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== Presentation: Trends in development of Free and Open Source Software for Geomatics == | == Presentation: Trends in development of Free and Open Source Software for Geomatics == | ||
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** The geospatial industry is moving toward Open Standards. Open Standards facilitates: | ** The geospatial industry is moving toward Open Standards. Open Standards facilitates: | ||
*** Interoperability between agencies which increases availability of data (in Europe, see INSPIRE) | *** Interoperability between agencies which increases availability of data (in Europe, see INSPIRE) | ||
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** distributed and parallel computing (GIS number crunching) | ** distributed and parallel computing (GIS number crunching) | ||
* FOSS4G Community Trends: | * FOSS4G Community Trends: | ||
+ | ** Communication: | ||
+ | *** 80s: phone, letter, magnetic tape... | ||
+ | *** 1989 (?): GRASS FTP server online - the first FOSS4G GIS server in civil internet? | ||
+ | *** 1991: GRASS Mailing lists started: [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user grass-user] and [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev grass-dev] | ||
+ | *** Usenet comes up, interfaced with GRASS-MLs | ||
+ | *** 1994 (?): Web is invented - First GRASS Web site (CERL) | ||
+ | *** 200x: [http://planet.osgeo.org/ Blogs], Wikis, emails (TODO: number of subscribers in all OSGeo lists; only in GRASS lists >4000), Voip, ... communication is easy | ||
+ | ** Conferences: | ||
+ | *** Many GRASS conferences since 80s in USA and Europe, drop in 1995, in Asia Bangkok 2004 | ||
+ | *** Mapserver conference 2005 | ||
+ | *** Lausanne 2006: Merge of Mapserver, GRASS, EOGEO conferences to [[:Category:FOSS4G|FOSS4G conference series]], then Canada 2007, now South Africa 2008, next Sydney 2009, ... | ||
+ | *** Annual national conferences: | ||
+ | **** in Italy annual conf since 1999 (first GRASS, now GFOSS.it) | ||
+ | **** in Germany annual conf since 2005 (first Mapserver, now FOSSGIS.de) | ||
+ | **** in Spain: gvSIG conf since 2007 (?) | ||
* FOSS4G Release Management and Quality Assessment Trends: | * FOSS4G Release Management and Quality Assessment Trends: | ||
** Code Management | ** Code Management | ||
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*** See [http://europa.eu.int/idabc/en/document/2623 IDABC - Documentation on Open Source Software (OSS)] | *** See [http://europa.eu.int/idabc/en/document/2623 IDABC - Documentation on Open Source Software (OSS)] | ||
** Provide commercial training directly as OSGeo brand? - ongoing [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/conference_dev/2008-June/thread.html#576 discussion]... | ** Provide commercial training directly as OSGeo brand? - ongoing [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/conference_dev/2008-June/thread.html#576 discussion]... | ||
+ | ** From Dave Mcllhagga's [http://www.foss4g2007.org/presentations/view.php?abstract_id=220 presentation] on FOSS4G 2008: | ||
+ | *** value is the solution, not the technology | ||
+ | *** solutions drive the technology - not the other way around | ||
+ | *** [[FOSSGIS]] [[Business]] Models | ||
+ | *** <s>Commercial</s> (don't mix this up!) Proprietary GI solutions versus [[FOSS4G]] | ||
+ | *** hence FOSS4G == commercial | ||
=== Resources === | === Resources === |
Revision as of 14:34, 11 June 2008
Cascadoss International Symposium and Workshop, 16th, 2008 - Jun 19th, 2008 in Warsaw, Poland
The international symposium will bring together both professional developers and (potential) customers of GIS/RS Open Source technology and will, as such, stimulate research & innovation and networking in this field. The workshop part targets GIS-experts with a high level of expertise in GIS and/or programming, such as software service providers and IT/GIS-SMEs.
Event organized within the CASCADOSS project.
