OSGeo - User contributions [en]

COVID-19 FOSS initiatives

2020-05-15T13:37:14Z

Wiki-Blammo: Added link to Covid-19 mapping effort by SharedGeo

== Introduction==
Our generation is facing one of the most difficult challenges of its time with consequences that will unravel for a long time, in all aspects of our existence. With much of our world in lockdown, our attention turns towards the spread and evolution of the SARS-CoV-2 virus around the globe. Given the geospatial dimension of the threat, some of the OSGeo community members might be using their knowledge and experience to design and implement various applications to track, visualise or predict the COVID-19 pandemic evolution. 
This wiki page is dedicated to collect COVID-19 related initiatives developed using FOSS solutions. We invite anyone involved in such an initiative or has knowledge of one, to acknowledge their efforts by including it in this list.

== COVID-19 FOSS initiatives ==
===[https://covid19.geo-spatial.org Coronavirus COVID-19 Romania]===
==== Romania, geo-spatial.org (Romanian OSGeo Local Chapter) ====
As soon as Romania registered its first official COVID-19 patient on February 26, the geo-spatial.org volunteers have collaboratively begun to work on an application based on the Romanian official data to disseminate to the public the evolution of the pandemic. The application presents visualizations related to the dimensions of the outbreak in Romania - confirmed cases, recovered and deaths - together with a series of statistics, as well as other relevant aspects covering quarantine and applied restrictions, hospital infrastructure, marginalised communities, border traffic. Due to the un-structured and often modified manner in which the Romanian authorities are sharing COVID-19 information, a significant part of the team's efforts are invested into collecting more detailed information from the local and national media, match it to the official reporting, structure and deliver it in a more relevant manner. The collected, cleaned data can be accessed as JSON format using a dedicate API (the API is momentarily static, nevertheless, we will analyse the possibility of filter set-ups for future releases):
* https://covid19.geo-spatial.org/api/dashboard/getCasesByCounty
* https://covid19.geo-spatial.org/api/dashboard/getDeadCasesByCounty
* https://covid19.geo-spatial.org/api/dashboard/getHealthCasesByCounty
* https://covid19.geo-spatial.org/api/dashboard/getDailyCaseReport
* https://covid19.geo-spatial.org/api/statistics/getCaseRelation
* https://covid19.geo-spatial.org/api/dashboard/getPercentageByGender
* https://covid19.geo-spatial.org/api/dashboard/getCasesByAgeGroup
* https://covid19.geo-spatial.org/api/dashboard/getDailyCases

====FOSS employed ====
The application is build using Node.js, PostgreSQL+PostGIS, R on the backend side, OpenLayers, Angular, charts.js, Plotly and D3.js for the frontend side and it is available under un MIT license on [https://github.com/geospatialorg/covid19 Github]. 

The infrastructure is supported by [http://www.sage.ieat.ro/ SAGE group] from University of West Timișoara and CARTO, through their [https://carto.com/grants/#form grant program].

===[https://covid19.geo-spatial.org U. S. Spread of COVID-19 Map and Analytics]===
==== U. S. A. - SharedGeo.org====
In support of nationwide public service efforts to help individuals and organizations understand the rapidly expanding nature of the COVID-19 virus crisis in the U.S., [https://www.sharedgeo.org SharedGeo.org] created a series of maps and related analytics which includes a by-county time-lapse view of the spread. 

To view and learn more, go to [https://www.sharedgeo.org SharedGeo's] U.S. Spread of COVID-19 Maps and Analytics website.
*https://www.sharedgeo.org/COVID-19/
*https://uscovid-19map.org/

OSGeo Community Sprint 2019

2019-05-10T16:09:59Z

Wiki-Blammo: /* Participants */

Annual Community Sprint comes to Minnesota in 2019!

Powered by [[Image:Osgeo-logo.png|250px|link=https://www.osgeo.org]]

== Purpose ==

Bring together project members to make decisions and tackle larger geospatial
problems as in previous years:
* [[OSGeo Code Sprint 2018|Bonn]] (2018)
* [[Daytona Beach Code Sprint 2017|Daytona_Beach]] (2017)
* [[Paris Code Sprint 2016|Paris]] (2016)
* [[Philadelphia Code Sprint 2015|Philadelphia]] (2015)
* [[Vienna Code Sprint 2014|Vienna]] (2014)
* [[Boston Code Sprint 2013|Boston]] (2013)
* [[IslandWood Code Sprint 2012|Island Wood (Seattle)]] (2012)
* [[Montreal Code Sprint 2011|Montreal]] (2011)
* [[New York Code Sprint 2010|New York City]] (2010)
* [[Toronto Code Sprint 2009|Toronto]] (2009)

== Sponsors ==

'''Sponsoring ''' Find out about [[OSGeo_Code_Sprint_2019#Sponsoring |Sponsoring the Event]].

; <big>Venue Sponsor</big>
{| border=0 cellspacing=15 cellpadding=10
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[[File:Umn_logo.png|131px|University of Minnesota|link=https://twin-cities.umn.edu/]]
 
https://twin-cities.umn.edu/

|}

; <big>Gold Sponsors</big>
{| border=0 cellspacing=15 cellpadding=10

||
[[File:GC-Group logo.png|220px|GeoCue|link=http://www.geocue.com/]]
 
http://www.geocue.com/

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[[File:safe-software-logo.png|220px|Safe Software|link=https://www.safe.com/]]
 
https://www.safe.com/
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[[File:RIEGL.png|310px|RIEGL|link=http://www.riegl.com/]]
 
http://www.riegl.com/
|}

; <big>Silver Sponsors</big>
{| border=0 cellspacing=15 cellpadding=10
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[[File:Hobulogo.png|160px|Hobu|link=https://hobu.co/]]
 
https://hobu.co/
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[[File:Logo-EOX.png|160px|EOX IT Services GmbH|link=http://eox.at]]
 
[http://eox.at http://eox.at]
||
[[Image:Logo-TYDAC.png|160px|Tydac|link=http://www.tydac.ch/]]
 
[http://www.tydac.ch/ http://www.tydac.ch/]
||
[[File:Crunchydata.png|160px|CrunchyData||link=http://www.crunchydata.com/]]
 
[http://www.crunchydata.com/ http://www.crunchydata.com/]
|}

; <big>Bronze Sponsors</big>
{| border=0 cellspacing=15 cellpadding=10
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[[File:CoordinateSolutions_TRANS.png|210px|link=http://www.coordinatesolutions.com/]]
 
[http://www.coordinatesolutions.com/ http://www.coordinatesolutions.com/]
||
[[File:sharedgeo_logo.png|170px|link=https://www.sharedgeo.org/]]
 
[https://www.sharedgeo.org/ https://www.sharedgeo.org/]
||
[[File:Greenwood_logo.png|210px|link=https://greenwoodmap.com/]]
 
[https://greenwoodmap.com/ https://greenwoodmap.com/]
|}
{| border=0 cellspacing=15 cellpadding=10
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[[File:Azavea-logo.png|190px|link=https://www.azavea.com/]]
 
[https://www.azavea.com/ https://www.azavea.com/]
||
[[File:Bh-logo.jpg|320px|link=https://www.bhinc.com/]]
 
[https://www.bhinc.com/ https://www.bhinc.com/]
||
[[File:Logo-extensis.png|190px|link=https://www.extensis.com/]]
 
[https://www.extensis.com/ https://www.extensis.com/]
|}

== Dates and Times ==

* Date: May 14-17 (4 days)
* Time: 8:30am to 4:30pm each day

== Other Events from January to May 2019 ==

* ''OSGeo's 13th birthday Feb 4''
* ''[http://2019.foss4g-na.org/ FOSS4G-NA 2019], April 16-19 in San Diego, CA''
* ''please add your event''

== Location ==

* University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

=== Coding Venue ===
* Wilson Research Collaboration Studio: https://www.lib.umn.edu/wilsonstudio
* Wilson Library, West Bank
* [https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/44.97095/-93.24392| OpenStreetMap]

=== Parking ===
* We recommend the 21st Avenue ramp: https://campusmaps.umn.edu/twenty-first-avenue-ramp

=== Accommodations ===
Several hotels are within walking distance of the venue. Here are a few options:
{|border=1
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| '''Hotel Name''' || '''Price Range (USD)''' || '''Distance''' || '''Notes'''
|-
| [https://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/mspdc-courtyard-minneapolis-downtown/?scid=bb1a189a-fec3-4d19-a255-54ba596febe2 Courtyard by Marriott Minneapolis] || 175$+ || .5 mile || Walking distance to Wilson Library, University Campus
|-
| [https://www.graduatehotels.com/minneapolis/ Graduate Minneapolis] || 185$+ || 1.9 miles || On University Campus and Light Rail transportation
|-
| [https://hamptoninn3.hilton.com/en/hotels/minnesota/hampton-inn-and-suites-minneapolis-university-area-MSPUAHX/index.html Hampton Inn & Suites Minneapolis] || 152$+ || 2.2 miles || On Light Rail transportation
|}

=== How to get there ===

'''Flights''' - [https://www.mspairport.com/flights-and-airlines Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP)]

Sixteen commercial passenger airlines service the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP); 11 are located at Terminal 1 - Lindbergh and 5 are located at the Terminal 2 - Humphrey.

'''Light Rail Transit''' - [https://www.mspairport.com/directions/ground-transportation/light-rail-transit Light rail transit (LRT)] trains stop at both Terminal 1-Lindbergh and Terminal 2-Humphrey and connect travelers to 17 other destinations, including downtown Minneapolis to the north and Mall of America to the south.

[https://www.metrotransit.org/blue-line-map Metro Transit Map of LRT Stations] shows the light rail stops; take the Blue Line to the Cedar-Riverside stop for the Wilson Library, University of Minnesota venue.

== Schedule ==
* breakfast each day around 8:30am
* lunch every day around 12:00pm

== Social Events ==
* Monday (5/13) - Welcome Gathering at [http://www.townhallbrewery.com/ Town Hall Brewery] (7pm)
* Tuesday (5/14) - Pizza at [http://surlybrewing.com/ Surly Brewing] (5:30pm)
* Wednesday (5/15) - Free Portrait Photos (10:00am - 3:00pm) by [https://www.billadams.photo/ Bill Adams Photography]
* Wednesday (5/15) - Food, beverages and lawn bowling at [https://britspub.com/ Brits Pub] (5:30pm, lawn bowling from 7-9pm)
* Thursday (5/16) - Appetizers and beverages with MN GIS/LIS at [http://republicmn.com/ Republic] (5:30pm)

== Project Plans ==
(i.e what do you wish/want/plan to work on during the sprint ?)

* '''MapServer''':
** MapServer 8.0 Roadmap
** new Proj.4 API support
* '''GRASS GIS''':
** re-working PDAL connection
** improving OpenDroneMap/WebODM connection
** finalizing Python 3 support
** Git and GitHub best practices
* '''pycsw'''
** final bug fixes for 2.4 release
* '''GeoHealthCheck'''
** bug fixes (default WMS 1.3.0 support, add WFS 3.0 support, Python 3)
* '''pygeoapi'''
** WFS 2 proxy, docs, multilingual
* '''pygeometa'''
** bug fixes, release
* '''PDAL''':
** PDAL 2.0 Roadmap
** TileDB streaming support
** ML library discussion
** PCL dependency removal
** PROJ 6 / GDAL 3 migration
* '''ImageN'''
** Initial open source baseline
** Incorporate JAI-EXT operations
* add your project

== Participants ==

Please add your name and the projects you are planning to sprint and note the likeliness of your attendance.

{| border="1" cellpadding="2" class="wikitable sortable"
!width="25"|No
!width="250"|Name
!width="100"|Country
!width="250"|Email
!width="250"|Organisation
!width="250"|Projects
!width="25"|Sun
!width="25"|Mon
!width="25"|Tue
!width="25"|Wed
!width="25"|Thu
!width="25"|Fri
!width="25"|Sat
!width="25"|Sun
!width="60"|Likelihood
!width="30"|Food Restrictions
|-
| 1 ||[[Steve Lime]] || US || steve.lime@state.mn.us || State of Minnesota || MapServer || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || Certain ||
|-
| 2||[[Howard Butler]] || US || howard@hobu.co || Hobu, Inc. || PROJ, GDAL, PDAL || || x || x || x || x || x || x || || Certain ||
|-
| 3||[[Connor Manning]] || US || connor@hobu.co || Hobu, Inc. || Entinwe, PDAL || || x || x || x || x || x || x || || Certain ||
|-
| 4||[[User:jimk|Jim Klassen]] || US || jklassen@sharedgeo.org || SharedGeo || MapServer, GDAL, GeoMoose || || x || x || x || x || x || x || || Certain ||
|-
| 5||[[User:blammo|Bob Basques]] || US || bob.basques@ci.stpaul.mn.us || City of Saint Paul || MapServer, GeoMoose || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || || Certain ||
|-
| 6||[[User:pwramsey3|Paul Ramsey]] || CA || pramsey@cleverelephant.ca || Crunchy Data || PostGIS, GEOS || || || x || x || x || x || || || Certain ||
|-
| 7||[[User:theduckylittle|Dan "Ducky" Little]] || US || theduckylittle@gmail.com || || MapServer, GeoMoose || || x || x || x || x || x || x || || Certain || No pref
|-
| 8||[[User:Dmorissette|Daniel Morissette]] || CA || dmorissette@mapgears.com || Mapgears || MapServer, GDAL/OGR || || x || x || x || x || x || x || || Certain ||
|-
| 9 ||[[Kari Geurts]] || US || kari.geurts@state.mn.us || State of Minnesota || || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || Certain ||
|-
| 10 ||[[Even Rouault]] || France || even.rouault at spatialys.com || Spatialys || GDAL/OGR, PROJ, Mapserver || || x || x || x || x || x || || || Certain ||
|-
| 11 ||[[Piero Toffanin]] || US || pt at masseranolabs.com || MasseranoLabs || OpenDroneMap || || || x || x || x || x || || || Certain ||
|-
| 12 ||[[User:Schpidi|Stephan Meißl]] || AT || stephan.meissl@eox.at || EOX || MapServer, EOxServer || || x || x || x || x || || || || 50% ||
|-
| 13 ||[[User:normanb|Norman Barker]] || US || norman@tiledb.io || TileDB || GDAL || || || x || x || x || x || || || Certain ||
|-
| 14 ||[[User:kirk|Kirk McKelvey]] || US || kmckelvey@extensis.com || Extensis (was LizardTech) || || || || x || x || x || x || || || Very Likely ||
|-
| 15 ||Martin Davis || CA || martin.davis@crunchydata.ca || Crunchy Data || PostGIS, GEOS || || || x || x || x || x || || || Certain ||
|-
| 16 ||Jody Garnett || CA || jody.garnett@gmail.com || OSGeo || ImageN, JAI-EXT, GeoTools, GeoServer || || || x || x || x || x || || || Certain ||
|-
| 17 ||Andrew Bell || US || andrew@hobu.co || Hobu || || || || x || x || x || x || || || Certain ||
|-
| 18 ||[[User:greenwood|Rich Greenwood]] || US || rich@greenwoodmap.com || Greenwood Mapping, Inc. || || || || x || x || x || x || || || Certain || veg
|-
| 19 ||[[Michael Smith]] || US || michael.smith.erdc@gmail.com || US Army Corps || PDAL,Proj,GDAL,MapServer || || x || x || x || x || x || x || || Remote ||
|-
| 20 ||[[User:Jhughes|Jim Hughes]] || US || jhughes@ccri.com || CCRi || GeoMesa, JTS, GeoTools, GeoServer || || x || x || x || x || x || x || || Certain ||
|-
| 21 ||[[Tom Kralidis]] || CA|| tomkralidis at gmail.com || self || pycsw, OWSLib, pygeoapi, GeoHealthCheck, MapServer, other geopython projects || || x || x || x || x || x || || || Certain ||
|-
| 22 ||[[David Bitner]] || US|| bitner@dbspatial.com || SolSpec || OpenDroneMap, Serverless Geospatial Projects || || x || x || x || x || x || || || Very Likely ||
|-
| 23 ||[[Nathan Casler]] || US|| ncasler@solspec.solutions || SolSpec || OpenDroneMap || || x || x || x || x || x || || || Very Likely ||
|-
| 24 ||[[Dan Baston]] || US|| dbaston@gmail.com || ISciences LLC || GEOS et al || || || x || x || x || x || || || Certain ||
|-
| 25 ||[[Jérôme Boué]] || FR|| jbo-ads at laposte.net || Airbus / Akka || MapServer, MapCache || || x || x || x || x || x || || || Certain ||
|-
| 26 ||[[Dominik Nussbaumer ]] || AT || dnussbaumer@riegl.com || RIEGL || PDAL, PROJ, GDAL || || x || x || x || x || x || || || Certain ||
|-
| 27 || [[User:jjesus|Jorge de Jesus ]] || NL || jorge.dejesus@geocat.net || GeoCat B.V || Geohealthcheck, pygeapi || || || || x || x || || || || Remotely ||
|-
| 28 || Paul van Genuchten || NL || paul.vangenuchten@geocat.net || GeoCat B.V || Geonetwork, Geohealthcheck, pygeoapi || || || || x || x || || || || Remotely ||
|-
| 29 || Stephen Mather || US || mather.stephen@gmail.com || Cleveland Metroparks || OpenDroneMap, PDAL, PostGIS || ||x ||x || x || || || || || Very Very Likely || Many
|-
| 30 || India Johnson || US || itj3@case.edu || Cleveland Metroparks || OpenDroneMap, PDAL, PostGIS || ||x ||x || x || || || || || Very Very Likely ||
|-
| 31||[[Mateusz Loskot]] || PL/UK || mateusz@loskot.net || Cadcorp, UK || GDAL, GEOS, PDAL, PostGIS || || x || x || x || x || x || || || Certain || veg pref
|-
| 32|| [[User:Wenzeslaus|Vaclav (Vashek) Petras]]|| US/CZ || wenzeslaus@gmail.com || NC State University || GRASS GIS || || || x || x || x || x || || || Certain ||
|-
| 33|| [[User:Annakrat|Anna Petrasova]] || US/CZ || kratochanna@gmail.com || NC State University || GRASS GIS || || || x || x || x || x || || || Certain ||
|-
| 34|| [[User:Jmcclain|James McClain]] || US || jmcclain@azavea.com || Azavea || GDAL, PDAL || || || x || x || x || || || || 95% ||
|-
| 35|| [[User:Pomadchin|Grigory Pomadchin]] || US/RU || gpomadchin@azavea.com || Azavea || PDAL, PROJ, GDAL || || || x || x || x || || || || 95% ||
|-
| 36|| [[User:Plimkilde|Peter Limkilde Svendsen]] || DK || pelis åt sdfe dot dk || [https://sdfe.dk SDFE] || PDAL, GDAL/OGR, Laspy || || || x || x || x || x || (x) || || Certain ||
|-
| 37 ||[[Will Breitkreutz]] || US || will.l.breitkreutz@gmail.com || US Army Corps || GDAL, OpenDroneMap || || || x || x || x || x || || || 99% ||
|-
| 38|| [[User:Chambbj|Brad Chambers]] || US || brad.chambers@gmail.com || Maxar || PDAL || || x || x || x || x || x || || || Certain ||
|-
| 39|| [[User:Komzpa|Darafei Praliaskouski]] || BY || komzpa@gmail.com || Kontur.io || PostGIS || || x || x || x || x || x || || || Likely || no celery dill parsley
|-
| 40|| [[Nicole Helgeson]] || US || nicole.helgeson@ci.stpaul.mn.us || City of Saint Paul || GeoMoose || || x || x || x || x || x || || || Certain ||
|-

|}

== Communication ==

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

== Costs ==

Participants should plan for the following costs:

* Travel to Minneapolis/St. Paul
* Accommodation for x nights

== Individual preparation ==

* Bring your own laptop
* Bring [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mains_electricity_by_country your power connector adapter] if needed (photo: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:B_plug.jpg]). See also http://www.power-plugs-sockets.com/
* Install Git and compiler tools, and come with a working development environment

== Sponsoring ==

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) has a long tradition of organizing code sprints for developers of Open Source GIS software.
(https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Code_Sprints).

An international community/code sprint for OSGeo will take place May 14-17, 2019.

We expect about 50 developers from all over the world to come from various [https://www.osgeo.org/, OSGeo] projects. Whether desktop application, geospatial library, metadata catalog or web mapping: be sure to find products in the list that you use. The sprint is also an opportunity for your developers to meet with the core developers of the projects, get a deeper insight into the software and participate in the development.

This years' sprint will take place at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities in Minneapolis and will be hosted by [https://research.umn.edu/units/uspatial, U-Spatial] and organized by [https://www.sharedgeo.org/, SharedGeo] and members of the local OSGeo user group (TCMUG).

In addition to the costs of providing the technical infrastructure and space, food and drink for the developers represents the main cost. Morning/afternoon meals and drinks during the day are planned. In addition, we hope to provide several evening meals and social events.

In order to cover these costs we would be overjoyed to accept offers of sponsorship!

What we can offer:
* Your logo on top of the [https://www.osgeo.org/events/OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2019/ community sprint website] as well as on all official documents used during the sprint
* Acknowledgement in all sprint related emails
* Our undying gratitude, which comes in handy when you least expect it (remember that feature you wanted?)

Our sponsorship levels:
* Gold: >= 2500 USD
* Silver: 1500 USD
* Bronze: 750 USD

So...
* get your company talking to the top project developers.
* encourage your GIS developers to take advantage of this opportunity, there is no better opportunity to learn!
* support the software you use - you benefit immediately.

Thank you very much!

Contact: To sponsor, please contact tosprint@lists.osgeo.org directly.

== Event Owner ==
* SharedGeo
* U-Spatial
* [[User:Sdlime|Steve Lime]]
* [[User:Kaguerts|Kari Geurts]]

== Press Release ==

We are looking forward to the next OSGeo Code Sprint!
[[Category:Code Sprints]]
[[Category:C Tribe Code Sprint]]

OSGeo Community Sprint 2019

2018-10-25T23:43:22Z

Wiki-Blammo: /* Participants */

== Purpose ==

Bring together project members to make decisions and tackle larger geospatial
problems as in previous years:
* [[OSGeo Code Sprint 2018|Bonn]] (2018)
* [[Daytona Beach Code Sprint 2017|Daytona_Beach]] (2017)
* [[Paris Code Sprint 2016|Paris]] (2016)
* [[Philadelphia Code Sprint 2015|Philadelphia]] (2015)
* [[Vienna Code Sprint 2014|Vienna]] (2014)
* [[Boston Code Sprint 2013|Boston]] (2013)
* [[IslandWood Code Sprint 2012|Island Wood (Seattle)]] (2012)
* [[Montreal Code Sprint 2011|Montreal]] (2011)
* [[New York Code Sprint 2010|New York City]] (2010)
* [[Toronto Code Sprint 2009|Toronto]] (2009)

== Sponsors ==

'''Sponsoring ''' Find out about [[OSGeo_Code_Sprint_2019#Sponsoring |Sponsoring the Event]].

; Venue Sponsor
{| border=0 cellspacing=15 cellpadding=10
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[[File:Logo-UMN.png|140px|University of Minnesota|link=https://twin-cities.umn.edu/]]
 
https://twin-cities.umn.edu/

|}

;Gold Sponsors

; Silver Sponsors

{| border=0 cellspacing=15 cellpadding=10
||
[[File:Logo-Hobu.png|140px|Hobu|link=https://hobu.co/]]
 
https://hobu.co/
||
[[File:Logo-EOX.png|120px|EOX IT Services GmbH|link=http://eox.at]]
 
[http://eox.at http://eox.at]
||
[[Image:Logo-tydac.png|160px|Tydac|link=http://www.tydac.ch/]]
 
[http://www.tydac.ch/ http://www.tydac.ch/]
|}

; Bronze Sponsors
{|
[[File:CoordinateSolutions_TRANS.png|320px|link=http://www.coordinatesolutions.com/]]
|}

== Dates and Times ==

* Date: May 14-17 (4 days)
* Time: 8:30am to 4:30pm each day

== Other Events from January to May 2019 ==

* '''OSGeo's 13th birthday Feb 4'''
* ''please add your event''

== Location ==

* University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

=== Coding Venue ===
* Wilson Research Collaboration Studio: https://www.lib.umn.edu/wilsonstudio
* Wilson Library, West Bank
* [https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/44.97095/-93.24392| OpenStreetMap]

=== Accommodations ===

=== How to get there ===

== Schedule ==
* breakfast each day around 8:30am
* lunch every day around 12:30pm

== Social Events ==

== Project Plans ==
(i.e what do you wish/want/plan to work on during the sprint ?)

* '''MapServer''':
** placeholder target
* add your project

== Participants ==

Please add your name and the projects you are planning to sprint and note the likeliness of your attendance.

{| border="1" cellpadding="2" class="wikitable sortable"
!width="25"|No
!width="250"|Name
!width="100"|Country
!width="250"|Email
!width="250"|Organisation
!width="250"|Projects
!width="25"|sun
!width="25"|mon
!width="25"|tue
!width="25"|wed
!width="25"|thu
!width="25"|fri
!width="25"|sat
!width="25"|sun
!width="60"|Accommodation
!width="30"|vegetarian food
|-
| 1 ||[[Steve Lime]] || US || steve.lime@state.mn.us || State of Minnesota || MapServer || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || My Bed ||
|-
| 2||[[Howard Butler]] || US || howard@hobu.co || Hobu, Inc. || PROJ, GDAL, PDAL || || x || x || x || x || x || x || || ||
|-
| 3||[[Connor Manning]] || US || connor@hobu.co || Hobu, Inc. || Entinwe, PDAL || || x || x || x || x || x || x || || ||
|-
| 4||[[User:jimk|Jim Klassen]] || US || jklassen@sharedgeo.org || SharedGeo || MapServer, GDAL, GeoMoose || || x || x || x || x || x || x || || No ||
|-
| 5||[[User:blammo|Bob Basques]] || US || bbasques@sharedgeo.org || SharedGeo || MapServer, GeoMoose || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || || No ||
|-

| # ||[[User:your osgeo profile|Your name]] || DE || email || organization || project || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || accommodation? || vegetarian?
|}

== Communication ==

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

== Costs ==

Participants should plan for the following costs:

* Travel to Minneapolis/St. Paul
* Accommodation for x nights

== Individual preparation ==

* Bring your own laptop
* Bring [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mains_electricity_by_country your power connector adapter] if needed (photo: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:B_plug.jpg]). See also http://www.power-plugs-sockets.com/
* Install Git and compiler tools, and come with a working development environment

== Sponsoring ==

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) has a long tradition of organizing code sprints for developers of Open Source GIS software.
(https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Code_Sprints).

An international community/code sprint for OSGeo will take place May 14-17, 2019.

We expect about 50 developers from all over the world to come from various [https://www.osgeo.org/, OSGeo] projects. Whether desktop application, geospatial library, metadata catalog or web mapping: be sure to find products in the list that you use. The sprint is also an opportunity for your developers to meet with the core developers of the projects, get a deeper insight into the software and participate in the development.

This years' sprint will take place at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities in Minneapolis and will be hosted by [https://research.umn.edu/units/uspatial, U-Spatial] and organized by [https://www.sharedgeo.org/, SharedGeo] and members of the local OSGeo user group (TCMUG).

In addition to the costs of providing the technical infrastructure and space, food and drink for the developers represents the main cost. Morning/afternoon meals and drinks during the day are planned. In addition, we hope to provide several evening meals and social events.

In order to cover these costs we would be overjoyed to accept offers of sponsorship!

What we can offer:
* Your logo on top of the [https://www.osgeo.org/events/OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2019/ community sprint website] as well as on all official documents used during the sprint
* Acknowledgement in all sprint related emails
* Our undying gratitude, which comes in handy when you least expect it (remember that feature you wanted?)

Our sponsorship levels:
* Gold: >= 2500 USD
* Silver: 1500 USD
* Bronze: 750 USD

So...
* get your company talking to the top project developers.
* encourage your GIS developers to take advantage of this opportunity, there is no better opportunity to learn!
* support the software you use - you benefit immediately.

Thank you very much!

Contact: To sponsor, please contact codesprint@osgeo.org directly.

== Event Owner ==
* SharedGeo
* U-Spatial
* [[User:Steve Lime|Steve Lime]]

== Press Release ==

We are looking forward to the next OSGeo Code Sprint!
[[Category:Code Sprints]]
[[Category:C Tribe Code Sprint]]

OSGeo Community Sprint 2019

2018-10-25T23:42:21Z

Wiki-Blammo: /* Participants */

== Purpose ==

Bring together project members to make decisions and tackle larger geospatial
problems as in previous years:
* [[OSGeo Code Sprint 2018|Bonn]] (2018)
* [[Daytona Beach Code Sprint 2017|Daytona_Beach]] (2017)
* [[Paris Code Sprint 2016|Paris]] (2016)
* [[Philadelphia Code Sprint 2015|Philadelphia]] (2015)
* [[Vienna Code Sprint 2014|Vienna]] (2014)
* [[Boston Code Sprint 2013|Boston]] (2013)
* [[IslandWood Code Sprint 2012|Island Wood (Seattle)]] (2012)
* [[Montreal Code Sprint 2011|Montreal]] (2011)
* [[New York Code Sprint 2010|New York City]] (2010)
* [[Toronto Code Sprint 2009|Toronto]] (2009)

== Sponsors ==

'''Sponsoring ''' Find out about [[OSGeo_Code_Sprint_2019#Sponsoring |Sponsoring the Event]].

; Venue Sponsor
{| border=0 cellspacing=15 cellpadding=10
||
[[File:Logo-UMN.png|140px|University of Minnesota|link=https://twin-cities.umn.edu/]]
 
https://twin-cities.umn.edu/

|}

;Gold Sponsors

; Silver Sponsors

{| border=0 cellspacing=15 cellpadding=10
||
[[File:Logo-Hobu.png|140px|Hobu|link=https://hobu.co/]]
 
https://hobu.co/
||
[[File:Logo-EOX.png|120px|EOX IT Services GmbH|link=http://eox.at]]
 
[http://eox.at http://eox.at]
||
[[Image:Logo-tydac.png|160px|Tydac|link=http://www.tydac.ch/]]
 
[http://www.tydac.ch/ http://www.tydac.ch/]
|}

; Bronze Sponsors
{|
[[File:CoordinateSolutions_TRANS.png|320px|link=http://www.coordinatesolutions.com/]]
|}

== Dates and Times ==

* Date: May 14-17 (4 days)
* Time: 8:30am to 4:30pm each day

== Other Events from January to May 2019 ==

* '''OSGeo's 13th birthday Feb 4'''
* ''please add your event''

== Location ==

* University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

=== Coding Venue ===
* Wilson Research Collaboration Studio: https://www.lib.umn.edu/wilsonstudio
* Wilson Library, West Bank
* [https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/44.97095/-93.24392| OpenStreetMap]

=== Accommodations ===

=== How to get there ===

== Schedule ==
* breakfast each day around 8:30am
* lunch every day around 12:30pm

== Social Events ==

== Project Plans ==
(i.e what do you wish/want/plan to work on during the sprint ?)

* '''MapServer''':
** placeholder target
* add your project

== Participants ==

Please add your name and the projects you are planning to sprint and note the likeliness of your attendance.

{| border="1" cellpadding="2" class="wikitable sortable"
!width="25"|No
!width="250"|Name
!width="100"|Country
!width="250"|Email
!width="250"|Organisation
!width="250"|Projects
!width="25"|sun
!width="25"|mon
!width="25"|tue
!width="25"|wed
!width="25"|thu
!width="25"|fri
!width="25"|sat
!width="25"|sun
!width="60"|Accommodation
!width="30"|vegetarian food
|-
| 1 ||[[Steve Lime]] || US || steve.lime@state.mn.us || State of Minnesota || MapServer || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || My Bed ||
|-
| 2||[[Howard Butler]] || US || howard@hobu.co || Hobu, Inc. || PROJ, GDAL, PDAL || || x || x || x || x || x || x || || ||
|-
| 3||[[Connor Manning]] || US || connor@hobu.co || Hobu, Inc. || Entinwe, PDAL || || x || x || x || x || x || x || || ||
|-
| 4||[[User:jimk|Jim Klassen]] || US || jklassen@sharedgeo.org || SharedGeo || MapServer, GDAL, GeoMoose || || x || x || x || x || x || x || || No ||
|-
| 5||[[User:bobb|Bob Basques]] || US || bbasques@sharedgeo.org || SharedGeo || MapServer, GeoMoose || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || || No ||
|-

| # ||[[User:your osgeo profile|Your name]] || DE || email || organization || project || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || accommodation? || vegetarian?
|}

== Communication ==

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

== Costs ==

Participants should plan for the following costs:

* Travel to Minneapolis/St. Paul
* Accommodation for x nights

== Individual preparation ==

* Bring your own laptop
* Bring [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mains_electricity_by_country your power connector adapter] if needed (photo: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:B_plug.jpg]). See also http://www.power-plugs-sockets.com/
* Install Git and compiler tools, and come with a working development environment

== Sponsoring ==

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) has a long tradition of organizing code sprints for developers of Open Source GIS software.
(https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Code_Sprints).

An international community/code sprint for OSGeo will take place May 14-17, 2019.

We expect about 50 developers from all over the world to come from various [https://www.osgeo.org/, OSGeo] projects. Whether desktop application, geospatial library, metadata catalog or web mapping: be sure to find products in the list that you use. The sprint is also an opportunity for your developers to meet with the core developers of the projects, get a deeper insight into the software and participate in the development.

This years' sprint will take place at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities in Minneapolis and will be hosted by [https://research.umn.edu/units/uspatial, U-Spatial] and organized by [https://www.sharedgeo.org/, SharedGeo] and members of the local OSGeo user group (TCMUG).

In addition to the costs of providing the technical infrastructure and space, food and drink for the developers represents the main cost. Morning/afternoon meals and drinks during the day are planned. In addition, we hope to provide several evening meals and social events.

In order to cover these costs we would be overjoyed to accept offers of sponsorship!

What we can offer:
* Your logo on top of the [https://www.osgeo.org/events/OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2019/ community sprint website] as well as on all official documents used during the sprint
* Acknowledgement in all sprint related emails
* Our undying gratitude, which comes in handy when you least expect it (remember that feature you wanted?)

Our sponsorship levels:
* Gold: >= 2500 USD
* Silver: 1500 USD
* Bronze: 750 USD

So...
* get your company talking to the top project developers.
* encourage your GIS developers to take advantage of this opportunity, there is no better opportunity to learn!
* support the software you use - you benefit immediately.

Thank you very much!

Contact: To sponsor, please contact codesprint@osgeo.org directly.

== Event Owner ==
* SharedGeo
* U-Spatial
* [[User:Steve Lime|Steve Lime]]

== Press Release ==

We are looking forward to the next OSGeo Code Sprint!
[[Category:Code Sprints]]
[[Category:C Tribe Code Sprint]]

Live GIS History

2018-02-02T15:22:49Z

Wiki-Blammo: /* 2018 */

Where has OSGeoLive been used? Please tell us. A history of wide use provides justification for future developers to include, and improve their application on OSGeoLive.

See also [[Live GIS Testimonials]].

== Template Questions ==
* date of the event or training course, or program
* City, Country
* link to webside
* OSGeoLive handed out to attendees? How many?
* USBs, DVDs, or VMs used? How many?
* OSGeoLive lightning overview presented? To how many people? Was it a plenary event? If not, what percentage of the attendees attended this talk? Did you get any feedback? What did you hear?
* OSGeoLive used for workshops or training programs? What did the workshop/training cover. Was the USB/DVD or VM used? Were attendees computers used? If so, what operating systems were they running? How long did it take to set up? Were there any issues?
* Any suggestions on what we can do to improve OSGeoLive for future?
* Contact: person (usually coordinator) who can be contacted to ask further questions

== 2018 ==
=== 23 - 24 May 2018 UMGeoCon Conference, USA ===
* La Crosse, WI, USA
* Contact: univcenters@uwlax.edu
* https://umgeocon.org/
* Presentation attendees will receive a Live USB.
* Lightning presentation by Bob Basques.
* Presentation Sponsored by SharedGeo (www.sharedgeo.org)
=== 21. - 25. March 2018 FOSSGIS Bonn (Germany)===
* 21. - 25. March 2018
* Passau (Germany)
* http://fossgis-konferenz.de/2018/
* Videos will be published in TIB AV Portal https://av.tib.eu/
* Hand out OSGeoLive 400 postcards to all delegates
* > Workshops will take place, most of them will use OSGeoLive
** xx persons in xx workshops
* What format of OSGeoLive was used?
** OSGeoLive will be used with ....
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]
=== 05 - 06 March 2018 GITA Conference, USA ===
* Phoenix, AZ, USA
* Contact: events@gita.org
* https://gitasw.org/
* Presentation attendees will receive a Live USB.
* Lightning presentation by Bob Basques, with additional in-depth look at specific OSGeo projects.
* Presentation Sponsored by SharedGeo (www.sharedgeo.org)

== 2017 ==
=== 26.- 28. September 2017 INTERGEO Berlin ===
* 26.-28.September 2017
* Berlin, Germany
* OSGeo Park at INTERGEO booth and presentation area. 6 computer were visitor could try out OSGeoLive 11.0
* https://www.fossgis.de/w/index.php?title=Intergeo_2017
* +- 100 OSGeoLive USB thumbs were handed out to visitor
* OSGeoLive postcards: +-500 PostCards
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 14 - 19 August 2017 FOSS4G Europe, Boston MA (USA) ===
* 14 - 19 August 2017
* Boston MA (USA)
* http://2017.foss4g.org/
* Over 1000 attendees expected
* OSGeoLive will be promoted
** Workshops will use OSGeoLive 11.0
* Hand out OSGeoLive 11.0 to all delegates, bootable USB
* Contact: [[User:Gsteinmon | Guido Stein]], conference chair

=== 18 - 22 July 2017 FOSS4G Europe, Paris ===
* 18 - 22 July 2017
* Paris (Marne-la-Vallée), France
* https://europe.foss4g.org/2017/
* 330 attendees, 100+ presentations
* 180 attendees to 15 workshops
* OSGeoLive was promoted
* Hand out OSGeoLive 10.5 to all delegates, bootable USB
* Workshops used OSGeoLive 10.5
* Great OSGeo Code Sprint worked on OSGeoLive 11.0 to get the version ready for FOSS4G 2017
* Contact: [[User:Djay|Gérald Fenoy]], conference chair

=== 5.- 7. July 2017 AGIT Salzburg ===
* 5.-7.July 2017
* Salzburg, Austria
* http://agit.at/
* OSGeo Park USB thumbs with OSGeoLive will be sold, information about OSGeo projects
* OSGeoLive postcards: 500 PostCards
* Workshops about '''QGIS''', '''Mapbender3''' and '''How to setup a GDI with Open Source Software''': will people work with OSGeoLive [https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/wiki/Live_GIS_Workshop_Install workshop page], +-100 participants will work with OSGeoLive
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 26th May 2017 OSGeo Ireland – 1st National Symposium 2017 ===
* 26th May 2017
* Limerick, Ireland
* https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Ireland/Symposium2017
* Distributed 50 OSGeo USB thumbs with OSGeoLive
* OSGeoLive postcards
* Contact: OSGeo Local Chapter in Ireland

=== 22. - 25. March 2017 FOSSGIS Passau (Germany)===
* 22. - 25. March 2017
* Passau (Germany)
* http://fossgis-konferenz.de/2017/
* Videos in TIB AV-Portal https://av.tib.eu/series/300/fossgis+konferenz+2017+passau+22+25+marz+2017
* Hand out OSGeoLive 300 postcards to all delegates
* > Workshops will take place, most of them will use OSGeoLive
** 152 persons in 17 workshops
* What format of OSGeoLive was used?
** OSGeoLive will be used with Virtual Machine with QEMO
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 22 - 24 February 2017 WLIA Conference, USA ===
* Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, USA
* Contact: abarrett@uniontel.net
* https://www.wlia.org/annual-conference/
* There may be a SharedGeo Booth with some USBs to hand out.
* Presentation attendees will receive a Live USB.
* Presented by Bob Basques.
* Presentation Sponsored by SharedGeo (www.sharedgeo.org)

=== 6 - 11 February 2017 FOSS4G IT, Italy ===
* 6 - 11 February 2017
* Genova, Italy
* http://www.dicca.unige.it/geomatica/foss4git_2017/index.html
* OSGeoLive used for workshop using virtual machine
* Contact: [[User:Lucadelu|Luca Delucchi]]

== 2016 ==

=== 24. - 26. August 2016 FOSS4G Bonn 2016 ===
* Bonn, Germany
* Contact: info@foss4g2016.org
* http://2016.foss4g.org/home.html
* get information at [[FOSS4G_2016_OSGeo_Booth]]
* 250 + 50 OSGeoLive USBs handed out to delegates and students,
* OSGeoLive 10.0 was used in most of the workshops with great success. OSGeoLive was installed on the workshop notebooks
* Notebooks with OSGeoLive installed were used as presentation notebooks
* many OSGeoLive postcards were given to the delegates
* a group of people worked at the FOSS4G OSGeo Code Sprint on OSGeoLive [[FOSS4G_2016_Code_Sprint]]

=== 6.- 8. July 2016 AGIT Salzburg ===
* 6.-8.July 2016
* Salzburg, Austria
* http://agit.at/
* OSGeo Park USB thumbs with OSGeoLive were sold, information about OSGeo projects
* OSGeoLive postcards: 500 PostCards
* Workshops about '''PostGIS''', '''Mapbender3''' and '''How to setup a GDI with Open Source Software''': people work with OSGeoLive nUSB thumb [https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/wiki/Live_GIS_Workshop_Install workshop page], +-100 participants working with OSGeoLive
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 04. - 06. July 2016 FOSSGIS Salzburg===
* 04. - 06. July 2016
* Salzburg, Austria
* http://fossgis-konferenz.de/2016/
* Videos on youtube: http://youtube.com/fossgis
** http://www.fossgis-konferenz.de/2016/socialevents/
* Hand out OSGeoLive 250 postcards to all delegates
* > Workshops will take place, most of them will use OSGeoLive
** +-130 persons in the workshops
* What format of OSGeoLive was used?
** OSGeoLive was used with Virtual Box in the Workshops
** USB Sticks were given to the participants if interested
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 24. May 2016 Geospatial World Forum ===
* OSGeo celebrating 10th anniversary http://geospatialworldforum.org/OSGeo-programme.html
* 23.-26. May 2016
* Rotterdam, Netherlands
* http://geospatialworldforum.org/
* https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geospatial_World_Forum_2016
* Talk: OSGeo Live - a practical view on OSGeo - Johan Van de Wauw - President OSGeo.be
* Contact: Johan Van de Wauw , Dirk Frigne

== 2015 ==

=== November 27th 2015 FOSS4G.HU ===
* Budapest, Hungary
* http://www.geod.bme.hu/gis/workshop4
* During OpenLayers 3 and Python Geospatial Programming workshop OSGeoLive (installed on desktop and laptop machines) was used
* Contact: Zoltan Siki

=== October 3 2015 24dev-demo for OSGeo Live DVD ===
* A set of customizable Addon prototyping scripts for the OSGeo Live DVD.
* Users can install 24dev applications to a live OSGeo DVD via running one script.
* Users can rename the base directory and re-run the install script to update profiles.
* The install script creates a backup tar file.
* The scripts can display custom license/release files for each application.
* OSD users are encouraged to fork new release via github renamed as: 24dev-.
* The program documentation/files are located at: https://github.com/pmcgover/24dev-demo

=== October 5th-9th 2015 Digital Earth 2015 ===
* Halifax, Nova Scotia · Canada
* OSGeoLive workshop?
* Contact: Dirk Werle (conference chair), Brian Hamlin and Jeff McKenna (OSGeoLive presenters)

=== 28/29 September 2015: GFOSS DAY 2015 ===
* Lecco, Italy
* OSGeoLive used for workshop using virtual machine
* USB Sticks were given to the participants
* Contact: Luca Delucchi

=== 23-24 September 2015: GiS in the Rockies ===
* Denver, USA
* OSGeoLive referenced in FOSS4G track at GIS in the Rockies conference
* Contact: Rafael Moreno-sanchez

=== 14-19 September 2015: FOSS4G 2015 ===
* Seoul, South Korea
* Contact: Sanghee Shin
* OSGeoLive USBs handed out, OSGeoLive used in a number of the workshops

=== 15-17 September 2015, INTERGEO 2015 Stuttgart (Germany)===
* Stuttgart, Germany
* http://www.fossgis.de/wiki/Intergeo_2015
* http://intergeo.de
* OSGeoLive Postcards
* presentation area with OSGeoLive 9.0 to try out.
* presentations about OSGeoLive in the Open Source Park http://live.osgeo.org/de/presentation/index.html
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 11-13 August 2015, Geomatics Indaba 2015===
* Ekurhuleni, South Africa
* http://geomatics.org.za/
* distribution of 800 OSGeoLive 8.5 DVDs in delegate bags
* Contact: [[User:Gfleming|Gavin Fleming]]

=== 27-31 July, 2015: GIS Training at IAEA===
* Vienna, Austria
* Workshop on GIS for agricultural pest control
* OSGeo Live was install as virtual machine on participants computers
* Training focused on QGIS and Spatialite
* Contact: [[User:micha|Micha Silver]]

=== 13-18 July 14, 2015: FOSS4G Europe ===
* Como, Italy
* Workshops, Conference, Codesprint
* Contact: Maria Antonia Brovelli

=== 8.-10. July 2015 AGIT Salzburg (Austria) ===
* 8.-10.July 2015
* Salzburg, Austria
* http://agit.at/
* OSGeo Park USB thumbs with OSGeoLive were sold, information about OSGeo projects
* OSGeoLive postcards: 500 PostCards
* OSGeoLive presentation by Astrid Emde (german) [https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive-doc/blob/master/en/presentation/index.html presentation]
* Workshops about PostGIS (> 30 attendees) and Mapbender3 (>30 attendees): people worked with OSGeoLive 8.5 USB thumb [https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/wiki/Live_GIS_Workshop_Install workshop page]
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 8-10. June 2015 FOSS4G India 2015, IIRS Dehradun, India ===
OSGeo-India tweaked the Live DVD to also contain the Digital Proceedings of the Conference (full papers and abstracts) and it was made available to all the Participants. My humble self mentioned in my inaugural presentation that the essence of all OSGeo and OS-GIS software are tucked into the live DVD. It was also emphasised that the Live-DVD is a way of seeing all the software run on one's computer / Laptop without soiling it by booting with it. Use of Virtual Machine on certain operating systems, which are not boot-friendly to the Live-DVD was also mentioned. As usual the conference acknowledges the untiring effort by live.osgeo.org (http://live.osgeo.org/en/index.html) who keep the DVD afresh with all latest OS-GIS. https://plus.google.com/114935751871526846208/posts/iXhdxwaePux
* http://foss4gindia.in

=== 11. - 13. May 2015 Symposium Königslutter - Angewandte Kartographie - Geovisualisierung ===
* Königslutter (Germany)
* Workshop on OSGeoLive:
** Workshop with OSGeoLive from USB
** 10 attendees
* PostCards postcards to all delegates - about 50 postcards
* used presentation: http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/doc/de/presentation/index.html
* http://angewandte-kartographie.de/
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 1-3 June 2015: CalGIS ===
* Sacramento, California, United States
* http://www.calgis.org
* Contact: Alex Mandel / Christina Boggs

=== 11. - 13. March 2015 FOSSGIS ===
* 11. - 13. March 2015
* Münster, Germany
* http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2015/
* Videos on youtube: http://youtube.com/fossgis
** see also http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2015/programm/events/904.de.html
* Hand out OSGeoLive 500 postcards to all delegates
* > 21 Workshops will take place, most of them will use OSGeoLive
** 239 persons in the workshops
* What format of OSGeoLive was used?
** USB Sticks
** USB Sticks were given to the participants
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== March 2015 Leeds MSc course ===
* Training course at Leeds, UK
* https://github.com/MassAtLeeds/webGIS
* 20 people attended, encouraged to use VMs
* Only 1 seen successfully running it in a VM!
* Contact: Robin Lovelace

=== 9-11 March 2015 FOSS4G-NA ===
* Burlingame, California, USA
* Contact Andrew Ross

=== 31 January 2015 FOSDEM ===
* Location: Brussels, Belgium
* 31 January & 1 February 2015
* Presentation: From Debian-GIS to OSGeo live and back
* Description: Debian GIS is a project with the goal of making Debian the best distribution for Geographical Information System applications.
OSGeo live (live.osgeo.org) is a self-contained bootable dvd, usb thumb drive or virtual machine based on Lubuntu, that allows you to try a wide variety of open source geospatial software without installing anything. It also contains a set of uniform documentation (description and quickstarts) to guide people around the different projects.
Even though OSGeo live is based on the packages in Debian, both projects diverted and where OSGeo live managed to get a large (100+) community of contributors, progress in Debian GIS was stalling. Recently however, a new wind is blowing in Debian GIS (among others with the Debian pure blends initiative) and many changes from OSGeo live are being incorporated back into Debian.
Apart from presenting both projects I will highlight some problems people encounter when they would like to add their package to Debian GIS, and how Debian pure blends try to solve this.
* Speaker: Johan Van de Wauw
* https://fosdem.org/2015/schedule/event/from_debian_gis_to_osgeo_live_and_back/

== 2014 ==
=== 2-5 December 2014, FOSS4G Asia ===
* Bankok, Thailand
* OSGeoLive lightning talk presented.
* planning to use OSGeoLive at the workshop.
* Planning to distribute OSGeoLive DVDs in the conference kit.
* Contact: Venkatesh Raghavan, Heegu Park

=== 28 November 2014, Illinois State GIS Association Annual Conference ===
* Chicago, Illinois, US
* OSGeoLive presentation given, which was well attended, with a number of people coming and asking questions afterwards.
* Handed out 23 OSGeoLive USBs
* Contact: Bob Basques

=== 21 November 2014, FOSS4G Hungary Conference ===
* Budapest, Hungary
* Approximately 110 OSGeo Live 8 DVDs were distributed
* during the PostGIS in a Nutshell workshop OSGeoLive 8 was used http://www.agt.bme.hu/gis/workshop3/eloadasok/postgis_mini.pdf
* Contact: [[User:Siki|Zoltan Siki]]
* Photos: http://www.agt.bme.hu/keptar/phpslideshow.php?directory=workshop3&currentPic=0

=== 6 November 2014, beOpenGISfr ===
* Brussels, Belgium
* http://be-opengis.ulb.ac.be/
* OSGeoLive VM was used during workshops. Approx 90 USB sticks with OSGeoLive were distributed
* Contact: [[User:mlennert|Moritz Lennert]]
* Photos: http://be-opengis.ulb.ac.be/photos.html

=== 7-9 October 2014, INTERGEO 2014 ===
* Berlin, Germany
* http://intergeo.de
* OSGeoLive Postcards
* presentation about OSGeoLive in the Open Source Park http://www.intergeo.de/intergeo/besucher/messe/opensource-park.php
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 8-13 September 2014, International FOSS4G===
* Portland, Oregon, USA
* https://2014.foss4g.org/
* Contact: ?
* 300 8Gig OSGeoLive USBs handed out from the OSGeo Booth.
* OSGeoLive VM used for many of the workshops.

=== 2-3 September 2014, OSGIS 2014===
* University of Nottingham, UK
* http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/osgis/home.aspx
* Contact: Suchith Anand

=== 27-28 August 2014 FOSS4G Korea ===
* COEX, Seoul, Korea
* Handed out OSGeoLive DVDs
* Contact: Sanghee Shin

=== 21-25 July, 2014. Urban Informatics Postgraduate Elective===
* University of Melbourne, Australia
* USB stick with OSGeoLive 7.9 was handed out to 25 enrolled students
* Students had a choice of USB or VM
* Contact: A/Prof Chris Pettit, Dr Jack Barton

=== 15.-17. July 2014 FOSS4G-Euope===
* Jacobs University Bremen, Germany
* http://foss4g-e.org/
* about 160 attendents
* OSGeo table together with FOSSGIS e.V.
* USB stick with OSGeoLive 7.9 was handed out to every participant
* Presentation on OSGeoLive http://kalxas.github.io/OSGeoLive-presentation/#/
* Code Sprint for version 8.0 at friday 18th july 2014
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 7-11 July 2014, Fifth Open Source Opportunities in GIS Summer School ===
* Girona, Spain
* http://www.sigte.udg.edu/summerschool2014/
* The Summer School is focused on the development and creation of Open Web Services and Web Applications, especially on the publication of data on the web. With this goal, the programme will cover topics related to the acquisition and importation of OpenStreetMap data into a spatial database, creation of geospatial web services and development of internet viewers for publishing geospatial data.
The course has been designed and will be conducted on a GNU/Linux operating system based on the use of the OSGeoLive DVD
* http://live.osgeo.org/en/index.html
* Contact: Lluis Vicens

=== 1-3 July 2014, AfricaGeo ===
* Cape Town, South Africa
* http://www.africageo.org/
* presentation and paper based on OSGeoLive (and distribution of ~550 OSGeoLive DVDs in delegate bags)
* Contact: [[User:Gfleming|Gavin Fleming]], Tim Sutton

=== ANLiegen Natur (journal: article - print and online) ===
* journal focused on applied nature conservation (Germany, Austria, Switzerland)
* June 2015
* journal: [http://www.anl.bayern.de/publikationen/anliegen/anliegen36_1.htm ANLiegen Natur 36(1)]
* ''Open Data und freie und offene Geographische Informationssysteme (FOSSGIS) – ein Werkzeug für den (ehrenamtlichen) Naturschutz?''
* ''Open Data and free and open source software for geographic information systems (FOSSGIS) – a tool for (voluntary) nature conservation?''
* [http://www.anl.bayern.de/publikationen/anliegen/doc/an36113kudrnovsky_2014_open_data.pdf article]
* Contact: [[User:hellik|Helmut Kudrnovsky]]

=== 17-20 June 2014, USFWS National GIS Workshop ===
* West Virginia, USA
* http://training.fws.gov/nctcweb/catalog/CourseDetail.aspx?CourseCodeLong=FWS-CSP7304
* Contact: Doug Newcomb
* Presented OSGeoLive presentation, handed out OSGeoLive DVDs

=== 10-13 June 2014, OGRS 2014 ===
* Helsinki, Finland
* http://2014.ogrs-community.org/
* Contact: [[User:Ajolma|Ari Jolma]]

=== 2-4 July 2014, AGIT26 ===
* Salzburg, Austria
* http://www.agit.at
* OSGeo Day http://www.agit.at/index.php/programmagit/themen-schwerpunkte/osgeo-day-osgeo-park-2014
* OSGeo Booth, OSGeoLive Postcards, OSGeo flyer, OSGeo Day and workshops
* Contact: Astrid Emde

=== 20-22 May 2014 FOSS4G-FR ===
* Paris, France
* Contact: Vicent Picavet

=== 21 May 2014 QLD Open Source Spatial Workshop ===
* Brisbane, Australia
* http://www.sssi.org.au/Events/QLD-Open-Source-Spatial-Workshop/eid/988.html
* OSGeoLive DVD handed out to all participants and used in hands on workshops
* Contact: Shaun Kolomeitz

=== 27 April – 2 May, 2014 European Geosciences Union General Assembly===
* Vienna, Austria
* http://www.egu2014.eu/
* 100 OSGeoLive DVDs handed out to participants
* Contact Peter Löwe
* Detailed report and lessons learned: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/EGU_Townhall_2014#OSGeoLive_DVDs

=== 26-28 March 2014, 8as Jornadas de SIG Libre (Spanish FOSS4G) ===
* 26 - 28 March 2014 in Girona
* http://www.sigte.udg.edu/jornadassiglibre
* 6 Workshops will take place, using OSGeoLive
** Introduction to QGIS
** Integration of Free Geospatial Technologies
** Introduction to python for geospatial applications
** Introduction to MapProxy
** Developing mobile applications with Glob3 mobile SDK
** Creating Web Applications with AngularJS AND LeafletJS
* What format of OSGeoLive was used?
** VirtualMachine
* Contact: [[User:Lluís|Lluís Vicens]]

=== 19. - 21. March 2014 FOSSGIS ===
* 19. - 21. March 2014
* Berlin, Germany
* http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2014/
* Videos on youtube: http://youtube.com/fossgis
* Hand out OSGeoLive 7.9 postcards to all delegates - about 550 postcards
* Presenatation about OSGeoLive '''OSGeoLive rocks!''' '''maybe'''
* > 10 Workshops will take place, most of them will use OSGeoLive
** 204 persons in the workshops
* What format of OSGeoLive was used?
** VirtualMachine
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 23 February 2014 FOSS4G Sri Lanka ===
* Malabe, Sri Lanka
* OSGeoLive Presentation including demo of OSGeoLive
* Handed out OSGeo Live 7.0 DVDs
* Contact: Nimalika Fernando

=== 1-2 February 2014 FOSDEM ===
* Brussels, Belgium
* http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSDEM2014
* Presentation of OSGeo Live Overview on a screen, event was attended by ~5000 people, OSGeo stand got visit of at least 500 (all marketing material was given away)
* Contact: Anne Ghisla

=== 23-25 January 2014 Societal GIS training workshop ===
* Rajahmundry, India
* OSGeo India had a 3 day Societal GIS training workshop.
* Used OSGeo Live-7, both DVD and USB driven. Wish to use Virtual Box as Windows-8 has serious booting issues and OSGeoLive works fine with Virtual Box (Sun Microsystems).
* http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User_talk:Ravivundavalli#OSGeo_India_and_Adi_Kavi_Nannaya_University_Training_workshop_23_-_25_January_2014

== 2013 ==
=== 4-6 December 2013, National Seminar on 'Remote Sensing and GIS for Environment', India ===
* Visakhapatnam, India
* OSGeo booth attracted a bee line of students who were eager to experiment with OSGeo software. Copies of OSGeo Live-DVD were distributed to all those who have answered a questionnaire quizzing about OSGeo and FOSS GIS.
* http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User_talk:Ravivundavalli#OSGeo_India_Booth_at_Visakhapatnam.2C_India

=== 14-15 November 2013, FOSS4G Korea 2013 ===
* Seoul, Korea
* http://www.osgeo.kr/135/
* OSGeo Live DVD will be distributed at the FOSS4G Korea venue and through KAOS-G booth at Smart GeoExpo Korea 2013.
* Contact: [[User:sanghee|Sanghee Shin]]

=== 4-8 November 2013, AfricaGIS 2013 / GSDI 14 ===
* Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
* http://www.gsdi.org/gsdiconf/gsdi14/
* Lightning overview presented (reveal JS version)
* Contact: [[User:Gfleming|Gavin Fleming]]

=== 8-10 October 2013, INTERGEO 2013 ===
* Essen, Germany
* http://intergeo.de
* it is planned to hand out 500 OSGeo 7.0 DVDs
* slides about OSGeoLive in FOSSGIS e.V. presentation
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 24 - 26 Sept 2013, Asian Geospatial Forum 2013 ===
* Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
* http://www.asiageospatialforum.org
* OSGeoLive and ICA-OSGEO lab network [http://prezi.com/hv18xf8_wolq/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy presentation]
* Contact: [[TuongThuy Vu|Thuy Vu]]

=== 19 - 21 Sept 2013, INCA-33 International Congress India ===
* Jodhpur, India
* http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User_talk:Ravivundavalli#OSGeo_India_.40_INCA-33_International_congress.2C_Jodhpur.2C_Rajasthan.2C_India
* Through OSGeo India booth 100 Live-DVDs are distributed
* Contact: ravivundavalli@yahoo.com

=== 17-21 September 2013, FOSS4G ===
* Nottingham, United Kingdom
* http://2013.foss4g.org
* 800 Live DVDs were created, available at the main reception desk and used in workshops
* Contact: Steven Feldman

=== 25-30 August 2013, International Cartographic Conference ===
* Dresden, Germany
* http://www.dgfk.net/index.php?id=164&do=akt
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 8-12 July 2013, Open Source Opportunities in GIS Summer School ===
* Girona, Catalonia, Spain
* About 25 students running OSGeoLive in a Virtual Machine (Virtual Box).
* http://www.sigte.udg.edu/summerschool2013/
* Contact: [[User:Lluís|Lluís Vicens]]

=== 3-5 July 2013, AGIT25 ===
* Salzburg, Austria
* http://www.agit.at
* OSGeo Day http://www.agit.at/index.php/programm-2013/themen/osgeo
* Hand out OSGeoLive 6.5 DVDs at FOSSGIS/OSGeo Booth - about 200 DVDs
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 10 June 2013, FROG (FRancophone Opensource Geomatique)===
* Paris, France
* http://osgeo.asso.fr
* Distribution to participants ?
* Contact : Vincent Picavet

=== 12.-14. June 2013 FOSSGIS ===
* 12.-14. June 2013
* Rapperswil, Switzerland
* http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2013/
* Hand out OSGeoLive 6.5 DVDs to all delegates - about 350 DVDs
* Presenatation about OSGeoLive '''OSGeoLive rocks!''' by [[User:Astrid Emde | Astrid Emde]] http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2013/programm/events/576.de.html
* > 10 Workshops will take place, most of them will use OSGeoLive 6.5
** 5 - 20 persons in the workshops
* What format of OSGeoLive was used?
** VirtualMachine
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 17-19 June 2013, FOSS4G-CEE 2013 ===
* Bucharest, Romania
* OSGeoLive 6.5 (or higher) DVDs will be handed out to all participants (conference target: 300)
* Some workshops are expected to make use of OSGeoLive (call for workshops opens June 13th)
* A OSGeoLive lightning overview presentation is welcome (call for presentations opens June 13th)
* http://2013.foss4g-cee.org
* Contact: [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Vasile Vasile Crăciunescu]

=== 21 May 2013, Location Intelligence Conference ===
* Washington DC, United States
* OSGeoLive presentation by [[User:Amyonthemap|Amy Gao]]

=== 29-30 April, 2013 GIS In Action ===
* April 29 to May 1, 2013,
* Portland, Oregon
* http://www.orurisa.org/GIS_In_Action (website is reused every year, [https://web.archive.org/web/20130510063948/http://www.orurisa.org/GIS_In_Action Archive.org site])
* The DVD was used to run demos at the booth. A limited number of copies were available to hand out to people who seemed very interested.
* The PDX-OSGeo chapter also helps organize an Open Source Track at GIS In Action which was very popular. This year, there was not a specific talk about the LiveDVD although it is often mentioned as a great way to try out software that people ask about.
* On May 2, there was an unconference where the LiveDVD was frequently referenced.
* Contact: [[User:EliL | EliL]]

=== 24 April, 2013 FOSS4G Buenos Aires 2013 ===
* 24 to 26 of April 2013, Buenos Aires, Argentina
* http://www.foss4g.org.ar/
* Unfortunately there was a problem with the DVD distributor and the participants didn't receive a copy.
* [http://jsanz.github.io/slides-201304-foss4gba/OSGeoLive/#/title OSGeo Live presentation] by [[Jorge Sanz]]
* OSGeo Live was used on the MapProxy workshop by the lecturer and some attendants that were able to run it on Virtual Box
* Contact: [[Mauricio Miranda]]

=== 10 April, 2013 EGU 2013 ===
* Vienna, Austria
* http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2013/session/13223
* DVD-distribution to journalists
* splinter meeting with short presentation and screenshots of OSGeoLive
* Contact: Peter Löwe

=== 6-8 March 2013, Jornadas de SIG Libre (Spanish FOSS4G2013) ===
* Girona, Spain
* http://www.sigte.udg.edu/jornadassiglibre
* Contact: [[User:Lluís|Lluis Vicens]]

=== 17-18 January 2013, WhereCampEU ===
* Rome, Italy
* http://wherecamp.eu/
* OSGeoLive presentation by [[User:Lucadelu|Luca Delucchi]]

== 2012 ==

=== 4-7 December 2012, Open Source Developers Conference ===
* Sydney, Australia
* http://www.osdc.com.au/
* OSGeoLive presentation by Cameron Shorter
* Contact: Cameron Shorter

=== 22-24 November 2012, PhilGEOS 2012 ===
* Quezon City, Philippines
* http://philgeos2012.wordpress.com/
* Over 60 participants joined 8 workshops and 3 lightning talks. The OSGeo Live project was also presented in one of the parallel technical sessions in the main conference. Likewise, an exhibit booth was installed during the PhilGEOS conference for OSGeo and OpenStreetMap. Over ~50 OSGeo Live DVDs were handed out to conference participants.
* Contact: Maning Sambale

=== 19-23 November 2012, LatinOSGIS ===
* Guayaquil, Ecuador
* http://www.fiec.espol.edu.ec/LatinOSGIS
* OSGeoLive 6.0 DVDs to be handed out
* lightning presentation by Mauricio Miranda
* OSGeoLive used in four workshops by Marco Minghini (QGIS, GeoServer, GeoNetwork, OpenLayers)
* about 30 VMs set up on the room computers
* Contact: Indira Yadira Nolivos Alvarez

=== 17-18 November 2012, OpenGIS ===
* Moscow, Russia
* conference on everything related to free and opensource GIS: data, software, methodology, organized by members of Russian GIS-Lab and OpenStreetMap communities.
* Over 200 participants; OSGeoLive DVD was used in GRASS GIS workshop; ~10 OSGeo Live DVDs were handed out to conference participants.
* http://gisconf.ru/en/
* Contact: Maxim Dubinin, Alexander Mury

=== 14-17 November 2012, GFOSSDAY 2012 - OSMit 2012 ===
* Turin, Italy
* http://www.gfoss.it/drupal/gfossday2012
* OSGeoLive software directly used from VMs within five workshops
* OSGeoLive overview in keynote presentation
* Title: OSGeoLive: il più semplice strumento per provare le applicazioni GFOSS / OSGeoLive: the simplest way to test FOSS4G software
* Contact: [[User:Lucadelu|Luca Delucchi]]

=== 14-16 November 2012, EGU Leonardo Conference ===
* Turin, Italy
* http://www.eguleonardo2012.polito.it/
* Poster presentation in Session: Population
* Notes: Poster Presentations consist in a quick (1-Slide) oral overview during the sessions and in the attendance by the poster stand between the sessions.
* Title: A complete review of the breadth of quality Geospatial Open Source Software available to Hydrologists, using OSGeoLive
* Contact: [[User:Madi|Margherita Di Leo]]

=== 12-13 November 2012, SWE-SmartCities Workshop ===
* Barcelona, Spain
* https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5tKYbjsGOrxWkVwWWZsM2NHNlk/edit
* Sensor Web Enablement workshop held by 52°North
* 21 OSGeoLive handed to the participants and used for the exercises
* The DVD was used for a training workshop on OGC Sensor Web Enablement. Participants worked with the 52°North SOS and the 52°North WPS. The DVD was mostly used, in some cases the VM was used.During the training, the participants used their own laptop computers (a full mix of all operating systems).There was no dedicated time needed for setting up the DVD. No issues occured.
* Contact: [[User:esllolo|Estela Llorente López]], Simon Jirka (52°North)

=== November 2012, Open Source GIS and Webmapping Workshop ===
* Vienna (Austria)
* Waiting on Barend Köbben to provide website url once details are finalised

===25-26 October 2012, FOSS4G-India ===
* Hyderabad, India
* http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/foss4gindia
* OSGeoLive DVDs to be handed out to all participants
* OSGeoLive to be used in workshops
* OSGeoLive Presentation to be given by K S Rajan
* Contact: K S Rajan

===17,18 October 2012, GeoINT 2012 ===
* Orlando Florida
* OSGeoLive link handed out
* mentioned in various panels and forums
* geoint2012.com
* Contact: Mark Lucas and John Scott

=== 17-19 October 2012, Geospace Europe Summit 2012 ===
* Brussels Belgium
* OSGeoLive link handed out
* Presentation pointing to live.ogeo.org efforts
* http://defence.flemingeurope.com/geospatial-intelligence-europe
* Contact: Mark Lucas

=== 17-19 October 2012, Latinoware ===
* Keynote presentation by Jody Garnett including parts of the OSGeo Lightning presentation
* http://2012.latinoware.org/?lang=en , http://2012.latinoware.org/?page_id=228
* Contact: Jody Garnett

=== October 2012, INTERGEO 2012 ===
* Hannover Germany, 9.-11.10.2012
* ~600 OSGeo 6.0 (and some of Version 5.5.) DVDs were distributed
* slide about OSGeoLive in [http://fossgis.de FOSSGIS e.V.] presentation
* very good feedback to the DVD. Lot of people already know OSGeoLive
* http://intergeo.de
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== October 2012, Smart Korea 2012 in conjunction with OGC TC/PC Meeting ===
* Seoul, Korea
* Around 50 OSGeoLive 6.0 DVDs were handed out at OSGeo booth there
* http://www.opengeospatial.org/event/1210tc
* Contact: Sanghee Shin

=== 11-13 October 2012, XXXII INCA International Conference 2012 ===
* Dehradun, India
* http://www.incaindia.org/32INCA/
* Nearly 80 OSGeoLive 6.0 DVDs handed out at OSGeo/IIRS Booth. Posters with screenshots of some applications with local data were put up.
* Explained delegates about OpenSource GIS. Demonstrated QGIS to anyone with a question. Demoed OpenCPN to some of the folks from National Hydrographic Office.
* Contact: Chaitanya Kumar CH

=== October 12, 2012, FOSS4G Korea 2012 ===
* COEX, Seoul, Korea
* Nearly 70~80 OSGeoLive 6.0 DVDs were handed out during the event and brief explanation of OSGeoLive project was given to participants
* FOSS4G Korea will be held in conjunction with Smart Korea 2012
* http://www.osgeo.kr
* Contact: Sanghee Shin

=== October 3-5, 2012, Minnesota GIS/LIS 2012 ===
* Saint Cloud, Minnesota, USA
* OSGeoLive 6.0 DVDs handed out at OSGeo/FOSS4GNA Booth.
* OSGeoLive ODP file set to loop on digital display in booth, augmented with local OSGeo project screenshots.
* Annual Conference and Workshops.
* http://www.mngislis.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=718
* Contact: Bob Basques

=== October 2012, GISSA Ukubuzana conference ===
* 1-3 October, Johannesburg, South Africa
* ~450 OSGeo 6.0 DVDs were distributed
* Lightning overview wwas also presented
* It was also used in two workshops ('Intro to PostGIS and QGIS' and 'Enterprise GIS with FOSS')
* http://gissa.org.za/activities/conferences/gissa-ukubuzana-2012
* More were distributed and used in workshops at the launch of the University of Pretoria ICA/OSGeo Lab on 4 Oct
* [[User:Gfleming|Gavin Fleming]]

=== September 2012, Geocamp ===
* September 22nd, Campo Maior, Portugal
* http://geocampers.com
* OSGeo project presentation: how the project is managed, how translations work, how a project is involved
* Contact: [[Jorge Sanz]], Hugo Santos info (at) geocampers (dot) com

=== September 2012, Asia GeoSpatial Forum ===
* Hanoi, Vietnam. 17~19th, September
* Around 50 OSGeoLive 6.0 DVDs were handed out to the participants.
* A presentation on OSGeo overview and OSGeoLive was given in oral presentation session
* Open Source GIS Session
* http://www.asiageospatialforum.org/
* Contact: Sanghee Shin

=== 5 September 2012 Open Source GIS Conference (OSGIS) ===
* Nottingham, United Kingdom
* All day session: "Educational use of OSGeo Live" presented by Ari Jolma
* 100 OSGeoLive DVDs handed out
* OSGeoLive lightning presentation by Barry Rowlingson
* http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/osgis/
* Contact: Suchith Anand

=== August 2012, 34th International Geological Conference ===
* Brisbane, Australia
* OSGeoLive lightning overview presentation by Peter Baunmann, conference convener
* http://www.34igc.org/
* Contact: Peter Baunmann

=== 18-19 July 2012, FOSS4G Southeast Asia ===
* Johor Bahru, Malaysia
* OSGeoLive DVD used at the plenary session. Several slides from OSGeoLive lightning overview presentation used plus some demonstration.
* OSGeoLive handed out to all delegates.
* Contact: Dr. Franz-Josef Behr

=== July 2012, Third Open Source GIS Summer School ===
* Girona, Spain
* School program focused on the development and creation of Open Web Mapping Services and Web applications. Jeremy Morley (Lecturer and a theme leader at the NGI) will be contributing the Nottingham components for the Summer School. The course has been designed and will be conducted on a GNU/Linux operating system based on the use of the OSGeoLive DVD.
* http://www.sigte.udg.edu/summerschool2012/
* Contact: Lluís Vicens

=== July 2012, International Environmental Modeling and Software Society Conference (IEMSS) ===
* Leipzig, Germany
* ~ 100 OSGeoLive 5.5 DVDs to be handed out
* OSGeoLive lightning overview presentation
* http://www.iemss.org/sites/iemss2012/sessions_D.html
* Contact: Daniel P. Ames

=== July 2012, AGIT ===
* Salzburg (Austria) Annual Conference
* http://www.agit.at/
* [[AGIT]], Friday is OSGeo day, free booth together with OSM throughtout the week ([[Arnulf]])
* we want to hand out +- 500 OSGeoLive DVDs

===June 30 - July 1, 2012, FOSS4G Hokkaido 2012 ===
*Sapporo, Hokkaido JAPAN
*50 OSGeoLive 5.5 DVDs handed out to delegates
*OSGeo.JP and OSGeoLive overview in keynote presentation
*[https://sites.google.com/site/foss4ghokkaido/ Website (in Japanese)]
*[https://www.facebook.com/FOSS4G.Hokkaido Facebook (in Japanese)]

=== June 2012, useR! The International R User Conference ===
* Vanderbilt U, Nashville USA
* http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/Main/UseR-2012
* Workshop Presentation on Geospatial Data in R, 33 attendees
* Five or six OSGeoLive 5.5 DVDs taken
* Boot and demo at end of workshop.

