As a further explanation to the press release below about the OGC's
Climate Change Integration Plugfest, to be launched at the FOSS4G
conference, http://2009.foss4g.org .
The theme for FOSS4G is "User Driven" which means we want to highlight
how Open Source solves Geospatial Business Problems; in particular,
integrating with existing Geospatial infrastructure.
The Climate Change Integration Plugfest (CCIP) will show Open Source &
Proprietary applications playing nicely, primarily through OGC
standards. This will attract Spatial Data Infrastructure sponsors to the
conference, who will in turn start deploying Open Standards, and open
opportunities for Open Source.
The conference will open with a keynote presentation from the OGC
(probably Raj Singh) walking through the CCIP scenario, highlighting
participating applications and framing the theme for the rest of the
conference, and close with a panel discussion from CCIP implementers.
We will be encouraging (but not mandating) presentations, workshops and
tutorials to make use of the Web Services provided by the CCIP. Hosting
services locally will reduce the network latency regularly experienced
at conferences by people trying to access services back home.
One of the attractions for the CCIP is that we are planning for it to
live on beyond FOSS4G, and be toured around at future conferences. If
you are involved in other Geospatial conferences, please get involved
and make sure we have a suitable succession plan in place which suites you.
A Climate Change scenario has been chosen because:
* It is topical
* It is relevant to many of us in the Geospatial Industry
* It will give us the opportunity to apply our skills to save the world
(if only in a small way)
The scope of the CCIP could be huge and we need to ensure we keep the
scope simple, easily achievable, and highly successful. We still have a
lot of work ahead, defining what the CCIP will look like and then
shaping it. I hope you will join us. Start by joining the email list
linked from:
http://external.opengis.org/twiki_public/bin/view/ClimateChallenge2009/WebHome
OGC Press wrote:
PRESS ANNOUNCEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For information about this announcement, contact:
Sam Bacharach
Executive Director, Outreach and Community Adoption
Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc
tel: +1-703-352-3938
sbachar...@opengeospatial.org
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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
<gbueh...@opengeospatial.org>.
The OGC®[http://www.opengeospatial.org/] 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.
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
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