[FOSS4G2016] Key Topics: open data

[Michael Gould]

Add one more vote for including and promoting open data at the conference.

Mike

2016-01-14 17:19 GMT+01:00 Codrina Maria Ilie <codrina at geo-spatial.org>:

> 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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