[FOSS4G2016] Key Topics: open data

Mon Jan 4 02:13:46 PST 2016

Hi Gert-Jan,

I've put your ideas on "how" on the WIKI page here:
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/2016_Key_Topics

I think once we decided on the key topics (remember our deadline by end 
of this week!) we should migrate this to single tickets in redmine.

@Arnulf: There is nothing realted to "land information" in the WIKI 
yet.

So far, Till

Am 2015-12-29 15:56, schrieb Gert-Jan van der Weijden (OSGeo.nl):
> 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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