<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hey Arnulf,<div><br></div><div>this is definitely not any of your fault, I find it very brave that you stood up to organise this.</div><div><br></div><div>Any chance someone could present this interesting abstract instead (was presented at NA apparently): <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/benchmarking/2013-April/001090.html">http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/benchmarking/2013-April/001090.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>@Mike did you attend? <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/benchmarking/2013-April/001091.html">http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/benchmarking/2013-April/001091.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Bart</div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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<br><div><div>On Sep 3, 2013, at 3:03 PM, Arnulf Christl <<a href="mailto:arnulf.christl@metaspatial.net">arnulf.christl@metaspatial.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>Hash: SHA1<br><br>Hm, this is unfortunate. Time to give up?<br><br>How did this happen?<br><br>I set up the page in April [1] and sent mails to all relevant lists. I<br>personally talked to Jeff (MapServer), Martin Daly (CadCorp), Markus<br>Schmidt (deegree), Andrea Aimee (GeoServer), Pirmin Kalberer (QGIS<br>Server) in the following weeks. All to no avail. There was some vague<br>interest but nobody started to move. Jeff and Andrea early in the game<br>already said that they would not be able to do much due to lots of<br>project work.<br><br>My guess is that applies to most everybody: busy making a business. Plus<br>the interest of the projects also seems to have gone away. We have done<br>the experiment a few times, all of our software is really good, really<br>high performance systems use cached tiles anyway, so what's the point?<br>Tuning to highest performance is an individual exercise on individual<br>hardware with individual requirements and therefore almost never a<br>generic task.<br><br>This is why I had hoped to get the interest back by broadening the scope<br>and include Desktop GIS bench marking for usability and to look into<br>cartographic quality. But neither gvSIG, gvSIG CE or QGIS projects<br>reacted - even after I contacted them personally. Our MoU'd partner ICA<br>(International Cartographic Association) was also highly interested but<br>with no follow-up. They were swamped with their own business and just<br>concluded their own bi-annual conference in Dresden.<br><br>In July I contacted the University of Bonn. They were in general<br>interested but said that it was too little time until September and that<br>they might do something next year. Same with Hochschule Beuth in Berlin<br>and several others. This is when I sort of got a bored (that was after<br>panicking).<br><br>I also contacted WPS benchmark team in the hope that they had some<br>success but so far have not heard back from them at all.<br><br>I am happy to withdraw my presentation rather than stand there and make<br>the impression that I did not do my job. :-)<br><br><br>Now what?<br><br>If we don't find a viable solution within two days I will notify the<br>conference organizers that we drop the slot in the closing plenary.<br><br>Have fun,<br>Arnulf,<br><br>[1] <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=Benchmarking_2013&action=history">http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=Benchmarking_2013&action=history</a><br><br>On 03.09.2013 13:12, Jeff McKenna wrote:<br><br><br><br>- -- <br>Arnulf Christl (Executive Director)<br>Open Source Geospatial Software, Data and Services<br><a href="http://www.metaspatial.net">http://www.metaspatial.net</a><br>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----<br>Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux)<br>Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/<br><br>iEYEARECAAYFAlIl3hgACgkQXmFKW+BJ1b3avwCcCLJ3V6yOsf006QKYoNfmF0qI<br>hfAAn2PZ7v6TwLoGEfZg4Bbt6TdRRynP<br>=DSKw<br>-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----<br>_______________________________________________<br>Benchmarking mailing list<br>Benchmarking@lists.osgeo.org<br>http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/benchmarking<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>