[Foss4g2009] [Fwd: [OGC Press Release] Climate Change Integration Plugfest to be launched at FOSS4G]

[Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)]

I'll get it posted on our news item list and send it out via our  
announcement email list.

On 20-Jan-09, at 8:27 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:

> I've uploaded the press release here:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Press_Release_3
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> From: OGC Press <announce at opengeospatial.org>
> Date: January 20, 2009 12:07:17 PM PST (CA)
> To: media at lists.opengeospatial.org
> Subject: [OGC Press Release] Climate Change Integration Plugfest to  
> be launched at FOSS4G
> Reply-To: announce at opengis.org, announce at opengeospatial.org
>
>
>
> PRESS ANNOUNCEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
> For information about this announcement, contact:
>
> Sam Bacharach
> Executive Director, Outreach and Community Adoption
> Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc
> tel: +1-703-352-3938
> sbacharach at opengeospatial.org
>
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>
> Sydney, Australia. 20 January 2009. The Open Geospatial Consortium
> (OGC), Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) and the Open Source
> Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) have announced a Climate Change
> Integration Plugfest (CCIP) to be launched at the FOSS4G conference,
> 20-23 October 2009, http://2009.foss4g.org.
>
> The CCIP will demonstrate standards based interoperability between
> geospatial applications based on a Climate Change scenario.
>
> Raj Singh, Director of Interoperability Programs at OGC, explained
> that, "The CCIP is a server with multiple virtual machines providing a
> number of different geospatial Web services that implement the OGC's
> open interface and encoding standards. It will be used in the coming
> months to demonstrate open Web-based geoprocessing at conferences,
> testbeds, classes and other events around the world."
>
> Graham de Hoedt, Manager of Climate Information Services at the
> Australian Bureau of Meteorology said, "Integration of data and
> applications is crucial for solving complex problems like the
> provision/sharing of decadal and multi-decadal climate change related
> data and information".
>
> Cameron Shorter, Chair of the FOSS4G organizing committee and Systems
> Architect at LISAsoft said "Geospatial users regularly ask how to
> integrate Open Source, COTS and proprietary software. At FOSS4G,
> attendees will see the major geospatial applications working together
> and talk with implementers about what really works".
>
> Companies or individuals interested in sponsoring or participating in
> the Climate Change Integration Plugfest should contact Greg Buehler
> <gbuehler at opengeospatial.org>.
>
> The OGC®[http://www.opengeospatial.org/] is an international
> consortium of more than 365 companies, government agencies, research
> organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process
> to develop publicly available geospatial standards. OpenGIS®
> Standards support interoperable solutions that "geo-enable" the Web,
> wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.
>
> FOSS4G is the international "gathering of tribes" of open source
> geospatial communities, where developers and users show off their
> latest software and projects. The theme for 2009 is "User Driven",
> highlighting the power of Open Source to integrate with existing
> systems. http://2009.foss4g.org
>
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