[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Technology review presentations - Database

[Cameron Shorter]

Are you interested in taking part in a FOSS4G Database comparison? Do 
you know someone who should be?

At FOSS4G 2009, the community ranked an "Oracle Spatial vs Postgis" 
presentation 8th out of 183 presentations. Lets see a similar 
presentation put on which includes more databases.

If you are a DBA, or database user, or part of a database project, then 
maybe you should volunteer to take part in this presentation.

I hope to see a presentation which at least covers:
* PostGIS
* Ingres
* Spatialite
* Oracle Spatial

If interested, please reply to this email, noting your interest, then 
follow through with others to ensure that a FOSS4G presentation is put 
forward by Thursday 15 April 2010.

Cameron Shorter wrote:
> Abstracts for FOSS4G are due next Thursday 15 April 2010 and I'm 
> hoping that we will see abstracts for:
>
> * LiveDVD lightening overview
> * WMS/WFS/WCS Shootout
> * Desktop comparison
> * Browser Client comparison
> * Database comparison
>
> I predict that these presentations will be by far the most popular 
> presentations of the conference. Further, I'm expecting to incorporate 
> results onto the LiveDVD. They will be a lot of effort to prepare, 
> partly because they will need a team of project developers to 
> contribute to it, and consequently, unless we get our act together 
> soon, I suspect that no-one will submit presentations for some of the 
> topics above.
>
> So I encourage people to respond to the following targeted email 
> threads, noting your intention to help and be part of one of the 
> presentation teams. (Note, the presentation will be the easy bit, the 
> hard bit will be collating the material for the presentation).
>
> A good team for these comparison projects will consist of:
>
> * a representative from each project in the comparison. These types of 
> comparisons will be the first place new users will go when researching 
> software, so are well worth participating in.
> * users who have used more than one of the applications
> * anyone involved in related comparison reviews, or development of 
> feature tables or similar
> * coordinator/"get it done" people who can pull it all together
> * people who can speak well, and efficiently. (You will have lots of 
> material to present is a short time)
>

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Cameron Shorter
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