[Benchmarking] [EXTERNAL] Who shot the shootout?

[Arnulf Christl]

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Mike, Bart,
thanks for the feedback and link.

Michael Billmire,
will you be attending the FOSS4G conference in Nottingham? Would you be
happy to give a short summary of the talk you gave at FOSS4G NA? If not
would you be comfortable if I presented a short summary of your results?
- From the mail [1] it seems like you have a presentation at the ready? I
like that you also had a look into usability and quality.

Unfortunately we failed to get a full fledged benchmark organized for
this year and are now considering what to do with the slot. But no harm
done if you'd rather not have your findings presented elsewhere and by
somebody you don't even know.

Best regards,
Arnuf

[1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/benchmarking/2013-April/001090.html


On 03.09.2013 16:12, Smith, Michael ERDC-CRREL-NH wrote:
> Bart,
> 
> I did attend but certainly don't feel comfortable presenting the results. 
> 
> Mike
> 
> -- 
> Michael Smith
> US Army Corps
> Remote Sensing GIS/Center
> 
> From: Bart van den Eijnden <bartvde at osgis.nl <mailto:bartvde at osgis.nl>>
> Reply-To: "Performance testing of OSGeo and other web service engines."
> <benchmarking at lists.osgeo.org <mailto:benchmarking at lists.osgeo.org>>
> Date: Tuesday, September 3, 2013 9:09 AM
> To: "Performance testing of OSGeo and other web service engines."
> <benchmarking at lists.osgeo.org <mailto:benchmarking at lists.osgeo.org>>
> Subject: Re: [Benchmarking] [EXTERNAL] Who shot the shootout?
> 
> 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
> 
> -- 
> Bart van den Eijnden
> OSGIS - http://osgis.nl
> 
> On Sep 3, 2013, at 3:03 PM, Arnulf Christl
> <arnulf.christl at metaspatial.net <mailto:arnulf.christl at metaspatial.net>>
> wrote:
> 
> 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
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