=== June 28, 2012, OSGeo.nl Day (FOSS4G Regional) within MapWindow Conference - The Netherlands ===
* Velp, The Netherlands
* OSGeoLive 5.5 DVDs handed out to all delegates (about 120). This included a large contingent of OSGeo-NL people who I heard were very appreciative of the DVD.
* OSGeoLive + OSGeo overview in keynote presentation
* OSGeoLive software directly used from VMs within the two workshops
* http://osgeo.nl/osgeonl_dag_2012.html (OSGeo.nl Day Program + Pres. Slides)
* http://www.mapwindow.org/conference/2012 (general MapWindow conf)
* Contact: Daniel P. Ames

=== May 2012, FOSS4G-CEE & Geoinformatics 2012 ===
* Prague, Czech Republic
* OSGeoLive 5.5 DVDs to be used in workshops
* OSGeoLive lightning overview presentation
* http://foss4g-cee.org/
* Contact: Jachym Cepicky

=== May 2012, FOSSCOMM 2012 ===
* Serres, Greece
* OSGeoLive lightning overview presentation
* 1 undergraduate thesis presentation using OSGeoLive
* http://serres.fosscomm.gr/?page_id=582

=== May 2012, HellasGI 2012 ===
* Athens, Greece
* OSGeoLive lightning overview presentation
* Local chapter meeting

=== April 2012, COMEM OGO course :: Webmapping with OGC standards ===
* April 16th, a course dedicated on geospatialized e-Content for Media Engineering bachelor students (http://www.comem.ch) at School of Engineering and Business Vaud (http://www.heig-vd.ch), Western Switzerland, Yverdon-les-Bains
* Topic : learning webmapping and OGC standards with OpenLayers, GeoServer, PostGIS (http://ogo.heig-vd.ch)
* A customized OSGeoLive 5.5 VM has been used through VirtualBox by 15 students to execute several exercices and to build a five days project (http://carto.iict.ch)
* Delivering a complete and ready to use geo-enabled VM is interessant for students to work in a kind of sandbox and to bring something easely back at home for later reuse.

=== April 2012, Geospatial World Forum 2012 ===
* The RAI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
* 4-hour [http://wiki.osgeo.org/images/b/bf/GeospatialWorldForum_2012_OpenSource_Seminar_Program.pdf "Open Source Seminar"] organized by OSGeo/[http://OSgeo.nl OSGeo Dutch Chapter] with 11 speakers
* OSGeoLive lightning presentation (15mins)
* http://www.geospatialworldforum.org/2012/open.htm

=== April 2012, FOSS4G North America 2012 ===
* Washington, United States
* Hand out OSGeoLive 5.5 DVDs to all delegates
* OSGeoLive lightning overview presentation?
* http://foss4g-na.org/

=== April 2012, GISRUK 2012 ===
* Lancaster University, UK
* (probably) To be used for pre-conference workshop from Lutra Consulting
* Around 200 DVDs to be handed out at the OSGeo-UK desk
* http://www.lancs.ac.uk/gisruk2012/

=== April 2012, AGILE 2012===
* Avignon, France
* http://agile2012.imag.fr/index.php/workshops/hands-on-qopen-source-gis-a-webmappingq
* Open Source GIS & WebCartography workshop
* OSGeoLive USBs handed to all workshop attendees

=== March 2012, Association for Geographic Information Welsh Group Open Source Seminar ===
* Wrexham, Wales, UK
* DVDs handed out to all delegates (20)
* http://astuntechnology.com/news/agi-open-source-training/ (proper link no longer available)

=== March 2012, AWRA GIS and Water Resources Conference ===
* New Orleans
* ~ 350 DVDs handed to delegates
* http://awra.org/meetings/Spring2012/

=== March 2012, FOSSGIS 2012 ===
* Dessau, Germany
* Hand out OSGeoLive 5.5 DVDs to all delegates - more than 400 DVDs
* OSGeoLive was mentioned in the opening speech
* http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2012/
* OSGeoLive was mentioned a lot on the conference. Some presenter mentioned in their presentation, to test the new stuff with OSGeoLive
* How many people were in the workshop?
** 21 Wokshops took place in total, 15 Workshop used OSGeoLive 5.5, some of the workshops used a modified OSGeoLive version
** 5 - 20 persons were in the workshops
* What format of OSGeoLive was used? DVD? USB? VM?
** Used with VirtualBox
* Did students bring their own computers? What types of computers and operating systems were brought in?
** No own computers. We used the computers with windows and VirtualBox from the GIS pool of the university
* How much time was spent setting up the class with setting up OSGeoLive?
** This was done before the workshop

=== March 2012, Spanish FOSS4G 2012 ===
* Girona, Spain
* OSGeoLive lightning overview presentation.
* Possibly also handing out OSGeoLive 5.5 DVDs?
* http://www.sigte.udg.edu/jornadassiglibre/

=== 6-7 March 2012, Malaysian Geospatial Forum ===
* Malaka, Malaysia
* http://www.malaysiageospatialforum.org
* The OSGeoLive lightning overview was presented to around 50 attendees (of approximately 300 attendees of the whole event). Positive feedbacks, the common question was which package should be used to their work.

=== February 2012, AAG 2012 ===
* New York, New York
* 25 OSGeoLive 5.0 bootable thumb drives to be handed out
* FOSS4G Workshop for Educators
* http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting

=== February 2012, GIS courses ===
* 6-10 Feb, Enterprise GIS course at University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
* 13-17 Feb , Introduction to QGIS and PostGIS course, Muizenberg, South Africa
* OSGeo 5.0 DVDs handed out to course attendees (~15 each)
* Ran in first session of workshops as LiveDVD to browse through the ecosystem and get a feel for Linux and FOSS GIS.
* [[User:Gfleming|Gavin Fleming]]

=== January 2012, Pleiades Days 2012 ===
* Toulouse, France
* 50 OSGeoLive 5.0 bootable thumb drives to be handed out
* [http://www.pleiades2012.com/ Website]

== 2011==

=== December 2011, Enterprise GIS course at the Council for Geoscience ===
* 12-14 Dec, Cape Town, South Africa
* OSGeo 5.0 DVDs handed out to course attendees
* We set up the VM on Windows for part of the workshop. Demo'd QGIS server and browsed through the system for an overview of other tools.
* It would be nice to have OpenGeo Suite Community Edition installed. It could provide PostGIS and GeoServer to the rest of the DVD. Also GeoNode.
* [[User:Gfleming|Gavin Fleming]]

=== November 2011, FOSS4G Tokyo/Osaka 2011 ===
*Tokyo and Osaka, JAPAN
*each 50+ OSGeoLive 5.0 DVDs handed to delegates
*[http://www.osgeo.jp/%E3%82%A4%E3%83%99%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88/foss4g-2011-tokyo/ Website (in Japanese)]
*[http://www.osgeo.jp/%E3%82%A4%E3%83%99%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88/foss4g-2011-osaka/ Website (in Japanese)]

=== October 2011, IAEA/FAO Coordinated Research Program ===
* Burkina Faso
* This conference was the third in a series of semi-annual meetings reviewing research programs regarding two agricultural pests: Tsetse and Old/New World Screw-worm. The meetings focus on merging population genetics and GIS techniques to better understand the spread of these pests.
* A customized version of the OSGeoLive 5.0 was prepared with data specific to Burkina Faso, and each of the 15 participants received a USB flash drive for the practice session. Some basic exercises were conducted demonstrating QGIS, Spatialite, and R.
* Responses were overwhelmingly positive.

=== September 2011, Intergeo 2011 ===
* Nuremberg, Germany
* Intergeo is an anual big fair on geodesy, geoinformation and land management
* [http://fossgis.de FOSSGIS e.V.] (german language local chapter of OSGeo) organizes an the OSGeo Park at Intergeo every year presenting OSGeo software. There also is a [http://www.fossgis.de/wiki/Intergeo_2011/Vortragsprogramm presentation area] where we present OSGeo Software and solutions 3 days long
* Rest of the OSGeoLive 4.5 handed out (aprox 100 DVDs)
* http://www.intergeo.de/en/englisch/index.php

=== September 2011, FOSS4G 2011 ===
Denver, United States
* OSGeo Live given to every delegate. (Release 5.0)
* 300 USBs printed, 600 DVDs
* OSGeoLive was used within many of the workshops

=== June/July 2011, Open Source GIS Summer School ===
* University of Gerona, Gerona, Spain
* The school taught Open Source GIS technologies and made use of the OSGeoLive DVD
* http://www.sigte.udg.edu/summerschool2011/target-audience/prerequisites

=== August 2011, [http://irdal.ird.fr/spip.php?page=ecole_ete_spatial_bresil11_sommaire&id_rubrique=1022|Ecole d'été - Observation spatiale de l'environnement] ===
* Macapa, Brazil
* OSGeoLive 5.0RC1 on a USB was used in a workshop for 12 students learning OTB and Monteverdi.

=== June 2011, FLUXNET & RS Open-Workshop ===
* David Brower Environmental Center, USA
* http://nature.berkeley.edu/biometlab/fluxnet2011/fluxwkshp_post.html
* Provided OSGeo LiveDVD to interested participants

=== June 2011, [[Live_GIS_Disk_FOSS4G_2010| OSGIS 2011]] ===
Centre for Geospatial Science, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
* http://cgs.nottingham.ac.uk/~osgis11/os_home.html
* Provided OSGeoLive lightning presentation, abstract: [[Live_GIS_Disk_OSGIS_2011]]
* handed out OSGeoLive DVDs to all delegates

=== May 2011, CGS 2011 ===
* Bishop CA, USA
* ~10 discs

=== April 2011, GITA 2011 ===
* Dallas Tx, USA
* 100 discs sent to OSGeo booth

=== April 2011, AAG 2011 ===
* Seattle, WA USA
* Annual Geography conference 8-10,000 attendants
* ~30-50 discs given away at OSGeo booth
* Remaining ~150 divided between CUGOS and Portland? chapters.

=== April 2011, FOSSGIS 2011 ===
* Heidelberg, Germany
* [http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2011/ FOSSGIS] is an annual conference in german language with ~ 400 attendants
* we printed OSGeoLive 4.5 and handed out about 450 DVDs
* OSGeoLive 4.5 was used sucessfully in ~ 12 workshops
* [http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2011/programm/events/248.de.html Astrid Emde presented OSGeoLive] in a 20 min talk with focus on the background of the project and the possibilities the project offers
** about 40 attendants

== 2010 ==
=== November 2010, GeoData Camp ===
* Athens, Greece
* Presented OSGeoLive lightning presentation in Greek to more than 300 attendants. This included two 1-hour presentations in technical sessions and a 15 minute presentation in the main event.

=== October 2010, Intergeo 2010 ===
* Cologne, Germany
* Intergeo is an anual big fair on geodesy, geoinformation and land management
* [http://fossgis.de FOSSGIS e.V.] (german language local chapter of OSGeo) organizes an Open Source Park on Intergeo every year where OSGeo Software is presented. There also is a [http://www.fossgis.de/wiki/Intergeo_2010/Vortragsprogramm presentation area] where we present OSGeo Software and solutions 3 days long
* we printed OSGeoLive 4.0 and handed out about 450 DVDs
* Lars Lingner presented the DVD with Cameron Shorters presentation
* http://www.intergeo.de/en/englisch/index.php
* Feedback
** good feedback: OSGeoLive offers the possibility to get to know OSGeo Software without an installation

=== September 2010, [[Live_GIS_Disk_FOSS4G_2010|FOSS4G 2010]] ===
Barcelona, Spain
* Provided a 90 minute tutorial of OSGeo Live
* OSGeo Live given to every delegate. (Release 4.0)

=== April 2010, [http://www.fig2010.com/ FIG 2010] - International Surveyors conference===
Sydney, Australia
* Handed out Live DVDs from OSGeo stand. (Release 3.0)
* Provided 15 minute lightning talk about the OSGeo stack, promoting the LiveDVD. [[http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com/2010/04/report-from-osgeo-stand-at-federation.html Report]], [[http://blip.tv/file/3503561 presentation video]]

== 2009 ==

=== October 2009, [http://2009.foss4g.org FOSS4G 2009] ===
Sydney, Australia
* Handed out 500 Live DVDs in every delegate's show bag. (Release: 2.0.3)

=== June 2009, [http://www.spatial.gov.au/Conferences/spatialgov+2009/default.aspx Spatial@Gov] ===
* Canberra, Australia
* Handed out Live DVDs from an OSGeo stand. (Release 1.0)
* Cameron Shorter provided a 30 minute presentation on the Open Source GeoSpatial Stack.

== 2008 ==

=== November 2008, Australian Cooperative Research Center for Spatial Information Conference ===
* Brisbane, Australia
* Distributed ~ 250 OSGeoLive DVDs to delegates (Release 1.0)

===September 2008, [http://2008.foss4g.org FOSS4G 2008]===
* Handed out ~ 150 Live DVDs from the OSGeo stand. (Release: foss4g2008)

[[Category: Live-demo]]
[[Category: History]]

Opencitysmart

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Wiki-Blammo: /* Who's Who Here? */

'''Welcome to CitySmart for Urban Infrastructure Management'''

'''''CitySmart''''' will be a suite of tools to benefit city operations, such as management of urban infrastructure (utilities, traffic, services, etc.). The purpose will be to continually add and advance functionalities serving urban management, for more efficient operations and with ultimate consideration for increasing sustainability and quality of urban life.

* Chairs: All Cities (on Earth), Chris Pettit (Australia) and Patrick Hogan (USA)

* Those interested in being part of this global enterprise, please subscribe here http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/opencitysmart. Your participation is welcome! Bring a city along with you.

* We support the 'Open Source Guiding Principles:'
** All material created is made available for all under an Open License
** All material is designed to be extended by others, API-centric, modular componentry.
** All participants aim to reuse, optimize, extend and add new components (in that order :-)

Our intent here is that we have one powerful '''open platform''' that's easy to add functionalities to and that are easy to share.
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|-
| Urban & Infrastructure Development Center 'Exciting' Africa
http://www.uidc-ea.org/
|-
| Global partnership advocating for food security
[Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition]

http://www.godan.info/
|-
| Education program ^delivering^ globally relevant ^local^ solutions
http://aworldbridge.com
|-
| A fully open IoT solution:
http://4onse.org/#/project/
|-
| Think really big:
https://www.mondragon-corporation.com/en/
|-
| DIY for agriculture: Global Village Construction Set (GVCS):
http://opensourceecology.org/gvcs/
|}

===What's a '''CitySmart''' ''''''platform'''''' look like?===
[http://nsdinow.org/SDI_Now_02/Technical_Support_files/SDI-Now_v01.pdf A rough draft!] Thank you City of Springfield Oregon, a brilliant guidepost for navigating the OpenCitySmart terrain.

== Who's Who Here? ==
*Please let us know of your '''''interest to participate''''' by adding yourself to this list.
*Please identify yourself in one or more categories: '''U''': User/practitioner; '''D''': Developer; '''R''': Researcher/Scientist; '''E''': Educator.

# [http://www.peter-baumann.org Peter Baumann], [http://www.jacobs-university.de/lsis Jacobs University Large-Scale Scientific Information Systems Research Group]
## Participant categories: D, R, E
## Providing the [http:/www.rasdasman.org rasdaman] Array Database which enables flexible, scalable analysis on massive spatio-temporal sensor, image, simulation, and statistics data based on the open OGC "Big Geo Data" standards suite, WCS (of which rasdaman is Reference Implementation), plus WMS and WPS, and interfacing with a series of clients, such as OpenLayers, QGIS, NASA WorldWind.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/chris-pettit/16/190/4B0 Chris Pettit], UNSW,
## Participant categories:
## Build and use planning support systems for empowering planners, policy-makers and communities in exploring city scale what if scenarios of sustainable, productive and resilient land use futures.
# [http://eco.umass.edu/people/faculty/schweik-charles-m/ Charlie Schweik] and [http://advanced.jhu.edu/about-us/faculty/alexander-stepanov-phd/ Alexander (Sasha) Stepanov],
## Participant categories: R, E
## University of Massachusetts Amherst. Trying to build educational service learning opportunities for students on advanced GIS using our campus as a "testbed."
# [http://www.calu.edu/academics/faculty/thomas-mueller.aspx Tom Mueller], California University of Pennsylvania
## Participant categories: E - Educator
## Similar to Charlie, I want to build educational exercises and service learning opportunities for my students.
# [http://people.eecs.ku.edu/~miller/ Jim Miller], University of Kansas, Computer Science
## Participant categories: D, E (also R in terms of computer science and visualization techniques)
## Using NASA World Wind for several open source geo-visualization efforts, including Lidar and multivariate scalar and vector field visualization.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/brandt-melick/22/869/261 Brandt Melick], Information Technology Department Director, Springfield Oregon USA.
## Participant categories: U
## Manage IT and GIS in support of community development, involving public works, and fire and life safety. Coordinate NSDI exchanges of cadastral, elevation and environmental information between local, state and federal agencies in the Pacific Northwest.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/antbeck Ant Beck], University of Nottingham Research Fellow.
## Currently transitioning into CityAnalytics looking at city wide entropy based energy management simulations. Have aspirations for an open, big data environment.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/phillip-davis/9/59/b7b Phillip Davis], GeoAcademy.
## The GeoAcademy is using QGIS 2.8 to provide Massively Open Online Courses through the Canvas Network to students around the globe for free. We currently enroll over 4,000 students in our March 2015 cohort.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/phogan Patrick Hogan], NASA World Wind Project Manager.
## Participant categories: D, R
## Building open source virtual globe technology meant to stimulate innovative solutions managing geospatial data, whether open or proprietary.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/antonipereznavarro Antoni Perez-Navarro], Universitat Oberta de Catalunya,
## Participant categories: R, E
## Currently working on indoor positioning systems. Previously developed the Context Aware Recommender System. In the GIS subjects we use gvSIG and QGIS, and Geomedia as proprietary software. Our students have also developed projects using Open Layers, GeoServer, Google Maps and Open Street Maps.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/gconti Giuseppe Conti]
## Participant categories: U, D, R
## Trilogis Srl, Italy. Working on the open standard for indoor/outdoor interoperable location services (http://www.i-locate.eu/) involving multiple cities, hospitals, museums, etc.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/evangelos-mitsakis/6/62/938 Evangelos Mitsakis]
## Participant categories:
## Centre for Research and Technology Hellas - Hellenic Institute of Transport, Greece. Working on climate change adaptation, urban resilience and smart cities, focusing on intelligent transport and mobility.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/remetey Gábor Remetey], ''Former'' Secretary-general, Hungarian Association for Geo-information (HUNAGI),
## Participant categories: R
## Strategic planning, implementation and consultancy in geospatial IT, and building contacts at the domestic, regional and global levels for Hungarian GIS and the Earth Observation community.
# [http://www.ege-como.polimi.it/index.php?content=maria_brovelli Maria A Brovelli], Politecnico di Milano
## Participant categories: D, R, E
## Applications of free and open-source spatial analytics to urban context and its development, [http://geomobile.como.polimi.it/ Citizen Science] and [http://geomobile.como.polimi.it/policrowd2.0/ collaborative multidimensional platforms].
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/ronfortunato Ron Fortunato], President of [http://www.trilliumlearning.com/AmericaBridge/ Trillium Learning LLC]
## Participant categories: U, E
## Custom design and implement Project-Based Learning systems, networked region-wide and at the national scale, and guaranteed to provide a teacher-complimentary '''exciting learning experience''' for students, elementary through secondary education.
# [http://www.xinyueye.com/ Xinyue Ye], Computational Social Science Lab, Kent State University
## Participant categories: D, R, E
## My research focus is open source space-time analysis method development and its socio-economic application, especially on economic inequality, urban development, crime, and social media.
# Andrew Hunter, [http://gisciencegroup.ucalgary.ca GIScience Group], University of Calgary
## Participant categories: R, E.
## Teach GIS, Land Use Planning and Cadastral Studies. Research focuses on the development of interoperable (open source) frameworks for land use planning, land development, and geospatial approaches for enhancing community engagement.
# [http://faculty.itu.edu.tr/demirelha/ Hande Demirel], Geomatics Engineering Department, Istanbul Technical University
## Participant categories:
## Lecturer for undergraduate and graduate students on spatial information systems. Research focus is spatial data acquisition, modelling spatial data, intelligent transportation and impact analysis for smart cities.
# [http://www.aston.ac.uk/eas/staff/a-z/dr-lucy-bastin/ Lucy Bastin], University of Aston and [http://dopa.jrc.ec.europa.eu/content/contacts Joint Research Centre of the European Commission]
## Participant categories:
## Focus: quality issues with geospatial data and VGI, e.g., making best use of cheap, plentiful but variable sensors such as weather stations for urban decision making on, e.g., dynamic routing of gritting trucks. I work on interoperable solutions for communicating data quality , e.g., UncertML and the OGC SWG on user feedback.
# [http://geodacenter.asu.edu/ GeoDa Center] for Geospatial Analysis and Computation, Arizona State University,
## Participant categories:
## Applications of free and open-source spatial analytics and decision support systems to urban modeling and scenario planning (but '''who''' at GeoDa do we contact?).
# [http://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/person/sven-schade Sven Schade], [http://ec.europa.eu/jrc/ Joint Research Centre] of the European Commission
## Participant categories:
## I am a geospatial information scientist working on knowledge extraction from (big) data by using geospatial analytics capabilities, multidisciplinary interoperability, and open innovation. How can we make data from public, commercial and private sources usable for social good?
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/bob-basques/14/8b2/537 Bob Basques], [http://gis.ci.stpaul.mn.us City of Saint Paul], Mn. USA,
## Participant categories: U, D, R
## My background is in Spatial Information Management for the City of Saint Paul, Public Works, with just under 300,000 residents. Providing access to hundreds of spatial layers, originating from the City, the Metro Region, County, State, and Federal sources to both public and internal users. Big Open Source proponent and developer.
# [http://theconversation.com/profiles/tuong-thuy-vu-120016 Tuong-Thuy Vu], [http://www.nottingham.edu.my/geography School of Geography, University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus].
## Participant categories:
## Big geospatial data analytics with applications to urban environment
# [http://www.meas.ncsu.edu/faculty/mitasova/mitasova.html Helena Mitasova], [http://geospatial.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/ North Carolina State University, Center for Geospatial Analytics], OSGeo REL
## Participant categories:
## Geospatial modeling and visualization for GRASS GIS, simulation of urban growth - incorporation of FUTURES model into GRASS GIS, Tangible landscape: collaborative modeling environment using interactive 3D printed or molded physical models
## The City of Raleigh strives to become a worldwide model for an open source city http://www.raleighnc.gov/open/
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/ortelius Jeffrey Johnson], Independent Consultant, World Bank GFDRR,
## Participant categories:
## Geospatial Modeling for Disaster Risk Management
# [http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=31094760 Serena Coetzee], [http://www.up.ac.za/cgis Centre for Geoinformation Science], University of Pretoria, South Africa, and [http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=74999697 Samy Katumba], [http://www.gcro.ac.za Gauteng City Region Observatory (GCRO)], South Africa
## Participant categories: R (UP and GCRO), E (UP)
## Open (big) geospatial data in the context of geovisual analytics for smart city planning; SDI for the Gauteng City Region (GCR) with the aim to make it data smart; evaluation of online geovisualization user interfaces
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/dimitriskotzinos Dimitris Kotzinos], [http://www-etis.ensea.fr ETIS Lab], University of Cergy Pontoise, France
## Participant categories:
## Trajectory mining, data semantics and integration of city data, data analytics with application to urban and domestic environments, personal data management
# [http://geog.ku.edu/xingong-li Xingong Li], Department of Geography, University of Kansas
## Participant categories:
## My research interest in Urban Science and City Analytics is in water infrastructure and smart water use.
# [http://citi.clemson.edu/people/ Patricia Carbajales-Dale], [http://www.clemsongis.org/ Clemson Center for Geospatial Technologies], Clemson University
## Participant categories:
## High Performance Computing for geospatial analytics.
# [http://au.linkedin.com/pub/cameron-shorter/5/398/590 Cameron Shorter], Co-coordinator of http://live.osgeo.org, which packages up ~50 of the best Open Source GIS applications, along with data and quickstarts;
## Participant categories:
## Also geospatial solutions architect at http://lisasoft.com, Sydney, Australia.
# [http://gisc.tamucc.edu/Faculty/rick.html Rick Smith], [http://spatialquerylab.com/ Spatial {Query} Lab] at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
## Participant categories: R, E
## Use of mapping technology for emergency response and planning. Update and maintain freely-available university-level FOSS4G curriculum.
# [http://gisc.tamucc.edu/Faculty/mike.html Michael Starek], Geospatial Sensing and Analytics at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
## Participant categories: R, E
## My research interest in Urban Science and City Analytics is in the application of emergent geo-sensing techniques for monitoring of the 3D build environment.
# [http://clas.ucdenver.edu/directory/faculty-staff/Rafael-Moreno Rafael Moreno], Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Denver.
## Participant categories: E, R
## Incorporation of FOSS4G in Geography and Urban and Regional Planning curricula. Land use planning, natural resources management, GIS science and Technology.
# [http://www.ucdenver.edu/academics/colleges/ArchitecturePlanning/facultystaff/directories/Pages/Individual%20Pages_Planning/Troy_Austin.aspx Austin Troy], Department of Planning and Design, College of Architecture and Plannig, University of Colorado Denver.
## Participant categories: E, R
## Land use policy, environmental planning, GIS, spatial analysis, remote sensing, land use change modeling and simulation?
# [http://www.ucdenver.edu/academics/colleges/Engineering/Programs/Computer-Science-and-Engineering/faculty/Pages/FarnoushBanaeiKashani.aspx Farnoush Banaei-Kashani], Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Colorado Denver.
## Participant categories: E, R
## Big data management and mining, database systems, data-driven decision-making systems
# [http://humanities.usm.my/index.php/discover-us/our-people/staff-directory/42-geography/31-ruslan-rainis Ruslan Rainis], Geoinformatic Unit, School of Humanities, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia
## Participant categories: R
## FOSS4G in social sciences & liberal arts curricula, Urban big data, urban spatial modelling.
# [http://people.eng.unimelb.edu.au/winter/ Stephan Winter], Geomatics, The University of Melbourne
## Participant categories: R, E
## Coordinating the Melbourne Urban Connectedness research cluster.
# [http://de.linkedin.com/pub/ingo-simonis/3/145/701 Ingo Simonis], OGC
## Participant categories: U, R, E
## Standardization needs and solutions for Urban Science.
# [http://kr.linkedin.com/pub/junyoung-choi/54/308/986 Junyoung Choi], Spatial Information Office of Korea Land and Housing Corp(Public company) and Spatial Big Data Center at MOLIT, Republic of Korea.
## Participant categories: U, R
## Spatial Big Data for the Smart Cities in Developing Countries, Urban Spatial Measures for UN Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs); UN SDG 11. Making Cities and Human Settlement.
# [http://grel.ist.edu.pk/?People:Dr._Rizwan_Bulbul Rizwan Bulbul], Director of [http://grel.ist.edu.pk Geospatial Research and Education Lab], Institute of space technology, Islamabad, Pakistan
## Participant categories: R, E
## 3D city modeling, 3D reconstruction, Spatio-temporal databases for cities, NSDI
# [https://www.linkedin.com/in/emma-strong-2490728a Emma Strong], Southern Mississippi Planning and Development District (SMPDD)
## Participant categories: U
## I work with the southern 15 counties of Mississippi and all cities and towns contained within. A few cities and counties have advanced GIS, mostly proprietary, but much of the area is rural with little to no GIS budget, so I plan to train myself so I can train others and spread GIS to more areas in the public sector. I think this project can help me to do that.
# [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaisen Jaisen Nedumpala], Koorachundu Village Panchayat, Kozhikode, Kerala, India.
## Participant categories: U, D, R
## Free and open-source spatial analytics and GIS Development, SDIs suitable for rural local authorities etc.
# [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sudhira Sudhira HS], [http://gubbilabs.in Gubbi Labs], Gubbi, Karnataka, India.
## Participant categories: U, D, R
## Spatial Planning Support Systems, Modelling and Analytics for Urban Planning and Decision-making, Urban Land-use/Land Cover change using Satellite Remote Sensing
# [https://ie.linkedin.com/in/gavin-mcardle-a2666415 Gavin McArdle], [http://www.csi.ucd.ie/ School of Computer Science, University College Dublin], [http://www.dublindashboard.ie/ Dublin Dashboard].
## Participant categories: D, R, E
## Urban Dashboards, Urban Dynamics, Spatial Data Analysis, Human Mobility, Lead Developer of the Dublin Dashboard project working with Dublin City Council.
# [http://gis-management.de Franz-Josef Behr], Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences
## Participant categories: D, R, E
## Strategic consultancy in geospatial IT, utility sector, interoperability, open education, FOSS certification.
# [https://www.linkedin.com/in/zia33 Mohammed Zia], [http://www.cbs.itu.edu.tr/ GeoSpatial Developer and Doctoral Student]
## Participant categories: U, D, R
## 7+ years of academic experience in the field of Location Based-, Vehicle Routing-Services, Land Use/Land Cover monitoring, and Environmental Sciences. Experience in open-source GIS / Remote Sensing, Geo-data management, and analysis with graduation in Geological Technologies.

== Global Drivers for 'CitySmart' ==

* EC '''Infrastructure for Spatial Information''' in the European Community, [http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/ INSPIRE]
* US National '''Spatial Data Infrastructure''', [http://www.fgdc.gov/nsdi/nsdi.html NSDI]
* UN '''Spatial Data Infrastructure''', [http://www.ungiwg.org/content/united-nations-spatial-data-infrastructure-unsdi UNSDI]
* UNSDI '''[http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/videos/other/final_visualization_facility.avi Visualization]''' for UN Member State briefing
* UN '''[http://citiscope.org/story/2014/comparing-mdgs-and-sdgs#SDGs Sustainable Development Goals]''' (SDG)
* UN “Urban Goal” ([http://citiscope.org/story/2014/comparing-mdgs-and-sdgs#No11 SDG #11]): Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and '''sustainable''',
* The Brookings Institution: Why we need to think about implementing the '''[http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/future-development/posts/2015/03/03-implementing-sustainable-development-kharas Sustainable Development Goals]'''
* Open Transit Indicators Enable Cities to Design '''[http://www.azavea.com/blogs/newsletter/v10i1/open-transit-indicators-enable-cities-to-design-better-transit-systems/ Better Transit Systems]'''

== Key Research Questions ==

* How can we transform cities to be more sustainable, productive and resilient?
** Facilitate the ability for cities to work together in addressing issues all cities must face.
* How can we empower cities, their citizens, community groups, planners, policy and decision-makers to work cohesively in addressing the issues our cities face such that they successfully engage in a sustainable urban future?
** We build an app whose functionalities '''''all''''' cities can '''''share''''' and every city will also own.
** If cities have a way to share solutions they generate for themselves, we address our own needs yet end up serving the interest of all. That's compound interest!

=='''''The Road Map''''' ==

* We can thank OGC's "[http://gisuser.com/2015/02/ogc-smart-cities-spatial-information-framework-white-paper-announced/ Smart Cities Spatial Information Framework]" for a good start on defining the problem.

* We can thank Brandt Melick, Information Technology Department Director, Springfield Oregon USA for putting this [http://www.NSDInow.org/SDI_Now_02/Technical_Support.html OpenCitySmart] app idea into action! Will your city step forward to help lead our shared effort to make cities more productive and more livable?

* ''' 'CitySmart' App Themes/Data-type''' (feel free to expand):
# [http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/2/list/7 INSPIRE Data Specifications]
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_planning Urban Planning]
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_transportation_system Intelligent Transportation]
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care Health & Medical Services]
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_service Public Safety & Emergency Services]
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_protection Environmental Protection]
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_automation Intelligent Buildings]
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_grid Utilities: Smart Grid, Smart Water, Sanitation, etc.]
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Location-based_service Location-Based Services]
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indoor_positioning_system Indoor Positioning System]
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recommender_system Context-aware ''Recommender Systems'']

* '''Data sharing''' – Cities need to be able to share information with site developers, site constraint specialists (environmental scientists, planners and engineers), utility service providers and regulators. These data sets most often include:

# [http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/2/list/datamodels INSPIRE Data Models]
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_imagery Imagery] Resolution, 3-inch pixel is preferred, 1-foot pixel less so, 1-meter much less so
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadastre Cadastral] Information: parcel polygons, Rights of Way (ROW), property ownership, assessment and taxation information and property class
# Address Information: house number, street name, City, zip, site location (coordinates) and zoning information
# Jurisdictional boundaries: incorporated areas, city limits, county boundaries, etc., urban growth boundaries, public safety response areas
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_elevation_model Elevation] Information: DEM’s (raster), DTM’s (vector), contours and spot elevation points, as well as mass points and break lines
# Waterways and protected areas: wetlands, fish-bearing streams, endangered species habitat, well-head protection zones, etc.
# Infrastructure/utilities: waste-water, storm-water, transportation systems, power, drinking water, etc.
# Structures/facilities: bridges, building foot-prints, complexes, monuments, etc., facility contacts, etc.
# Documents: reference material, procedures, regulations, metadata, etc.
# LiDAR, invaluable data, needing the tools to put it to good use. The City of Springfield has high resolution LiDAR, 8 points per meter. Though they put it to good use, they want even better tools to work with it (i.e., our OpenCitySmart app).

* '''Challenges'''

# '''Technical''' e.g. raw data made usable, data dating, accurate geo-reference conversion, unit conversion (i.e., metric/standard), data storage, data security, firewalls, standardized metadata, etc.
# '''Legal''' e.g. investigating and suggesting the required framework to preserve privacy, ensure equity (equality in access to data and computing capacities), protecting IP and copyrights.
# '''Economic''' e.g. creating sustainable Research Infrastructures for the public and private sector, investigate possibilities for Public Private Partnerships.
# '''Social''' e.g. fostering public engagement in 'Big Data,' community participation in evaluation of current practices, data gathering, analysis and privacy issues.

*'''Social dimension sub-roadmap''' - Any serious roadmap on urban management must consider the social dimension. In this respect, we need to:

# Identify necessary incentives and natural barriers for participation. How can we organize to meet the needs of the citizens affected? For instance, for academics, it might be how to utilize or create peer-review publication venues for contributed work that can reach the community. For practitioners, can we define the city's key or most pressing needs? For commercial developers, are they in situations where their employer will see contributions to a global effort something they should be doing?
# Identify the intended direct beneficiaries, such as the users, customers, consumers, instead of focusing on producers of data, infrastructure, software and services. Beneficiaries might be: urban planners, city councils, citizens, teachers and students, scientists, and academia, etc. While these intended audiences might partially overlap, all might have different needs and need a different approach for participation.
# Identify and get into contact with representatives of an intended target group, e.g. with champions in digital social innovation, or via associations that are directly connected to these communities, such as citizen associations.
# Engage with these people in order to identify '''their real needs for city analytics.''' This will help to accurately identify requirements, and acquire direct feedback. this should also include them in continuously active review panels.
# Evaluate the impact of proposed development activity, on existing development and on the natural environment. For city development this typically includes estimating how much cut and fill is proposed, how proposed land alteration impacts surface drainage, how proposed structures will connect to city services (waste-water, storm-water, drinking-water, power, etc.), how steep the roads will be (slope for fire trucks), and proximity to wetlands and other protected waters.

== Technologies Available In Our Network ==

* [http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/ NASA World Wind] (Web, Java and Android)
* [http://aurin.org.au/projects/portal-and-infrastructure/what-if/ Online What If?] Planning Support System (Web version is now available)
* [http://www.qgis.org/ QGIS]
* [http://i-locate.eu/ i-Locate]
* [http://geomoose.org/ GeoMoose]
** GeoMoose is designed to allow easy access to geographic digital data as well as organizing and indexing location specific datasets. It presents a mapping interface that can publish an almost unlimited number of layers for spatial data and services. At it's core, it's a data discovery and research tool, developed based on the day to day operations and management tasks required of City infrastructure managers and personnel.
* [http://geomobile.como.polimi.it/policrowd2.0/ Policrowd2.0]
* Europa Challenge Open Source Projects [http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/projects2015 2015]
* Open Transit Indicators Enable Cities to Design [http://www.azavea.com/blogs/newsletter/v10i1/open-transit-indicators-enable-cities-to-design-better-transit-systems/ Better Transit Systems]
* [http://osgeolab.unimelb.edu.au/ Australia Urban Intelligence Network, AURIN Portal and workbench]
* Arizona State University (ASU) [http://geodacenter.asu.edu/software GeoDa]
** The GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation develops state-of-the-art methods for geospatial analysis, geovisualization, geosimulation, and spatial process modeling, implements them through open source software tools and applies them to policy-relevant research in the social and environmental sciences.
* [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS]
** Multi-temporal, full 3D GIS research platform with many processing, analytical, modeling and visualization tools relevant to Urban Science and city analytics (lidar-based models, solar energy, viewsheds, networks, water resources, full 3D visualization with animations and many others in the core package, with additional tools, including civil engineering design in add-ons)

== Natural Partners ==

* Netherlands Coordination Office, [http://www.unsdi.nl/ United Nations Spatial Data Infrastructure] (UNSDI)
* [http://fossgeo.org/ GeoAcademy] (Phil Davis)
* [http://eco.umass.edu/people/faculty/schweik-charles-m/ University of Massachusetts at Amherst]
* [http://aworldbridge.com/ Trillium Learning - A World Bridge Projects]
* [http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/smarter_cities/overview/ IBM Smarter Cities]
* [http://www.ubmfuturecities.com/author.asp?section_id=234&doc_id=526334&?_mc=MP_IW_EDT_STUB UBM Future Cities]
* Aalborg University Copenhagen, [http://sustainablecities.aau.dk/ Sustainable Cities] Master Programme
* Imperial College London, Intel Collaborative Research Institute (ICRI) for [http://www.cities.io/guiding-principles/ Sustainable Connected Cites]
* ISET Building [http://i-s-e-t.org/resources/working-papers/building-resilience.html Urban Resilience to Climate Change]
* [http://www.100resilientcities.org/pages/100-resilient-cities-challenge 100 Resilient Cities Challenge]
* Rockefeller Foundation [http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/our-work/initiatives/global-resilience-partnership/ Global Resilience Partnership] [http://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/blog/2015/02/17/grp-teams-announced/ funding transformative solutions]
* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/04/19/cities-arent-great-with-data-could-mike-bloomberg-change-that/ Bloomberg to give $42 million to help cities do more with data]
* University of Toronto [http://news.utoronto.ca/u-ts-patricia-mccarney-launches-open-city-data-portal Launches Open City Data Portal]
* University of Toronto [http://www.globalcitiesinstitute.org/ Global Cities Institute]
* University of Toronto [http://www.dataforcities.org/ World Council on City Data]
* [http://geodacenter.asu.edu/ GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis]
* [http://aurin.org.au/ Australia Urban Intelligence Network, AURIN]
* [http://geodacenter.asu.edu/software Arizona State University (ASU) GeoD]
* [http://dpcs.uoc.edu/joomla/index.php/about-harosa-kc HAROSA Knowledge Community (KC)] An international network of research groups promoting and developing collaborative e-research on new '''H'''ybrid '''A'''lgorithms for solving '''R'''ealistic r'''O'''uting, '''S'''cheduling and system reliability/'''A'''vailability problems.
* Politecnico di Milano, [http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/index.php?lang=en GEO Lab] (Geomatics and Earth Observations)
* ETIS Lab, University of Cergy Pontoise, France. [http://www-etis.ensea.fr ETIS Lab - MIDI team]

== CitySmart ''''''The App'''''' ==

'''The Task'''

Develop an '''''CitySmart App''''' based on the 'framework' documents mentioned above in the Road Map section.

The City of [http://www.nsdinow.org/SDI_Now_02/Technical_Support.html Springfield Oregon] has already shown us the way forward.

Some basic requirements:
* 3D Virtual Globe interchangeable or simultaneous with 2D Map along with Projection Choices
* Imagery & Elevation Import
* Extensible Architecture (Modular Componentry)
* Data Retrieval via REST, WMS, WCS, WFS, GML, User-Deﬁned
* Open Street Map (OSM) Placenames, Boundaries and Roads
* Picking and Decluttering
* Shapeﬁle and KML Import
* Measurement Tools
* Flooding and Line-of-Sight Calculation
* Subsurface Visualization
* Shapes: Placemarks, Path, Polygon, Extruded Polygon, Custom, HTML5-able Balloons
* Volumes (& Shapes), follow terrain or maintain constant elevation above terrain while moving

This CitySmart app needs to allow for some early successes so we can get buy-in from 'real' municipalities to work with us and thereby keep value-added precisely on target. This app will have an open API for the menu system, for easy-to-add functionalities. This will allow each city to tailor the OpenCitySmart app for their specific use. This will also allow the world community to continually optimize functionalities and design new ones, whether proprietary or FOSSy.

'''Who Will Do This?'''

We ask academic and other community oriented organizations, such as those listed as [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Opencitysmart#Natural_Partners Natural Partners], to help us with the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Opencitysmart#The_Road_Map Road Map].

'''Why Do This?'''

Because there is a world full of urban management need, much of which is identical no matter the city. If you are brave and good, just build it and be a lightning rod for our brighter future. The Region and Theme Chairs will evaluate self-identifying contributions, http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll'''.'''

'''Understanding our Changing Planet.'''

# Historical tracks of hurricanes.
## SLOSH http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/surge/slosh.php
# LiDAR - local communities are using [http://aworldbridge.com/real-time-projects/unmanned-aircraft-systems---2.html UAVs to generate their own LiDAR maps]. Plus several states have LiDAR datasets.
# Biodiversity
## Datasets include:
### Landfire http://www.landfire.gov/
### Crop Scape http://nassgeodata.gmu.edu/CropScape/
### VegScape http://nassgeodata.gmu.edu/VegScape/
# Vulnerability Issues
## Social Vulnerability Index: http://webra.cas.sc.edu/hvri/products/sovi.aspx
## Data sources:
### http://www.cocorahs.org/Content.aspx?page=store
### http://openweathermap.org/
# Possible indexes, include -
## Risk Terrain Model http://rutgerscps.weebly.com/rtm.html
## Flash Flood Potential Index http://www.crh.noaa.gov/images/dmx/hydro/FFPI/FFPI_WriteUp.pdf
## Crisis Mapping and Ushashidid - http://www.ushahidi.com/

== Lab nearest city and vulnerability threats, lat/long coordinates ==
* Colleagues, please list (1) your name, (2) the city your lab is closest to, (3) the possible threats that city might face in future years related to population growth and/or the effects of climate change (e.g., coastal storm surge, hurricanes, heat islands, inland lack of water, etc.) and (4) your city's lat\long. I'm hoping to map all the cities in our network for a figure for future grant proposals.
** Charlie Schweik, Springfield, MA, hurricanes, heat islands, 42.393578, -72.524696
** Thomas Mueller, Pittsburgh, PA, heat island, increased flooding due to climate change, 40.440625, -79.995886
** Patrick Hogan, Moffett Field, CA, drought, sea-level-rise, 37.42, -122.06
** Antoni Perez-Navarro, Barcelona, Spain, lack of water, drought, flooding, sea-level-rise, 2.173403, 41.385064
** Ela Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska, Warsaw, Poland, heat island, flooding and flash floods, 21.020, 52.259
** Hande Demirel, Istanbul, Turkey, drought, flash flood, heat island, sea storm surge, 41.0136, 28.9550
** Helena Mitasova, Raleigh, NC, population growth, tornadoes, hurricanes, flash floods, 35.7818,-78.6764

== CitySmart - important journals ==
* Colleagues, I'm trying to build a list of possible publishing venues for academics on this group for a grant proposal. Please list below any relevant journals our group should be aware of -- especially ones of high impact factor or open access. Thanks - [http://eco.umass.edu/people/faculty/schweik-charles-m/ Charlie Schweik]
** Urban Geography - http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rurb20/current
** PLOS One (open access) - http://www.plosone.org/
** Journal of Spatial Information Sciences (open access) - http://www.josis.org/index.php/josis
** International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructures Research (open access) - http://ijsdir.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.php/ijsdir/index
** The Environment and Planning family of journals - http://www.envplan.com/index.html
** '''Colleagues, please add others''', especially ones that are relevant to geo-crowdsourcing, volunteer geographic information, geospatial sensors, geo-analytics, modeling, visualization or decision-support. Also any relevant to open geospatial science education. Thanks!

== Reference Material ==

* Lane County, Oregon, Lane Livability Consortium, Data Inventory and Next Steps Report
** http://www.livabilitylane.org/files/Data-Plan.pdf
** http://www.livabilitylane.org/

* Future Cities, UK Ordnance Survey
** http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/about/thinking/future-cities/

* '''''Climate Adaptation''''' Guidebook for Municipalities
** http://www.cmap.illinois.gov/documents/10180/14193/FY13-0119+Climate+Adaptation+toolkit+lowres.pdf

* Dedeurwaerdere, T. 2014. Sustainability Science for Strong Sustainability. Edward Elgar Publishing.
** http://biogov.uclouvain.be/staff/dedeurwaerdere/book_Sustainability%20Science_EE.pdf

* How Cities Can Battle '''''Climate Change with Resiliency Planning'''''
** http://www.triplepundit.com/2014/09/cities-can-battle-climate-change-resiliency-planning/

* ISET Working Paper 3: Planning for '''''Urban Climate Resilience'''''
** http://i-s-e-t.org/resources/working-papers/climate-resilience-paper-3.html

* USA Federal Policies to Build '''''Climate-Resilient''''' Coastal Regions, Lessons from Hurricane Sandy
** http://resilient-cities.iclei.org/resilient-cities-hub-site/resilience-resource-point/resilience-library/urban-resilience-planning/

* '''Resilience''': A Bridging Concept or a Dead End? http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649357.2012.677124
** “Reframing” '''Resilience''': Challenges for Planning Theory and Practice
** Interacting Traps: '''Resilience''' Assessment of a Pasture Management System in Northern Afghanistan
** '''Urban Resilience''': What Does it Mean in Planning Practice?
** '''Resilience''' as a Useful Concept for '''''Climate Change''''' Adaptation?
** The Politics of '''Resilience for Planning''': A Cautionary Note

* Managing Aging City Infrastructure:
** http://graphics.latimes.com/la-aging-water-infrastructure/

* Veeckman, C. and van der Graaf, 2015. The City as Living Laboratory: Empowering Citizens with the Citadel Toolkit
** Technology Innovation Management Review (TIM Review). http://timreview.ca/issue/2015/march

* Wow! A rural town in Italy '''>'''100% sustainable energy:
** http://reregions.blogspot.com/2010/03/varese-ligure-italy.html
** http://cleantechnica.com/2014/01/09/varese-ligure-italy-small-town-high-renewables/
** http://www.ecofriend.com/italian-town-runs-completely-on-renewable-energy.html

* '''''Sustainable''''' background info:
** Sustainable City, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_city
** Sustainable Energy, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_energy
** Sustainable Transport, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_transport
** Sustainable Living, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_living
** Urban Agriculture, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_agriculture

* Urban Farming
** Growing Cities, http://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/growing-cities
** World’s Largest Urban Farm, http://www.yesmagazine.org/peace-justice/detroit-community-gardeners-question-hantz-urban-farm
** Growing Home, http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/growing-home-urban-agriculture-in-chicago
** Breaking Through Concrete, http://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/growing-through-concrete-an-urban-farming-roadtrip
** ''Growing Power'' Despite an Urban 'Food' Desert, http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/food-for-everyone/growing-power-in-an-urban-food-desert

* Local Grocery
** http://www.cooperativegrocer.coop/articles/2004-01-08/mondragons-eroski-mass-retailer
** http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/the-new-economy/mondragon-worker-cooperatives-decide-how-to-ride-out-a-downturn

* Open Source Ecology, ''Do-It-Yourself'' Industrial Equipment
** http://opensourceecology.org/gvcs/gvcs-machine-index/
** http://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski

* Digital Earth | Virtual Nations | Data Cities
** http://dcitynetwork.net/manifesto/

* Open government, open source city
** http://www.raleighnc.gov/open/
** http://opensource.com/government/13/5/open-data-visual
** http://allthingsopen.org

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Opencitysmart

2017-11-22T15:51:46Z

Wiki-Blammo: /* Technologies Available In Our Network */

'''Welcome to CitySmart for Urban Infrastructure Management'''

'''''CitySmart''''' will be a suite of tools to benefit city operations, such as management of urban infrastructure (utilities, traffic, services, etc.). The purpose will be to continually add and advance functionalities serving urban management, for more efficient operations and with ultimate consideration for increasing sustainability and quality of urban life.

* Chairs: All Cities (on Earth), Chris Pettit (Australia) and Patrick Hogan (USA)

* Those interested in being part of this global enterprise, please subscribe here http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/opencitysmart. Your participation is welcome! Bring a city along with you.

* We support the 'Open Source Guiding Principles:'
** All material created is made available for all under an Open License
** All material is designed to be extended by others, API-centric, modular componentry.
** All participants aim to reuse, optimize, extend and add new components (in that order :-)

Our intent here is that we have one powerful '''open platform''' that's easy to add functionalities to and that are easy to share.

===What's a '''CitySmart''' ''''''platform'''''' look like?===
[http://nsdinow.org/SDI_Now_02/Technical_Support_files/SDI-Now_v01.pdf A rough draft!] Thank you City of Springfield Oregon, a brilliant guidepost for navigating the OpenCitySmart terrain.

== Who's Who Here? ==
*Please let us know of your '''''interest to participate''''' by adding yourself to this list.
*Please identify yourself in one or more categories: '''U''': User/practitioner; '''D''': Developer; '''R''': Researcher/Scientist; '''E''': Educator.

