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Event organized within the [http://www.cascadoss.eu/ CASCADOSS] project.
 
Event organized within the [http://www.cascadoss.eu/ CASCADOSS] project.
  
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== Referenes ==
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== References ==
  
 
*[[Support_for_CASCADOSS|Support for CASCADOSS]] discussion
 
*[[Support_for_CASCADOSS|Support for CASCADOSS]] discussion
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== OSGeo Talks ==
 
== OSGeo Talks ==
  
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*''How GIS Open Source Projects stimulate building of the communities'' by [[User:Neteler|Markus Neteler]]
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'''International Symposium:'''
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*''Trends in development of Free and Open Source Software for Geomatics'' by [[User:Mloskot|Mateusz Loskot]]
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* Keynote: ''How GIS Open Source Projects stimulate building of the communities'' by [[User:Mloskot|Mateusz Loskot]]
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*''The OSGeo Foundation - an instroduction'' by Markus and Mateusz
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* Keynote: ''Trends in development of Free and Open Source Software for Geomatics'' by [[User:Neteler|Markus Neteler]]
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: [http://www.cascadoss.eu/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24&Itemid=24 PDFs]
  
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== How GIS Open Source Projects stimulate building of the communities ==
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'''International Information Workshop:'''
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* Presentation ''The OSGeo Foundation - an introduction'' by Markus and Mateusz
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* Presentation ''Introduction to OSSIM Project'' by Mateusz
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: [http://www.cascadoss.eu/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=28&Itemid=28 PDFs]
  
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''TBD''
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== Presentation: How GIS Open Source Projects stimulate building of the communities (draft material) ==
  
 
* shared infrastrucutre
 
* shared infrastrucutre
 
* community health check in incubation phase
 
* community health check in incubation phase
 
* Through OSGeo foundation projects large, vital communities incorporated into foundation
 
* Through OSGeo foundation projects large, vital communities incorporated into foundation
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''TODO'': Update from materials prepared offline
  
 
=== Resources ===
 
=== Resources ===
  
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*[http://www.grassbook.org/neteler/unitn2008/ Community based software development: The GRASS GIS project] presentation by Markus Neteler,  
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* [http://www.grassbook.org/neteler/unitn2008/ Community based software development: The GRASS GIS project] presentation by Markus Neteler,  
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*[http://producingoss.com/ Producing Open Source Software] book by Karl Fogel
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* [http://producingoss.com/ Producing Open Source Software] book by Karl Fogel
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* [http://www.osbootcamp.org/wiki/index.php?title=Speakers6 OSbootcamp2008]
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* [http://grass.osgeo.org/community/index.php GRASS Community Map(server)]
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* [http://qgis.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=53 QGIS Community Map(server)]
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* [http://wms.wheregroup.com/mapbender/frames/index.php?&gui_id=mapbender_user Mapbender Community Map(bender)] login mb/mb
  
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== Trends in development of Free and Open Source Software for Geomatics ==
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== Presentation: Trends in development of Free and Open Source Software for Geomatics (draft material) ==
  
