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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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* Why-FOSS4G Trends:
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* '''Why-FOSS4G Trends:'''
 
** 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)
 
*** 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.
 
*** 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.
 
*** Without vendor lock-in traps, Open Source successfully competes with proprietary software.
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* FOSS4G Interoperability Trends:
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* '''FOSS4G Interoperability Trends:'''
 
** GDAL/OGR started in 1998 with XX formats, used by GRASS and few others
 
** GDAL/OGR started in 1998 with XX formats, used by GRASS and few others
 
** today many [http://www.gdal.org/formats_list.html raster] and [http://www.gdal.org/ogr/ogr_utilities.html vector] formats, used by [http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/SoftwareUsingGdal many software packages]
 
** today many [http://www.gdal.org/formats_list.html raster] and [http://www.gdal.org/ogr/ogr_utilities.html vector] formats, used by [http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/SoftwareUsingGdal many software packages]
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** esp. WPS is gaining interest ([http://pywps.wald.intevation.org/ pyWPS], [http://52north.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=187&Itemid=187 52°N] implementations)
 
** esp. WPS is gaining interest ([http://pywps.wald.intevation.org/ pyWPS], [http://52north.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=187&Itemid=187 52°N] implementations)
 
** [http://georss.org GeoRSS] becomes [http://www.opengeospatial.org/pressroom/pressreleases/580 OGC whitepaper]
 
** [http://georss.org GeoRSS] becomes [http://www.opengeospatial.org/pressroom/pressreleases/580 OGC whitepaper]
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* FOSS4G WebGIS Trends:
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* '''FOSS4G WebGIS Trends:'''
 
** Web 1.0: static pages ...
 
** Web 1.0: static pages ...
 
** Web(GIS) 1.5: a bit dynamic pages
 
** Web(GIS) 1.5: a bit dynamic pages
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** Web(GIS) 3.0: the semantic Web or the Geoweb (?)
 
** Web(GIS) 3.0: the semantic Web or the Geoweb (?)
 
*** our online data get (spatially) organized?
 
*** our online data get (spatially) organized?
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* FOSS4G GIS Analytics Trends:
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* '''FOSS4G GIS Analytics Trends:'''
 
** also (Desktop) GIS wants to be online: Web Processing Service (pyWPS, 52°N, ...)
 
** also (Desktop) GIS wants to be online: Web Processing Service (pyWPS, 52°N, ...)
 
** federated databases
 
** federated databases
 
** GRASS as free GIS backbone
 
** GRASS as free GIS backbone
 
** distributed and parallel computing (GIS number crunching)
 
** distributed and parallel computing (GIS number crunching)
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* FOSS4G Community Trends:
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* '''FOSS4G Community Trends:'''
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** Communication:
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** Communication technology:
 
*** 80s: phone, letter, magnetic tape...
 
*** 80s: phone, letter, magnetic tape...
 
*** 1989 (?): GRASS FTP server online - the first FOSS4G GIS server in civil internet?
 
*** 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]
 
*** 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
 
*** Usenet comes up, interfaced with GRASS-MLs
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*** 1994 (?): Web is invented - First GRASS Web site (CERL)
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*** 1994 (?): Web is invented - First GRASS Web site ([http://www.cecer.army.mil/grass/ CERL]) - see [http://mpa.itc.it/markus/grass_web_evolution/ GRASS Web site evolution]
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*** 1999: [http://web.archive.org/web/19990423201224/http://www.remotesensing.org/ remotesensing.org] established, hosting PROJ, GDAL, OSSIM, libgeotiff, ...
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*** 2000: [http://www.freegis.org/ FreeGIS.org] mailing list and portal launched - fundamental for community building
 
*** 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
 
*** 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
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** National FOSS4G cooperations:
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*** 2000: [http://www.grass-verein.de GRASS Anwendervereinigung e.V.] - 2008: becoming OSGeo-DACH?
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*** 2007: [http://GFOSS.it Associazione italiana per l'informazione geografica libera]
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*** 2007: many [http://www.osgeo.org/content/chapters/index.html OSGeo local chapters]
 
** Conferences:
 
** Conferences:
 
*** Many GRASS conferences since 80s in USA and Europe, drop in 1995, in Asia Bangkok 2004
 
*** Many GRASS conferences since 80s in USA and Europe, drop in 1995, in Asia Bangkok 2004
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**** in Germany annual conf since 2005 (first Mapserver, now FOSSGIS.de)
 
**** in Germany annual conf since 2005 (first Mapserver, now FOSSGIS.de)
 
**** in Spain: gvSIG conf since 2007 (?)
 
**** in Spain: gvSIG conf since 2007 (?)
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* FOSS4G Release Management and Quality Assessment Trends:
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* '''FOSS4G Release Management and Quality Assessment Trends:'''
 
** Code Management
 
** Code Management
 
*** 80's: GRASS source code is managed manually by the core developers (hey, no civil internet yet!)
 
*** 80's: GRASS source code is managed manually by the core developers (hey, no civil internet yet!)
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*** various scientific papers on this
 
*** various scientific papers on this
 
*** supports clone detection and software engineering measures on code style
 
*** supports clone detection and software engineering measures on code style
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* FOSS4G Documentation Trends:
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* '''FOSS4G Documentation Trends:'''
 
** 80's started with tutorials
 
** 80's started with tutorials
 
** 2002: ''Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS Approach'' - first FOSS4G book ever
 
** 2002: ''Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS Approach'' - first FOSS4G book ever
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** 2007: [http://www.peachymango.org/tiki-index.php?page=FOSS4G FOSS4G primer] and other book-like initiatives
 
** 2007: [http://www.peachymango.org/tiki-index.php?page=FOSS4G FOSS4G primer] and other book-like initiatives
 
** 2008: Many FOSS4G books now available: [[Library#GFOSS_Books|bookshelf]]
 
** 2008: Many FOSS4G books now available: [[Library#GFOSS_Books|bookshelf]]
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* FOSS4G Business Trends:
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* '''FOSS4G Business Trends:'''
 
** OSGeo Service Providers [http://www.osgeo.org/search_profile directory] (almost 100 registered)
 
** OSGeo Service Providers [http://www.osgeo.org/search_profile directory] (almost 100 registered)
 
*** TODO: check covered countries, statistics per continent
 
*** TODO: check covered countries, statistics per continent

Revision as of 14:45, 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

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

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.
  • FOSS4G Interoperability Trends:
  • 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 technology:
      • 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) - see GRASS Web site evolution
      • 1999: remotesensing.org established, hosting PROJ, GDAL, OSSIM, libgeotiff, ...
      • 2000: FreeGIS.org mailing list and portal launched - fundamental for community building
      • 200x: Blogs, Wikis, emails (TODO: number of subscribers in all OSGeo lists; only in GRASS lists >4000), Voip, ... communication is easy
    • National FOSS4G cooperations:
    • 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 (?)
  • 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
  • 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:
      • 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
      • hence FOSS4G == commercial

Resources

Presentation: OSGeo Foundation

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