{"id":36,"date":"2006-09-14T04:47:51","date_gmt":"2006-09-14T08:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kralidis.ca\/blog\/2006\/09\/14\/foss4g2006-day-3\/"},"modified":"2006-09-15T07:33:13","modified_gmt":"2006-09-15T11:33:13","slug":"foss4g2006-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kralidis.ca\/blog\/2006\/09\/14\/foss4g2006-day-3\/","title":{"rendered":"FOSS4G2006 Day 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"FOSS4G2006Today’s keynote<\/a> was interesting in finding out about FOSS4G activities in Asia. Wow, there is and has been quite a bit happening in that region for years. I gave a talk<\/a> on ResEau<\/a> this morning, which was well received.<\/p>\n

Sitting in Raj Singh<\/a>‘s presentation on OGC<\/a>‘s Lightweight Standards Initiatives. Great to see their recognition of simple things like GeoRSS<\/a>, tiled WMS and WFS basic, however the “not so simple” is just as important.<\/p>\n

Assefa, Bart and I gave the OGC and Open Source presentation<\/a>, which produced a little ‘testbed’ of open source packages supporting OGC and how they play with eachother. I’m looking forward to MapServer exhanced Filter spatial predicates now that geos is integrated.<\/p>\n

52 North<\/a> did a great presentation on OGC SensorWeb and their supporting software. It will be great if\/when their native data bindings increased in flexibility. They also mentioned the SensorWeb Alliance<\/a>, an international group on the use and advancement of SensorWeb.<\/p>\n

Catalog\/Discovery BOF<\/a>: great intentions, no time. This went by quick and we started discussing various approaches. I’m worried about things getting too complicated. At the same time, this can’t become too simple that we keep revisiting it in the future for modificiations to the model, etc. The most important part is the content model for data and services. As for protocol, I hope GeoNetwork OpenSource<\/a> will help with forthcoming CSW ISO profile<\/a> support.<\/p>\n

The evening event was a beautiful boat cruise<\/a>, and visit \/ dinner at the Chateau de Chillon<\/a>. The night concluded (for most people) with drinks and dancing at a local nightclub. Following that, a few of us decided to enjoy the scenery more so we stayed out all night. We were lucky that some places were opening up for breakfast, as we were hungry!<\/p>\n

Check out the photos (which will be posted soon) on FOSS4G2006<\/a>. Also, once we all get back and settled, I’ll update this page with links of the fun night (everyone had a digital camera).<\/p>\n

Time for bed.<\/p>\n\n\n