[FOSS4G2016] Key Topics: open data

Thu Jan 14 08:43:26 PST 2016

Hi Michael,

great and no worries. We decided on the key topics last IRC, and open 
Data is definieely in.

BTW - @list:
I did not call for an IRC today, because we have our working weekend 
tomorrow anyhow. Anybody from remote wanting to join and support us, 
we'll be on foss4g IRC channel tomorrow!

Till

Am 2016-01-14 17:25, schrieb Michael Gould:
> Add one more vote for including and promoting open data at the
> conference.
>
> Mike
>
> 2016-01-14 17:19 GMT+01:00 Codrina Maria Ilie 
> <codrina at geo-spatial.org
> [21]>:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am connected with the Open Data community as I have been working
>> in the filed for at least 3 years and have been previously involved,
>> either as as a participant or an organizer, in Open Data events.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Codrina
>>
>> On 04/01/16 12:07, till.adams at fossgis.de [18] wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> yes, indeed, OpenData should become a key topic as well in my
>>> eyes.
>>> Doint so, we also emphasize the role of FOSSGIS e.V. as we are
>>> also are
>>> the legal entity for the german speaking OSM community.
>>>
>>> I could contact Fred Ramm, hes on the FOSSGIS board and also in
>>> the
>>> internaitonal OSM board, whether they as OSM community are
>>> willing to
>>> contribute to FOSS4G.
>>>
>>> Has anybody else deep contacts into the OpenData community?
>>>
>>> Till
>>>
>>> Am 2016-01-01 16:37, schrieb Christian Willmes:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Open Data is obviously strongly related to FOSS4G and should be
>>>> emphasized at the conference.
>>>>
>>>> I share the observation, that Open Data is most of the time
>>>> related
>>>> to data published to the public by governments and NGOs, but I
>>>> also
>>>> have two more important aspects:
>>>>
>>>> 1. the data that is published out of academia to the public
>>>> (huge
>>>> amounts of data, very heterogeneously published, to a major
>>>> extend
>>>> under serious copyright constraints applied by publishing
>>>> houses, lots
>>>> of work to do here for improving the situation),
>>>> 2. the pure technical aspect of Open Data, such as
>>>> infrastructures,
>>>> standards, formats and interfaces (more or less the OGC realm)
>>>> and in
>>>> this sense additionally and especially the Open Data 5 Star
>>>> classification by Tim Berners-Lee (and the W3C):
>>>> http://5stardata.info/ [12]
>>>>
>>>> Cheers and happy new Year!
>>>> Christian
>>>>
>>>> On 28.12.2015 16 [13]:22, Steven Feldman wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Pretty much the same in the UK. OpenData is a good theme or
>>>>> topic for
>>>>> a FOSS4G, it can include OSM and other activity as well
>>>>> ______
>>>>> Steven
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 28 Dec 2015, at 15:06, Gert-Jan van der Weijden
>>>>>> (OSGeo.nl)
>>>>>> <gert-jan at osgeo.nl [6]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi LOClist,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In order to finalize our key topics (before 7th January!)
>>>>>> list Id
>>>>>> like to know your opinion on "open data" as one of the key
>>>>>> topics.
>>>>>> My perspective is mainly dutch, and in Holland I notice a
>>>>>> few things:
>>>>>> 1) "open data" in mainly a "geospatial data" topic (by the
>>>>>> way: same
>>>>>> goed for "linked data")
>>>>>> 2) "open data" is mainly regarded as data provided by
>>>>>> governments
>>>>>> 3) the "open data"-community and the FOSS4G communities
>>>>>> have a very
>>>>>> large overlap
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I was wondering if the situation in others countries
>>>>>> (especially the
>>>>>> D-A-CH) in comparable to the Netherlands.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> GJ
>>>>>>
>>>>>> till.adams at fossgis.de [7] schreef op 18-12-2015 15:25:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi list!
>>>>>>> I just finished the minutes for our yesrterday IRC chat
>>>>>>> here:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2016_Meeting_minutes#Agenda
>>>>>>> [1]
>>>>>>> For those, who dont read the minutes, one important point
>>>>>>> here (;-)):
>>>>>>> In order to get PR&M in motion we need contents, as we do
>>>>>>> not have
>>>>>>> program contents until may, we need to fix keynoters and
>>>>>>> also
>>>>>>> key-topics, which then should be stressed by a keynote as
>>>>>>> early as
>>>>>>> possible. Until now, we made some efforts in this
>>>>>>> direction, but it
>>>>>>> didnt work correctly.
>>>>>>> Yesterday we decided the following:
>>>>>>> 1. Key Topics must be fixed until 7th of January 2016
>>>>>>> 2. Proposed topics up to now are:
>>>>>>> -Remote Sensing/Copernikus
>>>>>>> -Open Data
>>>>>>> -Land Information
>>>>>>> List is here: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/2016_Key_Topics
>>>>>>> [2]
>>>>>>> topics also discussed here:
>>>>>>> http://foss4g2016.org/redmine/issues/64 [3]  -
>>>>>>> there are several more named key-topics, mostly derived
>>>>>>> from former
>>>>>>> conferences like Development, Use, Big Data/Open Data,
>>>>>>> SDI, 3D/SfM,
>>>>>>> Web, Standards, also we discussed about CMS.
>>>>>>> I suggest also the following:
>>>>>>> - at least we shouldnt have more than 4-5 key-topics. I
>>>>>>> think 4 is a
>>>>>>> good number, remember, we time for around 6 keynotes in
>>>>>>> general.
>>>>>>> - for every key topic, there is one LOC-person in power,
>>>>>>> that
>>>>>>> "manages" this key topic. Means planning all activities
>>>>>>> like keynotes,
>>>>>>> workshops, topic-talks and so on related to this
>>>>>>> key-topic.
>>>>>>> - as I already started lots of effort in direction of
>>>>>>> remote
>>>>>>> sensing/Copernikus I would take the hat for this
>>>>>>> key-topic.
>>>>>>> Please comment on the latter!
>>>>>>> Till
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> Links:
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> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2016_Meeting_minutes#Agenda
> [2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/2016_Key_Topics
> [3] http://foss4g2016.org/redmine/issues/64
> [4] mailto:FOSS4G2016 at lists.osgeo.org
> [5] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/foss4g2016
> [6] mailto:gert-jan at osgeo.nl
> [7] mailto:till.adams at fossgis.de
> [8] mailto:FOSS4G2016 at lists.osgeo.org
> [9] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/foss4g2016
> [10] mailto:FOSS4G2016 at lists.osgeo.org
> [11] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/foss4g2016
> [12] http://5stardata.info/
> [13] http://www.fossgis.de/tel:28.12.2015%2016
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