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Hi Ben, Just to agree with George here - I think participation in this plugfest would be very good for GALEON/THREDDS. Although I've never been to FOSS4G (it hasn't recently been close enough to me to justify the travel), it certainly seems that it would be valuable to be involved. Cheers, Jon On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 5:00 PM, George Percivall <gpercivall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ben, > OSGeo and OGC have a complimentary and productive relationship based upon an > MOU between the two organizations. > A great example of the collaboration is at the next FOSS4G run by OSGeo, > OGC will be leading a Climate Change Integration Plugfest (CCIP). The CCIP > will demonstrate standards based interoperability between geospatial > applications based on a Climate Change scenario. > http://www.osgeo.org/news/2009/01/FOSS4G_Integration > http://www.opengeospatial.org/pressroom/pressreleases/951 > > The GALEON community could interact with OSGeo in many ways here are a > couple of suggestions: > 1) participate in the CCIP. > 2) identify an open-source project that implements OGC standards, e.g., WCS, > as an OSGeo Project. OSGeo has a process and resources for community > development of open-source geospatial software. There are several examples > of OSGeo projects implementing OGC specifications. > OSGeo projects implementing OGC specifications has been successful in the > past and it may be appropriate in the GALEON context. > > > Relevant to this is the motion approved at the OGC meeting this month: > "Web Coverage Service Standards Working Group release of NetCDF extension" > The OGC Members approved release of 09-018 Web Coverage Service (WCS) > extension for CF-netCDF encoding, 1.0 as an OGC Discussion Paper > • This extension of the WCS standard specifies an Information Community data > model with the related encoding that may optionally be implemented by WCS > servers. This extension enables clients to evaluate, request and use data > encoded in CF-netCDF3 format from a WCS server. > Document 09-018 is posted here: > http://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=32195 > Regards, > George > > > > > > On Apr 13, 2009, at 7:18 PM, Gerry Creager wrote: > > I certainly believe the GALEON community would benefit, and that the FOSS4G > community would, as well. I suspect a similar statement can be made with > THREDDS, as well. > > The main limitation of GDAL for NetCDF is based in the lack of requests to > extend the support, and the potential to fund said updates when critiacl > mass is finally achieved. > > I didn't get to attend the last OGC TC, but I suspect there were plenty of > other FOSS4G advocates there. > > I was involved in some of the original FOSS4G organizational efforts but > didn't have the time to allow me to participate to any great extent. That > said, it appears to be a good organization with a lot of potential to > support and nurture projects. > > Unidata, however, is also nurturing THREDDS. There's likely be a little > friction, but I strongly suspect that once the initial "dancing" is done, > the benefits to both communities would be visible. > > gerry > > Roy Mendelssohn wrote: > > Hi Ben: > > I do not know about FOSS4G per se, but the major sponsor of it appears to be > OSGeo (http://www.osgeo.org/). They are responsible for Mapserver and > Geotools and most importantly GDAL. GDAL is a nice tool for converting > between formats, and supports Netcdf and OpeNDAP, at least partially (I > can't remember if it is limited in dimensions with netcdf), and provides the > conversion for Mapserver. Conversations about supporting netcdf4 or > related things would strike me as valuable. > > -Roy > > On Apr 13, 2009, at 2:15 PM, Ben Domenico wrote: > > Hi again, > > Periodically, I get a suggestion that GALEON and THREDDS would be good > candidates for participation in the Free and Open Source Software for > Geospatial (FOSS4G) movement, initiative, project, community, or whatever it > is. I briefly looked into it one time earlier > > http://sites.google.com/site/galeonteam/Home/GALEON%20Phase2%20Main%20Page/Unidata%20OGC%20Interoperability%20Day%20Presentations > > but it came up at the recent OGC TC again. > > Do any of you have any experience with, thoughts on, or suggestions > regarding whether participating in FOSS4G would indeed be an effective > approach to furthering our particular -- implementation-oriented approach to > interoperability? > > -- Ben > > _______________________________________________ > > galeon mailing list > > galeon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > For list information, to unsubscribe, visit: > http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/mailing_lists/ > > ********************** > > "The contents of this message do not reflect any position of the U.S. > Government or NOAA." > > ********************** > > Roy Mendelssohn > > Supervisory Operations Research Analyst > > NOAA/NMFS > > Environmental Research Division > > Southwest Fisheries Science Center > > 1352 Lighthouse Avenue > > Pacific Grove, CA 93950-2097 > > e-mail: Roy.Mendelssohn@xxxxxxxx (Note new e-mail address) > > voice: (831)-648-9029 > > fax: (831)-648-8440 > > www: http://www.pfeg.noaa.gov/ > > "Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill." > > "From those who have been given much, much will be expected" > > _______________________________________________ > > galeon mailing list > > galeon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > For list information, to unsubscribe, visit: > http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/mailing_lists/ > > -- > Gerry Creager -- gerry.creager@xxxxxxxx > Texas Mesonet -- AATLT, Texas A&M University > Cell: 979.229.5301 Office: 979.458.4020 FAX: 979.862.3983 > Office: 1700 Research Parkway Ste 160, TAMU, College Station, TX 77843 > > _______________________________________________ > galeon mailing list > galeon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > For list information, to unsubscribe, visit: > http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/mailing_lists/ > > George Percivall > Open Geospatial Consortium > http://www.opengeospatial.org/ > E-mail: percivall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Voice: +1-301-560-6439 > > > > **************************************************************************** > This communication, including attachments, is for the exclusive use of > addressee(s). 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