[Benchmarking] [EXTERNAL] Who shot the shootout?

[Smith, Michael ERDC-CRREL-NH]

I think that sums it up well. You certainly did do your job. But yes, the
presentation should be withdrawn.

Mike

-- 
Michael Smith

US Army Corps
Remote Sensing GIS/Center



On 9/3/13 9:03 AM, "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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