GALEON Phase 2 Activity Plan

• To: "Unidata GALEON" <galeon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: GALEON Phase 2 Activity Plan
• From: "Ben Domenico" <bendomenico@xxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 09:42:02 -0600

Hello,

Below are a few GALEON related items.

Phase 2 Planning Documents

Among the pending documents for comment on the OGC web site is a GALEON
Phase 2 Activity Plan that incorporates the elements we've discussed
earlier.

http://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=17088&version=1
Also, if you are planning to participate formally in the Phase 2 and did not
formally participate (submit the formal documents) for Phase 1, please
contact George Percivall about filling out the appropriate documents.  If
you already submitted those documents for Phase 1, they still apply for
Phase 2.

For those of you who are not yet members of the OGC, but plan to participate
in the implementation of testbed servers or experiment with clients during
Phase 2, I've put together a web page that describes the practical
implementation aspect of the phase 2 experiment.

http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/projects/THREDDS/GALEON/GALEON2_Phase2_Implementations.htm

Please take a look at these documents and get back to me with comments and
changes.

Next Steps

Unfortunately, unavoidable scheduling conflicts make it impossible for me to
attend the next two OGC technical committee meetings.  But please do not
interpret this as a waning of interest, enthusiasm, or energy for
GALEON.  My view of this is that it is imperative that we begin active
implementation and experimentation as soon as the WCS 1.1 specification is
adopted.  There are a few "persistent demos" involving GALEON components,
several new WCS 1.0 servers are already available and a couple new clients
are very close, but the real testing activity will begin when we have
clients and servers converted to the WCS 1.1 specification.  As I understand
it, that specification should be finalized in a month or so.

A Possible Online Collaboration Facility

One final note is that I'm still actively seeking an online area where all
of those (current OGC members and those who have not joined yet) can
interact productively on documents related to the experiments.  One
possibility is a new initiative called Wikiversity:

http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Main_Page

I have attempted to start an area for GALEON-related Earth and Space
Sciences informatics content:

http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/School:Informatics

This approach may be of interest for those of you in the academic arena, but
industry collaborators may also find it useful as a place for education and
training materials.

Let me know what you think.

-- Ben