau ci-après et comportant les rubriques suivantes :

# Les outils OSGeo que vous avez utilisés ? ''Exemple : MapServer, FWTools''
# L'expertise que vous avez accumulée ? ''Exemple : diffusion web, normes OGC, optimisation de MapServer avec Oracle''
# Applications utilisées et/ou développées ? ''Exemple : sécurité civile, interface simple de visualisation, intégration des outils avec des solutions propriétaires (Oracle, ESRI)''
# Vos besoins urgents en géomatique libre ? ''Exemple : partager des ressources, documentation en français, formation personnalisée, étendre le réseau de partenaires gouvernementaux en OSGeo, laboratoire de géomatique libre''
# Vos problèmes rencontrés ? ''Exemple : méconnaissance des bénéfices, obstacle administratif ou informatique''
# Vos ressources qui pourraient être disponibles pour la communauté de l'OSGeo au Québec ? ''Exemple : serveur de données, expertise avec MapServer''

Ces éléments permettront de détailler chacune de nos expériences au Québec et servira de base de discussions.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! organisation / domaine !! outils !! expertise !! applications !! besoins !! problèmes !! ressources
|-
| Sécurité Publique (Nicolas Gignac) || MapServer, Gaia, GeoServer, FWTools, SIG, Oracle || WMS, Oracle, MapServer || Sécurité publique (civile) avec Chameleon, OpenLayers, pmapper, Google || partager des ressources, étendre le réseau de partenaires gouvernementaux en OSGeo, laboratoire de géomatique libre, dynamiser la communauté OSGeo au Québec (facteur de compétitivité), réaliser des événements OSGeo au Qc || obstacle administratif dans la fonction publique, méconnaissance des gestionnaires de solutions matures en géomatique libre || Optimisation de MapServer, contact en OSGeo, serveur d’image, télédétection, GeoServer
|-
| Génie conseil (Yves Moisan) || MapServer, FWTools, outils SIG Python || web || [http://www.r-project.org R], [http://www.ggobi.org Ggobi] || données géographiques de nature municipale et environnementale || || Quelques réflexions personnelles sont disponibles sur [http://www.openplans.org/projects/cogeliq/project-home OpenPlans]. L'information qui s'y trouve sera potentiellement intégrée à la présente page.
|-
| Santé/Services Sociaux (Marc Bourgignon) || Aucun || Diffusion web, Conception d'outils de diffusion, Traitement de données || Géoclip serveur dans lequel sera intégré un module client et serveur pour WMS et GDAS || À moyen terme(1-2 ans): étendre le réseau de partenaires gouvernementaux en OSGeo ||Mécanisme de subvention lourd, Peu de données disponibles à l'échelle d'une ville et dans les domaines qui nous inréresses: Surveillance de la santé, Sécurité civile, Conditions climatiques, Qualité de l'environnement ||BD sur les urgences et autres
|}

[[Category: Quebec]]
[[Category: Local chapter francophone]]