[OSGeo-Discuss] Call for help with Where 2.0 and OGC

[Raj Singh]

I'm not sure why I just received this message dated Feb. 1, but it's  
a good time to let people know about our next call, (today for many  
of you):
Friday, April 13 at 3pm EDT
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html? 
month=4&day=13&year=2007&hour=15&min=0&sec=0&p1=43>
Please call: +1 512 225 3050 passcode:36429#

The idea is to showcase the software and services that us "uber" geo  
geeks are building, and make it more powerful by organizing our  
efforts around some common scenarios. Here's the latest idea on the  
scenarios we'll be exploring. Hope people can call in, and please do  
sign up for the mailing list where more discussion will happen  
<https://mail.opengeospatial.org/mailman/listinfo/mass-market-geo>.

Scenario 1: ***Business location ideas mashups***
Where should "we" put our new office? That's the question that
motivates this scenario. It's an issue that cuts across government,
commercial, and personal interests.

Locating a business brings up commercial issues such as:
- how expensive are the rents compared to other areas
- how educated is the workforce
- what are taxes like

Personal questions could be
- what's the housing market like
- what are the cultural activities
- schools, traffic, etc.

Scenario 2: ***Emergency Response***
Location is North Carolina, US, due to the wealth of data available  
via OGC services and some people working there volunteering to  
organize the effort.

---
Raj


On Feb 1, 2007, at 5:23 PM, <mpg at lizardtech.com> <mpg at lizardtech.com>  
wrote:

> OSGeo plans to have a booth at Where 2.0, as we did last year, to  
> spread
> the word about Open Source solutions in the more cutting-edge geo
> spaces.
>
> This year, as part of their effort to reach out to the "mass  
> market" geo
> community, OGC also plans to have a significant presence at Where 2.0.
> Towards this goal, they are thinking about having a demo there showing
> some of the power of open standards.  For example, a demo of a  
> scenario
> in which their might be a catalog of services, and show how those
> services can be chained together -- think a "mashup of mashups", if  
> you
> will, using perhaps a mix of public and private data sources.
>
> OGC would like OSGeo to participate in putting this demo together.
> While there may be some closed-source players in the mix, there is
> plenty of room in there for the sorts open source solutions that our
> projects provide.
>
> On the OGC side, this is being coordinated by Raj Singh, someone  
> who has
> an understanding and respect for the OSGeo community and what we're
> about.  Raj and I both feel this event would be a good step towards
> helping OGC and OSGeo can work together in the future -- something a
> number of us have talked about over the past months.
>
> If you're interested in participating in this event, please let me  
> know.
> We plan have a phone conference on Feb 13th to begin to organize  
> things,
> and in the meantime discussions will be starting on OGC's mass-market
> mailing list (open to the public,
> https://mail.opengeospatial.org/mailman/listinfo/mass-market-geo).
>
> Thanks.
>
> -mpg
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