[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: FOSS4G Technology review presentations - Web clients

[Mike Adair]

Cameron,

I can provide input on the Fusion client. 

Mike



Cédric Moullet wrote:
> Hi Cameron,
> I would be happy to bring my input regarding MapFish.
> Cédric
>
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Cameron Shorter 
> <cameron.shorter at gmail.com <mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Pieter, good to hear your interest and to hear that geomajas would
>     be covered.
>     Anyone interested to step forward for Openlayers, Mapfish or
>     MabBender?
>
>     What should be compared between web clients?
>     Think of the target audience for such a comparison being a
>     software developer trying to decide which webmapping framework to
>     use. What would be the questions they ask?
>
>     Off the top of my head:
>     * What browsers are supported/tested against for each stable release?
>
>     * How responsive is the application?
>     ** How large is the javascript which needs to be downloaded to the
>     browser?
>     **
>
>     * What basemaps are supported
>     ** Google Maps, WMS, WFS, ...
>
>     * What tools are supported?
>     ** Pan/Zoom/Edit Feature ...
>
>
>
>     Pieter De Graef wrote:
>
>         Cameron,
>
>         if the others are too, I would be interested in such a comparison.
>         My main question wouls be, exactly what would we be testing?
>         Performance (how?), functionality, ease-of-use, architecture, ....
>
>         I still have to check my schedule, but I believe I can set
>         aside a enough time. I will already forward this mail to the
>         Geomajas mailing list, to check for response there.
>
>
>
>
>         Cameron Shorter schreef:
>
>             German Carillo has been building a gis web client
>             comparison which will make a good basis for a foss4g
>             presentation here:
>
>             http://geotux.tuxfamily.org/index.php?option=com_myblog&task=view&id=239&Itemid=59&lang=en
>             <http://geotux.tuxfamily.org/index.php?option=com_myblog&task=view&id=239&Itemid=59&lang=en>
>
>
>             Does anyone know how to contact German so that we can
>             thank him, and invite him to participate in a FOSS4G
>             presentation?
>
>             Who else would be available to help out with a browser
>             comparison for the various projects?
>
>             Cameron Shorter wrote:
>
>                 Abstracts for FOSS4G are due next Thursday 15 April
>                 2010 and I'm hoping that we will see abstracts for:
>
>                 * LiveDVD lightening overview
>                 * WMS/WFS/WCS Shootout
>                 * Desktop comparison
>                 * Browser Client comparison
>                 * Database comparison
>
>                 I predict that these presentations will be by far the
>                 most popular presentations of the conference. Further,
>                 I'm expecting to incorporate results onto the LiveDVD.
>                 They will be a lot of effort to prepare, partly
>                 because they will need a team of project developers to
>                 contribute to it, and consequently, unless we get our
>                 act together soon, I suspect that no-one will submit
>                 presentations for some of the topics above.
>
>                 So I encourage people to respond to the following
>                 targeted email threads, noting your intention to help
>                 and be part of one of the presentation teams. (Note,
>                 the presentation will be the easy bit, the hard bit
>                 will be collating the material for the presentation).
>
>                 A good team for these comparison projects will consist of:
>
>                 * a representative from each project in the
>                 comparison. These types of comparisons will be the
>                 first place new users will go when researching
>                 software, so are well worth participating in.
>                 * users who have used more than one of the applications
>                 * anyone involved in related comparison reviews, or
>                 development of feature tables or similar
>                 * coordinator/"get it done" people who can pull it all
>                 together
>                 * people who can speak well, and efficiently. (You
>                 will have lots of material to present is a short time)
>
>
>
>
>
>     -- 
>     Cameron Shorter
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>
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