# [http://www.peter-baumann.org Peter Baumann], [http://www.jacobs-university.de/lsis Jacobs University Large-Scale Scientific Information Systems Research Group]
## Participant categories: D, R, E
## Providing the [http:/www.rasdasman.org rasdaman] Array Database which enables flexible, scalable analysis on massive spatio-temporal sensor, image, simulation, and statistics data based on the open OGC "Big Geo Data" standards suite, WCS (of which rasdaman is Reference Implementation), plus WMS and WPS, and interfacing with a series of clients, such as OpenLayers, QGIS, NASA WorldWind.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/chris-pettit/16/190/4B0 Chris Pettit], UNSW,
## Participant categories:
## Build and use planning support systems for empowering planners, policy-makers and communities in exploring city scale what if scenarios of sustainable, productive and resilient land use futures.
# [http://eco.umass.edu/people/faculty/schweik-charles-m/ Charlie Schweik] and [http://advanced.jhu.edu/about-us/faculty/alexander-stepanov-phd/ Alexander (Sasha) Stepanov],
## Participant categories: R, E
## University of Massachusetts Amherst. Trying to build educational service learning opportunities for students on advanced GIS using our campus as a "testbed."
# [http://www.calu.edu/academics/faculty/thomas-mueller.aspx Tom Mueller], California University of Pennsylvania
## Participant categories: E - Educator
## Similar to Charlie, I want to build educational exercises and service learning opportunities for my students.
# [http://people.eecs.ku.edu/~miller/ Jim Miller], University of Kansas, Computer Science
## Participant categories: D, E (also R in terms of computer science and visualization techniques)
## Using NASA World Wind for several open source geo-visualization efforts, including Lidar and multivariate scalar and vector field visualization.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/brandt-melick/22/869/261 Brandt Melick], Information Technology Department Director, Springfield Oregon USA.
## Participant categories: U
## Manage IT and GIS in support of community development, involving public works, and fire and life safety. Coordinate NSDI exchanges of cadastral, elevation and environmental information between local, state and federal agencies in the Pacific Northwest.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/antbeck Ant Beck], University of Nottingham Research Fellow.
## Currently transitioning into CityAnalytics looking at city wide entropy based energy management simulations. Have aspirations for an open, big data environment.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/phillip-davis/9/59/b7b Phillip Davis], GeoAcademy.
## The GeoAcademy is using QGIS 2.8 to provide Massively Open Online Courses through the Canvas Network to students around the globe for free. We currently enroll over 4,000 students in our March 2015 cohort.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/phogan Patrick Hogan], NASA World Wind Project Manager.
## Participant categories: D, R
## Building open source virtual globe technology meant to stimulate innovative solutions managing geospatial data, whether open or proprietary.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/antonipereznavarro Antoni Perez-Navarro], Universitat Oberta de Catalunya,
## Participant categories: R, E
## Currently working on indoor positioning systems. Previously developed the Context Aware Recommender System. In the GIS subjects we use gvSIG and QGIS, and Geomedia as proprietary software. Our students have also developed projects using Open Layers, GeoServer, Google Maps and Open Street Maps.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/gconti Giuseppe Conti]
## Participant categories: U, D, R
## Trilogis Srl, Italy. Working on the open standard for indoor/outdoor interoperable location services (http://www.i-locate.eu/) involving multiple cities, hospitals, museums, etc.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/evangelos-mitsakis/6/62/938 Evangelos Mitsakis]
## Participant categories:
## Centre for Research and Technology Hellas - Hellenic Institute of Transport, Greece. Working on climate change adaptation, urban resilience and smart cities, focusing on intelligent transport and mobility.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/remetey Gábor Remetey], ''Former'' Secretary-general, Hungarian Association for Geo-information (HUNAGI),
## Participant categories: R
## Strategic planning, implementation and consultancy in geospatial IT, and building contacts at the domestic, regional and global levels for Hungarian GIS and the Earth Observation community.
# [http://www.ege-como.polimi.it/index.php?content=maria_brovelli Maria A Brovelli], Politecnico di Milano
## Participant categories: D, R, E
## Applications of free and open-source spatial analytics to urban context and its development, [http://geomobile.como.polimi.it/ Citizen Science] and [http://geomobile.como.polimi.it/policrowd2.0/ collaborative multidimensional platforms].
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/ronfortunato Ron Fortunato], President of [http://www.trilliumlearning.com/AmericaBridge/ Trillium Learning LLC]
## Participant categories: U, E
## Custom design and implement Project-Based Learning systems, networked region-wide and at the national scale, and guaranteed to provide a teacher-complimentary '''exciting learning experience''' for students, elementary through secondary education.
# [http://www.xinyueye.com/ Xinyue Ye], Computational Social Science Lab, Kent State University
## Participant categories: D, R, E
## My research focus is open source space-time analysis method development and its socio-economic application, especially on economic inequality, urban development, crime, and social media.
# Andrew Hunter, [http://gisciencegroup.ucalgary.ca GIScience Group], University of Calgary
## Participant categories: R, E.
## Teach GIS, Land Use Planning and Cadastral Studies. Research focuses on the development of interoperable (open source) frameworks for land use planning, land development, and geospatial approaches for enhancing community engagement.
# [http://faculty.itu.edu.tr/demirelha/ Hande Demirel], Geomatics Engineering Department, Istanbul Technical University
## Participant categories:
## Lecturer for undergraduate and graduate students on spatial information systems. Research focus is spatial data acquisition, modelling spatial data, intelligent transportation and impact analysis for smart cities.
# [http://www.aston.ac.uk/eas/staff/a-z/dr-lucy-bastin/ Lucy Bastin], University of Aston and [http://dopa.jrc.ec.europa.eu/content/contacts Joint Research Centre of the European Commission]
## Participant categories:
## Focus: quality issues with geospatial data and VGI, e.g., making best use of cheap, plentiful but variable sensors such as weather stations for urban decision making on, e.g., dynamic routing of gritting trucks. I work on interoperable solutions for communicating data quality , e.g., UncertML and the OGC SWG on user feedback.
# [http://geodacenter.asu.edu/ GeoDa Center] for Geospatial Analysis and Computation, Arizona State University,
## Participant categories:
## Applications of free and open-source spatial analytics and decision support systems to urban modeling and scenario planning (but '''who''' at GeoDa do we contact?).
# [http://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/person/sven-schade Sven Schade], [http://ec.europa.eu/jrc/ Joint Research Centre] of the European Commission
## Participant categories:
## I am a geospatial information scientist working on knowledge extraction from (big) data by using geospatial analytics capabilities, multidisciplinary interoperability, and open innovation. How can we make data from public, commercial and private sources usable for social good?
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/bob-basques/14/8b2/537 Bob Basques], [http://gis.ci.stpaul.mn.us City of Saint Paul], Mn. USA,
## Participant categories:
## My background is in Spatial Information Management for the City of Saint Paul, Public Works, with just under 300,000 residents. Providing access to hundreds of spatial layers, originating from the City, the Metro Region, County, State, and Federal sources to both public and internal users. Big Open Source proponent and developer.
# [http://theconversation.com/profiles/tuong-thuy-vu-120016 Tuong-Thuy Vu], [http://www.nottingham.edu.my/geography School of Geography, University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus].
## Participant categories:
## Big geospatial data analytics with applications to urban environment
# [http://www.meas.ncsu.edu/faculty/mitasova/mitasova.html Helena Mitasova], [http://geospatial.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/ North Carolina State University, Center for Geospatial Analytics], OSGeo REL
## Participant categories:
## Geospatial modeling and visualization for GRASS GIS, simulation of urban growth - incorporation of FUTURES model into GRASS GIS, Tangible landscape: collaborative modeling environment using interactive 3D printed or molded physical models
## The City of Raleigh strives to become a worldwide model for an open source city http://www.raleighnc.gov/open/
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/ortelius Jeffrey Johnson], Independent Consultant, World Bank GFDRR,
## Participant categories:
## Geospatial Modeling for Disaster Risk Management
# [http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=31094760 Serena Coetzee], [http://www.up.ac.za/cgis Centre for Geoinformation Science], University of Pretoria, South Africa, and [http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=74999697 Samy Katumba], [http://www.gcro.ac.za Gauteng City Region Observatory (GCRO)], South Africa
## Participant categories: R (UP and GCRO), E (UP)
## Open (big) geospatial data in the context of geovisual analytics for smart city planning; SDI for the Gauteng City Region (GCR) with the aim to make it data smart; evaluation of online geovisualization user interfaces
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/dimitriskotzinos Dimitris Kotzinos], [http://www-etis.ensea.fr ETIS Lab], University of Cergy Pontoise, France
## Participant categories:
## Trajectory mining, data semantics and integration of city data, data analytics with application to urban and domestic environments, personal data management
# [http://geog.ku.edu/xingong-li Xingong Li], Department of Geography, University of Kansas
## Participant categories:
## My research interest in Urban Science and City Analytics is in water infrastructure and smart water use.
# [http://citi.clemson.edu/people/ Patricia Carbajales-Dale], [http://www.clemsongis.org/ Clemson Center for Geospatial Technologies], Clemson University
## Participant categories:
## High Performance Computing for geospatial analytics.
# [http://au.linkedin.com/pub/cameron-shorter/5/398/590 Cameron Shorter], Co-coordinator of http://live.osgeo.org, which packages up ~50 of the best Open Source GIS applications, along with data and quickstarts;
## Participant categories:
## Also geospatial solutions architect at http://lisasoft.com, Sydney, Australia.
# [http://gisc.tamucc.edu/Faculty/rick.html Rick Smith], [http://spatialquerylab.com/ Spatial {Query} Lab] at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
## Participant categories: R, E
## Use of mapping technology for emergency response and planning. Update and maintain freely-available university-level FOSS4G curriculum.
# [http://gisc.tamucc.edu/Faculty/mike.html Michael Starek], Geospatial Sensing and Analytics at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
## Participant categories: R, E
## My research interest in Urban Science and City Analytics is in the application of emergent geo-sensing techniques for monitoring of the 3D build environment.
# [http://clas.ucdenver.edu/directory/faculty-staff/Rafael-Moreno Rafael Moreno], Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Denver.
## Participant categories: E, R
## Incorporation of FOSS4G in Geography and Urban and Regional Planning curricula. Land use planning, natural resources management, GIS science and Technology.
# [http://www.ucdenver.edu/academics/colleges/ArchitecturePlanning/facultystaff/directories/Pages/Individual%20Pages_Planning/Troy_Austin.aspx Austin Troy], Department of Planning and Design, College of Architecture and Plannig, University of Colorado Denver.
## Participant categories: E, R
## Land use policy, environmental planning, GIS, spatial analysis, remote sensing, land use change modeling and simulation?
# [http://www.ucdenver.edu/academics/colleges/Engineering/Programs/Computer-Science-and-Engineering/faculty/Pages/FarnoushBanaeiKashani.aspx Farnoush Banaei-Kashani], Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Colorado Denver.
## Participant categories: E, R
## Big data management and mining, database systems, data-driven decision-making systems
# [http://humanities.usm.my/index.php/discover-us/our-people/staff-directory/42-geography/31-ruslan-rainis Ruslan Rainis], Geoinformatic Unit, School of Humanities, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia
## Participant categories: R
## FOSS4G in social sciences & liberal arts curricula, Urban big data, urban spatial modelling.
# [http://people.eng.unimelb.edu.au/winter/ Stephan Winter], Geomatics, The University of Melbourne
## Participant categories: R, E
## Coordinating the Melbourne Urban Connectedness research cluster.
# [http://de.linkedin.com/pub/ingo-simonis/3/145/701 Ingo Simonis], OGC
## Participant categories: U, R, E
## Standardization needs and solutions for Urban Science.
# [http://kr.linkedin.com/pub/junyoung-choi/54/308/986 Junyoung Choi], Spatial Information Office of Korea Land and Housing Corp(Public company) and Spatial Big Data Center at MOLIT, Republic of Korea.
## Participant categories: U, R
## Spatial Big Data for the Smart Cities in Developing Countries, Urban Spatial Measures for UN Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs); UN SDG 11. Making Cities and Human Settlement.
# [http://grel.ist.edu.pk/?People:Dr._Rizwan_Bulbul Rizwan Bulbul], Director of [http://grel.ist.edu.pk Geospatial Research and Education Lab], Institute of space technology, Islamabad, Pakistan
## Participant categories: R, E
## 3D city modeling, 3D reconstruction, Spatio-temporal databases for cities, NSDI
# [https://www.linkedin.com/in/emma-strong-2490728a Emma Strong], Southern Mississippi Planning and Development District (SMPDD)
## Participant categories: U
## I work with the southern 15 counties of Mississippi and all cities and towns contained within. A few cities and counties have advanced GIS, mostly proprietary, but much of the area is rural with little to no GIS budget, so I plan to train myself so I can train others and spread GIS to more areas in the public sector. I think this project can help me to do that.
# [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaisen Jaisen Nedumpala], Koorachundu Village Panchayat, Kozhikode, Kerala, India.
## Participant categories: U, D, R
## Free and open-source spatial analytics and GIS Development, SDIs suitable for rural local authorities etc.
# [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sudhira Sudhira HS], [http://gubbilabs.in Gubbi Labs], Gubbi, Karnataka, India.
## Participant categories: U, D, R
## Spatial Planning Support Systems, Modelling and Analytics for Urban Planning and Decision-making, Urban Land-use/Land Cover change using Satellite Remote Sensing
# [https://ie.linkedin.com/in/gavin-mcardle-a2666415 Gavin McArdle], [http://www.csi.ucd.ie/ School of Computer Science, University College Dublin], [http://www.dublindashboard.ie/ Dublin Dashboard].
## Participant categories: D, R, E
## Urban Dashboards, Urban Dynamics, Spatial Data Analysis, Human Mobility, Lead Developer of the Dublin Dashboard project working with Dublin City Council.
# [http://gis-management.de Franz-Josef Behr], Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences
## Participant categories: D, R, E
## Strategic consultancy in geospatial IT, utility sector, interoperability, open education, FOSS certification.
# [https://www.linkedin.com/in/zia33 Mohammed Zia], [http://www.cbs.itu.edu.tr/ GeoSpatial Developer and Doctoral Student]
## Participant categories: U, D, R
## 7+ years of academic experience in the field of Location Based-, Vehicle Routing-Services, Land Use/Land Cover monitoring, and Environmental Sciences. Experience in open-source GIS / Remote Sensing, Geo-data management, and analysis with graduation in Geological Technologies.

== Global Drivers for 'CitySmart' ==

* EC '''Infrastructure for Spatial Information''' in the European Community, [http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/ INSPIRE]
* US National '''Spatial Data Infrastructure''', [http://www.fgdc.gov/nsdi/nsdi.html NSDI]
* UN '''Spatial Data Infrastructure''', [http://www.ungiwg.org/content/united-nations-spatial-data-infrastructure-unsdi UNSDI]
* UNSDI '''[http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/videos/other/final_visualization_facility.avi Visualization]''' for UN Member State briefing
* UN '''[http://citiscope.org/story/2014/comparing-mdgs-and-sdgs#SDGs Sustainable Development Goals]''' (SDG)
* UN “Urban Goal” ([http://citiscope.org/story/2014/comparing-mdgs-and-sdgs#No11 SDG #11]): Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and '''sustainable''',
* The Brookings Institution: Why we need to think about implementing the '''[http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/future-development/posts/2015/03/03-implementing-sustainable-development-kharas Sustainable Development Goals]'''
* Open Transit Indicators Enable Cities to Design '''[http://www.azavea.com/blogs/newsletter/v10i1/open-transit-indicators-enable-cities-to-design-better-transit-systems/ Better Transit Systems]'''

== Key Research Questions ==

* How can we transform cities to be more sustainable, productive and resilient?
** Facilitate the ability for cities to work together in addressing issues all cities must face.
* How can we empower cities, their citizens, community groups, planners, policy and decision-makers to work cohesively in addressing the issues our cities face such that they successfully engage in a sustainable urban future?
** We build an app whose functionalities '''''all''''' cities can '''''share''''' and every city will also own.
** If cities have a way to share solutions they generate for themselves, we address our own needs yet end up serving the interest of all. That's compound interest!

=='''''The Road Map''''' ==

* We can thank OGC's "[http://gisuser.com/2015/02/ogc-smart-cities-spatial-information-framework-white-paper-announced/ Smart Cities Spatial Information Framework]" for a good start on defining the problem.

* We can thank Brandt Melick, Information Technology Department Director, Springfield Oregon USA for putting this [http://www.NSDInow.org/SDI_Now_02/Technical_Support.html OpenCitySmart] app idea into action! Will your city step forward to help lead our shared effort to make cities more productive and more livable?

* ''' 'CitySmart' App Themes/Data-type''' (feel free to expand):
# [http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/2/list/7 INSPIRE Data Specifications]
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_planning Urban Planning]
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_transportation_system Intelligent Transportation]
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care Health & Medical Services]
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_service Public Safety & Emergency Services]
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_protection Environmental Protection]
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_automation Intelligent Buildings]
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_grid Utilities: Smart Grid, Smart Water, Sanitation, etc.]
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Location-based_service Location-Based Services]
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indoor_positioning_system Indoor Positioning System]
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recommender_system Context-aware ''Recommender Systems'']

* '''Data sharing''' – Cities need to be able to share information with site developers, site constraint specialists (environmental scientists, planners and engineers), utility service providers and regulators. These data sets most often include:

# [http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/2/list/datamodels INSPIRE Data Models]
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_imagery Imagery] Resolution, 3-inch pixel is preferred, 1-foot pixel less so, 1-meter much less so
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadastre Cadastral] Information: parcel polygons, Rights of Way (ROW), property ownership, assessment and taxation information and property class
# Address Information: house number, street name, City, zip, site location (coordinates) and zoning information
# Jurisdictional boundaries: incorporated areas, city limits, county boundaries, etc., urban growth boundaries, public safety response areas
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_elevation_model Elevation] Information: DEM’s (raster), DTM’s (vector), contours and spot elevation points, as well as mass points and break lines
# Waterways and protected areas: wetlands, fish-bearing streams, endangered species habitat, well-head protection zones, etc.
# Infrastructure/utilities: waste-water, storm-water, transportation systems, power, drinking water, etc.
# Structures/facilities: bridges, building foot-prints, complexes, monuments, etc., facility contacts, etc.
# Documents: reference material, procedures, regulations, metadata, etc.
# LiDAR, invaluable data, needing the tools to put it to good use. The City of Springfield has high resolution LiDAR, 8 points per meter. Though they put it to good use, they want even better tools to work with it (i.e., our OpenCitySmart app).

* '''Challenges'''

# '''Technical''' e.g. raw data made usable, data dating, accurate geo-reference conversion, unit conversion (i.e., metric/standard), data storage, data security, firewalls, standardized metadata, etc.
# '''Legal''' e.g. investigating and suggesting the required framework to preserve privacy, ensure equity (equality in access to data and computing capacities), protecting IP and copyrights.
# '''Economic''' e.g. creating sustainable Research Infrastructures for the public and private sector, investigate possibilities for Public Private Partnerships.
# '''Social''' e.g. fostering public engagement in 'Big Data,' community participation in evaluation of current practices, data gathering, analysis and privacy issues.

*'''Social dimension sub-roadmap''' - Any serious roadmap on urban management must consider the social dimension. In this respect, we need to:

# Identify necessary incentives and natural barriers for participation. How can we organize to meet the needs of the citizens affected? For instance, for academics, it might be how to utilize or create peer-review publication venues for contributed work that can reach the community. For practitioners, can we define the city's key or most pressing needs? For commercial developers, are they in situations where their employer will see contributions to a global effort something they should be doing?
# Identify the intended direct beneficiaries, such as the users, customers, consumers, instead of focusing on producers of data, infrastructure, software and services. Beneficiaries might be: urban planners, city councils, citizens, teachers and students, scientists, and academia, etc. While these intended audiences might partially overlap, all might have different needs and need a different approach for participation.
# Identify and get into contact with representatives of an intended target group, e.g. with champions in digital social innovation, or via associations that are directly connected to these communities, such as citizen associations.
# Engage with these people in order to identify '''their real needs for city analytics.''' This will help to accurately identify requirements, and acquire direct feedback. this should also include them in continuously active review panels.
# Evaluate the impact of proposed development activity, on existing development and on the natural environment. For city development this typically includes estimating how much cut and fill is proposed, how proposed land alteration impacts surface drainage, how proposed structures will connect to city services (waste-water, storm-water, drinking-water, power, etc.), how steep the roads will be (slope for fire trucks), and proximity to wetlands and other protected waters.

== Technologies Available In Our Network ==

* [http://webworldwind.org/ NASA Web World Wind] (JavaScript)
* [http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/ NASA World Wind] (Java, iOS and Android)
* [http://aurin.org.au/projects/portal-and-infrastructure/what-if/ Online What If?] Planning Support System (Web version is now available)
* [http://www.qgis.org/ QGIS]
* [http://i-locate.eu/ i-Locate]
* [http://geomoose.org/ GeoMoose]
** GeoMoose is designed to allow easy access to geographic digital data as well as organizing and indexing location specific datasets. It presents a mapping interface that can publish an almost unlimited number of layers for spatial data and services. At it's core, it's a data discovery and research tool, developed based on the day to day operations and management tasks required of City infrastructure managers and personnel.
* [http://geomobile.como.polimi.it/policrowd2.0/ Policrowd2.0]
* Europa Challenge Open Source Projects [http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/projects2015 2015]
* Open Transit Indicators Enable Cities to Design [http://www.azavea.com/blogs/newsletter/v10i1/open-transit-indicators-enable-cities-to-design-better-transit-systems/ Better Transit Systems]
* [http://osgeolab.unimelb.edu.au/ Australia Urban Intelligence Network, AURIN Portal and workbench]
* Arizona State University (ASU) [http://geodacenter.asu.edu/software GeoDa]
** The GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation develops state-of-the-art methods for geospatial analysis, geovisualization, geosimulation, and spatial process modeling, implements them through open source software tools and applies them to policy-relevant research in the social and environmental sciences.
* [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS]
** Multi-temporal, full 3D GIS research platform with many processing, analytical, modeling and visualization tools relevant to Urban Science and city analytics (lidar-based models, solar energy, viewsheds, networks, water resources, full 3D visualization with animations and many others in the core package, with additional tools, including civil engineering design in add-ons)

== Natural Partners ==

* Netherlands Coordination Office, [http://www.unsdi.nl/ United Nations Spatial Data Infrastructure] (UNSDI)
* [http://fossgeo.org/ GeoAcademy] (Phil Davis)
* [http://eco.umass.edu/people/faculty/schweik-charles-m/ University of Massachusetts at Amherst]
* [http://aworldbridge.com/ Trillium Learning - A World Bridge Projects]
* [http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/smarter_cities/overview/ IBM Smarter Cities]
* [http://www.ubmfuturecities.com/author.asp?section_id=234&doc_id=526334&?_mc=MP_IW_EDT_STUB UBM Future Cities]
* Aalborg University Copenhagen, [http://sustainablecities.aau.dk/ Sustainable Cities] Master Programme
* Imperial College London, Intel Collaborative Research Institute (ICRI) for [http://www.cities.io/guiding-principles/ Sustainable Connected Cites]
* ISET Building [http://i-s-e-t.org/resources/working-papers/building-resilience.html Urban Resilience to Climate Change]
* [http://www.100resilientcities.org/pages/100-resilient-cities-challenge 100 Resilient Cities Challenge]
* Rockefeller Foundation [http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/our-work/initiatives/global-resilience-partnership/ Global Resilience Partnership] [http://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/blog/2015/02/17/grp-teams-announced/ funding transformative solutions]
* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/04/19/cities-arent-great-with-data-could-mike-bloomberg-change-that/ Bloomberg to give $42 million to help cities do more with data]
* University of Toronto [http://news.utoronto.ca/u-ts-patricia-mccarney-launches-open-city-data-portal Launches Open City Data Portal]
* University of Toronto [http://www.globalcitiesinstitute.org/ Global Cities Institute]
* University of Toronto [http://www.dataforcities.org/ World Council on City Data]
* [http://geodacenter.asu.edu/ GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis]
* [http://aurin.org.au/ Australia Urban Intelligence Network, AURIN]
* [http://geodacenter.asu.edu/software Arizona State University (ASU) GeoD]
* [http://dpcs.uoc.edu/joomla/index.php/about-harosa-kc HAROSA Knowledge Community (KC)] An international network of research groups promoting and developing collaborative e-research on new '''H'''ybrid '''A'''lgorithms for solving '''R'''ealistic r'''O'''uting, '''S'''cheduling and system reliability/'''A'''vailability problems.
* Politecnico di Milano, [http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/index.php?lang=en GEO Lab] (Geomatics and Earth Observations)
* ETIS Lab, University of Cergy Pontoise, France. [http://www-etis.ensea.fr ETIS Lab - MIDI team]

== CitySmart ''''''The App'''''' ==

'''The Task'''

Develop an '''''CitySmart App''''' based on the 'framework' documents mentioned above in the Road Map section.

The City of [http://www.nsdinow.org/SDI_Now_02/Technical_Support.html Springfield Oregon] has already shown us the way forward.

Some basic requirements:
* 3D Virtual Globe interchangeable or simultaneous with 2D Map along with Projection Choices
* Imagery & Elevation Import
* Extensible Architecture (Modular Componentry)
* Data Retrieval via REST, WMS, WCS, WFS, GML, User-Deﬁned
* Open Street Map (OSM) Placenames, Boundaries and Roads
* Picking and Decluttering
* Shapeﬁle and KML Import
* Measurement Tools
* Flooding and Line-of-Sight Calculation
* Subsurface Visualization
* Shapes: Placemarks, Path, Polygon, Extruded Polygon, Custom, HTML5-able Balloons
* Volumes (& Shapes), follow terrain or maintain constant elevation above terrain while moving

This CitySmart app needs to allow for some early successes so we can get buy-in from 'real' municipalities to work with us and thereby keep value-added precisely on target. This app will have an open API for the menu system, for easy-to-add functionalities. This will allow each city to tailor the OpenCitySmart app for their specific use. This will also allow the world community to continually optimize functionalities and design new ones, whether proprietary or FOSSy.

'''Who Will Do This?'''

We ask academic and other community oriented organizations, such as those listed as [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Opencitysmart#Natural_Partners Natural Partners], to help us with the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Opencitysmart#The_Road_Map Road Map].

'''Why Do This?'''

Because there is a world full of urban management need, much of which is identical no matter the city. If you are brave and good, just build it and be a lightning rod for our brighter future. The Region and Theme Chairs will evaluate self-identifying contributions, http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll'''.'''

'''Understanding our Changing Planet.'''

# Historical tracks of hurricanes.
## SLOSH http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/surge/slosh.php
# LiDAR - local communities are using [http://aworldbridge.com/real-time-projects/unmanned-aircraft-systems---2.html UAVs to generate their own LiDAR maps]. Plus several states have LiDAR datasets.
# Biodiversity
## Datasets include:
### Landfire http://www.landfire.gov/
### Crop Scape http://nassgeodata.gmu.edu/CropScape/
### VegScape http://nassgeodata.gmu.edu/VegScape/
# Vulnerability Issues
## Social Vulnerability Index: http://webra.cas.sc.edu/hvri/products/sovi.aspx
## Data sources:
### http://www.cocorahs.org/Content.aspx?page=store
### http://openweathermap.org/
# Possible indexes, include -
## Risk Terrain Model http://rutgerscps.weebly.com/rtm.html
## Flash Flood Potential Index http://www.crh.noaa.gov/images/dmx/hydro/FFPI/FFPI_WriteUp.pdf
## Crisis Mapping and Ushashidid - http://www.ushahidi.com/

== Lab nearest city and vulnerability threats, lat/long coordinates ==
* Colleagues, please list (1) your name, (2) the city your lab is closest to, (3) the possible threats that city might face in future years related to population growth and/or the effects of climate change (e.g., coastal storm surge, hurricanes, heat islands, inland lack of water, etc.) and (4) your city's lat\long. I'm hoping to map all the cities in our network for a figure for future grant proposals.
** Charlie Schweik, Springfield, MA, hurricanes, heat islands, 42.393578, -72.524696
** Thomas Mueller, Pittsburgh, PA, heat island, increased flooding due to climate change, 40.440625, -79.995886
** Patrick Hogan, Moffett Field, CA, drought, sea-level-rise, 37.42, -122.06
** Antoni Perez-Navarro, Barcelona, Spain, lack of water, drought, flooding, sea-level-rise, 2.173403, 41.385064
** Ela Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska, Warsaw, Poland, heat island, flooding and flash floods, 21.020, 52.259
** Hande Demirel, Istanbul, Turkey, drought, flash flood, heat island, sea storm surge, 41.0136, 28.9550
** Helena Mitasova, Raleigh, NC, population growth, tornadoes, hurricanes, flash floods, 35.7818,-78.6764

== CitySmart - important journals ==
* Colleagues, I'm trying to build a list of possible publishing venues for academics on this group for a grant proposal. Please list below any relevant journals our group should be aware of -- especially ones of high impact factor or open access. Thanks - [http://eco.umass.edu/people/faculty/schweik-charles-m/ Charlie Schweik]
** Urban Geography - http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rurb20/current
** PLOS One (open access) - http://www.plosone.org/
** Journal of Spatial Information Sciences (open access) - http://www.josis.org/index.php/josis
** International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructures Research (open access) - http://ijsdir.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.php/ijsdir/index
** The Environment and Planning family of journals - http://www.envplan.com/index.html
** '''Colleagues, please add others''', especially ones that are relevant to geo-crowdsourcing, volunteer geographic information, geospatial sensors, geo-analytics, modeling, visualization or decision-support. Also any relevant to open geospatial science education. Thanks!

== Reference Material ==

* Lane County, Oregon, Lane Livability Consortium, Data Inventory and Next Steps Report
** http://www.livabilitylane.org/files/Data-Plan.pdf
** http://www.livabilitylane.org/

* Future Cities, UK Ordnance Survey
** http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/about/thinking/future-cities/

* '''''Climate Adaptation''''' Guidebook for Municipalities
** http://www.cmap.illinois.gov/documents/10180/14193/FY13-0119+Climate+Adaptation+toolkit+lowres.pdf

* Dedeurwaerdere, T. 2014. Sustainability Science for Strong Sustainability. Edward Elgar Publishing.
** http://biogov.uclouvain.be/staff/dedeurwaerdere/book_Sustainability%20Science_EE.pdf

* How Cities Can Battle '''''Climate Change with Resiliency Planning'''''
** http://www.triplepundit.com/2014/09/cities-can-battle-climate-change-resiliency-planning/

* ISET Working Paper 3: Planning for '''''Urban Climate Resilience'''''
** http://i-s-e-t.org/resources/working-papers/climate-resilience-paper-3.html

* USA Federal Policies to Build '''''Climate-Resilient''''' Coastal Regions, Lessons from Hurricane Sandy
** http://resilient-cities.iclei.org/resilient-cities-hub-site/resilience-resource-point/resilience-library/urban-resilience-planning/

* '''Resilience''': A Bridging Concept or a Dead End? http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649357.2012.677124
** “Reframing” '''Resilience''': Challenges for Planning Theory and Practice
** Interacting Traps: '''Resilience''' Assessment of a Pasture Management System in Northern Afghanistan
** '''Urban Resilience''': What Does it Mean in Planning Practice?
** '''Resilience''' as a Useful Concept for '''''Climate Change''''' Adaptation?
** The Politics of '''Resilience for Planning''': A Cautionary Note

* Managing Aging City Infrastructure:
** http://graphics.latimes.com/la-aging-water-infrastructure/

* Veeckman, C. and van der Graaf, 2015. The City as Living Laboratory: Empowering Citizens with the Citadel Toolkit
** Technology Innovation Management Review (TIM Review). http://timreview.ca/issue/2015/march

* Wow! A rural town in Italy '''>'''100% sustainable energy:
** http://reregions.blogspot.com/2010/03/varese-ligure-italy.html
** http://cleantechnica.com/2014/01/09/varese-ligure-italy-small-town-high-renewables/
** http://www.ecofriend.com/italian-town-runs-completely-on-renewable-energy.html

* '''''Sustainable''''' background info:
** Sustainable City, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_city
** Sustainable Energy, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_energy
** Sustainable Transport, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_transport
** Sustainable Living, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_living
** Urban Agriculture, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_agriculture

* Urban Farming
** Growing Cities, http://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/growing-cities
** World’s Largest Urban Farm, http://www.yesmagazine.org/peace-justice/detroit-community-gardeners-question-hantz-urban-farm
** Growing Home, http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/growing-home-urban-agriculture-in-chicago
** Breaking Through Concrete, http://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/growing-through-concrete-an-urban-farming-roadtrip
** ''Growing Power'' Despite an Urban 'Food' Desert, http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/food-for-everyone/growing-power-in-an-urban-food-desert

* Local Grocery
** http://www.cooperativegrocer.coop/articles/2004-01-08/mondragons-eroski-mass-retailer
** http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/the-new-economy/mondragon-worker-cooperatives-decide-how-to-ride-out-a-downturn

* Open Source Ecology, ''Do-It-Yourself'' Industrial Equipment
** http://opensourceecology.org/gvcs/gvcs-machine-index/
** http://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski

* Digital Earth | Virtual Nations | Data Cities
** http://dcitynetwork.net/manifesto/

* Open government, open source city
** http://www.raleighnc.gov/open/
** http://opensource.com/government/13/5/open-data-visual
** http://allthingsopen.org

[[Category: GeoForAll]]

Live GIS History

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Where has OSGeo-Live been used? Please tell us. A history of wide use provides justification for future developers to include, and improve their application on OSGeo-Live.

See also [[Live GIS Testimonials]].

== Template Questions ==
* date of the event or training course, or program
* City, Country
* link to webside
* OSGeo-Live handed out to attendees? How many?
* USBs, DVDs, or VMs used? How many?
* OSGeo-Live lightning overview presented? To how many people? Was it a plenary event? If not, what percentage of the attendees attended this talk? Did you get any feedback? What did you hear?
* OSGeo-Live used for workshops or training programs? What did the workshop/training cover. Was the USB/DVD or VM used? Were attendees computers used? If so, what operating systems were they running? How long did it take to set up? Were there any issues?
* Any suggestions on what we can do to improve OSGeo-Live for future?
* Contact: person (usually coordinator) who can be contacted to ask further questions

== 2017 ==

=== 22 - 24 February 2017 WLIA Conference, USA ===
* Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, USA
* Contact: abarrett@uniontel.net
* https://www.wlia.org/annual-conference/
* There may be a SharedGeo Booth with some USBs to hand out.
* Presentation attendees will receive a Live USB.
* Presented by Bob Basques.
* Presentation Sponsored by SharedGeo (www.sharedgeo.org)

== 2016 ==

=== 24. - 26. August 2016 FOSS4G Bonn 2016 ===
* Bonn, Germany
* Contact: info@foss4g2016.org
* http://2016.foss4g.org/home.html
* get information at [[FOSS4G_2016_OSGeo_Booth]]
* 250 + 50 OSGeo-Live USBs handed out to delegates and students,
* OSGeo-Live 10.0 was used in most of the workshops with great success. OSGeo-Live was installed on the workshop notebooks
* Notebooks with OSGeo-Live installed were used as presentation notebooks
* many OSGeo-Live postcards were given to the delegates
* a group of people worked at the FOSS4G OSGeo Code Sprint on OSGeo-Live [[FOSS4G_2016_Code_Sprint]]

=== 6.- 8. July 2016 AGIT Salzburg ===
* 6.-8.July 2016
* Salzburg, Austria
* http://agit.at/
* OSGeo Park USB thumbs with OSGeo-Live were sold, information about OSGeo projects
* OSGeo-Live postcards: 500 PostCards
* Workshops about '''PostGIS''', '''Mapbender3''' and '''How to setup a GDI with Open Source Software''': people work with OSGeo-Live nUSB thumb [https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/wiki/Live_GIS_Workshop_Install workshop page], +-100 participants working with OSGeo-Live
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 04. - 06. July 2016 FOSSGIS Salzburg===
* 04. - 06. July 2016
* Salzburg, Austria
* http://fossgis-konferenz.de/2016/
* Videos on youtube: http://youtube.com/fossgis
** http://www.fossgis-konferenz.de/2016/socialevents/
* Hand out OSGeo-Live 250 postcards to all delegates
* > Workshops will take place, most of them will use OSGeo-Live
** +-130 persons in the workshops
* What format of OSGeo-Live was used?
** OSGeo-Live was used with Virtual Box in the Workshops
** USB Sticks were given to the participants if interested
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 24. May 2016 Geospatial World Forum ===
* OSGeo celebrating 10th anniversary http://geospatialworldforum.org/OSGeo-programme.html
* 23.-26. May 2016
* Rotterdam, Netherlands
* http://geospatialworldforum.org/
* https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geospatial_World_Forum_2016
* Talk: OSGeo Live - a practical view on OSGeo - Johan Van de Wauw - President OSGeo.be
* Contact: Johan Van de Wauw , Dirk Frigne

== 2015 ==

=== November 27th 2015 FOSS4G.HU ===
* Budapest, Hungary
* http://www.geod.bme.hu/gis/workshop4
* During OpenLayers 3 and Python Geospatial Programming workshop OSGeo-Live (installed on desktop and laptop machines) was used
* Contact: Zoltan Siki

=== October 3 2015 24dev-demo for OSGeo Live DVD ===
* A set of customizable Addon prototyping scripts for the OSGeo Live DVD.
* Users can install 24dev applications to a live OSGeo DVD via running one script.
* Users can rename the base directory and re-run the install script to update profiles.
* The install script creates a backup tar file.
* The scripts can display custom license/release files for each application.
* OSD users are encouraged to fork new release via github renamed as: 24dev-.
* The program documentation/files are located at: https://github.com/pmcgover/24dev-demo

=== October 5th-9th 2015 Digital Earth 2015 ===
* Halifax, Nova Scotia · Canada
* OSGeo-Live workshop?
* Contact: Dirk Werle (conference chair), Brian Hamlin and Jeff McKenna (OSGeo-Live presenters)

=== 28/29 September 2015: GFOSS DAY 2015 ===
* Lecco, Italy
* OSGeo-Live used for workshop using virtual machine
* USB Sticks were given to the participants
* Contact: Luca Delucchi

=== 23-24 September 2015: GiS in the Rockies ===
* Denver, USA
* OSGeo-Live referenced in FOSS4G track at GIS in the Rockies conference
* Contact: Rafael Moreno-sanchez

=== 14-19 September 2015: FOSS4G 2015 ===
* Seoul, South Korea
* Contact: Sanghee Shin
* OSGeo-Live USBs handed out, OSGeo-Live used in a number of the workshops

=== 15-17 September 2015, INTERGEO 2015 Stuttgart (Germany)===
* Stuttgart, Germany
* http://www.fossgis.de/wiki/Intergeo_2015
* http://intergeo.de
* OSGeo-Live Postcards
* presentation area with OSGeo-Live 9.0 to try out.
* presentations about OSGeo-Live in the Open Source Park http://live.osgeo.org/de/presentation/index.html
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 11-13 August 2015, Geomatics Indaba 2015===
* Ekurhuleni, South Africa
* http://geomatics.org.za/
* distribution of 800 OSGeo-Live 8.5 DVDs in delegate bags
* Contact: [[User:Gfleming|Gavin Fleming]]

=== 27-31 July, 2015: GIS Training at IAEA===
* Vienna, Austria
* Workshop on GIS for agricultural pest control
* OSGeo Live was install as virtual machine on participants computers
* Training focused on QGIS and Spatialite
* Contact: [[User:micha|Micha Silver]]

=== 13-18 July 14, 2015: FOSS4G Europe ===
* Como, Italy
* Workshops, Conference, Codesprint
* Contact: Maria Antonia Brovelli

=== 8.-10. July 2015 AGIT Salzburg (Austria) ===
* 8.-10.July 2015
* Salzburg, Austria
* http://agit.at/
* OSGeo Park USB thumbs with OSGeo-Live were sold, information about OSGeo projects
* OSGeo-Live postcards: 500 PostCards
* OSGeo-Live presentation by Astrid Emde (german) [https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive-doc/blob/master/en/presentation/index.html presentation]
* Workshops about PostGIS (> 30 attendees) and Mapbender3 (>30 attendees): people worked with OSGeo-Live 8.5 USB thumb [https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/wiki/Live_GIS_Workshop_Install workshop page]
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 8-10. June 2015 FOSS4G India 2015, IIRS Dehradun, India ===
OSGeo-India tweaked the Live DVD to also contain the Digital Proceedings of the Conference (full papers and abstracts) and it was made available to all the Participants. My humble self mentioned in my inaugural presentation that the essence of all OSGeo and OS-GIS software are tucked into the live DVD. It was also emphasised that the Live-DVD is a way of seeing all the software run on one's computer / Laptop without soiling it by booting with it. Use of Virtual Machine on certain operating systems, which are not boot-friendly to the Live-DVD was also mentioned. As usual the conference acknowledges the untiring effort by live.osgeo.org (http://live.osgeo.org/en/index.html) who keep the DVD afresh with all latest OS-GIS. https://plus.google.com/114935751871526846208/posts/iXhdxwaePux
* http://foss4gindia.in

=== 11. - 13. May 2015 Symposium Königslutter - Angewandte Kartographie - Geovisualisierung ===
* Königslutter (Germany)
* Workshop on OSGeo-Live:
** Workshop with OSGeo-live from USB
** 10 attendees
* PostCards postcards to all delegates - about 50 postcards
* used presentation: http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/doc/de/presentation/index.html
* http://angewandte-kartographie.de/
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 1-3 June 2015: CalGIS ===
* Sacramento, California, United States
* http://www.calgis.org
* Contact: Alex Mandel / Christina Boggs

=== 11. - 13. March 2015 FOSSGIS ===
* 11. - 13. March 2015
* Münster, Germany
* http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2015/
* Videos on youtube: http://youtube.com/fossgis
** see also http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2015/programm/events/904.de.html
* Hand out OSGeo-Live 500 postcards to all delegates
* > 21 Workshops will take place, most of them will use OSGeo-Live
** 239 persons in the workshops
* What format of OSGeo-Live was used?
** USB Sticks
** USB Sticks were given to the participants
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== March 2015 Leeds MSc course ===
* Training course at Leeds, UK
* https://github.com/MassAtLeeds/webGIS
* 20 people attended, encouraged to use VMs
* Only 1 seen successfully running it in a VM!
* Contact: Robin Lovelace

=== 9-11 March 2015 FOSS4G-NA ===
* Burlingame, California, USA
* Contact Andrew Ross

=== 31 January 2015 FOSDEM ===
* Location: Brussels, Belgium
* 31 January & 1 February 2015
* Presentation: From Debian-GIS to OSGeo live and back
* Description: Debian GIS is a project with the goal of making Debian the best distribution for Geographical Information System applications.
OSGeo live (live.osgeo.org) is a self-contained bootable dvd, usb thumb drive or virtual machine based on Lubuntu, that allows you to try a wide variety of open source geospatial software without installing anything. It also contains a set of uniform documentation (description and quickstarts) to guide people around the different projects.
Even though OSGeo live is based on the packages in Debian, both projects diverted and where OSGeo live managed to get a large (100+) community of contributors, progress in Debian GIS was stalling. Recently however, a new wind is blowing in Debian GIS (among others with the Debian pure blends initiative) and many changes from OSGeo live are being incorporated back into Debian.
Apart from presenting both projects I will highlight some problems people encounter when they would like to add their package to Debian GIS, and how Debian pure blends try to solve this.
* Speaker: Johan Van de Wauw
* https://fosdem.org/2015/schedule/event/from_debian_gis_to_osgeo_live_and_back/

== 2014 ==
=== 2-5 December 2014, FOSS4G Asia ===
* Bankok, Thailand
* OSGeo-Live lightning talk presented.
* planning to use OSGeo-Live at the workshop.
* Planning to distribute OSGeo-Live DVDs in the conference kit.
* Contact: Venkatesh Raghavan, Heegu Park

=== 28 November 2014, Illinois State GIS Association Annual Conference ===
* Chicago, Illinois, US
* OSGeo-Live presentation given, which was well attended, with a number of people coming and asking questions afterwards.
* Handed out 23 OSGeo-Live USBs
* Contact: Bob Basques

=== 21 November 2014, FOSS4G Hungary Conference ===
* Budapest, Hungary
* Approximately 110 OSGeo Live 8 DVDs were distributed
* during the PostGIS in a Nutshell workshop OSGeoLive 8 was used http://www.agt.bme.hu/gis/workshop3/eloadasok/postgis_mini.pdf
* Contact: [[User:Siki|Zoltan Siki]]
* Photos: http://www.agt.bme.hu/keptar/phpslideshow.php?directory=workshop3&currentPic=0

=== 6 November 2014, beOpenGISfr ===
* Brussels, Belgium
* http://be-opengis.ulb.ac.be/
* OsGeo-Live VM was used during workshops. Approx 90 USB sticks with OSGeo-live were distributed
* Contact: [[User:mlennert|Moritz Lennert]]
* Photos: http://be-opengis.ulb.ac.be/photos.html

=== 7-9 October 2014, INTERGEO 2014 ===
* Berlin, Germany
* http://intergeo.de
* OSGeo-live Postcards
* presentation about OSGeo-Live in the Open Source Park http://www.intergeo.de/intergeo/besucher/messe/opensource-park.php
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 8-13 September 2014, International FOSS4G===
* Portland, Oregon, USA
* https://2014.foss4g.org/
* Contact: ?
* 300 8Gig OSGeo-Live USBs handed out from the OSGeo Booth.
* OSGeo-Live VM used for many of the workshops.

=== 2-3 September 2014, OSGIS 2014===
* University of Nottingham, UK
* http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/osgis/home.aspx
* Contact: Suchith Anand

=== 27-28 August 2014 FOSS4G Korea ===
* COEX, Seoul, Korea
* Handed out OSGeo-Live DVDs
* Contact: Sanghee Shin

=== 21-25 July, 2014. Urban Informatics Postgraduate Elective===
* University of Melbourne, Australia
* USB stick with OSGeo-Live 7.9 was handed out to 25 enrolled students
* Students had a choice of USB or VM
* Contact: A/Prof Chris Pettit, Dr Jack Barton

=== 15.-17. July 2014 FOSS4G-Euope===
* Jacobs University Bremen, Germany
* http://foss4g-e.org/
* about 160 attendents
* OSGeo table together with FOSSGIS e.V.
* USB stick with OSGeo-Live 7.9 was handed out to every participant
* Presentation on OSGeo-Live http://kalxas.github.io/OSGeoLive-presentation/#/
* Code Sprint for version 8.0 at friday 18th july 2014
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 7-11 July 2014, Fifth Open Source Opportunities in GIS Summer School ===
* Girona, Spain
* http://www.sigte.udg.edu/summerschool2014/
* The Summer School is focused on the development and creation of Open Web Services and Web Applications, especially on the publication of data on the web. With this goal, the programme will cover topics related to the acquisition and importation of OpenStreetMap data into a spatial database, creation of geospatial web services and development of internet viewers for publishing geospatial data.
The course has been designed and will be conducted on a GNU/Linux operating system based on the use of the OSGeo-Live DVD
* http://live.osgeo.org/en/index.html
* Contact: Lluis Vicens

=== 1-3 July 2014, AfricaGeo ===
* Cape Town, South Africa
* http://www.africageo.org/
* presentation and paper based on OSGeo-Live (and distribution of ~550 OSGeo-Live DVDs in delegate bags)
* Contact: [[User:Gfleming|Gavin Fleming]], Tim Sutton

=== ANLiegen Natur (journal: article - print and online) ===
* journal focused on applied nature conservation (Germany, Austria, Switzerland)
* June 2015
* journal: [http://www.anl.bayern.de/publikationen/anliegen/anliegen36_1.htm ANLiegen Natur 36(1)]
* ''Open Data und freie und offene Geographische Informationssysteme (FOSSGIS) – ein Werkzeug für den (ehrenamtlichen) Naturschutz?''
* ''Open Data and free and open source software for geographic information systems (FOSSGIS) – a tool for (voluntary) nature conservation?''
* [http://www.anl.bayern.de/publikationen/anliegen/doc/an36113kudrnovsky_2014_open_data.pdf article]
* Contact: [[User:hellik|Helmut Kudrnovsky]]

=== 17-20 June 2014, USFWS National GIS Workshop ===
* West Virginia, USA
* http://training.fws.gov/nctcweb/catalog/CourseDetail.aspx?CourseCodeLong=FWS-CSP7304
* Contact: Doug Newcomb
* Presented OSGeo-Live presentation, handed out OSGeo-Live DVDs

=== 10-13 June 2014, OGRS 2014 ===
* Helsinki, Finland
* http://2014.ogrs-community.org/
* Contact: [[User:Ajolma|Ari Jolma]]

=== 2-4 July 2014, AGIT26 ===
* Salzburg, Austria
* http://www.agit.at
* OSGeo Day http://www.agit.at/index.php/programmagit/themen-schwerpunkte/osgeo-day-osgeo-park-2014
* OSGeo Booth, OSGeo-Live Postcards, OSGeo flyer, OSGeo Day and workshops
* Contact: Astrid Emde

=== 20-22 May 2014 FOSS4G-FR ===
* Paris, France
* Contact: Vicent Picavet

=== 21 May 2014 QLD Open Source Spatial Workshop ===
* Brisbane, Australia
* http://www.sssi.org.au/Events/QLD-Open-Source-Spatial-Workshop/eid/988.html
* OSGeo-Live DVD handed out to all participants and used in hands on workshops
* Contact: Shaun Kolomeitz

=== 27 April – 2 May, 2014 European Geosciences Union General Assembly===
* Vienna, Austria
* http://www.egu2014.eu/
* 100 OSGeo-Live DVDs handed out to participants
* Contact Peter Löwe
* Detailed report and lessons learned: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/EGU_Townhall_2014#OSGeo-Live_DVDs

=== 26-28 March 2014, 8as Jornadas de SIG Libre (Spanish FOSS4G) ===
* 26 - 28 March 2014 in Girona
* http://www.sigte.udg.edu/jornadassiglibre
* 6 Workshops will take place, using OSGeo-Live
** Introduction to QGIS
** Integration of Free Geospatial Technologies
** Introduction to python for geospatial applications
** Introduction to MapProxy
** Developing mobile applications with Glob3 mobile SDK
** Creating Web Applications with AngularJS AND LeafletJS
* What format of OSGeo-Live was used?
** VirtualMachine
* Contact: [[User:Lluís|Lluís Vicens]]

=== 19. - 21. March 2014 FOSSGIS ===
* 19. - 21. March 2014
* Berlin, Germany
* http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2014/
* Videos on youtube: http://youtube.com/fossgis
* Hand out OSGeo-Live 7.9 postcards to all delegates - about 550 postcards
* Presenatation about OSGeo-Live '''OSGeo-Live rocks!''' '''maybe'''
* > 10 Workshops will take place, most of them will use OSGeo-Live
** 204 persons in the workshops
* What format of OSGeo-Live was used?
** VirtualMachine
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 23 February 2014 FOSS4G Sri Lanka ===
* Malabe, Sri Lanka
* OSGeo-Live Presentation including demo of OSGeo-Live
* Handed out OSGeo Live 7.0 DVDs
* Contact: Nimalika Fernando

=== 1-2 February 2014 FOSDEM ===
* Brussels, Belgium
* http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSDEM2014
* Presentation of OSGeo Live Overview on a screen, event was attended by ~5000 people, OSGeo stand got visit of at least 500 (all marketing material was given away)
* Contact: Anne Ghisla

=== 23-25 January 2014 Societal GIS training workshop ===
* Rajahmundry, India
* OSGeo India had a 3 day Societal GIS training workshop.
* Used OSGeo Live-7, both DVD and USB driven. Wish to use Virtual Box as Windows-8 has serious booting issues and OSGeo-Live works fine with Virtual Box (Sun Microsystems).
* http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User_talk:Ravivundavalli#OSGeo_India_and_Adi_Kavi_Nannaya_University_Training_workshop_23_-_25_January_2014

== 2013 ==
=== 4-6 December 2013, National Seminar on 'Remote Sensing and GIS for Environment', India ===
* Visakhapatnam, India
* OSGeo booth attracted a bee line of students who were eager to experiment with OSGeo software. Copies of OSGeo Live-DVD were distributed to all those who have answered a questionnaire quizzing about OSGeo and FOSS GIS.
* http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User_talk:Ravivundavalli#OSGeo_India_Booth_at_Visakhapatnam.2C_India

=== 14-15 November 2013, FOSS4G Korea 2013 ===
* Seoul, Korea
* http://www.osgeo.kr/135/
* OSGeo Live DVD will be distributed at the FOSS4G Korea venue and through KAOS-G booth at Smart GeoExpo Korea 2013.
* Contact: [[User:sanghee|Sanghee Shin]]

=== 4-8 November 2013, AfricaGIS 2013 / GSDI 14 ===
* Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
* http://www.gsdi.org/gsdiconf/gsdi14/
* Lightning overview presented (reveal JS version)
* Contact: [[User:Gfleming|Gavin Fleming]]

=== 8-10 October 2013, INTERGEO 2013 ===
* Essen, Germany
* http://intergeo.de
* it is planned to hand out 500 OSGeo 7.0 DVDs
* slides about OSGeo-Live in FOSSGIS e.V. presentation
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 24 - 26 Sept 2013, Asian Geospatial Forum 2013 ===
* Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
* http://www.asiageospatialforum.org
* OSGEO-Live and ICA-OSGEO lab network [http://prezi.com/hv18xf8_wolq/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy presentation]
* Contact: [[TuongThuy Vu|Thuy Vu]]

=== 19 - 21 Sept 2013, INCA-33 International Congress India ===
* Jodhpur, India
* http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User_talk:Ravivundavalli#OSGeo_India_.40_INCA-33_International_congress.2C_Jodhpur.2C_Rajasthan.2C_India
* Through OSGeo India booth 100 Live-DVDs are distributed
* Contact: ravivundavalli@yahoo.com

=== 17-21 September 2013, FOSS4G ===
* Nottingham, United Kingdom
* http://2013.foss4g.org
* Contact: Steven Feldman

=== 25-30 August 2013, International Cartographic Conference ===
* Dresden, Germany
* http://www.dgfk.net/index.php?id=164&do=akt
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 8-12 July 2013, Open Source Opportunities in GIS Summer School ===
* Girona, Catalonia, Spain
* About 25 students running OSGeo-Live in a Virtual Machine (Virtual Box).
* http://www.sigte.udg.edu/summerschool2013/
* Contact: [[User:Lluís|Lluís Vicens]]

=== 3-5 July 2013, AGIT25 ===
* Salzburg, Austria
* http://www.agit.at
* OSGeo Day http://www.agit.at/index.php/programm-2013/themen/osgeo
* Hand out OSGeo-Live 6.5 DVDs at FOSSGIS/OSGeo Booth - about 200 DVDs
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 10 June 2013, FROG (FRancophone Opensource Geomatique)===
* Paris, France
* http://osgeo.asso.fr
* Distribution to participants ?
* Contact : Vincent Picavet

=== 12.-14. June 2013 FOSSGIS ===
* 12.-14. June 2013
* Rapperswil, Switzerland
* http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2013/
* Hand out OSGeo-Live 6.5 DVDs to all delegates - about 350 DVDs
* Presenatation about OSGeo-Live '''OSGeo-Live rocks!''' by [[User:Astrid Emde | Astrid Emde]] http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2013/programm/events/576.de.html
* > 10 Workshops will take place, most of them will use OSGeo-Live 6.5
** 5 - 20 persons in the workshops
* What format of OSGeo-Live was used?
** VirtualMachine
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 17-19 June 2013, FOSS4G-CEE 2013 ===
* Bucharest, Romania
* OSGeo-Live 6.5 (or higher) DVDs will be handed out to all participants (conference target: 300)
* Some workshops are expected to make use of OSGeo-Live (call for workshops opens June 13th)
* A OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation is welcome (call for presentations opens June 13th)
* http://2013.foss4g-cee.org
* Contact: [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Vasile Vasile Crăciunescu]

=== 21 May 2013, Location Intelligence Conference ===
* Washington DC, United States
* OSGeo-Live presentation by [[User:Amyonthemap|Amy Gao]]

=== 29-30 April, 2013 GIS In Action ===
* April 29 to May 1, 2013,
* Portland, Oregon
* http://www.orurisa.org/GIS_In_Action (website is reused every year, [https://web.archive.org/web/20130510063948/http://www.orurisa.org/GIS_In_Action Archive.org site])
* The DVD was used to run demos at the booth. A limited number of copies were available to hand out to people who seemed very interested.
* The PDX-OSGeo chapter also helps organize an Open Source Track at GIS In Action which was very popular. This year, there was not a specific talk about the LiveDVD although it is often mentioned as a great way to try out software that people ask about.
* On May 2, there was an unconference where the LiveDVD was frequently referenced.
* Contact: [[User:EliL | EliL]]

=== 24 April, 2013 FOSS4G Buenos Aires 2013 ===
* 24 to 26 of April 2013, Buenos Aires, Argentina
* http://www.foss4g.org.ar/
* Unfortunately there was a problem with the DVD distributor and the participants didn't receive a copy.
* [http://jsanz.github.io/slides-201304-foss4gba/osgeo-live/#/title OSGeo Live presentation] by [[Jorge Sanz]]
* OSGeo Live was used on the MapProxy workshop by the lecturer and some attendants that were able to run it on Virtual Box
* Contact: [[Mauricio Miranda]]

=== 10 April, 2013 EGU 2013 ===
* Vienna, Austria
* http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2013/session/13223
* DVD-distribution to journalists
* splinter meeting with short presentation and screenshots of OSGeo-Live
* Contact: Peter Löwe

=== 6-8 March 2013, Jornadas de SIG Libre (Spanish FOSS4G2013) ===
* Girona, Spain
* http://www.sigte.udg.edu/jornadassiglibre
* Contact: [[User:Lluís|Lluis Vicens]]

=== 17-18 January 2013, WhereCampEU ===
* Rome, Italy
* http://wherecamp.eu/
* OSGeo-Live presentation by [[User:Lucadelu|Luca Delucchi]]

== 2012 ==

=== 4-7 December 2012, Open Source Developers Conference ===
* Sydney, Australia
* http://www.osdc.com.au/
* OSGeo-Live presentation by Cameron Shorter
* Contact: Cameron Shorter

=== 22-24 November 2012, PhilGEOS 2012 ===
* Quezon City, Philippines
* http://philgeos2012.wordpress.com/
* Over 60 participants joined 8 workshops and 3 lightning talks. The OSGeo Live project was also presented in one of the parallel technical sessions in the main conference. Likewise, an exhibit booth was installed during the PhilGEOS conference for OSGeo and OpenStreetMap. Over ~50 OSGeo Live DVDs were handed out to conference participants.
* Contact: Maning Sambale

=== 19-23 November 2012, LatinOSGIS ===
* Guayaquil, Ecuador
* http://www.fiec.espol.edu.ec/LatinOSGIS
* OSGeo-Live 6.0 DVDs to be handed out
* lightning presentation by Mauricio Miranda
* OSGeo-Live used in four workshops by Marco Minghini (QGIS, GeoServer, GeoNetwork, OpenLayers)
* about 30 VMs set up on the room computers
* Contact: Indira Yadira Nolivos Alvarez

=== 17-18 November 2012, OpenGIS ===
* Moscow, Russia
* conference on everything related to free and opensource GIS: data, software, methodology, organized by members of Russian GIS-Lab and OpenStreetMap communities.
* Over 200 participants; OSGeo-Live DVD was used in GRASS GIS workshop; ~10 OSGeo Live DVDs were handed out to conference participants.
* http://gisconf.ru/en/
* Contact: Maxim Dubinin, Alexander Mury

=== 14-17 November 2012, GFOSSDAY 2012 - OSMit 2012 ===
* Turin, Italy
* http://www.gfoss.it/drupal/gfossday2012
* OSGeo-Live software directly used from VMs within five workshops
* OSGeo-Live overview in keynote presentation
* Title: OSGeo-Live: il più semplice strumento per provare le applicazioni GFOSS / OSGeo-Live: the simplest way to test FOSS4G software
* Contact: [[User:Lucadelu|Luca Delucchi]]

=== 14-16 November 2012, EGU Leonardo Conference ===
* Turin, Italy
* http://www.eguleonardo2012.polito.it/
* Poster presentation in Session: Population
* Notes: Poster Presentations consist in a quick (1-Slide) oral overview during the sessions and in the attendance by the poster stand between the sessions.
* Title: A complete review of the breadth of quality Geospatial Open Source Software available to Hydrologists, using OSGeo-Live
* Contact: [[User:Madi|Margherita Di Leo]]

=== 12-13 November 2012, SWE-SmartCities Workshop ===
* Barcelona, Spain
* https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5tKYbjsGOrxWkVwWWZsM2NHNlk/edit
* Sensor Web Enablement workshop held by 52°North
* 21 OSGeo-Live handed to the participants and used for the exercises
* The DVD was used for a training workshop on OGC Sensor Web Enablement. Participants worked with the 52°North SOS and the 52°North WPS. The DVD was mostly used, in some cases the VM was used.During the training, the participants used their own laptop computers (a full mix of all operating systems).There was no dedicated time needed for setting up the DVD. No issues occured.
* Contact: [[User:esllolo|Estela Llorente López]], Simon Jirka (52°North)

=== November 2012, Open Source GIS and Webmapping Workshop ===
* Vienna (Austria)
* Waiting on Barend Köbben to provide website url once details are finalised

===25-26 October 2012, FOSS4G-India ===
* Hyderabad, India
* http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/foss4gindia
* OSGeo-Live DVDs to be handed out to all participants
* OSGeo-Live to be used in workshops
* OSGeo-Live Presentation to be given by K S Rajan
* Contact: K S Rajan

===17,18 October 2012, GeoINT 2012 ===
* Orlando Florida
* OSGeo-Live link handed out
* mentioned in various panels and forums
* geoint2012.com
* Contact: Mark Lucas and John Scott

=== 17-19 October 2012, Geospace Europe Summit 2012 ===
* Brussels Belgium
* OSGeo-Live link handed out
* Presentation pointing to live.ogeo.org efforts
* http://defence.flemingeurope.com/geospatial-intelligence-europe
* Contact: Mark Lucas

=== 17-19 October 2012, Latinoware ===
* Keynote presentation by Jody Garnett including parts of the OSGeo Lightning presentation
* http://2012.latinoware.org/?lang=en , http://2012.latinoware.org/?page_id=228
* Contact: Jody Garnett

=== October 2012, INTERGEO 2012 ===
* Hannover Germany, 9.-11.10.2012
* ~600 OSGeo 6.0 (and some of Version 5.5.) DVDs were distributed
* slide about OSGeo-Live in [http://fossgis.de FOSSGIS e.V.] presentation
* very good feedback to the DVD. Lot of people already know OSGeo-Live
* http://intergeo.de
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== October 2012, Smart Korea 2012 in conjunction with OGC TC/PC Meeting ===
* Seoul, Korea
* Around 50 OSGeo-Live 6.0 DVDs were handed out at OSGeo booth there
* http://www.opengeospatial.org/event/1210tc
* Contact: Sanghee Shin

=== 11-13 October 2012, XXXII INCA International Conference 2012 ===
* Dehradun, India
* http://www.incaindia.org/32INCA/
* Nearly 80 OSGeo-Live 6.0 DVDs handed out at OSGeo/IIRS Booth. Posters with screenshots of some applications with local data were put up.
* Explained delegates about OpenSource GIS. Demonstrated QGIS to anyone with a question. Demoed OpenCPN to some of the folks from National Hydrographic Office.
* Contact: Chaitanya Kumar CH

=== October 12, 2012, FOSS4G Korea 2012 ===
* COEX, Seoul, Korea
* Nearly 70~80 OSGeo-Live 6.0 DVDs were handed out during the event and brief explanation of OSGeo-Live project was given to participants
* FOSS4G Korea will be held in conjunction with Smart Korea 2012
* http://www.osgeo.kr
* Contact: Sanghee Shin

=== October 3-5, 2012, Minnesota GIS/LIS 2012 ===
* Saint Cloud, Minnesota, USA
* OSGeo-Live 6.0 DVDs handed out at OSGeo/FOSS4GNA Booth.
* OSGeo-Live ODP file set to loop on digital display in booth, augmented with local OSGeo project screenshots.
* Annual Conference and Workshops.
* http://www.mngislis.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=718
* Contact: Bob Basques

=== October 2012, GISSA Ukubuzana conference ===
* 1-3 October, Johannesburg, South Africa
* ~450 OSGeo 6.0 DVDs were distributed
* Lightning overview wwas also presented
* It was also used in two workshops ('Intro to PostGIS and QGIS' and 'Enterprise GIS with FOSS')
* http://gissa.org.za/activities/conferences/gissa-ukubuzana-2012
* More were distributed and used in workshops at the launch of the University of Pretoria ICA/OSGeo Lab on 4 Oct
* [[User:Gfleming|Gavin Fleming]]

=== September 2012, Geocamp ===
* September 22nd, Campo Maior, Portugal
* http://geocampers.com
* OSGeo project presentation: how the project is managed, how translations work, how a project is involved
* Contact: [[Jorge Sanz]], Hugo Santos info (at) geocampers (dot) com

=== September 2012, Asia GeoSpatial Forum ===
* Hanoi, Vietnam. 17~19th, September
* Around 50 OSGeo-Live 6.0 DVDs were handed out to the participants.
* A presentation on OSGeo overview and OSGeo-Live was given in oral presentation session
* Open Source GIS Session
* http://www.asiageospatialforum.org/
* Contact: Sanghee Shin

=== 5 September 2012 Open Source GIS Conference (OSGIS) ===
* Nottingham, United Kingdom
* All day session: "Educational use of OSGeo Live" presented by Ari Jolma
* 100 OSGeo-Live DVDs handed out
* OSGeo-Live lightning presentation by Barry Rowlingson
* http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/osgis/
* Contact: Suchith Anand

=== August 2012, 34th International Geological Conference ===
* Brisbane, Australia
* OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation by Peter Baunmann, conference convener
* http://www.34igc.org/
* Contact: Peter Baunmann

=== 18-19 July 2012, FOSS4G Southeast Asia ===
* Johor Bahru, Malaysia
* OSGEO-live DVD used at the plenary session. Several slides from OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation used plus some demonstration.
* OSGeo-Live handed out to all delegates.
* Contact: Dr. Franz-Josef Behr

=== July 2012, Third Open Source GIS Summer School ===
* Girona, Spain
* School program focused on the development and creation of Open Web Mapping Services and Web applications. Jeremy Morley (Lecturer and a theme leader at the NGI) will be contributing the Nottingham components for the Summer School. The course has been designed and will be conducted on a GNU/Linux operating system based on the use of the OSGeo-Live DVD.
* http://www.sigte.udg.edu/summerschool2012/
* Contact: Lluís Vicens

=== July 2012, International Environmental Modeling and Software Society Conference (IEMSS) ===
* Leipzig, Germany
* ~ 100 OSGeo-Live 5.5 DVDs to be handed out
* OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation
* http://www.iemss.org/sites/iemss2012/sessions_D.html
* Contact: Daniel P. Ames

=== July 2012, AGIT ===
* Salzburg (Austria) Annual Conference
* http://www.agit.at/
* [[AGIT]], Friday is OSGeo day, free booth together with OSM throughtout the week ([[Arnulf]])
* we want to hand out +- 500 OSGeoLive DVDs

===June 30 - July 1, 2012, FOSS4G Hokkaido 2012 ===
*Sapporo, Hokkaido JAPAN
*50 OSGeo-Live 5.5 DVDs handed out to delegates
*OSGeo.JP and OSGeo-Live overview in keynote presentation
*[https://sites.google.com/site/foss4ghokkaido/ Website (in Japanese)]
*[https://www.facebook.com/FOSS4G.Hokkaido Facebook (in Japanese)]

=== June 2012, useR! The International R User Conference ===
* Vanderbilt U, Nashville USA
* http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/Main/UseR-2012
* Workshop Presentation on Geospatial Data in R, 33 attendees
* Five or six OSGeo-Live 5.5 DVDs taken
* Boot and demo at end of workshop.

=== June 28, 2012, OSGeo.nl Day (FOSS4G Regional) within MapWindow Conference - The Netherlands ===
* Velp, The Netherlands
* OSGeo-Live 5.5 DVDs handed out to all delegates (about 120). This included a large contingent of OSGeo-NL people who I heard were very appreciative of the DVD.
* OSGeo-Live + OSGeo overview in keynote presentation
* OSGeo-Live software directly used from VMs within the two workshops
* http://osgeo.nl/osgeonl_dag_2012.html (OSGeo.nl Day Program + Pres. Slides)
* http://www.mapwindow.org/conference/2012 (general MapWindow conf)
* Contact: Daniel P. Ames

=== May 2012, FOSS4G-CEE & Geoinformatics 2012 ===
* Prague, Czech Republic
* OSGeo-Live 5.5 DVDs to be used in workshops
* OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation
* http://foss4g-cee.org/
* Contact: Jachym Cepicky

=== May 2012, FOSSCOMM 2012 ===
* Serres, Greece
* OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation
* 1 undergraduate thesis presentation using OSGeo-Live
* http://serres.fosscomm.gr/?page_id=582

=== May 2012, HellasGI 2012 ===
* Athens, Greece
* OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation
* Local chapter meeting

=== April 2012, COMEM OGO course :: Webmapping with OGC standards ===
* April 16th, a course dedicated on geospatialized e-Content for Media Engineering bachelor students (http://www.comem.ch) at School of Engineering and Business Vaud (http://www.heig-vd.ch), Western Switzerland, Yverdon-les-Bains
* Topic : learning webmapping and OGC standards with OpenLayers, GeoServer, PostGIS (http://ogo.heig-vd.ch)
* A customized OSGeo-Live 5.5 VM has been used through VirtualBox by 15 students to execute several exercices and to build a five days project (http://carto.iict.ch)
* Delivering a complete and ready to use geo-enabled VM is interessant for students to work in a kind of sandbox and to bring something easely back at home for later reuse.

