Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] UK Interoperability Assessment Plugfest - Reply to Mike Saunt

2013-10-10 Thread Arnulf Christl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jody, well said, I agree. But we may want to improve / enhance this message some more because it is one of the key aspects of Open Source. You want it? We want provide to provide it. What do we need? A well defined scope of the problem (outcome of a pl

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] UK Interoperability Assessment Plugfest - Reply to Mike Saunt

2013-10-09 Thread Jody Garnett
My point was more that a "negative result" is a positive opportunity to fund our open source projects :D -- Jody Garnett On 09/10/2013, at 8:12 PM, Ian Edwards wrote: > Hi Jody, all > > Take a look at the Iris project on OSGeo live for powerful NetCDF handling >http://live.osgeo.org/en/ove

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] UK Interoperability Assessment Plugfest - Reply to Mike Saunt

2013-10-09 Thread Ian Edwards
Hi Jody, all Take a look at the Iris project on OSGeo live for powerful NetCDF handling http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/iris_overview.html The OSGeo Live 7.0 version of the NetCDF4 python library dependency is broken, but can be easily fixed with... pip install -I netCDF4==1.0.4 Ian O

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] UK Interoperability Assessment Plugfest - Reply to Mike Saunt

2013-10-08 Thread Jody Garnett
For the Sydney "Climate Change Interoperability Plugfest" we had a different kind of response. Much of the climate change data was provided in NetCDF "format" which most of those participating were unable to deal with. This kind of response highlighted an opportunity for funding. -- Jody Garnett

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] UK Interoperability Assessment Plugfest - Reply to Mike Saunt

2013-10-08 Thread Jody Garnett
For the Sydney "Climate Change Interoperability Plugfest" we had a different kind of response. Much of the climate change data was provided in NetCDF "format" which most of those participating were unable to deal with. This kind of response highlighted an opportunity for funding. -- Jody Garnett

[OSGeo-Discuss] UK Interoperability Assessment Plugfest - Reply to Mike Saunt

2013-09-30 Thread Peter Cotroneo
Hi, I'd like to address Mike Saunt's concerns about the negative backlash if software doesn't have a positive outcome during the UK Interoperability Assessment Plugfest. It’s a valid concern indeed, but the general philosophy of the plugfest is that there should be no negative outcome. If iss

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] UK Interoperability Assessment Plugfest

2013-09-28 Thread Mike Saunt
Daniel, Arnulf et all Astun have been in contact with the Ordnance Survey regarding this and would like to participate. I'm still trying to understand the outcomes from a business perspective i.e. will there be negative backlash if software doesn't have a positive outcome. We have a possible iss

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] UK Interoperability Assessment Plugfest

2013-09-27 Thread Daniel Morissette
I agree that it would be great if OSGeo would participate. The best would be to have a champion, ideally based in UK, to coordinate OSGeo's involvement and be the liaison between the organizers and the rest of the OSGeo community. Any volunteer? Daniel On 13-09-26 9:17 AM, Arnulf Christl w

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] UK Interoperability Assessment Plugfest

2013-09-26 Thread Arnulf Christl
Folks, I very much support this activity and believe that it would be quite beneficial to participate. Ordnance Survey is a powerful multiplier in the UK geospatial business due to its position as the main data provider to the public. There is a license program in place called PSMA (Public Sector M

[OSGeo-Discuss] UK Interoperability Assessment Plugfest

2013-09-26 Thread Peter Cotroneo
Hi, I'm leading a joint Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and Ordnance Survyey interoperability plugfest to test OGC standards in the UK geospatial community. So far, there has been a lot of interest from commercial vendors in the UK, and I would very much like that the open source community be