[OSGeo-Discuss] inspire and GeoSpatial World Forum

Mon Oct 6 10:42:42 PDT 2014

According to the website
(http://www.geospatialworldforum.org/whytogether.htm) Inspire moves from the
legislation & implementation phase (=supply-driven) to a more demand-based
orientation. That's the same paradigm-shift that can be seen in the
Netherlands. 

Now that almost all Inspire themes are being served the questions arises
what's the use of all these Inspire-efforts. Either on a local scale (of
individual EU-countires) but preferably on a cross-border or even
Pan-European scale.

Any FOSS4G based-project that spans across (EU-)boundaries could be the
killer-app for this GWF/Inspire conference. From our point of view
especially if the cross-border aspect is strengthened by the fact that it's
based on open source software!

Any example project?

Greetings from the lowlands, 

Gert-Jan

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Van: discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] Namens Cameron Shorter
Verzonden: zaterdag 4 oktober 2014 07:24
Aan: discuss at lists.osgeo.org
Onderwerp: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] inspire and GeoSpatial World Forum

+1 for setting up a presence at GWF.

Some ideas for an OSGeo / OSGeo-Live presence at: 
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc#Including_OSGeo-Live_at_your_event
Potential local presenters/advocates at: 
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate

On 3/10/2014 5:15 pm, Paul van Genuchten wrote:
> Hi, this year Inspire and GWF joined forces in organising a combined 
> conference 25-29 may 2014 in Lisbon 
> http://www.geospatialworldforum.org. In previous years of GWF we used 
> to organize an OSGeo track (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, not sure about Geneva).
> Should some of us put some energy in setting up such a track for the 
> coming conference, or alternatives like a booth/strategic partner?
>
> So why do GWF and INSPIRE hang out together? I have no clue... But it 
> might be a combination of I know INSPIRE wants to share their concepts 
> globally (they have some initiatives in Latin America), they might 
> have seen GWF as a facilitator. Another reason might be that 
> organizing such a big event is quite a challenge for local 
> universities that did this in recent years. Hooking up with a 
> commercial organisation like GWF can facilitate continuation of the 
> event. For GWF I see a benefit of having a big audience increase, with
meaningful items to discuss.
>
> As organizer of 2013 osgeo track at GWF my evaluation back then was 
> not all that positive. It certainly was good people saw the osgeo logo 
> on the program, but I doubted if the conference had a proper audience 
> for osgeo-message. However, now with combined INSPIRE community, the 
> atmosphere should be quite different.
>
> Would be good to hear your thoughts on this. And see if we can set up 
> some great OSGeo presence at the conference.
>
> Note (for those interested) the dead-line for abstract submission is 
> january first 2015.
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