[Aust-NZ] FOSS4G Day 3

[shoaib]

Brian - great roundups thanks -- love the "good night & good luck"

I agree with Chris we have some big names in OSS in OZ/NZ but the distance
doesn't help. I'm a bit of a rebel though and have attended every conference
since 2005 except this one coz I had be at RailsConf Europe.

- shoaib burq

On 9/27/07, Chris Tweedie <chris at narx.net> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the updates Brian. I do not agree with the comment about
> Australia missing out on the opensource GIS / concepts. In my experience
> we
> are very much at the front of the pack, but for some reason we often shy
> away from the spotlight and lurk in the community instead. This is my hope
> that OSGEO-Au will bring a lot of these people (you know who you are) out
> from the shadows. Its not just individuals either, a lot of corporate
> types
> are actively using OSGEO projects but for whatever reason, don't advertise
> this very much.
>
> Attendance comes down to cost and distance ... Canada is just as
> prohibitive
> as Switzerland in this respect, times by about 100 for Government approval
> for international travel. South Africa i have already pencil'ed in and
> fingers crossed that our Sydney bid gets across the line so we can get
> more
> people in attendance for future conferences.
>
> Keep updates flowing !
>
> Chris Tweedie
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:aust-nz-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Brian Bishop
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> Subject: [Aust-NZ] FOSS4G Day 3
>
> Managed to survive the conference dinner tonight, held in the BC
> Museum. Great venue and talked to 2 of the 3 NZers at the conference.
> Apart from Tim Bowden and a couple of others, have not met many
> Aussies at the conference. This indicates that the Australian public
> are missing out on a lot of innovative concepts in spatial systems and
> public participation. (Any Aussie at the conference with a different
> view?)
> Learnt last night that my colleague Liz, had travel problems and could
> not make the conference. It would be really useful to be part of a
> team covering the interesting presentations. For example tomorrow
> morning, the first half hour session has 5 presentations, 3 of them
> are my priority areas. Again I probably will miss the fun one.
>
> An important question for me is, now that I have some understanding of
> the components for a robust Spatial Data Infrastructure, where is the
> glue to tie these components together. Proprietary tools like FME have
> been suggested, however the team at Camptocamp demonstrated a toolset
> that looks promising. Being Opensource, can start experimenting
> straight away.
>
> Openlayers is the talk of the web presentation clients, however
> Mapbuilder and Ka-Map  are being used for some cool applications also.
> Adding analysis muscle to the newer desktop clients is a theme, with
> uDig, gzSIG and Qgis all featuring analysis extensions. Grass is still
> there and gaining more of everything you would expect from a mature
> high end GIS. Check out JGrass.org if you are interested in this area.
> The Qgis team needs C++ programmers to help with bug squashing. This
> is a great way for programmers to start helping with an opensource
> project.
>
> Goodnight and goodluck.
> Brian
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