[OSGeo-Discuss] INSPIRE Conference 2013 - UPDATES on the workshop

Tue May 21 11:23:41 PDT 2013

Hi,

thank you for your thoughts. I'm a bit surprised that I didn't hear from
other co-authors. At this point I would like to know who is planning to be
there at the workshop anyway.

Thanks

On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Simone Giannecchini <
simone.giannecchini at geo-solutions.it> wrote:

> Ciao Jachym,
> a few clarifications below...
>
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> Simone Giannecchini
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> On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 10:14 PM, Jachym Cepicky
> <jachym.cepicky at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Madi,
> >
> > I still did not obtain any confirmation mail about proposed presentation
> > - do you know by chance, how far the process is?
> >
> > As for the workshop, it seems odd to combine MapStore as concrete
> > product with whole OSGeo stack and more dialogue-based workshop.
> >
> > I see them as two different topics for completely different auditorium.
> > I would understand, that MapStore people would feel upset, if they would
> > have to share their time with "pure" OSGeo.
> >
> > From my point of view, all decisions are bad (except having two full
> > workshops accepted). I think, that the best option would than be to
> > share the time with MapStore and gladly accept their offer kind 30:60
> > (rather 60:30 - OSGeo in general, MapStore as concrete example of local
> > company using and developing OSGeo projects), if possible.
> >
>
> That was exactly my proposal :)
> We also had to try and find a decent title as having two different
> workshops using portions of the same time seemed misleading and
> actually contraddicted what was asked from
> the organizers. Therefore I suggested to split the time giving
> precedence to the OSGEO based discussion and then hold the MapStore
> workshop at the end.
>
>
> > NOTE: This is nothing against MapStore. I wish them all the best and I
> > think, they deserve full workshop time slot as well. INSPIRE conference
> > committee forses us to compete as international organization with
> > semi-local company (GeoSolution). This is simply not all right (or do I
> > see it completely wrong?)
> >
>
> Well, life isn't perfect and we need to live with what we are while we
> try to change things :)
> I believe the solution we are proposing here is Ok (not perfect I
> admit) as I believe leaves enough room for discussion
> as well as as enough room for us (as in GeoSolutions) for showing a
> bit of what we do.
>
> > I also think, this shows us, that OSGeo is not taken seriously as
> > important partner to conference committee of INSPIRE conference and that
> > brings me back to our SDI committee proposed earlier - I have to push it
> > little bit further (I do not like pushing to hard, though).
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Jachym
> >
> > Dne 20.5.2013 15:47, Margherita Di Leo napsal(a):
> >> Dear All,
> >>
> >> as correspondent author for the workshop proposal [1], I received an
> email
> >> from the INSPIRE Conference Organisers. Unfortunately, due to time and
> >> space limitations, it is possible for them to only choose a small
> number of
> >> the submitted workshops to appear in the programme. Therefore their
> request
> >> was to combine, if possible, our workshop with the one submitted by
> Simone
> >> Giannecchini and Tobia Di Pisa:
> >>
> >> "Hands-on Introduction to create mash-ups for INSPIRE Services with
> >> MapStore"
> >>
> >> Simone was in cc in this email.
> >> I just had a Skype talk with Simone, and we individuated a couple of
> >> possible scenarios:
> >>
> >> 1) Withdraw one of the two workshops; or
> >> 2) Split the 90 minutes at our disposal in two.
> >>
> >> Of course this decision is up to all the co-authors. In case we decide
> for
> >> the second solution, Simone kindly offered to shrink his time to 30
> >> minutes, in order to allow the round table to take place in 60 minutes
> >> comfortably.
> >>
> >> Another request from the committee was to delineate a new title for the
> >> workshop, and the proposal would be something like:
> >>
> >> "Ping-Pong match: OSGeo & INSPIRE (with a practical intro to using
> MapStore
> >> for INSPIRE Services mashups)"
> >>
> >> Of course also this is open to discussion.
> >>
> >> Please let me know ASAP your reaction.
> >>
> >> Thank you and best regards,
> >>
> >> Margherita
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> [1]
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/INSPIRE_conference_2013#Workshop_proposal
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> >>
> >
> > --
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Best regards,

Margherita DI LEO
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