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Hello everyone,<br>
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I've added the contribution of gvSIG, as mentioned by Mike and
Jeroen. I did the presentation last year with them and it was a good
experience. However, we realized that it's not trivial to go through
all the process smoothly, from installation to integration demos. In my
view, it is necessary for a representative from each project to be
available in the conference, prior to the workshop, to install &
test the integration.<br>
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On a side note: although gvSIG is not officially an OSGeo project
yet, we'll be requesting entry in the incubator as soon as I get
official confirmation, probably next week. The delay has been related
to internal reorganization of the project, which it's still going on,
but we think this process should not stop the incubation progress. In
fact the incubation will probably help us in some aspect of the
internal reorganization.<br>
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Let me know if any further detail are needed,<br>
<br>
Salvador<br>
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Arnulf Christl escribió:
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<pre wrap="">Hi All,
I take the interim lead on this to get us past submission deadline. We can
work out later who actually must to go there and sweat and suffer through
the conference.
Lets start by adding ideas to the Wiki:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/GSDI">http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/GSDI</a>
My preference would be a workshop that shows off the whole OSGeo SDI stack
with references to all projects. The main part would be a hands-on
demonstration showing that the technology works and now people only need
pick it up to populate it and policies need to adopt and promote them.
Should be easy going.
I would like to close editing on the workshop part on wednesday so that I
can pull it together for the proposal.
Regards,
Arnulf.
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<pre wrap="">Hi all,
We had a good experience in Santiago with our workshop. It was more
of an extended demonstration due to the lack of computer facilities
and due to the fact that almost nobody took a laptop or so with them
into the workshop.
We went through a session that installed and showed GeoServer,
GeoNetwork and gvSIG. Than we set up a map service, created a related
catalog entry and had gvSIG and GeoNetwork use the WMS service from
GeoServer. gvSIG searched the GeoNetwork node and found the GeoServer
map service and opened it. I don't remember if we had gvSIG also use
the WFS service from GeoServer.
All in all it was a good and challenging experience with a large
audience attending. It also provided us with one of those necessary
milestones in establishing and/or testing interoperability between
applications :-)
We (GeoNetwork and gvSIG) just discussed a workshop at the gvSIG
conference in November, including GeoServer. We also discussed taking
that to GSDI-10. So I think there's all the scope from our side to
proceed with a proposal. Even if nobody is in the position at this
point in time to say they will see those blue oceans with there feet
in the water :-) What a bad outlook that is...
With the availability of modern computer labs, as described on the
GSDI-10 site, we now have to define the type and the number of
workshops :-)
What projects are thinking of giving a workshop at GSDI-10? Who would
like to do cross-project workshops?
Ciao,
Jeroen
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<pre wrap="">I went two years ago, where I met Jeroen for the first time, and
Allan was there as well. In general the conference has a few
concurrent sessions, where people present papers. It's more
academic/government - people actually write papers for one. The
first year we gave a paper on open source for SDI's which was
decently received.
Last year we did the workshop, Jeroen and I applied, and then I
think we joined up with Michael Gould and gvSig? The workshop's a
pretty sweet deal I believe (I wasn't there), it happens before the
conference, and it's a great opportunity to educate people who
don't know much about your stuff, and give some hands on demos.
The workshops are primarily for the sponsors who provide funds for
the conference, so it's pretty nice that Harlan manages to get us
an open source slot.
The angle to present is pretty basics, just showing off the
capabilities of open source, get people to see that it's a reality
and competitive with anyone else. The audience isn't super
advanced - I believe it tends to be a bit more government decision
makers, a bit less the actual tech people.
Jeroen, you have any other insight? Since you were actually there
for the last one.
Chris
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<pre wrap="">It does sound promising - can anyone provide some experience from
previous events? What happens, how does it work, what angle can
we best present?
Tyler
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<pre wrap="">Anyone planning on going to GSDI-10? I'm pretty confident we
could get
a workshop there. I didn't go last year, but had a group of
people who
were going to go, so we organized it together. There's a lot of
government decision makers who go to this, it may not be a bad
place to
have some osgeo presence. It's just way too far away for me to
know if
I'll personally be attending.
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<pre wrap="">Hey,
same for me. But nonetheless we should apply for a workshop. I am
very
sure that someone knowledgeable from around OSGeo will be there.
And if
not I have the perfect excuse that I must go myself... ;-)
So my VisCom opinion is to apply and see later how to fill in the
blanks.
Best regards,
Arnulf.
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Subject: Invitation to Propose a Workshop or Tutorial for
GSDI 10
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 17:35:02 -0400
From: Harlan Onsrud <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:onsrud@spatial.maine.edu"><onsrud@spatial.maine.edu></a>
To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:cholmes@openplans.org">cholmes@openplans.org</a>
Dear Chris,
GSDI 10 will be held in Trinidad 25-29 February 2008. See
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://gsdi.org/gsdi10">http://gsdi.org/gsdi10</a>
We are once again inviting proposals for the presentation of
workshops
on the first day of the conference. See
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://gsdi.org/gsdi10/workshops.html">http://gsdi.org/gsdi10/workshops.html</a>
Workshops this time will be offered under a slightly different
arrangement that we hope will attract strong attendance. We are
requesting workshop proposals by the end of this month so that
people
registering for the conference will be able to sign up for specific
workshops in advance. In this manner instructors will know the
number of
people attending their workshops and have the contact
information for
their participants in advance.
We highly encourage you to submit a workshop proposal. For
reference,
the description of the workshop you presented in Santiago in
2006 may be
found at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.gsdi.org/gsdiconf/gsdi9/english/">http://www.gsdi.org/gsdiconf/gsdi9/english/</a>
09_Act_Work_Sched.htm.
Submit your proposal on or before 1 June 2007 to <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:onsrud@gsdi.org">onsrud@gsdi.org</a>
with a
copy to <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:astevens@gsdi.org">astevens@gsdi.org</a>. If you submit, you should have a
decision by
the evaluation committee in early June.
We look forward to hearing from you.
*The GSDI 10 Local and Regional Organizing Committee*
_Co-Chairs:_
*Jacob Opadeyi*, Centre for GeoSpatial Studies, The University
of the
West Indies, Trinidad
*Bheshem Ramlal*, Department of Surveying and Land Information, The
University of the West Indies, Trinidad
_Committee Members:*
*_*Carol Ann Albury*, National GIS Coordinator, Office of the Prime
Minister, Bahamas
*Cecille Blake*, National GIS Coordinator, Ministry of
Agriculture and
Lands, Jamaica
*Santiago Borrero*, Secretary General, Pan American Institute of
Geography and History
*Tatiana Delgado Fernandez*, National Commission of the SDI of the
Republic of Cuba
*Desmond Dougall*, GISCAD, Trinidad
*Tyrone Leong*, Director of Surveys, Surveying and Mapping
Division,
Ministry of Agriculture, Land and Marine Resources, Trinidad
*Adolphus Ollivierre*, Lands and Surveys Department, St. Vincent
and the
Grenadines
*Harold Wall*, GIS Officer, Ministry of Planning and
Development, Trinidad
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