[OSGeo Oceania] OSGeo/OSM talk accepted at C3DIS

[adam steer]

hey folks

I pitched a talk about the growing OSGeo Oceania community at the C3DIS
conference (http://www.c3dis.com) and it was accepted as an oral
presentation.

Why? C3DIS is all about computational and data intensive science - and much
of that relies on the geospatial tools and data this community builds and
maintains. So it’s a bit of a PR / community building exercise; and timing
is a couple weeks ahead of the scheduled call for 2019 FOSS4G SotM Oceania
papers. it’s also introducing our new organisation - so some timing is a
bit ambitious.

Title and abstract below, I’ll build a revealJS-based talk here:
https://github.com/adamsteer/c3dis2019 - so please feel free to dump
relevant thoughts as issues; and help shape the conversation we want to
have with the ‘big science computers’ community.

Cheers

Adam

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Title: The open geospatial community in Oceania

Abstract:
The Open Geospatial Foundation (OSgeo) and the Open Streetmap Foundation
(OSMF) have been mainstays in support of; and advocacy for; open geospatial
software and data for many years.

OSGeo supports foundational geospatial tooling used across the eResearch
community - from invisible infrastructure (GDAL; Proj4; pyWPS; Zoo-WPS ) to
prominent user-focussed, user facing applications (QGIS, geonode,
geoserver, geonetwork, leafletJS; openlayers) - to name just a few.

In 2009, an international conference of the OSGeo foundation was held in
Sydney; and after a long hiatus, the community was revived in 2018. The
result was a sold-out joint conference of the OSGeo and OSMF communities
for the Oceania region in Melbourne. This was both an incredible show of
community support, and an incredible showcase of open source innovation in
the region.

…and the momentum continues. By the time C3DIS happens, there will be a
fully-fledged local OSGeo Oceania organisation, aimed at supporting a
regional community of open source geo-developers, geo-users, and
geo-enablers - and 2019 conference organisation will be in full swing.

This talk will be about charting the journey of OSGeo Oceania so far, and
how the eResearch community in Australia and Oceania can engage with,
support, and benefit from this local and global community.

Come and join the party!


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Dr. Adam Steer
http://spatialised.net
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http://au.linkedin.com/in/adamsteer
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