[OSGeo-Discuss] Next 5 years for OSGeo

[Rafal Wawer]

Development:
Analitic functions +1
cartography  +1

Incorporating OGC and ISO standards, especially in the server/client domain to assure techncial interoperability. 
Upcoming implementation of SEIS and INSPIRE is a good chance to increase the share of FOSS4G on the European market. SEIS is defined officialy so far only with the communication of the EC (COM(2008) 46 final), but already in the communicaiton it is stated ".. information sharing and processing should be supported through common, free opensource software tools.".  OGC WPS and sensor-related standards will certainly play a key role in SEIS setups, although there are already voices that those approved standards do not provide optimal solution from the techncial point of view, nevertheless now they are seen as foundations of the technical interoperability of systems and services.

More mature setup programs - I refer to the OSGEo4W and stand alone Qgis installer, where at the beginning of the release in July you need to perform silly tricks to be able to use GRASS plugin within QGIS. Good 10% of my gray hair come from going around the problems arising from the failure setups during the hands-on sessions of summer course on FOSS4G this year. (-;


Other OSGEO initiatives:
Geodata  - certainly a good forum for discussions on the implementation of INSPIRE and availability of free data in Europe. 

Journal - it would be wonderfull if the Journal would became a regular scientific print. I am afraid, withour regular issueing and fast editorial scheme we won't attract interesting papers and hence journal will not get any IF.... I think we need a clear strategy for the Journal for the upcoming years.

What about OSGEO's involvement in European projects? 

Cheers,
Raf










-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of maning sambale
Sent: 15 September 2009 06:16
To: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Next 5 years for OSGeo

Libraries and tools that can be used across different OSGEO apps.

data format libraries - done!

algorithm/analytic libraries = +1 . GRASS has an extensive collection.
 Would be good for other OSGEO projects to reuse them.

cartographic libraries = +1


On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Helena Mitasova <hmitaso at unity.ncsu.edu> wrote:
>
> On Sep 14, 2009, at 11:40 PM, Howard Butler wrote:
>
>>
>> On Sep 14, 2009, at 4:01 PM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone, a recent chat I was asked about our vision for OSGeo 
>>> over the next 3 and 5 years.  I'd really like to hear thoughts on 
>>> the matter and pool a few of the ideas together for further 
>>> discussions amongst committees, projects, chapters and the board.
>>>
>>> It's also a good way for the board nominees in the upcoming election 
>>> to get a sense of where other members are thinking these days.
>>
>>
>> My measurement of success for OSGeo and priorities I hope it shares 
>> in the next 3-5 years are the following three items:
>> - Continued expansion of the local chapters.  Local chapters make 
>> OSGeo real in the sense that mailing lists, websites, and an IRC channel can't.
>> - The conference continues uninterrupted for the next five years, and 
>> we start to use it our central fundraising piece.
>> - Cross-project collaboration, like the journal, osgeo4w, metacrs, 
>> benchmarking, system administration, and geodata continues to be 
>> fostered by us.  From my biased developer's perspective, these have 
>> been OSGeo's biggest accomplishments along with the local chapter 
>> development and consolidation of the conference.
>
> +1 on these, including OSGeo Edu efforts as another example of
>  cross-project collaboration
>
> Helena
>>
>> Howard
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