=== April 2012, Geospatial World Forum 2012 ===
* The RAI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
* 4-hour [http://wiki.osgeo.org/images/b/bf/GeospatialWorldForum_2012_OpenSource_Seminar_Program.pdf "Open Source Seminar"] organized by OSGeo/[http://OSgeo.nl OSGeo Dutch Chapter] with 11 speakers
* OSGeo-Live lightning presentation (15mins)
* http://www.geospatialworldforum.org/2012/open.htm

=== April 2012, FOSS4G North America 2012 ===
* Washington, United States
* Hand out OSGeo-Live 5.5 DVDs to all delegates
* OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation?
* http://foss4g-na.org/

=== April 2012, GISRUK 2012 ===
* Lancaster University, UK
* (probably) To be used for pre-conference workshop from Lutra Consulting
* Around 200 DVDs to be handed out at the OSGeo-UK desk
* http://www.lancs.ac.uk/gisruk2012/

=== April 2012, AGILE 2012===
* Avignon, France
* http://agile2012.imag.fr/index.php/workshops/hands-on-qopen-source-gis-a-webmappingq
* Open Source GIS & WebCartography workshop
* OSGeo-Live USBs handed to all workshop attendees

=== March 2012, Association for Geographic Information Welsh Group Open Source Seminar ===
* Wrexham, Wales, UK
* DVDs handed out to all delegates (20)
* http://astuntechnology.com/news/agi-open-source-training/ (proper link no longer available)

=== March 2012, AWRA GIS and Water Resources Conference ===
* New Orleans
* ~ 350 DVDs handed to delegates
* http://awra.org/meetings/Spring2012/

=== March 2012, FOSSGIS 2012 ===
* Dessau, Germany
* Hand out OSGeo-Live 5.5 DVDs to all delegates - more than 400 DVDs
* OSGeo-Live was mentioned in the opening speech
* http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2012/
* OSGeo-Live was mentioned a lot on the conference. Some presenter mentioned in their presentation, to test the new stuff with OSGeo-Live
* How many people were in the workshop?
** 21 Wokshops took place in total, 15 Workshop used OSGeo-Live 5.5, some of the workshops used a modified OSGeo-Live version
** 5 - 20 persons were in the workshops
* What format of OSGeo-Live was used? DVD? USB? VM?
** Used with VirtualBox
* Did students bring their own computers? What types of computers and operating systems were brought in?
** No own computers. We used the computers with windows and VirtualBox from the GIS pool of the university
* How much time was spent setting up the class with setting up OSGeo-Live?
** This was done before the workshop

=== March 2012, Spanish FOSS4G 2012 ===
* Girona, Spain
* OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation.
* Possibly also handing out osgeo-live 5.5 DVDs?
* http://www.sigte.udg.edu/jornadassiglibre/

=== 6-7 March 2012, Malaysian Geospatial Forum ===
* Malaka, Malaysia
* http://www.malaysiageospatialforum.org
* The OSGEO-Live lightning overview was presented to around 50 attendees (of approximately 300 attendees of the whole event). Positive feedbacks, the common question was which package should be used to their work.

=== February 2012, AAG 2012 ===
* New York, New York
* 25 OSGeo-Live 5.0 bootable thumb drives to be handed out
* FOSS4G Workshop for Educators
* http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting

=== February 2012, GIS courses ===
* 6-10 Feb, Enterprise GIS course at University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
* 13-17 Feb , Introduction to QGIS and PostGIS course, Muizenberg, South Africa
* OSGeo 5.0 DVDs handed out to course attendees (~15 each)
* Ran in first session of workshops as LiveDVD to browse through the ecosystem and get a feel for Linux and FOSS GIS.
* [[User:Gfleming|Gavin Fleming]]

=== January 2012, Pleiades Days 2012 ===
* Toulouse, France
* 50 OSGeo-Live 5.0 bootable thumb drives to be handed out
* [http://www.pleiades2012.com/ Website]

== 2011==

=== December 2011, Enterprise GIS course at the Council for Geoscience ===
* 12-14 Dec, Cape Town, South Africa
* OSGeo 5.0 DVDs handed out to course attendees
* We set up the VM on Windows for part of the workshop. Demo'd QGIS server and browsed through the system for an overview of other tools.
* It would be nice to have OpenGeo Suite Community Edition installed. It could provide PostGIS and GeoServer to the rest of the DVD. Also GeoNode.
* [[User:Gfleming|Gavin Fleming]]

=== November 2011, FOSS4G Tokyo/Osaka 2011 ===
*Tokyo and Osaka, JAPAN
*each 50+ OSGeo-Live 5.0 DVDs handed to delegates
*[http://www.osgeo.jp/%E3%82%A4%E3%83%99%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88/foss4g-2011-tokyo/ Website (in Japanese)]
*[http://www.osgeo.jp/%E3%82%A4%E3%83%99%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88/foss4g-2011-osaka/ Website (in Japanese)]

=== October 2011, IAEA/FAO Coordinated Research Program ===
* Burkina Faso
* This conference was the third in a series of semi-annual meetings reviewing research programs regarding two agricultural pests: Tsetse and Old/New World Screw-worm. The meetings focus on merging population genetics and GIS techniques to better understand the spread of these pests.
* A customized version of the OSGeoLive 5.0 was prepared with data specific to Burkina Faso, and each of the 15 participants received a USB flash drive for the practice session. Some basic exercises were conducted demonstrating QGIS, Spatialite, and R.
* Responses were overwhelmingly positive.

=== September 2011, Intergeo 2011 ===
* Nuremberg, Germany
* Intergeo is an anual big fair on geodesy, geoinformation and land management
* [http://fossgis.de FOSSGIS e.V.] (german language local chapter of OSGeo) organizes an the OSGeo Park at Intergeo every year presenting OSGeo software. There also is a [http://www.fossgis.de/wiki/Intergeo_2011/Vortragsprogramm presentation area] where we present OSGeo Software and solutions 3 days long
* Rest of the OSGeo-Live 4.5 handed out (aprox 100 DVDs)
* http://www.intergeo.de/en/englisch/index.php

=== September 2011, FOSS4G 2011 ===
Denver, United States
* OSGeo Live given to every delegate. (Release 5.0)
* 300 USBs printed, 600 DVDs
* OSGeo-Live was used within many of the workshops

=== June/July 2011, Open Source GIS Summer School ===
* University of Gerona, Gerona, Spain
* The school taught Open Source GIS technologies and made use of the OSGeoLive DVD
* http://www.sigte.udg.edu/summerschool2011/target-audience/prerequisites

=== August 2011, [http://irdal.ird.fr/spip.php?page=ecole_ete_spatial_bresil11_sommaire&id_rubrique=1022|Ecole d'été - Observation spatiale de l'environnement] ===
* Macapa, Brazil
* OSGeo-Live 5.0RC1 on a USB was used in a workshop for 12 students learning OTB and Monteverdi.

=== June 2011, FLUXNET & RS Open-Workshop ===
* David Brower Environmental Center, USA
* http://nature.berkeley.edu/biometlab/fluxnet2011/fluxwkshp_post.html
* Provided OSGeo LiveDVD to interested participants

=== June 2011, [[Live_GIS_Disk_FOSS4G_2010| OSGIS 2011]] ===
Centre for Geospatial Science, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
* http://cgs.nottingham.ac.uk/~osgis11/os_home.html
* Provided OSGeo-Live lightning presentation, abstract: [[Live_GIS_Disk_OSGIS_2011]]
* handed out OSGeo-Live DVDs to all delegates

=== May 2011, CGS 2011 ===
* Bishop CA, USA
* ~10 discs

=== April 2011, GITA 2011 ===
* Dallas Tx, USA
* 100 discs sent to OSGeo booth

=== April 2011, AAG 2011 ===
* Seattle, WA USA
* Annual Geography conference 8-10,000 attendants
* ~30-50 discs given away at OSGeo booth
* Remaining ~150 divided between CUGOS and Portland? chapters.

=== April 2011, FOSSGIS 2011 ===
* Heidelberg, Germany
* [http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2011/ FOSSGIS] is an annual conference in german language with ~ 400 attendants
* we printed OSGeo-Live 4.5 and handed out about 450 DVDs
* OSGeoLive 4.5 was used sucessfully in ~ 12 workshops
* [http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2011/programm/events/248.de.html Astrid Emde presented OSGeo-Live] in a 20 min talk with focus on the background of the project and the possibilities the project offers
** about 40 attendants

== 2010 ==
=== November 2010, GeoData Camp ===
* Athens, Greece
* Presented OSGeo-Live lightning presentation in Greek to more than 300 attendants. This included two 1-hour presentations in technical sessions and a 15 minute presentation in the main event.

=== October 2010, Intergeo 2010 ===
* Cologne, Germany
* Intergeo is an anual big fair on geodesy, geoinformation and land management
* [http://fossgis.de FOSSGIS e.V.] (german language local chapter of OSGeo) organizes an Open Source Park on Intergeo every year where OSGeo Software is presented. There also is a [http://www.fossgis.de/wiki/Intergeo_2010/Vortragsprogramm presentation area] where we present OSGeo Software and solutions 3 days long
* we printed OSGeo-Live 4.0 and handed out about 450 DVDs
* Lars Lingner presented the DVD with Cameron Shorters presentation
* http://www.intergeo.de/en/englisch/index.php
* Feedback
** good feedback: OSGeo-Live offers the possibility to get to know OSGeo Software without an installation

=== September 2010, [[Live_GIS_Disk_FOSS4G_2010|FOSS4G 2010]] ===
Barcelona, Spain
* Provided a 90 minute tutorial of OSGeo Live
* OSGeo Live given to every delegate. (Release 4.0)

=== April 2010, [http://www.fig2010.com/ FIG 2010] - International Surveyors conference===
Sydney, Australia
* Handed out Live DVDs from OSGeo stand. (Release 3.0)
* Provided 15 minute lightning talk about the OSGeo stack, promoting the LiveDVD. [[http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com/2010/04/report-from-osgeo-stand-at-federation.html Report]], [[http://blip.tv/file/3503561 presentation video]]

== 2009 ==

=== October 2009, [http://2009.foss4g.org FOSS4G 2009] ===
Sydney, Australia
* Handed out 500 Live DVDs in every delegate's show bag. (Release: 2.0.3)

=== June 2009, [http://www.spatial.gov.au/Conferences/spatialgov+2009/default.aspx Spatial@Gov] ===
* Canberra, Australia
* Handed out Live DVDs from an OSGeo stand. (Release 1.0)
* Cameron Shorter provided a 30 minute presentation on the Open Source GeoSpatial Stack.

== 2008 ==

=== November 2008, Australian Cooperative Research Center for Spatial Information Conference ===
* Brisbane, Australia
* Distributed ~ 250 OSGeo-Live DVDs to delegates (Release 1.0)

===September 2008, [http://2008.foss4g.org FOSS4G 2008]===
* Handed out ~ 150 Live DVDs from the OSGeo stand. (Release: foss4g2008)

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Where has OSGeo-Live been used? Please tell us. A history of wide use provides justification for future developers to include, and improve their application on OSGeo-Live.

See also [[Live GIS Testimonials]].

== Template Questions ==
* date of the event or training course, or program
* City, Country
* link to webside
* OSGeo-Live handed out to attendees? How many?
* USBs, DVDs, or VMs used? How many?
* OSGeo-Live lightning overview presented? To how many people? Was it a plenary event? If not, what percentage of the attendees attended this talk? Did you get any feedback? What did you hear?
* OSGeo-Live used for workshops or training programs? What did the workshop/training cover. Was the USB/DVD or VM used? Were attendees computers used? If so, what operating systems were they running? How long did it take to set up? Were there any issues?
* Any suggestions on what we can do to improve OSGeo-Live for future?
* Contact: person (usually coordinator) who can be contacted to ask further questions

== 2017 ==

=== 22. - 24. February 2017 WLIA Conference, USA ===
* Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, USA
* Contact: abarrett@uniontel.net
* https://www.wlia.org/annual-conference/
* There may be a SharedGeo Booth with some USBs to hand out.
* Presentation attendees will receive a Live USB.
* Presented by Bob Basques.
* Presentation Sponsored by SharedGeo (www.sharedgeo.org)

== 2016 ==

=== 24. - 26. August 2016 FOSS4G Bonn 2016 ===
* Bonn, Germany
* Contact: info@foss4g2016.org
* http://2016.foss4g.org/home.html
* get information at [[FOSS4G_2016_OSGeo_Booth]]
* 250 + 50 OSGeo-Live USBs handed out to delegates and students,
* OSGeo-Live 10.0 was used in most of the workshops with great success. OSGeo-Live was installed on the workshop notebooks
* Notebooks with OSGeo-Live installed were used as presentation notebooks
* many OSGeo-Live postcards were given to the delegates
* a group of people worked at the FOSS4G OSGeo Code Sprint on OSGeo-Live [[FOSS4G_2016_Code_Sprint]]

=== 6.- 8. July 2016 AGIT Salzburg ===
* 6.-8.July 2016
* Salzburg, Austria
* http://agit.at/
* OSGeo Park USB thumbs with OSGeo-Live were sold, information about OSGeo projects
* OSGeo-Live postcards: 500 PostCards
* Workshops about '''PostGIS''', '''Mapbender3''' and '''How to setup a GDI with Open Source Software''': people work with OSGeo-Live nUSB thumb [https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/wiki/Live_GIS_Workshop_Install workshop page], +-100 participants working with OSGeo-Live
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 04. - 06. July 2016 FOSSGIS Salzburg===
* 04. - 06. July 2016
* Salzburg, Austria
* http://fossgis-konferenz.de/2016/
* Videos on youtube: http://youtube.com/fossgis
** http://www.fossgis-konferenz.de/2016/socialevents/
* Hand out OSGeo-Live 250 postcards to all delegates
* > Workshops will take place, most of them will use OSGeo-Live
** +-130 persons in the workshops
* What format of OSGeo-Live was used?
** OSGeo-Live was used with Virtual Box in the Workshops
** USB Sticks were given to the participants if interested
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 24. May 2016 Geospatial World Forum ===
* OSGeo celebrating 10th anniversary http://geospatialworldforum.org/OSGeo-programme.html
* 23.-26. May 2016
* Rotterdam, Netherlands
* http://geospatialworldforum.org/
* https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geospatial_World_Forum_2016
* Talk: OSGeo Live - a practical view on OSGeo - Johan Van de Wauw - President OSGeo.be
* Contact: Johan Van de Wauw , Dirk Frigne

== 2015 ==

=== November 27th 2015 FOSS4G.HU ===
* Budapest, Hungary
* http://www.geod.bme.hu/gis/workshop4
* During OpenLayers 3 and Python Geospatial Programming workshop OSGeo-Live (installed on desktop and laptop machines) was used
* Contact: Zoltan Siki

=== October 3 2015 24dev-demo for OSGeo Live DVD ===
* A set of customizable Addon prototyping scripts for the OSGeo Live DVD.
* Users can install 24dev applications to a live OSGeo DVD via running one script.
* Users can rename the base directory and re-run the install script to update profiles.
* The install script creates a backup tar file.
* The scripts can display custom license/release files for each application.
* OSD users are encouraged to fork new release via github renamed as: 24dev-.
* The program documentation/files are located at: https://github.com/pmcgover/24dev-demo

=== October 5th-9th 2015 Digital Earth 2015 ===
* Halifax, Nova Scotia · Canada
* OSGeo-Live workshop?
* Contact: Dirk Werle (conference chair), Brian Hamlin and Jeff McKenna (OSGeo-Live presenters)

=== 28/29 September 2015: GFOSS DAY 2015 ===
* Lecco, Italy
* OSGeo-Live used for workshop using virtual machine
* USB Sticks were given to the participants
* Contact: Luca Delucchi

=== 23-24 September 2015: GiS in the Rockies ===
* Denver, USA
* OSGeo-Live referenced in FOSS4G track at GIS in the Rockies conference
* Contact: Rafael Moreno-sanchez

=== 14-19 September 2015: FOSS4G 2015 ===
* Seoul, South Korea
* Contact: Sanghee Shin
* OSGeo-Live USBs handed out, OSGeo-Live used in a number of the workshops

=== 15-17 September 2015, INTERGEO 2015 Stuttgart (Germany)===
* Stuttgart, Germany
* http://www.fossgis.de/wiki/Intergeo_2015
* http://intergeo.de
* OSGeo-Live Postcards
* presentation area with OSGeo-Live 9.0 to try out.
* presentations about OSGeo-Live in the Open Source Park http://live.osgeo.org/de/presentation/index.html
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 11-13 August 2015, Geomatics Indaba 2015===
* Ekurhuleni, South Africa
* http://geomatics.org.za/
* distribution of 800 OSGeo-Live 8.5 DVDs in delegate bags
* Contact: [[User:Gfleming|Gavin Fleming]]

=== 27-31 July, 2015: GIS Training at IAEA===
* Vienna, Austria
* Workshop on GIS for agricultural pest control
* OSGeo Live was install as virtual machine on participants computers
* Training focused on QGIS and Spatialite
* Contact: [[User:micha|Micha Silver]]

=== 13-18 July 14, 2015: FOSS4G Europe ===
* Como, Italy
* Workshops, Conference, Codesprint
* Contact: Maria Antonia Brovelli

=== 8.-10. July 2015 AGIT Salzburg (Austria) ===
* 8.-10.July 2015
* Salzburg, Austria
* http://agit.at/
* OSGeo Park USB thumbs with OSGeo-Live were sold, information about OSGeo projects
* OSGeo-Live postcards: 500 PostCards
* OSGeo-Live presentation by Astrid Emde (german) [https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive-doc/blob/master/en/presentation/index.html presentation]
* Workshops about PostGIS (> 30 attendees) and Mapbender3 (>30 attendees): people worked with OSGeo-Live 8.5 USB thumb [https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/wiki/Live_GIS_Workshop_Install workshop page]
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 8-10. June 2015 FOSS4G India 2015, IIRS Dehradun, India ===
OSGeo-India tweaked the Live DVD to also contain the Digital Proceedings of the Conference (full papers and abstracts) and it was made available to all the Participants. My humble self mentioned in my inaugural presentation that the essence of all OSGeo and OS-GIS software are tucked into the live DVD. It was also emphasised that the Live-DVD is a way of seeing all the software run on one's computer / Laptop without soiling it by booting with it. Use of Virtual Machine on certain operating systems, which are not boot-friendly to the Live-DVD was also mentioned. As usual the conference acknowledges the untiring effort by live.osgeo.org (http://live.osgeo.org/en/index.html) who keep the DVD afresh with all latest OS-GIS. https://plus.google.com/114935751871526846208/posts/iXhdxwaePux
* http://foss4gindia.in

=== 11. - 13. May 2015 Symposium Königslutter - Angewandte Kartographie - Geovisualisierung ===
* Königslutter (Germany)
* Workshop on OSGeo-Live:
** Workshop with OSGeo-live from USB
** 10 attendees
* PostCards postcards to all delegates - about 50 postcards
* used presentation: http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/doc/de/presentation/index.html
* http://angewandte-kartographie.de/
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 1-3 June 2015: CalGIS ===
* Sacramento, California, United States
* http://www.calgis.org
* Contact: Alex Mandel / Christina Boggs

=== 11. - 13. March 2015 FOSSGIS ===
* 11. - 13. March 2015
* Münster, Germany
* http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2015/
* Videos on youtube: http://youtube.com/fossgis
** see also http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2015/programm/events/904.de.html
* Hand out OSGeo-Live 500 postcards to all delegates
* > 21 Workshops will take place, most of them will use OSGeo-Live
** 239 persons in the workshops
* What format of OSGeo-Live was used?
** USB Sticks
** USB Sticks were given to the participants
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== March 2015 Leeds MSc course ===
* Training course at Leeds, UK
* https://github.com/MassAtLeeds/webGIS
* 20 people attended, encouraged to use VMs
* Only 1 seen successfully running it in a VM!
* Contact: Robin Lovelace

=== 9-11 March 2015 FOSS4G-NA ===
* Burlingame, California, USA
* Contact Andrew Ross

=== 31 January 2015 FOSDEM ===
* Location: Brussels, Belgium
* 31 January & 1 February 2015
* Presentation: From Debian-GIS to OSGeo live and back
* Description: Debian GIS is a project with the goal of making Debian the best distribution for Geographical Information System applications.
OSGeo live (live.osgeo.org) is a self-contained bootable dvd, usb thumb drive or virtual machine based on Lubuntu, that allows you to try a wide variety of open source geospatial software without installing anything. It also contains a set of uniform documentation (description and quickstarts) to guide people around the different projects.
Even though OSGeo live is based on the packages in Debian, both projects diverted and where OSGeo live managed to get a large (100+) community of contributors, progress in Debian GIS was stalling. Recently however, a new wind is blowing in Debian GIS (among others with the Debian pure blends initiative) and many changes from OSGeo live are being incorporated back into Debian.
Apart from presenting both projects I will highlight some problems people encounter when they would like to add their package to Debian GIS, and how Debian pure blends try to solve this.
* Speaker: Johan Van de Wauw
* https://fosdem.org/2015/schedule/event/from_debian_gis_to_osgeo_live_and_back/

== 2014 ==
=== 2-5 December 2014, FOSS4G Asia ===
* Bankok, Thailand
* OSGeo-Live lightning talk presented.
* planning to use OSGeo-Live at the workshop.
* Planning to distribute OSGeo-Live DVDs in the conference kit.
* Contact: Venkatesh Raghavan, Heegu Park

=== 28 November 2014, Illinois State GIS Association Annual Conference ===
* Chicago, Illinois, US
* OSGeo-Live presentation given, which was well attended, with a number of people coming and asking questions afterwards.
* Handed out 23 OSGeo-Live USBs
* Contact: Bob Basques

=== 21 November 2014, FOSS4G Hungary Conference ===
* Budapest, Hungary
* Approximately 110 OSGeo Live 8 DVDs were distributed
* during the PostGIS in a Nutshell workshop OSGeoLive 8 was used http://www.agt.bme.hu/gis/workshop3/eloadasok/postgis_mini.pdf
* Contact: [[User:Siki|Zoltan Siki]]
* Photos: http://www.agt.bme.hu/keptar/phpslideshow.php?directory=workshop3&currentPic=0

=== 6 November 2014, beOpenGISfr ===
* Brussels, Belgium
* http://be-opengis.ulb.ac.be/
* OsGeo-Live VM was used during workshops. Approx 90 USB sticks with OSGeo-live were distributed
* Contact: [[User:mlennert|Moritz Lennert]]
* Photos: http://be-opengis.ulb.ac.be/photos.html

=== 7-9 October 2014, INTERGEO 2014 ===
* Berlin, Germany
* http://intergeo.de
* OSGeo-live Postcards
* presentation about OSGeo-Live in the Open Source Park http://www.intergeo.de/intergeo/besucher/messe/opensource-park.php
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 8-13 September 2014, International FOSS4G===
* Portland, Oregon, USA
* https://2014.foss4g.org/
* Contact: ?
* 300 8Gig OSGeo-Live USBs handed out from the OSGeo Booth.
* OSGeo-Live VM used for many of the workshops.

=== 2-3 September 2014, OSGIS 2014===
* University of Nottingham, UK
* http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/osgis/home.aspx
* Contact: Suchith Anand

=== 27-28 August 2014 FOSS4G Korea ===
* COEX, Seoul, Korea
* Handed out OSGeo-Live DVDs
* Contact: Sanghee Shin

=== 21-25 July, 2014. Urban Informatics Postgraduate Elective===
* University of Melbourne, Australia
* USB stick with OSGeo-Live 7.9 was handed out to 25 enrolled students
* Students had a choice of USB or VM
* Contact: A/Prof Chris Pettit, Dr Jack Barton

=== 15.-17. July 2014 FOSS4G-Euope===
* Jacobs University Bremen, Germany
* http://foss4g-e.org/
* about 160 attendents
* OSGeo table together with FOSSGIS e.V.
* USB stick with OSGeo-Live 7.9 was handed out to every participant
* Presentation on OSGeo-Live http://kalxas.github.io/OSGeoLive-presentation/#/
* Code Sprint for version 8.0 at friday 18th july 2014
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 7-11 July 2014, Fifth Open Source Opportunities in GIS Summer School ===
* Girona, Spain
* http://www.sigte.udg.edu/summerschool2014/
* The Summer School is focused on the development and creation of Open Web Services and Web Applications, especially on the publication of data on the web. With this goal, the programme will cover topics related to the acquisition and importation of OpenStreetMap data into a spatial database, creation of geospatial web services and development of internet viewers for publishing geospatial data.
The course has been designed and will be conducted on a GNU/Linux operating system based on the use of the OSGeo-Live DVD
* http://live.osgeo.org/en/index.html
* Contact: Lluis Vicens

=== 1-3 July 2014, AfricaGeo ===
* Cape Town, South Africa
* http://www.africageo.org/
* presentation and paper based on OSGeo-Live (and distribution of ~550 OSGeo-Live DVDs in delegate bags)
* Contact: [[User:Gfleming|Gavin Fleming]], Tim Sutton

=== ANLiegen Natur (journal: article - print and online) ===
* journal focused on applied nature conservation (Germany, Austria, Switzerland)
* June 2015
* journal: [http://www.anl.bayern.de/publikationen/anliegen/anliegen36_1.htm ANLiegen Natur 36(1)]
* ''Open Data und freie und offene Geographische Informationssysteme (FOSSGIS) – ein Werkzeug für den (ehrenamtlichen) Naturschutz?''
* ''Open Data and free and open source software for geographic information systems (FOSSGIS) – a tool for (voluntary) nature conservation?''
* [http://www.anl.bayern.de/publikationen/anliegen/doc/an36113kudrnovsky_2014_open_data.pdf article]
* Contact: [[User:hellik|Helmut Kudrnovsky]]

=== 17-20 June 2014, USFWS National GIS Workshop ===
* West Virginia, USA
* http://training.fws.gov/nctcweb/catalog/CourseDetail.aspx?CourseCodeLong=FWS-CSP7304
* Contact: Doug Newcomb
* Presented OSGeo-Live presentation, handed out OSGeo-Live DVDs

=== 10-13 June 2014, OGRS 2014 ===
* Helsinki, Finland
* http://2014.ogrs-community.org/
* Contact: [[User:Ajolma|Ari Jolma]]

=== 2-4 July 2014, AGIT26 ===
* Salzburg, Austria
* http://www.agit.at
* OSGeo Day http://www.agit.at/index.php/programmagit/themen-schwerpunkte/osgeo-day-osgeo-park-2014
* OSGeo Booth, OSGeo-Live Postcards, OSGeo flyer, OSGeo Day and workshops
* Contact: Astrid Emde

=== 20-22 May 2014 FOSS4G-FR ===
* Paris, France
* Contact: Vicent Picavet

=== 21 May 2014 QLD Open Source Spatial Workshop ===
* Brisbane, Australia
* http://www.sssi.org.au/Events/QLD-Open-Source-Spatial-Workshop/eid/988.html
* OSGeo-Live DVD handed out to all participants and used in hands on workshops
* Contact: Shaun Kolomeitz

=== 27 April – 2 May, 2014 European Geosciences Union General Assembly===
* Vienna, Austria
* http://www.egu2014.eu/
* 100 OSGeo-Live DVDs handed out to participants
* Contact Peter Löwe
* Detailed report and lessons learned: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/EGU_Townhall_2014#OSGeo-Live_DVDs

=== 26-28 March 2014, 8as Jornadas de SIG Libre (Spanish FOSS4G) ===
* 26 - 28 March 2014 in Girona
* http://www.sigte.udg.edu/jornadassiglibre
* 6 Workshops will take place, using OSGeo-Live
** Introduction to QGIS
** Integration of Free Geospatial Technologies
** Introduction to python for geospatial applications
** Introduction to MapProxy
** Developing mobile applications with Glob3 mobile SDK
** Creating Web Applications with AngularJS AND LeafletJS
* What format of OSGeo-Live was used?
** VirtualMachine
* Contact: [[User:Lluís|Lluís Vicens]]

=== 19. - 21. March 2014 FOSSGIS ===
* 19. - 21. March 2014
* Berlin, Germany
* http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2014/
* Videos on youtube: http://youtube.com/fossgis
* Hand out OSGeo-Live 7.9 postcards to all delegates - about 550 postcards
* Presenatation about OSGeo-Live '''OSGeo-Live rocks!''' '''maybe'''
* > 10 Workshops will take place, most of them will use OSGeo-Live
** 204 persons in the workshops
* What format of OSGeo-Live was used?
** VirtualMachine
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 23 February 2014 FOSS4G Sri Lanka ===
* Malabe, Sri Lanka
* OSGeo-Live Presentation including demo of OSGeo-Live
* Handed out OSGeo Live 7.0 DVDs
* Contact: Nimalika Fernando

=== 1-2 February 2014 FOSDEM ===
* Brussels, Belgium
* http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSDEM2014
* Presentation of OSGeo Live Overview on a screen, event was attended by ~5000 people, OSGeo stand got visit of at least 500 (all marketing material was given away)
* Contact: Anne Ghisla

=== 23-25 January 2014 Societal GIS training workshop ===
* Rajahmundry, India
* OSGeo India had a 3 day Societal GIS training workshop.
* Used OSGeo Live-7, both DVD and USB driven. Wish to use Virtual Box as Windows-8 has serious booting issues and OSGeo-Live works fine with Virtual Box (Sun Microsystems).
* http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User_talk:Ravivundavalli#OSGeo_India_and_Adi_Kavi_Nannaya_University_Training_workshop_23_-_25_January_2014

== 2013 ==
=== 4-6 December 2013, National Seminar on 'Remote Sensing and GIS for Environment', India ===
* Visakhapatnam, India
* OSGeo booth attracted a bee line of students who were eager to experiment with OSGeo software. Copies of OSGeo Live-DVD were distributed to all those who have answered a questionnaire quizzing about OSGeo and FOSS GIS.
* http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User_talk:Ravivundavalli#OSGeo_India_Booth_at_Visakhapatnam.2C_India

=== 14-15 November 2013, FOSS4G Korea 2013 ===
* Seoul, Korea
* http://www.osgeo.kr/135/
* OSGeo Live DVD will be distributed at the FOSS4G Korea venue and through KAOS-G booth at Smart GeoExpo Korea 2013.
* Contact: [[User:sanghee|Sanghee Shin]]

=== 4-8 November 2013, AfricaGIS 2013 / GSDI 14 ===
* Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
* http://www.gsdi.org/gsdiconf/gsdi14/
* Lightning overview presented (reveal JS version)
* Contact: [[User:Gfleming|Gavin Fleming]]

=== 8-10 October 2013, INTERGEO 2013 ===
* Essen, Germany
* http://intergeo.de
* it is planned to hand out 500 OSGeo 7.0 DVDs
* slides about OSGeo-Live in FOSSGIS e.V. presentation
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 24 - 26 Sept 2013, Asian Geospatial Forum 2013 ===
* Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
* http://www.asiageospatialforum.org
* OSGEO-Live and ICA-OSGEO lab network [http://prezi.com/hv18xf8_wolq/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy presentation]
* Contact: [[TuongThuy Vu|Thuy Vu]]

=== 19 - 21 Sept 2013, INCA-33 International Congress India ===
* Jodhpur, India
* http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User_talk:Ravivundavalli#OSGeo_India_.40_INCA-33_International_congress.2C_Jodhpur.2C_Rajasthan.2C_India
* Through OSGeo India booth 100 Live-DVDs are distributed
* Contact: ravivundavalli@yahoo.com

=== 17-21 September 2013, FOSS4G ===
* Nottingham, United Kingdom
* http://2013.foss4g.org
* Contact: Steven Feldman

=== 25-30 August 2013, International Cartographic Conference ===
* Dresden, Germany
* http://www.dgfk.net/index.php?id=164&do=akt
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 8-12 July 2013, Open Source Opportunities in GIS Summer School ===
* Girona, Catalonia, Spain
* About 25 students running OSGeo-Live in a Virtual Machine (Virtual Box).
* http://www.sigte.udg.edu/summerschool2013/
* Contact: [[User:Lluís|Lluís Vicens]]

=== 3-5 July 2013, AGIT25 ===
* Salzburg, Austria
* http://www.agit.at
* OSGeo Day http://www.agit.at/index.php/programm-2013/themen/osgeo
* Hand out OSGeo-Live 6.5 DVDs at FOSSGIS/OSGeo Booth - about 200 DVDs
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 10 June 2013, FROG (FRancophone Opensource Geomatique)===
* Paris, France
* http://osgeo.asso.fr
* Distribution to participants ?
* Contact : Vincent Picavet

=== 12.-14. June 2013 FOSSGIS ===
* 12.-14. June 2013
* Rapperswil, Switzerland
* http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2013/
* Hand out OSGeo-Live 6.5 DVDs to all delegates - about 350 DVDs
* Presenatation about OSGeo-Live '''OSGeo-Live rocks!''' by [[User:Astrid Emde | Astrid Emde]] http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2013/programm/events/576.de.html
* > 10 Workshops will take place, most of them will use OSGeo-Live 6.5
** 5 - 20 persons in the workshops
* What format of OSGeo-Live was used?
** VirtualMachine
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== 17-19 June 2013, FOSS4G-CEE 2013 ===
* Bucharest, Romania
* OSGeo-Live 6.5 (or higher) DVDs will be handed out to all participants (conference target: 300)
* Some workshops are expected to make use of OSGeo-Live (call for workshops opens June 13th)
* A OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation is welcome (call for presentations opens June 13th)
* http://2013.foss4g-cee.org
* Contact: [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Vasile Vasile Crăciunescu]

=== 21 May 2013, Location Intelligence Conference ===
* Washington DC, United States
* OSGeo-Live presentation by [[User:Amyonthemap|Amy Gao]]

=== 29-30 April, 2013 GIS In Action ===
* April 29 to May 1, 2013,
* Portland, Oregon
* http://www.orurisa.org/GIS_In_Action (website is reused every year, [https://web.archive.org/web/20130510063948/http://www.orurisa.org/GIS_In_Action Archive.org site])
* The DVD was used to run demos at the booth. A limited number of copies were available to hand out to people who seemed very interested.
* The PDX-OSGeo chapter also helps organize an Open Source Track at GIS In Action which was very popular. This year, there was not a specific talk about the LiveDVD although it is often mentioned as a great way to try out software that people ask about.
* On May 2, there was an unconference where the LiveDVD was frequently referenced.
* Contact: [[User:EliL | EliL]]

=== 24 April, 2013 FOSS4G Buenos Aires 2013 ===
* 24 to 26 of April 2013, Buenos Aires, Argentina
* http://www.foss4g.org.ar/
* Unfortunately there was a problem with the DVD distributor and the participants didn't receive a copy.
* [http://jsanz.github.io/slides-201304-foss4gba/osgeo-live/#/title OSGeo Live presentation] by [[Jorge Sanz]]
* OSGeo Live was used on the MapProxy workshop by the lecturer and some attendants that were able to run it on Virtual Box
* Contact: [[Mauricio Miranda]]

=== 10 April, 2013 EGU 2013 ===
* Vienna, Austria
* http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2013/session/13223
* DVD-distribution to journalists
* splinter meeting with short presentation and screenshots of OSGeo-Live
* Contact: Peter Löwe

=== 6-8 March 2013, Jornadas de SIG Libre (Spanish FOSS4G2013) ===
* Girona, Spain
* http://www.sigte.udg.edu/jornadassiglibre
* Contact: [[User:Lluís|Lluis Vicens]]

=== 17-18 January 2013, WhereCampEU ===
* Rome, Italy
* http://wherecamp.eu/
* OSGeo-Live presentation by [[User:Lucadelu|Luca Delucchi]]

== 2012 ==

=== 4-7 December 2012, Open Source Developers Conference ===
* Sydney, Australia
* http://www.osdc.com.au/
* OSGeo-Live presentation by Cameron Shorter
* Contact: Cameron Shorter

=== 22-24 November 2012, PhilGEOS 2012 ===
* Quezon City, Philippines
* http://philgeos2012.wordpress.com/
* Over 60 participants joined 8 workshops and 3 lightning talks. The OSGeo Live project was also presented in one of the parallel technical sessions in the main conference. Likewise, an exhibit booth was installed during the PhilGEOS conference for OSGeo and OpenStreetMap. Over ~50 OSGeo Live DVDs were handed out to conference participants.
* Contact: Maning Sambale

=== 19-23 November 2012, LatinOSGIS ===
* Guayaquil, Ecuador
* http://www.fiec.espol.edu.ec/LatinOSGIS
* OSGeo-Live 6.0 DVDs to be handed out
* lightning presentation by Mauricio Miranda
* OSGeo-Live used in four workshops by Marco Minghini (QGIS, GeoServer, GeoNetwork, OpenLayers)
* about 30 VMs set up on the room computers
* Contact: Indira Yadira Nolivos Alvarez

=== 17-18 November 2012, OpenGIS ===
* Moscow, Russia
* conference on everything related to free and opensource GIS: data, software, methodology, organized by members of Russian GIS-Lab and OpenStreetMap communities.
* Over 200 participants; OSGeo-Live DVD was used in GRASS GIS workshop; ~10 OSGeo Live DVDs were handed out to conference participants.
* http://gisconf.ru/en/
* Contact: Maxim Dubinin, Alexander Mury

=== 14-17 November 2012, GFOSSDAY 2012 - OSMit 2012 ===
* Turin, Italy
* http://www.gfoss.it/drupal/gfossday2012
* OSGeo-Live software directly used from VMs within five workshops
* OSGeo-Live overview in keynote presentation
* Title: OSGeo-Live: il più semplice strumento per provare le applicazioni GFOSS / OSGeo-Live: the simplest way to test FOSS4G software
* Contact: [[User:Lucadelu|Luca Delucchi]]

=== 14-16 November 2012, EGU Leonardo Conference ===
* Turin, Italy
* http://www.eguleonardo2012.polito.it/
* Poster presentation in Session: Population
* Notes: Poster Presentations consist in a quick (1-Slide) oral overview during the sessions and in the attendance by the poster stand between the sessions.
* Title: A complete review of the breadth of quality Geospatial Open Source Software available to Hydrologists, using OSGeo-Live
* Contact: [[User:Madi|Margherita Di Leo]]

=== 12-13 November 2012, SWE-SmartCities Workshop ===
* Barcelona, Spain
* https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5tKYbjsGOrxWkVwWWZsM2NHNlk/edit
* Sensor Web Enablement workshop held by 52°North
* 21 OSGeo-Live handed to the participants and used for the exercises
* The DVD was used for a training workshop on OGC Sensor Web Enablement. Participants worked with the 52°North SOS and the 52°North WPS. The DVD was mostly used, in some cases the VM was used.During the training, the participants used their own laptop computers (a full mix of all operating systems).There was no dedicated time needed for setting up the DVD. No issues occured.
* Contact: [[User:esllolo|Estela Llorente López]], Simon Jirka (52°North)

=== November 2012, Open Source GIS and Webmapping Workshop ===
* Vienna (Austria)
* Waiting on Barend Köbben to provide website url once details are finalised

===25-26 October 2012, FOSS4G-India ===
* Hyderabad, India
* http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/foss4gindia
* OSGeo-Live DVDs to be handed out to all participants
* OSGeo-Live to be used in workshops
* OSGeo-Live Presentation to be given by K S Rajan
* Contact: K S Rajan

===17,18 October 2012, GeoINT 2012 ===
* Orlando Florida
* OSGeo-Live link handed out
* mentioned in various panels and forums
* geoint2012.com
* Contact: Mark Lucas and John Scott

=== 17-19 October 2012, Geospace Europe Summit 2012 ===
* Brussels Belgium
* OSGeo-Live link handed out
* Presentation pointing to live.ogeo.org efforts
* http://defence.flemingeurope.com/geospatial-intelligence-europe
* Contact: Mark Lucas

=== 17-19 October 2012, Latinoware ===
* Keynote presentation by Jody Garnett including parts of the OSGeo Lightning presentation
* http://2012.latinoware.org/?lang=en , http://2012.latinoware.org/?page_id=228
* Contact: Jody Garnett

=== October 2012, INTERGEO 2012 ===
* Hannover Germany, 9.-11.10.2012
* ~600 OSGeo 6.0 (and some of Version 5.5.) DVDs were distributed
* slide about OSGeo-Live in [http://fossgis.de FOSSGIS e.V.] presentation
* very good feedback to the DVD. Lot of people already know OSGeo-Live
* http://intergeo.de
* Contact: [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]]

=== October 2012, Smart Korea 2012 in conjunction with OGC TC/PC Meeting ===
* Seoul, Korea
* Around 50 OSGeo-Live 6.0 DVDs were handed out at OSGeo booth there
* http://www.opengeospatial.org/event/1210tc
* Contact: Sanghee Shin

=== 11-13 October 2012, XXXII INCA International Conference 2012 ===
* Dehradun, India
* http://www.incaindia.org/32INCA/
* Nearly 80 OSGeo-Live 6.0 DVDs handed out at OSGeo/IIRS Booth. Posters with screenshots of some applications with local data were put up.
* Explained delegates about OpenSource GIS. Demonstrated QGIS to anyone with a question. Demoed OpenCPN to some of the folks from National Hydrographic Office.
* Contact: Chaitanya Kumar CH

=== October 12, 2012, FOSS4G Korea 2012 ===
* COEX, Seoul, Korea
* Nearly 70~80 OSGeo-Live 6.0 DVDs were handed out during the event and brief explanation of OSGeo-Live project was given to participants
* FOSS4G Korea will be held in conjunction with Smart Korea 2012
* http://www.osgeo.kr
* Contact: Sanghee Shin

=== October 3-5, 2012, Minnesota GIS/LIS 2012 ===
* Saint Cloud, Minnesota, USA
* OSGeo-Live 6.0 DVDs handed out at OSGeo/FOSS4GNA Booth.
* OSGeo-Live ODP file set to loop on digital display in booth, augmented with local OSGeo project screenshots.
* Annual Conference and Workshops.
* http://www.mngislis.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=718
* Contact: Bob Basques

=== October 2012, GISSA Ukubuzana conference ===
* 1-3 October, Johannesburg, South Africa
* ~450 OSGeo 6.0 DVDs were distributed
* Lightning overview wwas also presented
* It was also used in two workshops ('Intro to PostGIS and QGIS' and 'Enterprise GIS with FOSS')
* http://gissa.org.za/activities/conferences/gissa-ukubuzana-2012
* More were distributed and used in workshops at the launch of the University of Pretoria ICA/OSGeo Lab on 4 Oct
* [[User:Gfleming|Gavin Fleming]]

=== September 2012, Geocamp ===
* September 22nd, Campo Maior, Portugal
* http://geocampers.com
* OSGeo project presentation: how the project is managed, how translations work, how a project is involved
* Contact: [[Jorge Sanz]], Hugo Santos info (at) geocampers (dot) com

=== September 2012, Asia GeoSpatial Forum ===
* Hanoi, Vietnam. 17~19th, September
* Around 50 OSGeo-Live 6.0 DVDs were handed out to the participants.
* A presentation on OSGeo overview and OSGeo-Live was given in oral presentation session
* Open Source GIS Session
* http://www.asiageospatialforum.org/
* Contact: Sanghee Shin

=== 5 September 2012 Open Source GIS Conference (OSGIS) ===
* Nottingham, United Kingdom
* All day session: "Educational use of OSGeo Live" presented by Ari Jolma
* 100 OSGeo-Live DVDs handed out
* OSGeo-Live lightning presentation by Barry Rowlingson
* http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/osgis/
* Contact: Suchith Anand

=== August 2012, 34th International Geological Conference ===
* Brisbane, Australia
* OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation by Peter Baunmann, conference convener
* http://www.34igc.org/
* Contact: Peter Baunmann

=== 18-19 July 2012, FOSS4G Southeast Asia ===
* Johor Bahru, Malaysia
* OSGEO-live DVD used at the plenary session. Several slides from OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation used plus some demonstration.
* OSGeo-Live handed out to all delegates.
* Contact: Dr. Franz-Josef Behr

=== July 2012, Third Open Source GIS Summer School ===
* Girona, Spain
* School program focused on the development and creation of Open Web Mapping Services and Web applications. Jeremy Morley (Lecturer and a theme leader at the NGI) will be contributing the Nottingham components for the Summer School. The course has been designed and will be conducted on a GNU/Linux operating system based on the use of the OSGeo-Live DVD.
* http://www.sigte.udg.edu/summerschool2012/
* Contact: Lluís Vicens

=== July 2012, International Environmental Modeling and Software Society Conference (IEMSS) ===
* Leipzig, Germany
* ~ 100 OSGeo-Live 5.5 DVDs to be handed out
* OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation
* http://www.iemss.org/sites/iemss2012/sessions_D.html
* Contact: Daniel P. Ames

=== July 2012, AGIT ===
* Salzburg (Austria) Annual Conference
* http://www.agit.at/
* [[AGIT]], Friday is OSGeo day, free booth together with OSM throughtout the week ([[Arnulf]])
* we want to hand out +- 500 OSGeoLive DVDs

===June 30 - July 1, 2012, FOSS4G Hokkaido 2012 ===
*Sapporo, Hokkaido JAPAN
*50 OSGeo-Live 5.5 DVDs handed out to delegates
*OSGeo.JP and OSGeo-Live overview in keynote presentation
*[https://sites.google.com/site/foss4ghokkaido/ Website (in Japanese)]
*[https://www.facebook.com/FOSS4G.Hokkaido Facebook (in Japanese)]

=== June 2012, useR! The International R User Conference ===
* Vanderbilt U, Nashville USA
* http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/Main/UseR-2012
* Workshop Presentation on Geospatial Data in R, 33 attendees
* Five or six OSGeo-Live 5.5 DVDs taken
* Boot and demo at end of workshop.

=== June 28, 2012, OSGeo.nl Day (FOSS4G Regional) within MapWindow Conference - The Netherlands ===
* Velp, The Netherlands
* OSGeo-Live 5.5 DVDs handed out to all delegates (about 120). This included a large contingent of OSGeo-NL people who I heard were very appreciative of the DVD.
* OSGeo-Live + OSGeo overview in keynote presentation
* OSGeo-Live software directly used from VMs within the two workshops
* http://osgeo.nl/osgeonl_dag_2012.html (OSGeo.nl Day Program + Pres. Slides)
* http://www.mapwindow.org/conference/2012 (general MapWindow conf)
* Contact: Daniel P. Ames

=== May 2012, FOSS4G-CEE & Geoinformatics 2012 ===
* Prague, Czech Republic
* OSGeo-Live 5.5 DVDs to be used in workshops
* OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation
* http://foss4g-cee.org/
* Contact: Jachym Cepicky

=== May 2012, FOSSCOMM 2012 ===
* Serres, Greece
* OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation
* 1 undergraduate thesis presentation using OSGeo-Live
* http://serres.fosscomm.gr/?page_id=582

=== May 2012, HellasGI 2012 ===
* Athens, Greece
* OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation
* Local chapter meeting

=== April 2012, COMEM OGO course :: Webmapping with OGC standards ===
* April 16th, a course dedicated on geospatialized e-Content for Media Engineering bachelor students (http://www.comem.ch) at School of Engineering and Business Vaud (http://www.heig-vd.ch), Western Switzerland, Yverdon-les-Bains
* Topic : learning webmapping and OGC standards with OpenLayers, GeoServer, PostGIS (http://ogo.heig-vd.ch)
* A customized OSGeo-Live 5.5 VM has been used through VirtualBox by 15 students to execute several exercices and to build a five days project (http://carto.iict.ch)
* Delivering a complete and ready to use geo-enabled VM is interessant for students to work in a kind of sandbox and to bring something easely back at home for later reuse.

=== April 2012, Geospatial World Forum 2012 ===
* The RAI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
* 4-hour [http://wiki.osgeo.org/images/b/bf/GeospatialWorldForum_2012_OpenSource_Seminar_Program.pdf "Open Source Seminar"] organized by OSGeo/[http://OSgeo.nl OSGeo Dutch Chapter] with 11 speakers
* OSGeo-Live lightning presentation (15mins)
* http://www.geospatialworldforum.org/2012/open.htm

=== April 2012, FOSS4G North America 2012 ===
* Washington, United States
* Hand out OSGeo-Live 5.5 DVDs to all delegates
* OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation?
* http://foss4g-na.org/

=== April 2012, GISRUK 2012 ===
* Lancaster University, UK
* (probably) To be used for pre-conference workshop from Lutra Consulting
* Around 200 DVDs to be handed out at the OSGeo-UK desk
* http://www.lancs.ac.uk/gisruk2012/

=== April 2012, AGILE 2012===
* Avignon, France
* http://agile2012.imag.fr/index.php/workshops/hands-on-qopen-source-gis-a-webmappingq
* Open Source GIS & WebCartography workshop
* OSGeo-Live USBs handed to all workshop attendees

=== March 2012, Association for Geographic Information Welsh Group Open Source Seminar ===
* Wrexham, Wales, UK
* DVDs handed out to all delegates (20)
* http://astuntechnology.com/news/agi-open-source-training/ (proper link no longer available)

=== March 2012, AWRA GIS and Water Resources Conference ===
* New Orleans
* ~ 350 DVDs handed to delegates
* http://awra.org/meetings/Spring2012/

=== March 2012, FOSSGIS 2012 ===
* Dessau, Germany
* Hand out OSGeo-Live 5.5 DVDs to all delegates - more than 400 DVDs
* OSGeo-Live was mentioned in the opening speech
* http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2012/
* OSGeo-Live was mentioned a lot on the conference. Some presenter mentioned in their presentation, to test the new stuff with OSGeo-Live
* How many people were in the workshop?
** 21 Wokshops took place in total, 15 Workshop used OSGeo-Live 5.5, some of the workshops used a modified OSGeo-Live version
** 5 - 20 persons were in the workshops
* What format of OSGeo-Live was used? DVD? USB? VM?
** Used with VirtualBox
* Did students bring their own computers? What types of computers and operating systems were brought in?
** No own computers. We used the computers with windows and VirtualBox from the GIS pool of the university
* How much time was spent setting up the class with setting up OSGeo-Live?
** This was done before the workshop

=== March 2012, Spanish FOSS4G 2012 ===
* Girona, Spain
* OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation.
* Possibly also handing out osgeo-live 5.5 DVDs?
* http://www.sigte.udg.edu/jornadassiglibre/

=== 6-7 March 2012, Malaysian Geospatial Forum ===
* Malaka, Malaysia
* http://www.malaysiageospatialforum.org
* The OSGEO-Live lightning overview was presented to around 50 attendees (of approximately 300 attendees of the whole event). Positive feedbacks, the common question was which package should be used to their work.

=== February 2012, AAG 2012 ===
* New York, New York
* 25 OSGeo-Live 5.0 bootable thumb drives to be handed out
* FOSS4G Workshop for Educators
* http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting

=== February 2012, GIS courses ===
* 6-10 Feb, Enterprise GIS course at University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
* 13-17 Feb , Introduction to QGIS and PostGIS course, Muizenberg, South Africa
* OSGeo 5.0 DVDs handed out to course attendees (~15 each)
* Ran in first session of workshops as LiveDVD to browse through the ecosystem and get a feel for Linux and FOSS GIS.
* [[User:Gfleming|Gavin Fleming]]

=== January 2012, Pleiades Days 2012 ===
* Toulouse, France
* 50 OSGeo-Live 5.0 bootable thumb drives to be handed out
* [http://www.pleiades2012.com/ Website]

== 2011==

=== December 2011, Enterprise GIS course at the Council for Geoscience ===
* 12-14 Dec, Cape Town, South Africa
* OSGeo 5.0 DVDs handed out to course attendees
* We set up the VM on Windows for part of the workshop. Demo'd QGIS server and browsed through the system for an overview of other tools.
* It would be nice to have OpenGeo Suite Community Edition installed. It could provide PostGIS and GeoServer to the rest of the DVD. Also GeoNode.
* [[User:Gfleming|Gavin Fleming]]

=== November 2011, FOSS4G Tokyo/Osaka 2011 ===
*Tokyo and Osaka, JAPAN
*each 50+ OSGeo-Live 5.0 DVDs handed to delegates
*[http://www.osgeo.jp/%E3%82%A4%E3%83%99%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88/foss4g-2011-tokyo/ Website (in Japanese)]
*[http://www.osgeo.jp/%E3%82%A4%E3%83%99%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88/foss4g-2011-osaka/ Website (in Japanese)]

=== October 2011, IAEA/FAO Coordinated Research Program ===
* Burkina Faso
* This conference was the third in a series of semi-annual meetings reviewing research programs regarding two agricultural pests: Tsetse and Old/New World Screw-worm. The meetings focus on merging population genetics and GIS techniques to better understand the spread of these pests.
* A customized version of the OSGeoLive 5.0 was prepared with data specific to Burkina Faso, and each of the 15 participants received a USB flash drive for the practice session. Some basic exercises were conducted demonstrating QGIS, Spatialite, and R.
* Responses were overwhelmingly positive.

=== September 2011, Intergeo 2011 ===
* Nuremberg, Germany
* Intergeo is an anual big fair on geodesy, geoinformation and land management
* [http://fossgis.de FOSSGIS e.V.] (german language local chapter of OSGeo) organizes an the OSGeo Park at Intergeo every year presenting OSGeo software. There also is a [http://www.fossgis.de/wiki/Intergeo_2011/Vortragsprogramm presentation area] where we present OSGeo Software and solutions 3 days long
* Rest of the OSGeo-Live 4.5 handed out (aprox 100 DVDs)
* http://www.intergeo.de/en/englisch/index.php

=== September 2011, FOSS4G 2011 ===
Denver, United States
* OSGeo Live given to every delegate. (Release 5.0)
* 300 USBs printed, 600 DVDs
* OSGeo-Live was used within many of the workshops

=== June/July 2011, Open Source GIS Summer School ===
* University of Gerona, Gerona, Spain
* The school taught Open Source GIS technologies and made use of the OSGeoLive DVD
* http://www.sigte.udg.edu/summerschool2011/target-audience/prerequisites

=== August 2011, [http://irdal.ird.fr/spip.php?page=ecole_ete_spatial_bresil11_sommaire&id_rubrique=1022|Ecole d'été - Observation spatiale de l'environnement] ===
* Macapa, Brazil
* OSGeo-Live 5.0RC1 on a USB was used in a workshop for 12 students learning OTB and Monteverdi.

=== June 2011, FLUXNET & RS Open-Workshop ===
* David Brower Environmental Center, USA
* http://nature.berkeley.edu/biometlab/fluxnet2011/fluxwkshp_post.html
* Provided OSGeo LiveDVD to interested participants

=== June 2011, [[Live_GIS_Disk_FOSS4G_2010| OSGIS 2011]] ===
Centre for Geospatial Science, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
* http://cgs.nottingham.ac.uk/~osgis11/os_home.html
* Provided OSGeo-Live lightning presentation, abstract: [[Live_GIS_Disk_OSGIS_2011]]
* handed out OSGeo-Live DVDs to all delegates

=== May 2011, CGS 2011 ===
* Bishop CA, USA
* ~10 discs

=== April 2011, GITA 2011 ===
* Dallas Tx, USA
* 100 discs sent to OSGeo booth

=== April 2011, AAG 2011 ===
* Seattle, WA USA
* Annual Geography conference 8-10,000 attendants
* ~30-50 discs given away at OSGeo booth
* Remaining ~150 divided between CUGOS and Portland? chapters.

=== April 2011, FOSSGIS 2011 ===
* Heidelberg, Germany
* [http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2011/ FOSSGIS] is an annual conference in german language with ~ 400 attendants
* we printed OSGeo-Live 4.5 and handed out about 450 DVDs
* OSGeoLive 4.5 was used sucessfully in ~ 12 workshops
* [http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2011/programm/events/248.de.html Astrid Emde presented OSGeo-Live] in a 20 min talk with focus on the background of the project and the possibilities the project offers
** about 40 attendants

== 2010 ==
=== November 2010, GeoData Camp ===
* Athens, Greece
* Presented OSGeo-Live lightning presentation in Greek to more than 300 attendants. This included two 1-hour presentations in technical sessions and a 15 minute presentation in the main event.

=== October 2010, Intergeo 2010 ===
* Cologne, Germany
* Intergeo is an anual big fair on geodesy, geoinformation and land management
* [http://fossgis.de FOSSGIS e.V.] (german language local chapter of OSGeo) organizes an Open Source Park on Intergeo every year where OSGeo Software is presented. There also is a [http://www.fossgis.de/wiki/Intergeo_2010/Vortragsprogramm presentation area] where we present OSGeo Software and solutions 3 days long
* we printed OSGeo-Live 4.0 and handed out about 450 DVDs
* Lars Lingner presented the DVD with Cameron Shorters presentation
* http://www.intergeo.de/en/englisch/index.php
* Feedback
** good feedback: OSGeo-Live offers the possibility to get to know OSGeo Software without an installation

=== September 2010, [[Live_GIS_Disk_FOSS4G_2010|FOSS4G 2010]] ===
Barcelona, Spain
* Provided a 90 minute tutorial of OSGeo Live
* OSGeo Live given to every delegate. (Release 4.0)

=== April 2010, [http://www.fig2010.com/ FIG 2010] - International Surveyors conference===
Sydney, Australia
* Handed out Live DVDs from OSGeo stand. (Release 3.0)
* Provided 15 minute lightning talk about the OSGeo stack, promoting the LiveDVD. [[http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com/2010/04/report-from-osgeo-stand-at-federation.html Report]], [[http://blip.tv/file/3503561 presentation video]]

== 2009 ==

=== October 2009, [http://2009.foss4g.org FOSS4G 2009] ===
Sydney, Australia
* Handed out 500 Live DVDs in every delegate's show bag. (Release: 2.0.3)

=== June 2009, [http://www.spatial.gov.au/Conferences/spatialgov+2009/default.aspx Spatial@Gov] ===
* Canberra, Australia
* Handed out Live DVDs from an OSGeo stand. (Release 1.0)
* Cameron Shorter provided a 30 minute presentation on the Open Source GeoSpatial Stack.

== 2008 ==

=== November 2008, Australian Cooperative Research Center for Spatial Information Conference ===
* Brisbane, Australia
* Distributed ~ 250 OSGeo-Live DVDs to delegates (Release 1.0)

===September 2008, [http://2008.foss4g.org FOSS4G 2008]===
* Handed out ~ 150 Live DVDs from the OSGeo stand. (Release: foss4g2008)

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This board meeting is '''scheduled for the 10th of March 2016''' at [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2016&month=4&day=14&hour=14&min=0&sec=0%2016.00UTC 14.00 UTC] through IRC and follow up voting by email.

== Agenda ==

=== Current items ===

Agenda:

* ''roll call''
* ''appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary''
* ''Approve last [[Board Meeting 2016-3-10|meeting minutes]]''
* ''OSGeo Travel Grant for FOSS4G-2016''
* ''Update about LARS Conference in Chile''
* ''Update about FOSS4G-Argentina''
* ''Update upcoming OSGeo Session at Geospatial World Forum in The Netherlands''
* ''2016 Strategic Plan''
* ''GeoNode code donation, question about use of docusign to mange OSGeo contribution agreements'
* ''Incubation update: [[OSGeo_Community_Projects|community projects]]
* ''MoU between [http://www.gitta.info/website/en/html/index.html GITTA] and OSGeo
* ''OSGeo Live DVDs for [http://www.cubaconf.org/ Conferencia Internacional de Software Libre April]''
* ''OSGeo Live Thumbdrives for [http://www.umgeocon.org// Upper Midwest Geospatial Conference (UMGEOCON 2016) May]''
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=== Items from past meetings ===

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== Minutes ==

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=== Motions ===

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'''Welcome to the UN training page'''

GeoForAll is supporting UN in their migration to geospatial open source applications. In this page we list the training material available for some products that UN will use. Please add your training material here, putting also the reference to all data used in such a way that everybody in using your material can be autonomous.

== QGIS ==

* Official manual + training manual: http://docs.qgis.org - Point of contact: QGIS Project Steering Committee

*'''FOSS4G GeoAcademy Curriculum''' - 35 hands-on labs written primarily for QGIS with some cross over with GRASS and Inkscape. Labs are aligned to the Geospatial Technology Competency Model. Development was sponsored by a Department of Labor Grant and is released under Creative Commons Attribute 3.0 Unported license. All labs currently written for QGIS 2.8, but we are about to release labs for QGIS 2.14. In addition to labs, lecture material is also developed and being uploaded. All lab instructions and data are [http://spatialquerylab.com/foss4g-academy-curriculum/ available online on our lab website].
**'''Link to material''': http://spatialquerylab.com/foss4g-academy-curriculum/
**'''Lab''': Spatial {Query} Lab - http://www.spatialquerylab.com
**'''Point of Contact''': Rick Smith - Richard.Smith@tamucc.edu
**'''Mailing Address''': 6300 Ocean Dr., Unit 5868, Corpus Christi, TX 78412-5868, USA

Add here: short description (at most 5 lines), URL, Lab name, mailing address of the point of contact

== gvSIG ==

gvSIG is a powerful, user-friendly and interoperable GIS. It is easy to work in a variety of formats, vector and raster files, databases and remote services. There are always available all kinds of tools to analyze and manage geographic information.

gvSIG Desktop is designed to be an easily extensible solution, allowing thus continually improving the software application and developing tailor made solutions. It is open source software, GNU / GPL license, this makes its free use, distribution, study and improvement. gvSIG Desktop integrates NASA World Wind, so it allows to work with 3D Views.

gvSIG Online is an Open Source solution for Spatial Data Infrastructures. It is an integral platform for the Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) implementation, 100% open source software. A fast and powerful solution for start up the infrastructure necessary to manage spatial data in an organization in an efficient way.

*Website: http://www.gvsig.com
** [http://www.gvsig.com/en/diffusion/educational-material?p_p_id=122_INSTANCE_A9eo37KAqtxs&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=normal&p_p_mode=view&p_p_col_id=column-2&p_p_col_count=1&p_r_p_564233524_resetCur=true&p_r_p_564233524_categoryId=25973 Educational material in English]
** [http://web.gvsig-training.com/index.php/en/quienes-somos-2/noticias-2/145-the-free-mooc-cycle-gvsig-for-users Free MOOC cycle "gvSIG for Users"]
** '''Point of Contact''': Mario Carrera - mcarrera [at] gvsig.com
* [https://www.youtube.com/user/gvsig gvSIG Youtube Channel]

== GeoServer ==

GeoServer is an open source server for sharing geospatial data. Designed for interoperability, it publishes data from any major spatial data source using open standards.

*'''Boundless Workshops''': [http://www.boundlessgeo.com/ Website]
**'''Link to Material''': [http://workshops.boundlessgeo.com/geoserver-intro/ Introduction to GeoServer]
**'''Link to Material''': [http://workshops.boundlessgeo.com/suiteintro/ Introduction to Suite]
**'''Point of Contact''': Anthony Calamito - [mailto:acalamito@boundlessgeo.com acalamito@boundlessgeo.com]

*'''GeoSolutions Workshops''': [http://www.geo-solutions.it Website]
** '''Link to Material''': [http://geoserver.geo-solutions.it/edu/en/ GeoServer general training, four days worth of training material, from the first steps to production deploy setups, performance optimization and the like]
** '''Link to Material''': [http://geoserver.geo-solutions.it/multidim/en/ Spatio-temporal data handling with GeoServer]
** '''Link to Material''': [http://geoserver.geo-solutions.it/complexfeatures/ Complex features support and mapping with Hale]
** '''Point of Contact''': Andrea Aime - [mailto:andrea.aime@geo-solutions.it andrea.aime@geo-solutions.it]

*'''GeoServer Users Guide''': [http://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/ Website]
**'''Link to Material''': [http://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/extensions/css/workshop/index.html CSS styling workshop]
**'''Point of Contact''': Mike Pumphrey - [mailto:mike@boundlessgeo.com mike@boundlessgeo.com]

== OpenLayers ==

OpenLayers is a high-performance, feature-packed library for all your mapping needs.

*'''Boundless Workshops''': [http://www.boundlessgeo.com/ Website]
**'''Link to Material''': [http://workshops.boundlessgeo.com/openlayers3/ Introduction to OpenLayers]
**'''Link to Material''': [http://workshops.boundlessgeo.com/suiteintro/ Introduction to Suite]
**'''Point of Contact''': Anthony Calamito - [mailto:acalamito@boundlessgeo.com acalamito@boundlessgeo.com]

== PostgreSQL ==

Add here: short description (at most 5 lines), URL, Lab name, mailing address of the point of contact

== PostGIS ==

PostGIS is a spatial database extender for PostgreSQL object-relational database. It adds support for geographic objects allowing location queries to be run in SQL.

*''' University of Colorado Denver FOSS4G Lab''': [http://geospatial.ucdenver.edu/foss4g/ CU Denver FOSS4G Lab]
**'''PostgreSQL-PostGIS Tutorial Series''' Series of 7 tutorials covering the basics of PostGIS for spatial data handling and analysis.
**'''Link to material''': [http://geospatial.ucdenver.edu/foss4g/training/tutorials PostgreSQL-PostGIS Tutorials]
**'''Point of Contact''': Rafael Moreno - Rafael.Moreno@ucdenver.edu

*'''Boundless Workshops''': [http://www.boundlessgeo.com/ Website]
**'''Link to Material''': [http://workshops.boundlessgeo.com/postgis-intro/ Introduction to PostGIS]
**'''Link to Material''': [http://workshops.boundlessgeo.com/suiteintro/ Introduction to Suite]
**'''Link to Material''': [http://workshops.boundlessgeo.com/postgis-spatialdbtips/ Spatial Database Tips & Tricks]
**'''Point of Contact''': Anthony Calamito - [mailto:acalamito@boundlessgeo.com acalamito@boundlessgeo.com]

== GeoGig ==

GeoGig is an open source tool that draws inspiration from Git, but adapts its core concepts to handle distributed versioning of geospatial data.

*'''Boundless Workshops''': [http://www.boundlessgeo.com/ Website]
**'''Link to Material''': [http://geogig.org/workshop/ GeoGig Workshop]
**'''Point of Contact''': Anthony Calamito - [mailto:acalamito@boundlessgeo.com acalamito@boundlessgeo.com]

== GeoNode ==

GeoNode is a web-based application and platform for developing geospatial information systems (GIS) and for deploying spatial data infrastructures (SDI).

