[Benchmarking] Rebooting the Benchmarking effort

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Arnulf,

I feel that we could use the presentation timeslot to sort of have a
town hall discussion on the benchmarking exercise.  It's an insanely
popular presentation, so let's talk about it in the open.  Maybe
request microphones for the audience beforehand to the LOC.  Could be
very interesting, and beneficial.

-jeff




On 2013-09-04 7:28 AM, Arnulf Christl wrote:
> All, thanks for the suggestions so far. I am currently rearranging
> the content of the presentation and joining efforts with the WPS 
> functionality comparison group. We will present the WPS part and
> bits and pieces around various other benchmarking efforts and
> report from other conferences (FOSS4G NA, FOSSGIS, others?)
> 
> At the end of the presentation I would like to share a proposal how
> to do benchmarking in the longer term. It would involve that OSGeo
> makes the benchmark an organizational effort and specifically
> request for benchmark sponsoring. Sponsors can then put a focus on
> either usability, performance, cartographic output quality, or
> whatever else they come up with (and they will). OSGeo should then
> invest the new funds to support code sprints where we dedicate one
> day to benchmarking. Or maybe even have a dedicated benchmark
> sprint before FOSS4G (just like it was in the good old days
> anyway).
>