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 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
• Commercial Proprietary GI solutions versus FOSS4G
• FOSS4G == commercial

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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?
• Open Source and Free Software Business Models by WhereGroup

OSGeo Foundation

Use information collected in the Generic OSGeo Presentation article and Tyler Mitchell's OSGeo presentation from the FOSSG4 2008.