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OSGeo Code Sprint 2018

2018-01-31T08:23:22Z

Wiki-Mlechner: /* Participants */

Annual Code Sprint comes to Bonn (Germany) in 2018!

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

'''Sponsoring ''' Find out about [[OSGeo_Code_Sprint_2018#Sponsoring |Sponsoring the Event]].

;Gold Sponsors

[[File:Logo-FOSSGIS-e.V.png‎|260px|FOSSGIS e.V.|link=http://www.fossgis.de]]

; Silver Sponsors

[[File:Logo-Hobu.png|140px|Hobu|link=https://hobu.co/]]
 
https://hobu.co/

; Bronze Sponsors

{| border=0 cellspacing=15 cellpadding=10
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[[File:Logo-Azavea.png|280px|Azavea|link=http://www.azavea.com/]]
 
http://www.azavea.com/
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[[File:WhereGroup_logo_418x110.png|290px|WhereGroup|link=https://www.wheregroup.com/]]
 
https://www.wheregroup.com/
||
[[File:Logo-EOX.png|120px|EOX IT Services GmbH|link=http://eox.at]]
 
[http://eox.at http://eox.at]
|-
||
[[File:Synth_Inline_Fill_Gradient_RGB.png|210px|synth3d|link=http://www.synth3d.co]]
 
http://www.synth3d.co
||
[[File:Logo-LocationTech.png|320px|LocationTech|link=https://www.locationtech.org/]]
 
https://www.locationtech.org/
|}

In 2018 we once again want to invite you to Bonn to meet for codesprint at Basecamp! ....

[[Image:FOSS4G_2016_OSGeo_Code_Sprint_indoor_hacking_overview.jpg|400px|thumb|right]]
[[Image:FOSS4G_OSGeo_Code_Sprint_in_Action1.jpg|400px|thumb|right]]

[[Image:Basecamp5.png|300px|thumb]]
[[Image:Basecamp6.png|300px|thumb]]
[[Image:Basecamp7.png|300px|thumb]]
[[Image:Basecamp1.png|300px|thumb]]

[[Image:FOSS4G_2016_OSGeo_Code_Sprint_sponsors.jpg|400px]]

== Purpose ==

Bring together project members to make decisions and tackle larger geospatial
problems as in previous years:
* [[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)

== Dates and Times ==

Dates:
* Sprint: Sunday-Sunday, March 18 to 25, 2018 (8 days - Arrival/Departure Sundays)

== Other Events from January to March 2018 ==

* '''OSGeo's 12th birthday Feb 4'''
* FOSDEM 3-4 Feb https://fosdem.org/2018/
* FOSS4G IT 19-22 Feb http://foss4g-it2018.gfoss.it/
* [https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/wiki/DeveloperMeetingMadeira2018 QGis Hackfest] 21-25 Feb, 2018
* FOSSGIS 21-24 March https://www.fossgis-konferenz.de/2018/
* ''please add your event''

== Location ==

=== Coding Venue ===
* Venue & Accommodation BaseCamp.
* For more informations: http://www.basecamp-bonn.com/
* [http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/44335958#map=18/50.70763/7.12316| OpenStreetMap]

=== Accommodations ===
* Please use this official hotel booking system: http://www.bonn-region.de/events/fossgis-konferenz-english.html
* Using this system you can book the caravans in base camp. All bookers that use this system will receive a free public transport ticket that is valid during your stay.

=== How to get there ===
* http://alienus.de/basecamp1/en/arrival-bonn-hostel/
* http://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=raste%201%20bonn#map=18/50.70762/7.12383

By train
* From Bonn Main station take the U-Trains (Underground platform) 16, 63 or 68. Get off after 6 min at stop Dt. Telekom / Ollenhauerstr.
* http://alienus.de/basecamp1/en/arrival-bonn-hostel/
* http://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=raste%201%20bonn#map=18/50.70762/7.12383
* [https://www.vrsinfo.de/englisch/the-vrs/vrs-about-us.html online public transport planner]

By Car
* Coming from the highway A59 Basecamp is located at the end of the highway A562. For navigation systems it is best to type Basecamp's address: "''In der Raste 3, 53129 Bonn''")

== Schedule ==
* tbd

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

* '''GRASS GIS project''': See [https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Community_Sprint_Bonn_2018 dedicated Wiki page]
* tbd

== Social ideas ==

== Participants ==

We are planning for attendance of ~50. 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 ||[[Jeff McKenna]] <libravatar email="jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com"/> || CA || jmckenna(at)osgeo.org || OSGeo || MapServer, MS4W, ZOO-Project || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || shared accommodation ||
|-
| 2 ||[[Howard Butler]] || US || howard@hobu.co || Hobu, Inc. || Proj.4, PDAL, GDAL, Point clouds || || x || x || x || x || x || || || || No thank you.
|-
| 3 ||[[Even Rouault]] || FR || even.rouault(at)spatialys.com || Spatialys || Proj.4, GDAL, MapServer || || x || x || x || x || x || || || BaseCamp if possible ||
|-
| 4 ||[[Markus Neteler]] || DE || neteler(at)osgeo.org || mundialis || GRASS GIS (Proj.4, GDAL, OTB, QGIS) || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || || preferably
|-
| 5 ||[[User:Djay|Gérald Fenoy]] || FR || gerald.fenoy(at)geolabs.fr || GeoLabs || MS4W, ZOO-Project || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || shared accommodation ||
|-
| 6 ||[[User:Schpidi|Stephan Meißl]] || AT || stephan(at)meissl.name || EOX || MapServer, EOxServer || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || BaseCamp ||
|-
| 7 ||[[User:martinl|Martin Landa]] || CZ || landa.martin(at)gmail.com || CTU in Prague || GRASS GIS (Proj.4, GDAL, PostGIS, QGIS) || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || BaseCamp ||
|-
| 8 ||[[User:connormanning|Connor Manning]] || US || connor@hobu.co || Hobu, Inc. || Entwine, Greyhound, PDAL, Point clouds || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || ||
|-
| 9 ||Markus Schütz || AT || mschuetz@potree.org|| TU Wien|| Potree, point clouds|| x || x || x || || || || || || ||
|-
| 10 ||[[User:Tomkralidis|Tom Kralidis]] || CA || tomkralidis(at)gmail.com || self || pycsw, OWSLib, pygeometa, MapServer, geocatalogo || x || x || x || x || x || || || || tbd || sure
|-
| 11 ||[[User:kalxas|Angelos Tzotsos]] || GR || tzotsos(at)osgeo.org || OSGeo || pycsw, OSGeoLive, GeoNode, UbuntuGIS, geocatalogo, OTB, ZOO-Project || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || tbd || probably
|-
| 12 ||[[User:jjesus|Jorge Samuel Mendes de Jesus]] || NL || jorge.dejesus(at)geocat.net || Geocat || pywps || || || || x || x || x || x || || AirBNB || NO!
|-
| 13 ||[[User:ingenieroariel|Ariel Núñez]] || CO || ariel(at)terranodo.io || Terranodo || GeoNode || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || tbd ||
|-
| 14 ||[[User:Lads|Luís de Sousa]] || PT & NL || luis.de.sousa(at)protonmail.ch || [http://www.isric.org ISRIC] || PyWPS, GRASS || || || || x || x || x || x || x || BaseCamp ||
|-
| 15 ||[[User:Vmische|Volker Mische]] || DE || volker.mische(at)gmail,com || Myself || Noise, CouchDB || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || BaseCamp || 50%
|-
| 16 ||[[User:Just|Just van den Broecke]] || NL || justb4(at)gmail,com || Myself || GeoHealthCheck, Stetl || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || tbd || -
|-
| 17 ||[[User:Jgrocha|Jorge Gustavo Rocha]] || PT || jgr@geomaster.pt || Geomaster || QGIS, GeoExt 3 || || x || x || x || x || x || 2 x || 2 x || BaseCamp (+ extra bed for the last 2 days for my daughter Rita, if possible) ||
|-
| 18 ||[[User:tfr42|Torsten Friebe]] || DE || friebe AT lat-lon DOT de || organization || deegree || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || not needed || yes, please
|-
| 19 ||[[User:Stenger|Dirk Stenger]] || DE || stenger AT lat-lon DOT de || organization || deegree || || x || x || x || x || x || || || not needed ||
|-
| 20 ||[[User:Lgoltz|Lyn Goltz]] || DE || goltz AT lat-lon DOT de || organization || deegree || || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || not needed || yes
|-
| 21 ||[[User:remanuele|Rob Emanuele]] || US || remanuele@azavea.com ||Azavea || PDAL, GDAL, Point clouds, GeoTrellis, LocationTech || || x || x || x || x || x || || || ||
|-
| 22 || Grigory Pomadchin || RU || gr.pomadchin AT gmail DOT com || Azavea || PDAL, GDAL, Point clouds, GeoTrellis || || x || x || x || x || x || || || ||
|-
| 23 ||[[User:tomvantilburg|Tom van Tilburg]] || NL || tom.van.tilburg@geodan.nl || geodan || Pointcloud || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || tbd || x|-
|-
| 24 ||[[User:chambbj|Brad Chambers]] || US || bradley.chambers@digitalglobe.com || Radiant Solutions || PDAL, Point Clouds || || x || x || x || x || x || || || TBD || No thanks!
|-
| 25 || Eugene Cheipesh || USA || echeipesh AT azavea DOT com || Azavea || LocationTech, JTS, JAI Replacement || || x || x || x || x || x || || || ||
|-
| 26 || [[User:Lucadelu|Luca Delucchi]] || IT || lucadeluge AT gmail DOT com || Fondazione Edmund Mach || GRASS GIS, OSGeoLive, pyModis || x || x || x || x || x || x || ? || ? || Basecamp || |
|-
| 27 || [[User:Veroandreo|Veronica Andreo]] || AR/NL || veroandreo AT gmail.com || ITC || GRASS GIS || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || ? || Basecamp || |
|-
| 28 || [[User:dirkf|Dirk Frigne]] || BE || Dirk AT Geosparc.com || OSGeo Europe || GeoMajas OSGeo Live || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || ? || motor home || |
|-
| 29 ||[[User:msmitherdc|Michael Smith]] || US || michael.smith.erdc at gmail.com || US Army Corps || MapServer, PDAL || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || hotel || |
|-
| 30 ||[[User:cvvergara| Vicky Vergara]] || MX || vicky at georepublic DOT de || Georepublic || pgRouting, OSgeoLive, PDAL, Point clouds || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || Basecamp || |
|-
| 31 ||Marco Hugentobler || CH || marco at sourcepole dot com || Sourcepole || QGIS || || x || x || x || x || x || || || BaseCamp ||
|-
| 32 ||[[User:Pirmin_Kalberer|Pirmin Kalberer]] || CH || pka at sourcepole dot com || Sourcepole || QGIS, GDAL, t-rex || || x || x || x || x || x || || || BaseCamp ||
|-
| 33 ||[[User:Mlennert|Moritz Lennert (tbc)]] || BE || mlennert at club dot worldonline dot be || ULB || GRASS GIS || x || x || x || x || || || || || BaseCamp ||
|-
| 34 ||[[Andrew Bell]] || US || andrew@hobu.co || Hobu, Inc. || Proj.4, PDAL, Point clouds, meshes || || x || x || x || x || x || || || ||
|-
| 35 ||[[User:theduckylittle|Dan "Ducky" Little]] || US || dlittle@boundlessgeo.com || Boundless || React + OpenLayers, MapServer || || || x || x || x || x || x || || ||
|-
| 36 ||[[User:nicklas|Nicklas Avén]] || SE/NO || nicklas.aven@jordogskog.no || Just me || TilelessMap, PostGIS || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || || BaseCamp ||
|-
| 37 ||[[User:Clucas|Chris Lucas]] || NL || chris.lucas@geodan.nl || Geodan || PDAL || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || tbd || |
|-
| 38 ||[[User:Marcjansen|Marc Jansen]] || DE || jansen@terrestris.de || terrestris || OpenLayers, react-geo, GeoExt || (x) || x || x || (x) || (x) || (x) || || || not needed || |
|-
| 39 ||[[User:Mlechner|Marco Lechner]] || DE || marco.lechner@fossgis.de || [https://www.fossgis.de FOSSGIS e.V.]/[https://github.com/OpenBfS BfS] || OpenLayers, Geonetwork, Geoserver, everything || (x) || x || x || (x) || (x) || (x) || || || BaseCamp || veg.
|-
| 40 ||[[Martinheidegger|Martin Heidegger]] || JP/AT || martin.heidegger@gmail.com || Freelancer (Georepublic) || Point clouds || (x) || x || x || x || (x) || || || || BaseCamp || |
|-
| 41 ||[[User:moovida|Andrea Antonello]] || IT || andrea.antonello@gmail.com || HydroloGIS / Free University of Bolzano || Geopaparazzi, gvSIG, gvSIG Mobile, everything || (x) || x || x || x || x || x || || || TBD || no
|-
| 42 ||[[User:Astrid_Emde|Astrid Emde]] || DE || astrid_emde@osgeo.org || WhereGroup/OSGeo || Mapbender, OSGeoLive, OSGeo || x || x || x || - || - || - || x || x || BaseCamp || vegetarian
|-
| 43 ||[[User:GeoFootballer|Christian Mayer]] || DE || chris@meggsimum.de || meggsimum || OpenLayers, GeoExt || (x) || x || x || (x) || (x) || (x) || || || not needed || |
|-
| 44 || Andreas Schmitz || DE || schmitz@terrestris.de || terrestris || OpenLayers, react-geo, GeoExt || (x) || x || x || (x) || (x) || (x) || || || not needed || |
|-
| 45 ||[[User:Ckuntzsch|Christian Kuntzsch]] || DE || Christian.Kuntzsch@wheregroup.com || WhereGroup || Mapbender || x || x || x || x || || || || || BaseCamp ||
|-
| 46 || Nina Moelkner || DE || nina.moelkner@wheregroup.com || WhereGroup || Mapbender || || x || x || || || || || || not needed ||
|-
| 47 || Robin Schwammborn || DE || robin.schwammborn@wheregroup.com || WhereGroup || Mapbender || || x || x || || || || || || not needed ||
|-
| 48 ||[[User:dispiste|Cesar Martinez]] || ES || cesar.izq@gmail.com || gvSIG/Scolab || gvSIG, gvSIG Mobile, Geopaparazzi || x || x || x || x || x || || || || BaseCamp if possible || not needed
|-
| 49 || Thekla Wirkus || DE || thekla.wirkus@wheregroup.com || WhereGroup || Mapbender || || x || || || || || || || not needed ||
|-
| 50 || [[User:axxl|Axel Schaefer]] || DE || axel.schaefer@wheregroup.com || WhereGroup || Mapbender || || x || (x) || || || || || || not needed ||
|-
| 51 || [[User:mmetz|Markus Metz]] || DE || metz@mundialis.de || mundialis || GRASS GIS (Proj.4, GDAL, OTB, QGIS) || x || x || x || x || || || || || Base Camp ||
|-
| 52 || [[User:Taehoon.Kim|Taehoon Kim]] || JP/KR || kim.taehoon@aist.go.jp || AIST || Point clouds || x || x || x || x || x || x || || || Base Camp ||
|-
| 53 || Marco Pochert || DE || mpochert@bfs.de || [https://github.com/OpenBfS BfS] || OpenLayers, Geonetwork, GeoExt, everything || (x) || x || x || (x) || (x) || (x) || || || BaseCamp ||
|-
| # ||[[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: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/tosprint
* IRC chat during the event: #tosprint Server: irc.freenode.net
* Twitter: #TOSprint ( https://twitter.com/search?q=tosprint )

== Photos ==

== Costs ==

Participants should plan for the following costs:

* Travel to Bonn
* Accommodation for x nights

All other costs - food, outings and entertainment - should/will be covered by the sponsors

== Financial ==

'''Detailed budget'''
* [[Bonn_Code_Sprint_2018_:_Budget|Budget]]

== Individual preparation ==

* Bring your own laptop
* Bring [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mains_electricity_by_country your power connector adapter] if needed (photo: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Schuko_plug_and_socket.png Germany]). 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).

Simultaneously with the [https://www.fossgis-konferenz.de/2018/ FOSSGIS Conference 2018 in Bonn] an international code sprint of the OSGeo will take place from 19 to 25 March 2018.
We expect about 80 developers from all over the world to come from various [http://www.osgeo.org/] projects. Whether desktop application, geospatial library, metadata catalog or web mapping: be sure to find products in the list that you use. Thus, the Code 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.

The code sprint will take place at [http://www.basecamp-bonn.de/ BaseCamp] in Bonn. During the [http://www.foss4g2016.org/home.html FOSS4G 2016] in Bonn we have already organized a code sprint at this location, in which about 100 developers worked on the open source projects every day. (https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2016_Code_Sprint)

In addition to the costs of providing the technical infrastructure, the cost of food and drinks for the developers is the main cost. A buffet at lunchtime and drinks during the whole day are intended.

So far, the code sprint is already sponsored by [http://www.osgeo.org/ OSGeo] and [https://www.fossgis.de/ FOSSGIS e. V.].

In order to cover the costs, we would be very pleased about further sponsors!

What we offer:
* Your logo on top of the [http://osgeo.getinteractive.nl/events/osgeo-code-sprint-2018/ websites of the Code Sprint] [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Code_Sprint_2018 1] as well as on all official documents around the Code Sprint
* Mention in all code sprint related mails
* 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 developers of the scene!
* enable 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 ==
* [[User:Astrid_Emde|Astrid Emde]]
* Uli Rothstein
* Carmen Tawalika
* [[User:Olr|Oliver Rudzick]]
* Mirko Blinn

; Supported by
* [[User:Lucadelu|Luca Delucchi]]
[[Category:Code Sprints]]
[[Category:C Tribe Code Sprint]]

OSGeo Code Sprint 2018

2018-01-23T20:15:05Z

Wiki-Mlechner: /* Participants */

Annual Code Sprint comes to Bonn (Germany) in 2018!

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

'''Sponsoring ''' Find out about [[OSGeo_Code_Sprint_2018#Sponsoring |Sponsoring the Event]].

;Gold Sponsors

[[File:Logo-FOSSGIS-e.V.png‎|260px|FOSSGIS e.V.|link=http://www.fossgis.de]]

; Silver Sponsors

; Bronze Sponsors

{| border=0 cellspacing=15 cellpadding=10
|
[[File:Logo-Azavea.png|280px|Azavea|link=http://www.azavea.com/]]
 
http://www.azavea.com/
|
[[File:WhereGroup_logo_418x110.png|290px|WhereGroup|link=https://www.wheregroup.com/]]
 
https://www.wheregroup.com/
|
[[File:Logo-EOX.png|120px|EOX IT Services GmbH|link=http://eox.at]]
 
[http://eox.at http://eox.at]
|}

In 2018 we once again want to invite you to Bonn to meet for codesprint at Basecamp! ....

[[Image:FOSS4G_2016_OSGeo_Code_Sprint_indoor_hacking_overview.jpg|400px|thumb|right]]
[[Image:FOSS4G_OSGeo_Code_Sprint_in_Action1.jpg|400px|thumb|right]]

[[Image:Basecamp5.png|300px|thumb]]
[[Image:Basecamp6.png|300px|thumb]]
[[Image:Basecamp7.png|300px|thumb]]
[[Image:Basecamp1.png|300px|thumb]]

[[Image:FOSS4G_2016_OSGeo_Code_Sprint_sponsors.jpg|400px]]

== Purpose ==

Bring together project members to make decisions and tackle larger geospatial
problems as in previous years:
* [[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)

== Dates and Times ==

Dates:
* Sprint: Sunday-Sunday, March 18 to 25, 2018 (8 days - Arrival/Departure Sundays)

== Other Events from January to March 2018 ==

* '''OSGeo's 12th birthday Feb 4'''
* FOSDEM 3-4 Feb https://fosdem.org/2018/
* FOSS4G IT 19-22 Feb http://foss4g-it2018.gfoss.it/
* [https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/wiki/DeveloperMeetingMadeira2018 QGis Hackfest] 21-25 Feb, 2018
* FOSSGIS 21-24 March https://www.fossgis-konferenz.de/2018/
* ''please add your event''

== Location ==

=== Coding Venue ===
* Venue & Accommodation BaseCamp.
* For more informations: http://www.basecamp-bonn.com/
* [http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/44335958#map=18/50.70763/7.12316| OpenStreetMap]

=== Accommodations ===
* Please use this official hotel booking system: http://www.bonn-region.de/events/fossgis-konferenz-english.html
* Using this system you can book the caravans in base camp. All bookers that use this system will receive a free public transport ticket that is valid during your stay.

