[Benchmarking] Rebooting the Benchmarking effort

[Arnulf Christl]

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On 04.09.2013 15:06, Jeff McKenna wrote:
> Hi Arnulf,
> 
> I feel that we could use the presentation timeslot to sort of have a
> town hall discussion on the benchmarking exercise.  It's an insanely
> popular presentation, so let's talk about it in the open.  Maybe
> request microphones for the audience beforehand to the LOC.  Could be
> very interesting, and beneficial.
> 
> -jeff

Yes, but no. Usually nothing reasonable comes from any randombody in the
audience at this type of high level slot. You only get quick shots. So
we either fake this with somebody sitting there who has spent weeks
pondering this issues (maybe you, Andrea, Daniel, Jachym and others
sneak into the audience anonymously :-) or we just get shallow proposals
that are never followed up on. At least that is my impression. I'd
rather spend 10 minutes of the slot to make a good pitch for future
sponsors - be it for OSGeo directly or a specific fund drive we run for
benchmarking. For that I'd need board direction. Or maybe not. You tell
me :-)

Have fun,
Seven

> On 2013-09-04 7:28 AM, Arnulf Christl wrote:
>> All, thanks for the suggestions so far. I am currently rearranging
>> the content of the presentation and joining efforts with the WPS 
>> functionality comparison group. We will present the WPS part and
>> bits and pieces around various other benchmarking efforts and
>> report from other conferences (FOSS4G NA, FOSSGIS, others?)
>>
>> At the end of the presentation I would like to share a proposal how
>> to do benchmarking in the longer term. It would involve that OSGeo
>> makes the benchmark an organizational effort and specifically
>> request for benchmark sponsoring. Sponsors can then put a focus on
>> either usability, performance, cartographic output quality, or
>> whatever else they come up with (and they will). OSGeo should then
>> invest the new funds to support code sprints where we dedicate one
>> day to benchmarking. Or maybe even have a dedicated benchmark
>> sprint before FOSS4G (just like it was in the good old days
>> anyway).
>>
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Arnulf Christl (Executive Director)
Open Source Geospatial Software, Data and Services
http://www.metaspatial.net
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