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** Recognition that OSGeo community, local chapter meetings, conference, and project contributions are working very well. | ** Recognition that OSGeo community, local chapter meetings, conference, and project contributions are working very well. | ||
** It was felt the Eclipse model to encourage business engagement & Eclipse professional staff should help address a missing piece for open source location technology. | ** It was felt the Eclipse model to encourage business engagement & Eclipse professional staff should help address a missing piece for open source location technology. | ||
| + | ** It's worth noting so it doesn't get lost that on the community front that Eclipse has 220+ community projects, 42M+ lines of code, and 1K committers. | ||
** Comment that some aspects of OSGeo fit very nicely with Eclipse & the Location IWG. Others likely don't need that level of assistance. | ** Comment that some aspects of OSGeo fit very nicely with Eclipse & the Location IWG. Others likely don't need that level of assistance. | ||
** Craig commented that these efforts to collaborate and ensure open source location technologies are palatable to big companies are very much appreciated. | ** Craig commented that these efforts to collaborate and ensure open source location technologies are palatable to big companies are very much appreciated. | ||
Revision as of 15:38, 19 April 2012
Contents
Time and Location
See the conference bridge details
Agenda
This is a meeting for those interested in the Location Industry Working group forming at Eclipse.
- Quick row call - All
- Meeting details at Location Intelligence
- OSGeo/Eclipse Location IWG collaboration - Andrew Ross/Dave McIlhagga
- Technology interest matrix - Dave McIlhagga/Andrew Ross
- Lead projects
- uDig
- Jackpine
- GeoScript
- handful of other candidates in progress
- Next Steps/ Next month's call
Attendees
The following people attended:
- Andrew Ross, Mike Milinkovich - Eclipse Foundation
- Xavier Lopez - Oracle
- Dave McIlhagga, Paul Spencer - DM Solutions Group
- Craig Statchuk - IBM
- Geoff Zeiss - Autodesk
- Angela Demke Brown - University of Toronto
- Thierry Badard - Spatialytics
- Heather Leson - Ushahidi
- Daniel Morissette - Mapgears & member of OSGeo board
- Michael Gerlek - Independent consultant & member of OSGeo board
Regrets:
- Tyler Mitchell - Actian
- Justin Lokitz - Autodesk
- Chris Holmes, Eddie Pickle - OpenGeo
Minutes
- Row call. See the attendance above.
- Brief introduction from newcomers: Thierry & Spatialytics, Heather & Ushahidi, Michael;Daniel & OSGeo
- Details shared for May face to face meeting ACTION: Andrew to reach out to everyone to see who's planning on coming.
- Michael, Daniel, Dave, and Andrew spoke of OSGeo & Eclipse Location IWG collaboration
- Strong desire to join forces/not compete for the same resources
- Recognition that OSGeo community, local chapter meetings, conference, and project contributions are working very well.
- It was felt the Eclipse model to encourage business engagement & Eclipse professional staff should help address a missing piece for open source location technology.
- It's worth noting so it doesn't get lost that on the community front that Eclipse has 220+ community projects, 42M+ lines of code, and 1K committers.
- Comment that some aspects of OSGeo fit very nicely with Eclipse & the Location IWG. Others likely don't need that level of assistance.
- Craig commented that these efforts to collaborate and ensure open source location technologies are palatable to big companies are very much appreciated.
- Mike shared experience how an extensible platform (the Eclipse platform) helped organize and encourage re-use of Eclipse technologies. Similar may benefit location technologies.
- Dave noted the parts are there in general, and standards have enabled high degrees of interoperability
- Michael noted there are 3 distributions that aim in this direction: the OSGeo live image, OSGeo4W, and the OpenGeo suite
- Dave outlines his idea re: technology interest matrix. In short, each participant in the IWG +1 or 0, or -1's each item in a list of technologies. These technologies can be existing open source projects or features/capabilities that don't yet exist.
- As an approach, Andrew suggested a survey. ACTION: Everyone. Please send your technology interest to Andrew for inclusion to the survey. We'll review the master list using the wiki and then vote on them via. a survey.
- Craig gave an example using Google maps of how important/crucial features are the key here.
- Next steps
- uDig, Jackpine, and GeoScript will be starting the application process
- Andrew's looking for another project or two for the launch. Talking to an imaging company who has a hadoop based geo data cruncher. More soon.
- IBM & Oracle will be our Strategic members initiating the IWG as per our IWG process.