[OSGeo-Standards] [OSGeo-Discuss] WFS 3.0 and SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog sprint in Colorado

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Thank you Chris for the information.

Best regards,
Angelos

On 03/01/2018 02:17 PM, Chris Holmes wrote:
> Just realized I forgot to reply to this, but that's a great idea. I'll be
> in Orleans for the OGC meetings, so will be on the same time zone. And
> there's definitely some STAC collaborators who will be in Bonn.
>
> Note also that we're organizing a remote participation option for next
> week. GeoSolutions is going to be working on implementing WFS 3 in
> GeoServer and Even Rouault is going to be looking in to GDAL bindings for
> WFS 3.0 and STAC. Would be great for others in Europe to work on OSGeo
> projects while we're working away in Ft. Collins. Obviously any WFS 3 /
> STAC implementation & spec feedback in the next few weeks would be great,
> but we're hoping to be able to show lots of diverse progress next week.
>
> For more info see
> https://medium.com/@cholmes/participate-remotely-in-the-wfs-hackathon-next-week-d11a99eb510b
> and please sign up to participate at https://goo.gl/forms/v8hyeJvd2yudYvZS2
>
> best regards,
>
> Chris
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 8:15 PM, Angelos Tzotsos <gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Thank you Chris for organizing this event and for reaching out to this
>> mailing list.
>>
>> I feel there is strong interest from our community to participate on the
>> development of these new standards, and I know that there is ongoing work
>> towards this from some OSGeo members, so I am sure you will see some of us
>> in Ft Collins.
>>
>> Let's make an OGC/WFS/STAC Catalog session during the Bonn Code Sprint: I
>> realized that the Orleans OGC TC meeting is on the same week as the Bonn
>> code sprint. Perhaps we could all join a video call session during that
>> week?
>>
>> Best,
>> Angelos
>>
>>
>>
>> On 02/13/2018 03:34 AM, Chris Holmes wrote:
>>
>> Hello OSGeo-ers!
>>
>> I just wanted to make sure everyone knew about an event [1] I'm helping
>> organize, to bring together developers to give feedback on the evolving WFS
>> 3.0 specification. It's organized by Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), and
>> sponsored by USGS, but the goal is make it different than a typical OGC
>> event. Indeed the direct inspiration is the code sprints that OSGeo runs,
>> but to center it around a standard and give developers an opportunity to
>> actually code against the spec _before_ it becomes an official standard,
>> and to have any feedback incorporated.
>>
>> I'm not sure if many people have been following the progress of WFS 3.0,
>> but it's been made more like how we build open source software, with an
>> open repository on github [2], and management of the spec through issues
>> and pull requests. And it's JSON and RESTful at the core, aiming to be much
>> easier to implement than existing OGC specs. For more backstory on it and
>> my take on its potential see my blog posts [3].
>>
>> I'd love to see a number of OSGeo people come, it's on March 6 & 7th in Ft.
>> Collins, Colorado. Contributing I believe will help show OGC that there is
>> interest in the wider developer and open source world if they do things
>> differently, and help evolve how they create standards to be more
>> compatible with how developers work. I'm also organizing a day on March 8th
>> on SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog[4] [5], an open spec a group of us started
>> working on to search satellite imagery archives, that I'm hoping we can
>> align with the WFS specification. If you're interested in WFS and/or STAC
>> just email me and I can give you more details, or just fill out the form athttps://goo.gl/forms/RqQtNbfdEOHuLE272 - there are some limited travel
>> grants if that helps get there.
>>
>> I know travel may be tough for those also going to Bonn, as the OSGeo
>> sprint there is two weeks later. I am figuring out if we will do a remote
>> participation option for Colorado, so email me if you're interested in
>> that. And Angelos had a great idea[6], of organizing a session on WFS/STAC
>> at Bonn, which I'd love to see. Drop me a line if you are attending the
>> OSGeo code sprint and interested in attending (or leading :) a session
>> there.
>>
>> best regards,
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
>> [1]https://medium.com/@cholmes/wfs-3-0-and-spatiotemporal-asset-catalog-stac-in-person-collaboration-609e10d7f714
>> [2] https://github.com/opengeospatial/WFS_FES
>> [3] https://medium.com/tag/wfs-3/latest
>> [4] https://github.com/radiantearth/stac-spec/
>> [5] https://medium.com/tag/stac-spec/latest
>> [6] https://twitter.com/tzotsos/status/963081024187060225
>>
>>
>>
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Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
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http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos