Cascadoss Symposium 2008
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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 instroduction by Markus and Mateusz
How GIS Open Source Projects stimulate building of the communities
TBD
Resources
- Community based software development: The GRASS GIS project presentation by Markus Neteler,
- Producing Open Source Software book by Karl Fogel
Trends in development of Free and Open Source Software for Geomatics
From Dave Mcllhagga's presentation on FOSS4G 2008:
- value is the solution, not the technology
- solutions drive the technology - not the other way around
- FOSSGIS Business Models
CommercialProprietary GI solutions versus FOSS4G- FOSS4G == commercial
...
Trends:
- The geospatial industry is moving toward Open Standards. Open Standards facilitates:
- Interoperability between agencies which increases availability of data.
- 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.
Resources
- 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?
OSGeo Foundation
Use information collected in the Generic OSGeo Presentation article and Tyler Mitchell's OSGeo presentation from the FOSSG4 2008.