=== How to get there ===
* http://alienus.de/basecamp1/en/arrival-bonn-hostel/
* http://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=raste%201%20bonn#map=18/50.70762/7.12383

By train
* From Bonn Main station take the U-Trains (Underground platform) 16, 63 or 68. Get off after 6 min at stop Dt. Telekom / Ollenhauerstr.
* http://alienus.de/basecamp1/en/arrival-bonn-hostel/
* http://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=raste%201%20bonn#map=18/50.70762/7.12383
* [https://www.vrsinfo.de/englisch/the-vrs/vrs-about-us.html online public transport planner]

By Car
* Coming from the highway A59 Basecamp is located at the end of the highway A562. For navigation systems it is best to type Basecamp's address: "''In der Raste 3, 53129 Bonn''")

== Schedule ==
* tbd

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

* '''GRASS GIS project''': See [https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Community_Sprint_Bonn_2018 dedicated Wiki page]
* tbd

== Social ideas ==

== Participants ==

We are planning for attendance of ~50. 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 ||[[Jeff McKenna]] <libravatar email="jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com"/> || CA || jmckenna(at)osgeo.org || OSGeo || MapServer, MS4W, ZOO-Project || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || shared accommodation ||
|-
| 2 ||[[Howard Butler]] || US || howard@hobu.co || Hobu, Inc. || Proj.4, PDAL, GDAL, Point clouds || || x || x || x || x || x || || || || No thank you.
|-
| 3 ||[[Even Rouault]] || FR || even.rouault(at)spatialys.com || Spatialys || Proj.4, GDAL, MapServer || || x || x || x || x || x || || || BaseCamp if possible ||
|-
| 4 ||[[Markus Neteler]] || DE || neteler(at)osgeo.org || mundialis || GRASS GIS (Proj.4, GDAL, OTB, QGIS) || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || || preferably
|-
| 5 ||[[User:Djay|Gérald Fenoy]] || FR || gerald.fenoy(at)geolabs.fr || GeoLabs || MS4W, ZOO-Project || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || shared accommodation ||
|-
| 6 ||[[User:Schpidi|Stephan Meißl]] || AT || stephan(at)meissl.name || EOX || MapServer, EOxServer || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || BaseCamp ||
|-
| 7 ||[[User:martinl|Martin Landa]] || CZ || landa.martin(at)gmail.com || CTU in Prague || GRASS GIS (Proj.4, GDAL, PostGIS, QGIS) || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || BaseCamp ||
|-
| 8 ||[[User:connormanning|Connor Manning]] || US || connor@hobu.co || Hobu, Inc. || Entwine, Greyhound, PDAL, Point clouds || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || ||
|-
| 9 ||Markus Schütz || AT || mschuetz@potree.org|| TU Wien|| Potree, point clouds|| x || x || x || || || || || || ||
|-
| 10 ||[[User:Tomkralidis|Tom Kralidis]] || CA || tomkralidis(at)gmail.com || self || pycsw, OWSLib, pygeometa, MapServer, geocatalogo || x || x || x || x || x || || || || tbd || sure
|-
| 11 ||[[User:kalxas|Angelos Tzotsos]] || GR || tzotsos(at)osgeo.org || OSGeo || pycsw, OSGeoLive, GeoNode, UbuntuGIS, geocatalogo, OTB, ZOO-Project || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || tbd || probably
|-
| 12 ||[[User:jjesus|Jorge Samuel Mendes de Jesus]] || NL || jorge.dejesus(at)geocat.net || Geocat || pywps || || x || x || x || x || x || x || || tbd || NO!
|-
| 13 ||[[User:ingenieroariel|Ariel Núñez]] || CO || ariel(at)terranodo.io || Terranodo || GeoNode || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || tbd ||
|-
| 14 ||[[User:Lads|Luís de Sousa]] || PT & NL || luis.de.sousa(at)protonmail.ch || [http://www.isric.org ISRIC] || PyWPS, GRASS || || || || x || x || x || x || x || BaseCamp ||
|-
| 15 ||[[User:Vmische|Volker Mische]] || DE || volker.mische(at)gmail,com || Myself || Noise, CouchDB || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || BaseCamp || 50%
|-
| 16 ||[[User:Just|Just van den Broecke]] || NL || justb4(at)gmail,com || Myself || GeoHealthCheck, Stetl || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || tbd || -
|-
| 17 ||[[User:Jgrocha|Jorge Gustavo Rocha]] || PT || jgr@geomaster.pt || Geomaster || QGIS, GeoExt 3 || || x || x || x || x || x || 2 x || 2 x || BaseCamp (+ extra bed for the last 2 days for my daughter Rita, if possible) ||
|-
| 18 ||[[User:tfr42|Torsten Friebe]] || DE || friebe AT lat-lon DOT de || organization || deegree || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || not needed || yes, please
|-
| 19 ||[[User:Stenger|Dirk Stenger]] || DE || stenger AT lat-lon DOT de || organization || deegree || || x || x || x || x || x || || || not needed ||
|-
| 20 ||[[User:Lgoltz|Lyn Goltz]] || DE || goltz AT lat-lon DOT de || organization || deegree || || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || not needed || yes
|-
| 21 ||[[User:remanuele|Rob Emanuele]] || US || remanuele@azavea.com ||Azavea || PDAL, GDAL, Point clouds, GeoTrellis, LocationTech || || x || x || x || x || x || || || ||
|-
| 22 || Grigory Pomadchin || RU || gr.pomadchin AT gmail DOT com || Azavea || PDAL, GDAL, Point clouds, GeoTrellis || || x || x || x || x || x || || || ||
|-
| 23 ||[[User:tomvantilburg|Tom van Tilburg]] || NL || tom.van.tilburg@geodan.nl || geodan || Pointcloud || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || tbd || x|-
|-
| 24 ||[[User:chambbj|Brad Chambers]] || US || bradley.chambers@digitalglobe.com || Radiant Solutions || PDAL, Point Clouds || || x || x || x || x || x || || || TBD || No thanks!
|-
| 25 || Eugene Cheipesh || USA || echeipesh AT azavea DOT com || Azavea || LocationTech, JTS, JAI Replacement || || x || x || x || x || x || || || ||
|-
| 26 || [[User:Lucadelu|Luca Delucchi]] || IT || lucadeluge AT gmail DOT com || Fondazione Edmund Mach || GRASS GIS, OSGeoLive, pyModis || x || x || x || x || x || x || ? || ? || Basecamp || |
|-
| 27 || [[User:Veroandreo|Veronica Andreo]] || AR/NL || veroandreo AT gmail.com || ITC || GRASS GIS || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || ? || Basecamp || |
|-
| 28 || [[User:dirkf|Dirk Frigne]] || BE || Dirk AT Geosparc.com || OSGeo Europe || GeoMajas OSGeo Live || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || ? || motor home || |
|-
| 29 ||[[User:msmitherdc|Michael Smith]] || US || michael.smith.erdc at gmail.com || US Army Corps || MapServer, PDAL || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || hotel || |
|-
| 30 ||[[User:cvvergara| Vicky Vergara]] || MX || vicky at georepublic DOT de || Georepublic || pgRouting, OSgeoLive, PDAL, Point clouds || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || Basecamp || |
|-
| 31 ||Marco Hugentobler || CH || marco at sourcepole dot com || Sourcepole || QGIS || || x || x || x || x || x || || || BaseCamp ||
|-
| 32 ||[[User:Pirmin_Kalberer|Pirmin Kalberer]] || CH || pka at sourcepole dot com || Sourcepole || QGIS, GDAL, t-rex || || x || x || x || x || x || || || BaseCamp ||
|-
| 33 ||[[User:Mlennert|Moritz Lennert (tbc)]] || BE || mlennert at club dot worldonline dot be || ULB || GRASS GIS || x || x || x || x || || || || || BaseCamp ||
|-
| 34 ||[[Andrew Bell]] || US || andrew@hobu.co || Hobu, Inc. || Proj.4, PDAL, Point clouds, meshes || || x || x || x || x || x || || || ||
|-
| 35 ||[[User:theduckylittle|Dan "Ducky" Little]] || US || dlittle@boundlessgeo.com || Boundless || React + OpenLayers, MapServer || || || x || x || x || x || x || || ||
|-
| 36 ||[[User:nicklas|Nicklas Avén]] || SE/NO || nicklas.aven@jordogskog.no || Just me || TilelessMap, PostGIS || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || || BaseCamp ||
|-
| 37 ||[[User:Clucas|Chris Lucas]] || NL || chris.lucas@geodan.nl || Geodan || PDAL || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || tbd || |
|-
| 38 ||[[User:Marcjansen|Marc Jansen]] || DE || jansen@terrestris.de || terrestris || OpenLayers, react-geo, GeoExt || (x) || x || x || (x) || (x) || (x) || || || not needed || |
|-
| 39 ||[[User:Mlechner|Marco Lechner]] || DE || marco.lechner@fossgis.de || FOSSGIS e.V. / BfS || OpenLayers, Geonetwork, Geoserver, everything || (x) || x || x || (x) || (x) || (x) || || || BaseCamp || veg. |
|-
| # ||[[User:your osgeo profile|Your name]] || DE || email || organization || project || || x || x || x || x || x || x || x || || |-
|}

== Communication ==

* Please join the mailing list: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/tosprint
* IRC chat during the event: #tosprint Server: irc.freenode.net
* Twitter: #TOSprint ( https://twitter.com/search?q=tosprint )

== Photos ==

== Costs ==

Participants should plan for the following costs:

* Travel to Bonn
* Accommodation for x nights

All other costs - food, outings and entertainment - should/will be covered by the sponsors

== Financial ==

'''Detailed budget'''
* [[Bonn_Code_Sprint_2018_:_Budget|Budget]]

== Individual preparation ==

* Bring your own laptop
* Bring [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mains_electricity_by_country your power connector adapter] if needed (photo: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Schuko_plug_and_socket.png Germany]). 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).

Simultaneously with the [https://www.fossgis-konferenz.de/2018/ FOSSGIS Conference 2018 in Bonn] an international code sprint of the OSGeo will take place from 19 to 25 March 2018.
We expect about 80 developers from all over the world to come from various [http://www.osgeo.org/] projects. Whether desktop application, geospatial library, metadata catalog or web mapping: be sure to find products in the list that you use. Thus, the Code 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.

The code sprint will take place at [http://www.basecamp-bonn.de/ BaseCamp] in Bonn. During the [http://www.foss4g2016.org/home.html FOSS4G 2016] in Bonn we have already organized a code sprint at this location, in which about 100 developers worked on the open source projects every day. (https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2016_Code_Sprint)

In addition to the costs of providing the technical infrastructure, the cost of food and drinks for the developers is the main cost. A buffet at lunchtime and drinks during the whole day are intended.

So far, the code sprint is already sponsored by [http://www.osgeo.org/ OSGeo] and [https://www.fossgis.de/ FOSSGIS e. V.].

In order to cover the costs, we would be very pleased about further sponsors!

What we offer:
* Your logo on top of the [http://osgeo.getinteractive.nl/events/osgeo-code-sprint-2018/ websites of the Code Sprint] [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Code_Sprint_2018 1] as well as on all official documents around the Code Sprint
* Mention in all code sprint related mails
* 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 developers of the scene!
* enable 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 ==
* [[User:Astrid_Emde|Astrid Emde]]
* Uli Rothstein
* Carmen Tawalika
* [[User:Olr|Oliver Rudzick]]
* Mirko Blinn

; Supported by
* [[User:Lucadelu|Luca Delucchi]]
[[Category:Code Sprints]]
[[Category:C Tribe Code Sprint]]

Europe archive

2017-07-22T17:41:28Z

Wiki-Mlechner: /* List of initial members */

= Europe =

Welcome to the wiki page of the Europe OSGeo chapter.

== ToDo list ==

* Decide about the legal structure
* Write meeting report of the meeting October 5 2016 (Maria - Vasile - Dirk)

== Introduction ==

FOSS4G Europe is rooted in the FOSS4G Central and Eastern Europe conference series, back in 2012. The latter evolved in 2014 as the first edition of FOSS4G Europe in Bremen. The conference is now becoming the main european FOSS4G event, gathering people and OSGeo local chapters from all over Europe and beyond.

Since the conference in Bremen, thoughts and ideas where exchanged to organise OSGeo more on a European basis. The Industry group was started, a platform of people supporting the idea arose, but there was no real initiative for action.

This year we (OSGeoEU) have the ambition to organise a legal entity OSGEO-EU to create a stronger software group in Europe to defend the rights of open source from the perspective of the Geo-ecosystem.

In preparation for this official expression of interest, a couple of
meetings have already taken place.
a physical BOF @FOSS4G 2014 in Bremen, some mails, a BOF @FOSS4G 2015 in Como and some one physical meetings.

== Why should OSGeo have a European local chapter ==

* Europe has specific needs in terms adoption rate of open source software.
* An important initiative called 'INSPIRE' needs specific localised attention.
* OSGeo.EU is a sparring partner and representation (Single point of contact) for the European institutions in Brussels on behalve OSGeo, the other committees, local chapters and projects. Giving the existing local chapters a voice in Brussels.
* Europe also has specific business ecosystem.
** more than 99% of all the European businesses are SME's
** software industry in Europe is as big as the software industry in the US, but the driving forces are more divided
** FLOSS can be used as an opportunity to create a strong industry leadership in Europe
** OSGeo.EU can play a supporting role in this process

== Mission and objectives ==

After discussion amongst the active local chapter members we come to the
following list of mission objectives:

* Community-building and networking around specific European themes

* support the European OSGeo members using FOSS4G software, help them to organise and bring into contact with governmental agencies and research institutes. Help them with European funded projects.

* encourage interoperability in European projects

* support European open standards and European directives such as INSPIRE

* provide support for the use of OSGeo software in education via European curriculum development, outreach, and capacity building

* to encourage communication between the different European local chapters

* to encourage different communities to work together where relevant

* Organisation of events

* Networking with other typically European organisations and groups (notably OSM, JRC, European projects, FIWARE, EUROGI, SMESpire, ... )

* Being logical parter to European Commission to discuss about open source software for geospatial and open geospatial data

== List of initial members ==

The European OSGeo Chapter has the support of the following initial
founding members (alphabetic?? - first name):

* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Dirkf Dirk Frigne] - Vice president
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Vasile Vasile Crăciunescu] - board member
* [[Jáchym Čepický]] - Secretary of OSGeo
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Schpidi Stephan Meißl] - charter member
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Till_Adams Till Adams] - charter member
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:MarcVloemans Marc Vloemans] - Charter member
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Neteler Markus Neteler] - Charter member
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Jgrocha Jorge Gustavo Rocha] - Charter member
* [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Alexbruy Alexander Bruy] - Charter member
* [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:OliverMay Oliver May] - Charter member
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Delawen María Arias de Reyna] - charter member
* [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Angelos_Tzotsos Angelos Tzotsos] - Board member
* [[Jeff McKenna]] - President Emeritus
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:ianturton Ian Turton] - charter member
* [[Jorge Sanz]] - Charter member
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:djay Gérald Fenoy] - Charter member
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:ajolma Ari Jolma] - Charter member
* Kari Salovaara - Charter member
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Milena_Nowotarska Milena Nowotarska] Milena Nowotarska - Charter member
* [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Maxi71 Massimiliano Cannata] - Charter member
* [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Nbozon Nicolas Bozon] - Charter member
* [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Maria Maria Brovelli] - Board member
* [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Silvia_franceschi Silvia Franceschi] - Charter member
* [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Andrea_antonello Andrea Antonello] - Charter member
* [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Mantonovic Milan Antonovic] - Charter member
* Mirko Cardoso - Charter member
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Mlechner Marco Lechner] - charter member

== Some early stuff ==
[[Local_Chapter_EU_History History]]

==Building relations with other European communities==
===SMESpire===
* Goal: look if SMESPire is a good platform to organise the European FOSS Geo-ICT industry
* action: contact Giacomo Martirano / action: Dirk Frigne - ongoing
===FIWare===
* [[https://www.fiware.org/]]
* action: investigate if structural relationship can be of interest for OSGeo.
===new entry===
* reference to the event
*register your name if you will participate

== Tradeshows and events ==
* European Events where OSGeo is represented

===ISPRS===
[[ISPRS 2016]]
* contact: [[User:Jachym|Jachym]]

=== FOSSDEM ===

[https://fosdem.org/2016/practical/ FOSSDEM 2016]
* contact: [[User:johanvdw|Johanvdw]]

=== GWF2016 ===
[http://geospatialworldforum.org/ GWF 2016]
* contact: [[User:Dirkf|Dirk Frigne]]

=== FOSS4G 2016 ===
[http://2016.foss4g.org/home.html FOSS4G 2016 Bonn]
* OSGeo Europe local chapter BoF https://www.flickr.com/photos/stevenfeldman/29294641505/in/pool-foss4g/
* contact: [[User:MarcVloemans|Marc Vloemans]]

=== FOSS4G 2017 ===
[http://europe.foss4g.org/2017/ FOSS4G 2017 Paris]
* topic talks - volunteers
* contact: [[User:Dirkf|Dirk Frigne]]
** TT01 An overview of the best Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial
** TT02 OSGeo-Live for INSPIRE
** TT03 Sustainability of OSGeo projects
** TT04 FOSS4G-Europe welcomes new volunteers to the OSGeo community
** TT05 The future of SDI
** TT06 Economics of FOSS4G - "Sustainability of OSGeo projects"

== Communication & Comments ==

=== Mailing list ===

* OSGeo Europe ([https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/eu subscribe]) ([http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/European-Union-Chapter-f5250537.html search])

=== Meeting minutes ===

==== Meeting 24 May 2016 ====
* workshop on the initial wiki page - discussion mission and goals
* change the status from draft to final
* decide for formal proposal to the next board meeting
* attendees:
 
Till Adams (Fossgis) 
Marc Vloemans (Chair Marketing committee) 
Dirk Frigne (Vice President OSGeo) 
Pieter De Graef (Charter member) 
Gert-Jan van der Weijden (OSGeo.nl) 
Johan Van de Wauw (OSGeo.be) 

==== BoF 24 Aug 2016 ====
* bof at FOSS4G 2016 [[Europe-meeting-2016-08|2016_08_24]]

==== BoF 19 Jul 2017 ====
* bof at FOSS4G-Europe [[Europe-meeting-2017-07|2017_07_19]]

[[Category:Local Chapters]]
[[Category:Europe]]

Europe-meeting-2016-08

2016-08-25T12:05:24Z

Wiki-Mlechner: /* Attendees */

= FOSS4G Europe 2017 =

* Write e-mail to conference committe to accepte Gerarld's proposal

= OSGeo Europe Local Chapter =

== Agenda (based on Maxi's mail)==

'''Why there was not discussion?'''

* Needed for boar approval
* At least summary of off-line discussion
* '''use eu-at-lists.osgeo-dot-org !!!'''
* It's about Europe not EU

'''Local chapters charter members'''

* OSGeo-global charter members based in Europe are automatically charter members of OSGeo-Europe local chapter

'''Contact on local chapters'''

* https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Contacts - but need's to be updated!