**'''Email List''': [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geonode-users geonode-users] and [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geonode-dev geonode-dev]
* Website: http://geonode.org
** Demo: http://demo.geonode.org
**'''Link to material''': TBD

== Rasdaman ==

*'''[http://www.rasdaman.org rasdaman]'''
**'''Big Geo Data Lab''' - Spatio-temporal sensor, image, simulation, and statistics data of unlimited size are served rapidly by rasdaman ("raster data manager"). As a multiparallel, distributed analytics engine, rasdaman achieves unparalleled service flexibility, scalability, and performance. Being OGC [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Coverage_Processing_Service WCPS] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Coverage_Service WCS] Core Reference Implementation, rasdaman enables access, subsetting, and processing on the fly using open standards interfaces. The WCS suite is a central cornerstone for SDIs: a large, growing number of open-source and proprietary tools supports it (MapServer, GeoServer, OpenLayers, QGIS, ESRI ArcGIS, ...) and the OGC standards are under adoption by ISO (as forthcoming 19123-2) and INSPIRE ("Coverage Download Service"). Significant training material is available already, and is being augmented continuously:
**'''Link to material''': [http://rasdaman.org/wiki/Workshops OGC Big Geo Data standards and rasdaman workshops] | [http://standards.rasdaman.com/ hands-on lab on Big Data Standards] | [http://kahlua.eecs.jacobs-university.de/~lsis/Big-Earth-Data_the-ARTE-Movie/index.php Big Earth Data] (53min TV documentary)
**'''Point of Contact''': Peter Baumann - baumann@rasdaman.com

== OSGeo-Live ==

OSGeo-Live contains 50 of the best geospatial applications, pre-installed with datasets, along with project overviews and 10 to 15 minute quickstarts for each application. The documentation provides an excellent high level overview of the breadth of geospatial open source applications. It is also used as a plaform for many open source geospatial workshops.

* Website: http://live.osgeo.org
** Contact: Cameron Shorter <cam e r onDoTs hort erA T g mai l.com>

*'''Bringing GEOSS services into practice'''
The "Bringing GEOSS services into practice" workshop aims at teaching how to configure, use and deploy a set of open source software (PostGIS, GeoServer, GeoNetwork, PyWPS, QGIS) to set up a spatial data infrastructure (SDI). Trainees will learn how to publish and share data and metadata using OGC and ISO standards and how to register services into the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS).

Website: http://www.geossintopractice.org

Lab: GeoForAll - ISE, University of Geneva: http://www.unige.ch/tigers/fr/autres-reseaux/geoforall/

Contact: Gregory Giuliani <gregory.giuliani AT unige.ch>

== GeoMOOSE ==

GeoMOOSE is a Web Client JavaScript Framework for displaying distributed cartographic data. GeoMOOSE has a number of strengths including modularity, configurability, and delivers a number of core functionalities in its packages. GeoMOOSE is also very light weight for servers making it easy to handle a large number of users, with a large number of layers, and a large number of services without stressing a server.

The GeoMOOSE core is written using JavaScript and HTML. It is entirely possible to run GeoMOOSE with nothing more than a basic web server (Nginx, Apache, IIS). But besides the basic client core, GeoMOOSE also comes prepackaged with a number of built in services written in PHP. These services add the ability to perform drill-down identify operations, selection operations, and search data sets. If you have existing scripts that perform similar functions, GeoMOOSE can be tuned to work with those services, no matter which language they were written in.

* Website: http://www.geomoose.org
** Online Demo: http://demo.geomoose.org/master/
** Package download (includes operating demo with sample data): http://geomoose.org/download.html
** GeoMOOSE is also compatible with MS4W.
** Link to material: Training materials are included in the download package as an operating demo.
*** Workshop materials: http://www.geomoose.org/downloads/workshops/foss4gna-2013/
**** NOTE: Newer version will be available by May 15th, 2016
*** The OSGeo Live page for GeoMOOSE includes the Overview and Quickstart:
**** http://live.osgeo.org/en/quickstart/geomoose_quickstart.html
**** http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/geomoose_overview.html
** Contact: Bob Basques <bbasques AT sharedgeo.org>

== GET-IT ==

'''GET-IT''' - Geoinformation Enabling ToolkIT starterkit, supports researchers and professional in the creation of autonomous, distributed nodes of a Spatial Data Infrastructure and uploading research results in the form of maps/observations (and related metadata). GET-It supports domain researchers and professional in the creation of OGC standard services like WMS, WFS, WCS, CSW, and SOS. GET-It is based on GeoNode, contains pyCSW, 52° North SOS Server, Geoserver, PostgreSQL, PostGIS, OpenLayers and also contains EDI, a general purpose, customizable, template-driven metadata editor. The suite is the first open-source collaborative effort toward the integration of traditional geographic information with observational data.

*'''GET-IT Website''': http://www.get-it.it/
**'''EDI Website''': http://edidemo.get-it.it/
**'''Docs''': http://getit.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
**'''Demo''': http://demo2.get-it.it/
**'''Code''': https://github.com/SP7-Ritmare/starterkit
**'''Lab''': 103 IREA-CNR - http://www.irea.cnr.it/
**'''Point of Contact''': Alessandro Oggioni - oggioni.a@irea.cnr.it

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== Background ==
The OSGeo Board of Directors met with the UN GIS team at FOSS4G in Seoul, Korea in September 2015. The UN GIS team is very interested in having OSGeo "at the table", and is interested in an exchange of official letters (an MoU would take many years to pass through on their side apparently) to formalize the relationship. Mr. Kyoung-Soo Eom, chief of the UN Geospatial Information Section, has invited OSGeo to be part of a working group on Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters.

== Goals ==

* Develop a closer relationship with the UN.

* Establish a formal agreement between OSGeo and the UN.

* Establish communication between the UN GIS team and the OSGeo community.

* Promote the use of Open Source geospatial tools by the UN's member states and committees.

== Communication ==

* a new "UN" mailing list will be created (see [https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1567#ticket ticket])

== Activities ==
* OSGeo has formally expressed interest in joining the [[UN-GGIM-Working-Group]] on Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters
** this was discussed at OSGeo's [[Board_Meeting_2015-10-15]]
** the UN is looking for feedback on the working group's [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/UN-GGIM-Working-Group#Draft_terms_of_reference_.28TOR.29 TOR draft]

== Next steps ==
* put out call for members for this new committee to Discuss list
* organize a monthly meeting, possibly using IRC or Slack
* draft official letter for formalizing relationship with UN

== Meetings ==

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== Members ==

* [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [[Jochen Albrecht]]
* [[Bob Basques]]
* ''add your name''

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=Open Letter of the Need for Open Standards in LiDAR=
April 2015.

We, the undersigned, are concerned that the current interoperability between LiDAR applications, through use of the open "LAS" format, is being threatened by ESRI's introduction and promotion of an alternative "Optimized LAS" '''''proprietary format.''''' This is of grave concern given that fragmentation of the LAS format will reduce interoperability between applications and organisations, and introduce vendor lock-in.

We request that:
# The OGC initiate the formalisation of an open standard for storing LiDAR data, and that OGC sponsors help prioritise the development of this open LiDAR standard.
# ESRI support the OGC in their [http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/vision mission] "to advance the development and use of international standards and supporting services that promote geospatial interoperability." In particular, ESRI join the OGC in consolidating an Open Standard for use of LiDAR data. This might include proposing ESRI's "Optimized LAS" as an Open Standard to remove any technical or legal hurdles in use of "Optimized LAS" as an Open Standard. A simple test to determine if "Optimized LAS" can be used as an Open Standard would be if "Optimized LAS" can legally be implemented by Open Source software such as libLAS or LASzip.
# Users and sponsors of LiDAR data, publicly state their preference for the use of an open LiDAR format over proprietary when selecting software and services.
# The custodians of the open LAS format [http://www.asprs.org/LD-Division/LAS-Working-Group.html LAS Working Group (LWG)], who are part of [http://www.asprs.org/ American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS)], request the term "LAS" not to be included in the name of a proprietary format, as it makes such a proprietary format appear to be an approved derivative of LAS.

=Signed=
Name, Affiliation(s), Optional comment on interest in Open LiDAR format

# Suchith Anand, Geo for All, committed to Open Principles in Geo Education and Policy.
# Martin Isenburg, founder of [http://rapidlasso.com rapidlasso GmbH] and creator of [http://rapidlasso.com/LASzip LASzip], [http://rapidlasso.com/LAStools LAStools], and [http://rapidlasso.com/PulseWaves PulseWaves].
# Cameron Shorter, GeoSpatial Director at [http://lisasoft.com LISAsoft]. Core contributor and coordinator of [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live]. Contributor to numerous OGC testbeds, technical lead on a range of previous Australian and New Zealand Open Government initiatives.
# Stefan Keller, founder and director of [http://www.hsr.ch/geometalab Geometa Lab]; Professor in GIS, databases, open (government) data and interoperability; maintainer of GeoConverter; contributor to open source software (GDAL/OGR, QGIS).
# Patrick Hogan, NASA World Wind Project Manager, committed to the US National Spatial Data Infrastructure principles, one being "to make geographic data more accessible to the public" [http://www.fgdc.gov/nsdi/nsdi.html NSDI]. Open standards are essential for this.
# Lene Fischer, Associate Professor, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen. User of Open and free Data from The Danish Geodata Agency - Using LAZ and LAS http://download.kortforsyningen.dk/content/dhmpunktsky.
# [http://www.ege-como.polimi.it/index.php?content=maria_brovelli Maria Antonia Brovelli], Full Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano. Geo For All, committed to Open Principles in Geo Education and Policy. Committed to Open Principles in Research.
# Ron Fortunato, President of [http://www.trilliumlearning.com/AmericaBridge/ Trillium Learning] LLC. Committed to open data standards that are necessary for education and all levels of communication.
# [http://www.geodatawiz.com/armin-schmidt Armin Schmidt], Chief Developer at [http://www.GeodataWIZ.com GeodataWIZ Ltd] and Chairman of [http://www.archprospection.org ISAP], committed to better science through Open Data.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/gconti Giuseppe Conti], CTO Trilogis Srl, Italy. Committed to open data standards that maximize opportunity for innovative solutions, unencumbered by artificial obstacles to data exchange.
# [http://pt.linkedin.com/pub/jorge-rocha/1b/560/499 Jorge Gustavo Rocha], Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Minho, Portugal, committed to better science through [http://www.gistam.org/EventChairs.aspx?y=2016 Open Data].
# [http://people.eecs.ku.edu/~miller/ Jim Miller], University of Kansas, Professor, Computer Science. Open standards for data exchange are essential for education and research.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/brandt-melick/22/869/261 Brandt Melick], Information Technology Department Director, Springfield Oregon USA. The need to promote open solutions is paramount.
# Alex Paza Makini, National University Solomon Islands, Natural Resources and Applied Science. Committed to open data standards for education and research, and everything beyond.
# Jorg M. Hacker, Professor, Director/Chief Scientist of [http://www.airborneresearchaustralia.com Airborne Research Australia], Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia. Open formats have always been a great benefit to airborne LiDAR.
# Didier Richard, Head of IS Training Dept. in Education and Research Directorate of [http://www.ign.fr Institut National de l'Information Géographique et Forestière], France. OGC user, Contributor to OSGeO projects like GDAL.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/adryane-gorayeb/74/517/96a Adryane Gorayeb], [http://www.ufc.br/ Federal University of Ceará Brazil], Geography Department. Open standards for data exchange are essential for education and research.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/yuryryabov Yury Ryabov], PhD, Senior researcher at [http://www.istc.ru/istc/db/inst.nsf/wsu/i0001823 Russian Scientific-Research Centre for Ecological Safety], [http://www.interacademies.net/Academies/ByRegion/CentralEasternEurope/13383.aspx Russian Academy of Sciences], Saint Petersburg, Russia. Open data formats are essential for successful and reproducible scientific research.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/teresa-lamelas-gracia/40/4a7/20b María Teresa Lamelas], [http://cud.unizar.es/ Centro Universitario de la Defensa Zaragoza], [http://geoforest.unizar.es/es/index.php GeoForest-IUCA]. Committed to open data standards for education and research.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidherries David Herries], [http://www.interpine.co.nz/SitePages/Home.aspx Using LiDAR for forest yield modelling at Interpine Innovation]. Establishing open data standards provide scope for exponential growth in innovation. This is key to a rapidly developing technology like LiDAR.
# [[User:Ivansanchez|Iván Sánchez Ortega]], [http://www.mazemap.no Mazemap]. OSGeo Charter member and Open Data nerd.
# [[User:AnitaGraser|Anita Graser]], GIS specialist with AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, OSGeo Charter member and QGIS team member. Committed to open data standards for education and research.
# [[User:vehrka|Pedro-Juan Ferrer]], [http://www.geomaticblog.net Geomaticblog]. OSGeo Charter member and member of the Open Knowledge Foundation.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/karl-donert/3/160/571 Professor Karl Donert], President European Association of Geographers (http://www.eurogeo.nl/ EUROGEO)
# Drew Fenton, Boulder Creek, CA [http://www.savetheredwoods.org/redwoods/coast-redwoods/ Countdown to the Last Coast Redwood]. Please protect Open Standards for geospatial data!
# [[User:Bolosig|Wladimir Szczerban]], [http://www.geoinquiets.cat Geoinquiets] Geogeek & OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Member, Spain
# [http://vmx.cx Volker Mische], OSGeo Charter member and creator of GeoCouch
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/clquintanilla Carlos López Quintanilla], [http://www.psig.es PSIG] [http://www.geoinquiets.cat Geoinquiets] GIS consultant, Spain
# [[User:woodbri|Stephen Woodbridge]], [http://imaptools.com iMaptools], OSGeo Charter member.
# [[User:odoepner|Oliver Doepner]], [http://oliver.doepner.net doepner.net], Software Engineer (Java,Linux), Open Standards and Open Source advocate
# [[User:Lucadelu|Luca Delucchi]], [http://gis.cri.fmach.it Fondazione Edmund Mach], OSGeo Charter member, FOSS4G and Open Data developer, advocate, contributor and user.
# Antoine Cottin, CTO of [http://www.carbomap.com Carbomap Ltd.] and creator of [http://github.com/carbomap/Fleurdelas Fleurdelas], Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
# [http://strk.keybit.net Sandro Santilli], [http://strk.keybit.net/services.html NetLab], Free Software Hacker. There are already too many users slave to their tools, let's stop that!
# [http://www.itopen.it Alessandro Pasotti], [http://www.itopen.it ItOpen], GIS Free Software Developer.
# [http://www.roccatello.com Eduard Roccatello], [http://www.3dgis.it 3DGIS], 3DGIS CTO and co-Founder
# [[User:moovida|Andrea Antonello]], [http://www.hydrologis.com HydroloGIS], OSGeo Charter member, Open Source GIS developer, HydroloGIS co-founder.
# [http://www.associazionegfoss.it Stefano Campus], President of [http://www.associazionegfoss.it GFOSS.it] Association (Associazione Italiana per l'Informazione Geografica Libera), Italian Local Chapter of OSGeo Foundation.
# [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Madi Margherita Di Leo], OSGeo Charter Member
# [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Sacosta Sergio Acosta y Lara], OSGeo Charter Member
# [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Maximdubinin Maxim Dubinin], CEO at NextGIS, OSGeo Charter Member. Another 'standard' proprietary format? No, thank you.
# [[User:Steko|Stefano Costa]], Soprintendenza Archeologia della Liguria, Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo, Italy
# [http://www.geog.illinois.edu/people/jgrn Jonathan Greenberg], Assistant Professor, [http://publish.illinois.edu/jgrn/ GEARS Laboratory], Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
# Bob Basques, Saint Paul, Mn., Technical Director for SharedGeo.
# [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Maning Maning Sambale], OSGeo Charter Member
# [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Pcav Paolo Cavallini], QGIS PSC
# [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Dr Phillip Davis], Member OSGeo Geo For All education advisory board, Director @ GeoAcademy
# [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Nbozon Nicolas Bozon], [http://zoo-project.org ZOO-Project PSC], OSGeo Charter Member
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/ruslanrainis Ruslan Rainis], Professor, Director, [http://www.research.usm.my/default.asp?tag=36 Centre for Research Initiatives in Liberal Arts & Social Sciences](CRI-LASS). Open GeoInformation for a Sustainable Tomorrow and the Bottom Billions.
# [[User:Silli|Silvia Franceschi]], [http://www.hydrologis.com HydroloGIS], OSGeo Charter member, Environmental Engineer Open Source GIS power user, HydroloGIS co-founder.
# Oscar Martinez Rubi [http://esciencecenter.nl Netherlands eScience Center] eScience engineer.
# Werner Macho, QGIS team member. Committed to open data standards for education and research.
# Giuseppe Patti, Geologist and Freelance Geospatial Advisor, GFOSS supporter.
# [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Drappo Daniel Rappo], Professor, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, School of Business and Engineering Vaud.
# [[User:nachouve|Juan Ignacio Varela]], Freelance Geospatial Advisor and OSGeo Local Chapter Member.
# [[User:dmorissette|Daniel Morissette]], President at [http://mapgears.com Mapgears], OSGeo Charter member.

=Background=
==About LiDAR==

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidar LiDAR] (Light Detection And Ranging) is a form of high precision range measurement, much like a radar system, that uses laser light instead of electromagnetic waves. The standard LiDAR product is a 3D point cloud that can be conceptualized as a series of point measurements representing distance between the sensor to a returned emission.

For over a decade (since 2003), there has been a common format for storing LiDAR data, the [http://www.asprs.org/Committee-General/LASer-LAS-File-Format-Exchange-Activities.html “LAS” format], and open source libraries have been developed to read, write and process these LAS files: [http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/liblas_overview.html libLAS] and [http://github.com/LASlib/LASlib LASlib]. These libraries have been incorporated within many LiDAR applications, allowing read/write access to a common exchange format, and resulting in full interoperability between the applications. There is also an open source compression algorithm for the LAS format called [http://laszip.org LASzip] that many LiDAR data portals use to compress LAS into smaller LAZ files for faster download. Many LiDAR software packages have added [http://laszip.org/#software-with-native-laz-support native support] for these compressed LAZ files.

==LAS Limitations==

Quoting [http://boundlessgeo.com/2014/01/lidar-format-wars/ Paul Ramsey]:

: LAS format is not without its drawbacks:

:* While it is a binary format and does not waste any space unnecessarily, neither does it apply any compression to the data it stores. That’s not good for archival use.
:* Also, LAS stores points in scan order, so accessing any particular chunk of points involves reading the whole file. That’s not good for random access.
: Clearly there is a little more work to be done. Can LAS be improved? In fact, it already has been:
:* An open source compression library, LASzip can apply 20''':'''1 lossless compression to LAS files, making them great for archival purposes.
:* Other LAS users have experimented with re-ordering points in a LAS or LASzip file to allow random access to internal chunks of the LIDAR point cloud.
: Basically, making LAS smaller and faster is not rocket science, and if the work were incorporated into libLAS then the whole LIDAR community could leverage it together, and the user community would only have one file type to interchange.

=="Optimized LAS" A ''' ''Proprietary'' ESRI Format'''==
ESRI has announced the release of an [http://www.lidarnews.com/content/view/10214 "Optimized LAS"] format which is claimed to provide faster access and smaller file sizes (similar to the open [http://laszip.org LASzip] format). This announcement created a outburst of vocal protest in the LiDAR community [[http://rapidlasso.com/2013/12/30/new-compressed-las-format-by-esri/ 1] [http://boundlessgeo.com/2014/01/lidar-format-wars/ 2] [http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/2014/01/15/las-laz-lazzip-zlas-and-you/ 3] [http://www.northrivergeographic.com/archives/lidar-software 4] [http://boundlessgeo.com/2014/01/lidar-format-wars-2/ 5] [http://boundlessgeo.com/2014/02/lidar-format-wars-3/ 6]].

The "Optimized LAS" format is neither published, nor available under any open license, which provides both technical as well as legal barriers for other applications reading and/or writing to this proprietary format. This creates a vendor lock-in scenario which is contrary to the principles of the Open Geospatial Consortium, the OSGeo Foundation, and many government IT procurement policies.

One year after releasing the "Optimized LAS" format, ESRI released a free Windows DLL that is claimed to convert between LAS and "Optimized LAS". Note there is a distinct difference between "free" and "open". Unless the Windows DLL is released under an "open" license, libLAS and related products will be legally prevented from incorporating ESRI's reader/writer code into their codebase, or from fixing any underlying bugs or performance limitations which may exist in ESRI's product.

==OGC's Efforts For An ''' ''Open'' LiDAR Standard'''==

The [http://www.opengeospatial.org/ Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)] has indicated their interest in developing a standard LiDAR format.

Carl Reed (formerly on OGC staff) provided the following information on OGC's previous efforts to work toward enabling Open Standards in LiDAR:

: "Over the last 8 or so years, the OGC approached ASPRS at least twice regarding LAS and worked with ASPRS to bring LAS into the OGC for consideration as both a Best Practice and an OGC standard. OGC member Rick Pearsall worked diligently on this. Rick worked for NGA, was active in the OGC, and was also the Standards Committee chair at ASPRS. Rick and Carl tried and failed. These attempts go back to [http://www.asprs.org/a/society/divisions/ppd/ppd_meetings/2007springppdreport.pdf at least 2007]. More recently, Carl Reed had an email dialogue with Lewis Graham to bring LAS into OGC as an OGC Best Practice. Carl thought progress was being made, but then for some reason all communication stopped."

[http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/organization/staff/ssimmons Scott Simmons] (Executive Director, Standards Program) has explained the OGC's continuing interest in pursuing point cloud encoding standards, including a member-initiated mechanism to extend LAS data with OGC-standard XML content.
: The OGC invites interested members who wish to work on this effort to please contact Scott Simmons (Executive Director, Standards Program E-mail : ssimmons@opengeospatial.org) to register their interest and discuss details. OGC will also be holding an ad hoc session at the OGC's next [http://www.opengeospatial.org/event/1506tc Technical Committee meeting in Boulder, CO, USA in early June] to bring together all interested parties from all sectors (government, industry, academia) for this and plan next steps.

==History: LAS and ESRI's "Optimized LAS"==

Martin Isenburg, one of the leading experts in LIDAR formats, and creator of [http://rapidlasso.com/LASzip LASzip], [http://rapidlasso.com/LAStools LAStools] and [http://rapidlasso.com/PulseWaves PulseWaves], explains the history of LAS and "Optimized LAS":

: '''Summary:'''

:* The LAS format has been used successfully for over a decade.
:* Within last couple of years, ESRI has added native LAS support into ESRI products.
:* ESRI discussed embracing the open [http://laszip.org LAZ] format and simultaneously developed a proprietary "Optimized LAS" format.
:* The open geospatial community offered, on numerous occasions, to work with ESRI to avoid format fragmentation.
:* ESRI's proprietary "Optimized LAS" format is very similar in design and performance to the open [http://laszip.org LASzip] format.

: '''1998: Original LAS format definition'''

: The original development of the LAS format started in 1998 according to [http://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/lasroom/zKqchDj1JL4/discussion Lewis Graham]. The effort was at first led by pioneers of the LiDAR industry until the format was donated to the [http://www.asprs.org/Committee-General/LASer-LAS-File-Format-Exchange-Activities.html ASPRS]. Since then ASPRS's [http://www.asprs.org/LD-Division/LAS-Working-Group.html LAS Working Group (LWG)] has been maintaining the LAS format, guiding it from the initial LAS 1.0 version until today's LAS 1.4 version. This effort successfully created an open data exchange format for discrete LiDAR points that is currently supported by practically every LiDAR-related software program.

: '''2011: ESRI joins LAS Working Group'''

: ESRI did not join the LWG of the ASPRS until rather late, the 24th of August in 2011. At that time ESRI was not a significant "player" in the LiDAR market given they did not have much support for LiDAR in any of their products. That was to change soon as they were planning to add LAS as a native data type in ArcGIS 10.1.

: Shortly before that, in June 2011, Martin Isenburg received a personal message from the ESRI development team: "I have a question about LAS compression. I’m evaluating some potential enhancements and support for [LAS and] LAZ is one of them. Compression time and amount is impressive." When inquiring two months later about the status of [http://laszip.org LAZ] integration Martin was told: "We’re in beta and working to finish the current release. I very much doubt LAZ will make it in because it’s too big a change at this time. So, we’ll be considering, for the following release, [for] what we want to do regarding compression and spatial indexing."

: '''June 2012: ArcGIS 10.1 includes [proprietary] LAS Dataset file'''

: In June 2012 ESRI released ArcGIS 10.1 and introduced the proprietary "LAS Dataset file (*.lasd)" that groups collections of files into one logical unit. This format of this useful LAS container file was not shared with others despite several private and eventually [http://groups.google.com/d/topic/lastools/jwHpi0efUgA/discussion public] requests.

: '''2012/2013: Collaboration Discussions'''

: There were encouraging follow-ups from the ESRI team about adopting the open LAZ format in January 2012: "I would be interested in having a more in depth meeting with you to better understand the great work you are doing with LAS and how we can possibly better partner on this." and again in December 2012: "If you have time, I'd like to set some time aside Tuesday afternoon to meet with <an important person> at the ESRI booth. Does 2pm sound okay?" The meeting went well and it looked as if ESRI was going to embrace the LAZ format because shortly after the meeting Martin got word that: "I hear from <an important person> that it was a success and that he had a good meeting with you. I wanted to see if we can have a telephone discussion on Wednesday or Thursday this week related to the potential of incorporating LAZ into ArcGIS."

: Then the first signs of hesitation showed. First there were legal issues raised in February 2013: "Currently the legal aspects are being reviewed. They were having some issues separating the LPGL aspects from LASzip from the remainder of LAStools etc." and then in April 2013 concerns about the code were made: "We have started to look into the integration of LAZ, but came across some issues. We don’t want to copy files from the other package, mix and match or hack around. We were hoping for an API to stream points out of a LAZ file as well as write LAZ files. There should be a simple code sample for that?" and - following up on that - in June 2013 Martin was told "I see value in LASzip becoming a de-facto standard that provides compression to the LAS format. If this is to happen then it needs to be bundled together with appropriate reference implementations, examples and documentation as a standard and so ensure that issues as defined earlier in email do not occur."

: '''June 2013: ESRI asked to sponsor clean LASzip DLL'''

: At that time [http://laszip.org LASzip] was an open source project without sponsorship. The original funding from [http://www.erdc.usace.army.mil/Locations/ColdRegionsResearchandEngineeringLaboratory.aspx USACE] that had turned [http://laszip.org LASzip] from an academic prototype into an industry strength compression engine had long run out. So Martin asked ESRI to become a sponsor to create the clean [http://laszip.org LASzip] API that ESRI was after. The answer was: "ESRI often helps in the financing of Open Source projects and I could foresee ESRI possibly helping in LASzip. [...] If you are interested in promoting LASzip as such a standard and doing the required work then I would recommend you put together a proposal and I can look to get ESRI as a sponsor."

: Immediately Martin proposed to ESRI: "I hereby propose to write an easy to use open source DLL wrapper for LASzip that will make it easier to integrate LASzip in a standardized manner into other software products such as ArcGIS, LP 360, or Terrasolid. This will come with example code on how to use the DLL for reading and writing LAZ files and include a few compressed example files. I hereby ask ESRI to provide funding for this effort without imposing any limitations on the produced DLL API."

: '''July 2013: ArcGIS 10.2 includes [proprietary] LAS indexing '''

: With the release of ArcGIS 10.2 in July 2013, ESRI introduced spatial indexing to speed up area-of-interest queries. The new proprietary *.lasx files with seemingly identical functionality to the open *.lax files that had been [http://groups.google.com/d/topic/lastools/j0qA8NBMHJs/discussion announced] in May 2011 and were [http://rapidlasso.com/2012/12/03/lasindex-spatial-indexing-of-lidar-data/ presented] at ELMF in November 2012.

: '''July 2013: Open LASzip API released'''

: After more requests for an easier interface to [http://laszip.org LASzip] (in particular for [http://forsys.cfr.washington.edu/fusion/fusionlatest.html USDA's FUSION]), Martin [http://groups.google.com/d/topic/lastools/oplsDhhnhDQ/discussion released] a clean, well-documented, and easy-to-use LASzip DLL (without ESRI funding). Martin expected that developers at ESRI would now use it to add read and write support for [http://laszip.org LAZ] to their next release of ArcGIS.

: '''December 2013 : ESRI discovered to be secretly developing proprietary LAS format'''

: In December of 2013, several LAStools users contacted Martin with suspicions that ESRI may be creating a proprietary LAS compression. Martin [http://rapidlasso.com/2013/12/30/new-compressed-las-format-by-esri/ broke the news] as soon as it became evident that ESRI had used the time it needed to resolve "legal issues" and "code problems" to put together their own proprietary compressed format with near-identical performance and functionality to [http://laszip.org LASzip]. A few days later ESRI released an [http://www.lidarnews.com/content/view/10214/ official FAQ] to confirming this was the case.

: From day one, Martin has worked with stakeholders, including ESRI, to avoid format fragmentation. Martin's core argument for resolving this to everybody's benefit was that - coincidentally - a natural break was happening in the LAS format with the introduction of the new LAS 1.4 point types. Martin outlined a detailed plan for how a joint development of [http://laszip.org LASzip] for LAS 1.4 between rapidlasso and ESRI could exploit this natural break in the LAS format to accomplish two things at once:
:# Add the unspecified technical additions that ESRI had hinted at desiring, and
:# Extend the [http://laszip.org LASzip] compression scheme to handle the new point types introduced with the LAS 1.4 specification. As there was no pressing need at the time to handle LAS 1.4 Martin had delayed the extension of [http://laszip.org LASzip] to the new LAS 1.4 point types to make sure a cooperation with ESRI would remain a viable option.

: '''1 April 2014: Positive reception to "Optimized LAS" / LASzip collaboration April Fools announcement'''

: In an attempt to convince ESRI management of the community desire for an open standard, Martin released an April Fools' Day [http://rapidlasso.com/2014/04/01/esri-and-rapidlasso-develop-joint-lidar-compressor/ prank press release] pretending that ESRI had already agreed to the envisioned collaboration to develop a joint LiDAR compressor. Community [http://rapidlasso.com/2014/04/01/esri-and-rapidlasso-develop-joint-lidar-compressor/ jubilant reactions (see comments)] left no doubt about the sentiment on this issue within the LiDAR community.

: '''October 2014: Announcement of [open] LAS Compatibility mode'''

: [http://www.csc.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/ Digital Coast, NOAA Coastal Services Center] became a Gold Sponsor of [http://laszip.org LASzip] for the development of the [http://rapidlasso.com/2014/10/06/rapidlasso-announces-laszip-compatibility-mode-for-las-1-4/ LAS 1.4 compatibility mode] that was [http://groups.google.com/d/topic/lastools/nUFMkKSz53g/discussion beta-released] in November 2014. This allowed support for the new point types in [http://laszip.org LASzip] without closing the door on a potential cooperation with ESRI for a joint LAS 1.4 compressor.

: '''November 2014: ESRI announces proprietary extension to LAS 1.4'''

: In November 2014 [http://blog.lidarnews.com/esri-las-optimizer-updated ESRI announced] that they had added their [http://blog.lidarnews.com/esri-las-optimizer-updated own extension] for the new LAS 1.4 point types to "Optimized LAS", dismissing the opportunity to develop a joint compressor and avoid format fragmentation by exploiting this "natural break" in the LAS format as Martin had suggested.

: Since then, ESRI has been [http://rapidlasso.com/2014/11/06/keeping-esri-honest/ promoting] "Optimized LAS". By including the term "LAS" in "Optimized LAS" and "zLAS", the distinction between the open LAS format and proprietary format is blurred. This is likely to mislead novice and future users, thereby endangering many years of standardization work. To date, [April 2014], the [http://www.asprs.org/a/society/committees/standards/LAS_1_4_r13.pdf custodians of the LAS format], the LAS Working Group (LWG) of the ASPRS has [http://rapidlasso.com/2015/02/22/lidar-las-asprs-esri-and-the-laz-clone/ yet to make an official statement] regarding use of the "LAS" name in promoting a proprietary LiDAR format.

=Value of Standards=

The importance of Open Standards is described in most government IT policies. For instance, the United Kingdom policy states:
: … Government assets should be interoperable and open for re-use in order to maximise return on investment, avoid technological or supplier lock-in, reduce operational risk in ICT projects and provide responsive services for citizens and business. This should also lower barriers to entry for more diverse sources of IT services, including citizens and SMEs. <ref>All about Open Source – An Introduction to Open Source Software for Government IT, Version 2.0, United Kingdom Cabinet Office https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/78959/All_About_Open_Source_v2_0.pdf</ref>

The value of Open Standards has been described in numerous national studies on the effects of standards on economic growth.

: ... the national studies demonstrate that standards have a positive influence on economic growth due to the resulting improved diffusion of knowledge. The contribution of standards to the growth rate in each country is equivalent to 0.9% in Germany, 0.8% in 0.3% in the UK and 0.2% in Canada. <ref>Prof. Dr. Knut Blind, Prof. Dr. Andre Jungmittag, Dr. Axel Mangelsdorf [http://www.din.de/sixcms_upload/media/2896/DIN_GNN_2011_engl_akt_neu.pdf "The Economic Benefits of Standardization"], ''DINN, 2000''. Retrieved March 2015.</ref>

=Further Reading=

# Paul Ramsey provides background to LAS vs Optimised LAS, http://boundlessgeo.com/2014/01/lidar-format-wars/
# Running commentary by Martin Isenburg, author of LASlib, http://rapidlasso.com/2015/02/22/lidar-las-asprs-esri-and-the-laz-clone/
# Earlier comment from Martin Isenburg, http://rapidlasso.com/2014/11/06/keeping-esri-honest/
# First call-to-action by Martin Isenburg, http://rapidlasso.com/2013/12/30/new-compressed-las-format-by-esri/
# ESRI Announces "Optimised LAS", http://blog.lidarnews.com/esri-announces-las-compression/
# ESRI description of "Optimised LAS", http://www.lidarnews.com/content/view/10214
# Discussion background on this topic at Geo for All list , http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/ica-osgeo-labs/2015-March/001225.html

=References=

<references />

LIDAR Format Letter

2015-04-16T21:47:30Z

Wiki-Blammo: /* Signed */

=Open Letter of the Need for Open Standards in LiDAR=
April 2015.

We, the undersigned, are concerned that the current interoperability between LiDAR applications, through use of the open "LAS" format, is being threatened by ESRI's introduction and promotion of an alternative "Optimized LAS" '''''proprietary format.''''' This is of grave concern given that fragmentation of the LAS format will reduce interoperability between applications and organisations, and introduce vendor lock-in.

We request that:
# The OGC initiate the formalisation of an open standard for storing LiDAR data, and that OGC sponsors help prioritise the development of this open LiDAR standard.
# ESRI support the OGC in their [http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/vision mission] "to advance the development and use of international standards and supporting services that promote geospatial interoperability." In particular, ESRI join the OGC in consolidating an Open Standard for use of LiDAR data. This might include proposing ESRI's "Optimized LAS" as an Open Standard to remove any technical or legal hurdles in use of "Optimized LAS" as an Open Standard. A simple test to determine if "Optimized LAS" can be used as an Open Standard would be if "Optimized LAS" can legally be implemented by Open Source software such as libLAS or LASzip.
# Users and sponsors of LiDAR data, publicly state their preference for the use of an open LiDAR format over proprietary when selecting software and services.
# The custodians of the open LAS format [http://www.asprs.org/LD-Division/LAS-Working-Group.html LAS Working Group (LWG)], who are part of [http://www.asprs.org/ American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS)], request the term "LAS" not to be included in the name of a proprietary format, as it makes such a proprietary format appear to be an approved derivative of LAS.

=Signed=
Name, Affiliation(s), Optional comment on interest in Open LiDAR format

# Suchith Anand, Geo for All, committed to Open Principles in Geo Education and Policy.
# Martin Isenburg, founder of [http://rapidlasso.com rapidlasso GmbH] and creator of [http://rapidlasso.com/LASzip LASzip], [http://rapidlasso.com/LAStools LAStools], and [http://rapidlasso.com/PulseWaves PulseWaves].
# Cameron Shorter, GeoSpatial Director at [http://lisasoft.com LISAsoft], Core contributor and coordinator of [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live], Contributor to numerous OGC testbeds, technical lead on a range of previous Australian and New Zealand Open Government initiatives.
# Stefan Keller, founder and director of [http://www.hsr.ch/geometalab Geometa Lab]; researcher in GIS, databases, open (government) data and interoperability; maintainer of GeoConverter; contributor to open source software (GDAL/OGR, QGIS).
# Patrick Hogan, NASA World Wind Project Manager, committed to the US National Spatial Data Infrastructure principles, one being "to make geographic data more accessible to the public" [http://www.fgdc.gov/nsdi/nsdi.html NSDI]. Open standards are essential for this.
# Lene Fischer, Associate Professor, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen. User of Open and free Data from The Danish Geodata Agency - Using LAZ and LAS http://download.kortforsyningen.dk/content/dhmpunktsky.
# [http://www.ege-como.polimi.it/index.php?content=maria_brovelli Maria Antonia Brovelli], Full Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano. Geo For All, committed to Open Principles in Geo Education and Policy. Committed to Open Principles in Research.
# Ron Fortunato, President of [http://www.trilliumlearning.com/AmericaBridge/ Trillium Learning] LLC. Committed to open data standards that are necessary for education and all levels of communication.
# [http://www.geodatawiz.com/armin-schmidt Armin Schmidt], Chief Developer at [http://www.GeodataWIZ.com GeodataWIZ Ltd] and Chairman of [http://www.archprospection.org ISAP], committed to better science through Open Data.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/gconti Giuseppe Conti], CTO Trilogis Srl, Italy. Committed to open data standards that maximize opportunity for innovative solutions, unencumbered by artificial obstacles to data exchange.
# Jorge Gustavo Rocha, Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Minho, Portugal, committed to better science through Open Data.
# Jim Miller, University of Kansas, Professor, Computer Science, http://people.eecs.ku.edu/~miller/ Open standards for data exchange are essential for education and research.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/brandt-melick/22/869/261 Brandt Melick], Information Technology Department Director, Springfield Oregon USA. The need to promote open solutions is paramount.
# Alex Paza Makini, National University Solomon Islands, Natural Resources and Applied Science. Committed to open data standards for education and research, and everything beyond.
# Prof. Jorg M. Hacker, Director/Chief Scientist of [http://www.airborneresearchaustralia.com Airborne Research Australia], Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia. Open formats have always been a great benefit to airborne LiDAR.
# Didier Richard, Head of IS Training Dept. in Education and Research Directorate of [http://www.ign.fr Institut National de l'Information Géographique et Forestière], France. OGC user, Contributor to OSGeO projects like GDAL.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/adryane-gorayeb/74/517/96a Adryane Gorayeb], [http://www.ufc.br/ Federal University of Ceará Brazil], Geography Department. Open standards for data exchange are essential for education and research.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/yuryryabov Yury Ryabov], PhD, Senior researcher at [http://www.istc.ru/istc/db/inst.nsf/wsu/i0001823 Russian Scientific-Research Centre for Ecological Safety], [http://www.interacademies.net/Academies/ByRegion/CentralEasternEurope/13383.aspx Russian Academy of Sciences], Saint Petersburg, Russia. Open data formats are essential for successful and reproducible scientific research.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/teresa-lamelas-gracia/40/4a7/20b María Teresa Lamelas], [http://cud.unizar.es/ Centro Universitario de la Defensa Zaragoza], [http://geoforest.unizar.es/es/index.php GeoForest-IUCA]. Committed to open data standards for education and research.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidherries David Herries], [http://www.interpine.co.nz/SitePages/Home.aspx Using LiDAR for forest yield modelling at Interpine Innovation], Establishing open data standards provide scope for exponential growth in innovation. This is key to a rapidly developing technology like LiDAR.
# [[User:Ivansanchez|Iván Sánchez Ortega]], [http://www.mazemap.no Mazemap]. OSGeo Charter member and Open Data nerd.
# [[User:AnitaGraser|Anita Graser]], GIS specialist with AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, OSGeo Charter member and QGIS team member. Committed to open data standards for education and research.
# [[User:vehrka|Pedro-Juan Ferrer]], [http://www.geomaticblog.net Geomaticblog]. OSGeo Charter member and member of the Open Knowledge Foundation.
# [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/karl-donert/3/160/571 Professor Karl Donert], President European Association of Geographers (http://www.eurogeo.nl/ EUROGEO)
# Drew Fenton, Boulder Creek, CA [http://www.savetheredwoods.org/redwoods/coast-redwoods/ Countdown to the Last Coast Redwood]. Please protect Open Standards for geospatial data!
# [[User:Bolosig|Wladimir Szczerban]], [http://www.geoinquiets.cat Geoinquiets] Geogeek & OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Member, Spain
# [http://vmx.cx Volker Mische], OSGeo Charter member and creator of GeoCouch
# [[User:carlos_psig|Carlos López Quintanilla]], [http://www.psig.es PSIG] [http://www.geoinquiets.cat Geoinquiets] GIS consultant, Spain
# [[User:woodbri|Stephen Woodbridge]], [http://imaptools.com iMaptools], OSGeo Charter member.
# [[User:odoepner|Oliver Doepner]], [http://oliver.doepner.net doepner.net], Software Engineer (Java,Linux), Open Standards and Open Source advocate
# [[User:Lucadelu|Luca Delucchi]], [http://gis.cri.fmach.it Fondazione Edmund Mach], OSGeo Charter member, FOSS4G and Open Data developer, advocate, contributor and user.
# Antoine Cottin, CTO of [http://www.carbomap.com Carbomap Ltd.] and creator of [https://github.com/carbomap/Fleurdelas Fleurdelas], Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
# [http://strk.keybit.net Sandro Santilli], [http://strk.keybit.net/services.html NetLab], Free Software Hacker. There are already too many users slave to their tools, let's stop that!
# [http://www.itopen.it Alessandro Pasotti], [http://www.itopen.it ItOpen], GIS Free Software Developer.
# [http://www.roccatello.com Eduard Roccatello], [http://www.3dgis.it 3DGIS], 3DGIS CTO and co-Founder
# [[User:moovida|Andrea Antonello]], [http://www.hydrologis.com HydroloGIS], OSGeo Charter member, Open Source GIS developer, HydroloGIS co-founder.
# [http://www.associazionegfoss.it Stefano Campus], President of [http://www.associazionegfoss.it GFOSS.it] Association (Associazione Italiana per l'Informazione Geografica Libera), Italian Local Chapter of OSGeo Foundation.
# [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Madi Margherita Di Leo], OSGeo Charter Member
# [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Sacosta Sergio Acosta y Lara], OSGeo Charter Member
# [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Maximdubinin Maxim Dubinin], CEO at NextGIS, OSGeo Charter Member. Another 'standard' proprietary format? No, thank you.
# [[User:Steko|Stefano Costa]], Soprintendenza Archeologia della Liguria, Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo, Italy
# [http://www.geog.illinois.edu/people/jgrn Jonathan Greenberg], Assistant Professor, [http://publish.illinois.edu/jgrn/ GEARS Laboratory], Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
# Bob Basques, Saint Paul, Mn., GIS Systems Developer for the City of Saint Paul Public Works, Technical Director for SharedGeo.

=Background=
==About LiDAR==

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidar LiDAR] (Light Detection And Ranging) is a form of high precision range measurement, much like a radar system, that uses laser light instead of electromagnetic waves. The standard LiDAR product is a 3D point cloud that can be conceptualized as a series of point measurements representing distance between the sensor to a returned emission.

For over a decade (since 2003), there has been a common format for storing LiDAR data, the [http://www.asprs.org/Committee-General/LASer-LAS-File-Format-Exchange-Activities.html “LAS” format], and open source libraries have been developed to read, write and process these LAS files: [http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/liblas_overview.html libLAS] and [http://github.com/LASlib/LASlib LASlib]. These libraries have been incorporated within many LiDAR applications, allowing read/write access to a common exchange format, and resulting in full interoperability between the applications. There is also an open source compression algorithm for the LAS format called [http://laszip.org LASzip] that many LiDAR data portals use to compress LAS into smaller LAZ files for faster download. Many LiDAR software packages have added [http://laszip.org/#software-with-native-laz-support native support] for these compressed LAZ files.

==LAS Limitations==

Quoting [http://boundlessgeo.com/2014/01/lidar-format-wars/ Paul Ramsey]:

: LAS format is not without its drawbacks:

:* While it is a binary format and does not waste any space unnecessarily, neither does it apply any compression to the data it stores. That’s not good for archival use.
:* Also, LAS stores points in scan order, so accessing any particular chunk of points involves reading the whole file. That’s not good for random access.
: Clearly there is a little more work to be done. Can LAS be improved? In fact, it already has been:
:* An open source compression library, LASzip can apply 20''':'''1 lossless compression to LAS files, making them great for archival purposes.
:* Other LAS users have experimented with re-ordering points in a LAS or LASzip file to allow random access to internal chunks of the LIDAR point cloud.
: Basically, making LAS smaller and faster is not rocket science, and if the work were incorporated into libLAS then the whole LIDAR community could leverage it together, and the user community would only have one file type to interchange.

=="Optimized LAS" A ''' ''Proprietary'' ESRI Format'''==
ESRI has announced the release of an [http://www.lidarnews.com/content/view/10214 "Optimized LAS"] format which is claimed to provide faster access and smaller file sizes (similar to the open [http://laszip.org LASzip] format). This announcement created a outburst of vocal protest in the LiDAR community [[http://rapidlasso.com/2013/12/30/new-compressed-las-format-by-esri/ 1] [http://boundlessgeo.com/2014/01/lidar-format-wars/ 2] [http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/2014/01/15/las-laz-lazzip-zlas-and-you/ 3] [http://www.northrivergeographic.com/archives/lidar-software 4] [http://boundlessgeo.com/2014/01/lidar-format-wars-2/ 5] [http://boundlessgeo.com/2014/02/lidar-format-wars-3/ 6]].

The "Optimized LAS" format is neither published, nor available under any open license, which provides both technical as well as legal barriers for other applications reading and/or writing to this proprietary format. This creates a vendor lock-in scenario which is contrary to the principles of the Open Geospatial Consortium, the OSGeo Foundation, and many government IT procurement policies.

One year after releasing the "Optimized LAS" format, ESRI released a free Windows DLL that is claimed to convert between LAS and "Optimized LAS". Note there is a distinct difference between "free" and "open". Unless the Windows DLL is released under an "open" license, libLAS and related products will be legally prevented from incorporating ESRI's reader/writer code into their codebase, or from fixing any underlying bugs or performance limitations which may exist in ESRI's product.

==OGC's Efforts For An ''' ''Open'' LiDAR Standard'''==

The [http://www.opengeospatial.org/ Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)] has indicated their interest in developing a standard LiDAR format.

Carl Reed (formerly on OGC staff) provided the following information on OGC's previous efforts to work toward enabling Open Standards in LiDAR:

: "Over the last 8 or so years, the OGC approached ASPRS at least twice regarding LAS and worked with ASPRS to bring LAS into the OGC for consideration as both a Best Practice and an OGC standard. OGC member Rick Pearsall worked diligently on this. Rick worked for NGA, was active in the OGC, and was also the Standards Committee chair at ASPRS. Rick and Carl tried and failed. These attempts go back to [http://www.asprs.org/a/society/divisions/ppd/ppd_meetings/2007springppdreport.pdf at least 2007]. More recently, Carl Reed had an email dialogue with Lewis Graham to bring LAS into OGC as an OGC Best Practice. Carl thought progress was being made, but then for some reason all communication stopped."

[http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/organization/staff/ssimmons Scott Simmons] (Executive Director, Standards Program) has explained the OGC's continuing interest in pursuing point cloud encoding standards, including a member-initiated mechanism to extend LAS data with OGC-standard XML content.
: The OGC invites interested members who wish to work on this effort to please contact Scott Simmons (Executive Director, Standards Program E-mail : ssimmons@opengeospatial.org) to register their interest and discuss details. OGC will also be holding an ad hoc session at the OGC's next [http://www.opengeospatial.org/event/1506tc Technical Committee meeting in Boulder, CO, USA in early June] to bring together all interested parties from all sectors (government, industry, academia) for this and plan next steps.

==History: LAS and ESRI's "Optimized LAS"==

Martin Isenburg, one of the leading experts in LIDAR formats, and creator of [http://rapidlasso.com/LASzip LASzip], [http://rapidlasso.com/LAStools LAStools] and [http://rapidlasso.com/PulseWaves PulseWaves], explains the history of LAS and "Optimized LAS":

: '''Summary:'''

:* The LAS format has been used successfully for over a decade.
:* Within last couple of years, ESRI has added native LAS support into ESRI products.
:* ESRI discussed embracing the open [http://laszip.org LAZ] format and simultaneously developed a proprietary "Optimized LAS" format.
:* The open geospatial community offered, on numerous occasions, to work with ESRI to avoid format fragmentation.
:* ESRI's proprietary "Optimized LAS" format is very similar in design and performance to the open [http://laszip.org LASzip] format.

: '''1998: Original LAS format definition'''

: The original development of the LAS format started in 1998 according to [http://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/lasroom/zKqchDj1JL4/discussion Lewis Graham]. The effort was at first led by pioneers of the LiDAR industry until the format was donated to the [http://www.asprs.org/Committee-General/LASer-LAS-File-Format-Exchange-Activities.html ASPRS]. Since then ASPRS's [http://www.asprs.org/LD-Division/LAS-Working-Group.html LAS Working Group (LWG)] has been maintaining the LAS format, guiding it from the initial LAS 1.0 version until today's LAS 1.4 version. This effort successfully created an open data exchange format for discrete LiDAR points that is currently supported by practically every LiDAR-related software program.

: '''2011: ESRI joins LAS Working Group'''

: ESRI did not join the LWG of the ASPRS until rather late, the 24th of August in 2011. At that time ESRI was not a significant "player" in the LiDAR market given they did not have much support for LiDAR in any of their products. That was to change soon as they were planning to add LAS as a native data type in ArcGIS 10.1.

: Shortly before that, in June 2011, Martin Isenburg received a personal message from the ESRI development team: "I have a question about LAS compression. I’m evaluating some potential enhancements and support for [LAS and] LAZ is one of them. Compression time and amount is impressive." When inquiring two months later about the status of [http://laszip.org LAZ] integration Martin was told: "We’re in beta and working to finish the current release. I very much doubt LAZ will make it in because it’s too big a change at this time. So, we’ll be considering, for the following release, [for] what we want to do regarding compression and spatial indexing."

: '''June 2012: ArcGIS 10.1 includes [proprietary] LAS Dataset file'''

: In June 2012 ESRI released ArcGIS 10.1 and introduced the proprietary "LAS Dataset file (*.lasd)" that groups collections of files into one logical unit. This format of this useful LAS container file was not shared with others despite several private and eventually [http://groups.google.com/d/topic/lastools/jwHpi0efUgA/discussion public] requests.

: '''2012/2013: Collaboration Discussions'''

: There were encouraging follow-ups from the ESRI team about adopting the open LAZ format in January 2012: "I would be interested in having a more in depth meeting with you to better understand the great work you are doing with LAS and how we can possibly better partner on this." and again in December 2012: "If you have time, I'd like to set some time aside Tuesday afternoon to meet with <an important person> at the ESRI booth. Does 2pm sound okay?" The meeting went well and it looked as if ESRI was going to embrace the LAZ format because shortly after the meeting Martin got word that: "I hear from <an important person> that it was a success and that he had a good meeting with you. I wanted to see if we can have a telephone discussion on Wednesday or Thursday this week related to the potential of incorporating LAZ into ArcGIS."

: Then the first signs of hesitation showed. First there were legal issues raised in February 2013: "Currently the legal aspects are being reviewed. They were having some issues separating the LPGL aspects from LASzip from the remainder of LAStools etc." and then in April 2013 concerns about the code were made: "We have started to look into the integration of LAZ, but came across some issues. We don’t want to copy files from the other package, mix and match or hack around. We were hoping for an API to stream points out of a LAZ file as well as write LAZ files. There should be a simple code sample for that?" and - following up on that - in June 2013 Martin was told "I see value in LASzip becoming a de-facto standard that provides compression to the LAS format. If this is to happen then it needs to be bundled together with appropriate reference implementations, examples and documentation as a standard and so ensure that issues as defined earlier in email do not occur."

: '''June 2013: ESRI asked to sponsor clean LASzip DLL'''

: At that time [http://laszip.org LASzip] was an open source project without sponsorship. The original funding from [http://www.erdc.usace.army.mil/Locations/ColdRegionsResearchandEngineeringLaboratory.aspx USACE] that had turned [http://laszip.org LASzip] from an academic prototype into an industry strength compression engine had long run out. So Martin asked ESRI to become a sponsor to create the clean [http://laszip.org LASzip] API that ESRI was after. The answer was: "ESRI often helps in the financing of Open Source projects and I could foresee ESRI possibly helping in LASzip. [...] If you are interested in promoting LASzip as such a standard and doing the required work then I would recommend you put together a proposal and I can look to get ESRI as a sponsor."

: Immediately Martin proposed to ESRI: "I hereby propose to write an easy to use open source DLL wrapper for LASzip that will make it easier to integrate LASzip in a standardized manner into other software products such as ArcGIS, LP 360, or Terrasolid. This will come with example code on how to use the DLL for reading and writing LAZ files and include a few compressed example files. I hereby ask ESRI to provide funding for this effort without imposing any limitations on the produced DLL API."

: '''July 2013: ArcGIS 10.2 includes [proprietary] LAS indexing '''

: With the release of ArcGIS 10.2 in July 2013, ESRI introduced spatial indexing to speed up area-of-interest queries. The new proprietary *.lasx files with seemingly identical functionality to the open *.lax files that had been [http://groups.google.com/d/topic/lastools/j0qA8NBMHJs/discussion announced] in May 2011 and were [http://rapidlasso.com/2012/12/03/lasindex-spatial-indexing-of-lidar-data/ presented] at ELMF in November 2012.

: '''July 2013: Open LASzip API released'''

: After more requests for an easier interface to [http://laszip.org LASzip] (in particular for [http://forsys.cfr.washington.edu/fusion/fusionlatest.html USDA's FUSION]), Martin [http://groups.google.com/d/topic/lastools/oplsDhhnhDQ/discussion released] a clean, well-documented, and easy-to-use LASzip DLL (without ESRI funding). Martin expected that developers at ESRI would now use it to add read and write support for [http://laszip.org LAZ] to their next release of ArcGIS.

: '''December 2013 : ESRI discovered to be secretly developing proprietary LAS format'''

: In December of 2013, several LAStools users contacted Martin with suspicions that ESRI may be creating a proprietary LAS compression. Martin [http://rapidlasso.com/2013/12/30/new-compressed-las-format-by-esri/ broke the news] as soon as it became evident that ESRI had used the time it needed to resolve "legal issues" and "code problems" to put together their own proprietary compressed format with near-identical performance and functionality to [http://laszip.org LASzip]. A few days later ESRI released an [http://www.lidarnews.com/content/view/10214/ official FAQ] to confirming this was the case.

: From day one, Martin has worked with stakeholders, including ESRI, to avoid format fragmentation. Martin's core argument for resolving this to everybody's benefit was that - coincidentally - a natural break was happening in the LAS format with the introduction of the new LAS 1.4 point types. Martin outlined a detailed plan for how a joint development of [http://laszip.org LASzip] for LAS 1.4 between rapidlasso and ESRI could exploit this natural break in the LAS format to accomplish two things at once:
:# Add the unspecified technical additions that ESRI had hinted at desiring, and
:# Extend the [http://laszip.org LASzip] compression scheme to handle the new point types introduced with the LAS 1.4 specification. As there was no pressing need at the time to handle LAS 1.4 Martin had delayed the extension of [http://laszip.org LASzip] to the new LAS 1.4 point types to make sure a cooperation with ESRI would remain a viable option.

: '''1 April 2014: Positive reception to "Optimized LAS" / LASzip collaboration April Fools announcement'''

: In an attempt to convince ESRI management of the community desire for an open standard, Martin released an April Fools' Day [http://rapidlasso.com/2014/04/01/esri-and-rapidlasso-develop-joint-lidar-compressor/ prank press release] pretending that ESRI had already agreed to the envisioned collaboration to develop a joint LiDAR compressor. Community [http://rapidlasso.com/2014/04/01/esri-and-rapidlasso-develop-joint-lidar-compressor/ jubilant reactions (see comments)] left no doubt about the sentiment on this issue within the LiDAR community.

: '''October 2014: Announcement of [open] LAS Compatibility mode'''

: [http://www.csc.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/ Digital Coast, NOAA Coastal Services Center] became a Gold Sponsor of [http://laszip.org LASzip] for the development of the [http://rapidlasso.com/2014/10/06/rapidlasso-announces-laszip-compatibility-mode-for-las-1-4/ LAS 1.4 compatibility mode] that was [http://groups.google.com/d/topic/lastools/nUFMkKSz53g/discussion beta-released] in November 2014. This allowed support for the new point types in [http://laszip.org LASzip] without closing the door on a potential cooperation with ESRI for a joint LAS 1.4 compressor.

: '''November 2014: ESRI announces proprietary extension to LAS 1.4'''

: In November 2014 [http://blog.lidarnews.com/esri-las-optimizer-updated ESRI announced] that they had added their [http://blog.lidarnews.com/esri-las-optimizer-updated own extension] for the new LAS 1.4 point types to "Optimized LAS", dismissing the opportunity to develop a joint compressor and avoid format fragmentation by exploiting this "natural break" in the LAS format as Martin had suggested.

: Since then, ESRI has been [http://rapidlasso.com/2014/11/06/keeping-esri-honest/ promoting] "Optimized LAS". By including the term "LAS" in "Optimized LAS" and "zLAS", the distinction between the open LAS format and proprietary format is blurred. This is likely to mislead novice and future users, thereby endangering many years of standardization work. To date, [April 2014], the [http://www.asprs.org/a/society/committees/standards/LAS_1_4_r13.pdf custodians of the LAS format], the LAS Working Group (LWG) of the ASPRS has [http://rapidlasso.com/2015/02/22/lidar-las-asprs-esri-and-the-laz-clone/ yet to make an official statement] regarding use of the "LAS" name in promoting a proprietary LiDAR format.

=Value of Standards=

The importance of Open Standards is described in most government IT policies. For instance, the United Kingdom policy states:
: … Government assets should be interoperable and open for re-use in order to maximise return on investment, avoid technological or supplier lock-in, reduce operational risk in ICT projects and provide responsive services for citizens and business. This should also lower barriers to entry for more diverse sources of IT services, including citizens and SMEs. <ref>All about Open Source – An Introduction to Open Source Software for Government IT, Version 2.0, United Kingdom Cabinet Office https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/78959/All_About_Open_Source_v2_0.pdf</ref>

The value of Open Standards has been described in numerous national studies on the effects of standards on economic growth.

: ... the national studies demonstrate that standards have a positive influence on economic growth due to the resulting improved diffusion of knowledge. The contribution of standards to the growth rate in each country is equivalent to 0.9% in Germany, 0.8% in 0.3% in the UK and 0.2% in Canada. <ref>Prof. Dr. Knut Blind, Prof. Dr. Andre Jungmittag, Dr. Axel Mangelsdorf [http://www.din.de/sixcms_upload/media/2896/DIN_GNN_2011_engl_akt_neu.pdf "The Economic Benefits of Standardization"], ''DINN, 2000''. Retrieved March 2015.</ref>

=Further Reading=

# Paul Ramsey provides background to LAS vs Optimised LAS, http://boundlessgeo.com/2014/01/lidar-format-wars/
# Running commentary by Martin Isenburg, author of LASlib, http://rapidlasso.com/2015/02/22/lidar-las-asprs-esri-and-the-laz-clone/
# Earlier comment from Martin Isenburg, http://rapidlasso.com/2014/11/06/keeping-esri-honest/
# First call-to-action by Martin Isenburg, http://rapidlasso.com/2013/12/30/new-compressed-las-format-by-esri/
# ESRI Announces "Optimised LAS", http://blog.lidarnews.com/esri-announces-las-compression/
# ESRI description of "Optimised LAS", http://www.lidarnews.com/content/view/10214
# Discussion background on this topic at Geo for All list , http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/ica-osgeo-labs/2015-March/001225.html

=References=

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GeoForAll UrbanScience CityAnalytics

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Wiki-Blammo: /* Who's Who Here? */

'''Welcome to "Geo for All" Urban Science and City Analytics:''' ''''''CitySmart/SmartCity''''''

* Chairs: Chris Pettit (Australia) and Patrick Hogan (USA)

* Those interested in being part of this theme, please go to the maillist url at http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-urbanscience and subscribe so you can participate. We look forward for your participation in our Urban Science and City Analytics research. All members can use the maillist to collaborate . All ideas are welcome.

* All participants should support the 'Open Cities Guiding Principles.' (Thanks to Cameron Shorter for this.)

'''Open Cities - Guiding Principles''' (need a reference for this please)

* All material created is made available for all under an Open License
* All material is carefully designed (API-centric modular componentry) so that it can be built upon by others
* All participants aim to reuse, extend and invent material (in that order)

Note that it is eventually desirable to maintain one '''core platform''' architected with an open API for functionalities (menu system), than to have competing platforms. But before we get to that rarefied 'Linux' place, we will benefit from collegial and healthy competition, with the best features of each ending up in the collective's decision for the '''core platform''' finale.

== Who's Who Here? ==
Please let us know of your '''''interest to participate''''' by adding yourself to this list.

* Chris Pettit, University of Melbourne, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/chris-pettit/16/190/4B0
** Coordinate the implementation of eResearch tools to support urban researchers across Australia under the auspices of the Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN).

* Charlie Schweik and Alexander (Sasha) Stepanov, http://eco.umass.edu/people/faculty/schweik-charles-m/
** University of Massachusetts Amherst. Trying to build educational service learning opportunities for students on advanced GIS using our campus as a "testbed."

* Tom Mueller, California University of Pennsylvania, http://www.calu.edu/academics/faculty/thomas-mueller.aspx
** Similar to Charlie, I want to build educational exercises and service learning opportunities for my students.

* Jim Miller, University of Kansas, Computer Science, http://people.eecs.ku.edu/~miller/
** Using NASA World Wind for several open source geo-visualization efforts, including Lidar and multivariate scalar and vector field visualization.

* Brandt Melick, Information Technology Department Director, Springfield Oregon USA, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/brandt-melick/22/869/261
** Manage IT and GIS in support of community development, involving public works, and fire and life safety. Coordinate NSDI exchanges of cadastral, elevation and environmental information between local, state and federal agencies in the Pacific Northwest.

* Ant Beck, University of Nottingham Research Fellow, https://www.linkedin.com/in/antbeck
** Currently transitioning into CityAnalytics looking at city wide entropy based energy management simulations. Have aspirations for an open, big data environment.

* Phillip Davis, GeoAcademy, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/phillip-davis/9/59/b7b
** The GeoAcademy is using QGIS 2.8 to provide Massively Open Online Courses through the Canvas Network to students around the globe for free. We currently enroll over 4,000 students in our March 2015 cohort.

* Patrick Hogan, NASA World Wind Project Manager, https://www.linkedin.com/in/phogan
** Building open source virtual globe technology meant to stimulate innovative solutions managing geospatial data, whether open or proprietary.

* Antoni Perez-Navarro, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, https://www.linkedin.com/in/antonipereznavarro
** Currently working on indoor positioning systems. Previously developed the Context Aware Recommender System.

* Giuseppe Conti, https://www.linkedin.com/in/gconti
** Trilogis Srl, Italy. Working on the open standard for indoor/outdoor interoperable location services (http://www.i-locate.eu/) involving multiple cities, hospitals, museums, etc.

* Evangelos Mitsakis, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/evangelos-mitsakis/6/62/938
** Centre for Research and Technology Hellas - Hellenic Institute of Transport, Greece. Working on climate change adaptation, urban resilience and smart cities, focusing on intelligent transport and mobility.

* Gábor Remetey, Secretary-general, Hungarian Association for Geo-information (HUNAGI), https://www.linkedin.com/in/remetey
** Strategic planning, implementation and consultancy in geospatial IT, and building contacts at the domestic, regional and global levels for Hungarian GIS and the Earth Observation community.

*Maria A Brovelli, Politecnico di Milano, http://www.ege-como.polimi.it/index.php?content=maria_brovelli
** Applications of free and open-source spatial analytics to urban context and its development, Citizen Science (http://geomobile.como.polimi.it/) and collaborative multidimensional platforms (http://geomobile.como.polimi.it/policrowd2.0/).

* Xinyue Ye, Computational Social Science Lab, Kent State University, http://www.xinyueye.com/
** My research focus is open source space-time analysis method development and its socio-economic application, especially on economic inequality, urban development, crime, and social media.

*Andrew Hunter, GIScience Group, University of Calgary, http://gisciencegroup.ucalgary.ca
** Teach GIS, Land Use Planning and Cadastral Studies. Research focuses on the development of interoperable (open source) frameworks for land use planning, land development, and geospatial approaches for enhancing community engagement.