Referenes
- Support for CASCADOSS discussion
- Announced OSGeo Support for CASCADOSS
OSGeo Talks
- How GIS Open Source Projects stimulate building of the communities by Markus Neteler
- Trends in development of Free and Open Source Software for Geomatics by Mateusz Loskot
- The OSGeo Foundation - an introduction by Markus and Mateusz
Presentation: How GIS Open Source Projects stimulate building of the communities
TBD
- shared infrastrucutre
- community health check in incubation phase
- Through OSGeo foundation projects large, vital communities incorporated into foundation
Resources
- Community based software development: The GRASS GIS project presentation by Markus Neteler,
- Producing Open Source Software book by Karl Fogel
- OSbootcamp2008
- GRASS Community Map(server)
- QGIS Community Map(server)
- MapBender Community Map(bender)
Presentation: Trends in development of Free and Open Source Software for Geomatics
- Why-FOSS4G Trends:
- The geospatial industry is moving toward Open Standards. Open Standards facilitates:
- Interoperability between agencies which increases availability of data (in Europe, see INSPIRE)
- Move to Standards based, Commercial Off The Shelf (SCOTS) software. In turn SCOTS software becomes a commodity item which brings the price of the SCOTS software down.
- Without vendor lock-in traps, Open Source successfully competes with proprietary software.
- The geospatial industry is moving toward Open Standards. Open Standards facilitates:
- FOSS4G Interoperability Trends:
- GDAL/OGR started in 1998 with XX formats, used by GRASS and few others
- today many raster and vector formats, used by many software packages
- FDO goes open source in 2006
- OGC standards are getting implemented in various OSGeo software packages
- esp. WPS is gaining interest (pyWPS, 52°N implementations)
- GeoRSS becomes OGC whitepaper
- FOSS4G WebGIS Trends:
- Web 1.0: static pages ...
- Web(GIS) 1.5: a bit dynamic pages
- Web(GIS) 2.0: the "I GIS" Web
- collective intelligence - collective mapping (OSM, ...)
- GIS meets social Web
- Sensor web (SOS)
- NASA WorldWind, ...
- Mapserver (p.mapper, ka-maps, ...), OpenLayers, FeatureServer, Geoserver, MapGuide OS, pyWPS...
- it's all about protocols and mashups
- Web(GIS) 3.0: the semantic Web or the Geoweb (?)
- our online data get (spatially) organized?
- FOSS4G GIS Analytics Trends:
- also (Desktop) GIS wants to be online: Web Processing Service (pyWPS, 52°N, ...)
- federated databases
- GRASS as free GIS backbone
- distributed and parallel computing (GIS number crunching)
- FOSS4G Community Trends:
- Communication:
- 80s: phone, letter, magnetic tape...
- 1989 (?): GRASS FTP server online - the first FOSS4G GIS server in civil internet?
- 1991: GRASS Mailing lists started: grass-user and grass-dev
- Usenet comes up, interfaced with GRASS-MLs
- 1994 (?): Web is invented - First GRASS Web site (CERL)
- 200x: Blogs, Wikis, emails (TODO: number of subscribers in all OSGeo lists; only in GRASS lists >4000), Voip, ... communication is easy
- Conferences:
- Many GRASS conferences since 80s in USA and Europe, drop in 1995, in Asia Bangkok 2004
- Mapserver conference 2005
- Lausanne 2006: Merge of Mapserver, GRASS, EOGEO conferences to FOSS4G conference series, then Canada 2007, now South Africa 2008, next Sydney 2009, ...
- Annual national conferences:
- in Italy annual conf since 1999 (first GRASS, now GFOSS.it)
- in Germany annual conf since 2005 (first Mapserver, now FOSSGIS.de)
- in Spain: gvSIG conf since 2007 (?)
- Communication:
- FOSS4G Release Management and Quality Assessment Trends:
- Code Management
- 80's: GRASS source code is managed manually by the core developers (hey, no civil internet yet!)
- 12/1999: one day before Year 2000, GRASS CVS is started (GDAL, Mapserver - no idea)
- 2007: integrated OSGeo development platform: SVN, trac, wiki, mailing lists, IRC bots, buildbots
- Release Management
- till 2006 (?): separated, ad-hoc releases by the individual teams
- since 2006: attempts to synchronize releases for common feature support etc.