'''FOSS4G Europe relation ship'''

* It will be organised on the local "local chapter" or local LOC, no relationship with europe local chapter is needed

== Action items ==

* Jachym - write to mailing list about foss4g europe
* Dirk, Maria, et co. - Bylaws
* Possibly do it EU-registered (find out)
*

== Attendees ==

* [[User:Jachym|Jachym Cepicky]] Secretary
* [[User:dirkf | Dirk Frigne]] Vice President
* [[User:ajolma | Ari Jolma]] Member of the board or the OSGeo Finland chapter, OSGeo charter member
* [[User:OliverMay | Oliver May]] Member of the board of OSGeo Belgium, OSGeo charter member
* [[User:Mlechner | Marco Lechner]] President of FOSSGIS e.V. / OSGeo D-A-CH, OSGeo charter member
* ADD YOURSELF - indicate, you were here

[[Category:Local Chapters]]
[[Category:Europe]]
[[Category:Europe-meetings]]

User:Mlechner

2016-08-25T11:56:47Z

Wiki-Mlechner:

{{OSGeo Member
|Name=Marco Lechner
|JobTitle=Coordination emergency systems
|Company=German Federal Office for Radiation Protection
|Address=Rosastr. 9
|Country=Germany
|City=Freiburg
|Coordinate=47.96415 7.98308
|LocalChapter=FOSSGIS
|Email=marco.lechner@fossgis.de
|Languages=DE; EN;
}}
{{OSGeo Experience
|User=Yes
|Committee=Yes
|Board=No
|Coder=No
|Translate=No
|PSC=No
|ExBoard=No
|Charter=Yes
|Chair=No
|SolKatz=No
|Committer=No
}}
[[File:FOSSGIS_OSGeo_DACH.png]]
* Charter member (since 2013)
* president of FOSSGIS e.V. / OSGeo local chapter D-A-CH
* member of Orga-Team of FOSSGIS-conference

;contact
[http://www.fossgis.de FOSSGIS e.V./OSGeo D-A-CH] 
[mailto:marco.lechner@fossgis.de marco.lechner@fossgis.de] 
[https://twitter.com/marcolechner twitter: @marcolechner]

User:Mlechner

2016-08-25T11:55:59Z

Wiki-Mlechner:

{{OSGeo Member
|Name=Marco Lechner
|JobTitle=Coordination emergency systems
|Company=German Federal Office for Radiation Protection
|Address=Rosastr. 9
|Country=Germany
|City=Freiburg
|Coordinate=47.96415 7.98308
|LocalChapter=FOSSGIS
|Email=marco.lechner@fossgis.de
|Languages=DE; EN;
}}
{{OSGeo Experience
|User=Yes
|Committee=Yes
|Board=No
|Coder=No
|Translate=No
|PSC=No
|ExBoard=No
|Charter=Yes
|Chair=No
|SolKatz=No
|Committer=No
}}
[[File:OSGeo_charter.png]] [[File:FOSSGIS_OSGeo_DACH.png]]
* Charter member (since 2013)
* president of FOSSGIS e.V. / OSGeo local chapter D-A-CH
* member of Orga-Team of FOSSGIS-conference

;contact
[http://www.fossgis.de FOSSGIS e.V./OSGeo D-A-CH] 
[mailto:marco.lechner@fossgis.de marco.lechner@fossgis.de] 
[https://twitter.com/marcolechner twitter: @marcolechner]

Annual General Meeting 2016

2016-08-25T11:44:03Z

Wiki-Mlechner: /* Lightning Reports / Talks */

== Venue / Timing ==
* WHEN: Thursday 25 August, from 17:30-18:30
* WHERE: in the plenary Chamber, after the last session and before departure to the Gala dinner, during [https://2016.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G Bonn]
* DURATION: 1 hour (can go later if necessary) (update: meeting ends promptly at 18:30 to allow attendance of gala event)
*

== Description ==
The Annual General Meeting for OSGeo is open to everybody.

The goal is to:
* give an overall status of the organization+
* financial report+
* informing the members of previous and future activities from committees and local chapters
* discuss important issues and take decisions

+ These two are formal reports that make it an AGM

== Format ==

The AGM itself will be a succession of lightning talks (presentations limited to three or four minutes) given by you in your role as Local Chapter representative, Chair of a committee, representative of a software project, OSGeo director or administrator or whatever else makes up OSGeo. If you feel like you have to say something please add yourself to the list.

=== Lightning Reports / Talks ===

foundation:
* [[Venkatesh Raghavan]] President, OSGeo - OSGeo status overview (formal requirement)
* [[User:Jachym | Jachym - Secretary]] - Secretary's brief report (formal requirement)
* [[User:Michael_Smith | Mike - Treasurer]] - Treasure's brief report (formal requirement)
* [[User:Vasile | Vasile Crăciunescu ]] - 2016 elections

project officers:
* GeoTools Report - [[User:Jive | Jody Garnett ]]
* GeoServer Report - [[User:Simboss | Simone Giannecchini]]
* istSOS Report - [[User:Mantonovic | Milan Antonovic ]]

local chapters:
* [[FOSSGIS e.V.]] - German language Local Chapter report by [[User:Mlechner | Marco Lechner]]
* [[Europe]] - Chapter in formation report by [[User:Dirkf | Dirkf]]
* [[Korea | OSGeo Korean Chapter]] Report by [[User:endofcap | Sanghee ]]
* [[Finland | OSGeo Finland]] Report by [[Kari_Salovaara]]
* [[Czech | OSGeo Czech republic]] Report by [[Jachym Cepicky]]
* [https://osgeo.nl OSGeo Dutch Language Chapter] Report by [[Gert-Jan_van_der_Weijden]]
* [[Japan | OSGeo Japan Chapter]] Report by [[User:moritoru | Toru Mori ]]
* [http://geo-spatial.org/ OSGeo Romanian Chapter] Report by [[User:Codrina|Codrina Ilie]]
* [http://www.gfoss.it OSGeo Italian Chapter] Report by [[User:Lucadelu|Luca Delucchi]]
* ''add your name and topic''

committees:
* Incubation Report - [[User:Jive | Jody Garnett ]]
* Code of Conduct Committee - [[User:Stevenfeldman | Steven Feldman ]]
* Conference Committee (?)
* Finance Committee (?)
* Geo for All - [[Venkatesh Raghavan]]
* Marketing Committee [[User:Marc_Vloemans | Marc Vloemans]]
* Open GeoScience Committee (Maxi or Peter)
* Public Geospatial Data Committee (?)
* System Administration Committee (SAC) (?)
* UN Committee [[User:Maxi71 | Massimiliano Cannata ]]
* Website Committee (?)

This event ends *promptly* to allow attendees to walk to the gala event!

== Alternative format ==

Alternate format suggested, time permitting.

* introduction from the board (budget, activities, etc.)
* lighting talk from comm & chapters
* questions and discussion with the board (with a call for questions before of the meeting)

== Open Q&A from OSGeo Members (and anybody interested) ==

* ''add your name and question (or discussion topic)''

[[Category: Annual General Meeting]]
[[Category: FOSS4G2016]]

User:Mlechner

2013-09-24T09:57:20Z

Wiki-Mlechner:

'''Marco Lechner'''

;OSGeo Experience [[File:OSGeo_charter.png]] [[File:FOSSGIS_OSGeo_DACH.png]] [[File:OSGeo_user.png]] [[File:OSGeo_committee.png]]
* Charter member (since 2013)
* president of FOSSGIS e.V. / OSGeo local chapter D-A-CH
* member of Orga-Team of FOSSGIS-conference

;contact
[http://www.fossgis.de FOSSGIS e.V./OSGeo D-A-CH] 
[mailto:marco.lechner@fossgis.de marco.lechner@fossgis.de] 
[https://twitter.com/marcolechner twitter: @marcolechner]

;occupation
[http://www.webgis.de in medias res GmbH] 
Schwimmbadstr. 2 
D-79100 Freiburg 
[mailto:lechner@webgis.de lechner@webgis.de]

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2013-09-24T09:53:43Z

Wiki-Mlechner:

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2013-09-24T09:52:39Z

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small logo of FOSSGIS e.V. / OSGeo local chapter D-A-CH

User:Mlechner

2013-09-24T09:35:54Z

Wiki-Mlechner:

'''Marco Lechner'''

;OSGeo Experience [[File:OSGeo_charter.png]] [[File:OSGeo_user.png]]
* Charter member (since 2013)
* president of FOSSGIS e.V. / OSGeo local chapter D-A-CH
* member of Orga-Team of FOSSGIS-conference

;contact
[http://www.fossgis.de FOSSGIS e.V./OSGeo D-A-CH] 
[mailto:marco.lechner@fossgis.de marco.lechner@fossgis.de] 
[https://twitter.com/marcolechner twitter: @marcolechner]

;occupation
[http://www.webgis.de in medias res GmbH] 
Schwimmbadstr. 2 
D-79100 Freiburg 
[mailto:lechner@webgis.de lechner@webgis.de]

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User:Mlechner

2013-09-24T09:25:59Z

Wiki-Mlechner:

'''Marco Lechner'''

- president of FOSSGIS e.V. 
- OSGeo contact local chapter D-A-CH 
- member of Orga-Team of FOSSGIS-conference 

[http://www.fossgis.de FOSSGIS e.V./OSGeo D-A-CH] 
[mailto:marco.lechner@fossgis.de marco.lechner@fossgis.de]

[http://www.webgis.de in medias res GmbH] 
Schwimmbadstr. 2 
D-79100 Freiburg 
[mailto:lechner@webgis.de lechner@webgis.de]

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User:Mlechner

2013-09-24T09:23:44Z

Wiki-Mlechner:

'''Marco Lechner'''

- president of FOSSGIS e.V. 
- OSGeo contact local chapter D-A-CH 
- member of Orga-Team of FOSSGIS-conference 

[http://www.fossgis.de FOSSGIS e.V./OSGeo D-A-CH] 
[mailto:marco.lechner@fossgis.de marco.lechner@fossgis.de]

[http://www.webgis.de in medias res GmbH] 
Schwimmbadstr. 2 
D-79100 Freiburg 
[mailto:lechner@webgis.de lechner@webgis.de]

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User:Mlechner

2013-09-24T09:16:31Z

Wiki-Mlechner:

SDI Committee

2013-09-24T09:12:21Z

Wiki-Mlechner: /* Communication */

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'''NOTE:''' This wiki page was created based on discussion on the [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-May/011709.html mailing list]. The OSGeo SDI Committee was not established yet. This wiki page is to be used for the committee's establishing.
</div>

== About ==
A spatial data infrastructure (SDI) is a data infrastructure implementing a framework of geographic data, metadata, users and tools that are interactively connected in order to use spatial data in an efficient and flexible way. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_data_infrastructure Wikipedia:SDI]

OSGeo considers the ability of its software projects to implement various SDIs an important feature for organizations around the world.

=== Software components of SDIs ===
Basic software components of SDI are:

* catalogue service
* spatial data service
* processing services
* spatial data repository

* Client software (desktop and web) communicates via standards to those services, which interacts directly with the user. It enables download, display, query, analysis and updating spatial data.

OSGeo projects cover all these software components. Some of them are covered by multiple OSGeo projects.

=== Standards ===
Most SDIs are related to [http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/is OGC standards] (OGC OWS) as well as [http://www.iso.org/iso/home/standards.htm ISO]. They are all well implemented in OSGeo projects.

=== Current SDIs ===
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOSS GEOSS] Global Earth Observation System of Systems. 2005-2015
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMES GMES] Global Monitoring for Environment and Security. Should be fully operational during 2014
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INSPIRE INSPIRE] Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community. See also [[INSPIRE]]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNSDI UNSDI] United Nations Spatial Data Infrastructure
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Spatial_Data_Infrastructure NSDI] National Spatial Data Infrastructure
* [http://cgdi.ca/ CGDI] Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure
* ''add more here''

== Goals ==
* Coordinate efforts of development teams
* Help to make OSGeo software stack the best choice for SDIs implementation
* Promote OSGeo software stack, as the best choice for SDIs implementation
* ...

== Methods ==
* Checklists
* Tests
* Reference implementations
* ''Relevant'' case studies

== Communication ==
* Until it wont fit our needs, we are using [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/inspire-data inspire-data at lists.osgeo.org] - please feel free to join us.
* IRC meetings
** how often should meetings occur?
* Google+ group? so that it is possible also to make a fast call

== Members ==
* [[user: jachym | Jáchym Čepický]]
* [[user: tomkralidis | Tom Kralidis]]
* [[user: Stranger | Andreas Schmitz]]
* [[user: kwilcox| Kyle Wilcox]]
* [[user: maxi71 | Massimiliano Cannata]]
* [[user: Vasile | Vasile Crăciunescu]]
* [[user: Mlechner | Marco Lechner]]
* [[user: JoCook | Jo Cook]]
* [[user: Huwer | Rafal Wawer]]
* [[User: Madi | Margherita Di Leo]]
* [[User: aaime | Andrea Aime]]
* [[User: maria | Maria Brovelli]]
* [[User:ticheler | Jeroen Ticheler]]
* [[Arnulf Christl]]
* [[User:pcav | Paolo Cavallini]]
* [[User: stevenfeldman | Steven Feldman]]
* [[User: Sanand | Suchith Anand]]
* [[User: Schpidi | Stephan Meissl]]
* [[User: serenacoetzee | Serena Coetzee]]

* ''Add your name, if you would like to be active member of the committee''

[[Category:Committees]]
[[Category:INSPIRE]]

FOSS4G 2013 BirdsOfAFeather

2013-09-20T09:04:32Z

Wiki-Mlechner: /* OSGeo INSPIRE/SDI activities */

[[Category:FOSS4G]]
[[Category:FOSS4G2013]]

= Introduction =
During the [http://2013.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G2013 conference] in Nottingham, UK, there will be a number of spaces for people to hold Birds of a Feather sessions.

Birds of a Feather sessions are unstructured timeslots where people can self organise themselves to discuss topics of interest.

==Organising Contact==
* [[User:ian|Ian Edwards]]

==Timeslots Available==

''Please check this page regularly before your session since some times/locations may change.''

= Birds of a feather organization =

If you would like to suggest a Birds of a Feather session, follow these guidelines:
* create a section below for your 'BOF'
* have people edit this page to indicate they will be attending
* you must provide a contact person who can manage the meeting
* also make your description as clear as possible, for many attendees it will be the only thing they read before choosing one
-->

= BOF sessions =

== Early Birds ==

* When - Sunday 15th September, 21:00 in '''Orchard Hotel Bar'''

A chance to meet up preconference for those of us who are arriving extra early.

Who is coming:
* [[User:ian|Ian Edwards]]
* [[Jorge Sanz]]

== Education and ICA-OSGeo Labs meeting ==

The aim is to update latest developments in the education efforts and progress update on the ICA-OSGeo Labs network and update members on future plans

* When - Friday 20th September at 09:00 -10:00 in the GeoCamp Marquee

Specific topics:

* Welcome and overview -Suchith
* ICC 2013 update- Suchith
* "Open Geospatial Science & Applications Webinar Series" plans - All
* GeoMOOC ideas - Phillip Davis
* Curriculum discussion - All
* ELOGeo update - Suchith, Jeremy
* Setting up an Advisory Board - All
* Website update - All
* NASA Europa Challenge - Maria
* Responsibilities (moving forward (subcommittee chairs))
* COST Action - Maria
* Updates on bid opportunities focusing on H2020 -All
* Updates on relevant training opportunities -All
* AOB
* Next telemeeting date

Who is coming:
* [[Jeff McKenna]], OSGeo President
* [[User:Sanand|Suchith Anand]], University of Nottingham
* [[User:Jds|Jason Sadler]], GeoData Institute, University of Southampton
* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]], Politecnico di Milano
* [[User:Lluís|Lluís Vicens]], SIGTE - Universitat de Girona
* [[User:Lu_delazari|Luciene Delazari]], UFPR/Brazil
* [[User:fjbehr|Franz-Josef Behr]], Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences
* [[User:Maxi71|Massimiliano Cannata]], University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI)
* [[Arnulf Christl]], metaspatial Institute
* [[Phil James]], Newcastle University
* [[User:Jgrocha|Jorge Rocha]], Universidade do Minho

Apologies:
* [[User:BarendKobben|Barend Köbben]] - Sorry, chairing a session...

== COST Action meeting ==

The aim is to discuss about next COST Action proposal "Smart environmental applications using free and open data and technologies"

* When - Friday 20th September at 10:00 -11:00 in the GeoCamp Marquee

Who is coming:

* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]], Politecnico di Milano
* Marco Minghini, Politecnico di Milano
* Peter Baumann, Jacobs University
* [[User:BarendKobben|Barend Köbben]], ITC - University Twente (when not busy on LOC duties...)
* [[User:Maxi71|Massimiliano Cannata]], University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI)
* [[User:Lluís|Lluís Vicens]], SIGTE - University of Girona
* [[User:philjames|Phil James]], Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Newcastle University, UK
* [[User:Jgrocha|Jorge Rocha]], Universidade do Minho

== OSGeo Local Chapter meetup ==

* When - Saturday 21st September, '''Breakfast meeting''': 08:00 - 09:00 in '''Restaurant of Rutland Hall'''

* We'll have a table / space for each local chapter
* Existing members can hang out, and new people can find out about their local chapter, while having breakfast...
* Consider bringing something local to decorate your space - a small table-top flag, cloth or just leaflets describing your chapter
* Contact [[User:ian|Ian Edwards]] or update your chapter details below to take part

Who is coming:
* [http://www.osgeo.org/uk OSGeo:UK]. (chapter contact: [[User:ian|Ian Edwards]]) [''We'll be holding our Annual General Meeting - join us'']
* Dutch Language Chapter [http://osgeo.nl OSGEO.nl]. (chapter contact: [[User:Just|Just van den Broecke]], [[BarendKobben|Barend Köbben]])
* German Language Chapter [http://www.fossgis.de FOSSGIS e.V.]. (chapter contact: [[User:Mlechner|Marco Lechner]])
* Korean Language Chapter [http://www.osgeo.kr OSGeo Korean Chapter]. (chapter contact:[[User:endofcap|Sanghee Shin]])
* [[Español|Spanish Language Chapter]] (chapter contact: [[User:Delawen|María Arias]], [[OSGeo-es en el FOSS4G2013|coordination]])
* Capítulo Português (chapter contact: [[User:Jgrocha|Jorge Rocha]])
* Add your chapter details here...
* [[User:pcreso|Brent Wood]] Australia/NZ (depends on timing)
Note: The '''OSGeo AGM''' is taking place on Friday evening from 6pm-7pm, see: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Annual_General_Meeting_2013

== Sensor Web BOF ==

Time Slot: Sometime during Friday

Topics:
* Sensor Web is gaining more and more relevance in many SDI frameworks as well as in the INSPIRE context
* Discuss on-going implementation activities
* Exchange on practical experiences how to bring sensor and observation data into SDIs
* What are new, upcoming challenges?

Who is coming:
* Simon Jirka (52°North)
* Paul van Genuchten (Geocat)
* Peter Baumann (rasdaman), if ever possible
* Brent Wood (NIWA) depending when
* Massimiliano Cannata (SUPSI) depending when

== Maps and Metadata BOF ==

Time Slot: Currently planned for Friday 20th September at 17:30 in the GeoCamp Marquee

Topics:
* improving interoperability between the open source metadata servers (pycsw, ckan, hs, geonetwork, gicat, 52north, deegree, ...) and clients (catmdedit, hs, geonode, qgis, esri, mapwindow, openlayers, geoext/gxp/heron, ...)
** CSW OSGeo profile?
* Faceted search extensions
* metadata links articulation
* spatial relevance algorithms
* CSW 3, OpenSearch, Mass Market, Linked Data (rdf/sparql)
* future CSW Shootout?

Who is coming:
* [[User:Tomkralidis|Tom Kralidis]] (pycsw) (via irc)
* [[User:ortelius|Jeffrey Johnson]] (GeoNode maintainer)
* [[User:Genuchten|Paul van Genuchten]] (GeoCat/Geonetwork)
* [[User:juanluisrp|Juan Luis Rodríguez]] (GeoCat/Geonetwork)
* [[User:kalxas|Angelos Tzotsos]] (pycsw)
* [[User:Schpidi|Stephan Meissl]]
* [[User:bartvde|Bart van den Eijnden]]
* [[User:capooti|Paolo Corti]] (GeoNode)
* [[Arnulf Christl]] (metaspatial)
* [[User:Amercader|Adrià Mercader]] (CKAN)
* [[User:pcreso|Brent Wood]] (NIWA)
* [[User:Thomas_G|Thomas Gratier]]

== LocationTech BOF ==

Come share a pint with some folks from LocationTech.