* Hande Demirel, Geomatics Engineering Department, Istanbul Technical University, http://faculty.itu.edu.tr/demirelha/
** Lecturer for undergraduate and graduate students on spatial information systems. Research focus is spatial data acquisition, modelling spatial data, intelligent transportation and impact analysis for smart cities.

* Lucy Bastin, University of Aston http://www.aston.ac.uk/eas/staff/a-z/dr-lucy-bastin/ and Joint Research Centre of the European Commission http://dopa.jrc.ec.europa.eu/content/contacts
** Focus: quality issues with geospatial data and VGI, e.g., making best use of cheap, plentiful but variable sensors such as weather stations for urban decision making on, e.g., dynamic routing of gritting trucks. I work on interoperable solutions for communicating data quality , e.g., UncertML and the OGC SWG on user feedback.

*GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation, Arizona State University, https://geodacenter.asu.edu/
** Applications of free and open-source spatial analytics and decision support systems to urban modeling and scenario planning (but '''who''' at GeoDa do we contact?).

* Sven Schade, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/).
** I am a geospatial information scientist working on knowledge extraction from (big) data by using geospatial analytics capabilities, multi-disciplinary interoperability, and open innovation. How can we make data from public, commercial and private sources usable for social good?

* Bob Basques, City of Saint Paul, Mn. USA (http://gis.ci.stpaul.mn.us).
** My background is in Spatial Information Management for the City of Saint Paul, Public Works, with just under 300,000 residents. Providing access to hundreds of spatial layers, originating from the City, the Metro Region, County, State, and Federal sources to both public and internal users. Big Open Source proponent and developer.

== Global Drivers for OSGEO Solutions ==

* EC Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community, INSPIRE, http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/
* US National Spatial Data Infrastructure, NSDI, http://www.fgdc.gov/nsdi/nsdi.html
* United Nations Spatial Data Infrastructure, UNSDI http://www.ungiwg.org/content/united-nations-spatial-data-infrastructure-unsdi
* UNSDI '''Visualization''' for UN Member State briefing http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/videos/other/final_visualization_facility.avi
* UN '''Sustainable Development Goals''' (SDG): http://citiscope.org/story/2014/comparing-mdgs-and-sdgs#SDGs
* UN “Urban Goal” (SDG #11): Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable, http://citiscope.org/story/2014/comparing-mdgs-and-sdgs#No11
* The Brookings Institution: Why we need to think about implementing the '''Sustainable Development Goals'''
** http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/future-development/posts/2015/03/03-implementing-sustainable-development-kharas
* Open Transit Indicators Enable Cities to Design '''Better Transit Systems'''
** http://www.azavea.com/blogs/newsletter/v10i1/open-transit-indicators-enable-cities-to-design-better-transit-systems/

== Key Research Questions ==

* 1. How can we transform existing cities or create new cities that are sustainable, productive and resilient?
** Easy, we work together as one species to solve common problems.
* 2. What is the role and opportunity for big data (and small) in the area of analytics, science and visualisation for shaping our cities?
** The data simply awaits our gracious intelligence to do good things with, not for profit, but ''''''for the benefit of all'''''' per NASA's motto, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA
* 3. How can we empower citizens, community groups, planners, policy and decision-makers to work cohesively in solving the problems our cities face such that they successfully engage in a sustainable urban future?
** By making this '''''Road Map''''' a reality, '''''all''''' cities will have something they need yet also own.
** This also gives them a way to share back the solutions they discover ''''''for the benefit of all.''''''

== CitySmart/SmartCity '''''Road Map:''''' '' 'First Life' '' ==

* We owe this 'first cut' for our CitySmart app to OGC's "Smart Cities Spatial Information Framework"
**http://gisuser.com/2015/02/ogc-smart-cities-spatial-information-framework-white-paper-announced/

* We also heap a world of praise upon Brandt Melick, Information Technology Department Director, Springfield Oregon USA for putting this CitySmart app idea into action! We need to help more cities step forward like this, lead by example! This directly supports both the European INSPIRE Directive, the US NSDI Executive Order and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs):
** '''http://www.NSDInow.org/SDI_Now_02/Technical_Support.html'''

* ''' 'CitySmart/SmartCity' App Themes/Data-type''' (feel free to expand):
# INSPIRE Data Specifications, http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/2/list/7
# Urban Planning, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_planning
# Intelligent Transportation, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_transportation_system
# Health & Medical Services, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care
# Public Safety & Emergency Services, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_service
# Environmental Protection, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_protection
# Intelligent Buildings, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_automation
# Utilities: Smart Grid, Smart Water, Sanitation, etc., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_grid
# Location-Based Services, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Location-based_service
# Indoor Positioning System (added by Antoni Perez Navarro), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indoor_positioning_system
# Context-aware ''Recommender Systems'' (added by Antoni Perez Navarro), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recommender_system

* '''Data sharing''' – Municipalities need to be able to share information with site developers, site constraint specialists (environmental scientists, planners and engineers), utility service providers and regulators. The following information is requested on a regular basis for a wide variety of location-based solutions, namely (ESRI products, Autodesk products and MSFT Office products such as Excel, Access, etc.). These data sets most often include:

# INSPIRE Data Models, http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/2/list/datamodels
# Imagery (3-inch pixel is preferred, 1 foot pixel is less preferred, 1 meter is getting much less preferred)
# Cadastral Information (parcel polygons, Rights of Way (ROW), property ownership, assessment and taxation information and property class)
# Address Information (house number, street name, City, zip, site location (coordinates) and zoning information)
# Jurisdictional boundaries (incorporated areas, city limits, county boundaries, etc.), urban growth boundaries, public safety response areas
# Elevation Information: DEM’s (raster), DTM’s (vector), contours and spot elevation points, as well as mass points and break lines
# Waterways and protected areas: wetlands, fish-bearing streams, endangered species habitat, well-head protection zones, etc.
# Facilities a.k.a. utilities: waste-water, storm-water, transportation systems, power, drinking water, etc. who owns the facility, who maintains the facility, etc.
# Structures/facilities: bridges, building foot prints, complexes, monuments, etc.
# Documents: reference material, procedures, regulations, metadata, etc.
# Lidar, everyone wants it, yet few understand how to put Lidar to good use. The City of Springfield is spoiled with 8 points per meter, and they know what to do with it. Though they still want for better tools to work with it (i.e., our CitySmart app).

* '''Challenges''' - there are many, here are just a few: raw data made useable, data dating, accurate georeference conversion, unit conversion (metric to standard), data storage, data security, firewalls, standardized metadata, etc.

* '''Use-Case: Urban Planning and Site Review''' – Municipalities need to evaluate the impact of proposed development activity, on existing development and on the natural environment. This typically includes estimating how much cut and fill is proposed, how proposed land alteration impacts surface drainage, how proposed structures will connect to city services (waste-water, storm-water, drinking-water, power, etc.), how steep the roads will be (slope for fire trucks), and proximity to wetlands and other protected waters of the state. These data most often include:
** Imagery, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_imagery
** Cadastral, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadastre
** Elevation, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_elevation_model
** Facilities (structures and utilities)
** Waterways and Flood Maps

== Technologies Available In Our Network ==

* NASA World Wind (Java, iOS and Android, Web version on its way), http://goworldwind.org/
* GeoMoose, http://geomoose.org/
* QGIS, http://www.qgis.org/
* i-Locate, http://i-locate.eu/
* Open Transit Indicators Enable Cities to Design '''Better Transit Systems'''
** http://www.azavea.com/blogs/newsletter/v10i1/open-transit-indicators-enable-cities-to-design-better-transit-systems/
* Australia Urban Intelligence Network, AURIN Portal and workbench, http://osgeolab.unimelb.edu.au/
* Arizona State University (ASU) GeoDa, https://geodacenter.asu.edu/software
** The GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation develops state-of-the-art methods for geospatial analysis, geovisualization, geosimulation, and spatial process modeling, implements them through open source software tools and applies them to policy-relevant research in the social and environmental sciences.

== Potential Partners ==

* Netherlands Coordination Office, United Nations Spatial Data Infrastructure (UNSDI) http://www.unsdi.nl/
* GeoAcademy (Phil Davis), http://discoverspatial.com/
* University of Massachusetts at Amherst, http://eco.umass.edu/people/faculty/schweik-charles-m/
* IBM '''Smarter Cities,''' http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/smarter_cities/overview/
* Aalborg University Copenhagen, '''Sustainable Cities''' Master Programme, http://sustainablecities.aau.dk/
* Imperial College London, Intel Collaborative Research Institute (ICRI) for '''Sustainable Connected Cites,''' http://www.cities.io/guiding-principles/
* ISET Building '''Urban Resilience''' to Climate Change, http://i-s-e-t.org/resources/working-papers/building-resilience.html
* 100 '''Resilient Cities''' Challenge, http://www.100resilientcities.org/pages/100-resilient-cities-challenge
* '''Global Resilience''' Partnership Seeks New Ideas on Resilience in Africa, Southeast Asia
** http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/blog/global-resilience-partnership-seeks-new
** http://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/blog/2015/02/17/grp-teams-announced/
* GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis, https://geodacenter.asu.edu/
* Australia '''Urban Intelligence''' Network, AURIN, http://aurin.org.au/
* Arizona State University (ASU) GeoDa, https://geodacenter.asu.edu/software
* HAROSA Knowledge Community (HAROSA KC), http://dpcs.uoc.edu/joomla/index.php/about-harosa-kc
* Politecnico di Milano, GEO Lab (Geomatics and Earth Observations) http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/index.php?lang=en
** An international network of research groups promoting and developing collaborative e-research on new '''H'''ybrid '''A'''lgorithms for solving '''R'''ealistic r'''O'''uting, '''S'''cheduling and system reliability/'''A'''vailability problems.

== CitySmart/SmartCity ''Road Map:'' ''''The Challenge'''' ==

'''The Task'''

Develop a '''''Road Map,''''' the ''Requirements doc,'' essentially the 'specs' for what this ''Urban Science - City Analytics'', CitySmart app looks like.

The Road Map will likely be based on information in the 'framework' documents mentioned above in the Road Map section:

* http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics#Urban_Science_-_City_Analytics:_Road_Map.

This Road Map needs to allow for some early successes so we can get buy-in from 'real' municipalities to work with us and thereby keep value-added precisely on target. After the Road Map, then what? Then we challenge Earth's FOSSy development community to provide their solution in response to the Road Map. 'Twoud be fine if we could gather a nice award package for that.

After we (the OSGEO community) evaluate these ‘solutions,’ some will be asked to mashup until in the end we have one OSGEO/FOSS4G/GeoForAll CitySmart app. This app will have an open API for the menu system, for drag-n-drop of functionalities. This will allow each city to tailor the CitySmart app for their specific use. This will also allow the world community to continually optimize old functionalities and design new ones, whether proprietary or FOSSy.

'''Who Will Do This?'''

Whoever wants to! We ask academic and other organizations to first help us with the Road Map (the ''Requirements doc''), such as those listed as Potential Partners, http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics#Potential_Partners'''.''' All are welcome!

'''Why Do This?'''

Because we can! And more importantly, because there is a world full of urban management need, much of which is identical no matter what urban location we are in. For a little encouragement, how about a NASA crystal bull for the best Road Map, just like for the Europa Challenge, http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/''',''' and of course NASA T-shirts. We need YOU (whoever you are) to design the requirements doc for the Urban Science - City Analytics, a CitySmart app.

We need this Road Map to guide us! And we need it before work on the CitySmart app begins, so it can begin well. If your Road Map wins, you get the crystal bull, after you mash-up the best from what's in the ‘other’ Road Maps. We will ask the Region and Theme Chairs to do the voting, http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll'''.''' Or if you are that good, just build it and be a lighthouse guiding our future.

'''Road Map Done, Then What?'''

The '''''next''''' challenge, the CitySmart App Challenge, will be for '''''any and all comers''''' to build an app according to the Road Map, one that will put a fresh smile on the face of many municipalities around the world! And something a whole planet can share, so all may reap the benefits of a life in a smarter city. The City of Springfield Oregon has already shown us the way forward, http://www.nsdinow.org/SDI_Now_02/Technical_Support.html'''.''' Are we ready?

== Reference Material ==

* Future Cities, UK Ordnance Survey
** https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/about/thinking/future-cities/

* '''''Climate Adaptation''''' Guidebook for Municipalities
** http://www.cmap.illinois.gov/documents/10180/14193/FY13-0119+Climate+Adaptation+toolkit+lowres.pdf

* How Cities Can Battle '''''Climate Change with Resiliency Planning'''''
** http://www.triplepundit.com/2014/09/cities-can-battle-climate-change-resiliency-planning/

* ISET Working Paper 3: Planning for '''''Urban Climate Resilience'''''
** http://i-s-e-t.org/resources/working-papers/climate-resilience-paper-3.html

* USA Federal Policies to Build '''''Climate-Resilient''''' Coastal Regions, Lessons from Hurricane Sandy
** http://resilient-cities.iclei.org/resilient-cities-hub-site/resilience-resource-point/resilience-library/urban-resilience-planning/

* '''Resilience''': A Bridging Concept or a Dead End? http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649357.2012.677124
** “Reframing” '''Resilience''': Challenges for Planning Theory and Practice
** Interacting Traps: '''Resilience''' Assessment of a Pasture Management System in Northern Afghanistan
** '''Urban Resilience''': What Does it Mean in Planning Practice?
** '''Resilience''' as a Useful Concept for '''''Climate Change''''' Adaptation?
** The Politics of '''Resilience for Planning''': A Cautionary Note

* Managing Aging City Infrastructure:
** http://graphics.latimes.com/la-aging-water-infrastructure/

* Wow! A rural town in Italy '''>'''100% sustainable energy:
** http://reregions.blogspot.com/2010/03/varese-ligure-italy.html
** http://cleantechnica.com/2014/01/09/varese-ligure-italy-small-town-high-renewables/
** http://www.ecofriend.com/italian-town-runs-completely-on-renewable-energy.html

* '''''Sustainable''''' background info:
** Sustainable City, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_city
** Sustainable Energy, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_energy
** Sustainable Transport, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_transport
** Sustainable Living, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_living
** Urban Agriculture, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_agriculture

* Urban Farming
** Growing Cities, http://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/growing-cities
** World’s Largest Urban Farm, http://www.yesmagazine.org/peace-justice/detroit-community-gardeners-question-hantz-urban-farm
** Growing Home, http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/growing-home-urban-agriculture-in-chicago
** Breaking Through Concrete, http://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/growing-through-concrete-an-urban-farming-roadtrip
** ''Growing Power'' Despite an Urban 'Food' Desert, http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/food-for-everyone/growing-power-in-an-urban-food-desert

* Local Grocery
** http://www.cooperativegrocer.coop/articles/2004-01-08/mondragons-eroski-mass-retailer
** http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/the-new-economy/mondragon-worker-cooperatives-decide-how-to-ride-out-a-downturn

* Open Source Ecology, ''Do-It-Yourself'' Industrial Equipment
** http://opensourceecology.org/gvcs/gvcs-machine-index/
** http://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski

* Digital Earth | Virtual Nations | Data Cities
** http://dcitynetwork.net/manifesto/

GeoForAll UrbanScience CityAnalytics

2015-03-09T13:22:19Z

Wiki-Blammo: /* Who's Who Here? */

'''Welcome to "Geo for All" Urban Science and City Analytics:''' ''''''CitySmart/SmartCity''''''

* Chairs: Chris Pettit (Australia) and Patrick Hogan (USA)

* Those interested in being part of this theme, please go to the maillist url at http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-urbanscience and subscribe so you can participate. We look forward for your participation in our Urban Science and City Analytics research. All members can use the maillist to collaborate . All ideas are welcome.

* All participants should support the 'Open Cities Guiding Principles.' (Thanks to Cameron Shorter for this.)

'''Open Cities - Guiding Principles''' (need a reference for this please)

* All material created is made available for all under an Open License
* All material is carefully designed (API-centric modular componentry) so that it can be built upon by others
* All participants aim to reuse, extend and invent material (in that order)

Note that it is eventually desirable to maintain one '''core platform''' architected with an open API for functionalities (menu system), than to have competing platforms. But before we get to that rarefied 'Linux' place, we will benefit from collegial and healthy competition, with the best features of each ending up in the collective's decision for the '''core platform''' finale.

== Who's Who Here? ==
Please let us know of your '''''interest to participate''''' by adding yourself to this list.

* Chris Pettit, University of Melbourne, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/chris-pettit/16/190/4B0
** Coordinate the implementation of eResearch tools to support urban researchers across Australia under the auspices of the Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN).

* Charlie Schweik and Alexander (Sasha) Stepanov, http://eco.umass.edu/people/faculty/schweik-charles-m/
** University of Massachusetts Amherst. Trying to build educational service learning opportunities for students on advanced GIS using our campus as a "testbed."

* Tom Mueller, California University of Pennsylvania, http://www.calu.edu/academics/faculty/thomas-mueller.aspx
** Similar to Charlie, I want to build educational exercises and service learning opportunities for my students.

* Jim Miller, University of Kansas, Computer Science, http://people.eecs.ku.edu/~miller/
** Using NASA World Wind for several open source geo-visualization efforts, including Lidar and multivariate scalar and vector field visualization.

* Brandt Melick, Information Technology Department Director, Springfield Oregon USA, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/brandt-melick/22/869/261
** Manage IT and GIS in support of community development, involving public works, and fire and life safety. Coordinate NSDI exchanges of cadastral, elevation and environmental information between local, state and federal agencies in the Pacific Northwest.

* Ant Beck, University of Nottingham Research Fellow, https://www.linkedin.com/in/antbeck
** Currently transitioning into CityAnalytics looking at city wide entropy based energy management simulations. Have aspirations for an open, big data environment.

* Phillip Davis, GeoAcademy, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/phillip-davis/9/59/b7b
** The GeoAcademy is using QGIS 2.8 to provide Massively Open Online Courses through the Canvas Network to students around the globe for free. We currently enroll over 4,000 students in our March 2015 cohort.

* Patrick Hogan, NASA World Wind Project Manager, https://www.linkedin.com/in/phogan
** Building open source virtual globe technology meant to stimulate innovative solutions managing geospatial data, whether open or proprietary.

* Antoni Perez-Navarro, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, https://www.linkedin.com/in/antonipereznavarro
** Currently working on indoor positioning systems. Previously developed the Context Aware Recommender System.

* Giuseppe Conti, https://www.linkedin.com/in/gconti
** Trilogis Srl, Italy. Working on the open standard for indoor/outdoor interoperable location services (http://www.i-locate.eu/) involving multiple cities, hospitals, museums, etc.

* Evangelos Mitsakis, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/evangelos-mitsakis/6/62/938
** Centre for Research and Technology Hellas - Hellenic Institute of Transport, Greece. Working on climate change adaptation, urban resilience and smart cities, focusing on intelligent transport and mobility.

* Gábor Remetey, Secretary-general, Hungarian Association for Geo-information (HUNAGI), https://www.linkedin.com/in/remetey
** Strategic planning, implementation and consultancy in geospatial IT, and building contacts at the domestic, regional and global levels for Hungarian GIS and the Earth Observation community.

*Maria A Brovelli, Politecnico di Milano, http://www.ege-como.polimi.it/index.php?content=maria_brovelli
** Applications of free and open-source spatial analytics to urban context and its development, Citizen Science (http://geomobile.como.polimi.it/) and collaborative multidimensional platforms (http://geomobile.como.polimi.it/policrowd2.0/).

* Xinyue Ye, Computational Social Science Lab, Kent State University, http://www.xinyueye.com/
** My research focus is open source space-time analysis method development and its socio-economic application, especially on economic inequality, urban development, crime, and social media.

*Andrew Hunter, GIScience Group, University of Calgary, http://gisciencegroup.ucalgary.ca
** Teach GIS, Land Use Planning and Cadastral Studies. Research focuses on the development of interoperable (open source) frameworks for land use planning, land development, and geospatial approaches for enhancing community engagement.

* Hande Demirel, Geomatics Engineering Department, Istanbul Technical University, http://faculty.itu.edu.tr/demirelha/
** Lecturer for undergraduate and graduate students on spatial information systems. Research focus is spatial data acquisition, modelling spatial data, intelligent transportation and impact analysis for smart cities.

* Lucy Bastin, University of Aston http://www.aston.ac.uk/eas/staff/a-z/dr-lucy-bastin/ and Joint Research Centre of the European Commission http://dopa.jrc.ec.europa.eu/content/contacts
** Focus: quality issues with geospatial data and VGI, e.g., making best use of cheap, plentiful but variable sensors such as weather stations for urban decision making on, e.g., dynamic routing of gritting trucks. I work on interoperable solutions for communicating data quality , e.g., UncertML and the OGC SWG on user feedback.

*GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation, Arizona State University, https://geodacenter.asu.edu/
** Applications of free and open-source spatial analytics and decision support systems to urban modeling and scenario planning (but '''who''' at GeoDa do we contact?).

* Sven Schade, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/).
** I am a geospatial information scientist working on knowledge extraction from (big) data by using geospatial analytics capabilities, multi-disciplinary interoperability, and open innovation. How can we make data from public, commercial and private sources usable for social good?

* Bob Basques, City of Saint Paul, Mn. USA (http://gis.ci.stpaul.mn.us).
** My background is in Spatial Information Management for a City of Saint Paul, Public Works, with just under 300,000 residents. Providing access to hundreds of spatial layers, originating from the City, the Metro Region, County, State, and Federal sources to both public and internal users. Big Open Source proponent and developer.

== Global Drivers for OSGEO Solutions ==

* EC Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community, INSPIRE, http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/
* US National Spatial Data Infrastructure, NSDI, http://www.fgdc.gov/nsdi/nsdi.html
* United Nations Spatial Data Infrastructure, UNSDI http://www.ungiwg.org/content/united-nations-spatial-data-infrastructure-unsdi
* UNSDI '''Visualization''' for UN Member State briefing http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/videos/other/final_visualization_facility.avi
* UN '''Sustainable Development Goals''' (SDG): http://citiscope.org/story/2014/comparing-mdgs-and-sdgs#SDGs
* UN “Urban Goal” (SDG #11): Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable, http://citiscope.org/story/2014/comparing-mdgs-and-sdgs#No11
* The Brookings Institution: Why we need to think about implementing the '''Sustainable Development Goals'''
** http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/future-development/posts/2015/03/03-implementing-sustainable-development-kharas
* Open Transit Indicators Enable Cities to Design '''Better Transit Systems'''
** http://www.azavea.com/blogs/newsletter/v10i1/open-transit-indicators-enable-cities-to-design-better-transit-systems/

== Key Research Questions ==

* 1. How can we transform existing cities or create new cities that are sustainable, productive and resilient?
** Easy, we work together as one species to solve common problems.
* 2. What is the role and opportunity for big data (and small) in the area of analytics, science and visualisation for shaping our cities?
** The data simply awaits our gracious intelligence to do good things with, not for profit, but ''''''for the benefit of all'''''' per NASA's motto, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA
* 3. How can we empower citizens, community groups, planners, policy and decision-makers to work cohesively in solving the problems our cities face such that they successfully engage in a sustainable urban future?
** By making this '''''Road Map''''' a reality, '''''all''''' cities will have something they need yet also own.
** This also gives them a way to share back the solutions they discover ''''''for the benefit of all.''''''

== CitySmart/SmartCity '''''Road Map:''''' '' 'First Life' '' ==

* We owe this 'first cut' for our CitySmart app to OGC's "Smart Cities Spatial Information Framework"
**http://gisuser.com/2015/02/ogc-smart-cities-spatial-information-framework-white-paper-announced/

* We also heap a world of praise upon Brandt Melick, Information Technology Department Director, Springfield Oregon USA for putting this CitySmart app idea into action! We need to help more cities step forward like this, lead by example! This directly supports both the European INSPIRE Directive, the US NSDI Executive Order and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs):
** '''http://www.NSDInow.org/SDI_Now_02/Technical_Support.html'''

* ''' 'CitySmart/SmartCity' App Themes/Data-type''' (feel free to expand):
# INSPIRE Data Specifications, http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/2/list/7
# Urban Planning, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_planning
# Intelligent Transportation, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_transportation_system
# Health & Medical Services, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care
# Public Safety & Emergency Services, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_service
# Environmental Protection, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_protection
# Intelligent Buildings, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_automation
# Utilities: Smart Grid, Smart Water, Sanitation, etc., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_grid
# Location-Based Services, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Location-based_service
# Indoor Positioning System (added by Antoni Perez Navarro), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indoor_positioning_system
# Context-aware ''Recommender Systems'' (added by Antoni Perez Navarro), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recommender_system

* '''Data sharing''' – Municipalities need to be able to share information with site developers, site constraint specialists (environmental scientists, planners and engineers), utility service providers and regulators. The following information is requested on a regular basis for a wide variety of location-based solutions, namely (ESRI products, Autodesk products and MSFT Office products such as Excel, Access, etc.). These data sets most often include:

# INSPIRE Data Models, http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/2/list/datamodels
# Imagery (3-inch pixel is preferred, 1 foot pixel is less preferred, 1 meter is getting much less preferred)
# Cadastral Information (parcel polygons, Rights of Way (ROW), property ownership, assessment and taxation information and property class)
# Address Information (house number, street name, City, zip, site location (coordinates) and zoning information)
# Jurisdictional boundaries (incorporated areas, city limits, county boundaries, etc.), urban growth boundaries, public safety response areas
# Elevation Information: DEM’s (raster), DTM’s (vector), contours and spot elevation points, as well as mass points and break lines
# Waterways and protected areas: wetlands, fish-bearing streams, endangered species habitat, well-head protection zones, etc.
# Facilities a.k.a. utilities: waste-water, storm-water, transportation systems, power, drinking water, etc. who owns the facility, who maintains the facility, etc.
# Structures/facilities: bridges, building foot prints, complexes, monuments, etc.
# Documents: reference material, procedures, regulations, metadata, etc.
# Lidar, everyone wants it, yet few understand how to put Lidar to good use. The City of Springfield is spoiled with 8 points per meter, and they know what to do with it. Though they still want for better tools to work with it (i.e., our CitySmart app).

* '''Challenges''' - there are many, here are just a few: raw data made useable, data dating, accurate georeference conversion, unit conversion (metric to standard), data storage, data security, firewalls, standardized metadata, etc.

* '''Use-Case: Urban Planning and Site Review''' – Municipalities need to evaluate the impact of proposed development activity, on existing development and on the natural environment. This typically includes estimating how much cut and fill is proposed, how proposed land alteration impacts surface drainage, how proposed structures will connect to city services (waste-water, storm-water, drinking-water, power, etc.), how steep the roads will be (slope for fire trucks), and proximity to wetlands and other protected waters of the state. These data most often include:
** Imagery, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_imagery
** Cadastral, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadastre
** Elevation, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_elevation_model
** Facilities (structures and utilities)
** Waterways and Flood Maps

== Technologies Available In Our Network ==

* NASA World Wind (Java, iOS and Android, Web version on its way), http://goworldwind.org/
* GeoMoose, http://geomoose.org/
* QGIS, http://www.qgis.org/
* i-Locate, http://i-locate.eu/
* Open Transit Indicators Enable Cities to Design '''Better Transit Systems'''
** http://www.azavea.com/blogs/newsletter/v10i1/open-transit-indicators-enable-cities-to-design-better-transit-systems/
* Australia Urban Intelligence Network, AURIN Portal and workbench, http://osgeolab.unimelb.edu.au/
* Arizona State University (ASU) GeoDa, https://geodacenter.asu.edu/software
** The GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation develops state-of-the-art methods for geospatial analysis, geovisualization, geosimulation, and spatial process modeling, implements them through open source software tools and applies them to policy-relevant research in the social and environmental sciences.

== Potential Partners ==

* Netherlands Coordination Office, United Nations Spatial Data Infrastructure (UNSDI) http://www.unsdi.nl/
* GeoAcademy (Phil Davis), http://discoverspatial.com/
* University of Massachusetts at Amherst, http://eco.umass.edu/people/faculty/schweik-charles-m/
* IBM '''Smarter Cities,''' http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/smarter_cities/overview/
* Aalborg University Copenhagen, '''Sustainable Cities''' Master Programme, http://sustainablecities.aau.dk/
* Imperial College London, Intel Collaborative Research Institute (ICRI) for '''Sustainable Connected Cites,''' http://www.cities.io/guiding-principles/
* ISET Building '''Urban Resilience''' to Climate Change, http://i-s-e-t.org/resources/working-papers/building-resilience.html
* 100 '''Resilient Cities''' Challenge, http://www.100resilientcities.org/pages/100-resilient-cities-challenge
* '''Global Resilience''' Partnership Seeks New Ideas on Resilience in Africa, Southeast Asia
** http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/blog/global-resilience-partnership-seeks-new
** http://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/blog/2015/02/17/grp-teams-announced/
* GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis, https://geodacenter.asu.edu/
* Australia '''Urban Intelligence''' Network, AURIN, http://aurin.org.au/
* Arizona State University (ASU) GeoDa, https://geodacenter.asu.edu/software
* HAROSA Knowledge Community (HAROSA KC), http://dpcs.uoc.edu/joomla/index.php/about-harosa-kc
* Politecnico di Milano, GEO Lab (Geomatics and Earth Observations) http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/index.php?lang=en
** An international network of research groups promoting and developing collaborative e-research on new '''H'''ybrid '''A'''lgorithms for solving '''R'''ealistic r'''O'''uting, '''S'''cheduling and system reliability/'''A'''vailability problems.

== CitySmart/SmartCity ''Road Map:'' ''''The Challenge'''' ==

'''The Task'''

Develop a '''''Road Map,''''' the ''Requirements doc,'' essentially the 'specs' for what this ''Urban Science - City Analytics'', CitySmart app looks like.

The Road Map will likely be based on information in the 'framework' documents mentioned above in the Road Map section:

* http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics#Urban_Science_-_City_Analytics:_Road_Map.

This Road Map needs to allow for some early successes so we can get buy-in from 'real' municipalities to work with us and thereby keep value-added precisely on target. After the Road Map, then what? Then we challenge Earth's FOSSy development community to provide their solution in response to the Road Map. 'Twoud be fine if we could gather a nice award package for that.

After we (the OSGEO community) evaluate these ‘solutions,’ some will be asked to mashup until in the end we have one OSGEO/FOSS4G/GeoForAll CitySmart app. This app will have an open API for the menu system, for drag-n-drop of functionalities. This will allow each city to tailor the CitySmart app for their specific use. This will also allow the world community to continually optimize old functionalities and design new ones, whether proprietary or FOSSy.

'''Who Will Do This?'''

Whoever wants to! We ask academic and other organizations to first help us with the Road Map (the ''Requirements doc''), such as those listed as Potential Partners, http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics#Potential_Partners'''.''' All are welcome!

'''Why Do This?'''

Because we can! And more importantly, because there is a world full of urban management need, much of which is identical no matter what urban location we are in. For a little encouragement, how about a NASA crystal bull for the best Road Map, just like for the Europa Challenge, http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/''',''' and of course NASA T-shirts. We need YOU (whoever you are) to design the requirements doc for the Urban Science - City Analytics, a CitySmart app.

We need this Road Map to guide us! And we need it before work on the CitySmart app begins, so it can begin well. If your Road Map wins, you get the crystal bull, after you mash-up the best from what's in the ‘other’ Road Maps. We will ask the Region and Theme Chairs to do the voting, http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll'''.''' Or if you are that good, just build it and be a lighthouse guiding our future.

'''Road Map Done, Then What?'''

The '''''next''''' challenge, the CitySmart App Challenge, will be for '''''any and all comers''''' to build an app according to the Road Map, one that will put a fresh smile on the face of many municipalities around the world! And something a whole planet can share, so all may reap the benefits of a life in a smarter city. The City of Springfield Oregon has already shown us the way forward, http://www.nsdinow.org/SDI_Now_02/Technical_Support.html'''.''' Are we ready?

== Reference Material ==

* Future Cities, UK Ordnance Survey
** https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/about/thinking/future-cities/

* '''''Climate Adaptation''''' Guidebook for Municipalities
** http://www.cmap.illinois.gov/documents/10180/14193/FY13-0119+Climate+Adaptation+toolkit+lowres.pdf

* How Cities Can Battle '''''Climate Change with Resiliency Planning'''''
** http://www.triplepundit.com/2014/09/cities-can-battle-climate-change-resiliency-planning/

* ISET Working Paper 3: Planning for '''''Urban Climate Resilience'''''
** http://i-s-e-t.org/resources/working-papers/climate-resilience-paper-3.html

* USA Federal Policies to Build '''''Climate-Resilient''''' Coastal Regions, Lessons from Hurricane Sandy
** http://resilient-cities.iclei.org/resilient-cities-hub-site/resilience-resource-point/resilience-library/urban-resilience-planning/

* '''Resilience''': A Bridging Concept or a Dead End? http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649357.2012.677124
** “Reframing” '''Resilience''': Challenges for Planning Theory and Practice
** Interacting Traps: '''Resilience''' Assessment of a Pasture Management System in Northern Afghanistan
** '''Urban Resilience''': What Does it Mean in Planning Practice?
** '''Resilience''' as a Useful Concept for '''''Climate Change''''' Adaptation?
** The Politics of '''Resilience for Planning''': A Cautionary Note

* Managing Aging City Infrastructure:
** http://graphics.latimes.com/la-aging-water-infrastructure/

* Wow! A rural town in Italy '''>'''100% sustainable energy:
** http://reregions.blogspot.com/2010/03/varese-ligure-italy.html
** http://cleantechnica.com/2014/01/09/varese-ligure-italy-small-town-high-renewables/
** http://www.ecofriend.com/italian-town-runs-completely-on-renewable-energy.html

* '''''Sustainable''''' background info:
** Sustainable City, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_city
** Sustainable Energy, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_energy
** Sustainable Transport, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_transport
** Sustainable Living, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_living
** Urban Agriculture, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_agriculture

* Urban Farming
** Growing Cities, http://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/growing-cities
** World’s Largest Urban Farm, http://www.yesmagazine.org/peace-justice/detroit-community-gardeners-question-hantz-urban-farm
** Growing Home, http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/growing-home-urban-agriculture-in-chicago
** Breaking Through Concrete, http://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/growing-through-concrete-an-urban-farming-roadtrip
** ''Growing Power'' Despite an Urban 'Food' Desert, http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/food-for-everyone/growing-power-in-an-urban-food-desert

* Local Grocery
** http://www.cooperativegrocer.coop/articles/2004-01-08/mondragons-eroski-mass-retailer
** http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/the-new-economy/mondragon-worker-cooperatives-decide-how-to-ride-out-a-downturn

* Open Source Ecology, ''Do-It-Yourself'' Industrial Equipment
** http://opensourceecology.org/gvcs/gvcs-machine-index/
** http://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski

* Digital Earth | Virtual Nations | Data Cities
** http://dcitynetwork.net/manifesto/

FOSS4G 2014 Code Sprint

2014-08-12T14:16:44Z

Wiki-Blammo: /* MapServer */

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

A code sprint is about getting a group together to work on Open Source software, sitting around a table and sharing ideas. It's not just about writing code, as you know a project has many needs including documentation, testing, and providing feedback. What a better way to give feedback and give back to the project that you love than to spend a day with the project's developers. There are roles needed to be filled, no matter what your expertise.

With such a short timeframe (one day) you should probably use this page to set a specific goal for your project. But don't worry, if all you get done is actually sitting at the same table with the project's developers and talking about the next release, that is also great :)

== Where & When ==

The day after the main conference ('''Saturday, September 13th''' 2014) has been set aside for the Code Sprint.

The sprint will be in the [http://eliotcenterportland.org Eliot Center] ([http://osm.org/go/WIDlUtpOQ-?m=&relation=186579 OSM]) along side [http://wherecamppdx.org WhereCampPDX].

== What to Bring ==

== How to get there ==

TBD

== Sponsor ==

== Questions/Comments/Ideas ==

*ask on the foss4g2014 mailing list ([http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/foss4g2014 subscribe])

== Additional Interested People ==

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

* ''Your name: project(s)''

= Workgroups =

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

== Project-name ==

'''Attending:'''

*user
*user

'''Goals:'''

*your goals

 

== GeoMoose ==

'''Attending:'''

* Eli Adam
* Dan 'Ducky' Little
* Bob Basques

'''Goals:'''

* 2.7 wrap up.
* Marketing plan - do mores?

 

== GeoServer ==

'''Attending:'''

* Jody Garnett
* Andrea Aime
* Mauro Bartolomeoli
* user

'''Goals:'''

* Option 1: Update Wicket to a recent version, goal wider browser compatibility. Benefit from a balance of developers and testers.
* Option 2: Update CITE tests. Benefit from collaboration with the CITE TEAM Engine project.

'''Note'''
* GeoServer will continue sprinting on Sunday at a different venue, [http://blog.geoserver.org/2014/07/25/geoserver-sunday-sprint-foss4g/ (details)]

 

== GRASS GIS ==

'''Attending:'''

* Luca Delucchi
* Markus Neteler
* Anna Petrasova
* Vaclav Petras

'''Goals:'''

* prepare for GRASS GIS 8

== MapServer ==

'''Attending:'''

* Michael Smith
* Jeff McKenna
* Steve Lime
* Daniel Morissette
* Thomas Bonfort

'''Goals:'''

*7.0 Release Fixes

 

== PostGIS ==

'''Attending:'''
* Regina Obe
* Leo Hsu

'''Goals:'''
* Plan out PostGIS 2.2

 

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FOSS4G 2014 Code Sprint

2014-08-12T14:15:30Z

Wiki-Blammo: /* GeoMoose */

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

A code sprint is about getting a group together to work on Open Source software, sitting around a table and sharing ideas. It's not just about writing code, as you know a project has many needs including documentation, testing, and providing feedback. What a better way to give feedback and give back to the project that you love than to spend a day with the project's developers. There are roles needed to be filled, no matter what your expertise.

With such a short timeframe (one day) you should probably use this page to set a specific goal for your project. But don't worry, if all you get done is actually sitting at the same table with the project's developers and talking about the next release, that is also great :)

== Where & When ==

The day after the main conference ('''Saturday, September 13th''' 2014) has been set aside for the Code Sprint.

The sprint will be in the [http://eliotcenterportland.org Eliot Center] ([http://osm.org/go/WIDlUtpOQ-?m=&relation=186579 OSM]) along side [http://wherecamppdx.org WhereCampPDX].

== What to Bring ==

== How to get there ==

TBD

== Sponsor ==

== Questions/Comments/Ideas ==

*ask on the foss4g2014 mailing list ([http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/foss4g2014 subscribe])

== Additional Interested People ==

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

* ''Your name: project(s)''

= Workgroups =

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

== Project-name ==

'''Attending:'''

*user
*user

'''Goals:'''

*your goals

 

== GeoMoose ==

'''Attending:'''

* Eli Adam
* Dan 'Ducky' Little
* Bob Basques

'''Goals:'''

* 2.7 wrap up.
* Marketing plan - do mores?

 

== GeoServer ==

'''Attending:'''

* Jody Garnett
* Andrea Aime
* Mauro Bartolomeoli
* user

'''Goals:'''

* Option 1: Update Wicket to a recent version, goal wider browser compatibility. Benefit from a balance of developers and testers.
* Option 2: Update CITE tests. Benefit from collaboration with the CITE TEAM Engine project.

'''Note'''
* GeoServer will continue sprinting on Sunday at a different venue, [http://blog.geoserver.org/2014/07/25/geoserver-sunday-sprint-foss4g/ (details)]

 

== GRASS GIS ==

'''Attending:'''

* Luca Delucchi
* Markus Neteler
* Anna Petrasova
* Vaclav Petras

'''Goals:'''

* prepare for GRASS GIS 8

== MapServer ==

'''Attending:'''

* Michael Smith
* Jeff McKenna
* Steve Lime
* Daniel Morissette
* Thomas Bonfort
* Bob Basques

'''Goals:'''

*7.0 Release Fixes

 

== PostGIS ==

'''Attending:'''
* Regina Obe
* Leo Hsu

'''Goals:'''
* Plan out PostGIS 2.2

 

[[Category:FOSS4G2014]] [[Category:FOSS4G]] [[Category:Code_Sprints]]

Open Source GIS History

2013-07-22T18:36:21Z

Wiki-Blammo: /* Timeline */

== Software projects ==

In '''XX''' and '''XXI''' century, a series of other desktop and server Open Source GIS projects were started:
* geospatial libraries: [http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/ PROJ.4], [http://www.osgeo.org/geotools Geotools], Geoserver, TerraLib, [http://trac.osgeo.org/ggl/ Boost.Geometry]
* Desktop GIS: [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS], SAGA GIS, uDIG, [http://www.osgeo.org/gvsig gvSIG],[http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/ILWIS ILWIS]
* Web mapping/WebGIS: [http://www.osgeo.org/deegree deegree], [http://www.osgeo.org/mapserver UMN MapServer], [http://www.osgeo.org/mapguide MapGuide Open Source]
* geostatistics software: gstat, R Project for Statistical Computing

=== Timeline ===

'''1978''' - Map Overlay and Statistical System (MOSS). A pioneer vector-based geographic information system (GIS) developed by the U.S. Department of Interior. MOSS is still available to download (ftp://ftp.blm.gov/pub/gis/). Dr. Carl Reed has written an article about [http://www.scribd.com/doc/4606038/2004-Article-by-Carl-Reed-MOSS-A-Historical-perspective MOSS history].

'''since 1982-today''' - [http://www.osgeo.org/grass GRASS GIS] (Geographical Resources Analysis Support System) is the earliest Open Source GIS which reached production status and supported both raster and vector data. It was originally developed from 1982 to 1995 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, since then by the international GRASS Development Team. Initially published as public domain software, its license was changed to GNU GPL (General Public License, see www.gnu.org) in 1999. Dr. Jim Westerwelt has written an article about the [http://grass.osgeo.org/uploads/grass/history_docs/westervelt2004_GRASS_roots.pdf initial GRASS development history].

'''1983''' - [http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/ PROJ4 library] development started. The original proj was developed in the early 1980's as a ratfor (a fortran preprocessor)
program (Evenden, 1983) with much of the code derived from the Geological
Survey’s General Cartographic Transformation Package (gctp) (superceded
by a more portable Version II by Elassal, 1987). Program proj was recoded in the
C language when the mapgen package (Evenden and Botbol, 1985), of which proj
is an integral part, was transfered to the Unix operating system. (References refer to [ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/proj/OF90-284.pdf])

'''1995''' - [http://www.osgeo.org/mapserver UMN MapServer] project started. In '''2002''' MapServer gets Python support.

'''1995''' - [http://rasdaman.eecs.jacobs-university.de/trac/rasdaman rasdaman] raster data manager project started. In '''2009''' rasdaman was open sourced.

'''1996''' - [http://geotools.org/ GeoTools] project started at the University of Leads. Superseded by GeoTools Lite (for applets) and in '''2002''' GeoTools 2 (using standards). The GeoTools 2 project was renamed to [http://geotoolsnews.blogspot.com.au/2011/04/geotools-8.html GeoTools] in '''2011'''. OSGEO Incubation: '''2006 - [http://www.osgeo.org/node/747 2008]'''

'''1998''' - [http://deegree.org/ deegree] development started with an OGC Simple Features implementation. The project was renamed from JaGo to deegree in '''2002'''.

'''1998''' - [http://www.osgeo.org/gdal_ogr GDAL/OGR] development started. Python support was added in '''2000'''.

'''1999''' - [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] source code moved from manual management into CVS

'''2000''' - Atlantis Scientific launched [http://openev.sourceforge.net/ OpenEV] project

'''2000''' - [http://sourceforge.net/projects/jts-topo-suite/ JTS Topology Suite] project was initiated in Fall 2000. JTS 1.0 was released in February '''2002''' and version 1.1 in March '''2002'''.

'''2001''' - [http://www.osgeo.org/ossim OSSIM] initial revision in CVS

'''2001''' - [http://www.postgis.org PostGIS] started. OSGeo Incubation: '''2009-2012'''

'''2001''' - [http://www.osgeo.org/geonetwork GeoNetwork opensource] started as GeoNetwork, later renamed to GeoNetwork opensource.

'''2001''' - [http://geoserver.org/ GeoServer] started in 2001 by "The Open Planning Project". OSGeo incubation: '''2009-present'''

'''2002''' - Intevation,Gmbh starts [http://thuban.intevation.org Thuban] projects

'''2002''' - [http://www.osgeo.org/qgis Quantum GIS] initial revision in CVS

'''2002''' - [http://geos.refractions.net/ GEOS] initial revision in CVS

'''2002''' - [http://avpython.sourceforge.net/ AVPython] for ArcView 3.x published as FOSS

'''2003''' - [http://communitymapbuilder.org Community MapBuilder] started . The end of life of MapBuilder project was officially [http://communitymapbuilder.org/display/MAP/EndOfLife announced] on '''28 July 2008'''. [http://communitymapbuilder.org/display/MAP/Strategic+Direction#StrategicDirection-KeyMilestones ref]

'''2003''' - Release of [http://www.osgeo.org/mapbender Mapbender] under the GNU GPL license

'''2003''' - [http://www.osgeo.org/gvSIG gvSIG] was started

'''2004''' - [http://udig.refractions.net uDig] was started by Refractions Research.

'''2005''' - [http://www.osgeo.org/mapguide MapGuide Open Source]

'''2005''' - [http://www.geomoose.org GeoMoose] project was started. In '''2006''' GeoMoose was open sourced. OSGeo incubation: '''2007-2013'''

'''2006''' - [http://www.osgeo.org/mapbender Mapbender] gets first bits in CVS

'''2006''' - [http://www.osgeo.org/openlayers OpenLayers] started

'''2007''' - [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/ILWIS ILWIS] became open source

'''2008''' - [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] runs natively also on MS-Windows

'''2008''' - [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live] starts, with 100 CDs handed out at FOSS4G 2008, then DVDs handed out to all FOSS4G 2009 delegates.

'''2009''' - [http://trac.osgeo.org/ggl/ Boost.Geometry] accepted into [http://www.boost.org Boost C++ Libraries]

== Organizations ==

'''1992:''' "Open GRASS Foundation" (OGF, see [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/GIS-GRASS/history.html here] and [http://grass.osgeo.org/gdp/grassclippings/grassclippings93_7_2_gardels_ogc.pdf here])

'''1994:''' OGF was re-structured as the Open Geospatial Consortium ([http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/historylong OGC])

'''2006:''' Open Source Geospatial Foundation (http://www.osgeo.org) established whose mission is to support and promote the collaborative development of open geospatial technologies, data and educational material.

== See also ==

* Kenn Gardel's OGC history: http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/historylong
* [[History|OSGeo Foundation History]]
* Software projects:
** GRASS GIS History: http://grass.osgeo.org/devel/grasshist.html
** PostGIS History: http://www.refractions.net/products/postgis/history/
** JTS / GEOS History: http://lin-ear-th-inking.blogspot.com/2007/06/history-of-jts-and-geos.html
** MapServer History: http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/wiki/MapServerHistory
** GeoTools History: http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/History History
** GeoServer History: http://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/introduction/history.html

[[Category: History]]

Geoservices REST API

2013-05-08T21:01:54Z

Wiki-Blammo: /* Signed */

This wiki page aims to collate community concerns related to the proposed acceptance of the "Geoservices REST API" becoming an OGC standard.

= Open Letter to OGC and voting members =

''Please don't edit this "Open Letter" statement, comments and discussion should go 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]
* [[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: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.

= Concerns =
--- DRAFT ____

''Please add concerns as bullet points below. Try to be concise. Where appropriate, link to external web pages (such as email achieves)''

== Summary ==
As at May 2013, OGC members have been asked to decide whether to accept the "GeoServices REST API" as an OGC standard. This is a contentious issue, with many people arguing that introduction of the “GeoServices REST API” will have costly, far reaching, negative impacts on interoperability, and significantly tarnish the OGC's reputation as a champion of interoperability.

The key points of contention revolve around the fact that the proposed “GeoServices REST API does not build upon or extend existing OGC standards, but rather addresses similar requirements using an alternative API. In particular, the overlap and/or duplication of existing standards is widespread: OGC's core standards of WMS, WMTS, WFS, SE/SLD, WCS, CS/W are all duplicated to a significant extent. This defeats the purpose of having standards in the first place.

Duplication of standards 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. Backward compatibility to the existing WxS standards is important in this respect.

== 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 new comer 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.

== 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.

= History =

Todo: please expand
* Explain how this standard came to be
* Based on Arc GIS Server API
* Attempted but failed to go through OGC fast track process
* Recent voting history: refer to: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-May/011602.html

= References =
Todo: Link to key external docs, such as the proposed standards

[[Category: OGC]]
[[Category: Standards]]

Geoservices REST API

2013-05-08T21:01:01Z

Wiki-Blammo: /* Signed */

This wiki page aims to collate community concerns related to the proposed acceptance of the "Geoservices REST API" becoming an OGC standard.

= Open Letter to OGC and voting members =

''Please don't edit this "Open Letter" statement, comments and discussion should go 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]
* [[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: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 SharedGeo [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.

= Concerns =
--- DRAFT ____

''Please add concerns as bullet points below. Try to be concise. Where appropriate, link to external web pages (such as email achieves)''

== Summary ==
As at May 2013, OGC members have been asked to decide whether to accept the "GeoServices REST API" as an OGC standard. This is a contentious issue, with many people arguing that introduction of the “GeoServices REST API” will have costly, far reaching, negative impacts on interoperability, and significantly tarnish the OGC's reputation as a champion of interoperability.

The key points of contention revolve around the fact that the proposed “GeoServices REST API does not build upon or extend existing OGC standards, but rather addresses similar requirements using an alternative API. In particular, the overlap and/or duplication of existing standards is widespread: OGC's core standards of WMS, WMTS, WFS, SE/SLD, WCS, CS/W are all duplicated to a significant extent. This defeats the purpose of having standards in the first place.

Duplication of standards 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. Backward compatibility to the existing WxS standards is important in this respect.

== 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 new comer 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.

== 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.

= History =

Todo: please expand
* Explain how this standard came to be
* Based on Arc GIS Server API
* Attempted but failed to go through OGC fast track process
* Recent voting history: refer to: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-May/011602.html

= References =
Todo: Link to key external docs, such as the proposed standards

[[Category: OGC]]
[[Category: Standards]]

Geoservices REST API

2013-05-08T20:55:19Z

Wiki-Blammo: /* Signed */

This wiki page aims to collate community concerns related to the proposed acceptance of the "Geoservices REST API" becoming an OGC standard.

= Open Letter to OGC and voting members =

''Please don't edit this "Open Letter" statement, comments and discussion should go 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]
* [[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: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]
* [[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 SharedGeo [http://www.sharedgeo.org SharedGeo], OSGeo Charter Member, OSGeo TCMUG local chapter member, Co-founder and PSC member of GeoMoose project.[http://www.geomoose.org GeoMoose]

= Concerns =
--- DRAFT ____

''Please add concerns as bullet points below. Try to be concise. Where appropriate, link to external web pages (such as email achieves)''

== Summary ==
As at May 2013, OGC members have been asked to decide whether to accept the "GeoServices REST API" as an OGC standard. This is a contentious issue, with many people arguing that introduction of the “GeoServices REST API” will have costly, far reaching, negative impacts on interoperability, and significantly tarnish the OGC's reputation as a champion of interoperability.

The key points of contention revolve around the fact that the proposed “GeoServices REST API does not build upon or extend existing OGC standards, but rather addresses similar requirements using an alternative API. In particular, the overlap and/or duplication of existing standards is widespread: OGC's core standards of WMS, WMTS, WFS, SE/SLD, WCS, CS/W are all duplicated to a significant extent. This defeats the purpose of having standards in the first place.

Duplication of standards 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. Backward compatibility to the existing WxS standards is important in this respect.

== 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 new comer 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.

== 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.

= History =

Todo: please expand
* Explain how this standard came to be
* Based on Arc GIS Server API
* Attempted but failed to go through OGC fast track process
* Recent voting history: refer to: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-May/011602.html

= References =
Todo: Link to key external docs, such as the proposed standards

[[Category: OGC]]
[[Category: Standards]]

Geoservices REST API

2013-05-08T20:53:58Z

Wiki-Blammo: /* Signed */

This wiki page aims to collate community concerns related to the proposed acceptance of the "Geoservices REST API" becoming an OGC standard.

= Open Letter to OGC and voting members =

''Please don't edit this "Open Letter" statement, comments and discussion should go 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]
* [[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: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]
* [[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 SharedGeo [http://www.sharedgeo.org SharedGeo], OSGeo Charter Member, OSGeo TCMUG local chapter member, Co-founder and PSC member of GeoMoose [http://www.geomoose.org GeoMoose]

= Concerns =
--- DRAFT ____

''Please add concerns as bullet points below. Try to be concise. Where appropriate, link to external web pages (such as email achieves)''

== Summary ==
As at May 2013, OGC members have been asked to decide whether to accept the "GeoServices REST API" as an OGC standard. This is a contentious issue, with many people arguing that introduction of the “GeoServices REST API” will have costly, far reaching, negative impacts on interoperability, and significantly tarnish the OGC's reputation as a champion of interoperability.

The key points of contention revolve around the fact that the proposed “GeoServices REST API does not build upon or extend existing OGC standards, but rather addresses similar requirements using an alternative API. In particular, the overlap and/or duplication of existing standards is widespread: OGC's core standards of WMS, WMTS, WFS, SE/SLD, WCS, CS/W are all duplicated to a significant extent. This defeats the purpose of having standards in the first place.

Duplication of standards 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. Backward compatibility to the existing WxS standards is important in this respect.

== 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 new comer 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.

== 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.

= History =

Todo: please expand
* Explain how this standard came to be
* Based on Arc GIS Server API
* Attempted but failed to go through OGC fast track process
* Recent voting history: refer to: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-May/011602.html

= References =
Todo: Link to key external docs, such as the proposed standards

[[Category: OGC]]
[[Category: Standards]]

GeoMoose Incubation Checklist

2013-04-12T21:06:04Z

Wiki-Blammo: /* Board */

Incubation checklist reviewed on email list, links provided below.

* http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/geomoose-users/2012-May/004016.html

In response to this review several improvements were made by the community (see RFC section below).

== Incubation Checklist ==

=== Open ===

1. Open and public manner

License:

* http://www.geomoose.org/info/license.html <-- MIT based License

Open Meetings:

* http://www.geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/Category:Meetings
* http://geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/2012_07_26_Meeting <-- incubation discussed here
* http://geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/09_14_2012_Roadmap_Planning_Meeting

* As a consequence of moving through the Incubation process, the GeoMoose PCS has instituted a regular PSC meeting schedule of roughly once a month. These meetings are open and and usually occur online with an occasional Face to face meeting. The meeting Notes are published to the GeoMoose wiki.

Public decision making process:

* [http://geomoose.org/trunk/rfc/rfc-1.html?highlight=rfc RFC 1: Project Steering Committee Guidelines]
* [http://geomoose.org/trunk/rfc/rfc-2.html?highlight=rfc RFC 2: GeoMOOSE Project Mission (What is GeoMOOSE)]
* [http://geomoose.org/trunk/rfc/rfc-3.html?highlight=rfc RFC 3: GeoMOOSE Release Process]

* Also as a consequence of moving through the Incubation process, the GeoMoose project has implemented a formal PSC that meets to discuss the project and make decisions. RFCs related to this action have been passed and additional related RFC's are in a pending state. This is a desirable development from the GeoMoose PCS group and they have been ver motivated to moving this along as a process.

2. Active and healthy community

Community of developers and users:

* http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/GeoMOOSE-users-f4585800.html
* http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/GeoMOOSE-f5002154.html

Participation from multiple developers and organisations:

* https://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/geomoose2/trunk/AUTHORS.rst
* http://www.geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/GeoMoose_Incubation_Status

=== Copyright and License ===

1. license

* http://www.geomoose.org/info/license.html
* https://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/geomoose2/trunk/LICENSE

2. documentation license

* no explicit documentation license [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/geomoose-users/2012-May/004016.html discussion on using same license for everything]

3. code, documentation, and data reviewed

* http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoMoose_Provenance_Review

4. List of copyright holders

* http://www.geomoose.org/info/license.html
* https://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/geomoose2/trunk/AUTHORS.rst

5. Contribution agreement

* no code contribution agreement used (authors asked to place code into the public domain)
* http://www.geomoose.org/developer/contribute.html (references http://www.geomoose.org/developer/standards.html)

We have asked the project to make this more clear resulting in the following discusssion: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/geomoose-psc/2013-February/000089.html

As a result the two GeoMoose pages referenced above will be edited as described here:

See GeoMoose Project Tickets [http://trac.osgeo.org/geomoose/ticket/179 #179] and [http://trac.osgeo.org/geomoose/ticket/180 #180]

=== Processes ===

1. code under configuration management

* https://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/geomoose2/trunk

2. issue tracker

* http://trac.osgeo.org/geomoose/

3. management processes

Suitable open governance policy:

* http://www.geomoose.org/rfc/rfc-1.html

public communication channel for decision making::

* http://www.geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/Category:Meetings
* see email lists above

=== Documentation ===

1. user documentation:

* [http://www.geomoose.org/getting_started.html Getting Started]
* [http://www.geomoose.org/docs/index.html GeoMoose Documentation]

2. developers documentation:

* [http://www.geomoose.org/developer/index.html Developers Documentation]
* http://www.geomoose.org/trunk/api/

3. Release Procedure

* [http://www.geomoose.org/releases/how_to_release.html How to Release]

== OSGeo Committees and Community ==

=== Board ===

1. Project Officer:

* Bob Basques as per: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/OSGeo-project-officer-td5046209.html

=== Marketing ===

1. Marketting details

* http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/geomoose_overview.html
* http://live.osgeo.org/en/quickstart/geomoose_quickstart.html

2. Stable release available

* http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/geomoose_overview.html
* http://www.geomoose.org/info/download.html

=== Projects ===

Integration of:

* MapServer
* OpenLayers
* Dojo Toolkit

Release procedure includes version check (Apache, Dojo, MapServer) and a release candidate window for testing. Project policy is to use stable release
of OpenLayers.

=== SAC ===

1. Link provided to geomoose website, http://geomoose.osgeo.org not used

2. SAC facilities:

* issue tracker: http://trac.osgeo.org/geomoose/
* mailing list: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geomoose-users
* subversion: https://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/geomoose2/trunk
* downloads: http://www.geomoose.org/downloads/

GeoMoose Incubation Checklist

2013-04-12T21:05:11Z

Wiki-Blammo: /* Board */

Incubation checklist reviewed on email list, links provided below.

* http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/geomoose-users/2012-May/004016.html

In response to this review several improvements were made by the community (see RFC section below).

== Incubation Checklist ==

=== Open ===

1. Open and public manner

License:

* http://www.geomoose.org/info/license.html <-- MIT based License

Open Meetings:

* http://www.geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/Category:Meetings
* http://geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/2012_07_26_Meeting <-- incubation discussed here
* http://geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/09_14_2012_Roadmap_Planning_Meeting

* As a consequence of moving through the Incubation process, the GeoMoose PCS has instituted a regular PSC meeting schedule of roughly once a month. These meetings are open and and usually occur online with an occasional Face to face meeting. The meeting Notes are published to the GeoMoose wiki.

Public decision making process:

* [http://geomoose.org/trunk/rfc/rfc-1.html?highlight=rfc RFC 1: Project Steering Committee Guidelines]
* [http://geomoose.org/trunk/rfc/rfc-2.html?highlight=rfc RFC 2: GeoMOOSE Project Mission (What is GeoMOOSE)]
* [http://geomoose.org/trunk/rfc/rfc-3.html?highlight=rfc RFC 3: GeoMOOSE Release Process]

* Also as a consequence of moving through the Incubation process, the GeoMoose project has implemented a formal PSC that meets to discuss the project and make decisions. RFCs related to this action have been passed and additional related RFC's are in a pending state. This is a desirable development from the GeoMoose PCS group and they have been ver motivated to moving this along as a process.

2. Active and healthy community

Community of developers and users:

* http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/GeoMOOSE-users-f4585800.html
* http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/GeoMOOSE-f5002154.html

Participation from multiple developers and organisations:

* https://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/geomoose2/trunk/AUTHORS.rst
* http://www.geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/GeoMoose_Incubation_Status

=== Copyright and License ===

1. license

* http://www.geomoose.org/info/license.html
* https://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/geomoose2/trunk/LICENSE

2. documentation license

* no explicit documentation license [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/geomoose-users/2012-May/004016.html discussion on using same license for everything]

3. code, documentation, and data reviewed

* http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoMoose_Provenance_Review

4. List of copyright holders

* http://www.geomoose.org/info/license.html
* https://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/geomoose2/trunk/AUTHORS.rst

5. Contribution agreement

* no code contribution agreement used (authors asked to place code into the public domain)
* http://www.geomoose.org/developer/contribute.html (references http://www.geomoose.org/developer/standards.html)

We have asked the project to make this more clear resulting in the following discusssion: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/geomoose-psc/2013-February/000089.html

As a result the two GeoMoose pages referenced above will be edited as described here:

See GeoMoose Project Tickets [http://trac.osgeo.org/geomoose/ticket/179 #179] and [http://trac.osgeo.org/geomoose/ticket/180 #180]

=== Processes ===

1. code under configuration management

* https://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/geomoose2/trunk

2. issue tracker

* http://trac.osgeo.org/geomoose/

3. management processes

Suitable open governance policy:

* http://www.geomoose.org/rfc/rfc-1.html

public communication channel for decision making::

* http://www.geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/Category:Meetings
* see email lists above

=== Documentation ===

1. user documentation:

* [http://www.geomoose.org/getting_started.html Getting Started]
* [http://www.geomoose.org/docs/index.html GeoMoose Documentation]

2. developers documentation:

* [http://www.geomoose.org/developer/index.html Developers Documentation]
* http://www.geomoose.org/trunk/api/

3. Release Procedure

* [http://www.geomoose.org/releases/how_to_release.html How to Release]

== OSGeo Committees and Community ==

=== Board ===

1. Project Officer:

Bob Basques as per: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/OSGeo-project-officer-td5046209.html

=== Marketing ===

1. Marketting details

* http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/geomoose_overview.html
* http://live.osgeo.org/en/quickstart/geomoose_quickstart.html

2. Stable release available

* http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/geomoose_overview.html
* http://www.geomoose.org/info/download.html

=== Projects ===

Integration of:

* MapServer
* OpenLayers
* Dojo Toolkit

Release procedure includes version check (Apache, Dojo, MapServer) and a release candidate window for testing. Project policy is to use stable release
of OpenLayers.

=== SAC ===

1. Link provided to geomoose website, http://geomoose.osgeo.org not used

2. SAC facilities:

* issue tracker: http://trac.osgeo.org/geomoose/
* mailing list: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geomoose-users
* subversion: https://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/geomoose2/trunk
* downloads: http://www.geomoose.org/downloads/

GeoMoose Incubation Checklist

2013-04-12T21:03:09Z

Wiki-Blammo: /* Board */

Incubation checklist reviewed on email list, links provided below.

* http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/geomoose-users/2012-May/004016.html

In response to this review several improvements were made by the community (see RFC section below).

== Incubation Checklist ==

=== Open ===

1. Open and public manner

License:

* http://www.geomoose.org/info/license.html <-- MIT based License

Open Meetings:

* http://www.geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/Category:Meetings
* http://geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/2012_07_26_Meeting <-- incubation discussed here
* http://geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/09_14_2012_Roadmap_Planning_Meeting

* As a consequence of moving through the Incubation process, the GeoMoose PCS has instituted a regular PSC meeting schedule of roughly once a month. These meetings are open and and usually occur online with an occasional Face to face meeting. The meeting Notes are published to the GeoMoose wiki.

Public decision making process:

* [http://geomoose.org/trunk/rfc/rfc-1.html?highlight=rfc RFC 1: Project Steering Committee Guidelines]
* [http://geomoose.org/trunk/rfc/rfc-2.html?highlight=rfc RFC 2: GeoMOOSE Project Mission (What is GeoMOOSE)]
* [http://geomoose.org/trunk/rfc/rfc-3.html?highlight=rfc RFC 3: GeoMOOSE Release Process]

* Also as a consequence of moving through the Incubation process, the GeoMoose project has implemented a formal PSC that meets to discuss the project and make decisions. RFCs related to this action have been passed and additional related RFC's are in a pending state. This is a desirable development from the GeoMoose PCS group and they have been ver motivated to moving this along as a process.

