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=Climate Change Integration Plugfest to be launched at FOSS4G=
  
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For information about this announcement, contact:
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Sam Bacharach
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Executive Director, Outreach and Community Adoption
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Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc
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tel: +1-703-352-3938
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s b a c h a  r a c h @ o p e n g e o s p a t i a l . o r g
  
For information about this announcement, contact:
 
  
Cameron Shorter,
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Cameron Shorter
  
Chair of the FOSS4G 2009 Organising Committee for the Open Source Geospatial Foundation
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Chair of the FOSS4G Organising Committee and Geospatial Systems Architect at LISAsoft
  
tel: +61-2-8570-5050
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tel +61-8570-5050
  
cameron.shorter@lisasoft.com
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c a m e r o n . s h o r t e r @ l i s a s o f t . c o m
  
 
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Sydney, Australia. Monday 19 January 2009.
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Sydney, Australia. 20 January 2009. The Open Geospatial Consortium
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(OGC), Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) and the Open Source
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Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) have announced a Climate Change
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Integration Plugfest (CCIP) to be launched at the FOSS4G conference,
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20-23 October 2009, http://2009.foss4g.org.
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The CCIP will demonstrate standards based interoperability between
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geospatial applications based on a Climate Change scenario.
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Raj Singh, Director of Interoperability Programs at OGC, explained
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that, "The CCIP is a server with multiple virtual machines providing a
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number of different geospatial Web services that implement the OGC's
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open interface and encoding standards. It will be used in the coming
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months to demonstrate open Web-based geoprocessing at conferences,
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testbeds, classes and other events around the world."
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Graham de Hoedt, Manager of Climate Information Services at the
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Australian Bureau of Meteorology said, "Integration of data and
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applications is crucial for solving complex problems like the
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provision/sharing of decadal and multi-decadal climate change related
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data and information".
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Cameron Shorter, Chair of the FOSS4G organizing committee and Systems
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Architect at LISAsoft said "Geospatial users regularly ask how to
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integrate Open Source, COTS and proprietary software. At FOSS4G,
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attendees will see the major geospatial applications working together
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and talk with implementers about what really works".
  
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) and the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) have announced a Climate Change Integration Plugfest to be launched at the FOSS4G conference, 20-23 October 2009. [1]
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Companies or individuals interested in sponsoring or participating in
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the Climate Change Integration Plugfest should contact Greg Buehler
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<gbuehler@opengeospatial.org>.
  
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The OGC® is an international
The OGC® is an international consortium of more than 365
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consortium of more than 365 companies, government agencies, research
companies, government agencies, research organizations, and
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organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process
universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly
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to develop publicly available geospatial standards. OpenGIS®
available geospatial standards. OpenGIS® Standards support
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Standards support interoperable solutions that "geo-enable" the Web,
interoperable solutions that "geo-enable" the Web, wireless and
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wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT. http://www.opengeospatial.org/
location-based services, and mainstream IT. OGC Standards empower
 
technology developers to make geospatial information and services
 
accessible and useful with any application that needs to be
 
geospatially enabled. Visit the OGC website at
 
http://www.opengeospatial.org/.
 
  
FOSS4G is heralded as the international "gathering of tribes" of open
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FOSS4G is the international "gathering of tribes" of open source
source geospatial communities, where developers and users show off their
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geospatial communities, where developers and users show off their
latest software and projects. The theme for 2009 is "User Driven",
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latest software and projects. The theme for 2009 is "User Driven",
highlighting the power of Open Source to solve business problems.
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highlighting the power of Open Source to integrate with existing
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systems. http://2009.foss4g.org
  
 
The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) has been created to
 
The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) has been created to
support and build the highest-quality open source geospatial software.  
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support and build the highest-quality open source geospatial software.
 
The foundation's goal is to encourage the use and collaborative
 
The foundation's goal is to encourage the use and collaborative
development of community-led projects, data development and
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development of community-led projects, data development and education.
education.[2]
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http://osgeo.org
 
 
FOSS4G is the international gathering of open source, geospatial tribes.
 
The spatial industry is undergoing rapid innovations and the open source
 
spatial community is one of the forces driving the change. From its
 
beginnings the FOSS4G conference has been the gathering of the spatial
 
tribes and has a reputation of being a melting pot for great ideas in
 
the spatial industry and a catalyst for many successful geospatial
 
products, standards and protocols. FOSS4G 2009 Sydney will be the
 
seventh "formal" gathering of the open source geospatial community and
 
is will focus on the increasing importance of FOSS4G in the
 
public and private enterprise.
 
 
 
[1] http://2009.foss4g.org
 
[2] http://osgeo.org
 
  
[[Category:FOSS4G2009]]
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[[Category:FOSS4G2009 Press Releases]]
[[Category:FOSS4G]]
 

Latest revision as of 04:11, 11 February 2015

Climate Change Integration Plugfest to be launched at FOSS4G

For information about this announcement, contact:

Sam Bacharach

Executive Director, Outreach and Community Adoption

Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc

tel: +1-703-352-3938

s b a c h a r a c h @ o p e n g e o s p a t i a l . o r g


Cameron Shorter

Chair of the FOSS4G Organising Committee and Geospatial Systems Architect at LISAsoft

tel +61-8570-5050

c a m e r o n . s h o r t e r @ l i s a s o f t . c o m


Sydney, Australia. 20 January 2009. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) and the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) have announced a Climate Change Integration Plugfest (CCIP) to be launched at the FOSS4G conference, 20-23 October 2009, http://2009.foss4g.org.

The CCIP will demonstrate standards based interoperability between geospatial applications based on a Climate Change scenario.

Raj Singh, Director of Interoperability Programs at OGC, explained that, "The CCIP is a server with multiple virtual machines providing a number of different geospatial Web services that implement the OGC's open interface and encoding standards. It will be used in the coming months to demonstrate open Web-based geoprocessing at conferences, testbeds, classes and other events around the world."

Graham de Hoedt, Manager of Climate Information Services at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology said, "Integration of data and applications is crucial for solving complex problems like the provision/sharing of decadal and multi-decadal climate change related data and information".

Cameron Shorter, Chair of the FOSS4G organizing committee and Systems Architect at LISAsoft said "Geospatial users regularly ask how to integrate Open Source, COTS and proprietary software. At FOSS4G, attendees will see the major geospatial applications working together and talk with implementers about what really works".

Companies or individuals interested in sponsoring or participating in the Climate Change Integration Plugfest should contact Greg Buehler <gbuehler@opengeospatial.org>.

The OGC® is an international consortium of more than 365 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial standards. OpenGIS® Standards support interoperable solutions that "geo-enable" the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT. http://www.opengeospatial.org/

FOSS4G is the international "gathering of tribes" of open source geospatial communities, where developers and users show off their latest software and projects. The theme for 2009 is "User Driven", highlighting the power of Open Source to integrate with existing systems. http://2009.foss4g.org

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) has been created to support and build the highest-quality open source geospatial software. The foundation's goal is to encourage the use and collaborative development of community-led projects, data development and education. http://osgeo.org