* When - 7:30pm at The Round House Royal Standard Place, Nottingham, NG1 6FS

Who is coming:
* [[User:Jive|Jody Garnett]]
* [[User:aross|Andrew Ross]]
* [[User:Fgdrf|Frank Gasdorf]]
* [[User:rcheetham|Robert Cheetham]]
* Richard Burcher
* Eddie Pickle
* Denise McKenzie
* Daniel Morissette (might be a bit late)
* Thanh Ha

== OSGeo INSPIRE/SDI activities ==
Based on the discussion in OSGeo-Discuss list [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-May/011709.html], the INPIRE/SDI BoF shall be a starting point for OSGeo being more active in SDIs. In particular [http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/ europes INSPIRE directive] has a big impact in all days work with geodata and national SDIs.

Time Slot: Currently planned for Friday 20th September during luchtime (13:30-14:00/14:15)

Where: because this BOF is during lunchtime GeoCamp will be very crowded. Therefore this BOF will take place in '''Gallery 1''' one of the rooms just upstairs the welcome desk

Who is coming:
* [[User:Mlechner|Marco Lechner]], [http://www.fossgis.de OSGeo D-A-CH/FOSSGIS e.V.]
* [[User:dirkf|Dirk Frigne]], [http://www.geomajas.org geomajas.org]
* [[User:jachym|Jachym Cepicky]]
* [[User:Sanand|Suchith Anand]]
* [[User:Just|Just van den Broecke]]
* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]], Politecnico di Milano
* [[User:Schpidi|Stephan Meissl]]
* [[User:Maxi71|Massimiliano Cannata]], University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI)

* ...

== OGC/OSGeo meet up ==
OGC and OSGeo have always been strongly linked, from our common roots in the early open source geospatial community, our 2008 MoU, and the ongoing benefits we continue to realize from each other's activities. As both organisations continue to lead at the top of their respective fields, are there ways that we can work more closely and provide greater support for each other's work?

This BoF is intended as an informal meet up to hear people's thoughts and suggestions.

* When - Friday 20th September, 08:00 - 09:00 in the GeoCamp Marquee.
'''since this page has always said that the OSGeo/OGC BoF will be in the marquee we will go ahead and meet there. Please ignore the confusion of the suggestion to meet in student halls'''

Who is coming:
* Denise McKenzie, OGC Marketing and Communications
* [[User:ian|Ian Edwards]], OSGeo UK/WebCom, OGC member
* [[User:Mlechner|Marco Lechner]], [http://www.fossgis.de OSGeo D-A-CH/FOSSGIS e.V.]
* [[Jeff McKenna]], OSGeo President
* [[User:Sanand|Suchith Anand]], OSGeo member, OGC member
* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]], Politecnico di Milano, OSGeo member, OGC member
* [[User:jachym|Jachym Cepicky]]
* [[User:Schpidi|Stephan Meissl]]
* Peter Baumann (rasdaman)
* [[User:pcreso|Brent Wood]] (NIWA, OGC member)

See also: http://external.opengeospatial.org/twiki_public/Ideas4OGC

== OSGeo-Live ==
Ideas for [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live] BOF (which might spill into a [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2013_Code_Sprint Code Sprint] with sufficient interest):
* Discuss strategy for improving translation process
* Work out a strategy for printing and distributing DVDs / USBs, and paying for them. The hard part is working out how to process 50+ requests for DVDs per year.
* Many of the quickstarts need review/tweaks. A day of people running quickstarts, reporting issues, capturing screen shots, would greatly benefit the project. It would be a great introduction for someone to both OSGeo software, and the Open Source development process, as well as being a very valuable contribution to the community.

;Topics
* '''(please add or change the topics if the definition is not clear defined or in pigeon english)'''
* How to create PDF documentation?
* i18n
* Work on a vargant solution http://www.vagrantup.com/
* Online use of OSGeo-Live (upload the iso and then test it in the cloud)
* get involved in the EDU team
* What about using Transiflex? https://www.transifex.com/
* Shall we move to github or Gitorious ..? Does OSGeo provides a git server?
* Does OSGeo provide a server to make builds like Jenkins?
* proxy - Solution to ony set the proxy one time
* Quickstart - use data from all the programms. Do not use your own data: Goal: work on a common dataset
* Did you know about the installation link on the desktop, to refer to other packages?
* solution were you only can install the packages you want
* apt-get install osgeolive osgeolive-doc
* Solution for documnetation that you can localy update
* What about making a book?
* PostCards

Time Slot: Thursday, 19th, 6-7pm (Room : 3 at EMCC)

Who is coming:
* [[User:kalxas|Angelos Tzotsos]] (OSGeoLive developer)
* [[Jorge Sanz]] - OSGeo Live gvSIG package maintainer and Spanish translator
* [[User:lucadelu|Luca Delucchi]] - OSGeo Live Italian translator
* [[User:Schpidi|Stephan Meissl]]
* [[User:Fgdrf|Frank Gasdorf]] - uDIG and GeoServer maintainer & German translator
* [[User:johanvdw|Johan Van de Wauw]] - maintainer and dev
* [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]] - Mapbender maintainer & German translator
* [[User:Thomas_G|Thomas Gratier]] - Mapserver & Osgeo Live French translator

Please join also the [[FOSS4G_2013_BirdsOfAFeather#Education_and_ICA-OSGeo_Labs_meeting]] Fr 9-10 am

== InaSAFE BOF ==

Time Slot and location: Thursday 19th 5:30 - 6:30pm at GeoCamp Marquee; Please fill the [http://doodle.com/6g2x2umpwwarazs9 Doodle]

Great opportunity for the distributed network of developers and users to meet each other and discuss InaSAFE [http://inasafe.org/] as well as for newcomers and workshop attendants [http://2013.foss4g.org/conf/programme/workshops/9/] to become involved in the community.

Topics:
* use cases: past experiences, future plans
* documentation and training material
* road map

Who is coming:
* [[User:vdeparday| Vivien Deparday]] (GFDRR - World Bank)
* [[User:amaneiro| Andrés Maneiro]], developer @ [http://icarto.es iCarto]
* [[User:capooti|Paolo Corti]] (GeoNode)
* [[User:timlinux|Tim Sutton]] (Linfiniti)
* [[User:vanpuk|Kristy Van Putten]] (AIFDR-GA)

== ELOGeo - learning materials for FOSS-GIS ==

Time Slot and location: Friday, 1-1:30pm, GeoCamp (marquee)

The ELOGeo platform has been set up as a means for the community to share learning resources for FOSS GIS under a Creative Commons 3 licence. We at the University of Nottingham have some additional funding to work on functionality and design of the system, and we're interested in some community views on this. Please come along to say what you think! (Not usually a problem in OSGeo...) We'll have some design ideas for you to think about, and questions about the content & access.

Topics:
* how useful is the current collection of materials?
* organisation: what are good ways to tag or organise the collection?
* design: how could this be improved?

Who is coming:
* [[User:jmorley| Jeremy Morley]] (Nottingham Geospatial Institute)
* Adam Rousell (Nottingham Geospatial Institute)

== The Future of GeoExt BOF ==

Time Slot and location: Friday, 15:30-16:30pm, GeoCamp (marquee)

GeoExt brings together the geospatial know how of OpenLayers with the user interface savvy of Ext JS to help you build powerful desktop style GIS apps on the web with JavaScript. With the development of OpenLayers 3, does it make sense to create GeoExt 3 ?

Topics:
* GeoExt 3 ?
* Possible alternatives ?
* is it possible to implement a front-end GeoServer client via REST?

Who is coming:
* [[User:cmoullet| Cédric Moullet]] (swisstopo)
* [[User:IanMayo|Ian Mayo]]
* [[User:Delawen|Maria Arias de Reyna]] (geocat/geonetwork) if I can make it
* [[User:Lads| Luís de Sousa (CRP Henri Tudor)]]
* [[User:Just|Just van den Broecke]]
----

More information on other Birds of a Feather sessions will be added here before the event
See [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_BirdsOfAFeather FOSS4G 2009 Birds of a Feather] for inspiration!

Annual General Meeting 2013

2013-09-19T13:57:23Z

Wiki-Mlechner: /* Lightning Talks */

== Venue / Timing ==
* Friday Sept 20th, 6pm to 7pm, @FOSS4G2013 in the Auditorium (end of Day2 of talks)
* 1 hour long (can go later if necessary)

== Description ==
The Annual General Meeting for OSGeo is open to everybody. The goal is to share details of the activities of the foundation, from committees and local chapters all around the world.

Possible format:

The AGM itself will be a succession of lightning talks (presentations limited to three or four minutes) given by you in your role as Local Chapter representative, Chair of a committee, representative of a software project, OSGeo director or administrator or whatever else makes up OSGeo. If you feel like you have to say something please add yourself to the list.

=== Lightning Talks ===

* [[Jeff McKenna]] - OSGeo vision
* [[User:Aghisla|Anne Ghisla]] - [[Google Summer of Code 2013]]
* [[User:Dmorissette|Daniel Morissette]] - OSGeo Treasurer Update
* [[User:Jive|Jody Garnett]] - Incubation Chair Update
* [[User:Jive|Jody Garnett]] - OSGeo AusNZ Local Chapter update
* [[User:Ian|Ian Edwards]] - OSGeo UK Local Chapter update
* [[User:Sanand|Suchith Anand]] - ICA-OSGeo Labs
* [[User:Delawen|María Arias de Reyna]] (if I can make it from my workshop) - OSGeo [[Spanish]] Language Local Chapter update
* Marius Jigmond - Romanian Local Chapter update
* jachym cepicky - foss4g-e 2014
* [[User:mlechner|Marco Lechner]] - lc D-A-CH: where we go
* ''add your name and topic''

== Open Q&A from OSGeo Members (and anybody interested) ==

* ''add your name and question''

[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: FOSS4G2013]]

Annual General Meeting 2013

2013-09-19T13:52:56Z

Wiki-Mlechner: /* Lightning Talks */

== Venue / Timing ==
* Friday Sept 20th, 6pm to 7pm, @FOSS4G2013 in the Auditorium (end of Day2 of talks)
* 1 hour long (can go later if necessary)

== Description ==
The Annual General Meeting for OSGeo is open to everybody. The goal is to share details of the activities of the foundation, from committees and local chapters all around the world.

Possible format:

The AGM itself will be a succession of lightning talks (presentations limited to three or four minutes) given by you in your role as Local Chapter representative, Chair of a committee, representative of a software project, OSGeo director or administrator or whatever else makes up OSGeo. If you feel like you have to say something please add yourself to the list.

=== Lightning Talks ===

* [[Jeff McKenna]] - OSGeo vision
* [[User:Aghisla|Anne Ghisla]] - [[Google Summer of Code 2013]]
* [[User:Dmorissette|Daniel Morissette]] - OSGeo Treasurer Update
* [[User:Jive|Jody Garnett]] - Incubation Chair Update
* [[User:Jive|Jody Garnett]] - OSGeo AusNZ Local Chapter update
* [[User:Ian|Ian Edwards]] - OSGeo UK Local Chapter update
* [[User:Sanand|Suchith Anand]] - ICA-OSGeo Labs
* [[User:Delawen|María Arias de Reyna]] (if I can make it from my workshop) - OSGeo [[Spanish]] Language Local Chapter update
* Marius Jigmond - Romanian Local Chapter update
* jachym cepicky - foss4g-e 2014
* [[User:mlechner|Marco Lechner]] - lc D-A-CH: when is a professional needed?
* ''add your name and topic''

== Open Q&A from OSGeo Members (and anybody interested) ==

* ''add your name and question''

[[Category: FOSS4G]]
[[Category: FOSS4G2013]]

User talk:Ian

2013-09-19T08:17:58Z

Wiki-Mlechner: Created page with "thnx Ian for putting back Jeff, Suchith and Maria. I have no idea why they have been removed. Marco."

thnx Ian for putting back Jeff, Suchith and Maria. I have no idea why they have been removed. Marco.

FOSS4G 2013 BirdsOfAFeather

2013-09-19T08:13:49Z

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[[Category:FOSS4G]]
[[Category:FOSS4G2013]]

= Introduction =
During the [http://2013.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G2013 conference] in Nottingham, UK, there will be a number of spaces for people to hold Birds of a Feather sessions.

Birds of a Feather sessions are unstructured timeslots where people can self organise themselves to discuss topics of interest.

==Organising Contact==
* [[User:ian|Ian Edwards]]

==Timeslots Available==

We'll update this page soon with details of the sessions slots available.



= BOF sessions =

== Early Birds ==

* When - Sunday 15th September, 21:00 in '''Orchard Hotel Bar'''

A chance to meet up preconference for those of us who are arriving extra early.

Who is coming:
* [[User:ian|Ian Edwards]]
* [[Jorge Sanz]]

== Education and ICA-OSGeo Labs meeting ==

The aim is to update latest developments in the education efforts and progress update on the ICA-OSGeo Labs network and update members on future plans

* When - Friday 20th September at 09:00 -10:00 in the GeoCamp Marquee

Specific topics:

* Welcome and overview -Suchith
* ICC 2013 update- Suchith
* "Open Geospatial Science & Applications Webinar Series" plans - All
* GeoMOOC ideas - Phillip Davis
* Curriculum discussion - All
* ELOGeo update - Suchith, Jeremy
* Setting up an Advisory Board - All
* Website update - All
* NASA Europa Challenge - Maria
* Responsibilities (moving forward (subcommittee chairs))
* COST Action - Maria
* Updates on bid opportunities focusing on H2020 -All
* Updates on relevant training opportunities -All
* AOB
* Next telemeeting date

Who is coming:
* [[Jeff McKenna]], OSGeo President
* [[User:Sanand|Suchith Anand]], University of Nottingham
* [[User:Jds|Jason Sadler]], GeoData Institute, University of Southampton
* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]], Politecnico di Milano
* [[User:Lluís|Lluís Vicens]], SIGTE - Universitat de Girona
* [[User:Lu_delazari|Luciene Delazari]], UFPR/Brazil
* [[User:fjbehr|Franz-Josef Behr]], Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences
* [[User:Maxi71|Massimiliano Cannata]], University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI)
* [[Arnulf Christl]], metaspatial Institute

Apologies:
* [[User:BarendKobben|Barend Köbben]] - Sorry, chairing a session...

== COST Action meeting ==

The aim is to discuss about next COST Action proposal "Smart environmental applications using free and open data and technologies"

* When - Friday 20th September at 10:00 -11:00 in the GeoCamp Marquee

Who is coming:

* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]], Politecnico di Milano
* Marco Minghini, Politecnico di Milano
* Peter Baumann, Jacobs University
* [[User:BarendKobben|Barend Köbben]], ITC - University Twente (when not busy on LOC duties...)
* [[User:Maxi71|Massimiliano Cannata]], University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI)
* [[User:Lluís|Lluís Vicens]], SIGTE - University of Girona
* [[User:philjames|Phil James]], Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Newcastle University, UK

== OSGeo Local Chapter meetup ==

* When - Saturday 21st September, '''Breakfast meeting''': 08:00 - 09:00 in '''Restaurant of Rutland Hall'''

* We'll have a table / space for each local chapter
* Existing members can hang out, and new people can find out about their local chapter, while having breakfast...
* Consider bringing something local to decorate your space - a small table-top flag, cloth or just leaflets describing your chapter
* Contact [[User:ian|Ian Edwards]] or update your chapter details below to take part

Who is coming:
* [http://www.osgeo.org/uk OSGeo:UK]. (chapter contact: [[User:ian|Ian Edwards]]) [''We'll be holding our Annual General Meeting - join us'']
* Dutch Language Chapter [http://osgeo.nl OSGEO.nl]. (chapter contact: [[User:Just|Just van den Broecke]], [[BarendKobben|Barend Köbben]])
* German Language Chapter [http://www.fossgis.de FOSSGIS e.V.]. (chapter contact: [[User:Mlechner|Marco Lechner]])
* Korean Language Chapter [http://www.osgeo.kr OSGeo Korean Chapter]. (chapter contact:[[User:endofcap|Sanghee Shin]])
* [[Español|Spanish Language Chapter]] (chapter contact: [[User:Delawen|María Arias]], [[OSGeo-es en el FOSS4G2013|coordination]])
* [http://www.osgeopt.pt/ Chapter of Portugal]. Contact: [[User:Jgrocha|Jorge Rocha]]
* Add your chapter details here...
* [[User:pcreso|Brent Wood]] Australia/NZ (depends on timing)
Note: The '''OSGeo AGM''' is taking place on Friday evening from 6pm-7pm, see: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Annual_General_Meeting_2013

== Sensor Web BOF ==

Time Slot: Sometime during Friday

Topics:
* Sensor Web is gaining more and more relevance in many SDI frameworks as well as in the INSPIRE context
* Discuss on-going implementation activities
* Exchange on practical experiences how to bring sensor and observation data into SDIs
* What are new, upcoming challenges?

Who is coming:
* Simon Jirka (52°North)
* Paul van Genuchten (Geocat)
* Peter Baumann (rasdaman), if ever possible
* Brent Wood (NIWA) depending when

== Maps and Metadata BOF ==

Time Slot: Currently planned for Friday 20th September at 17:30 in the GeoCamp Marquee

Topics:
* improving interoperability between the open source metadata servers (pycsw, ckan, hs, geonetwork, gicat, 52north, deegree, ...) and clients (catmdedit, hs, geonode, qgis, esri, mapwindow, openlayers, geoext/gxp/heron, ...)
** CSW OSGeo profile?
* Faceted search extensions
* metadata links articulation
* spatial relevance algorithms
* CSW 3, OpenSearch, Mass Market, Linked Data (rdf/sparql)
* future CSW Shootout?

Who is coming:
* [[User:Tomkralidis|Tom Kralidis]] (pycsw) (via irc)
* [[User:ortelius|Jeffrey Johnson]] (GeoNode maintainer)
* [[User:Genuchten|Paul van Genuchten]] (GeoCat/Geonetwork)
* [[User:juanluisrp|Juan Luis Rodríguez]] (GeoCat/Geonetwork)
* [[User:kalxas|Angelos Tzotsos]] (pycsw)
* [[User:Schpidi|Stephan Meissl]]
* [[User:bartvde|Bart van den Eijnden]]
* [[User:capooti|Paolo Corti]] (GeoNode)
* [[Arnulf Christl]] (metaspatial)
* [[User:Amercader|Adrià Mercader]] (CKAN)
* [[User:pcreso|Brent Wood]] (NIWA)
* [[User:Thomas_G|Thomas Gratier]]

== Join a Software Foundation - OSGeo and LocationTech BOF ==

You owe it to your project, your users and yourself. Discussion and Q & A with OSGeo Incubation (and LocationTech?).

* When - TBC

Who is coming:
* [[User:Jive|Jody Garnett]]
* [[User:aross|Andrew Ross]]
* [[User:Fgdrf|Frank Gasdorf]]
* [[User:rcheetham|Robert Cheetham]]

== Mind the gaps ==

A hopefully fun brainstorming session and technology geek-out. As technology continues to evolve what are some of the gaps (& esp. open source) that may emerge in the future?

* When - TBC

Who is coming:
* [[User:aross|Andrew Ross]]

== OSGeo INSPIRE/SDI activities ==
Based on the discussion in OSGeo-Discuss list [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-May/011709.html], the INPIRE/SDI BoF shall be a starting point for OSGeo being more active in SDIs. In particular [http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/ europes INSPIRE directive] has a big impact in all days work with geodata and national SDIs.

Time Slot: Currently planned for Friday 20th September during luchtime (13:30-14:00/14:15) - place will be announced soon

Who is coming:
* [[User:Mlechner|Marco Lechner]], [http://www.fossgis.de OSGeo D-A-CH/FOSSGIS e.V.]
* [[User:dirkf|Dirk Frigne]], [http://www.geomajas.org geomajas.org]
* [[User:jachym|Jachym Cepicky]]
* [[User:Sanand|Suchith Anand]]
* [[User:Just|Just van den Broecke]]
* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]], Politecnico di Milano
* [[User:Schpidi|Stephan Meissl]]
* [[User:Maxi71|Massimiliano Cannata]], University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI)

* ...

== OGC/OSGeo meet up ==
OGC and OSGeo have always been strongly linked, from our common roots in the early open source geospatial community, our 2008 MoU, and the ongoing benefits we continue to realize from each other's activities. As both organisations continue to lead at the top of their respective fields, are there ways that we can work more closely and provide greater support for each other's work?

This BoF is intended as an informal meet up to hear people's thoughts and suggestions.

