[FOSS4G2016] Key Topics: open data

[till.adams at fossgis.de]

Hi,

yes, indeed, OpenData should become a key topic as well in my eyes.
Doint so, we also emphasize the role of FOSSGIS e.V. as we are also are 
the legal entity for the german speaking OSM community.

I could contact Fred Ramm, he's on the FOSSGIS board and also in the 
internaitonal OSM board, whether they as OSM community are willing to 
contribute to FOSS4G.

Has anybody else deep contacts into the OpenData community?

Till



Am 2016-01-01 16:37, schrieb Christian Willmes:
> Hi,
>
> Open Data is obviously strongly related to FOSS4G and should be
> emphasized at the conference.
>
> I share the observation, that Open Data is most of the time related
> to data published to the public by governments and NGO's, but I also
> have two more important aspects:
>
> 1. the data that is published out of academia to the public (huge
> amounts of data, very heterogeneously published, to a major extend
> under serious copyright constraints applied by publishing houses, 
> lots
> of work to do here for improving the situation),
> 2. the pure technical aspect of Open Data, such as infrastructures,
> standards, formats and interfaces (more or less the OGC realm) and in
> this sense additionally and especially the Open Data 5 Star
> classification by Tim Berners-Lee (and the W3C):
> http://5stardata.info/
>
> Cheers and happy new Year!
> Christian
>
> On 28.12.2015 16:22, 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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