Hi Everyone,
A reminder about tomorrow's (Wednesday's) LocationTech working group
meeting at 9am
EDT.
This month's call features Alex Barth from Mapbox speaking about
some of the work they're doing for OpenStreetMap.
In addition to the conference
bridge, we'll also be using Google On-Air for Alex as he
speaks & demos. This will be a live-stream YouTube video. I'll
send out the URL to this list before the session.
Also, we'll share news of the development forge coming on-line and
team LocationTech meeting with Automotive & Aerospace companies
in Germany later this month.
The complete agenda is available on-line
here.
Here are some updates ahead of time to enable you to think about the
various topics in advance:
1) Steps towards launch update
- The Technology top level project for LocationTech has been
approved & created. We're now ready to create projects.
- Logo, presentation templates, etc. are done
- The web site is on-line. It'll be roughly another week before
it is ready for launch. This includes the project portal which
supports creation & management of projects including
activities such as committer elections, releases, and more.
- Signing deadline in order to be a
founding member: October 26th, 2012
- Media coverage, joint press release, blogs, etc.
2) Projects
- uDig's proposal is ready to go. Being posted in the next 48
hours.
- GeoScript proposal in progress.
- Others starting the process.
No's:
- GeoAPI didn't work out. Required copyright assignment to OGC
which was not acceptable.
- GeoToolkit withdrew & decided to move to Apache SIS. They
felt they wanted to be far out of Geotools' shadow.
3) Members
- Members continue to sign up for launch. IBM, Oracle, and
OpenGeo are signed as Strategic members already. We'll announce
the full list when we launch.
- On behalf of the Steering Committee, invitations are being
made to noteworthy non-profits, government agencies, and
academic institutions to participate without dues. These
participates do not receive voting rights.
4) Elections
We will hold elections once we hit 25 committers & 10 solutions
reps. i.e. likely right after launch. This will allow us to fill
interim positions in the architecture, marketing, and steering
committees.
5) Technology survey
To provide valuable input from the industry - both consumers and
technology providers, we will be doing a technology survey. Please
contact Andrew if you would like to participate in the survey
design. A few media organizations have expressed interest in
partnering with us on this.
Cheers,
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