* When - Friday 20th September, 08:00 - 09:00 in the GeoCamp Marquee

Who is coming:
* Denise McKenzie, OGC Marketing and Communications
* [[User:ian|Ian Edwards]], OSGeo UK/WebCom, OGC member
* [[User:Mlechner|Marco Lechner]], [http://www.fossgis.de OSGeo D-A-CH/FOSSGIS e.V.]
* [[Jeff McKenna]], OSGeo President
* [[User:Sanand|Suchith Anand]], OSGeo member, OGC member
* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]], Politecnico di Milano, OSGeo member, OGC member
* [[User:jachym|Jachym Cepicky]]
* [[User:Schpidi|Stephan Meissl]]
* Peter Baumann (rasdaman)
* [[User:pcreso|Brent Wood]] (NIWA, OGC member)

== OSGeo-Live ==
Ideas for [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live] BOF (which might spill into a [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2013_Code_Sprint Code Sprint] with sufficient interest):
* Discuss strategy for improving translation process
* Work out a strategy for printing and distributing DVDs / USBs, and paying for them. The hard part is working out how to process 50+ requests for DVDs per year.
* Many of the quickstarts need review/tweaks. A day of people running quickstarts, reporting issues, capturing screen shots, would greatly benefit the project. It would be a great introduction for someone to both OSGeo software, and the Open Source development process, as well as being a very valuable contribution to the community.

;Topics
* How to create PDF documentation.
* PostCards

Time Slot: ??

Who is coming:
* [[User:kalxas|Angelos Tzotsos]] (OSGeoLive developer)
* [[Jorge Sanz]] - OSGeo Live gvSIG package maintainer and Spanish translator
* [[User:lucadelu|Luca Delucchi]] - OSGeo Live Italian translator
* [[User:Schpidi|Stephan Meissl]]
* [[User:Fgdrf|Frank Gasdorf]] - uDIG and GeoServer maintainer & German translator
* [[User:johanvdw|Johan Van de Wauw]] - maintainer and dev
* [[User:Astrid Emde|Astrid Emde]] - Mapbender maintainer & German translator
* [[User:Thomas_G|Thomas Gratier]] - Mapserver & Osgeo Live French translator

Please join also the [[FOSS4G_2013_BirdsOfAFeather#Education_and_ICA-OSGeo_Labs_meeting]] Fr 9-10 am

== InaSAFE BOF ==

Time Slot and location: Thursday 19th 5:30 - 6:30pm at GeoCamp Marquee; Please fill the [http://doodle.com/6g2x2umpwwarazs9 Doodle]

Great opportunity for the distributed network of developers and users to meet each other and discuss InaSAFE [http://inasafe.org/] as well as for newcomers and workshop attendants [http://2013.foss4g.org/conf/programme/workshops/9/] to become involved in the community.

Topics:
* use cases: past experiences, future plans
* documentation and training material
* road map

Who is coming:
* [[User:vdeparday| Vivien Deparday]] (GFDRR - World Bank)
* [[User:amaneiro| Andrés Maneiro]], developer @ [http://icarto.es iCarto]
* [[User:capooti|Paolo Corti]] (GeoNode)
* [[User:timlinux|Tim Sutton]] (Linfiniti)

== ELOGeo - learning materials for FOSS-GIS ==

Time Slot and location: Friday, 1-1:30pm, GeoCamp (marquee)

The ELOGeo platform has been set up as a means for the community to share learning resources for FOSS GIS under a Creative Commons 3 licence. We at the University of Nottingham have some additional funding to work on functionality and design of the system, and we're interested in some community views on this. Please come along to say what you think! (Not usually a problem in OSGeo...) We'll have some design ideas for you to think about, and questions about the content & access.

Topics:
* how useful is the current collection of materials?
* organisation: what are good ways to tag or organise the collection?
* design: how could this be improved?

Who is coming:
* [[User:jmorley| Jeremy Morley]] (Nottingham Geospatial Institute)
* Adam Rousell (Nottingham Geospatial Institute)

== The Future of GeoExt BOF ==

Time Slot and location: Friday, 15:30-16:30pm, GeoCamp (marquee)

GeoExt brings together the geospatial know how of OpenLayers with the user interface savvy of Ext JS to help you build powerful desktop style GIS apps on the web with JavaScript. With the development of OpenLayers 3, does it make sense to create GeoExt 3 ?

Topics:
* GeoExt 3 ?
* Possible alternatives ?
* is it possible to implement a front-end GeoServer client via REST?

Who is coming:
* [[User:cmoullet| Cédric Moullet]] (swisstopo)
* [[User:IanMayo|Ian Mayo]]
* [[User:Delawen|Maria Arias de Reyna]] (geocat/geonetwork) if I can make it
----

More information on other Birds of a Feather sessions will be added here before the event
See [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_BirdsOfAFeather FOSS4G 2009 Birds of a Feather] for inspiration!

FOSS4G 2013 BirdsOfAFeather

2013-08-23T08:54:38Z

Wiki-Mlechner: /* OGC/OSGeo meet up */

FOSS4G 2013 BirdsOfAFeather

2013-08-19T16:40:28Z

Wiki-Mlechner: /* OGC/OSGeo meet up */

FOSS4G 2013 BirdsOfAFeather

2013-08-19T16:40:08Z

Wiki-Mlechner: /* OGC/OSGeo meet up */

Geoservices REST API

2013-06-19T21:21:59Z

Wiki-Mlechner: /* Signed */

This page aims to collate community concerns related to the adoption of the "Geoservices REST API" document as a standard of the [http://www.opengeospatial.org/ Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)]. The page has been collaboratively edited, and delivered by the board of the [http://osgeo.org OSGeo Foundation (OSGeo)] to the OGC and OGC voting members on Friday 17 May 2013.

The version of the document delivered can be found here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=Geoservices_REST_API&oldid=71311

= Cover Letter from the OSGeo Board =

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

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

= Open Letter to OGC and voting members =

May 2013

We, the undersigned, have concerns that approving the "Geoservices REST API" as an OGC standard, will 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. These concerns are described below.

== Signed ==

# [[User:camerons|Cameron Shorter]], Geospatial Solutions Director at [http://lisasoft.com LISAsoft], core contributor & coordinator of [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live], OSGeo Board member
# [[Mark Lucas]], Founding member and board of directors for OSGeo foundation, Principal Scientist for RadiantBlue Technologies Inc.
# [[User:Woodbri|Stephen Woodbridge]], Director of [http://imaptools.com iMaptools.com], Contributor and/or PSC of [http://mapserver.org Mapserver], [http://pgrouting.org/ pgRouting], [http://www.pagcgeo.org/ PAGC], and [http://www.postgis.org/ PostGIS]
# [[User:rouault|Even Rouault]], Geospatial developer, OSGeo Charter Member, core contributor and PSC member of [http://gdal.org GDAL/OGR], contributor of [http://mapserver.org Mapserver], [http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/ PROJ.4], [http://trac.osgeo.org/geotiff/ libgeotiff], [http://shapelib.maptools.org/ shapelib], [http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/ libtiff]
# Gerhard Triebnig, Managing Director at [http://eox.at EOX IT Services GmbH]
# [[User:pcreso|Brent Wood]], Environmental Information Delivery Programme Leader, NIWA, New Zealand. OGC member, Aust/NZ OSGEO chapter member, NZOSS Council member
# [[User:Schpidi|Stephan Meissl]], CTO at [http://eox.at EOX IT Services GmbH], contributor to [http://mapserver.org Mapserver], PSC chair of [http://eoxserver.org EOxServer]
# [[User:ticheler|Jeroen Ticheler]], Director of [http://geocat.net GeoCat], project founder and PSC chair of [http://geonetwork-opensource.org GeoNetwork opensource]
# [[User:Just|Just van den Broecke]], Director at [http://www.justobjects.nl Just Objects], contributor to [http://heron-mc.org Heron Mapping Client], secretary of [http://osgeo.nl OSGeo Dutch Local Chapter], member at [http://www.opengeogroep.nl OpenGeoGroep]
# [[User:milovanderlinden|Milo van der Linden]], member at [http://www.opengeogroep.nl OpenGeoGroep]
# [[User:surveyor|Landon Blake]], GIS Department Manager/Land Surveyor at [http://www.ksninc.com KSN], OSGeo California Chapter Board Representative.
# [[User:dmorissette|Daniel Morissette]], President at [http://mapgears.com/ Mapgears], OSGeo Board member, 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 specs in MapServer.
# [[User:blammo|Bob Basques]], GIS Systems Developer at the City of Saint Paul, MN. [http://gis.ci.stpaul.mn.us Public Works GIS (GISmo)], Technical Director at [http://www.sharedgeo.org SharedGeo], OSGeo Charter Member, OSGeo TCMUG local chapter member, Co-founder and PSC member of [http://www.geomoose.org GeoMoose] project.
# [[User:vehrka|Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses]], PM at Omnium Strategic Intelligence, Spain, OSGeo Charter Member, OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Liaison officer.
# Bevan Rudge, Director Lucion Limited, IT Advisor at Conservation Strategy Fund, Esri client
# [[User:Delawen|María Arias de Reyna]], software engineer at [http://geocat.net GeoCat], Spain, member of OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter.
# [[User:Aghisla|Anne Ghisla]], OSGeo Board Member, Italy, member of OSGeo Italian Local Chapter.
# [[User:Michogar|Micho Garcia]], Freelance and member of [http://geomati.co geomati.co], Spain, member of Spanish Local Chapter
# [[User:Madi|Margherita Di Leo]], OSGeo Charter Member, Post-doctoral researcher at the European Commission, JRC, Italy
# [[Jorge Sanz]], GIS Consultant at [http://www.prodevelop.es Prodevelop], OSGeo Charter Member, OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Member, Spain
# [[Pablo Sanxiao]], CTO and co-founder at [http://www.icarto.es iCarto], OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Member, Spain
# [[User:Fsteggink|Frank Steggink]], GIS software developer at [http://www.vicrea.nl Vicrea], The Netherlands, member of the Dutch Local Chapter
# [[User:Olivier.courtin|Olivier Courtin]], [http://www.oslandia.com Oslandia] co-founder, core contributor or/and PSC member of [http://mapserver.org Mapserver] and [http://www.postgis.org/ PostGIS]. OGC TC member.
# [[User:Bolosig|Wladimir Szczerban]], OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Member, Spain
# [[User:AnitaGraser|Anita Graser]], GIS specialist with AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, OSGeo Charter member and QGIS team member.
# [[User:Vmische|Volker Mische]], geospatial software engineer, creator of GeoCouch
# [[User:Ivansanchez|Iván Sánchez]], OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Member, head of [http://www.openstreetmap.es OpenStreetMap Spain], [http://osmfoundation.org OpenStreetMap Foundation] member, [http://hot.openstreetmap.org/ Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team] member, [http://www.idee.es/ Spanish SDI working group] member
# [[User:Gabi|Gabriel Carrión]], Strategy Manager at [http://www.gvsig.com gvSIG association]
# [http://strk.keybit.net Sandro Santilli], OSGeo Charter Member, [http://postgis.net PostGIS] and [http://trac.osgeo.org/geos GEOS] PSC member and core hacker.
# [[User:Javiarch|Javier Diaz]], member of Geoinquietos Bs As [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Geoinquietos_Buenos_Aires], member of the Organizing Committee FOSS4G Bs As 2013 [http://www.foss4g-ba.org/]
# [[User: JoCook|Jo Cook]], Consultant at [http://isharemaps.com| Astun Technology], former Director of OSGeo, Charter Member, founder of UK Local Chapter, Deputy Chair of [http://2013.foss4g.org| FOSS4G 2013]
# [[User: Fpenarru | Francisco José Peñarrubia]], CTO and co-founder at [http://www.scolab.es SCOLAB]. Members of [http://www.gvsig.com gvSIG Association]
# [[User: Ganesh|Shanmugam Ganeshkumar]], Director of [http://www.geoicon.com GeoICON], member OSGeo Malaysia Chapter
# [[User:Barryrowlingson|Barry Rowlingson]], Senior Researcher, Lancaster University and Software Sustainability Institute Fellow
# [[User: Sfkeller|Stefan Keller]], University of Applied Sciences, Rapperswil (Switzerland), Member of Swiss OSM (SOSM) and QGIS association and of organizing committees of pgConf.DE and FOSSGIS 2013, and member of eCH (e-government standards of Switzerland)
# [[User: AndyBMapMan|Andrew Bailey]], OSGeo member, Astun Technology
# [[User: Sanand|Suchith Anand]], OSGeo Charter member, OSGeo Education member, FOSS4G 2013 LOC member
# [[User: krefftc|Carlos Krefft]], GIS software developer at [http://www.cstars.miami.edu CSTARS - University of Miami], OGC and OSGeo Member.
# [[User:Steko|Stefano Costa]], OSGeo member, GFOSS.it member and former board member, Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali (Italy)
# [[User:pebau|Peter Baumann]], [http://www.jacobs-university.de/lsis Jacobs University], OGC member, WCS.SWG chair, editor of 10+ specs (disclaimer: this is an expression of my personal opinion and not in any way endorsed by OGC)
# [[User:pmbatty|Peter Batty]], CTO of Geospatial Division at [http://www.ubisense.net Ubisense], OSGeo board member, former CTO of [http://intergraph.com Intergraph] and [http://www.gedigitalenergy.com/gis.htm GE Smallworld], Technical Committee member of OGC in its formative years c 1995-97
# [[User: BarendKobben | Barend Köbben]], OSGEO Chartered Member, OSGeo.nl Dutch chapter treasurer, Senior Lecturer at [http://www.itc.nl ITC-University of Twente]
# [[User: pcav | Paolo Cavallini]], [http://www.faunalia.it Faunalia], OSGeo member, GFOSS.it member and former president, QGIS-PSC
# [[User: fthamura| FRans Thamura]], [http://www.osgeo.or.id Indonesia], OSGeo Indonesia, organizer]
# [[User: Endofcap| Sanghee Shin]], Founder and CEO of [http://www.gaia3d.com Gaia3D], OSGeo Charter Member, Representative of [http://www.osgeo.kr OSGeo Korean Chapter], Chairman of Open Source GIS Alliance Korea
# [[User: rentairo| Benni Purwonegoro]],Indonesia, IT-Spatial Engineer @ Geospatial Information Agency .
# [[User: jachym| Jachym Cepicky]], Czech Republic, member of OSGeo Board of Directors
# [[User: cappelaere| Pat Cappelaere]], Vightel Corporation
# [[User: JuergenFischer|Jürgen Fischer]], norBIT GmbH, QGIS core developer
# [[User: Maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]], OSGeo Charter member, OSGeo Education member, GIS Professor and Vice Rector for the Como Campus at [http://www.polimi.it/en Politecnico di Milano], Italy
# [[User:Nachouve |Nacho Varela]], GIS Consultant, OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Member, Spain
# [[User:vasile |Vasile Craciunescu]], OSGeo Charter member, OSGeo Romania Local Chapter Leader, Researcher at Romanian National Meteorological Administration, Romania
# [[User:badaveil |Abbas Abdul Wahab]], Asst. Director, Federal Department of Town & Country Planning, Peninsular Malaysia
# [[User:rbraam | Roy Braam]], Software Engineer @ [http://www.b3partners.nl | B3Partners]
# [[User:peteris | Peteris Bruns]], Latvia, GIS Consultant & Software Engineer @ [http://www.sungis.lv | SunGIS]
# [[User:Lutra | Giovanni Manghi]], Portugal, [http://www.faunalia.pt Faunalia], OSGeo member, OSGeo-Portugal
# [[User:Hfpmartins | Hugo Martins]], UK, [http://www.lutraconsulting.co.uk Lutra Consulting], WebGIS Developer, OSGeo-Portugal Member
# [[User:Sabb | Saber Razmjooei]], UK, [http://www.lutraconsulting.co.uk Lutra Consulting], Co-Founder
# [[User:Wellsp | Peter Wells]], UK, [http://www.lutraconsulting.co.uk Lutra Consulting], Co-Founder
# [[User:SGijzen | Sidney Gijzen]], The Netherlands, Researcher GIS @ [http://www.wageningenur.nl/en/Expertise-Services/Research-Institutes/alterra.htm Alterra, Wageningen UR]
# [[User:mfidelman | Miles Fidelman]], US, Principal, Protocol Technologies Group, LLC
# [[User:punkish | Puneet Kishor]], OSGeo Charter Member; [http://www.geology.wisc.edu Geology, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison]; [http://creativecommons.org/staff#puneetkishor Creative Commons]
# [[User:Toze | António José Silva]], Portugal, GIS Consultant, OSGeo-Portugal Member
# [[User:AndreMano | AndreMano]], Portugal, Natural History Society - GIS Department, OSGeo-Portugal Member
# [[User:maurimiranda|Mauricio Miranda]], Argentina, OSGeo Charter Member, OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Board Member
# [[User:pmachado|Paulo Machado]], Portugal, Software Engineer @ PT Inovação
# [[User:alvaro|Alvaro Anguix]], Spain, General Manager at [http://www.gvsig.com gvSIG Association]
# [[Santiago Higuera]], CEO at [http://Mercatorlab.com Mercatorlab], OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Board Member, Spain
# [[Alan Boudreault]], Developer at [http://mapgears.com/ Mapgears], contributor to [http://mapserver.org Mapserver] and [http://gdal.org GDAL/OGR].
# [[User:mikesaunt|Mike Saunt]], UK, Owner at [http://astuntechnology.com Astun Technology Ltd], OSGeo sponsor
# [[User:msmitherdc|Michael Smith]], OSGeo Charter Member, Physical Scientist US Army Corps of Engineers Remote Sensing GIS Center
# [[User:Kalxas|Angelos Tzotsos]], OSGeo Charter Member, Researcher at National Technical University of Athens
# [[User:Kimaidou|Michaël Douchin]], France, GIS consultant & software engineer at [http://3liz.com/ 3liz]
# [[User:PedroVenancio | Pedro Venâncio]], Portugal, GIS Analyst @ Municipality of Pinhel
# [[User:Jgrocha|Jorge Gustavo Rocha]], Portugal, GIS Professor at Universidade do Minho
# [[User:Danielkastl| Daniel Kastl]], Japan, [http://georepublic.info Georepublic], Founder
# [[Diodata|John Callahan]], US, Research Scientist and GIS/Remote Sensing Specialist, University of Delaware
# [[User:kjkalyan|Kalyan Janakiraman]], Senior Systems Analyst, Business Development Services, NSW Land and Property Information, Sydney, Australia
# [[User:goliadranger|Phillip Davis]], Director, National Geospatial Technology Center of Excellence, Texas, USA
# [[User:simonp|Simon Pigot]], contributor to and PSC member of [http://geonetwork-opensource.org GeoNetwork opensource] (speaking for myself, not an official view of my employer)
# [[User:jbryant|John Bryant]], Consultant, Mammoth Mapping, Dawson City, Canada and GIS/DB Admin, Jupiter Mines, Perth, Australia
# [[ChIossif|Christos Iossifides]], Remote Sensing Instructor, Laboratory Teaching Staff, Remote Sensing Instructor and Researcher, National Technical University of Athens
# [[User:tbowden|Tim Bowden]], Spatial Consultant, Perth, Australia
# [[User:Lucadelu|Luca Delucchi]], GIS Technician, Trento, Italy
# [[User:bartvde|Bart van den Eijnden]], GIS software developer, Utrecht, Netherlands
# [[User:eyedol|Henry Addo]], Software Developer at Ushahidi [http://ushahidi.com], contributor of [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live]
# [[User:iacovellas|Stefano Iacovella]], GIS consultant & software engineer, Rome, Italy
# [[User:Mtoonen| Meine Toonen]], Software Engineer @ [http://www.b3partners.nl B3Partners], The Netherlands
# [[User:arneke| Arne Kepp]], Software Engineer, Oslo, Norway
# [[User:Pirmin_Kalberer| Pirmin Kalberer]], Managing director [http://sourcepole.com/ Sourcepole], [http://fossgis.de FOSSGIS] member, Contributor of [http://gdal.org GDAL/OGR], [http://qgis.org QGIS], [http://mapfish.org/ Mapfish], [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGIS UbuntuGIS], [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live], Switzerland
# [[User:hdus| Dr. Horst Düster]], Managing director [http://sourcepole.com/ Sourcepole], [http://fossgis.de FOSSGIS] member, QGIS Project Treasurer and Contributor of [http://qgis.org QGIS], Zürich, Switzerland
# [[Richard_Duivenvoorde| Richard Duivenvoorde]], Managing director & software developer [http://www.webmapper.net/ Webmapper], QGIS community member
# [[User:stevenfeldman|Steven Feldman]], Principal at [http://knowwhereconslting.co.uk KnowWhere Consulting] and Chair of the LOC for [http://2013.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G 2013]
# [[Edward_Mac_Gillavry| Edward Mac Gillavry]], Managing director & software developer [http://www.webmapper.net/ Webmapper]
# [[User:maximdubinin| Maxim Dubinin]], CEO at [http://www.nextgis.org/ NextGIS], head of [http://gis-lab.info GIS-Lab.info]
# [[User:flavour| Fran Boon]], PMC Chair at [http://sahanafoundation.org/ Sahana Foundation], CTO of [http://aidiq.com AidIQ]
# [[User:Ian| Ian Edwards]], Chair [http://www.osgeo.org/uk OSGeo:UK]
# [[User:Bishop|Dmitriy Baryshnikov]] Developer at [http://www.nextgis.org/ NextGIS], [http://gdal.org GDAL/OGR] committer, [http://wxgis.googlecode.com wxGIS] developer, [http://gis-lab.info GIS-Lab.info] community member
# [[User:cvanlith| Chris van Lith]], Director [http://www.b3partners.nl B3Partners], member of [http://www.opengeogroep.nl OpenGeoGroep]
# [[User:VincentP| Vincent Picavet]], co-founder of [http://www.oslandia.com Oslandia], founding member and treasurer of OSGeo-FR
# [[User:Stefan_A._Tzeggai| Stefan A. Tzeggai]], creator of [http://www.geopublishing.org/AtlasStyler AtlasStyler SLD editor], founder of [http://www.empirica-systeme.de empirica systeme gmbh]
# [[User:Rdewit| Roald de Wit]], Geospatial Software Engineer, Melbourne, Australia
# [[User:grizonnetm| Manuel Grizonnet]], working at the [http://www.cnes.fr/ French Space Agency], [http://www.orfeo-toolbox.org/otb/ ORFEO ToolBox library] developer
# [[User:RdeMoritoru| Toru Mori]], President & CEO, [http://www.orkney.co.jp Orkney, Inc.], Yokohama, Japan, Representative of OSGeo Japan Chapter, OSGeo Charter Member
# [[User:MarkusSchneider2|Markus Schneider]], TMC chair of the [http://www.deegree.org deegree project], CEO of [http://www.occamlabs.de Occam Labs]
# [[User:elena|Elena Mezzini]], Remote Sensing and GIS Technician, GFOSS.it member, Bologna, Italy
# [[User:Alexbruy|Alexander Bruy]], [http://nextgis.org NextGIS], QGIS core developer
# [[User:Dfurtado | Danilo Furtado]], Portugal, OSGeo member, OSGeo-Portugal
# [[User:Stranger | Andreas Schmitz]], Germany, deegree core developer and TMC member, CTO of [http://www.occamlabs.de Occam Labs]
# [[User:Olt | Oliver Tonnhofer]], Germany, [http://mapproxy.org MapProxy] core developer, founder & CTO of [http://www.omniscale.com Omniscale]
# [[User:Thomas_Baschetti | Thomas Baschetti]], Germany, Freelancer, Mapbender PSC Member, [http://fossgis.de FOSSGIS] member
# [[User:IanMayo | Ian Mayo]], GeoSpatial developer, UK
# [[User:imincik | Ivan Mincik]], CEO of [http://www.gista.sk GISTA s.r.o.], Slovakia
# [[User:edmar.moretti | Edmar Moretti]], Software developer, [http://www.i3geo.com i3GEO] core developer, Brazil
# [[User:Moreira | Diego Moreira]], GIS Analyst, Contributor of [http://qgis.org QGIS], Brazil
# [[User:Ginetto | Luigi Pirelli]], Freelance Analyst/Programmer, co-founder of Italian OSGEO Local Chapter [http://www.gfoss.it GFOSS.it], Italy
# [[User:kyle | Kyle Shannon]] Software Developer, contributor of [http://gdal.org GDAL/OGR], United States
# [[User:DMateos | David Mateos]], worker member at [http://www.terrativa.net Terrativa S. Coop.] and OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Member, Spain
# [[Luis Franco]], researcher and GIS analyst at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
# [[User:groldan | Gabriel Roldan]], Software Developer, Argentina, OSGeo Charter Member, OSGeo Spanish Local Chapter Member
# [[User:kotzino | Dimitris Kotzinos]], OSGEO Charter Member, OSGEO Greek Chapter founder, Assistant Professor TEI of Serres, Greece
# [[User:Perriger|Stefan Steiniger]], owner of [http://www.geosteiniger.cl GEO Steiniger Ltda.], contributor to [http://openjump.org OpenJUMP GIS] and [http://www.opentripplanner.org OpenTripPlanner] and author of several FOSS4G overview articles, Canada/Chile
# [[User:Iwasaki | Nobusuke Iwasaki]], Senior Researcher, National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan, OSGeo Japan Chapter Board Member
# [[User:Johnson | Ross Johnson]], Land Information Officer, City of Ryde Council and NSW Committee member of Surveying & Spatial Sciences Institute (SSSI)
# [[User:kumaran |Kumaran Narayanaswamy]], CEO & Managing Director of kCube Consultancy Services Pvt Ltd India.[http://www.kcubeconsulting.com], Member of India OSGeo Chapter.
# [[User:luis |Luis Fernando Bueno]], Professor at Federal University of Rondonia, researcher and GIS analyst, Brazil.
# [[User:MapperBob |Bob Bruce, FEC, P.Eng.]], Geomatics Engineer, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
# [[User:mlennert|Moritz Lennert]], Researcher in geography at the [http://www.ulb.ac.be/ Free University of Brussels (ULB)], [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS-PSC]
# [[User:Ianturton|Ian Turton]], Software developer and open standards advocate, [http://geotools.org GeoTools-PSC]
# [[User:Djay|Gérald Fenoy]], OSGeo Charter member, Founder and CEO of GeoLabs SARL, France
# [[User:bitner|David Bitner]], OSGeo Charter member, OSGeo VP for Geodata, OSGeo Twin Cities Chapter, [http://sahanafoundation.org Sahana Software Foundation] Board of Directors, [http://www.metrogis.org MetroGIS] Coordinating Committee Chair, owner [http://dbspatial.com dbSpatial]
# [[User:Peter Loewe|Peter Löwe]], OSGeo Charter member, Senior Researcher at Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, General Manager GISIX.com
# [[User:gfleming|Gavin Fleming]], OSGeo Charter member, owner of AfriSpatial.
# [[User:FrankM|Frank Maes]], GeoICT professional, Head Operations at [http://www.geosparc.com Geosparc], Contributor & community member of [http://www.geomajas.org Geomajas], OSGeo member
# [[User:epifanio|Massimo Di Stefano]] , OSGeo Charter Member, Italy, founder-member of OSGeo Italian Local Chapter.
# [[User:capooti|Paolo Corti]], Geospatial software developer, Rome, Italy
# [[User:Mlechner|Marco Lechner]], chairman [http://fossgis.de FOSSGIS e.V.] (OSGeo local chapter D-A-CH)