2. Active and healthy community

Community of developers and users:

* http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/GeoMOOSE-users-f4585800.html
* http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/GeoMOOSE-f5002154.html

Participation from multiple developers and organisations:

* https://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/geomoose2/trunk/AUTHORS.rst
* http://www.geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/GeoMoose_Incubation_Status

=== Copyright and License ===

1. license

* http://www.geomoose.org/info/license.html
* https://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/geomoose2/trunk/LICENSE

2. documentation license

* no explicit documentation license [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/geomoose-users/2012-May/004016.html discussion on using same license for everything]

3. code, documentation, and data reviewed

* http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoMoose_Provenance_Review

4. List of copyright holders

* http://www.geomoose.org/info/license.html
* https://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/geomoose2/trunk/AUTHORS.rst

5. Contribution agreement

* no code contribution agreement used (authors asked to place code into the public domain)
* http://www.geomoose.org/developer/contribute.html (references http://www.geomoose.org/developer/standards.html)

We have asked the project to make this more clear resulting in the following discusssion: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/geomoose-psc/2013-February/000089.html

As a result the two GeoMoose pages referenced above will be edited as described here:

See GeoMoose Project Tickets [http://trac.osgeo.org/geomoose/ticket/179 #179] and [http://trac.osgeo.org/geomoose/ticket/180 #180]

=== Processes ===

1. code under configuration management

* https://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/geomoose2/trunk

2. issue tracker

* http://trac.osgeo.org/geomoose/

3. management processes

Suitable open governance policy:

* http://www.geomoose.org/rfc/rfc-1.html

public communication channel for decision making::

* http://www.geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/Category:Meetings
* see email lists above

=== Documentation ===

1. user documentation:

* [http://www.geomoose.org/getting_started.html Getting Started]
* [http://www.geomoose.org/docs/index.html GeoMoose Documentation]

2. developers documentation:

* [http://www.geomoose.org/developer/index.html Developers Documentation]
* http://www.geomoose.org/trunk/api/

3. Release Procedure

* [http://www.geomoose.org/releases/how_to_release.html How to Release]

== OSGeo Committees and Community ==

=== Board ===

1. Project Officer: Bob Basques as per: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/OSGeo-project-officer-td5046209.html

=== Marketing ===

1. Marketting details

* http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/geomoose_overview.html
* http://live.osgeo.org/en/quickstart/geomoose_quickstart.html

2. Stable release available

* http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/geomoose_overview.html
* http://www.geomoose.org/info/download.html

=== Projects ===

Integration of:

* MapServer
* OpenLayers
* Dojo Toolkit

Release procedure includes version check (Apache, Dojo, MapServer) and a release candidate window for testing. Project policy is to use stable release
of OpenLayers.

=== SAC ===

1. Link provided to geomoose website, http://geomoose.osgeo.org not used

2. SAC facilities:

* issue tracker: http://trac.osgeo.org/geomoose/
* mailing list: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geomoose-users
* subversion: https://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/geomoose2/trunk
* downloads: http://www.geomoose.org/downloads/

GeoMoose Incubation Checklist

2013-03-12T13:42:31Z

Wiki-Blammo: /* Documentation */

Incubation checklist reviewed on email list, links provided below.

* http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/geomoose-users/2012-May/004016.html

In response to this review several improvements were made by the community (see RFC section below).

== Incubation Checklist ==

=== Open ===

1. Open and public manner

License:

* http://www.geomoose.org/info/license.html <-- MIT based License

Open Meetings:

* http://www.geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/Category:Meetings
* http://geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/2012_07_26_Meeting <-- incubation discussed here
* http://geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/09_14_2012_Roadmap_Planning_Meeting

* As a consequence of moving through the Incubation process, the GeoMoose PCS has instituted a regular PSC meeting schedule of roughly once a month. These meetings are open and and usually occur online with an occasional Face to face meeting. The meeting Notes are published to the GeoMoose wiki.

Public decision making process:

* [http://geomoose.org/trunk/rfc/rfc-1.html?highlight=rfc RFC 1: Project Steering Committee Guidelines]
* [http://geomoose.org/trunk/rfc/rfc-2.html?highlight=rfc RFC 2: GeoMOOSE Project Mission (What is GeoMOOSE)]
* [http://geomoose.org/trunk/rfc/rfc-3.html?highlight=rfc RFC 3: GeoMOOSE Release Process]

* Also as a consequence of moving through the Incubation process, the GeoMoose project has implemented a formal PSC that meets to discuss the project and make decisions. RFCs related to this action have been passed and additional related RFC's are in a pending state. This is a desirable development from the GeoMoose PCS group and they have been ver motivated to moving this along as a process.

2. Active and healthy community

Community of developers and users:

* http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/GeoMOOSE-users-f4585800.html
* http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/GeoMOOSE-f5002154.html

Participation from multiple developers and organisations:

* https://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/geomoose2/trunk/AUTHORS.rst
* http://www.geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/GeoMoose_Incubation_Status

=== Copyright and License ===

1. license

* http://www.geomoose.org/info/license.html
* https://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/geomoose2/trunk/LICENSE

2. documentation license

* no explicit documentation license [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/geomoose-users/2012-May/004016.html discussion on using same license for everything]

3. code, documentation, and data reviewed

* http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoMoose_Provenance_Review

4. List of copyright holders

* http://www.geomoose.org/info/license.html
* https://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/geomoose2/trunk/AUTHORS.rst

5. Contribution agreement

* no code contribution agreement used (authors asked to place code into the public domain)
* http://www.geomoose.org/developer/contribute.html (references http://www.geomoose.org/developer/standards.html)

We have asked the project to make this more clear resulting in the following discusssion: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/geomoose-psc/2013-February/000089.html

As a result the two GeoMoose pages referenced above will be edited as described here:

See GeoMoose Project Tickets #179[http://trac.osgeo.org/geomoose/ticket/179] and #180[http://trac.osgeo.org/geomoose/ticket/190]

=== Processes ===

1. code under configuration management

* https://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/geomoose2/trunk

2. issue tracker

* http://trac.osgeo.org/geomoose/

3. management processes

Suitable open governance policy:

* http://www.geomoose.org/rfc/rfc-1.html

public communication channel for decision making::

* http://www.geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/Category:Meetings
* see email lists above

=== Documentation ===

1. user documentation:

* [http://www.geomoose.org/getting_started.html Getting Started]
* [http://www.geomoose.org/docs/index.html GeoMoose Documentation]

2. developers documentation:

* [http://www.geomoose.org/developer/index.html Developers Documentation]
* http://www.geomoose.org/trunk/api/

3. Release Procedure

* [http://www.geomoose.org/releases/how_to_release.html How to Release]

== OSGeo Committees and Community ==

=== Board ===

1. Project Officer: TBD

=== Marketing ===

1. Marketting details

* http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/geomoose_overview.html
* http://live.osgeo.org/en/quickstart/geomoose_quickstart.html

2. Stable release available

* http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/geomoose_overview.html
* http://www.geomoose.org/info/download.html

=== Projects ===

Integration of:

* MapServer
* OpenLayers
* Dojo Toolkit

Release procedure includes version check (Apache, Dojo, MapServer) and a release candidate window for testing. Project policy is to use stable release
of OpenLayers.

=== SAC ===

1. Link provided to geomoose website, http://geomoose.osgeo.org not used

2. SAC facilities:

* issue tracker: http://trac.osgeo.org/geomoose/
* mailing list: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geomoose-users
* subversion: https://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/geomoose2/trunk
* downloads: http://www.geomoose.org/downloads/

GeoMoose Incubation Checklist

2013-03-12T13:40:39Z

Wiki-Blammo: /* Copyright and License */

Incubation checklist reviewed on email list, links provided below.

* http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/geomoose-users/2012-May/004016.html

In response to this review several improvements were made by the community (see RFC section below).

== Incubation Checklist ==

=== Open ===

1. Open and public manner

License:

* http://www.geomoose.org/info/license.html <-- MIT based License

Open Meetings:

* http://www.geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/Category:Meetings
* http://geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/2012_07_26_Meeting <-- incubation discussed here
* http://geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/09_14_2012_Roadmap_Planning_Meeting

* As a consequence of moving through the Incubation process, the GeoMoose PCS has instituted a regular PSC meeting schedule of roughly once a month. These meetings are open and and usually occur online with an occasional Face to face meeting. The meeting Notes are published to the GeoMoose wiki.

Public decision making process:

* [http://geomoose.org/trunk/rfc/rfc-1.html?highlight=rfc RFC 1: Project Steering Committee Guidelines]
* [http://geomoose.org/trunk/rfc/rfc-2.html?highlight=rfc RFC 2: GeoMOOSE Project Mission (What is GeoMOOSE)]
* [http://geomoose.org/trunk/rfc/rfc-3.html?highlight=rfc RFC 3: GeoMOOSE Release Process]

* Also as a consequence of moving through the Incubation process, the GeoMoose project has implemented a formal PSC that meets to discuss the project and make decisions. RFCs related to this action have been passed and additional related RFC's are in a pending state. This is a desirable development from the GeoMoose PCS group and they have been ver motivated to moving this along as a process.

2. Active and healthy community

Community of developers and users:

* http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/GeoMOOSE-users-f4585800.html
* http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/GeoMOOSE-f5002154.html

Participation from multiple developers and organisations:

* https://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/geomoose2/trunk/AUTHORS.rst
* http://www.geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/GeoMoose_Incubation_Status

=== Copyright and License ===

1. license

* http://www.geomoose.org/info/license.html
* https://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/geomoose2/trunk/LICENSE

2. documentation license

* no explicit documentation license [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/geomoose-users/2012-May/004016.html discussion on using same license for everything]

3. code, documentation, and data reviewed

* http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoMoose_Provenance_Review

4. List of copyright holders

* http://www.geomoose.org/info/license.html
* https://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/geomoose2/trunk/AUTHORS.rst

5. Contribution agreement

* no code contribution agreement used (authors asked to place code into the public domain)
* http://www.geomoose.org/developer/contribute.html (references http://www.geomoose.org/developer/standards.html)

We have asked the project to make this more clear resulting in the following discusssion: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/geomoose-psc/2013-February/000089.html

As a result the two GeoMoose pages referenced above will be edited as described here:

See GeoMoose Project Tickets #179[http://trac.osgeo.org/geomoose/ticket/179] and #180[http://trac.osgeo.org/geomoose/ticket/190]

=== Processes ===

1. code under configuration management

* https://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/geomoose2/trunk

2. issue tracker

* http://trac.osgeo.org/geomoose/

3. management processes

Suitable open governance policy:

* http://www.geomoose.org/rfc/rfc-1.html

public communication channel for decision making::

* http://www.geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/Category:Meetings
* see email lists above

=== Documentation ===

1. user documentation:

* [http://www.geomoose.org/getting_started.html|Getting Started]
* [http://www.geomoose.org/docs/index.html GeoMoose Documentation]

2. developers documentation:

* [http://www.geomoose.org/developer/index.html Developers Documentation]
* http://www.geomoose.org/trunk/api/

3. Release Procedure

* [http://www.geomoose.org/releases/how_to_release.html How to Release]

== OSGeo Committees and Community ==

=== Board ===

1. Project Officer: TBD

=== Marketing ===

1. Marketting details

* http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/geomoose_overview.html
* http://live.osgeo.org/en/quickstart/geomoose_quickstart.html

2. Stable release available

* http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/geomoose_overview.html
* http://www.geomoose.org/info/download.html

=== Projects ===

Integration of:

* MapServer
* OpenLayers
* Dojo Toolkit

Release procedure includes version check (Apache, Dojo, MapServer) and a release candidate window for testing. Project policy is to use stable release
of OpenLayers.

=== SAC ===

1. Link provided to geomoose website, http://geomoose.osgeo.org not used

2. SAC facilities:

* issue tracker: http://trac.osgeo.org/geomoose/
* mailing list: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geomoose-users
* subversion: https://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/geomoose2/trunk
* downloads: http://www.geomoose.org/downloads/

GeoMoose Incubation Checklist

2013-03-12T13:35:51Z

Wiki-Blammo: /* Copyright and License */

Incubation checklist reviewed on email list, links provided below.

* http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/geomoose-users/2012-May/004016.html

In response to this review several improvements were made by the community (see RFC section below).

== Incubation Checklist ==

=== Open ===

1. Open and public manner

License:

* http://www.geomoose.org/info/license.html <-- MIT based License

Open Meetings:

* http://www.geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/Category:Meetings
* http://geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/2012_07_26_Meeting <-- incubation discussed here
* http://geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/09_14_2012_Roadmap_Planning_Meeting

* As a consequence of moving through the Incubation process, the GeoMoose PCS has instituted a regular PSC meeting schedule of roughly once a month. These meetings are open and and usually occur online with an occasional Face to face meeting. The meeting Notes are published to the GeoMoose wiki.

Public decision making process:

* [http://geomoose.org/trunk/rfc/rfc-1.html?highlight=rfc RFC 1: Project Steering Committee Guidelines]
* [http://geomoose.org/trunk/rfc/rfc-2.html?highlight=rfc RFC 2: GeoMOOSE Project Mission (What is GeoMOOSE)]
* [http://geomoose.org/trunk/rfc/rfc-3.html?highlight=rfc RFC 3: GeoMOOSE Release Process]

* Also as a consequence of moving through the Incubation process, the GeoMoose project has implemented a formal PSC that meets to discuss the project and make decisions. RFCs related to this action have been passed and additional related RFC's are in a pending state. This is a desirable development from the GeoMoose PCS group and they have been ver motivated to moving this along as a process.

2. Active and healthy community

Community of developers and users:

* http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/GeoMOOSE-users-f4585800.html
* http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/GeoMOOSE-f5002154.html

Participation from multiple developers and organisations:

* https://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/geomoose2/trunk/AUTHORS.rst
* http://www.geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/GeoMoose_Incubation_Status

=== Copyright and License ===

1. license

* http://www.geomoose.org/info/license.html
* https://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/geomoose2/trunk/LICENSE

2. documentation license

* no explicit documentation license [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/geomoose-users/2012-May/004016.html discussion on using same license for everything]

3. code, documentation, and data reviewed

* http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoMoose_Provenance_Review

4. List of copyright holders

* http://www.geomoose.org/info/license.html
* https://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/geomoose2/trunk/AUTHORS.rst

5. Contribution agreement

* no code contribution agreement used (authors asked to place code into the public domain)
* http://www.geomoose.org/developer/contribute.html (references http://www.geomoose.org/developer/standards.html)

We have asked the project to make this more clear resulting in the following discusssion: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/geomoose-psc/2013-February/000089.html

As a result the two GeoMoose pages referenced above will be edited as described here:

=== Processes ===

1. code under configuration management

* https://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/geomoose2/trunk

2. issue tracker

* http://trac.osgeo.org/geomoose/

3. management processes

Suitable open governance policy:

* http://www.geomoose.org/rfc/rfc-1.html

public communication channel for decision making::

* http://www.geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/Category:Meetings
* see email lists above

=== Documentation ===

1. user documentation:

* [http://www.geomoose.org/getting_started.html|Getting Started]
* [http://www.geomoose.org/docs/index.html GeoMoose Documentation]

2. developers documentation:

* [http://www.geomoose.org/developer/index.html Developers Documentation]
* http://www.geomoose.org/trunk/api/

3. Release Procedure

* [http://www.geomoose.org/releases/how_to_release.html How to Release]

== OSGeo Committees and Community ==

=== Board ===

1. Project Officer: TBD

=== Marketing ===

1. Marketting details

* http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/geomoose_overview.html
* http://live.osgeo.org/en/quickstart/geomoose_quickstart.html

2. Stable release available

* http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/geomoose_overview.html
* http://www.geomoose.org/info/download.html

=== Projects ===

Integration of:

* MapServer
* OpenLayers
* Dojo Toolkit

Release procedure includes version check (Apache, Dojo, MapServer) and a release candidate window for testing. Project policy is to use stable release
of OpenLayers.

=== SAC ===

1. Link provided to geomoose website, http://geomoose.osgeo.org not used

2. SAC facilities:

* issue tracker: http://trac.osgeo.org/geomoose/
* mailing list: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geomoose-users
* subversion: https://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/geomoose2/trunk
* downloads: http://www.geomoose.org/downloads/

GeoMoose Incubation Checklist

2013-03-11T21:45:48Z

Wiki-Blammo: /* Open */

Incubation checklist reviewed on email list, links provided below.

* http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/geomoose-users/2012-May/004016.html

In response to this review several improvements were made by the community (see RFC section below).

== Incubation Checklist ==

=== Open ===

1. Open and public manner

License:

* http://www.geomoose.org/info/license.html <-- MIT based License

Open Meetings:

* http://www.geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/Category:Meetings
* http://geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/2012_07_26_Meeting <-- incubation discussed here
* http://geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/09_14_2012_Roadmap_Planning_Meeting

* As a consequence of moving through the Incubation process, the GeoMoose PCS has instituted a regular PSC meeting schedule of roughly once a month. These meetings are open and and usually occur online with an occasional Face to face meeting. The meeting Notes are published to the GeoMoose wiki.

Public decision making process:

* [http://geomoose.org/trunk/rfc/rfc-1.html?highlight=rfc RFC 1: Project Steering Committee Guidelines]
* [http://geomoose.org/trunk/rfc/rfc-2.html?highlight=rfc RFC 2: GeoMOOSE Project Mission (What is GeoMOOSE)]
* [http://geomoose.org/trunk/rfc/rfc-3.html?highlight=rfc RFC 3: GeoMOOSE Release Process]

* Also as a consequence of moving through the Incubation process, the GeoMoose project has implemented a formal PSC that meets to discuss the project and make decisions. RFCs related to this action have been passed and additional related RFC's are in a pending state. This is a desirable development from the GeoMoose PCS group and they have been ver motivated to moving this along as a process.

2. Active and healthy community

Community of developers and users:

* http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/GeoMOOSE-users-f4585800.html
* http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/GeoMOOSE-f5002154.html

Participation from multiple developers and organisations:

* https://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/geomoose2/trunk/AUTHORS.rst
* http://www.geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/GeoMoose_Incubation_Status

=== Copyright and License ===

1. license

* http://www.geomoose.org/info/license.html
* https://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/geomoose2/trunk/LICENSE

2. documentation license

* no explicit documentation license [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/geomoose-users/2012-May/004016.html discussion on using same license for everything]

3. code, documentation, and data reviewed

* http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoMoose_Provenance_Review

4. List of copyright holders

* http://www.geomoose.org/info/license.html
* https://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/geomoose2/trunk/AUTHORS.rst

5. Contribution agreement

* no code contribution agreement used (authors asked to place code into the public domain)
* http://www.geomoose.org/developer/contribute.html (references http://www.geomoose.org/developer/standards.html)

We have asked the project to make this more clear resulting in the following discusssion: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/geomoose-psc/2013-February/000089.html

The proposed text is:

:: 7. Any contributed code should contain a code source comment block in each file header indicating the author (that is you and your employer if you are working on company time), date of contribution and any conflicting licensing restrictions that are not already covered by the GeoMoose License. All unusual situations need to be discussed and/or documented on the project mail list and/or in the project TRAC system.

=== Processes ===

1. code under configuration management

* https://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/geomoose2/trunk

2. issue tracker

* http://trac.osgeo.org/geomoose/

3. management processes

Suitable open governance policy:

* http://www.geomoose.org/rfc/rfc-1.html

public communication channel for decision making::

* http://www.geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/Category:Meetings
* see email lists above

=== Documentation ===

1. user documentation:

* [http://www.geomoose.org/getting_started.html|Getting Started]
* [http://www.geomoose.org/docs/index.html GeoMoose Documentation]

2. developers documentation:

* [http://www.geomoose.org/developer/index.html Developers Documentation]
* http://www.geomoose.org/trunk/api/

3. Release Procedure

* [http://www.geomoose.org/releases/how_to_release.html How to Release]

== OSGeo Committees and Community ==

=== Board ===

1. Project Officer: TBD

=== Marketing ===

1. Marketting details

* http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/geomoose_overview.html
* http://live.osgeo.org/en/quickstart/geomoose_quickstart.html

2. Stable release available

* http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/geomoose_overview.html
* http://www.geomoose.org/info/download.html

=== Projects ===

Integration of:

* MapServer
* OpenLayers
* Dojo Toolkit

Release procedure includes version check (Apache, Dojo, MapServer) and a release candidate window for testing. Project policy is to use stable release
of OpenLayers.

=== SAC ===

1. Link provided to geomoose website, http://geomoose.osgeo.org not used

2. SAC facilities:

* issue tracker: http://trac.osgeo.org/geomoose/
* mailing list: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geomoose-users
* subversion: https://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/geomoose2/trunk
* downloads: http://www.geomoose.org/downloads/

Live GIS History

2012-10-15T19:29:55Z

Wiki-Blammo:

Where has the LiveDVD been used? Please tell us. A history of wide use provides justification for future developers to include, and improve their application on OSGeo-Live.

== Template Questions ==
* date of the event, City, Country
* link to event webside
* Was OSGeo-Live handed out to attendees? How many were handed out? Were USBs or DVDs handed out? How many were handed out?
* Was the OSGeo-Live lightning overview presented? To how many people? Was it a plenary event? If not, what percentage of the attendees attended this talk? Did you get any feedback? What did you hear?
* Was OSGeo-Live used for workshops? What did the workshop cover. Was the USB/DVD or VM used? Were attendees computers used? If so, what operating systems were they running? How long did it take to set up? Were there any issues?
* Any suggestions on what we can do to improve OSGeo-Live for future?'
* Contact: person involved from the conference

== 4-7 December 2012, Open Source Developers Conference ==
* Sydney, Australia
* http://www.osdc.com.au/
* OSGeo-Live presentation by Cameron Shorter
* Contact: Cameron Shorter

== 22-24 November 2012, PhilGEOS 2012 ==
* Quezon City, Philippines
* http://philgeos2012.wordpress.com/
* OSGeo-Live will be distributed to participants and will be used for [[Philippines/philgeos2012|FOSS4G workshop track]].
* Contact: Maning Sambale

== 17-18 November 2012, OpenGIS ==
* Moscow, Russia
* conference on everything related to free and opensource GIS: data, software, methodology, organized by members of Russian GIS-Lab and OpenStreetMap communities.
* Making use of OSGeo-Live DVD (please explain how)
* http://gisconf.ru/en/
* Contact: Maxim Dubinin

== 14-16 November 2012, EGU Leonardo Conference ==
* Turin, Italy
* http://www.eguleonardo2012.polito.it/
* Poster presentation in Session: Population
* Notes: Poster Presentations consist in a quick (1-Slide) oral overview during the sessions and in the attendance by the poster stand between the sessions.
* Title: A complete review of the breadth of quality Geospatial Open Source Software available to Hydrologists, using OSGeo-Live
* Contact: [[User:Madi|Margherita Di Leo]]

== November 2012, Open Source GIS and Webmapping Workshop ==
* Vienna (Austria)
* Waiting on Barend Köbben to provide website url once details are finalised

==25-26 October 2012, FOSS4G-India ==
* Hyderabad, India
* http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/foss4gindia
* OSGeo-Live DVDs to be handed out to participants
* OSGeo-Live to be used in workshops
* OSGeo-Live Presentation planned to be given
* Contact: K S Rajan

== October 2012, LatinOSGIS ==
* Guayaquil, Ecuador
* OSGeo-Live 6.0 DVDs to be handed out
* lightning presentation by Mauricio Miranda
* http://www.fiec.espol.edu.ec/LatinOSGIS
* Contact: Indira Yadira Nolivos Alvarez

==17,18 October 2012, GeoINT 2012 ==
* Orlando Florida
* OSGeo-Live link handed out
* mentioned in various panels and forums
* geoint2012.com
* Contact: Mark Lucas and John Scott

== 17-19 October 2012, Geospace Europe Summit 2012 ==
* Brussels Belgium
* OSGeo-Live link handed out
* Presentation pointing to live.ogeo.org efforts
* http://defence.flemingeurope.com/geospatial-intelligence-europe
* Contact: Mark Lucas

== 17-19 October 2012, Latinoware ==
* Keynote presentation by Jody Garnett including parts of the OSGeo Lightning presentation
* http://2012.latinoware.org/?lang=en , http://2012.latinoware.org/?page_id=228
* Contact: Jody Garnett

== October 2012, INTERGEO 2012 ==
* Hannover Germany, 9.-11.10.2012
* ~600 OSGeo 6.0 (and some of Version 5.5.) DVDs were distributed
* slide about OSGeo-Live in [http://fossgis.de |FOSSGIS e.V.] presentation
* very good feedback to the DVD. Lot of people already know OSGeo-Live
* http://intergeo.de
* Contact: [user:Astrid Emde | Astrid Emde]

== October 2012, Smart Korea 2012 in conjunction with OGC TC/PC Meeting ==
* Seoul, Korea
* OSGeo-Live 6.0 DVDs to be handed out
* OSGeo booth will be opened
* http://www.opengeospatial.org/event/1210tc
* Contact: Sanghee Shin

== October 12, 2012, FOSS4G Korea 2012 ==
* COEX, Seoul, Korea
* OSGeo-Live 6.0 DVDs to be handed out
* FOSS4G Korea will be held in conjunction with Smart Korea 2012
* http://www.osgeo.kr
* Contact: Sanghee Shin

== October 3-5, 2012, Minnesota GIS/LIS 2012 ==
* Saint Cloud, Minnesota, USA
* OSGeo-Live 6.0 DVDs handed out at OSGeo/FOSS4GNA Booth.
* OSGeo-Live ODP file set to loop on digital display in booth, augmented with local OSGeo project screenshots.
* Annual Conference and Workshops.
* http://www.mngislis.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=718
* Contact: Bob Basques

== October 2012, GISSA Ukubuzana conference ==
* 1-3 October, Johannesburg, South Africa
* ~450 OSGeo 6.0 DVDs were distributed
* Lightning overview wwas also presented
* It was also used in two workshops ('Intro to PostGIS and QGIS' and 'Enterprise GIS with FOSS')
* http://gissa.org.za/activities/conferences/gissa-ukubuzana-2012
* More were distributed and used in workshops at the launch of the University of Pretoria ICA/OSGeo Lab on 4 Oct
* [[User:Gfleming|Gavin Fleming]]

== September 2012, Geocamp ==
* September 22nd, Campo Maior, Portugal
* http://geocampers.com
* OSGeo project presentation: how the project is managed, how translations work, how a project is involved
* Contact: [[Jorge Sanz]], Hugo Santos info (at) geocampers (dot) com

== September 2012, Asia GeoSpatial Forum ==
* Hanoi, Vietnam. 17~19th, September
* OSGeo-Live 6.0 DVDs to be handed out
* Open Source GIS Session
* http://www.asiageospatialforum.org/
* Contact: Sanghee Shin

== 5 September 2012 Open Source GIS Conference (OSGIS) ==
* Nottingham, United Kingdom
* All day session: "Educational use of OSGeo Live" presented by Ari Jolma
* 100 OSGeo-Live DVDs handed out
* OSGeo-Live lightning presentation by Barry Rowlingson
* http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/osgis/
* Contact: Suchith Anand

== August 2012, 34th International Geological Conference ==
* Brisbane, Australia
* OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation by Peter Baunmann, conference convener
* http://www.34igc.org/
* Contact: Peter Baunmann

== 18-19 July 2012, FOSS4G Southeast Asia ==
* Johor Bahru, Malaysia
* OSGEO-live DVD used at the plenary session. Several slides from OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation used plus some demonstration.
* OSGeo-Live handed out to all delegates.
* Contact: Dr. Franz-Josef Behr

== July 2012, Third Open Source GIS Summer School ==
* Girona, Spain
* School program focused on the development and creation of Open Web Mapping Services and Web applications. Jeremy Morley (Lecturer and a theme leader at the NGI) will be contributing the Nottingham components for the Summer School. The course has been designed and will be conducted on a GNU/Linux operating system based on the use of the OSGeo-Live DVD.
* http://www.sigte.udg.edu/summerschool2012/
* Contact: Lluís Vicens

== July 2012, International Environmental Modeling and Software Society Conference (IEMSS) ==
* Leipzig, Germany
* ~ 100 OSGeo-Live 5.5 DVDs to be handed out
* OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation
* http://www.iemss.org/sites/iemss2012/sessions_D.html
* Contact: Daniel P. Ames

== July 2012, AGIT ==
* Salzburg (Austria) Annual Conference
* http://www.agit.at/
* [[AGIT]], Friday is OSGeo day, free booth together with OSM throughtout the week ([[Arnulf]])
* we want to hand out +- 500 OSGeoLive DVDs

==June 30 - July 1, 2012, FOSS4G Hokkaido 2012 ==
*Sapporo, Hokkaido JAPAN
*50 OSGeo-Live 5.5 DVDs handed out to delegates
*OSGeo.JP and OSGeo-Live overview in keynote presentation
*[https://sites.google.com/site/foss4ghokkaido/ Website (in Japanese)]
*[https://www.facebook.com/FOSS4G.Hokkaido Facebook (in Japanese)]

== June 2012, useR! The International R User Conference ==
* Vanderbilt U, Nashville USA
* http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/Main/UseR-2012
* Workshop Presentation on Geospatial Data in R, 33 attendees
* Five or six OSGeo-Live 5.5 DVDs taken
* Boot and demo at end of workshop.

== June 28, 2012, OSGeo.nl Day (FOSS4G Regional) within MapWindow Conference - The Netherlands ==
* Velp, The Netherlands
* OSGeo-Live 5.5 DVDs handed out to all delegates (about 120). This included a large contingent of OSGeo-NL people who I heard were very appreciative of the DVD.
* OSGeo-Live + OSGeo overview in keynote presentation
* OSGeo-Live software directly used from VMs within the two workshops
* http://osgeo.nl/osgeonl_dag_2012.html (OSGeo.nl Day Program + Pres. Slides)
* http://www.mapwindow.org/conference/2012 (general MapWindow conf)
* Contact: Daniel P. Ames

== May 2012, FOSS4G-CEE & Geoinformatics 2012 ==
* Prague, Czech Republic
* OSGeo-Live 5.5 DVDs to be used in workshops
* OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation
* http://foss4g-cee.org/
* Contact: Jachym Cepicky

== May 2012, FOSSCOMM 2012 ==
* Serres, Greece
* OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation
* 1 undergraduate thesis presentation using OSGeo-Live
* http://serres.fosscomm.gr/?page_id=582

== May 2012, HellasGI 2012 ==
* Athens, Greece
* OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation
* Local chapter meeting

== April 2012, COMEM OGO course :: Webmapping with OGC standards ==
* April 16th, a course dedicated on geospatialized e-Content for Media Engineering bachelor students (http://www.comem.ch) at School of Engineering and Business Vaud (http://www.heig-vd.ch), Western Switzerland, Yverdon-les-Bains
* Topic : learning webmapping and OGC standards with OpenLayers, GeoServer, PostGIS (http://ogo.heig-vd.ch)
* A customized OSGeo-Live 5.5 VM has been used through VirtualBox by 15 students to execute several exercices and to build a five days project (http://carto.iict.ch)
* Delivering a complete and ready to use geo-enabled VM is interessant for students to work in a kind of sandbox and to bring something easely back at home for later reuse.

== April 2012, Geospatial World Forum 2012 ==
* The RAI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
* 4-hour [http://wiki.osgeo.org/images/b/bf/GeospatialWorldForum_2012_OpenSource_Seminar_Program.pdf "Open Source Seminar"] organized by OSGeo/[http://OSgeo.nl OSGeo Dutch Chapter] with 11 speakers
* OSGeo-Live lightning presentation (15mins)
* http://www.geospatialworldforum.org/2012/open.htm

== April 2012, FOSS4G North America 2012 ==
* Washington, United States
* Hand out OSGeo-Live 5.5 DVDs to all delegates
* OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation?
* http://foss4g-na.org/

== April 2012, GISRUK 2012 ==
* Lancaster University, UK
* (probably) To be used for pre-conference workshop from Lutra Consulting
* Around 200 DVDs to be handed out at the OSGeo-UK desk
* http://www.lancs.ac.uk/gisruk2012/

== April 2012, AGILE 2012==
* Avignon, France
* http://agile2012.imag.fr/index.php/workshops/hands-on-qopen-source-gis-a-webmappingq
* Open Source GIS & WebCartography workshop
* OSGeo-Live USBs handed to all workshop attendees

== March 2012, Association for Geographic Information Welsh Group Open Source Seminar ==
* Wrexham, Wales, UK
* DVDs handed out to all delegates (20)
* http://astuntechnology.com/news/agi-open-source-training/ (proper link no longer available)

== March 2012, AWRA GIS and Water Resources Conference ==
* New Orleans
* ~ 350 DVDs handed to delegates
* http://awra.org/meetings/Spring2012/

== March 2012, FOSSGIS 2012 ==
* Dessau, Germany
* Hand out OSGeo-Live 5.5 DVDs to all delegates - more than 400 DVDs
* OSGeo-Live was mentioned in the opening speech
* http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2012/
* OSGeo-Live was mentioned a lot on the conference. Some presenter mentioned in their presentation, to test the new stuff with OSGeo-Live
* How many people were in the workshop?
** 21 Wokshops took place in total, 15 Workshop used OSGeo-Live 5.5, some of the workshops used a modified OSGeo-Live version
** 5 - 20 persons were in the workshops
* What format of OSGeo-Live was used? DVD? USB? VM?
** Used with VirtualBox
* Did students bring their own computers? What types of computers and operating systems were brought in?
** No own computers. We used the computers with windows and VirtualBox from the GIS pool of the university
* How much time was spent setting up the class with setting up OSGeo-Live?
** This was done before the workshop

== March 2012, Spanish FOSS4G 2012 ==
* Girona, Spain
* OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation.
* Possibly also handing out osgeo-live 5.5 DVDs?
* http://www.sigte.udg.edu/jornadassiglibre/

== 6-7 March 2012, Malaysian Geospatial Forum ==
* Malaka, Malaysia
* http://www.malaysiageospatialforum.org
* The OSGEO-Live lightning overview was presented to around 50 attendees (of approximately 300 attendees of the whole event). Positive feedbacks, the common question was which package should be used to their work.

== February 2012, AAG 2012 ==
* New York, New York
* 25 OSGeo-Live 5.0 bootable thumb drives to be handed out
* FOSS4G Workshop for Educators
* http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting

== February 2012, GIS courses ==
* 6-10 Feb, Enterprise GIS course at University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
* 13-17 Feb , Introduction to QGIS and PostGIS course, Muizenberg, South Africa
* OSGeo 5.0 DVDs handed out to course attendees (~15 each)
* Ran in first session of workshops as LiveDVD to browse through the ecosystem and get a feel for Linux and FOSS GIS.
* [[User:Gfleming|Gavin Fleming]]

== January 2012, Pleiades Days 2012 ==
* Toulouse, France
* 50 OSGeo-Live 5.0 bootable thumb drives to be handed out
* [http://www.pleiades2012.com/ Website]

== December 2012, Enterprise GIS course at the Council for Geoscience ==
* 12-14 Dec, Cape Town, South Africa
* OSGeo 5.0 DVDs handed out to course attendees
* We set up the VM on Windows for part of the workshop. Demo'd QGIS server and browsed through the system for an overview of other tools.
* It would be nice to have OpenGeo Suite Community Edition installed. It could provide PostGIS and GeoServer to the rest of the DVD. Also GeoNode.
* [[User:Gfleming|Gavin Fleming]]

== November 2011, FOSS4G Tokyo/Osaka 2011 ==
*Tokyo and Osaka, JAPAN
*each 50+ OSGeo-Live 5.0 DVDs handed to delegates
*[http://www.osgeo.jp/%E3%82%A4%E3%83%99%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88/foss4g-2011-tokyo/ Website (in Japanese)]
*[http://www.osgeo.jp/%E3%82%A4%E3%83%99%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88/foss4g-2011-osaka/ Website (in Japanese)]

== October 2011, IAEA/FAO Coordinated Research Program ==
* Burkina Faso
* This conference was the third in a series of semi-annual meetings reviewing research programs regarding two agricultural pests: Tsetse and Old/New World Screw-worm. The meetings focus on merging population genetics and GIS techniques to better understand the spread of these pests.
* A customized version of the OSGeoLive 5.0 was prepared with data specific to Burkina Faso, and each of the 15 participants received a USB flash drive for the practice session. Some basic exercises were conducted demonstrating QGIS, Spatialite, and R.
* Responses were overwhelmingly positive.

== September 2011, Intergeo 2011 ==
* Nuremberg, Germany
* Intergeo is an anual big fair on geodesy, geoinformation and land management
* [http://fossgis.de FOSSGIS e.V.] (german language local chapter of OSGeo) organizes an the OSGeo Park at Intergeo every year presenting OSGeo software. There also is a [http://www.fossgis.de/wiki/Intergeo_2011/Vortragsprogramm presentation area] where we present OSGeo Software and solutions 3 days long
* Rest of the OSGeo-Live 4.5 handed out (aprox 100 DVDs)
* http://www.intergeo.de/en/englisch/index.php

== September 2011, FOSS4G 2011 ==
Denver, United States
* OSGeo Live given to every delegate. (Release 5.0)
* 300 USBs printed, 600 DVDs
* OSGeo-Live was used within many of the workshops

== June/July 2011, Open Source GIS Summer School ==
* University of Gerona, Gerona, Spain
* The school taught Open Source GIS technologies and made use of the OSGeoLive DVD
* http://www.sigte.udg.edu/summerschool2011/target-audience/prerequisites

== August 2011, [http://irdal.ird.fr/spip.php?page=ecole_ete_spatial_bresil11_sommaire&id_rubrique=1022|Ecole d'été - Observation spatiale de l'environnement] ==
* Macapa, Brazil
* OSGeo-Live 5.0RC1 on a USB was used in a workshop for 12 students learning OTB and Monteverdi.

== June 2011, FLUXNET & RS Open-Workshop ==
* David Brower Environmental Center, USA
* http://nature.berkeley.edu/biometlab/fluxnet2011/fluxwkshp.html
* Provided OSGeo LiveDVD to interested participants

== June 2011, [[Live_GIS_Disk_FOSS4G_2010| OSGIS 2011]] ==
Centre for Geospatial Science, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
* http://cgs.nottingham.ac.uk/~osgis11/os_home.html
* Provided OSGeo-Live lightning presentation, abstract: [[Live_GIS_Disk_OSGIS_2011]]
* handed out OSGeo-Live DVDs to all delegates

== May 2011, CGS 2011 ==
* Bishop CA, USA
* ~10 discs

== April 2011, GITA 2011 ==
* Dallas Tx, USA
* 100 discs sent to OSGeo booth

== April 2011, AAG 2011 ==
* Seattle, WA USA
* Annual Geography conference 8-10,000 attendants
* ~30-50 discs given away at OSGeo booth
* Remaining ~150 divided between CUGOS and Portland? chapters.

== April 2011, FOSSGIS 2011 ==
* Heidelberg, Germany
* [http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2011/ FOSSGIS] is an annual conference in german language with ~ 400 attendants
* we printed OSGeo-Live 4.5 and handed out about 450 DVDs
* OSGeoLive 4.5 was used sucessfully in ~ 12 workshops
* [http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2011/programm/events/248.de.html Astrid Emde presented OSGeo-Live] in a 20 min talk with focus on the background of the project and the possibilities the project offers
** about 40 attendants

== November 2010, GeoData Camp ==
* Athens, Greece
* Presented OSGeo-Live lightning presentation in Greek to more than 300 attendants. This included two 1-hour presentations in technical sessions and a 15 minute presentation in the main event.

== October 2010, Intergeo 2010 ==
* Cologne, Germany
* Intergeo is an anual big fair on geodesy, geoinformation and land management
* [http://fossgis.de FOSSGIS e.V.] (german language local chapter of OSGeo) organizes an Open Source Park on Intergeo every year where OSGeo Software is presented. There also is a [http://www.fossgis.de/wiki/Intergeo_2010/Vortragsprogramm presentation area] where we present OSGeo Software and solutions 3 days long
* we printed OSGeo-Live 4.0 and handed out about 450 DVDs
* Lars Lingner presented the DVD with Cameron Shorters presentation
* http://www.intergeo.de/en/englisch/index.php
* Feedback
** good feedback: OSGeo-Live offers the possibility to get to know OSGeo Software without an installation

== September 2010, [[Live_GIS_Disk_FOSS4G_2010|FOSS4G 2010]] ==
Barcelona, Spain
* Provided a 90 minute tutorial of OSGeo Live
* OSGeo Live given to every delegate. (Release 4.0)

== April 2010, [http://www.fig2010.com/ FIG 2010] - International Surveyors conference==
Sydney, Australia
* Handed out Live DVDs from OSGeo stand. (Release 3.0)
* Provided 15 minute lightning talk about the OSGeo stack, promoting the LiveDVD. [[http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com/2010/04/report-from-osgeo-stand-at-federation.html Report]], [[http://blip.tv/file/3503561 presentation video]]

== October 2009, [http://2009.foss4g.org FOSS4G 2009] ==
Sydney, Australia
* Handed out 500 Live DVDs in every delegate's show bag. (Release: 2.0.3)

== June 2009, [http://www.spatial.gov.au/Conferences/spatialgov+2009/default.aspx Spatial@Gov] ==
* Canberra, Australia
* Handed out Live DVDs from an OSGeo stand. (Release 1.0)
* Cameron Shorter provided a 30 minute presentation on the Open Source GeoSpatial Stack.

== November 2008, Australian Cooperative Research Center for Spatial Information Conference ==
* Brisbane, Australia
* Distributed ~ 250 OSGeo-Live DVDs to delegates (Release 1.0)

==September 2008, [http://2008.foss4g.org FOSS4G 2008]==
* Handed out ~ 150 Live DVDs from the OSGeo stand. (Release: foss4g2008)

[[Category: Live-demo]]
[[Category: History]]

Open Source GIS History

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== Software projects ==

In '''XX''' and '''XXI''' century, a series of other desktop and server Open Source GIS projects were started:
* geospatial libraries: [http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/ PROJ.4], [http://www.osgeo.org/geotools Geotools], Geoserver, TerraLib, [http://trac.osgeo.org/ggl/ Boost.Geometry]
* Desktop GIS: [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS], SAGA GIS, uDIG, [http://www.osgeo.org/gvsig gvSIG],[http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/ILWIS ILWIS]
* Web mapping/WebGIS: [http://www.osgeo.org/deegree deegree], [http://www.osgeo.org/mapserver UMN MapServer], [http://www.osgeo.org/mapguide MapGuide Open Source]
* geostatistics software: gstat, R Project for Statistical Computing

=== Timeline ===

'''1978''' - Map Overlay and Statistical System (MOSS). A pioneer vector-based geographic information system (GIS) developed by the U.S. Department of Interior. MOSS is still available to download (ftp://ftp.blm.gov/pub/gis/). Dr. Carl Reed has written an article about [http://www.scribd.com/doc/4606038/2004-Article-by-Carl-Reed-MOSS-A-Historical-perspective MOSS history].

'''since 1982-today''' - [http://www.osgeo.org/grass GRASS] (Geographical Resources Analysis Support System) is the earliest Open Source GIS which reached production status and supported both raster and vector data. It was originally developed from 1982 to 1995 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, since then by the international GRASS Development Team. Initially published as public domain software, its license was changed to GNU GPL (General Public License, see www.gnu.org) in 1999.

'''1983''' - [http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/ PROJ4 library] development started. The original proj was developed in the early 1980's as a ratfor (a fortran preprocessor)
program (Evenden, 1983) with much of the code derived from the Geological
Survey’s General Cartographic Transformation Package (gctp) (superceded
by a more portable Version II by Elassal, 1987). Program proj was recoded in the
C language when the mapgen package (Evenden and Botbol, 1985), of which proj
is an integral part, was transfered to the Unix operating system. (References refer to [ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/proj/OF90-284.pdf])

'''1995''' - [http://www.osgeo.org/mapserver UMN MapServer] project started. In '''2002''' MapServer gets Python support.

'''1995''' - [http://rasdaman.eecs.jacobs-university.de/trac/rasdaman rasdaman] raster data manager project started. In '''2009''' rasdaman was open sourced.

'''1996''' - [http://geotools.org/ GeoTools] project started at the University of Leads. Superseded by GeoTools Lite (for applets) and in '''2002''' GeoTools 2 (using standards). The GeoTools 2 project was renamed to [http://geotoolsnews.blogspot.com.au/2011/04/geotools-8.html GeoTools] in '''2011'''. OSGEO Incubation: '''2006 - [http://www.osgeo.org/node/747 2008]'''

'''1998''' - [http://deegree.org/ deegree] development started with an OGC Simple Features implementation. The project was renamed from JaGo to deegree in '''2002'''.

'''1998''' - [http://www.osgeo.org/gdal_ogr GDAL/OGR] development started. Python support was added in '''2000'''.

'''1999''' - [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] source code moved from manual management into CVS

'''2000''' - Atlantis Scientific launched [http://openev.sourceforge.net/ OpenEV] project

'''2000''' - [http://sourceforge.net/projects/jts-topo-suite/ JTS Topology Suite] project was initiated in Fall 2000. JTS 1.0 was released in February '''2002''' and version 1.1 in March '''2002'''.

'''2001''' - [http://www.osgeo.org/ossim OSSIM] initial revision in CVS

'''2001''' - [http://www.postgis.org PostGIS] started. OSGeo Incubation: '''2009-2012'''

'''2001''' - [http://www.osgeo.org/geonetwork GeoNetwork opensource] started as GeoNetwork, later renamed to GeoNetwork opensource.

'''2001''' - [http://geoserver.org/ GeoServer] started in 2001 by "The Open Planning Project". OSGeo incubation: '''2009-present'''

'''2002''' - Intevation,Gmbh starts [http://thuban.intevation.org Thuban] projects

'''2002''' - [http://www.osgeo.org/qgis Quantum GIS] initial revision in CVS

'''2002''' - [http://geos.refractions.net/ GEOS] initial revision in CVS

'''2002''' - [http://avpython.sourceforge.net/ AVPython] for ArcView 3.x published as FOSS

'''2003''' - [http://communitymapbuilder.org Community MapBuilder] started . The end of life of MapBuilder project was officially [http://communitymapbuilder.org/display/MAP/EndOfLife announced] on '''28 July 2008'''. [http://communitymapbuilder.org/display/MAP/Strategic+Direction#StrategicDirection-KeyMilestones ref]

'''2003''' - Release of [http://www.osgeo.org/mapbender Mapbender] under the GNU GPL license

'''2003''' - [http://www.osgeo.org/gvSIG gvSIG] was started

'''2004''' - [http://udig.refraction.net] was started by Refractions Research.

'''2005''' - [http://www.osgeo.org/mapguide MapGuide Open Source]

'''2005''' - [http://www.geomoose.org GeoMoose] project was started. In '''2007''' GeoMoose was open sourced.

'''2006''' - [http://www.osgeo.org/mapbender Mapbender] gets first bits in CVS

'''2006''' - [http://www.osgeo.org/openlayers OpenLayers] started

'''2007''' - [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/ILWIS] ILWIS became open source

'''2008''' - [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] runs natively also on MS-Windows

'''2009''' - [http://trac.osgeo.org/ggl/ Boost.Geometry] accepted into [http://www.boost.org Boost C++ Libraries]

== Organizations ==

'''1992:''' "Open GRASS Foundation" (OGF, see [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/GIS-GRASS/history.html here] and [http://grass.osgeo.org/gdp/grassclippings/grassclippings93_7_2_gardels_ogc.pdf here])

'''1994:''' OGF was re-structured as the Open Geospatial Consortium ([http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/historylong OGC])

'''2006:''' Open Source Geospatial Foundation (http://www.osgeo.org) established whose mission is to support and promote the collaborative development of open geospatial technologies, data and educational material.

== See also ==

* Kenn Gardel's OGC history: http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/historylong
* [[History|OSGeo Foundation History]]
* Software projects:
** GRASS GIS History: http://grass.osgeo.org/devel/grasshist.html
** PostGIS History: http://www.refractions.net/products/postgis/history/
** JTS / GEOS History: http://lin-ear-th-inking.blogspot.com/2007/06/history-of-jts-and-geos.html
** MapServer History: http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/wiki/MapServerHistory
** GeoTools History: http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/History History
** GeoServer History: http://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/introduction/history.html

[[Category: History]]

Open Source GIS History

2012-09-26T22:06:15Z

Wiki-Blammo: /* Timeline */

== Software projects ==

In '''XX''' and '''XXI''' century, a series of other desktop and server Open Source GIS projects were started:
* geospatial libraries: [http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/ PROJ.4], [http://www.osgeo.org/geotools Geotools], Geoserver, TerraLib, [http://trac.osgeo.org/ggl/ Boost.Geometry]
* Desktop GIS: [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS], SAGA GIS, uDIG, [http://www.osgeo.org/gvsig gvSIG],[http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/ILWIS ILWIS]
* Web mapping/WebGIS: [http://www.osgeo.org/deegree deegree], [http://www.osgeo.org/mapserver UMN MapServer], [http://www.osgeo.org/mapguide MapGuide Open Source]
* geostatistics software: gstat, R Project for Statistical Computing

=== Timeline ===

'''1978''' - Map Overlay and Statistical System (MOSS). A pioneer vector-based geographic information system (GIS) developed by the U.S. Department of Interior. MOSS is still available to download (ftp://ftp.blm.gov/pub/gis/). Dr. Carl Reed has written an article about [http://www.scribd.com/doc/4606038/2004-Article-by-Carl-Reed-MOSS-A-Historical-perspective MOSS history].

'''since 1982-today''' - [http://www.osgeo.org/grass GRASS] (Geographical Resources Analysis Support System) is the earliest Open Source GIS which reached production status and supported both raster and vector data. It was originally developed from 1982 to 1995 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, since then by the international GRASS Development Team. Initially published as public domain software, its license was changed to GNU GPL (General Public License, see www.gnu.org) in 1999.

'''1983''' - [http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/ PROJ4 library] development started. The original proj was developed in the early 1980's as a ratfor (a fortran preprocessor)
program (Evenden, 1983) with much of the code derived from the Geological
Survey’s General Cartographic Transformation Package (gctp) (superceded
by a more portable Version II by Elassal, 1987). Program proj was recoded in the
C language when the mapgen package (Evenden and Botbol, 1985), of which proj
is an integral part, was transfered to the Unix operating system. (References refer to [ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/proj/OF90-284.pdf])

'''1995''' - [http://www.osgeo.org/mapserver UMN MapServer] project started. In '''2002''' MapServer gets Python support.

'''1998''' - [http://deegree.org/ deegree] development started with an OGC Simple Features implementation. The project was renamed from JaGo to deegree in '''2002'''.

'''1998''' - [http://www.osgeo.org/gdal_ogr GDAL/OGR] development started. Python support was added in '''2000'''.

'''1999''' - [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] source code moved from manual management into CVS

'''2000''' - Atlantis Scientific launched [http://openev.sourceforge.net/ OpenEV] project

'''2000''' - [http://sourceforge.net/projects/jts-topo-suite/ JTS Topology Suite] project was initiated in Fall 2000. JTS 1.0 was released in February '''2002''' and version 1.1 in March '''2002'''.

'''2001''' - [http://www.osgeo.org/ossim OSSIM] initial revision in CVS

'''2001''' - [http://www.postgis.org PostGIS] started

'''2001''' - [http://www.osgeo.org/geonetwork GeoNetwork opensource] started as GeoNetwork, later renamed to GeoNetwork opensource.

'''2002''' - Intevation,Gmbh starts [http://thuban.intevation.org Thuban] projects

'''2002''' - [http://www.osgeo.org/qgis Quantum GIS] initial revision in CVS

'''2002''' - [http://geos.refractions.net/ GEOS] initial revision in CVS

'''2002''' - [http://avpython.sourceforge.net/ AVPython] for ArcView 3.x published as FOSS

'''2003''' - [http://communitymapbuilder.org Community MapBuilder] started . The end of life of MapBuilder project was officially [http://communitymapbuilder.org/display/MAP/EndOfLife announced] on '''28 July 2008'''. [http://communitymapbuilder.org/display/MAP/Strategic+Direction#StrategicDirection-KeyMilestones ref]

'''2003''' - Release of [http://www.osgeo.org/mapbender Mapbender] under the GNU GPL license

'''2003''' - [http://www.osgeo.org/gvSIG gvSIG] was started

'''2005''' - [http://www.osgeo.org/mapguide MapGuide Open Source]

'''2006''' - [http://www.osgeo.org/mapbender Mapbender] gets first bits in CVS

'''2006''' - [http://www.osgeo.org/openlayers OpenLayers] started

'''2007''' - [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/ILWIS] ILWIS became open source

'''2007''' - [http://www.geomoose.org GeoMoose] became open source

'''2008''' - [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] runs natively also on MS-Windows

'''2009''' - [http://trac.osgeo.org/ggl/ Boost.Geometry] accepted into [http://www.boost.org Boost C++ Libraries]

== Organizations ==

'''1992:''' "Open GRASS Foundation" (OGF, see [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/GIS-GRASS/history.html here] and [http://grass.osgeo.org/gdp/grassclippings/grassclippings93_7_2_gardels_ogc.pdf here])

'''1994:''' OGF was re-structured as the Open Geospatial Consortium ([http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/historylong OGC])

'''2006:''' Open Source Geospatial Foundation (http://www.osgeo.org) established whose mission is to support and promote the collaborative development of open geospatial technologies, data and educational material.

== See also ==

* Kenn Gardel's OGC history: http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/historylong
* [[History|OSGeo Foundation History]]
* Software projects:
** GRASS GIS History: http://grass.osgeo.org/devel/grasshist.html
** PostGIS History: http://www.refractions.net/products/postgis/history/
** JTS / GEOS History: http://lin-ear-th-inking.blogspot.com/2007/06/history-of-jts-and-geos.html
** MapServer History: http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/wiki/MapServerHistory

[[Category: History]]

GeoMoose Incubation Checklist

2012-09-24T22:46:45Z

Wiki-Blammo: /* Open */ added participation link for GeoMoose wiki page.

Incubation checklist reviewed on email list, links provided below.

* http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/geomoose-users/2012-May/004016.html

In response to this review several improvements were made by the community (see RFC section below).

== Incubation Checklist ==

=== Open ===

1. Open and public manner

License:

* http://www.geomoose.org/info/license.html <-- MIT based License

Open Meetings:

* http://www.geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/Category:Meetings
* http://geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/2012_07_26_Meeting <-- incubation discussed here
* http://geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/09_14_2012_Roadmap_Planning_Meeting

Public decision making process:

* [http://geomoose.org/trunk/rfc/rfc-1.html?highlight=rfc RFC 1: Project Steering Committee Guidelines]
* [http://geomoose.org/trunk/rfc/rfc-2.html?highlight=rfc RFC 2: GeoMOOSE Project Mission (What is GeoMOOSE)]
* [http://geomoose.org/trunk/rfc/rfc-3.html?highlight=rfc RFC 3: GeoMOOSE Release Process]

2. Active and healthy community

Community of developers and users:

* http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/GeoMOOSE-users-f4585800.html
* http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/GeoMOOSE-f5002154.html

Participation from multiple developers and organisations:

* https://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/geomoose2/trunk/AUTHORS.rst
* http://www.geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/GeoMoose_Incubation_Status

=== Copyright and License ===

1. license

* http://www.geomoose.org/info/license.html
* https://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/geomoose2/trunk/LICENSE

2. documentation license

* no explicit documentation license

3. code, documentation, and data reviewed

* http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoMoose_Provenance_Review

4. List of copyright holders

* http://www.geomoose.org/info/license.html
* https://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/geomoose2/trunk/AUTHORS.rst

5. Contribution agreement

* no code contribution agreement used (authors retain copyright?)
* http://www.geomoose.org/developer/contribute.html

=== Processes ===

1. code under configuration management

* https://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/geomoose2/trunk

2. issue tracker

* http://trac.osgeo.org/geomoose/

3. management processes

Suitable open governance policy:

* http://www.geomoose.org/rfc/rfc-1.html

public communication channel for decision making::

* http://www.geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/Category:Meetings
* see email lists above

=== Documentation ===

1. user documentation:

* [http://www.geomoose.org/getting_started.html|Getting Started]
* [http://www.geomoose.org/docs/index.html GeoMoose Documentation]

2. developers documentation:

* [http://www.geomoose.org/developer/index.html Developers Documentation]
* http://www.geomoose.org/trunk/api/

3. Release Procedure

* [http://www.geomoose.org/releases/how_to_release.html How to Release]

== OSGeo Committees and Community ==

=== Board ===

1. Project Officer: TBD

=== Marketing ===

1. Marketting details

* http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/geomoose_overview.html
* http://live.osgeo.org/en/quickstart/geomoose_quickstart.html

2. Stable release available

* http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/geomoose_overview.html
* http://www.geomoose.org/info/download.html

=== Projects ===

Integration of:

* MapServer
* OpenLayers
* Dojo Toolkit

Release procedure includes version check (Apache, Dojo, MapServer) and a release candidate window for testing. Project policy is to use stable release
of OpenLayers.

=== SAC ===

1. Link provided to geomoose website, http://geomoose.osgeo.org not used

2. SAC facilities:

* issue tracker: http://trac.osgeo.org/geomoose/
* mailing list: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geomoose-users
* subversion: https://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/geomoose2/trunk
* downloads: http://www.geomoose.org/downloads/

GeoMoose Incubation Status

2012-09-15T03:46:52Z

Wiki-Blammo: /* Code Copyright Review */

= Document Status =

'''IncCom Document Number''': X

'''Version''': 1.3

'''Status''': draft

''' See also similar documents: [http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/147 Incubation Application Ticket] and [http://geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/GeoMoose_Incubation_Status similar on GM wiki] '''

= Purpose =

The project representative and mentor will use this template to inform the IncCom of the project status on a periodic basis. The state of the project, as reported using this template, will be the initial indication that a project is reaching graduation.

= Terms and Definitions =

; IncCom : definition

= Template =

== General ==

; Has the project been approved for incubation by the OSGeo board?
: Yes, at [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2011-12-08 2011/12/08 Board Meeting]

; Has an Incubation Mentor been assigned to the project?
: Jody is our mentor

== Infrastructure Transition ==

''Note, for each of the following it isn't necessary to move to foundation infrastructure, but if you aren't a reason should be provided.''

; Has the projectname.osgeo.org domain been populated with the projects web presence?
: No. We will use that to redirect to geomoose.org our current home in the near term. However, we would like to revisit this option in the future.

; Is the OSGeo bug tracker being used for the project?
: http://trac.osgeo.org/geomoose/report/1

; Is the OSGeo mailing list manager (http://lists.osgeo.org/) being used for the project?
: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geomoose-users

; Is the OSGeo SVN being used for the project?
: http://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/

; Are binary and source downloads available from http://download.osgeo.org ?
: http://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/ AND http://geomoose.org/info/download.html

== Community Functioning ==

; Is there a functioning user support mechanisms (ie. mailing list)?
: The OSGeo hosted mailman list is the primary mechanism. It is working well. For some rough numbers, from March-November there were 828 emails so about 20ish emails a week. Most get answered promptly ending in a successful resolution. There is a pending request for a new "geomoose-psc' email list to be created for use by the GeoMoose PSC discussion.

; Are source and binary downloads for the package available?
: Yes http://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/

; Has a Project Steering Committee been formed, and given control of the project?
: Yes. Dan, Jim, Bob, Brian*, Eli, and Brent are the PSC and have control. *Brian is the chair. More information here: http://www.geomoose.org/rfc/rfc-1.html?highlight=psc

; Does the Project Steering Committee have documentation on project procedures for PSC decisions, contributor guidelines, etc.
: Yes. http://www.geomoose.org/rfc/rfc-1.html?highlight=psc

; How many active developers are there? Are they from multiple organizations?
: 6. Various organizations (Houston Engineering, SharedGeo, GeoAnalytic, Freelance, Local Government Agencies, etc)

== Foundation Membership ==

; Have project documents been updated to reflect membership in the foundation, and the relationship of the project to the foundation?
: Upon graduation from incubation GeoMoose will proudly display its affiliation with OSGeo reflected throughout the project (website, mailing list, logos, etc)

; Has an effort been made to brand the project web site with OSGeo foundation web styling and branding marks?
: Upon graduation the GeoMoose website will link to the OSGeo website from several places, display the OSGeo logo, and state that GeoMoose is a project of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). We will also submit a SAC ticket for OSGeo website updates (listing in projects). Down the road the PSC will probably discuss options to allow GeoMoose sponsorship through [http://www.osgeo.org/sponsorship/opportunities OSGeo project sponsorship]

== Code Copyright Review ==

; Has a [[Code Provenance Review]] document been prepared for the project?
: Pending

; Have issues raised in the provenance review been adequately addressed?
: Awaiting review process.

; Are [[Commiter Responsibilities Guidelines]] covering legal issues in place?
: yes/no - http://www.geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/2012_05_31_Meeting

[[Category:Incubation]]

GeoMoose Incubation Status

2012-09-15T03:38:06Z

Wiki-Blammo: /* Community Functioning */

= Document Status =

'''IncCom Document Number''': X

'''Version''': 1.3

'''Status''': draft

''' See also similar documents: [http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/147 Incubation Application Ticket] and [http://geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/GeoMoose_Incubation_Status similar on GM wiki] '''

= Purpose =

The project representative and mentor will use this template to inform the IncCom of the project status on a periodic basis. The state of the project, as reported using this template, will be the initial indication that a project is reaching graduation.

= Terms and Definitions =

; IncCom : definition

= Template =

== General ==

; Has the project been approved for incubation by the OSGeo board?
: Yes, at [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2011-12-08 2011/12/08 Board Meeting]

; Has an Incubation Mentor been assigned to the project?
: Jody is our mentor

== Infrastructure Transition ==

''Note, for each of the following it isn't necessary to move to foundation infrastructure, but if you aren't a reason should be provided.''

; Has the projectname.osgeo.org domain been populated with the projects web presence?
: No. We will use that to redirect to geomoose.org our current home in the near term. However, we would like to revisit this option in the future.

; Is the OSGeo bug tracker being used for the project?
: http://trac.osgeo.org/geomoose/report/1

; Is the OSGeo mailing list manager (http://lists.osgeo.org/) being used for the project?
: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geomoose-users

; Is the OSGeo SVN being used for the project?
: http://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/

; Are binary and source downloads available from http://download.osgeo.org ?
: http://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/ AND http://geomoose.org/info/download.html

== Community Functioning ==

; Is there a functioning user support mechanisms (ie. mailing list)?
: The OSGeo hosted mailman list is the primary mechanism. It is working well. For some rough numbers, from March-November there were 828 emails so about 20ish emails a week. Most get answered promptly ending in a successful resolution. There is a pending request for a new "geomoose-psc' email list to be created for use by the GeoMoose PSC discussion.

; Are source and binary downloads for the package available?
: Yes http://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/

; Has a Project Steering Committee been formed, and given control of the project?
: Yes. Dan, Jim, Bob, Brian*, Eli, and Brent are the PSC and have control. *Brian is the chair. More information here: http://www.geomoose.org/rfc/rfc-1.html?highlight=psc

; Does the Project Steering Committee have documentation on project procedures for PSC decisions, contributor guidelines, etc.
: Yes. http://www.geomoose.org/rfc/rfc-1.html?highlight=psc

; How many active developers are there? Are they from multiple organizations?
: 6. Various organizations (Houston Engineering, SharedGeo, GeoAnalytic, Freelance, Local Government Agencies, etc)

== Foundation Membership ==

; Have project documents been updated to reflect membership in the foundation, and the relationship of the project to the foundation?
: Upon graduation from incubation GeoMoose will proudly display its affiliation with OSGeo reflected throughout the project (website, mailing list, logos, etc)

; Has an effort been made to brand the project web site with OSGeo foundation web styling and branding marks?
: Upon graduation the GeoMoose website will link to the OSGeo website from several places, display the OSGeo logo, and state that GeoMoose is a project of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). We will also submit a SAC ticket for OSGeo website updates (listing in projects). Down the road the PSC will probably discuss options to allow GeoMoose sponsorship through [http://www.osgeo.org/sponsorship/opportunities OSGeo project sponsorship]

== Code Copyright Review ==

; Has a [[Code Provenance Review]] document been prepared for the project?
: yes/no - point to review document.

; Have issues raised in the provenance review been adequately addressed?
: indicate outstanding issues.

; Are [[Commiter Responsibilities Guidelines]] covering legal issues in place?
: yes/no - point to the guidelines and indicate if it is adopted by PSC, and accepted by all commiters.

[[Category:Incubation]]

GeoMoose Incubation Status

2012-09-15T03:32:49Z

Wiki-Blammo: /* Infrastructure Transition */

= Document Status =

'''IncCom Document Number''': X

'''Version''': 1.3

'''Status''': draft

''' See also similar documents: [http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/147 Incubation Application Ticket] and [http://geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/GeoMoose_Incubation_Status similar on GM wiki] '''

= Purpose =

The project representative and mentor will use this template to inform the IncCom of the project status on a periodic basis. The state of the project, as reported using this template, will be the initial indication that a project is reaching graduation.

= Terms and Definitions =

; IncCom : definition

= Template =

== General ==

; Has the project been approved for incubation by the OSGeo board?
: Yes, at [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2011-12-08 2011/12/08 Board Meeting]

; Has an Incubation Mentor been assigned to the project?
: Jody is our mentor

== Infrastructure Transition ==

''Note, for each of the following it isn't necessary to move to foundation infrastructure, but if you aren't a reason should be provided.''

; Has the projectname.osgeo.org domain been populated with the projects web presence?
: No. We will use that to redirect to geomoose.org our current home in the near term. However, we would like to revisit this option in the future.

