[Benchmarking] abstract for FOSS4G

[Jeff McKenna]

Hello everyone,

With the deadline for abstracts approaching (15 April), we should submit 
an abstract for the performance shootout.  Looking at 
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Benchmarking_2010 we have teams from 
GeoServer, MapServer, and Mapnik committed as of now, so here is an 
updated abstract:

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Title: Web Mapping Performance Shoot-out
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Abstract
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This is the latest installment in an annual series of benchmarks and 
presentations that pit Open Source and other Web mapping servers against 
one another in a suite of performance tests. The presentation seeks to 
find out the optimal software configurations and to compare the 
performance in different real world use cases, which might include 
handling large datasets, Open Street Map (OSM) rendering, and attribute 
labeling. At the minimum, MapServer, GeoServer, and MapNik will be 
compared, as well as different back-end data sources, such as PostGIS 
and Shapefiles. [Other Web mapping servers may also be added to the 
exercise, pending participation by their community members]

Presenters: Andrea Aime and Jeff McKenna
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Andrea, are you willing to do the presentation with me again?  If so I 
can submit this abstract.

Thoughts?

-jeff