= Summary =

The OGC candidate standard titled "GeoServices REST API" is currently, in May 2013, being considered to be approved as an Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standard. The vote to accept the document as a standard is unusually contentious. The controversy is the cause of this open letter.

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

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

== Criticism and Response ==

The '''criticism''' of the adoption of this particular document as an OGC Standard includes a wide variety of reasons such as:

* the OGC's process through which the document was developed which is thought to lack sufficient flexibility to respond to input from various stakeholders,
* the focus of the document on 'REST' and 'API' which is seen as not matching the ideas others have for these concepts,
* the names of the standard and of the services which are seen as potentially confusing,
* the functionality of the new services which are considered to duplicate that of existing services already standardized by the OGC such as WMS, WFS, WCS, and WPS,
* the addition of a new set of services based on new URL patterns and new JSON exchange formats which is seen as duplicating the efforts of other working groups bringing similar ideas to the updates of existing OGC services,
* the re-introduction in the new services of previously resolved interoperability issues which is seen as failing to build on the existing knowledge and experience,
* the use of the particular JSON schemas which are seen as having little industry acceptance and are incompatible with other widely used schemas, and
* the lack of implementation diversity which is thought to give the vendor of the one complete implementation an unusual commercial advantage on top of the vendor's already dominant position in the domain.

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

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

In '''response''' to these issues, the authors of the Geoservices REST API document have stated that:

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

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

The SWG has published two documents in response to various comments.
* [https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=54048 OGC 12-646 Response to RFC Comments] presents the responses from the Standards Working Group to the comments received from the public during the public Request for Comments (RFC).
* [https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=54049 OGC 13-031r1 Response to 'no' votes] presents the responses from the Standards Working Group to the reasons given by the organizations voting _no_ during the adoption vote.

Both are available through the links above, or via the [http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/groups/gservrestswg public page] of the Standards Working Group.

= Positions on the vote =

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

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

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

; The cons:

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

; A conclusion:

Both simple answers are bad.

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

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

Is there any third way?

Well, actually, there is a different way of thinking of the issue. Overall, there appears to be a shared desire for an integrated suite of geospatial services, originally focused on a simple data model, built on the exchange of well defined resources in simple formats including JSON, accessible and usable using the core HTTP verbs, and discoverable through following HTML links and patterns of URL paths. The hope is that such a suite can be designed based on the best expertise of the OGC, can be widely supported by the community, and can be implemented and tested by multiple groups. Neither the proposed document, nor the current services meet this vision. So the work, ultimately, is on improving all the services at the OGC, first to modularize them, then to enable simple implementations, and finally to link those implementations into a functional suite. Since this is the work that is already happening, perhaps the vote is an unfortunate distraction and the productive way forward is merely to redouble the efforts to create the next versions of the standards.

= Issues with the document =

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

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

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

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

= Further Concerns =

== Technical Concerns ==

* see [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geoservices_REST_API_critique#The_Technical_Approach this discussion] for detailed arguments why OGC WCS is superior to the "GeoServices REST API" Part 6. It concludes:
: ''In summary, the ESRI "Geoservice REST API" Imaging part is at a technological level where WCS departed from some 5 years ago. Inconciseness of the specification at large will make it difficult for third parties to come up with interoperable implementations. The components making up the ESRI "Geoservice REST API" provide natural blocks assignable to the matching SWGs. As for Part 6 of the ESRI "Geoservice REST API", if to become a standard it needs to be discussed in the WCS.SWG for harmonization, clarification, and improvement.''

== Methodological Concerns ==

* The Geoservices REST API can not be amended (other than editorial changes in the specification document), because of a requirement for backward compatibility with the ESRI implementation. This has limited improvements in this version of the candidate specification.

= Further Reading =
* Cameron Shorter's [http://lisasoft.com/blog/will-ogc%E2%80%99s-standards-meet-government-purchasing-guidelines Will OGC’s standards meet government purchasing guidelines?]
* Email archive of OSGeo discussions about GeoServices REST API: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-May/thread.html
* Adrian Custer's summary of technical issues (and original source of some content in this letter): http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-May/011667.html
* "Is OGC Loosing its way?", letter to OGC Voters, from OGC Interoperability Movement Team Leaders, http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-May/011632.html

* Call for comments on GeoServices REST API: http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/89
* Responses from the Standards Working Group to the comments received from the public during the public Request for Comments (RFC): [[file:OGC_12-642_GeoServices_REST_API_-_RFC_Comments_Response.pdf|OGC 12-646 Response to RFC Comments]]
* Responses from the Standards Working Group to the reasons given by the organizations voting _no_ during the adoption vote: [[file:OGC_13-031r1_GeoServices_REST_API_-_Response_to_no_votes_r1.pdf|OGC 13-031r1 Response to 'no' votes]]

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SDI Committee

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'''NOTE:''' This wiki page was created based on discussion on the [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-May/011709.html mailing list]. The OSGeo SDI Committee was not established yet. This wiki page is to be used for the committee's establishing.
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== About ==
A spatial data infrastructure (SDI) is a data infrastructure implementing a framework of geographic data, metadata, users and tools that are interactively connected in order to use spatial data in an efficient and flexible way. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_data_infrastructure Wikipedia:SDI]

OSGeo considers usability of OSGeo software for implementation of various SDIs an important feature for future businesses.

=== Software components of SDIs ===
Basic software components of SDI are:

* catalogue service
* spatial data service
* processing services
* spatial data repository

* Client software (desktop and web) communicates via standards to those services, which interacts directly with the user. It enables download, display, query, analysis and updating spatial data.

OSGeo projects cover all these software components. Some of them are covered by multiple OSGeo projects

=== Standards ===
Most of SDIs are related to OGC standards (OGC OWS) as well as ISO. They are all well implemented in OSGeo projects.

=== Current SDIs ===
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOSS GEOSS] Global Earth Observation System of Systems. 2005-2015
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMES GMES] Global Monitoring for Environment and Security. Should be fully operational during 2014
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INSPIRE INSPIRE] Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community.
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNSDI UNSDI] United Nations Spatial Data Infrastructure
* [http://en.wikipeia.org/wiki/National_Spatial_Data_Infrastructure NSDI] National Spatial Data Infrastructure
* ''add more here''

== Goals ==
* Coordinate efforts of development teams
* Help to make OSGeo software stack the best choice for SDIs implementation
* Promote OSGeo software stack, as the best choice for SDIs implementation
* ...

== Methods ==
* Checklists
* Tests
* Reference implementations
* ''Relevant'' case studies

== Communication ==
* Mailing list
* IRC meetings

== Members ==
* [[user: jachym | Jáchym Čepický]]
* [[user: tomkralidis | Tom Kralidis]]
* [[user: Stranger | Andreas Schmitz]]
* [[user: kwilcox| Kyle Wilcox]]
* [[user: maxi71 | Massimiliano Cannata]]
* [[user: Vasile | Vasile Crăciunescu]]
* [[user: Mlechner | Marco Lechner]]
* ''Add your name, if you would like to be active member of the committee''

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Contacts

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OSGeo Projects are freestanding entities, handled by their own Project Steering Committees. Each project has been asked to provide a representative to help coordinate OSGeo involvement. These volunteers are listed by project below:

== General ==
* General Foundation Info - info@osgeo.org - [mailto:info@osgeo.org]
* [[Board of Directors]] - Arnulf Christl - arnulf at osgeo.org
* Treasurer (AC/AP) - Frank Warmerdam - warmerdam at pobox.com
* Executive Director - [[User:Tmitchell |Tyler Mitchell]] - tmitchell at osgeo.org

== Software Projects ==
* [http://www.osgeo.org/deegree deegree] - Judit Mays - mays at lat-lon.de
* [http://fdo.osgeo.org/ FDO] - Greg Boone - greg.boone at autodesk.com
* [http://www.osgeo.org/gdal_ogr GDAL/OGR] - Frank Warmerdam - warmerdam at pobox.com
* [http://geos.refractions.net GEOS] - Paul Ramsey - pramsey at cleverelephant.ca
* [http://www.osgeo.org/geonetwork GeoNetwork opensource] - Jeroen Ticheler - Jeroen.Ticheler at geocat.net
* [http://www.osgeo.org/geotools GeoTools] - Jody Garnett - jody.garnett at gmail.com
* [http://www.osgeo.org/grass GRASS GIS] - Markus Neteler - neteler at osgeo.org
* [http://www.gvsig.gva.es/gvSIG gvSIG] - Jorge Sanz - jsanz at gvsig.org
* [http://www.osgeo.org/mapbender Mapbender] Christoph Baudson - christoph at osgeo.org
* [http://www.osgeo.org/mapbuilder MapBuilder] - Cameron Shorter - cameron AT shorter.net
* [http://www.mapfish.org MapFish] - Cédric Moullet - cedric.moullet AT camptocamp.com
* [http://www.osgeo.org/mapguide MapGuide Open Source] - Robert Bray - robert.bray at autodesk.com
* [http://www.osgeo.org/mapserver MapServer] - Steve Lime - sdlime at comcast.net
* [http://metacrs.osgeo.org MetaCRS] - Frank Warmerdam - warmerdam at pobox.com
* [http://www.osgeo.org/openlayers OpenLayers] - Tim Schaub - tschaub at opengeo.org
* [http://www.osgeo.org/ossim OSSIM] - Mark Lucas - mlucas at radiantblue.com
* [http://www.postgis.org/ PostGIS] - Paul Ramsey - pramsey at cleverelephant.ca
* [http://www.osgeo.org/qgis QGIS] - Gary Sherman - sherman at mrcc.com

== Project Steering Committees ==
'''Web Mapping'''
* deegree [http://wiki.deegree.org/deegreeWiki/StructuresAndProcedures PSC] - Contact: [[User:JensFitzke | Jens Fitzke]]
* Mapbender [http://www.mapbender.org/index.php/Category:PSC PSC] - Chair: [[User:Christoph | Christoph Baudson]]
* MapBuilder [http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAP/Contributers+Guide PSC] - Chair: Cameron Shorter
* MapFish [http://trac.mapfish.org/trac/mapfish/wiki/Community/PSC PSC] - Chair: not defined, ongoing creation
* MapGuide Open Source [http://mapguide.osgeo.org/psc.html PSC] - Chair: Robert Bray
* MapServer [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/development/rfc/ms-rfc-23 PSC] - Chair: Stephen Lime
* OpenLayers [http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/SteeringCommittee PSC] - Chair: [[User:Tschaub | Tim Schaub]]

'''Desktop Applications'''
* GRASS GIS [http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/PSC PSC] - Chair: Markus Neteler
* OSSIM [http://trac.osgeo.org/ossim/wiki/ossimgovernance PSC] - Chair: Garrett Potts
* Quantum GIS [http://wiki.qgis.org/qgiswiki/Project_Organigram PSC] - Chair: Gary Sherman
* gvSIG - [[GvSIG Technical Project Committee|PSC]] - Chair: [[Jorge Sanz]]

'''Geospatial Libraries'''
* FDO [http://fdo.osgeo.org/psc.html PSC] - Chair: Greg Boone
* GDAL/OGR [http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/GovernanceAndCommunity PSC] - Chair: Frank Warmerdam
* GeoTools [http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOT/4+Project+Management+Committee PSC] - Chair: Jody Garnett
* GEOS [http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/wiki/PSC PSC] - Chair: Paul Ramsey
* MetaCRS [http://metacrs.osgeo.org PSC] - Chair: Frank Warmerdam

'''Metadata Catalog'''
* GeoNetwork opensource [http://trac.osgeo.org/geonetwork/wiki/PSC PSC] - Chair: Jeroen Ticheler

== Committees ==
* [[Education and Curriculum Committee]] - Charlie Schweik - cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu
* [[Finance Committee]] - Frank Warmerdam - warmerdam at pobox.com
* [[Incubation Committee]] - Frank Warmerdam - warmerdam at pobox.com
* [[Public Geospatial Data Committee]] - David William Bitner - bitner at dbspatial.com
* [[Marketing Committee]] - Tyler Mitchell - tmitchell at osgeo.org
* [[SAC|System Administration Committee]] - Howard Butler - hobu at hobu.net
* [[Website Committee]] - Christopher Schmidt - crschmidt at metacarta.com
* [[Conference Committee]] - Jeff McKenna - jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
* OSGeo [[Journal]] - Tyler Mitchell - tmitchell at osgeo.org

== Local Chapters ==

* [[Ottawa Chapter]] - Scott Mitchell / Philippe Vachon - smitch at mac.com / philippe at cowpig.ca
* [[China]] - Chen Rongguo - chenrg at lreis.ac.cn
* [[Japan]] - Mr. Mori Toru - moritoru at orkney.co.jp
* [[India]] - P.S. Roy - psr at nrsa.gov.in
* [[Brazil]] - Helton Uchoa - engenheiro.uchoa at gmail.com
* [[Taiwan]] - Sander Borghuis - s.borghuis at geo.uu.nl
* [[Spanish]] - Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses - vehrka at gmail.com
* [[Aust-NZ]] - Australia and New Zealand Chapter- tim.bowden _at_ westnet.com.au
* [[Finland]] - Ari Jolma - ajolma at osgeo.org
* [[Francophone]] - [[User:Yjacolin|yjacolin]]
* [[D-A-CH]] (German language) - [[User:Mlechner|Marco Lechner]]
* [[Dutch]] - Jeroen Ticheler - Jeroen.Ticheler at geocat.net

