[Inspire-data] inspire conference 2013

[Stephan Meißl]

Hi Jachym,

yes, I think this activity is definitely useful. I'm willing to
contribute some paragraphs from a MapServer perspective [1] if needed.

cu
Stephan

[1] http://mapserver.org/en/ogc/inspire.html


On 03/06/2013 09:14 AM, Jachym Cepicky wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> according to [1], this year's INSPIRE conference will be between 23-27
> of June.
> 
> I believe, many of you already submitted the paper
> 
> 	NOTE: Deadlines: March 15, 2013 Deadline for submitting paper
> 	and workshops proposals (extension given from March 1)
> 	March 29 2013 Deadline for submitting poster proposals
> 
> I would like to try to get there and submit some paper about OSGeo
> activities towards INSPIRE.
> 
> As I understand, there are as much as none  official activities of OSGeo
> or there were very few so far. INSPIRE is concerns only EU member
> states, thought in Denver 2011 I had feeling, that USA (and other)
> people are interested in.
> 
> Most of the OSGeo projects are dealing with INSPIRE rules somehow.
> Various questions have been raised in mailing lists and several
> INSPIRE-specific patches have been submitted to our projects, so that
> the software, we are working on/with can be used in INSPIRE environment.
> I hope, that this brings some new interoperability features back to the
> whole world's community.
> 
> INSPIRE isn't the activity focused on software developers. Usually
> software users - public administration - are dealing with it. I would
> like to submit paper to the conference, which would summarize all the
> recent (actual) activities of OSGeo (projects) towards INSPIRE. Concrete
> implementations with help of OSGeo software, patches taken. Plans for
> the future in various projects (patches to be accepted, ...). The
> message of the presentation should be: "OSGeo projects are aware of
> INSPIRE and they are working towards it's implementation".
> 
> We already have WIKI page about this, which was last edited nearly year
> ago [3]. In 2010, Open Source mashup took place at the conference and
> other activities/presentations were already submitted and presented at
> various events.
> 
> It would be good, if people would have a look at
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/INSPIRE and update it, if needed . I'm sure,
> some more stuff was implemented in various software projects, something
> happened during last year. Maybe someone else already submitted some
> paper about Open Source (OSGeo) project and INSPIRE (I'm sure, Jeroen
> submitted at least one paper and workshop)? Let's coordinate a bit at
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/INSPIRE_conference_2013 [4].
> 
> Do you consider this activity useful?
> 
> Jachym
> 
> [1] http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/newsid/10901
> [2] http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/events/conferences/inspire_2013
> [3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/INSPIRE
> [4] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/INSPIRE_conference_2013