[Benchmarking] [EXTERNAL] Who shot the shootout?

[Bart van den Eijnden]

Hey Arnulf,

this is definitely not any of your fault, I find it very brave that you stood up to organise this.

Any chance someone could present this interesting abstract instead (was presented at NA apparently): http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/benchmarking/2013-April/001090.html

@Mike did you attend? http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/benchmarking/2013-April/001091.html

Best regards,
Bart

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Bart van den Eijnden
OSGIS - http://osgis.nl

On Sep 3, 2013, at 3:03 PM, Arnulf Christl <arnulf.christl at metaspatial.net> wrote:

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> Hm, this is unfortunate. Time to give up?
> 
> How did this happen?
> 
> I set up the page in April [1] and sent mails to all relevant lists. I
> personally talked to Jeff (MapServer), Martin Daly (CadCorp), Markus
> Schmidt (deegree), Andrea Aimee (GeoServer), Pirmin Kalberer (QGIS
> Server) in the following weeks. All to no avail. There was some vague
> interest but nobody started to move. Jeff and Andrea early in the game
> already said that they would not be able to do much due to lots of
> project work.
> 
> My guess is that applies to most everybody: busy making a business. Plus
> the interest of the projects also seems to have gone away. We have done
> the experiment a few times, all of our software is really good, really
> high performance systems use cached tiles anyway, so what's the point?
> Tuning to highest performance is an individual exercise on individual
> hardware with individual requirements and therefore almost never a
> generic task.
> 
> This is why I had hoped to get the interest back by broadening the scope
> and include Desktop GIS bench marking for usability and to look into
> cartographic quality. But neither gvSIG, gvSIG CE or QGIS projects
> reacted - even after I contacted them personally. Our MoU'd partner ICA
> (International Cartographic Association) was also highly interested but
> with no follow-up. They were swamped with their own business and just
> concluded their own bi-annual conference in Dresden.
> 
> In July I contacted the University of Bonn. They were in general
> interested but said that it was too little time until September and that
> they might do something next year. Same with Hochschule Beuth in Berlin
> and several others. This is when I sort of got a bored (that was after
> panicking).
> 
> I also contacted WPS benchmark team in the hope that they had some
> success but so far have not heard back from them at all.
> 
> I am happy to withdraw my presentation rather than stand there and make
> the impression that I did not do my job. :-)
> 
> 
> Now what?
> 
> If we don't find a viable solution within two days I will notify the
> conference organizers that we drop the slot in the closing plenary.
> 
> Have fun,
> Arnulf,
> 
> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=Benchmarking_2013&action=history
> 
> On 03.09.2013 13:12, Jeff McKenna wrote:
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> Arnulf Christl (Executive Director)
> Open Source Geospatial Software, Data and Services
> http://www.metaspatial.net
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