== Infrastructure ==

* [[SAC:Primary Administrators]]

[[Category:Board]]
[[Category:Education]]
[[Category:Incubation]]
[[Category:Infrastructure]]
[[Category:PSC]]

German Language Chapter Report 2009

2010-01-31T22:16:33Z

Wiki-Mlechner: /* members of fOSSGIS e.V./lc D-A-CH */

The FOSSGIS e.V. (registered association) has been approved as OSGeo local chapter D-A-CH at the end of 2008. Therefore in 2009 one of the main focuses was to establish the FOSSGIS e.V. as lc D-A-CH and to merge the structures to integrate the new function into the FOSSGIS e.V., existing since 2000. The following listing sketches the activities 2009:

== Host and organizer of the established FOSSGIS conference ==
* [http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/wiki/2009 FOSSGIS 2009] (2009/03/17-2009/03/19) in Hannover with approx. 500 participants, a bunch of exhibitors, practical workshops and speeches
* Developing a concept to integrate the OpenStreetMap-community into the FOSSGIS-conference to make it the OSM-conference for the german language community and to connect the OSM-community with OSGeo activities.
* Planning [http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/wiki FOSSGIS 2010] conference in Osnabrück (2010/03/02-2010/03/05)
== Participtaion and coordination of OSGeo presence at various conferences and exhibitions ==
* [http://www.fossgis.de/node/64 LinuxTag] (2009/06/23-2009/03/27)
* [http://www.fossgis.de/node/67 AGIT]
* Intergeo (2009/09/22-2009/09/24) (coordination of community part of [http://www.flickr.com/photos/osgeohackingevent2009/3969299175/in/set-72157622365217951/ OSGeo Park])
== Financial support of various code sprints and developer meetings ==
* [http://www.fossgis.de/node/71 OSGeo code sprint Bolsena]
* [http://www.fossgis.de/node/84 QGIS developer meetings] in Hannover and Vienna
* [http://www.fossgis.de/node/82 Mapbender developer meeting]
== Launching own Webserver to host the associations own ==
* [http://www.fossgis.de CMS]
* [http://www.fossgis.de/wiki FOSSGIS-Wiki]
* [http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/wiki Wiki of FOSSGIS-conference]
* Various other services (email, listserver, trac, svn, ...)
== Improvments of profile and PR ==
* New FOSSGIS-logo to solicit the new name (FOSSGIS, formerly known as GRASS Anwender Vereinigung) and the new tasks of FOSSGIS e.V.
* Development of a booth-concept and partly implementation (already tested on Intergeo 2009)
== Projects of lc D-A-CH (abstract) ==
* Further development of GISlive - FOSSGIS' own LiveDVD project used on conference for workshops and as give away
* Redesgn of [http://www.freegis.org FreeGIS-portal] - relaunch coming soon in 2010
* Promoting OSM-community by being contract partner for donation of data and IT-services
== Members of FOSSGIS e.V./lc D-A-CH ==
*Increase of members of FOSSGIS e.V. as lc D-A-CH about 50%. In a absolut numbers from 60 to 90 including private, institutional and corporate memberships ==

== Outlook 2010 ==
* FOSSGIS-conference 2010
* FOSS4G in Barcelona
* INTERGEO, AGIT
* Connect local working groups with OSGeo internationals
* Increase donations
* Work in preparation for own office (implementation after 2010 ;-)

German Language Chapter Report 2009

2010-01-31T22:16:03Z

Wiki-Mlechner: /* Increase of members of FOSSGIS e.V. as lc D-A-CH about 50%. In a absolut numbers from 60 to 90 including private, institutional and corporate memberships */

The FOSSGIS e.V. (registered association) has been approved as OSGeo local chapter D-A-CH at the end of 2008. Therefore in 2009 one of the main focuses was to establish the FOSSGIS e.V. as lc D-A-CH and to merge the structures to integrate the new function into the FOSSGIS e.V., existing since 2000. The following listing sketches the activities 2009:

== Host and organizer of the established FOSSGIS conference ==
* [http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/wiki/2009 FOSSGIS 2009] (2009/03/17-2009/03/19) in Hannover with approx. 500 participants, a bunch of exhibitors, practical workshops and speeches
* Developing a concept to integrate the OpenStreetMap-community into the FOSSGIS-conference to make it the OSM-conference for the german language community and to connect the OSM-community with OSGeo activities.
* Planning [http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/wiki FOSSGIS 2010] conference in Osnabrück (2010/03/02-2010/03/05)
== Participtaion and coordination of OSGeo presence at various conferences and exhibitions ==
* [http://www.fossgis.de/node/64 LinuxTag] (2009/06/23-2009/03/27)
* [http://www.fossgis.de/node/67 AGIT]
* Intergeo (2009/09/22-2009/09/24) (coordination of community part of [http://www.flickr.com/photos/osgeohackingevent2009/3969299175/in/set-72157622365217951/ OSGeo Park])
== Financial support of various code sprints and developer meetings ==
* [http://www.fossgis.de/node/71 OSGeo code sprint Bolsena]
* [http://www.fossgis.de/node/84 QGIS developer meetings] in Hannover and Vienna
* [http://www.fossgis.de/node/82 Mapbender developer meeting]
== Launching own Webserver to host the associations own ==
* [http://www.fossgis.de CMS]
* [http://www.fossgis.de/wiki FOSSGIS-Wiki]
* [http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/wiki Wiki of FOSSGIS-conference]
* Various other services (email, listserver, trac, svn, ...)
== Improvments of profile and PR ==
* New FOSSGIS-logo to solicit the new name (FOSSGIS, formerly known as GRASS Anwender Vereinigung) and the new tasks of FOSSGIS e.V.
* Development of a booth-concept and partly implementation (already tested on Intergeo 2009)
== Projects of lc D-A-CH (abstract) ==
* Further development of GISlive - FOSSGIS' own LiveDVD project used on conference for workshops and as give away
* Redesgn of [http://www.freegis.org FreeGIS-portal] - relaunch coming soon in 2010
* Promoting OSM-community by being contract partner for donation of data and IT-services
== members of fOSSGIS e.V./lc D-A-CH ==
*Increase of members of FOSSGIS e.V. as lc D-A-CH about 50%. In a absolut numbers from 60 to 90 including private, institutional and corporate memberships ==

== Outlook 2010 ==
* FOSSGIS-conference 2010
* FOSS4G in Barcelona
* INTERGEO, AGIT
* Connect local working groups with OSGeo internationals
* Increase donations
* Work in preparation for own office (implementation after 2010 ;-)

German Language Chapter Report 2009

2010-01-31T22:15:06Z

Wiki-Mlechner:

The FOSSGIS e.V. (registered association) has been approved as OSGeo local chapter D-A-CH at the end of 2008. Therefore in 2009 one of the main focuses was to establish the FOSSGIS e.V. as lc D-A-CH and to merge the structures to integrate the new function into the FOSSGIS e.V., existing since 2000. The following listing sketches the activities 2009:

== Host and organizer of the established FOSSGIS conference ==
* [http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/wiki/2009 FOSSGIS 2009] (2009/03/17-2009/03/19) in Hannover with approx. 500 participants, a bunch of exhibitors, practical workshops and speeches
* Developing a concept to integrate the OpenStreetMap-community into the FOSSGIS-conference to make it the OSM-conference for the german language community and to connect the OSM-community with OSGeo activities.
* Planning [http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/wiki FOSSGIS 2010] conference in Osnabrück (2010/03/02-2010/03/05)
== Participtaion and coordination of OSGeo presence at various conferences and exhibitions ==
* [http://www.fossgis.de/node/64 LinuxTag] (2009/06/23-2009/03/27)
* [http://www.fossgis.de/node/67 AGIT]
* Intergeo (2009/09/22-2009/09/24) (coordination of community part of [http://www.flickr.com/photos/osgeohackingevent2009/3969299175/in/set-72157622365217951/ OSGeo Park])
== Financial support of various code sprints and developer meetings ==
* [http://www.fossgis.de/node/71 OSGeo code sprint Bolsena]
* [http://www.fossgis.de/node/84 QGIS developer meetings] in Hannover and Vienna
* [http://www.fossgis.de/node/82 Mapbender developer meeting]
== Launching own Webserver to host the associations own ==
* [http://www.fossgis.de CMS]
* [http://www.fossgis.de/wiki FOSSGIS-Wiki]
* [http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/wiki Wiki of FOSSGIS-conference]
* Various other services (email, listserver, trac, svn, ...)
== Improvments of profile and PR ==
* New FOSSGIS-logo to solicit the new name (FOSSGIS, formerly known as GRASS Anwender Vereinigung) and the new tasks of FOSSGIS e.V.
* Development of a booth-concept and partly implementation (already tested on Intergeo 2009)
== Projects of lc D-A-CH (abstract) ==
* Further development of GISlive - FOSSGIS' own LiveDVD project used on conference for workshops and as give away
* Redesgn of [http://www.freegis.org FreeGIS-portal] - relaunch coming soon in 2010
* Promoting OSM-community by being contract partner for donation of data and IT-services
== Increase of members of FOSSGIS e.V. as lc D-A-CH about 50%. In a absolut numbers from 60 to 90 including private, institutional and corporate memberships ==
== Outlook 2010 ==
* FOSSGIS-conference 2010
* FOSS4G in Barcelona
* INTERGEO, AGIT
* Connect local working groups with OSGeo internationals
* Increase donations
* Work in preparation for own office (implementation after 2010 ;-)

German Language Chapter Report 2009

2010-01-31T22:04:02Z

Wiki-Mlechner:

The FOSSGIS e.V. (registered association) has been approved as OSGeo local chapter D-A-CH at the end of 2008. Therefore in 2009 one of the main focuses was to establish the FOSSGIS e.V. as lc D-A-CH and to merge the structures to integrate the new function into the FOSSGIS e.V., existing since 2000. The following listing sketches the activities 2009:

* Host and organizer of the established FOSSGIS conference:
** [http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/wiki/2009 FOSSGIS 2009] (2009/03/17-2009/03/19) in Hannover with approx. 500 participants, a bunch of exhibitors, practical workshops and speeches
** Developing a concept to integrate the OpenStreetMap-community into the FOSSGIS-conference to make it the OSM-conference for the german language community and to connect the OSM-community with OSGeo activities.
** Planning [http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/wiki FOSSGIS 2010] conference in Osnabrück (2010/03/02-2010/03/05)
* Participtaion and coordination of OSGeo presence at various conferences and exhibitions
** [http://www.fossgis.de/node/64 LinuxTag] (2009/06/23-2009/03/27)
** [http://www.fossgis.de/node/67 AGIT]
** Intergeo (2009/09/22-2009/09/24) (coordination of community part of [http://www.flickr.com/photos/osgeohackingevent2009/3969299175/in/set-72157622365217951/ OSGeo Park])
* Financial support of various code sprints and developer meetings:
**[http://www.fossgis.de/node/71 OSGeo code sprint Bolsena]
**[http://www.fossgis.de/node/84 QGIS developer meetings] in Hannover and Vienna
**[http://www.fossgis.de/node/82 Mapbender developer meeting]
*Launching own Webserver to host the associations own
**[http://www.fossgis.de CMS]
**[http://www.fossgis.de/wiki FOSSGIS-Wiki]
**[http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/wiki Wiki of FOSSGIS-conference]
**Various other services (email, listserver, trac, svn, ...)
*Improvments of profile and PR:
**New FOSSGIS-logo to solicit the new name (FOSSGIS, formerly known as GRASS Anwender Vereinigung) and the new tasks of FOSSGIS e.V.
**Development of a booth-concept and partly implementation (already tested on Intergeo 2009)
*Projects of lc D-A-CH (abstract):
**Further development of GISlive - FOSSGIS' own LiveDVD project used on conference for workshops and as give away
**Redesgn of [http://www.freegis.org FreeGIS-portal] - relaunch coming soon in 2010
**Promoting OSM-community by being contract partner for donation of data and IT-services
*Increase of members of FOSSGIS e.V. as lc D-A-CH about 50%. In a absolut numbers from 60 to 90 including private, institutional and corporate memberships
*Outview 2010:
**FOSSGIS-conference 2010
**FOSS4G in Barcelona
**INTERGEO, AGIT
**Connect local working groups with OSGeo internationals
**Increase donations
**Work in preparation for own office (implementation after 2010 ;-)

German Language Chapter Report 2009

2010-01-14T16:09:31Z

Wiki-Mlechner: New page: -- work in progress -- ---- coming soon

-- work in progress --
----
coming soon

User:Mlechner

2010-01-14T16:06:58Z

Wiki-Mlechner:

'''Marco Lechner'''

- vice president of FOSSGIS e.V. 
- OSGeo contact local chapter D-A-CH 
- member of Orga-Team of FOSSGIS-conference 

[http://www.fossgis.de FOSSGIS e.V./OSGeo D-A-CH] 
[mailto:marco.lechner@fossgis.de marco.lechner@fossgis.de]

[http://www.naturparkscout.de Naturparkscout] 
Schwimmbadstr. 2 
D-79100 Freiburg 
[mailto:lechner@naturparkscout.de lechner@naturparkscout.de]

{{#umSetParam: 7.95946|47.96621|Kirchzarten - Freiburg, Germany|Mlechner|Marco Lechner}}

User:Mlechner

2010-01-14T16:05:42Z

Wiki-Mlechner:

'''Marco Lechner'''

- vizepresident of FOSSGIS e.V. 
- OSGeo contact local chapter D-A-CH 
- member of Orga-Team of FOSSGIS-conference 

[http://www.fossgis.de FOSSGIS e.V./OSGeo D-A-CH] 
[mailto:marco.lechner@fossgis.de marco.lechner@fossgis.de]

[http://www.naturparkscout.de Naturparkscout] 
Schwimmbadstr. 2 
D-79100 Freiburg 
[mailto:lechner@naturparkscout.de lechner@naturparkscout.de]

{{#umSetParam: 7.95946|47.96621|Kirchzarten - Freiburg, Germany|Mlechner|Marco Lechner}}

Annual Report 2009

2010-01-14T15:52:18Z

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== Executive ==
# [[Annual Report Introduction 2009]] -- [[User:Tmitchell| Tyler Mitchell]], Executive Director
# [[Board of Directors Report 2009]] -- [[User:warmerda | Arnulf Christl]], President
# [[News Highlights 2009]] -- [[User:Tmitchell | Tyler Mitchell]], News Editor
# [[Finance Report 2009]] -- Frank Warmerdam, Treasurer

== Committee Reports ==
# [[Conference Report 2009]] -- Jeff McKenna, Chair
## [[FOSS4G Report 2009]] -- Cameron Shorter, Chair
## [[FOSS4G Welcome 2010]] -- Lorenzo Becchi, Chair
# [[Education Report 2009]] -- Charlie Schweik, Chair
# [[Geodata Report 2009]] -- David Bitner, Chair
# [[Incubation Report 2009]] -- Frank Warmerdam, Chair
# [[Journal Report 2009]] -- Tyler Mitchell, Editor in Chief
# [[Marketing Report 2009]] -- Tyler Mitchell, Chair
# [[Systems Report 2009]] -- Howard Butler, Chair
# [[Website Report 2009]] -- Christopher Schmidt, Chair

== Software Project Reports ==
# [[deegree Report 2009]] -- Jens Fitzke, PSC Rep.
# [[FDO Report 2009]] -- Greg Boone, Chair
# [[GDAL/OGR Report 2009]] -- Frank Warmerdam, Chair
# [[GeoNetwork opensource Report 2009]] -- Jeroen Ticheler, Chair
# [[GEOS Report 2009]] -- Paul Ramsey
# [[GeoTools Report 2009]] -- Jody Garnett, PSC Rep.
# [[GRASS GIS Report 2009]] -- Markus Neteler, Chair
# [[gvSIG Report 2009]] -- Jorge Sanz
# [[Mapbender Report 2009]] -- Christoph Baudson, Chair
# [[MapBuilder Report 2009]] -- Cameron Shorter, Chair
# [[MapGuide Open Source Report 2009]] -- Robert Bray, Chair
# [[MapServer Report 2009]] -- Steve Lime, Chair
# [[MetaCRS Report 2009]] -- Frank Warmerdam, Chair
# [[OpenLayers Report 2009]] -- Erik Uzureau, Chair
# [[OSSIM Report 2009]] -- Mark Lucas, Chair
# [[Quantum GIS Report 2009]] -- Gary Sherman, Chair
# [[SoC Report 2009]] -- Wolf Bergenheim

== Local Chapter Reports ==
Chapters in ''italic'' are not official.
# ''[[Africa Chapter Report 2009]]'' -- Gavin Fleming
# ''[[Australia/New Zealand Chapter Report 2009]]'' -- Bruce Bannerman
# ''[[Brazilian Chapter Report 2009]]'' -- Edmar Moretti
# [[British Columbia Chapter Report 2009]] -- Martin Kyle
# ''[[California Chapter Report 2009]]'' -- Landon Blake
# [[Cascadia Chapter Report 2009]]'' -- Aaron Racicot
# [[China Chapter Report 2009]] -- Chen Rongguo
# ''[[Finland Chapter Report 2009]]'' -- Ari Jolma
# [[Francophone Chapter Report 2009]] -- Yves Jacolin
# [[German Language Chapter Report 2009]] -- [[User:Mlechner | Marco Lechner]]
# ''[[Greek Language Chapter Report 2009]]'' -- Dimitris Kotzinos
# [[India Chapter Report 2009]] -- P.S. Roy
# ''[[Israel Chapter Report 2009]]'' -- Micha Silver
# [[Italiano Chapter Report 2009]] -- Andrea Giacomelli
# [[Japan Chapter Report 2009]] -- Toru Mori
# ''[[Korean Chapter Report 2009]]'' -- Sanghee Shin
# [[New Mexico Chapter Report 2009]] -- Zack Stauber
# [[Ottawa Chapter Report 2009]] -- Scott Mitchell
# [[Poland Chapter Report 2009]] -- Tomasz Kubik
# [[Quebec Chapter Report 2009]] -- Daniel Morissette
# ''[[Romanian Chapter Report 2009]]'' -- Vasile Crăciunescu
# [[Spanish Chapter Report 2009]] -- Pedro-Juan Ferrer
# ''[[South America Chapter Report 2009]]'' -- Koen Verbist
# ''[[Taiwan Chapter Report 2009]]'' -- Sander Borghuis
# ''[[Thailand Chapter Report 2009]]'' -- Phisan Santitamnont
# [[Twin Cities Chapter Report 2009]] -- David Bitner
# [[United Kingdom Chapter Report 2009]] -- Jo Cook

== Sponsors (2009) ==
An opportunity for Sponsors to share their perspective or updates.
# [[1Spatial Report 2009]] -- Steven Ramage
# [[Astun Technology Report 2009]] -- Mike Saunt
# [[Autodesk Report 2009]] -- Nathalie Mainland
# [[Borealis Report 2009]] -- Patrick Grégoire
# [[Camptocamp Report 2009]] -- Claude Philipona
# [[FirstBaseSolutions Report 2009]] -- Andrew Chan
# [[GeoCat Report 2009]] -- Jeroen Ticheler
# [[IGN Report 2009]] -- Didier Richard
# [[INPE Report 2009]] -- Lúbia Vinhas
# [[INGRES Report 2009]] -- Andrew Ross
# [[LizardTech Report 2009]] -- Michael Gerlek
# [[Ordnance Survey Report 2009]] -- Tim Martin
# [[PCI Geomatics Report 2009]] -- Terry Moloney

== Report Templates ==
* [[Annual Report Template]]
* [[Annual Report 2009 Compiled]]

[[Category: Reports 2009]]

Annual Report 2009

2010-01-14T15:27:44Z

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[[Image:Attention_niels_epting.png|20px|Valid]] means no report received from committee/project or group
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== Executive ==
# [[Annual Report Introduction 2009]] -- [[User:Tmitchell| Tyler Mitchell]], Executive Director
# [[Board of Directors Report 2009]] -- [[User:warmerda | Arnulf Christl]], President
# [[News Highlights 2009]] -- [[User:Tmitchell | Tyler Mitchell]], News Editor
# [[Finance Report 2009]] -- Frank Warmerdam, Treasurer

