[Zoo-discuss] About FOSS4G 2009 and ZOO Project

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Dear Markus, Maxi and Song,

Back in Japan from a fantastic days at FOSS4G.

We presented about the new ZOO project
(www.zoo-project.org). Song-san has
started working on implementing R Services
for the ZOO kernel. Also, we hope to
implement GRASS WPS services too.

The ideas is to develop a developer guide
including many examples of R, GRASS, GDAL/OGR,
ORFEO and Open Office WPS with in the ZOO
platform and also build "model repository"
on ZOO OWS Platform. Would be great if we
can find some help in implementing simple
GRASS WPS services in ZOO

Unlike PyWPS, ZOO provides a multi-language
(C, Python, PHP etc.). Legacy Fortran code
can also be integrated into ZOO to enable
WPS for environmental models. Example of
Fortran model Drift-X was also presented
at FOSS4G 2009.

Presently we have a closed ML and I can subscribe
Markus, Maxi, Song to it. Hope some others
working in GRASS WPS could also join.

Markus, perhaps you could suggest someone for
the GRASS WPS part. Perhaps we could talk to
Jachym too. Next ZOO tribe meeting
is scheduled for mid-nov 2009 in Montpellier.
Perhaps some of the GRASS folks could join
in person or by skype.

Best

venka