[FOSS4G2016] Key Topics: open data

Tue Dec 29 06:56:39 PST 2015

Just thinking:
apart from presentations on open data, it's a good theme for a 
workshop/hackathon/code sprint:

- one in the series before the core programm (as a "open data tasting 
session"),
- after that participant can hack their way through the data,
- during the core event a presentation on the (preliminairy) results 
form a broader audience,
- after the core conference another workshop as a round-up

your thoughts on this?

Regards,

GJ

Codrina Maria Ilie schreef op 29-12-2015 14:59:
> Hi all,
> 
> I think it is a highly appropriate theme and I am 100% up to support
> and to get actively involved in making open data a key topic for
> foss4g 2016, as I was saying the first time we talked about the matter
> in September. I am just copy-pasting my initial email here
> 
> "Hi Bart and everyone,
> 
> Thank you for raising that question.
> 
> As Gert already pointed out, we had a dedicated Open Data track at the
> FOSS4G Europe 2015 in Como. As Chair of that track, I can say that the
> response of the community was far from faded. We had more papers
> submitted than expected and even had to redirect some towards the
> poster session. In my personal humble opinion, this was a very clear
> sign of the growing interest in open (geo)data and, even more, that
> there are activities already reaching maturity around the topic.
> 
> To better understand what we wanted to do, would be to read the call
> for papers [1] we put out for this track.
> 
> This was not a singular communion though that I was part of. In 2013,
> at FOSS4G Central Easter Europe [2], we organized an open data side
> event [3] with representatives from Open Government Partnership [4]
> and Open Knowledge [5].
> 
> IMHO, the conferences and events around open data are not less
> abundant than at the start of this initiative. I think we are
> experiencing a coagulation of the open data related events. The topic
> has been constantly expanding in complexity, as it bares many facets,
> from economic to social, from legislative to transparent and
> accountable gov administration and so on. The number of organizations
> around the world that are actively working, supporting and promoting
> the open data movement is ever growing. Even more, EU and not only is
> heavily investing in the topic, most often related to the idea of
> smart cities, ex: [6]. Furthermore, all sorts of indexes giving ranks
> to countries, regions or cities as "how open they are", or indexes of
> how, where, with what social/ economic impact open data is used, have
> already been around for 3-4 years [7], [8], [9], [10].
> Furthermore, European agencies, such as the European Space Agency has
> implemented an open data policy for Sentinel data products acquired
> through Copernicus program [11]. Building on that, EU is launching
> calls [12] to support smart applications that use the open data made
> available.
> As a significant amount of data that an entity (nation, city,
> community, agency) produces and/or collects is spatial, a lot of
> applications tend to be geo-based. And behold, a beautiful connection
> to FOSS4G. The cultures of open source and open data are very closely
> related indeed and I couldn't agree more that we should keep the
> momentum built at FOSS4G Europe 2015. Furthermore, I would be very
> happy to be part of the open data team, as I have some experience in
> the area by being part of the GEOIDEA.RO [13] project and actively
> collaborating with Open Knowledge for some time now.
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> Codrina
> 
> [1] http://europe.foss4g.org/2015/Call_opendata-track
> [2] http://2013.foss4g-cee.org/
> [3] http://2013.foss4g-cee.org/program/opendata
> [4] http://www.opengovpartnership.org/
> [5] https://okfn.org/
> [6] cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/191779_en.html
> [7] http://index.okfn.org/
> [8] http://barometer.opendataresearch.org/index.html
> [9] http://www.epsiplatform.eu/content/european-psi-scoreboard
> [10] http://www.opendata500.com/
> [11] https://sentinel.esa.int/web/sentinel/sentinel-data-access
> [12] http://digitalearthlab.jrc.ec.europa.eu/mygeoss/
> [13] http://geoidea.ro/
> "
> 
> 
> Enjoy your winter holidays!
> Codrina
> 
> On 28/12/15 17:22, Steven Feldman wrote:
>> Pretty much the same in the UK. OpenData is a good theme or topic for 
>> a FOSS4G, it can include OSM and other activity as well
>> ______
>> Steven
>> 
>> 
>>> On 28 Dec 2015, at 15:06, Gert-Jan van der Weijden (OSGeo.nl) 
>>> <gert-jan at osgeo.nl> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi LOClist,
>>> 
>>> In order to finalize our key topics (before 7th January!) list I'd 
>>> like to know your opinion on "open data" as one of the key topics.
>>> My perspective is mainly dutch, and in Holland I notice a few things:
>>> 1) "open data" in mainly a "geospatial data" topic (by the way: same 
>>> goed for "linked data")
>>> 2) "open data" is mainly regarded as data provided by governments
>>> 3) the "open data"-community and the FOSS4G communities have a very 
>>> large overlap
>>> 
>>> I was wondering if the situation in others countries (especially the 
>>> D-A-CH) in comparable to the Netherlands.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>> GJ
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> till.adams at fossgis.de schreef op 18-12-2015 15:25:
>>>> Hi list!
>>>> I just finished the minutes for our yesrterday IRC chat here:
>>>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2016_Meeting_minutes#Agenda
>>>> For those, who don't read the minutes, one important point here 
>>>> (;-)):
>>>> In order to get PR&M in motion we need contents, as we do not have
>>>> program contents until may, we need to fix keynoters and also
>>>> key-topics, which then should be stressed by a keynote as early as
>>>> possible. Until now, we made some efforts in this direction, but it
>>>> didn't work correctly.
>>>> Yesterday we decided the following:
>>>> 1. Key Topics must be fixed until 7th of January 2016
>>>> 2. Proposed topics up to now are:
>>>> -Remote Sensing/Copernikus
>>>> -Open Data
>>>> -Land Information
>>>> List is here: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/2016_Key_Topics
>>>> topics also discussed here: http://foss4g2016.org/redmine/issues/64  
>>>> -
>>>> there are several more named key-topics, mostly derived from former
>>>> conferences like Development, Use, Big Data/Open Data, SDI, 3D/SfM,
>>>> Web, Standards, also we discussed about CMS.
>>>> I suggest also the following:
>>>> - at least we shouldn't have more than 4-5 key-topics. I think 4 is 
>>>> a
>>>> good number, remember, we time for around 6 keynotes in general.
>>>> - for every key topic, there is one LOC-person in power, that
>>>> "manages" this key topic. Means planning all activities like 
>>>> keynotes,
>>>> workshops, topic-talks and so on related to this key-topic.
>>>> - as I already started lots of effort in direction of remote
>>>> sensing/Copernikus I would take the hat for this key-topic.
>>>> Please comment on the latter!
>>>> Till
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