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.
== References ==
*Support for CASCADOSS discussion
*Announced OSGeo Support for CASCADOSS
== 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 ===
* Community based software development: The GRASS GIS project presentation by Markus Neteler, 
* Producing Open Source Software book by Karl Fogel
* OSbootcamp2008
* GRASS Community Map(server)
* QGIS Community Map(server)
* Mapbender Community Map(bender) login mb/mb
== 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:
** GDAL/OGR started in 1998 with XX formats, used by GRASS and few others
** today many raster and vector formats, used by many software packages
** FDO goes open source in 2006
** OGC standards are getting implemented in various OSGeo software packages
** esp. WPS is gaining interest (pyWPS, 52°N implementations)
** GeoRSS becomes OGC whitepaper
* FOSS4G WebGIS Trends:
** Web 1.0: static pages ...
** Web(GIS) 1.5: a bit dynamic pages
*** grasslinks
** 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:
*** 2000: GRASS Anwendervereinigung e.V. - 2008: becoming OSGeo-DACH?
*** 2007: Associazione italiana per l'informazione geografica libera
*** 2007: many OSGeo local chapters
** 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]
*** See IDABC - Documentation on Open Source Software (OSS)
** 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 ===
*OSbootcamp2008
*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
* Business: The Economic Motivation of Open Source Software: Stakeholder Perspectives
* Business: Commercial Support for Open Source Geospatial applications
== Presentation: OSGeo Foundation (draft material) ==
* Use information collected in the Generic OSGeo Presentation article and Tyler Mitchell's OSGeo presentation from the FOSS4G 2007.
* This is nicest looking one but out of date:
** http://osgeo.org/files/viscom/library/mitchell_2007_locint.pdf
** http://osgeo.org/files/viscom/library/mitchell_2007_locint.pps.zip
* And there are ones under a few of these folders too: http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/community/presentations/ (The Victoria and Osaka ones are probably best)
* Collective Intelligence (crowd-sourcing) and Neo-Geography:
** GIS versus Collective Neo-Geography
*** Where 2.0 O'Reilly Conference (http://conferences.oreillynet.com/where2006/)
*** GIS is more: data anaylsis!
** Google Earth (GE) as driving factor:
*** 100 million people downloaded GE
*** Collective sites such as Google Maps Mania (http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/)
*** Public participation tools
** Google maps mashup due to public API:
*** Social networks
*** Events
*** Places
** User data:
*** Intangible emotional associations to space
*** Grass-root street data collection (OSM etc)
*** Symbolic locational data
* OSGeo & OGC:
** http://www.fossgis.de/wiki/Abstracts_2008#Die_Open_Source_Geospatial_Foundation
** http://www.fossgis.de/wiki/Die_Open_Source_Geospatial_Foundation_stellt_sich_vor
** http://www.fossgis.de/wiki/Abstracts07#Digitaler_.22Rohstoff.22_Geoinformation
** http://www.fossgis.de/wiki/Abstracts07#OSGeo_-_Eine_Orientierungshilfe
* OSGeo & Business:
** OSGeo Service Providers
* OSGeo Ideas:
** accredited FOSS4G engineer
** accredited curriculum
** more marketing!
* OSGeo GSoC
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