FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 3
Climate Change Integration Plugfest launched at the FOSS4G 2009 conference
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For information about this announcement, contact:
Cameron Shorter,
Chair of the FOSS4G 2009 Organising Committee for the Open Source Geospatial Foundation
tel: +61-2-8570-5050
cameron.shorter@lisasoft.com
Sydney, Australia. Monday 19 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 to be launched at the FOSS4G conference, 20-23 October 2009. [1]
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. 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 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 solve business problems.
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.[2]
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.