- since 200x: thorough test cycles with alpha, beta, release candidates (milestones in trac)
- cross platform tests before releasing (code becomes portable: Linux, MacOSX, MS-Windows, ...)
- aim: deliver end user product (also requested by now large user communities and distro packagers)
- Quality Assessment:
- Implementation of Code submission standards for C, Shell scripts, Tcl/Tk, and Python
- 2006: GRASS Code Quality Control System started (currently under rewrite to open up for other OSGeo projects)
- various scientific papers on this
- supports clone detection and software engineering measures on code style
- Code Management
- FOSS4G Documentation Trends:
- 80's started with tutorials
- 2002: Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS Approach - first FOSS4G book ever
- 2004 (?): first FOSS4G Wikis come up
- 2006: OSGeo Education and Curriculum Committee is formed
- 2007: FOSS4G primer and other book-like initiatives
- 2008: Many FOSS4G books now available: bookshelf
- FOSS4G Business Trends:
- OSGeo Service Providers directory (almost 100 registered)
- TODO: check covered countries, statistics per continent
- TODO: check public tenders for open source, anyone having stats?
- FOSS4G business model - [:Category:Advocacy|Category:Advocacy]
- Provide commercial training directly as OSGeo brand? - ongoing discussion...
- From Dave Mcllhagga's presentation on FOSS4G 2008:
- OSGeo Service Providers directory (almost 100 registered)
Resources
- OSbootcamp2008
- Open Source Software Economics, IP, and Standards by Stephen R. Walli, China OSS Summit 2007
- Open Source Radar by Nat Torkington
- The Total Growth of Open Source by Amit Deshpande and Dirk Riehle, OSS 2008
- Why Open Source Software? Look at the Numbers! by David A. Wheeler, 2007
- Don't oppose Free Software and Commercial Software by Jan-Oliver Wagner
- Dirk Riehle: Open Source Economics - The Economic Motivation of Open Source Software: Stakeholder Perspectives
- Overview of Free/Open source Desktop GIS
- "...dass die Idee, Software zu verkaufen, immer uninteressanter wird..."
- Was motiviert Open-Source-Entwickler?
- Open Source and Free Software Business Models by WhereGroup
Presentation: OSGeo Foundation
- Use information collected in the Generic OSGeo Presentation article and Tyler Mitchell's OSGeo presentation from the FOSS4G 2007.
- This is nicest looking one but out of date:
- And there are ones under a few of these folders too: http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/community/presentations/ (The Victoria and Osaka ones are probably best)
- Collective Intelligence (crowd-sourcing) and Neo-Geography:
- GIS versus Collective Neo-Geography
- Where 2.0 O'Reilly Conference (http://conferences.oreillynet.com/where2006/)
- GIS is more: data anaylsis!
- Google Earth (GE) as driving factor:
- 100 million people downloaded GE
- Collective sites such as Google Maps Mania (http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/)
- Public participation tools
- Google maps mashup due to public API:
- Social networks
- Events
- Places
- User data:
- Intangible emotional associations to space
- Grass-root street data collection (OSM etc)
- Symbolic locational data
- GIS versus Collective Neo-Geography
- OSGeo & OGC:
- http://www.fossgis.de/wiki/index.php/Abstracts_2008#Die_Open_Source_Geospatial_Foundation
- http://www.fossgis.de/wiki/index.php/Die_Open_Source_Geospatial_Foundation_stellt_sich_vor
- http://www.fossgis.de/wiki/index.php/Abstracts07#Digitaler_.22Rohstoff.22_Geoinformation
- http://www.fossgis.de/wiki/index.php/Abstracts07#OSGeo_-_Eine_Orientierungshilfe
- OSGeo & Business:
- OSGeo Service Providers
- OSGeo Ideas:
- accredited FOSS4G engineer
- accredited curriculum
- more marketing!
- OSGeo GSoC