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From Dave Mcllhagga's [http://www.foss4g2007.org/presentations/view.php?abstract_id=220 presentation] on FOSS4G 2008:
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* '''Why-FOSS4G Trends:'''
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*value is the solution, not the technology
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** The geospatial industry is moving toward Open Standards. Open Standards facilitates:
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*solutions drive the technology - not the other way around
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*** Interoperability between agencies which increases availability of data (in Europe, see INSPIRE)
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* [[FOSSGIS]] [[Business]] Models
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*** 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.
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* <s>Commercial</s> Proprietary GI solutions versus [[FOSS4G]]
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*** Without vendor lock-in traps, Open Source successfully competes with proprietary software.
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* FOSS4G == commercial
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* '''FOSS4G Interoperability Trends:'''
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...
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** GDAL/OGR started in 1998 with XX formats, used by GRASS and few others
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** today many [http://www.gdal.org/formats_list.html raster] and [http://www.gdal.org/ogr/ogr_formats.html vector] formats, used by [http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/SoftwareUsingGdal many software packages]
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Trends:
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** [http://fdo.osgeo.org/history.html FDO] goes open source in 2006
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* The geospatial industry is moving toward Open Standards. Open Standards facilitates:
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** OGC standards are getting implemented in various OSGeo software packages
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** Interoperability between agencies which increases availability of data.
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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)
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** 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.
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** [http://georss.org GeoRSS] becomes [http://www.opengeospatial.org/pressroom/pressreleases/580 OGC whitepaper]
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** Without vendor lock in traps, Open Source successfully competes with proprietary software.
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* '''FOSS4G WebGIS Trends:'''
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** Web 1.0: static pages ...
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** Web(GIS) 1.5: a bit dynamic pages
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*** [http://pnwpest.org/glinks/ grasslinks]
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** Web(GIS) 2.0: the "I GIS" Web
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*** collective intelligence, crowdsourcing, collective mapping (OSM, ...)
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*** GIS meets social Web
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*** you and me with GPS: mapping party (new fashion in Italy)
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*** Sensor web (SOS)
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*** NASA WorldWind, ...
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*** Mapserver (p.mapper, ka-maps, ...), OpenLayers, FeatureServer, Geoserver, MapGuide OS, pyWPS...
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*** it's all about protocols and mashups
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** Web(GIS) 3.0: the semantic Web or the Geoweb (?)
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*** our online data get (spatially) organized?
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* '''FOSS4G GIS Analytics Trends:'''
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** also (Desktop) GIS wants to be online: Web Processing Service (pyWPS, 52°N, ...)
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** federated databases
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** GRASS as free GIS backbone
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** distributed and parallel computing (GIS number crunching)
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* '''FOSS4G Community Trends:'''
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** Communication technology:
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*** 80s: phone, letter, magnetic tape...
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*** 1989 (?): GRASS FTP server online - the first FOSS4G GIS server in civil internet?
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*** 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]
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*** Usenet comes up, interfaced with GRASS-MLs
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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
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*** 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 corporations:
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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]
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** Conferences:
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*** Many GRASS conferences since 80s in USA and Europe, drop in 1995, in Asia Bangkok 2004
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*** Mapserver conference 2005
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*** Lausanne 2006: Merge of Mapserver, GRASS, EOGEO conferences to [[:Category:FOSS4G|FOSS4G conference series]], then Canada 2007, now South Africa 2008, next Sydney 2009, ...
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*** Annual national conferences:
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**** in Italy annual conf since 1999 (first GRASS, now GFOSS.it)
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**** in Germany annual conf since 2005 (first Mapserver, now FOSSGIS.de)
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**** in Spain: gvSIG conf since 2007 (?)
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* '''FOSS4G Release Management and Quality Assessment Trends:'''
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** Code Management
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*** 80's: GRASS source code is managed manually by the core developers (hey, no civil internet yet!)
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*** 12/1999: one day before Year 2000, GRASS CVS is started (GDAL, Mapserver - no idea)
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*** 2007: integrated OSGeo development platform: SVN, trac, wiki, mailing lists, IRC bots, buildbots
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** Release Management
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*** till 2006 (?): separated, ad-hoc releases by the individual teams
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*** since 2006: attempts to synchronize releases for common feature support etc.
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*** since 200x: thorough test cycles with alpha, beta, release candidates (milestones in trac)
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*** cross platform tests before releasing (code becomes portable: Linux, MacOSX, MS-Windows, ...)
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*** aim: deliver end user product (also requested by now large user communities and distro packagers)
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** Quality Assessment:
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*** Implementation of Code submission standards for C, Shell scripts, Tcl/Tk, and Python
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*** 2006: GRASS Code [http://web.soccerlab.polymtl.ca/grass-evolution/grass-browsers/grass-index-en.html Quality Control System] started (currently under rewrite to open up for other OSGeo projects)
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*** various scientific papers on this
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*** supports clone detection and software engineering measures on code style
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* '''FOSS4G Documentation Trends:'''
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** 80's started with tutorials
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** 2002: ''Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS Approach'' - first FOSS4G book ever
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** 2004 (?): first FOSS4G Wikis come up
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** 2006: OSGeo [[Education and Curriculum Committee]] is formed
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** 2007: [http://www.peachymango.org/tiki-index.php?page=FOSS4G FOSS4G primer] and other book-like initiatives
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** 2008: Many FOSS4G books now available: [[Library#GFOSS_Books|bookshelf]]
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* '''FOSS4G Business Trends:'''
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** OSGeo Service Providers [http://www.osgeo.org/search_profile directory] (almost 100 registered)
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*** ''TODO: check covered countries, statistics per continent''
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*** ''TODO: check public tenders for open source, anyone having stats?''
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** FOSS4G business model - [:Category:Advocacy|Category:Advocacy]
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*** See [http://europa.eu.int/idabc/en/document/2623 IDABC - Documentation on Open Source Software (OSS)]
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** Provide commercial training directly as OSGeo brand? - ongoing [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/conference_dev/2008-June/thread.html#576 discussion]...
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** From Dave Mcllhagga's [http://www.foss4g2007.org/presentations/view.php?abstract_id=220 presentation] on FOSS4G 2008:
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*** value is the solution, not the technology
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*** solutions drive the technology - not the other way around
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*** [[FOSSGIS]] [[Business]] Models
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*** <s>Commercial</s> (don't mix this up!) Proprietary GI solutions versus [[FOSS4G]]
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*** hence FOSS4G == commercial
  
 
=== Resources ===
 
=== Resources ===
  
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*[http://www.osbootcamp.org/wiki/index.php?title=Speakers6 OSbootcamp2008]
 
