[Aust-NZ] Local Chapter report

[Cameron Shorter]

Yes, and simplifying Rob's comments to a sound byte:

NCRIS, with a $10 million budget behind it, is employing CSIRO to build 
a ROBUST spatial data infrastructure with broad take up.

And one of the key ways to achieve the wide adoption goals of NCRIS is 
to reduce the financial barrier of entry for participating organisations 
by sponsoring Open Source tools. In particular, NCRIS has been 
sponsoring Geoserver, Geotools, and is about to target Geonetwork.

LISAsoft and TOPP have been involved in the program by building an Open 
Source conformance and robustness framework which we have called Duckhawk.

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Autodesk and LISAsoft put together an GeoFOSS workshop and OSGeo stand 
at the Qld Spacial Science Institute conference, Aug 08 on the Gold Coast.
Of note: SSI helped out by giving us the booth for free as their 
contribution and endorsement to OSGeo.

Rob Atkinson wrote:
> The Spatial Information Services Stack project under the National
> Collaborative Research Infrstructure Strategy looks to deliver a more
> coherent stack of open source implementations for spatial data
> infrastructures by taking existing best-of-breed options and bringing
> them up to a point where there are tested end-to-end implementations
> of data storage, through services, clients and discovery functions.
> This will mean closer attention to support for agreed community data
> schemas, and common metadata held in shared registries used by each
> tier.
>
> Rob Atkinson
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 1:48 AM, Tim Bowden <tim.bowden at westnet.com.au> wrote:
>   
>> I'm going to be doing a local chapter report for Aust-NZ at FOSS4G.  Is
>> there anything notable that people would like mentioned?
>>
>> A few things that have hit the list that may be worth mentioning:
>> *Geonetwork happenings
>> *Inquiry into Improving Access to Victorian Public Sector Information
>> and Data
>> *ABS Free v free
>> *LINZ geodata (& osm)
>> *WALIS conf
>> *Geodata hosting (I take it we didn't get anywhere with this?)
>> *Live CD
>> *Anything else?
>>
>> If anyone wants to write a short 3 line description of any of these
>> issues they were involved in that would be great.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Tim Bowden
>> --
>> Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake
>> when you make it again.
>>
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