[FOSS4G2016] Key Topics: open data

[Codrina Maria Ilie]

Hi all,

I am connected with the Open Data community as I have been working in 
the filed for at least 3 years and have been previously involved, either 
as as a participant or an organizer, in Open Data events.

Regards,
Codrina

On 04/01/16 12:07, till.adams at fossgis.de wrote:
> 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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