[Aust-NZ] Take 2 - Incorporation of Aust-NZ chapter of OSGeo

[Bruce.Bannerman at dpi.vic.gov.au]

IMO:

I'm a spatial information specialist with 27 years experience in the 
spatial industry. 

I have extensive experience in a wide variety of disciplines, including: 
management, IT
development and administration, GIS, remote sensing, surveying and 
cartography. This
experience has been gained in both Government and in the Private Sector in 
most states of
Australia and also in Papua New Guinea. 

I'm currently working as an IT Solutions Architect with the Department of 
Primary Industries in Melbourne, Victoria.

I've been using Open Source software for over seven years, primarily 
Debian on servers and Ubuntu on the desktop. I'm impressed by the quaility 
and depth of OS software.

I've been a interested in the potential of OS Spatial for several years 
now and have been trying to get the big picture of what is happening and 
if it can be applied in a corporate sense. I like what I see and am 
currently fostering a project to establish an open source 'advanced 
spatial' environment to serve some of our data via open standards (OGC). 
This environment will allow us to extend our existing capabilities.

I can see huge potential for the use of OS spatial in Australia and New 
Zealand. As examples:

- we are starting to develop a community around the BlueNet version of 
GeoNetwork 
  to use as a compliant ANZLIC Metadata Profile of ISO 19115/19139. We 
need to foster this community
  and get other interested parties involved if possible. I understand that 
a number of private companies
  and other government departments are interested.

- in the Geoscience community there is work happening around the GeoServer 
application in order to 
  serve GeoSciML (a complex feature model) via WFS. Much of the actual 
development work is being done
  by Rob Woodcock's group at CSIRO, with science input from organisations 
such as ours. We intend 
  implementing a Production version of Geonetwork that results from this 
work in order to serve our geoscience data.



How can we help foster such communities? Perhaps there is a role here for 
OSGeo-AustNZ?


I consider that I'm an advocate of the use of both Open Source software 
and of Open Standards with the aim of opening up access to spatial 
information for greater use, particularly in the application of 
'enterprise' decision support solutions.

I'm afraid that some of my colleagues may be getting sick of my 'spreading 
the word'....   ;-)



Bruce



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