; Is the OSGeo bug tracker being used for the project?
: http://trac.osgeo.org/geomoose/report/1

; Is the OSGeo mailing list manager (http://lists.osgeo.org/) being used for the project?
: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geomoose-users

; Is the OSGeo SVN being used for the project?
: http://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/

; Are binary and source downloads available from http://download.osgeo.org ?
: http://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/ AND http://geomoose.org/info/download.html

== Community Functioning ==

; Is there a functioning user support mechanisms (ie. mailing list)?
: The OSGeo hosted mailman list is the primary mechanism. It is working well. For some rough numbers, from March-November there were 828 emails so about 20ish emails a week. Most get answered promptly ending in a successful resolution. A very small number do not get answered at all.

; Are source and binary downloads for the package available?
: Yes (to the extent applicable).

; Has a Project Steering Committee been formed, and given control of the project?
: Yes. Dan, Jim, Bob, Brian*, Eli, and Brent are the PSC and have control. *Brian is the chair.

; Does the Project Steering Committee have documentation on project procedures for PSC decisions, contributor guidelines, etc.
: Yes. We have an established decision process [http://geomoose.org/rfc/rfc-1.html RFC1]
: No, we need to improve and be more explicit in our contributor guidelines.

; How many active developers are there? Are they from multiple organizations?
: ~5. Various organizations (Houston Engineering, SharedGeo, GeoAnalytic, Freelance, Local Government Agencies, etc)

== Foundation Membership ==

; Have project documents been updated to reflect membership in the foundation, and the relationship of the project to the foundation?
: Upon graduation from incubation GeoMoose will proudly display its affiliation with OSGeo reflected throughout the project (website, mailing list, logos, etc)

; Has an effort been made to brand the project web site with OSGeo foundation web styling and branding marks?
: Upon graduation the GeoMoose website will link to the OSGeo website from several places, display the OSGeo logo, and state that GeoMoose is a project of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). We will also submit a SAC ticket for OSGeo website updates (listing in projects). Down the road the PSC will probably discuss options to allow GeoMoose sponsorship through [http://www.osgeo.org/sponsorship/opportunities OSGeo project sponsorship]

== Code Copyright Review ==

; Has a [[Code Provenance Review]] document been prepared for the project?
: yes/no - point to review document.

; Have issues raised in the provenance review been adequately addressed?
: indicate outstanding issues.

; Are [[Commiter Responsibilities Guidelines]] covering legal issues in place?
: yes/no - point to the guidelines and indicate if it is adopted by PSC, and accepted by all commiters.

[[Category:Incubation]]

Incubation Committee

2011-11-28T15:21:05Z

Wiki-Blammo: /* Progress in the incubator */

The project incubation committee is responsible for overseeing the incubation process for new projects entering the foundation. The incubation committee provides resources to assist new projects to reach full membership, and makes recommendations to the board when they feel projects have completed incubation.

== Documents ==

* Official incubator web page is at: http://osgeo.org/incubator/index.html (with members list)
* Incubation process docs: http://osgeo.org/incubator/process/index.html (original [[Official_IncCom_Documents|wiki draft documents]])
* [[OSGeo Labs]] - for young, OSGeo related projects that haven't reached incubation status
* List of [[Project Steering Committees]]
* Draft [[Commiter Responsibilities Guidelines]]
* Geotools Copyright Assignment ([http://download.osgeo.org/osgeo/legal/GeotoolsAssignmentToOSGeo.pdf pdf], [http://download.osgeo.org/osgeo/legal/GeotoolsAssignmentToOSGeo.odt odt]) -suitable for use as a template by other projects
* [[Project Copyright Assignment]] (older copyright assignment - GeoTools template now preferred)
* [[Contributor Agreement]] and FAQ
* [[Incubation FAQ]] (very incomplete)
* [[Project Infrastructure Migration]]
* [http://producingoss.com/html-chunk/index.html Producing OSS] - by Karl Fogel - an excellent primer on running an FOSS project.
* [http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&component=Incubator&order=priority Open Incubator Trac Issues]
* [http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&component=Incubator&keywords=%7Eapplication&order=priority Pending Incubation Applications]
* [[Incubation Badges]]

== Meetings ==
Meetings are scheduled via [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/incubator Mailing List] and take place via [[Getting_Started#Jump_on_IRC | IRC]] at the times specified in the [[Foundation Calendar]].
* [[IncCom Meeting1|First Meeting]] - March 13th 2006
* [[IncCom Meeting2|Second Meeting]] - March 20th 2006
* [[IncCom Meeting3|Third Meeting]] - March 27th 2006
* [[IncCom Meeting4|Fourth Meeting]] - April 10th 2006
* [[IncCom Meeting5|Fifth Meeting]] - April 24th 2006
* [[IncCom Meeting6|Sixth Meeting]] - June 19th 2006
* [[IncCom Meeting7|Seventh Meeting]] - August 7th 2006
* [[IncCom Meeting8|Eighth Meeting]] - October 30th 2006
* [[IncCom Meeting9|Nineth Meeting]] - February 12th 2007
* [[IncCom Meeting10|Tenth Meeting]] - June 11th 2007
* [[IncCom Meeting11|Eleventh Meeting]] - October 29th 2007
* [[IncCom Meeting12|Twelfth Meeting]] - September 8th 2008
* [[IncCom Meeting13|Thirteenth Meeting]] - October 29th 2009
* [[IncCom Meeting14|Fourteenth Meeting]] - March 1th 2010
* [[IncCom Meeting15]] - Nov 21 2011

== Progress in the incubator ==
We are watching the initial projects go through the incubation process as a method of defining what is required. The following pages track the progress (and experience) of these projects.

* [[Project Status Template]]

# gvSIG: [[gvSIG Incubation Status]] | [[gvSIG Provenance Review]]
# GEOS: [[GEOS Incubation Status]] | [[GEOS Provenance Review]]
# MetaCRS: [[MetaCRS Incubation Status]] | [[MetaCRS Provenance Review]]
# PostGIS: [[PostGIS Incubation Status]] | [[PostGIS Provenance Review]]
# GeoServer: [[http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/OSGEO+incubation+questionnaire OSGEO incubation Status]]
# GeoMoose: [[GeoMoose Incubation Status]]

Each project may also have a page describing the Incubation process on their own community website. Please make sure to you link to the above pages and update the OSGeo Wiki page regularly so that IncCom can keep up to date.

== Graduated ==

The following status and provenance documents are for historical purposes, and are no longer actively maintained.

* Community Mapbuilder: [[Community Mapbuilder Incubation Progress]] | [[Community Mapbuilder Provenance Review]]
* FDO: [[FDO Incubation Status]] | [[FDO Provenance Review]]
* GDAL/OGR: [[GDAL Incubation Progress]] | [[GDAL Provenance Review]]
* Geomajas: [[GeoMajas Incubation Status]] | [[GeoMajas Provenance Review]]
* GeoNetwork: [[GeoNetwork Incubation Status]] | [[GeoNetwork Provenance Review]]
* Geotools: [[GeoTools Incubation Progress]] | [[GeoTools Provenance Review]]
* GRASS: [[GRASS Incubation Progress]] | [[GRASS Provenance Review]]
* Mapbender: [[Mapbender Incubation Progress]] | [[Mapbender Provenance Review]]
* MapGuide: [[MapGuide Incubation Status]] | [[MapGuide Provenance Review]]
* MapServer: [[MapServer incubation status]] | [[MapServer Provenance Review]]
* OpenLayers: [[OpenLayers Incubation Status]] | [[OpenLayers Provenance Review]]
* OSSIM: [[OSSIM incubation status]] | [http://trac.osgeo.org/ossim/wiki/ossimprovenance OSSIM Provenance Review]
* QGIS: [[QGIS Incubation Status]] | [[QGIS Provenance Review]]
* deegree: [[deegree Incubation Status]] | [[deegree Provenance Review]]
* MapFish: [[MapFish Incubation Status]] | [[MapFish Provenance Review]] (Graduated: August 2011)

[[Category:Incubation]]
[[Category:Committees]]

GeoMoose Incubation Status

2011-11-28T15:18:13Z

Wiki-Blammo: Created page with "= Document Status = '''IncCom Document Number''': X '''Version''': 1.1 '''Status''': draft = Purpose = The project representative and mentor will use this template to inform..."

= Document Status =

'''IncCom Document Number''': X

'''Version''': 1.1

'''Status''': draft

= Purpose =

The project representative and mentor will use this template to inform the IncCom of the project status on a periodic basis. The state of the project, as reported using this template, will be the initial indication that a project is reaching graduation.

= Terms and Definitions =

; IncCom : definition

= Template =

== General ==

; Has the project been approved for incubation by the OSGeo board?
: Yes / No - presumably yes.

; Has an Incubation Mentor been assigned to the project?
: Indicate assigned committee member acting as mentor.

== Infrastructure Transition ==

''Note, for each of the following it isn't necessary to move to foundation infrastructure, but if you aren't a reason should be provided.''

; Has the projectname.osgeo.org domain been populated with the projects web presence?
: If not why, and has the project page got a prominent link to the real home?

; Is the OSGeo bug tracker being used for the project?
: If not, why?

; Is the OSGeo mailing list manager (http://lists.osgeo.org/) being used for the project?
: If not, why?

; Is the OSGeo SVN being used for the project?
: If not, why?

; Are binary and source downloads available from http://download.osgeo.org ?
: If not, why?

== Community Functioning ==

; Is there a functioning user support mechanisms (ie. mailing list)?
: indicate the available user support mechanisms, and whether they seem to be functioning well (are getting used and get answers).

; Are source and binary downloads for the package available?
: yes/no (and any caveats)

; Has a Project Steering Committee been formed, and given control of the project?
: yes/no, indicate members and whether it has effective control.

; Does the Project Steering Committee have documentation on project procedures for PSC decisions, contributor guidelines, etc.
: yes/no - provide pointers to various related documents.

; How many active developers are there? Are they from multiple organizations?
: Indicate number and some organizations involved.

== Foundation Membership ==

; Have project documents been updated to reflect membership in the foundation, and the relationship of the project to the foundation?
: If not, indicate when this will occur.

; Has an effort been made to brand the project web site with OSGeo foundation web styling and branding marks?
: If not, indicate what is planned. (''note: currently an OSGeo web style has not bee established'')

== Code Copyright Review ==

; Has a [[Code Provenance Review]] document been prepared for the project?
: yes/no - point to review document.

; Have issues raised in the provenance review been adequately addressed?
: indicate outstanding issues.

; Are [[Commiter Responsibilities Guidelines]] covering legal issues in place?
: yes/no - point to the guidelines and indicate if it is adopted by PSC, and accepted by all commiters.

[[Category:Incubation]]

FOSS4G 2011 Breakout Sessions

2011-09-10T17:42:29Z

Wiki-Blammo: /* GeoMoose */

= 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 ==

*Scheduling:
**5:30 - 6:30, With get together afterwards. Any suggestions for a location for Drinks afterwards?
*Proposed Topics
**Overview
**GeoMoose 2.6
**Ideas for CodeSprint.
**Talk up your successes with GeoMoose.
**Meet developers and learn how you can help.
*Attending:
**Bob Basques (City of Saint Paul, MN.)
**Dan Little (GeoMoose)
**Jim Klassen (SharedGeo)
**Brian Fischer (Houston Engineering)
**[[User:EliL|Eli Adam (Lincoln County, Oregon)]]
**Steve Swazee (MnGeo Emergency Preparedness Committee)

== 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)]]
**Brian Fischer (Houston Engineering)

== 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)]]
**[[User:Assefa|Yewondwossen Assefa (DM Solutions)]]

== 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)
**[[User:jlhgis|Julia Harrell (NC DENR)]]
**Jachym Cepicky

== 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)
**Karel Charvat (CCSS)

== 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)
**Karel Charvat (CCSS)

== 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)
**[[User:Mloskot|Mateusz Loskot (Cadcorp)]]
**[[User:Assefa|Yewondwossen Assefa (DM Solutions)]]
**Karel Charvat (CCSS)

== 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)]]
**[[User:dnewcomb|Doug Newcomb (USFWS)]] ( I will not be available for much of Wed. Evening)
**[[User:jlhgis|Julia Harrell (NC DENR)]]

== Web Processing Services (WPS) ==

*Scheduling: 5:30-6:30

*Proposed topics:
** Web Processing Services Ideas exchange and get-together
** WPS 2.0 status and community input
** Meet and Greet

*Attending:
** Bastian Schäffer (52North)
** Benjamin Pross (52North)
** Jachym Cepicky

== Add yours below ==

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

FOSS4G 2011 Breakout Sessions

2011-09-02T17:51:31Z

Wiki-Blammo: /* Proposed Topics */

FOSS4G 2011 Workshop Installed Software

2011-08-15T21:15:25Z

Wiki-Blammo:

This page describes the software installed on the Master machine to be used for workshops. Uploaded files exist on the machine at ''C:\workshop-uploads\''

== Base Software ==

- Windows XP Service Pack 3

- Firefox 5.0.1

- Firebug 1.8.1

- Internet Explorer 8

- Filezilla 3.5.0

- Notepad++ 5.9

- Adobe Reader 10.1.0

- Textpad 5.4.2

- 7-zip 9.20

- OpenOffice 3.3.0

- VirtualBox 4.1.0

- Google Chrome 13.0.782.112

- Java JDK 1.7.0

== w01 ==

- VirtualBox 4.1 Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack

== w02 ==

- OSGeo4W (Desktop install)

== w03 ==

- installed visual studio 2010 c# express

== w04 ==

- VirtualBox with the OSGEOLive VM installed.

== w07 ==

- created VirtualBox machine with 'mapfish_workshop.vdi'

== w08 ==

- Google Earth 6.0.3

== w09 ==

- ''''Geomajas_Workshop_2011.vbox' crashes when loading with VirtualBox 4.1.0'''

== w10 ==

- OpenGeo Suite Enterprise Edition 2.4.3

== w11 ==

- Using a live DVD - nothing to install

== w12 ==

using open office and a virtual box - nothing to be done

== w13 ==

- shortcut to Notepad2 on desktop

- gx_workshop folder installed

== w14 ==

- Created a nodejs and polymaps vbox image (COMPLETE)

== w15 ==

- MS4W (MapServer 6.2-dev, Apache 2.2.19)

== w16 ==

- QGIS 1.7.0

- North Carolina, South Dakota, and Alaska datasets loaded for QGIS 1.7.0

- ColorPic 4.1

- XML Copy Editor 1.2.0.6

- Inkscape-0.48.1-2

- PixelWindow

== w17 ==

-- '''' EMAIL THE PRESENTER ABOUT NEEDING A VM or links to qt-designer and openlayers plugin for qgis''''

== w18 ==

- created new VirtualBox machine with 'qgis-foss4g11-1004.vdi'

== w19 ==

- imported 'mapnik-foss4g-2011v2.ova' into VirtualBox

== w20 ==

- using the opengeo suite nothing to be done

== w21 ==

- created VirtualBox machine with 'osgeo-live-vm-i2maps.vmdk'

== w23 ==

- workshop materials available at: C:\workshop-uploads\w23\data\GeoNode-Workshop-Materials\

== w24 ==

- installed Putty on the desktop as per Sophia's request (COMPLETE)

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

Case Studies

2011-01-27T20:19:44Z

Wiki-Blammo: /* Web Client Comparison */

''This page lists Case Studies of projects that include Geospatial Open Source components.''

=Case Studies=

==OSGeo Journal==
'''The [http://www.osgeo.org/journal OSGeo Journal] includes many international Case Studies and introductions to OSGeo software.'''
* List of all article titles in the journal [http://www.osgeo.org/ojs/index.php/journal/search/titles here]

==Evaluation of FOSS4G software projects==
[http://www.cascadoss.eu/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9&Itemid=11/ CASCADOSS results on the evaluation marketing, technical and economical aspects of FOSS4G software projects. ]. The CASCADOSS project evaluated 51 of inventoried 98 FOSS4G software projects from 5 categories: desktop GIS/RS applications, server applications, spatial databases, development libraries and general interest projects.
The CASCADOSS website provides an [http://www.cascadoss.eu/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17&Itemid=17/ open framework for custom evaluations], allowing comparisons between projects to find best solution. The issues related to change from proprietary to OS GI software is also addressed.

==Web Clients==

== Web Client Comparison ==
Table of cross project features.
* May 2010, [http://geotux.tuxfamily.org/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=comparaci%F3n-de-clientes-web-para-sig-v.4.html&Itemid=59&lang=en Web Map Client comparison (V4)]
* November 2009, [http://geotux.tuxfamily.org/index.php?option=com_myblog&task=view&id=239&Itemid=59&lang=en Web Map Client comparison (V3)]

=== OpenLayers ===
* [http://docs.openlayers.org/casestudies/ OpenLayers Case Studies]. A collection of OpenLayers studies maintained by the OpenLayers community.
* President Obama's "Delivering On Change" website uses OpenLayers and OpenStreetMaps. http://www.whitehouse.gov/change/

* [http://www.terragis.net/2008/11/24/obama-campaign-mapping-voters-with-mapserver-postgis-and-openlayers/ Obama Campaign - Mapping voters with Mapserver, PostGIS and Openlayers]

=== Mapbender ===
* The Mapbender community maintains the [http://www.mapbender.org/Gallery Mapbender Gallery] with a list of solutions for specific domains ranging from city map services through specific applications to full scale geoportal implementations.

=== GeoMoose ===
* The GeoMoose project maintainers host a gallery of [http://www.geomoose.org/ GeoMoose] with an installation [http://www.geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/GeoMOOSE_Gallery Gallery List] of links to operating GeoMoose sites.

==Desktop Clients==

===Review of Open Source Desktop Clients===
* ''April 2008'' http://www.spatialserver.net/osgis/ - A comprehensive feature by feature comparison of all the Open Source desktop clients.
* Municipality of Trento ([http://www.comune.tn.it/ Comune di Trento]), Italy, migration (2005-today): especially improvements in [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] are financed: new digitizer tool and better high quality cartographic output.
* 2010: "[http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Albk_XRkhVkzdGxyYk8tNEZvLUp1UTUzTFN5bjlLX2c&hl=en Matrix on OSGeo and COTS software functionality]"

===Compare ArcGIS against Open Source GIS Desktop===

''September 2009'' http://gothos.info/resource_files/fpd_libhitech_foss_gis_march2010.pdf

Compares ArcGIS against GRASS, QGIS, uDig, gvSIG,OpenJUMP, and MapWindow for the Library domain.

: "Each of the individual FOSS GIS packages had their own particular strengths and weaknesses and some performed well for thematic mapping. The FOSS packages generally were weaker compared to ArcGIS in terms of support for various projection and coordinate systems, joining attribute data to GIS files, and automatic labeling, but their advantage is that they were free in terms of cost and licensing restrictions. When coupled with plug-ins and helper applications the viability of the FOSS GIS packages increased."

===Email threads discussing merits and disadvantages of OSGeo Desktop===

'''18 April 2008: [http://lists.burri.to/pipermail/geowanking/2008-April/thread.html Geowanking: ArcView 3.1 replacement]'''

"[Oxford Archaeology] are looking at gvsig and qgis as the main options [for ArcGIS], gvsig because it can use cad data, and qgis because we like the grass integration and it's slightly more user-friendly for english speakers (the translated version of gvsig still has some spanish bits in it). With slight changes to our work-flows, we are finding that these two packages will do almost everything we need a gis to do, with the exception of producing high-quality illustrations. To achieve this we are currently looking at export to svg or postscript for final editing in inkscape, but that's a work in progress."

'''24 April 2008: [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2008-April/thread.html OSGeo-Discuss: Can I do the same GIS tasks with OS (as with ESRI)?]'''

This email thread provides numerous opinions for and against using Open Source Geospatial Software.

[http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2008-April/003458.html Paul Ramsey notes there is not a direct Open Source replacement for Arc View]:

''I think it's contingent on us as evangelizers to not over-sell. I
would not recommend QGIS or any other open source desktop to someone
whose prior experience was Arc* until I had a clear understanding of
the use case. In response to the query "can I replace ArcView with
open source", my answer is "in general, no, but maybe for a specific
use case".''

[http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2008-April/003453.html John Callahan provides a good summary]:

''I've been an ESRI user (AV 3.x, ArcGIS 8/9, ArcIMS, ArcGIS Server, ArcSDE) for 12+ years and have recently started exploring FOSS software. And I haven't disagreed with any of the responses so far. You will definitely need multiple programs to do what a single ESRI program can do. IMO, this is a good thing. One of the main reasons for my migration is I'm tired of running large, complicated, expensive software and all the extra baggage that comes with it to use only 10% of what the software can do. (see ArcGIS Server.)''

''You can do all the analysis and more of ArcGIS Desktop and extensions using GRASS, QGIS, SAGA, GeoTools, GDAL/OGR, PROJ4, or R Statistics along with a programming language like Python, Java or others. (IMO, this is a better solution than ESRI.) You can do just about anything you want on the web server end with MapServer, GeoServer, FeatureServer (and maybe TileCache or GeoNetwork for metadata) with any of a dozen or more clients (OpenLayers, ka-Map, MapGuide etc...). And you can do a lot of database work with Postgres/PostGIS, a much simpler, less costly solution than ArcSDE+RDBMS. And I wouldn't count out the role of free, non-open source packages like Google products and Oracle Express (11g should have Spatial included.)''

''From my experience (limited in the FOSS world), I have found three basic hurdles:
# ''Cartography. Whether on the screen, PDF outputs, or print publications, ArcMap is easy and looks great. (Although R Statistics produces better looking charts and graphs than ArcGIS.)''
# ''Versioned editing. This is important for groups with multiple concurrent editors or that has a particular hierarchical workflow with their GIS data.''
# ''Storage and serving of very large (50+ GB) raster datasets. PostGIS does not support rasters yet; Oracle Spatial does though. I'm still not sure if storing rasters in a database is a good idea but ArcSDE sure makes it easy, and with good performance when used in conjunction with other ESRI products.''

Current work addressing Open Source holes include:
* [http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/WxPython-based_GUI_for_GRASS#Digitizer Improving GRASS/qgis tools].
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Cartographic_Library Design plans for improving open source Cartographic Mapping].

=== GRASS ===

==== GRASS64 with ArcGIS93 in education at North Carolina State University ====
''December 2009, [http://courses.ncsu.edu/mea582/lec/001/GIS_anal_assign/GIS_Anal_Assignall.html Assignments for a course on Geospatial Modeling and Analysis with instructions for both GRASS and ArcGIS, including test datasets]''
==== GRASS vs SAGA ====
''September 2009, [http://www.igc.usp.br/pessoais/guano/downloads/Hengl_etal_2009_gmorph.pdf SAGA vs GRASS: A Comparative Analysis of the Two Open Source Desktop GIS for the Automated Analysis of Elevation Data]''

==== ARCGIS 9.0 vs GRASS 6.0 ====
''August 2005, [http://www.toddbuchanan.net/thesis_ver.pdf Comparison of ARCGIS 9.0 and GRASS 6.0]''

Todd Buchanan's master thesis compared ArcGIS 9.0 and GRASS 6.0 for a use case: "Characterization of Urban Sprawl for Eugene-Springfield, Oregon". He took detailed notes using both and found "ArcGIS is more straightforward than GRASS. However, GRASS proved itself fully capable of performing the operations required by the case study and outperformed ArcGIS in several categories."

Note: GRASS is even better now and has been integrated with the user friendly qgis since this study.

=== uDig Case Studies ===

http://udig.refractions.net/gallery/
Collection of uDig case studies put together by Refractions.

=== QGIS Case Studies ===

http://qgis.org/en/community/qgis-case-studies.html
Collection of QGIS case studies.

==Web Services==

===[http://www.foss4g2007.org/presentations/view.php?abstract_id=101 Army Corps of Engineers Wetlands Regulatory program]===
''25 September 2007. Powerpoint presentation from FOSS4G Conference''

The Army Corps successfully integrated a Proprietary Oracle Database, ARC SDE and Analysis tools, with Open Source WMS and WFS services, and free viewers like Google Earth and Google Maps.

=== [http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/07/07/earthshaking-use-open-source An earthshaking use of open source] ===

Use of MapServer, Ingres and GMT among other tools by the BGR (a German institute responsible for the monitoring of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty).

=== [http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/gallery GeoServer Gallery] ===

Gallery of GeoServer installations with the occasional showcase of interesting technology or integration.

=== [http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/wiki/MapServerSites Map Server Sites] ===

Let's use this page to list sites that use MapServer, until a formal gallery is developed.

=== [http://deegree.org/deegree/portal/media-type/html/user/anon/page/default.psml/js_pane/gallery deegree Gallery] ===

Gallery of spatial data infrastructures based on deegree web services and clients.

==Databases==
===PostGIS Case Studies===
A collection of PostGIS Case Studies collected by Refractions. http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation/casestudies/

===PostGIS versus MySQL Spatial===
June 2009

In speed, PostGIS wins but not by orders of magnitude. The amount of functionality in MySQL Spatial remains very very small. You can do simple store-and-retrieve operations. Many of the spatial operations that are standard in full spatial databases don’t exist or are (confusingly, as some users have commented) stubbed out against bounding box tests instead.
http://docs.opengeo.org/geospiel/2009/06/16/postgis-versus-mysql-spatial/

==Complete Infrastructure==

=== Open Source in Cadastre and Land Registration ===
''April 2010''

[http://www.fig.net/pub/fao/floss_cadastre.pdf FLOSS in Cadastre and Land Registration - Opportunities and Risks]
Compiled by The International Federation of Surveyors (FIG) in conjunction with the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO).

The publication provides an overview of open-source software applicable to cadastre and land registration, as well as practical case studies from countries using Open Source in this area.

===[http://www.gvsig.gva.es/index.php?id=gvpontis&L=2 Valencian Regional Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport]===
''in Spanish''
''(view [http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?hl=en&langpair=es%7Cen&u=http://www.gvsig.gva.es/index.php%3Fid%3Dgvpontis%26L%3D2 English translation] by Google)''

Valencian Regional Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport is under a project of migrating "all" systems to open-source software. As a matter of fact, that was the reason to build [http://www.gvsig.gva.es/index.php?id=gvsig0&L=2 gvSIG]. All geospatial infrastructure (previously with ESRI) has been moved to open source (gvSIG, PostGIS, MapServer, deegree, GeoNetwork opensource).

There is a [http://www.gvpontis.gva.es/fileadmin/conselleria/images/Documentacion/memoria/gvpontis_ingles.pdf final report] (PDF in English) of the gvPontis project.

===[http://www.orzancongres.com/administracion/upload/imgPrograma/N-004.pdf Hydrographic Confederation of Guadalquivir River, Spain]===
''in Spanish''
''(view [http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2F209.85.173.104%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dcache%3ACTDxwL0ZUqoJ%3Awww.orzancongres.com%2Fadministracion%2Fupload%2FimgPrograma%2FN-004.pdf%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26cd%3D1%26gl%3Dau%26client%3Dfirefox-a&langpair=es%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF8 English translation] by Google)''

A migration of a big part of ESRI components to open-source has been made, with use of gvSIG, GeoNetwork opensource, MapServer, GeoServer, deegree.

===ROI from Geospatial Open Standards, study by NASA===
''April 2005''

National Aeronautics and Space Administration Geospatial Interoperability Office studied the Return On Investment from using Geospatial Open Standards. The study showed
"There is a significant improvement in functionality and mitigation of cost when using open as opposed to proprietary standards. The project that implemented geospatial interoperability standards had a risk-adjusted ROI, or "Savings to Investment" ratio, of 119.0 percent throughout the five-year project life cycle."

* [http://www.gpsworld.com/gis/management-and-processes/the-roi-geosciences-interoperability-standards-4684 Summary of Findings]
* [http://www.galdosinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/NASA_GI_ROI.pdf Copy of Report] (Original URL has suffered link rot)

===Predicted ROI for Australian Government to investment in a SDI===
''October 2007''

ACIL Tasman study reports a 10 to 20 times ROI should the Australian government invest in a Spatial Data Infrastructure.
* [http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=2608&trv=1 Article]
* [http://www.asiba.com.au/clients/asiba/UserFiles/File/Media%20Releases/Press%20Release301007.pdf Media Release]

===Predicted ROI for New Zealand Government to investment in a SDI===

''August 2009 ACIL Tasman, [http://www.geospatial.govt.nz/productivityreport/#_ftn1 Spatial Information in the New Zealand Economy]''

"... open source solutions are increasingly used in
implementations of SDIs and the New Zealand Government should
thoroughly explore how open source solutions can be employed because of the
potential advantages in cost and replicability."

=Open Data=
==Open Data Licensing in Australian Government==
''2008. [http://www.walis.wa.gov.au/projects_and_activities/assets/crc-si-qld-gilf-presentation-perth.ppt/view Government Information Licensing Framework]''

80% of Queensland, Australian government data can be opened up under Creative Commons, and the remaining data is planned to be released under an extensions to the Creative Common license.

==Open Data for Victorian state Government, Australia==
''June 2009 [http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/edic/inquiries/access_to_PSI/PSI_Inquiry_Media_Release.pdf Recommendation to free Public Sector Information].''

The Victorian Parliament’s Economic Development and Infrastructure Committee (“EDIC”) recommends the freeing of access to Public Sector Information at no or marginal cost.

==South Africa==
===[http://www.acts.co.za/prom_of_access_to_info/index.htm Promotion of Access to Information Act]===
"To give effect to the constitutional right of access to any information held by the State and any information that is held by another person and that is required for the exercise or protection of any rights; and to provide for matters connected therewith."
===[http://www.gissa.org.za/activities/government/sdi-act Spatial Data Infrastructure Act]===
"To establish the South African Spatial Data Infrastructure, the Committee for Spatial Information and an electronic metadata catalogue; to provide for the determination of standards and prescriptions with regard to the facilitation of the sharing of spatial information; to provide for the capture and publishing of metadata and the avoidance of duplication of such capture; and to provide for matters connected therewith."

=Open Source Policies=
These documents provide compelling reasons for selecting Open Source and Open Standards.

==European Union==

''June 2010, [http://www.osor.eu/studies/expert-guidance/guideline-for-public-administrations-on-procurement-and-open-source-software-2010 EU Guidelines for Public Administrations purchasing software]''

This guide describes in business terms, the importance of using Open Standards in order to adhere to EU purchasing criteria of fair competition, transparency, and long term value for money.

* Summarised highlights: http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com/2010/10/eu-guidelines-for-public.html
* The full guide: http://www.osor.eu/studies/expert-guidance/guideline-for-public-administrations-on-procurement-and-open-source-software-2010

==Australia==
''April 2005, [http://www.finance.gov.au/publications/guide-to-open-source-software/index.html Guide to Open Source Software for Australian Government Agencies]''

''It can offer original solutions to problems not addressed by proprietary software and it has the potential to lead to significant savings in Government expenditure on information and communications technology (ICT).''

==New Zealand ==
''13 March 2008, [http://research.elabs.govt.nz/2008/03/13/ministry-of-justice-open-source-adoption-paper/ Ministry of Justice Open Source Strategy Paper]''

Proposes when Open Source should be used over Proprietary software, and concludes that Open Source better than Proprietary, all other things being equal.

==South Africa==
The South African Government through its Open Source Project Office and the State IT Agency (SITA) is active with open source and interoperability policy development and implementation.

Browse and download most of the important documents '''[http://www.gissa.org.za/special-interest-groups/open-source/folder_contents HERE]'''.

The South African FOSS Policy which was approved in 2007 urges government to implement FOSS:
*'''Choose FOSS''': The South African government will implement FOSS unless proprietary software proves to be significantly superior. Whenever the advantages of FOSS and proprietary software are comparable FOSS will be implemented when choosing a software solution for a new project. Whenever FOSS is not implemented, then reasons must be provided to justify implementing proprietary software.
*'''Use FOSS/Open Content Licensing''': The South African government will ensure all government content and content developed using government resources is made Open Content, unless analysis on specific content shows that proprietary licensing or confidentiality is substantially beneficial.
*'''Develop in FOSS''': All new software developed for or by the South African government will be based on open standards, adherent to FOSS principles, and be licensed using a FOSS license where possible.
*'''Migrate to FOSS''': The South African government will migrate current proprietary software to FOSS whenever comparable software exists.
*'''Promote FOSS in South Africa''': The South African government will encourage the use of Open Content and Open Standards within South Africa. They will encourage the use of Open Content and Open Standards.

For more recent and additional content visit these sites:
*[http://www.oss.gov.za/ SA Government Open Source Project Office]
*[http://www.sita.co.za/FOSS/FOSS1.html SITA FOSS Office]

==United Kingdom==
February 2009, ''[http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/media/318020/open_source.pdf Government Policy on Open Source, Open Standards and Re–Use]''

Summarised highlights from the policy:
* Government procurement will fairly consider open source solutions alongside proprietary ones and will take into account total cost of ownership, including exit and transition costs.
* The Government will, wherever possible, avoid becoming locked in to proprietary software.
*The Government will require solutions to comply with open standards.
* Where appropriate, general purpose software developed for government will be released on an open source basis.

==US Department of Defense==
''October 2009, [http://www.defenselink.mil/cio-nii/sites/oss/ Guidance regarding Open Source Software]].'' and a [http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/10/defense-department-releases-op.html news report].

==US Navy==
''April 2006, [http://web.archive.org/web/20070324082448/http://www.acq.osd.mil/jctd/articles/OTDRoadmapFinal.pdf US Navy Open Technology Development Roadmap Plan].''

Describes how the US Navy will migrate to Open Technology Development when purchasing and building software.

Open Technology Development combines salient advances in the following areas:
* Open Standards and Interfaces
* Open Source Software and Designs
* Collaborative/Distributive culture and the and online support tools
* Technological Agility

Also, a much shorter news article on the same topic from March 2008. [http://www.fcw.com/online/news/151858-1.html The Navy will acquire only systems based on open technologies and standards].

The Original Paper was stored [http://www.acq.osd.mil/jctd/articles/OTDRoadmapFinal.pdf here].

== Open Source Software Economics ==
''April 2007, [http://techblog.terrapages.com/2007/05/economic-motivation-of-open-source.html
The Economic Motivation of Open Source Software: Stakeholder Perspectives]''

Dirk Riehle. "The Economic Motivation of Open Source Software: Stakeholder Perspectives." IEEE Computer, vol. 40, no. 4 (April 2007). Page 25-32.

=Why write a Case Study?=
A case study discusses how a specific situation was identified, which solutions were investigated and selected, and a summary of the results.

Solution architects use relevant case studies to support a solution they are building.

Writing a case study about your project gives others the confidence to follow in your footsteps which in turn increases investment in your tools of choice. Publishing your experience gives '''positive feedback''' to those involved in your project, reinforcing your success, encouraging colleagues to take on additional challenges, allowing the project to continue to grow.

We would like to see case studies which cover a range of use cases, especially from organizations with a low risk tolerance. Many organizations approach Open Source in little steps gradually integrating it with existing infrastructure and find targeted small case studies valuable.

=What to write?=

One to three pages is good, with a graphic per page.

The case study should cover:
* Date
* Problem
* Evaluations
* Implementation, including integration with other infrastructure
* Problems faced and how they were overcome
* Return on Investment
* Future plans
* Who else might benefit from your experience

More hints found by googling: [http://www.klariti.com/business-writing/How-To-Write-Case-Study.shtml How to write a Case Study]

=How to publish?=
Consider submitting an article to the [http://www.osgeo.org/journal OSGeo Journal].
Here are the basic [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Journal_License_and_Guidelines guidelines] for authors.

[[Category:Advocacy]]

Case Studies

2011-01-27T19:53:07Z

Wiki-Blammo: /* Web Client Comparison */

''This page lists Case Studies of projects that include Geospatial Open Source components.''

=Case Studies=

==OSGeo Journal==
'''The [http://www.osgeo.org/journal OSGeo Journal] includes many international Case Studies and introductions to OSGeo software.'''
* List of all article titles in the journal [http://www.osgeo.org/ojs/index.php/journal/search/titles here]

==Evaluation of FOSS4G software projects==
[http://www.cascadoss.eu/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9&Itemid=11/ CASCADOSS results on the evaluation marketing, technical and economical aspects of FOSS4G software projects. ]. The CASCADOSS project evaluated 51 of inventoried 98 FOSS4G software projects from 5 categories: desktop GIS/RS applications, server applications, spatial databases, development libraries and general interest projects.
The CASCADOSS website provides an [http://www.cascadoss.eu/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17&Itemid=17/ open framework for custom evaluations], allowing comparisons between projects to find best solution. The issues related to change from proprietary to OS GI software is also addressed.

==Web Clients==

== Web Client Comparison ==
* November 2009, Web Map Client comparison, http://geotux.tuxfamily.org/index.php?option=com_myblog&task=view&id=239&Itemid=59&lang=en
Table of cross project feature table.

=== OpenLayers ===
* [http://docs.openlayers.org/casestudies/ OpenLayers Case Studies]. A collection of OpenLayers studies maintained by the OpenLayers community.
* President Obama's "Delivering On Change" website uses OpenLayers and OpenStreetMaps. http://www.whitehouse.gov/change/

* [http://www.terragis.net/2008/11/24/obama-campaign-mapping-voters-with-mapserver-postgis-and-openlayers/ Obama Campaign - Mapping voters with Mapserver, PostGIS and Openlayers]

=== Mapbender ===
* The Mapbender community maintains the [http://www.mapbender.org/Gallery Mapbender Gallery] with a list of solutions for specific domains ranging from city map services through specific applications to full scale geoportal implementations.

=== GeoMoose ===
* The GeoMoose project maintainers host a gallery of [http://www.geomoose.org/ GeoMoose] with an installation [http://www.geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/GeoMOOSE_Gallery Gallery List] of links to operating GeoMoose sites.

==Desktop Clients==

===Review of Open Source Desktop Clients===
* ''April 2008'' http://www.spatialserver.net/osgis/ - A comprehensive feature by feature comparison of all the Open Source desktop clients.
* Municipality of Trento ([http://www.comune.tn.it/ Comune di Trento]), Italy, migration (2005-today): especially improvements in [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] are financed: new digitizer tool and better high quality cartographic output.
* 2010: "[http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Albk_XRkhVkzdGxyYk8tNEZvLUp1UTUzTFN5bjlLX2c&hl=en Matrix on OSGeo and COTS software functionality]"

===Compare ArcGIS against Open Source GIS Desktop===

''September 2009'' http://gothos.info/resource_files/fpd_libhitech_foss_gis_march2010.pdf

Compares ArcGIS against GRASS, QGIS, uDig, gvSIG,OpenJUMP, and MapWindow for the Library domain.

: "Each of the individual FOSS GIS packages had their own particular strengths and weaknesses and some performed well for thematic mapping. The FOSS packages generally were weaker compared to ArcGIS in terms of support for various projection and coordinate systems, joining attribute data to GIS files, and automatic labeling, but their advantage is that they were free in terms of cost and licensing restrictions. When coupled with plug-ins and helper applications the viability of the FOSS GIS packages increased."

===Email threads discussing merits and disadvantages of OSGeo Desktop===

'''18 April 2008: [http://lists.burri.to/pipermail/geowanking/2008-April/thread.html Geowanking: ArcView 3.1 replacement]'''

"[Oxford Archaeology] are looking at gvsig and qgis as the main options [for ArcGIS], gvsig because it can use cad data, and qgis because we like the grass integration and it's slightly more user-friendly for english speakers (the translated version of gvsig still has some spanish bits in it). With slight changes to our work-flows, we are finding that these two packages will do almost everything we need a gis to do, with the exception of producing high-quality illustrations. To achieve this we are currently looking at export to svg or postscript for final editing in inkscape, but that's a work in progress."

'''24 April 2008: [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2008-April/thread.html OSGeo-Discuss: Can I do the same GIS tasks with OS (as with ESRI)?]'''

This email thread provides numerous opinions for and against using Open Source Geospatial Software.

[http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2008-April/003458.html Paul Ramsey notes there is not a direct Open Source replacement for Arc View]:

''I think it's contingent on us as evangelizers to not over-sell. I
would not recommend QGIS or any other open source desktop to someone
whose prior experience was Arc* until I had a clear understanding of
the use case. In response to the query "can I replace ArcView with
open source", my answer is "in general, no, but maybe for a specific
use case".''

[http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2008-April/003453.html John Callahan provides a good summary]:

''I've been an ESRI user (AV 3.x, ArcGIS 8/9, ArcIMS, ArcGIS Server, ArcSDE) for 12+ years and have recently started exploring FOSS software. And I haven't disagreed with any of the responses so far. You will definitely need multiple programs to do what a single ESRI program can do. IMO, this is a good thing. One of the main reasons for my migration is I'm tired of running large, complicated, expensive software and all the extra baggage that comes with it to use only 10% of what the software can do. (see ArcGIS Server.)''

''You can do all the analysis and more of ArcGIS Desktop and extensions using GRASS, QGIS, SAGA, GeoTools, GDAL/OGR, PROJ4, or R Statistics along with a programming language like Python, Java or others. (IMO, this is a better solution than ESRI.) You can do just about anything you want on the web server end with MapServer, GeoServer, FeatureServer (and maybe TileCache or GeoNetwork for metadata) with any of a dozen or more clients (OpenLayers, ka-Map, MapGuide etc...). And you can do a lot of database work with Postgres/PostGIS, a much simpler, less costly solution than ArcSDE+RDBMS. And I wouldn't count out the role of free, non-open source packages like Google products and Oracle Express (11g should have Spatial included.)''

''From my experience (limited in the FOSS world), I have found three basic hurdles:
# ''Cartography. Whether on the screen, PDF outputs, or print publications, ArcMap is easy and looks great. (Although R Statistics produces better looking charts and graphs than ArcGIS.)''
# ''Versioned editing. This is important for groups with multiple concurrent editors or that has a particular hierarchical workflow with their GIS data.''
# ''Storage and serving of very large (50+ GB) raster datasets. PostGIS does not support rasters yet; Oracle Spatial does though. I'm still not sure if storing rasters in a database is a good idea but ArcSDE sure makes it easy, and with good performance when used in conjunction with other ESRI products.''

Current work addressing Open Source holes include:
* [http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/WxPython-based_GUI_for_GRASS#Digitizer Improving GRASS/qgis tools].
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Cartographic_Library Design plans for improving open source Cartographic Mapping].

=== GRASS ===

==== GRASS64 with ArcGIS93 in education at North Carolina State University ====
''December 2009, [http://courses.ncsu.edu/mea582/lec/001/GIS_anal_assign/GIS_Anal_Assignall.html Assignments for a course on Geospatial Modeling and Analysis with instructions for both GRASS and ArcGIS, including test datasets]''
==== GRASS vs SAGA ====
''September 2009, [http://www.igc.usp.br/pessoais/guano/downloads/Hengl_etal_2009_gmorph.pdf SAGA vs GRASS: A Comparative Analysis of the Two Open Source Desktop GIS for the Automated Analysis of Elevation Data]''

==== ARCGIS 9.0 vs GRASS 6.0 ====
''August 2005, [http://www.toddbuchanan.net/thesis_ver.pdf Comparison of ARCGIS 9.0 and GRASS 6.0]''

Todd Buchanan's master thesis compared ArcGIS 9.0 and GRASS 6.0 for a use case: "Characterization of Urban Sprawl for Eugene-Springfield, Oregon". He took detailed notes using both and found "ArcGIS is more straightforward than GRASS. However, GRASS proved itself fully capable of performing the operations required by the case study and outperformed ArcGIS in several categories."

Note: GRASS is even better now and has been integrated with the user friendly qgis since this study.

=== uDig Case Studies ===

http://udig.refractions.net/gallery/
Collection of uDig case studies put together by Refractions.

=== QGIS Case Studies ===

http://qgis.org/en/community/qgis-case-studies.html
Collection of QGIS case studies.

==Web Services==

===[http://www.foss4g2007.org/presentations/view.php?abstract_id=101 Army Corps of Engineers Wetlands Regulatory program]===
''25 September 2007. Powerpoint presentation from FOSS4G Conference''

The Army Corps successfully integrated a Proprietary Oracle Database, ARC SDE and Analysis tools, with Open Source WMS and WFS services, and free viewers like Google Earth and Google Maps.

=== [http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/07/07/earthshaking-use-open-source An earthshaking use of open source] ===

Use of MapServer, Ingres and GMT among other tools by the BGR (a German institute responsible for the monitoring of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty).

=== [http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/gallery GeoServer Gallery] ===

Gallery of GeoServer installations with the occasional showcase of interesting technology or integration.

=== [http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/wiki/MapServerSites Map Server Sites] ===

Let's use this page to list sites that use MapServer, until a formal gallery is developed.

=== [http://deegree.org/deegree/portal/media-type/html/user/anon/page/default.psml/js_pane/gallery deegree Gallery] ===

Gallery of spatial data infrastructures based on deegree web services and clients.

==Databases==
===PostGIS Case Studies===
A collection of PostGIS Case Studies collected by Refractions. http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation/casestudies/

===PostGIS versus MySQL Spatial===
June 2009

In speed, PostGIS wins but not by orders of magnitude. The amount of functionality in MySQL Spatial remains very very small. You can do simple store-and-retrieve operations. Many of the spatial operations that are standard in full spatial databases don’t exist or are (confusingly, as some users have commented) stubbed out against bounding box tests instead.
http://docs.opengeo.org/geospiel/2009/06/16/postgis-versus-mysql-spatial/

==Complete Infrastructure==

=== Open Source in Cadastre and Land Registration ===
''April 2010''

[http://www.fig.net/pub/fao/floss_cadastre.pdf FLOSS in Cadastre and Land Registration - Opportunities and Risks]
Compiled by The International Federation of Surveyors (FIG) in conjunction with the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO).

The publication provides an overview of open-source software applicable to cadastre and land registration, as well as practical case studies from countries using Open Source in this area.

===[http://www.gvsig.gva.es/index.php?id=gvpontis&L=2 Valencian Regional Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport]===
''in Spanish''
''(view [http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?hl=en&langpair=es%7Cen&u=http://www.gvsig.gva.es/index.php%3Fid%3Dgvpontis%26L%3D2 English translation] by Google)''

Valencian Regional Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport is under a project of migrating "all" systems to open-source software. As a matter of fact, that was the reason to build [http://www.gvsig.gva.es/index.php?id=gvsig0&L=2 gvSIG]. All geospatial infrastructure (previously with ESRI) has been moved to open source (gvSIG, PostGIS, MapServer, deegree, GeoNetwork opensource).

There is a [http://www.gvpontis.gva.es/fileadmin/conselleria/images/Documentacion/memoria/gvpontis_ingles.pdf final report] (PDF in English) of the gvPontis project.

===[http://www.orzancongres.com/administracion/upload/imgPrograma/N-004.pdf Hydrographic Confederation of Guadalquivir River, Spain]===
''in Spanish''
''(view [http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2F209.85.173.104%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dcache%3ACTDxwL0ZUqoJ%3Awww.orzancongres.com%2Fadministracion%2Fupload%2FimgPrograma%2FN-004.pdf%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26cd%3D1%26gl%3Dau%26client%3Dfirefox-a&langpair=es%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF8 English translation] by Google)''

A migration of a big part of ESRI components to open-source has been made, with use of gvSIG, GeoNetwork opensource, MapServer, GeoServer, deegree.

===ROI from Geospatial Open Standards, study by NASA===
''April 2005''

National Aeronautics and Space Administration Geospatial Interoperability Office studied the Return On Investment from using Geospatial Open Standards. The study showed
"There is a significant improvement in functionality and mitigation of cost when using open as opposed to proprietary standards. The project that implemented geospatial interoperability standards had a risk-adjusted ROI, or "Savings to Investment" ratio, of 119.0 percent throughout the five-year project life cycle."

* [http://www.gpsworld.com/gis/management-and-processes/the-roi-geosciences-interoperability-standards-4684 Summary of Findings]
* [http://www.galdosinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/NASA_GI_ROI.pdf Copy of Report] (Original URL has suffered link rot)

===Predicted ROI for Australian Government to investment in a SDI===
''October 2007''

ACIL Tasman study reports a 10 to 20 times ROI should the Australian government invest in a Spatial Data Infrastructure.
* [http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=2608&trv=1 Article]
* [http://www.asiba.com.au/clients/asiba/UserFiles/File/Media%20Releases/Press%20Release301007.pdf Media Release]

===Predicted ROI for New Zealand Government to investment in a SDI===

''August 2009 ACIL Tasman, [http://www.geospatial.govt.nz/productivityreport/#_ftn1 Spatial Information in the New Zealand Economy]''

"... open source solutions are increasingly used in
implementations of SDIs and the New Zealand Government should
thoroughly explore how open source solutions can be employed because of the
potential advantages in cost and replicability."

=Open Data=
==Open Data Licensing in Australian Government==
''2008. [http://www.walis.wa.gov.au/projects_and_activities/assets/crc-si-qld-gilf-presentation-perth.ppt/view Government Information Licensing Framework]''

80% of Queensland, Australian government data can be opened up under Creative Commons, and the remaining data is planned to be released under an extensions to the Creative Common license.

==Open Data for Victorian state Government, Australia==
''June 2009 [http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/edic/inquiries/access_to_PSI/PSI_Inquiry_Media_Release.pdf Recommendation to free Public Sector Information].''

The Victorian Parliament’s Economic Development and Infrastructure Committee (“EDIC”) recommends the freeing of access to Public Sector Information at no or marginal cost.

==South Africa==
===[http://www.acts.co.za/prom_of_access_to_info/index.htm Promotion of Access to Information Act]===
"To give effect to the constitutional right of access to any information held by the State and any information that is held by another person and that is required for the exercise or protection of any rights; and to provide for matters connected therewith."
===[http://www.gissa.org.za/activities/government/sdi-act Spatial Data Infrastructure Act]===
"To establish the South African Spatial Data Infrastructure, the Committee for Spatial Information and an electronic metadata catalogue; to provide for the determination of standards and prescriptions with regard to the facilitation of the sharing of spatial information; to provide for the capture and publishing of metadata and the avoidance of duplication of such capture; and to provide for matters connected therewith."

=Open Source Policies=
These documents provide compelling reasons for selecting Open Source and Open Standards.

==European Union==

''June 2010, [http://www.osor.eu/studies/expert-guidance/guideline-for-public-administrations-on-procurement-and-open-source-software-2010 EU Guidelines for Public Administrations purchasing software]''

This guide describes in business terms, the importance of using Open Standards in order to adhere to EU purchasing criteria of fair competition, transparency, and long term value for money.

* Summarised highlights: http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com/2010/10/eu-guidelines-for-public.html
* The full guide: http://www.osor.eu/studies/expert-guidance/guideline-for-public-administrations-on-procurement-and-open-source-software-2010

==Australia==
''April 2005, [http://www.finance.gov.au/publications/guide-to-open-source-software/index.html Guide to Open Source Software for Australian Government Agencies]''

''It can offer original solutions to problems not addressed by proprietary software and it has the potential to lead to significant savings in Government expenditure on information and communications technology (ICT).''

==New Zealand ==
''13 March 2008, [http://research.elabs.govt.nz/2008/03/13/ministry-of-justice-open-source-adoption-paper/ Ministry of Justice Open Source Strategy Paper]''

Proposes when Open Source should be used over Proprietary software, and concludes that Open Source better than Proprietary, all other things being equal.

==South Africa==
The South African Government through its Open Source Project Office and the State IT Agency (SITA) is active with open source and interoperability policy development and implementation.

Browse and download most of the important documents '''[http://www.gissa.org.za/special-interest-groups/open-source/folder_contents HERE]'''.

The South African FOSS Policy which was approved in 2007 urges government to implement FOSS:
*'''Choose FOSS''': The South African government will implement FOSS unless proprietary software proves to be significantly superior. Whenever the advantages of FOSS and proprietary software are comparable FOSS will be implemented when choosing a software solution for a new project. Whenever FOSS is not implemented, then reasons must be provided to justify implementing proprietary software.
*'''Use FOSS/Open Content Licensing''': The South African government will ensure all government content and content developed using government resources is made Open Content, unless analysis on specific content shows that proprietary licensing or confidentiality is substantially beneficial.
*'''Develop in FOSS''': All new software developed for or by the South African government will be based on open standards, adherent to FOSS principles, and be licensed using a FOSS license where possible.
*'''Migrate to FOSS''': The South African government will migrate current proprietary software to FOSS whenever comparable software exists.
*'''Promote FOSS in South Africa''': The South African government will encourage the use of Open Content and Open Standards within South Africa. They will encourage the use of Open Content and Open Standards.

For more recent and additional content visit these sites:
*[http://www.oss.gov.za/ SA Government Open Source Project Office]
*[http://www.sita.co.za/FOSS/FOSS1.html SITA FOSS Office]

==United Kingdom==
February 2009, ''[http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/media/318020/open_source.pdf Government Policy on Open Source, Open Standards and Re–Use]''

Summarised highlights from the policy:
* Government procurement will fairly consider open source solutions alongside proprietary ones and will take into account total cost of ownership, including exit and transition costs.
* The Government will, wherever possible, avoid becoming locked in to proprietary software.
*The Government will require solutions to comply with open standards.
* Where appropriate, general purpose software developed for government will be released on an open source basis.

==US Department of Defense==
''October 2009, [http://www.defenselink.mil/cio-nii/sites/oss/ Guidance regarding Open Source Software]].'' and a [http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/10/defense-department-releases-op.html news report].

==US Navy==
''April 2006, [http://web.archive.org/web/20070324082448/http://www.acq.osd.mil/jctd/articles/OTDRoadmapFinal.pdf US Navy Open Technology Development Roadmap Plan].''

Describes how the US Navy will migrate to Open Technology Development when purchasing and building software.

Open Technology Development combines salient advances in the following areas:
* Open Standards and Interfaces
* Open Source Software and Designs
* Collaborative/Distributive culture and the and online support tools
* Technological Agility

Also, a much shorter news article on the same topic from March 2008. [http://www.fcw.com/online/news/151858-1.html The Navy will acquire only systems based on open technologies and standards].

The Original Paper was stored [http://www.acq.osd.mil/jctd/articles/OTDRoadmapFinal.pdf here].

== Open Source Software Economics ==
''April 2007, [http://techblog.terrapages.com/2007/05/economic-motivation-of-open-source.html
The Economic Motivation of Open Source Software: Stakeholder Perspectives]''

Dirk Riehle. "The Economic Motivation of Open Source Software: Stakeholder Perspectives." IEEE Computer, vol. 40, no. 4 (April 2007). Page 25-32.

=Why write a Case Study?=
A case study discusses how a specific situation was identified, which solutions were investigated and selected, and a summary of the results.

Solution architects use relevant case studies to support a solution they are building.

Writing a case study about your project gives others the confidence to follow in your footsteps which in turn increases investment in your tools of choice. Publishing your experience gives '''positive feedback''' to those involved in your project, reinforcing your success, encouraging colleagues to take on additional challenges, allowing the project to continue to grow.

We would like to see case studies which cover a range of use cases, especially from organizations with a low risk tolerance. Many organizations approach Open Source in little steps gradually integrating it with existing infrastructure and find targeted small case studies valuable.

=What to write?=

One to three pages is good, with a graphic per page.

The case study should cover:
* Date
* Problem
* Evaluations
* Implementation, including integration with other infrastructure
* Problems faced and how they were overcome
* Return on Investment
* Future plans
* Who else might benefit from your experience

More hints found by googling: [http://www.klariti.com/business-writing/How-To-Write-Case-Study.shtml How to write a Case Study]

=How to publish?=
Consider submitting an article to the [http://www.osgeo.org/journal OSGeo Journal].
Here are the basic [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Journal_License_and_Guidelines guidelines] for authors.

[[Category:Advocacy]]

WMS Tile Caching

2009-08-20T13:58:45Z

Wiki-Blammo:

== Goal ==

The goal of a '''WMS Tile Caching''' proposal, perhaps ''WMS-C'' for short, is to find a way to optimize the delivery of map imagery across the Internet. The proposal needs to offer ideally some means by which map clients can fetch tiles from existing servers, in such a way that the images can be cached on the server, or at an intermediate location, or even be completely pre-generated, if desired. Further, the proposal needs to offer a way of advertising that a cached tile set is available for a given layer from a particular WMS or WMS proxy. The proposal should leverage the existing investment in OGC-compliant WMS servers on the 'Net.

The two main questions to be addressed are:
# How does a server advertise its cacheable image tiles?
# How does a client request possibly cached image tiles?

== Proposal ==

=== WMS-C as WMS Profile ===

One approach to take might be to define ''WMS-C'' (as in ''Web Mapping Service - Cached'') as a constrained profile of [http://www.opengeospatial.org/docs/01-068r2.pdf OGC WMS] that permits servers to optimize their image generation, and allows tiles to be cached at intermediate points. A WMS-C service would likely only deliver images for bounding boxes aligned to a given rectangular origin and grid, and only at particular scale levels.

The basic idea is that, unlike with WMS, two different requests for a given WMS-C tile should form the exact same HTTP GET request. This invites several constraints on WMS ''GetMap'' requests:

# Minimal query string arguments (i.e. no optional arguments permitted, versus §7.2)
# Fixed query string argument ordering and case (versus §6.4.1; q.v. also §7.2.2, Table 8)
# Fixed range of possible bounding boxes, computed from the WMS-C profile parameters
# Fixed precision on bounding box values (clarifying §6.5.6)
# Fixed tile size in pixels
# Fixed layer name and/or layer name ordering
# Fixed styling
# Fixed output format

Some means of identifying these constraints programmatically on a per-server basis, a la ''GetCapabilities'' might be desirable. From the table below, it appears that minimum/maximum scale (and scale quantization factor, which should probably never be other than 2) are the only suggested tiling regime parameters that would be difficult to directly express in a WMS GetCapabilities document. Is there some existing way to add custom parameters to a GetCapabilities declaration?

Note that the ''LAYERS'', ''STYLES'', ''SRS'', ''HEIGHT'', ''WIDTH'', and ''FORMAT'' arguments to a ''GetMap'' request would become fixed for a particular WMS-C tiled layer, but the WMS specification would still require the inclusion of these arguments in every WMS-C request (§ 7.2).

A WMS-C proxy or server should be free to return an exception or a redirect, if it receives a WMS request that is not WMS-C compliant, or involves a bounding box that does not correspond to a single tile in the cache.

=== Calculating Valid Tile Extents for a Given Request ===

WMS tile caching implies fixed scale or zoom levels. Typically, each valid scale level would be half that of the next larger scale. It would be worth writing reference code to help developers figure out which tiles they need to load to cover a given bounding box at a given scale.

=== Possible Tile Scheme Parameters ===

{| cellpadding="5" cellspacing="1" border="1"
| '''Parameter''' || '''Default value''' || '''Specifiable in WMS GetCapabilities?'''
|-
| "This service suppports tiling." || ''none'' || ''<KeywordList>'' contains the string 'tiled', perhaps? (§7.1.4.5.3)
|-
| Projection || EPSG:4326 || ''<SRS>''
|-
| Maximal extent || (-180,-90,180,90) || ''<BoundingBox>'' (§7.1.4.5.7)
|-
| Number of horizontal and vertical tiles at the maximal extent || ''none'' || Could be implied by ''<ScaleHint>'' (§7.1.4.5.8, but note that the format is weakly specified)... Alternately, could use ''<DataURL>'' (§7.1.4.5.14)
|-
| Tile size in pixels || some power of 2 || <Layer> attribute ''fixedWidth'', ''fixedHeight'' (§7.1.4.6)
|-
| Minimum scale || ''none'' || ''<ScaleHint>'' or ''<DataURL>'' (see note, above)
|-
| Scale quantization factor || 2 || ''<DataURL>''
|}

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== Other Considerations ==

* Would non-rectangular tessellations yield more efficient results? If so, which tessellations to consider? Also, are the processing and bandwidth advantages of a non-rectangular tessellation outweighed by the potential implementation complexity?
* Norm Vine rightly points out that a tile request basically boils (or should boil down to) Layer + Zoom Level + Row + Column. Can we define an even simpler method for requesting tiles from servers in the know? How are those capabilities advertised, if not shoehorned into WMS? Note that WorldWind basically already has a mechanism for this. Their tiling requests basically look like:

http://domain.tld/service?L=0&X=1&Y=2
* Like all caching schemes, WMS-C caches would need to be cognizant of expiration. Easy with using the proper HTTP headers. There is a wide range of freshness/staleness, with OpenStreetMap being highly volatile, and Landsat being pretty stable (until the ice caps melt ;).
* Several people (particularly Paul Spencer and Chris Schmidt) have argued that a separate ''GetTile'' request should be used. This topic probably warrants discussion.

== Distributed Caching ==

* A WMS-C standard would permit tile caching through [http://www.coralcdn.org/ Coral]. However, the World Wind community's experience has been that using Coral to serve tiles results in frustratingly high latency.
* Alternately, one could do (distributed) [[Distributed Tile Caching|peer-to-peer tile caching]] optimized specifically for geographic space, which might still suffer the latency issues associated with P2P networks.

== Existing Tiling Schemes ==

* Mikel Maron's description of [http://lists.eogeo.org/pipermail/tiling/2006-March/000017.html OnEarth's LandSat tiling scheme]
* World Wind's LandSat tiling scheme: [http://www.ceteranet.com/nww-tile-struct.pdf PDF], [http://www.worldwindcentral.com/wiki/Making_Layers wiki]
* World Wind ''QuadTileSet'' [http://rafb.net/paste/results/S3I8Zr92.html sample description], [http://forum.worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/lofiversion/index.php?t2965.html forum discussion], [http://rafb.net/paste/results/z2dQKa54.html sample PHP code] to fetch WW tiles for a given WMS GetMap request
* osgPlanet's C++ code for [http://www.remotesensing.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/osgPlanet/src/osgPlanet/osgPlanetGridUtility.cpp?rev=HEAD;content-type=text%2Fx-cvsweb-markup tiling the Earth]
* WorldWind Example code for tiling the Earth (needs Proj.4 and GDAL libraries)[http://download.worldwindcentral.com/dstile-0.2.tar.gz DSTile and Tilepack]
* OnEarth's code for intercepting WW requests and converting into WMS requests and caching them [http://www.twobeds.com/upload/userfiles/adamhill/lucians%20code%20-%20cache_1_1.gz?PHPSESSID=f485cf3fd66cd30ad7a4f814a127d2cb from Lucian Plesa]
* Casey Chestnut explains Microsoft Virtual Earth's tiling scheme + code to experiment with the URL's [http://www.brains-n-brawn.com/veWorldWind/]
* GeoOdyssey's [http://www.geodyssey.com/tileshare/index.html TileShare scheme]
* Chuck Stein's [http://www.geongrid.org/workshops/geonvis2005/Presentations/ChuckStein/GeoFusion.ppt GeoFusion presentation] from GEON (warning: PowerPoint)
* [http://globe.sintef.no/documentation/projection.html The Finite Nearly-Conformal Normal Cylindrical Projection] (Aasgaard's map projection)

Note: WW and OnEarth's schemes are pretty much identical, the WW client just allows you to specify arbitrary tile sizes, coverages and number of levels to accomodate a given client.

== Related Projects ==

* [http://www.ossim.org/osgPlanet.html osgPlanet]
* [http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/ NASA WorldWind] ([http://www.worldwindcentral.com/wiki/Main_page wiki])
* [http://worldkit.org/ worldKit]
* [http://communitymapbuilder.org/ Community MapBuilder]
* [http://ka-map.maptools.org/ ka-Map!]
* [http://openlayers.org/ OpenLayers]
* [http://www.geomoose.org/moose/ GeoMoose]
* other AJAX map clients, presumably

== Interested Parties ==

''Note:'' Interested parties should join the existing low-volume [http://lists.eogeo.org/mailman/listinfo/tiling EOGEO mailing list] dedicated to this topic.

* [[User:SchuylerErle|Schuyler Erle]]
* [[User"Adoyle"|Allan Doyle]]
* [[user"Nhv"|Norman Vine]]
* [[user"Joshli"|Josh Lieberman]]
* [[user"Adamhill"|Adam Hill]]
* [[user"bitner"|David Bitner]]
* [[user:Mikel|Mikel Maron]]
* [[user:mpg|Michael P. Gerlek]]
* [[user:stvn|Steven M. Ottens]]
* [[user:Pagameba|Paul Spencer]]
* [[user:hallkbrdz|Bryan Hall]]
* [[user:tschaub|Tim Schaub]]
* [[user:dmorissette|Daniel Morissette]]
* [[user:dpatton|Dave Patton]]
* [[user:cholmes|Chris Holmes]]
* [[user:pwramsey3|Paul Ramsey]]
* [[user:luisw|Luis W. Sevilla]]
* [[user:ominiverdi|Lorenzo Becchi]]
* [[user:wilfred|Wilfred Springer]]
* [[user:fpurcell|Frank Purcell]]
* [[user:Pauldendulk|Paul den Dulk]]
* [[user:Schpidi|Stephan Meißl]]
* [[user:Mornsunrain|Xi Chen]]
* [[user:blammo|Bob Basques]]
* ''add yourself''

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