== Committee Reports ==
# [[Conference Report 2009]] -- Jeff McKenna, Chair
## [[FOSS4G Report 2009]] -- Cameron Shorter, Chair
## [[FOSS4G Welcome 2010]] -- Lorenzo Becchi, Chair
# [[Education Report 2009]] -- Charlie Schweik, Chair
# [[Geodata Report 2009]] -- David Bitner, Chair
# [[Incubation Report 2009]] -- Frank Warmerdam, Chair
# [[Journal Report 2009]] -- Tyler Mitchell, Editor in Chief
# [[Marketing Report 2009]] -- Tyler Mitchell, Chair
# [[Systems Report 2009]] -- Howard Butler, Chair
# [[Website Report 2009]] -- Christopher Schmidt, Chair

== Software Project Reports ==
# [[deegree Report 2009]] -- Jens Fitzke, PSC Rep.
# [[FDO Report 2009]] -- Greg Boone, Chair
# [[GDAL/OGR Report 2009]] -- Frank Warmerdam, Chair
# [[GeoNetwork opensource Report 2009]] -- Jeroen Ticheler, Chair
# [[GEOS Report 2009]] -- Paul Ramsey
# [[GeoTools Report 2009]] -- Jody Garnett, PSC Rep.
# [[GRASS GIS Report 2009]] -- Markus Neteler, Chair
# [[gvSIG Report 2009]] -- Jorge Sanz
# [[Mapbender Report 2009]] -- Christoph Baudson, Chair
# [[MapBuilder Report 2009]] -- Cameron Shorter, Chair
# [[MapGuide Open Source Report 2009]] -- Robert Bray, Chair
# [[MapServer Report 2009]] -- Steve Lime, Chair
# [[MetaCRS Report 2009]] -- Frank Warmerdam, Chair
# [[OpenLayers Report 2009]] -- Erik Uzureau, Chair
# [[OSSIM Report 2009]] -- Mark Lucas, Chair
# [[Quantum GIS Report 2009]] -- Gary Sherman, Chair
# [[SoC Report 2009]] -- Wolf Bergenheim

== Local Chapter Reports ==
Chapters in ''italic'' are not official.
# ''[[Africa Chapter Report 2009]]'' -- Gavin Fleming
# ''[[Australia/New Zealand Chapter Report 2009]]'' -- Bruce Bannerman
# ''[[Brazilian Chapter Report 2009]]'' -- Edmar Moretti
# [[British Columbia Chapter Report 2009]] -- Martin Kyle
# ''[[California Chapter Report 2009]]'' -- Landon Blake
# [[Cascadia Chapter Report 2009]]'' -- Aaron Racicot
# [[China Chapter Report 2009]] -- Chen Rongguo
# ''[[Finland Chapter Report 2009]]'' -- Ari Jolma
# [[Francophone Chapter Report 2009]] -- Yves Jacolin
# [[German Language Chapter Report 2009]] -- [[User:Mlechner]]
# ''[[Greek Language Chapter Report 2009]]'' -- Dimitris Kotzinos
# [[India Chapter Report 2009]] -- P.S. Roy
# ''[[Israel Chapter Report 2009]]'' -- Micha Silver
# [[Italiano Chapter Report 2009]] -- Andrea Giacomelli
# [[Japan Chapter Report 2009]] -- Toru Mori
# ''[[Korean Chapter Report 2009]]'' -- Sanghee Shin
# [[New Mexico Chapter Report 2009]] -- Zack Stauber
# [[Ottawa Chapter Report 2009]] -- Scott Mitchell
# [[Poland Chapter Report 2009]] -- Tomasz Kubik
# [[Quebec Chapter Report 2009]] -- Daniel Morissette
# ''[[Romanian Chapter Report 2009]]'' -- Vasile Crăciunescu
# [[Spanish Chapter Report 2009]] -- Pedro-Juan Ferrer
# ''[[South America Chapter Report 2009]]'' -- Koen Verbist
# ''[[Taiwan Chapter Report 2009]]'' -- Sander Borghuis
# ''[[Thailand Chapter Report 2009]]'' -- Phisan Santitamnont
# [[Twin Cities Chapter Report 2009]] -- David Bitner
# [[United Kingdom Chapter Report 2009]] -- Jo Cook

== Sponsors (2009) ==
An opportunity for Sponsors to share their perspective or updates.
# [[1Spatial Report 2009]] -- Steven Ramage
# [[Astun Technology Report 2009]] -- Mike Saunt
# [[Autodesk Report 2009]] -- Nathalie Mainland
# [[Borealis Report 2009]] -- Patrick Grégoire
# [[Camptocamp Report 2009]] -- Claude Philipona
# [[FirstBaseSolutions Report 2009]] -- Andrew Chan
# [[GeoCat Report 2009]] -- Jeroen Ticheler
# [[IGN Report 2009]] -- Didier Richard
# [[INPE Report 2009]] -- Lúbia Vinhas
# [[INGRES Report 2009]] -- Andrew Ross
# [[LizardTech Report 2009]] -- Michael Gerlek
# [[Ordnance Survey Report 2009]] -- Tim Martin
# [[PCI Geomatics Report 2009]] -- Terry Moloney

== Report Templates ==
* [[Annual Report Template]]
* [[Annual Report 2009 Compiled]]

[[Category: Reports 2009]]

User:Mlechner

2009-06-29T16:33:13Z

Wiki-Mlechner:

'''Marco Lechner'''

- member of FOSSGIS e.V. 
- participating in local chapter D-A-CH 
- member of Orga-Team of FOSSGIS-conference 

[http://www.naturparkscout.de Naturparkscout] 
Schwimmbadstr. 2 
D-79100 Freiburg 
[mailto:lechner@naturparkscout.de lechner@naturparkscout.de]

[http://www.fossgis.de FOSSGIS e.V./OSGeo D-A-CH] 
[mailto:marco.lechner@fossgis.de marco.lechner@fossgis.de]
{{#umSetParam: 7.95946|47.96621|Kirchzarten - Freiburg, Germany|Mlechner|Marco Lechner}}

Logos from OSGeo projects

2009-06-22T14:00:21Z

Wiki-Mlechner:

This article is dedicated to provide a place where logos of the numerous OSGeo projects can be linked.

The reason for creatin gthis page: last weekend I wasted hours to get logos of most of the OSGeo projects in printquality to arrange them on a poster for the Linxtag in Berlin.
All OSGeo projects please put links to logos of your project on this page to mak eit easy to get them for any PR.
= OSGeo =
* OSGeo [[Logos]] and [[Logo_Update]]
= Web Mapping =
* deegree
* Mapbender
* MapBuilder
* MapGuide Open Source
* MapServer
* OpenLayers
= Desktop Applications =
* GRASS GIS
* OSSIM
* Quantum GIS
* gvSIG
= Geospatial Libraries =
* FDO
* GDAL/OGR
* GEOS
* GeoTools
* MetaCRS
= Metadata Catalog =
* GeoNetwork
= Other Projects =
* Public Geospatial Data
* Education and Curriculum

[[Category: Marketing]]

Logos from OSGeo projects

2009-06-22T13:55:19Z

Wiki-Mlechner:

This article is dedicated to provide a place where logos of the numerous OSGeo projects can be linked.

The reason for creatin gthis page: last weekend I wasted hours to get logos of most of the OSGeo projects in printquality to arrange them on a poster for the Linxtag in Berlin.
All OSGeo projects please put links to logos of your project on this page to mak eit easy to get them for any PR.
= OSGeo =
* OSGeo [[Logos]]
= Web Mapping =
* deegree
* Mapbender
* MapBuilder
* MapGuide Open Source
* MapServer
* OpenLayers
= Desktop Applications =
* GRASS GIS
* OSSIM
* Quantum GIS
* gvSIG
= Geospatial Libraries =
* FDO
* GDAL/OGR
* GEOS
* GeoTools
* MetaCRS
= Metadata Catalog =
* GeoNetwork
= Other Projects =
* Public Geospatial Data
* Education and Curriculum

[[Category: Marketing]]

Logos from OSGeo projects

2009-06-22T13:45:47Z

Wiki-Mlechner: New page: This article is dedicated to provide a place where logos of the numerous OSGeo projects can be linked. The reason for creatin gthis page: last weekend I wasted hours to get logos of most ...

This article is dedicated to provide a place where logos of the numerous OSGeo projects can be linked.

The reason for creatin gthis page: last weekend I wasted hours to get logos of most of the OSGeo projects in printquality to arrange them on a poster for the Linxtag in Berlin.
All OSGeo projects please put links to logos of your project on this page to mak eit easy to get them for any PR.

= Web Mapping =
* deegree
* Mapbender
* MapBuilder
* MapGuide Open Source
* MapServer
* OpenLayers
= Desktop Applications =
* GRASS GIS
* OSSIM
* Quantum GIS
* gvSIG
= Geospatial Libraries =
* FDO
* GDAL/OGR
* GEOS
* GeoTools
* MetaCRS
= Metadata Catalog =
* GeoNetwork
= Other Projects =
* Public Geospatial Data
* Education and Curriculum

[[Category: Marketing]]

German Language Chapter Report 2008

2009-03-09T19:20:19Z

Wiki-Mlechner: /* Key Accomplishments */

== German Language Chapter ==

* Contact name: '''[[User:Georgloesel|Georg Lösel]]'''
* German Language Local Chapter: OSGeo-DACH

=== Key Accomplishments ===
''the top 5-10 key items that the project or PSC accomplished this period''

Web site: http://www.fossgis.de

* Former GRASS-Anwender-Vereinigung e.V. (GAV) becomes FOSSGIS e.V. to emphazise the topic of the association
* FOSSGIS e.V. becomes official [http://www.fossgis.de/ German Language Local Chapter] involving OSGeo People in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
* establishment of an own server, to provide services for the community
* establishment of a strong connection with the German language [http://www.openstreetmap.de OpenStreetMap Community], which decided to cooperate with FOSSGIS e.V. instead of founding an own german association

Visibility at conferences and workshops:
* 1-3 Apr 2008: Hosting the [http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/wiki/2008 FOSSGIS 2008], at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, Germany
* Intergeo 30.9 - 2.10 2008 Bremen: OpenSourcePark with companies and projects
* Linuxtag 2008 (28.-31-5.2008): Booth in cooperation with OpenstreetMap and organisation of an [http://www.linuxtag.org/2008/de/conf/events/vp-freitag.html own slot with 6 presentations concerning Free Software and GIS]

=== Areas for Improvement ===
''any weaknesses in process, software, management, etc. that you plan to address or recognise need some help''

* more acting people
* support in organisation the annual FOSSGIS Konferenz (Conference Software)

=== Opportunities to Help ===
''list areas that could use some help from members and readers of the report''

*
* ...

=== Outlook for 2009 ===
''this is the motivational part that is meant to inspire readers to keep their eyes open for great stuff in 2008 :)''

* Hosting the annual [http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz FOSSGIS Conference], this year taking place in Hannover (17.-19.03.2009)
* concept of restructuring and relaunch of the [http://www.freegis.org FreeGIS Project]
* Preparation of the 10th anniversary of GAV/FOSSGIS foundation (2000 - 2010)

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[[Category: Reports 2008]]

German Language Chapter Report 2008

2009-03-09T19:18:34Z

Wiki-Mlechner: /* Outlook for 2009 */

== German Language Chapter ==

* Contact name: '''[[User:Georgloesel|Georg Lösel]]'''
* German Language Local Chapter: OSGeo-DACH

=== Key Accomplishments ===
''the top 5-10 key items that the project or PSC accomplished this period''

Web site: http://www.fossgis.de

* Former GRASS-Anwender-Vereinigung e.V. (GAV) becomes FOSSGIS e.V. to emphazise the topic of the association
* FOSSGIS e.V. becomes official [http://www.fossgis.de/ German Language Local Chapter] involving OSGeo People in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
* establishment of an own server, to provide services for the community
* establishment of a strong connection with the German language [http://www.openstreetmap.de OpenStreetMap Community], which decided to cooperate with FOSSGIS e.V. instead of founding an own german association

Visibility at conferences and workshops:
* 1-3 Apr 2008: [http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/wiki/2008 FOSSGIS 2008], Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, Germany
* Intergeo 30.9 - 2.10 2008 Bremen: OpenSourcePark with companies and projects
* Linuxtag 2008 (28.-31-5.2008): Booth in cooperation with OpenstreetMap and organisation of an [http://www.linuxtag.org/2008/de/conf/events/vp-freitag.html own slot with 6 presentations concerning Free Software and GIS]

=== Areas for Improvement ===
''any weaknesses in process, software, management, etc. that you plan to address or recognise need some help''

* more acting people
* support in organisation the annual FOSSGIS Konferenz (Conference Software)

=== Opportunities to Help ===
''list areas that could use some help from members and readers of the report''

*
* ...

=== Outlook for 2009 ===
''this is the motivational part that is meant to inspire readers to keep their eyes open for great stuff in 2008 :)''

* Hosting the annual [http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz FOSSGIS Conference], this year taking place in Hannover (17.-19.03.2009)
* concept of restructuring and relaunch of the [http://www.freegis.org FreeGIS Project]
* Preparation of the 10th anniversary of GAV/FOSSGIS foundation (2000 - 2010)

__notoc__
[[Category: Reports 2008]]

FOSSGIS 2009

2008-12-16T17:30:33Z

Wiki-Mlechner:

; [[Event Owner]] [[User:Mlechner]]
{|cellpadding="20" cellspacing="0" border="0"
|-
|align="center" | [[Image:Fossgis09-logo_150.png]]
|align="left" | The [http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz FOSSGIS conference] is the German language sibling of the [[FOSS4G]] conferences.

The FOSSGIS will take place for the seventh time. This time in [http://www.uni-hannover.de/ Hannover], Germany on March 17-19, 2009.

|-
|}

== Press Releases 2009 ==

=== FOSSGIS 2009 - Call for Papers opened ===
The German speaking Open Source GIS community meets from March 17th through 19th 2009 in Hannover, Germany to the yearly conference and fair.

The call for papers including workshops, speeches and poster is now available and the organizing committee is happy to invite you to register.

[http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/wiki/CFP_2009 CfP FOSSGIS 2009]

Registration for participation will be possible from mid of january.

[http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz Conference-Wiki FOSSGIS 2009]

Throughout the conference the sponsoring companies will operate booths in the exhibition area to highlight the latest technology, show new products and solutions and talk business.

[http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/wiki/Messe_Sponsoring_2009 Sponsoring]

[[Category:Events]]

File:Fossgis09-logo 150.png

2008-12-16T17:27:15Z

Wiki-Mlechner:

FOSSGIS 2009

2008-12-16T17:26:36Z

Wiki-Mlechner: /* FOSSGIS 2009 - Call for Papers opened */

; [[Event Owner]] [[User:Mlechner]]
{|cellpadding="20" cellspacing="0" border="0"
|-
|align="center" | [[Image:Beispiel.jpg]]
|align="left" | The [http://www.fossgis.de FOSSGIS conference] is the German language sibling of the [[FOSS4G]] conferences.

The FOSSGIS will take place for the seventh time. This time in [http://www.uni-hannover.de/ Hannover], Germany on March 17-19, 2009.

|-
|}

== Press Releases 2009 ==

=== FOSSGIS 2009 - Call for Papers opened ===
The German speaking Open Source GIS community meets from March 17th through 19th 2009 in Hannover, Germany to the yearly conference and fair.

The call for papers including workshops, speeches and poster is now available and the organizing committee is happy to invite you to register.

[http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/wiki/CFP_2009 CfP FOSSGIS 2009]

[http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz Conference-Wiki FOSSGIS 2009]

Workshop fees are EUR 100,- per attendee and will as in the last years help to fund the conference.

Throughout the conference the sponsoring companies will operate booths in the exhibition area to highlight the latest technology, show new products and solutions and talk business.

[http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/wiki/Messe_Sponsoring_2009 Sponsoring]

[[Category:Events]]

FOSSGIS 2009

2008-12-16T17:23:56Z

Wiki-Mlechner: /* FOSSGIS 2009 - Call for Papers opened */

; [[Event Owner]] [[User:Mlechner]]
{|cellpadding="20" cellspacing="0" border="0"
|-
|align="center" | [[Image:Beispiel.jpg]]
|align="left" | The [http://www.fossgis.de FOSSGIS conference] is the German language sibling of the [[FOSS4G]] conferences.

The FOSSGIS will take place for the seventh time. This time in [http://www.uni-hannover.de/ Hannover], Germany on March 17-19, 2009.

|-
|}

== Press Releases 2009 ==

=== FOSSGIS 2009 - Call for Papers opened ===
The German speaking Open Source GIS community meets from March 17th through 19th 2009 in Hannover, Germany to the yearly conference and fair.

The call for papers including workshops, speeches and poster is now available and the organizing committee is happy to invite you to register.

http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz

Workshop fees are EUR 100,- per attendee and will as in the last years help to fund the conference.

Throughout the conference the sponsoring companies will operate booths in the exhibition area to highlight the latest technology, show new products and solutions and talk business.

http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/wiki/Messe_Sponsoring_2009

Admission for the full program of the conference is free of cost for everybody but please make sure to register before March 25th!

http://www.fossgis.de/wiki/

[[Category:Events]]

FOSSGIS 2009

2008-12-16T17:23:35Z

Wiki-Mlechner:

; [[Event Owner]] [[User:Mlechner]]
{|cellpadding="20" cellspacing="0" border="0"
|-
|align="center" | [[Image:Beispiel.jpg]]
|align="left" | The [http://www.fossgis.de FOSSGIS conference] is the German language sibling of the [[FOSS4G]] conferences.

The FOSSGIS will take place for the seventh time. This time in [http://www.uni-hannover.de/ Hannover], Germany on March 17-19, 2009.

|-
|}

== Press Releases 2009 ==

=== FOSSGIS 2009 - Call for Papers opened ===
The German speaking Open Source GIS community meets from MArch 17th through 19th 2009 in Hannover, Germany to the yearly conference and fair.

The call for papers including workshops, speeches and poster is now available and the organizing committee is happy to invite you to register.

http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz

Workshop fees are EUR 100,- per attendee and will as in the last years help to fund the conference.

Throughout the conference the sponsoring companies will operate booths in the exhibition area to highlight the latest technology, show new products and solutions and talk business.

http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/wiki/Messe_Sponsoring_2009

Admission for the full program of the conference is free of cost for everybody but please make sure to register before March 25th!

http://www.fossgis.de/wiki/

[[Category:Events]]

FOSSGIS Konferenzen

2008-12-16T17:21:48Z

Wiki-Mlechner:

The annually recurring [http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz FOSSGIS] conference is the German language sibling of the [[FOSS4G]] meeting of the tribes. It is not intended to compete with FOSS4G but to allow local users and businesses to meet, learn about new development and collaborate on local chapter activities in their own language.

* [[FOSSGIS 2006]]
* [[FOSSGIS 2007]]
* [[FOSSGIS 2008]]
* [[FOSSGIS 2009]]

FOSSGIS conferences have developed from the initiative of several small companies and communities who merged forces to be able to manage a larger event. OSGeo has been present with a booth and as honorary host since its conception.

The FOSSGIS conference is provided by [http://www.fossgis.de FOSSGIS e.V.], the D-A-CH (german speaking) Local Chapter of OSGeo.

[[Category:Events]]

FOSSGIS Konferenzen

2008-12-16T16:58:42Z

Wiki-Mlechner:

The annually recurring [http://www.fossgis.de FOSSGIS] conference is the German language sibling of the [[FOSS4G]] meeting of the tribes. It is not intended to compete with FOSS4G but to allow local users and businesses to meet, learn about new development and collaborate on local chapter activities in their own language.

* [[FOSSGIS 2006]]
* [[FOSSGIS 2007]]
* [[FOSSGIS 2008]]
* [[FOSSGIS 2009]]

FOSSGIS conferences have developed from the initiative of several small companies and communities who merged forces to be able to manage a larger event. OSGeo has been present with a booth and as honorary host since its conception.

With GAV e.V. renaming ot [[FOSSGIS e.V.]] it will take on the Local Chapter activities in Germany and also appear as organizer of the FOSSGIS conferences.

[[Category:Events]]