Cascadoss Symposium 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

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
• Commercial (don't mix this up!) Proprietary 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 (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.
• Semantic web
• Sensor web (SOS)
• Web Processing Service
• 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 Web Trends:
• FOSS4G GIS Analytics Trends:
• FOSS4G Community Trends:
• FOSS4G Quality Assessment Trends:
• 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]
    • See IDABC - Documentation on Open Source Software (OSS)
  • Provide commercial training directly as OSGeo brand? - ongoing discussion...

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:
  • http://osgeo.org/files/viscom/library/mitchell_2007_locint.pdf
  • http://osgeo.org/files/viscom/library/mitchell_2007_locint.pps.zip
• 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
• 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