*[http://stephesblog.blogs.com/beijingOSForum/SWalli_OSSIPStds.pdf Open Source Software Economics, IP, and Standards] by [http://stephesblog.blogs.com/my_weblog/2007/04/china_open_sour.html Stephen R. Walli], China OSS Summit 2007
 
*[http://stephesblog.blogs.com/beijingOSForum/SWalli_OSSIPStds.pdf Open Source Software Economics, IP, and Standards] by [http://stephesblog.blogs.com/my_weblog/2007/04/china_open_sour.html Stephen R. Walli], China OSS Summit 2007
 
*[http://stephesblog.blogs.com/beijingOSForum/nat_torkington_radar.pdf Open Source Radar] by Nat Torkington
 
*[http://stephesblog.blogs.com/beijingOSForum/nat_torkington_radar.pdf Open Source Radar] by Nat Torkington
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*[http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Was-motiviert-Open-Source-Entwickler--/meldung/75453 Was motiviert Open-Source-Entwickler?]
 
*[http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Was-motiviert-Open-Source-Entwickler--/meldung/75453 Was motiviert Open-Source-Entwickler?]
 
*[http://www.wheregroup.com/en/open_source Open Source] and [http://www.wheregroup.com/en/business_models Free Software Business Models] by [http://www.wheregroup.com WhereGroup]
 
*[http://www.wheregroup.com/en/open_source Open Source] and [http://www.wheregroup.com/en/business_models Free Software Business Models] by [http://www.wheregroup.com WhereGroup]
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* Business: [http://techblog.terrapages.com/2007/05/economic-motivation-of-open-source.html  The Economic Motivation of Open Source Software: Stakeholder Perspectives]
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* Business: [http://techblog.terrapages.com/2007/04/commercial-support-for-open-source.html Commercial Support for Open Source Geospatial applications]
  
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== OSGeo Foundation ==
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== Presentation: OSGeo Foundation (draft material) ==
  
 
* Use information collected in the [[GenericOSGeoPresentation|Generic OSGeo Presentation]] article and Tyler Mitchell's [http://www.foss4g2007.org/plenaries/mitchell.pdf OSGeo presentation] from the FOSS4G 2007.
 
* Use information collected in the [[GenericOSGeoPresentation|Generic OSGeo Presentation]] article and Tyler Mitchell's [http://www.foss4g2007.org/plenaries/mitchell.pdf OSGeo presentation] from the FOSS4G 2007.
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*** Symbolic locational data
 
*** Symbolic locational data
 
* OSGeo & OGC:
 
* OSGeo & OGC:
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** http://www.fossgis.de/wiki/index.php/Abstracts_2008#Die_Open_Source_Geospatial_Foundation
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** http://www.fossgis.de/wiki/Abstracts_2008#Die_Open_Source_Geospatial_Foundation
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** http://www.fossgis.de/wiki/index.php/Die_Open_Source_Geospatial_Foundation_stellt_sich_vor
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** http://www.fossgis.de/wiki/Die_Open_Source_Geospatial_Foundation_stellt_sich_vor
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** http://www.fossgis.de/wiki/index.php/Abstracts07#Digitaler_.22Rohstoff.22_Geoinformation
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** http://www.fossgis.de/wiki/Abstracts07#Digitaler_.22Rohstoff.22_Geoinformation
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** http://www.fossgis.de/wiki/index.php/Abstracts07#OSGeo_-_Eine_Orientierungshilfe
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** http://www.fossgis.de/wiki/Abstracts07#OSGeo_-_Eine_Orientierungshilfe
 
* OSGeo & Business:
 
* OSGeo & Business:
 
** OSGeo Service Providers
 
** OSGeo Service Providers
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* OSGeo GSoC
 
* OSGeo GSoC
  
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[[Category: Past Events]]
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[[Category:Events]]
 

Latest revision as of 07:09, 15 October 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.

References

OSGeo Talks

International Symposium:

  • Keynote: How GIS Open Source Projects stimulate building of the communities by Mateusz Loskot
  • Keynote: Trends in development of Free and Open Source Software for Geomatics by Markus Neteler
PDFs

International Information Workshop:

  • Presentation The OSGeo Foundation - an introduction by Markus and Mateusz
  • Presentation Introduction to OSSIM Project by Mateusz
PDFs

Presentation: How GIS Open Source Projects stimulate building of the communities (draft material)

  • shared infrastrucutre
  • community health check in incubation phase
  • Through OSGeo foundation projects large, vital communities incorporated into foundation

TODO: Update from materials prepared offline

Resources

Presentation: Trends in development of Free and Open Source Software for Geomatics (draft material)

  • 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, crowdsourcing, collective mapping (OSM, ...)
      • GIS meets social Web
      • you and me with GPS: mapping party (new fashion in Italy)
      • 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 corporations:
    • 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 (draft material)

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