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Scalable Local Regression for Spatial Analytics

Session Type: 
Academic Session
Presenter(s): 
Dr Christian Kaiser, National University of Ireland Maynooth
Mr Fergal Walsh

 

Speaker Bio: 

Christian is a postdoc research fellow in geocomputation and co-developer of the open-source project i2maps. He is an expert in spatial analysis algorithms and dynamic visualisation.

Schedule info

Time slot: 
Thu, 09/15/2011 - 2:00pm - 2:30pm
Room: 
Spruce

Critical Analysis of the WFS Transactional

Session Type: 
Academic Session
Presenter(s): 
Jorge Rocha, Universidade do Minho
José Silva

 

Speaker Bio: 

Jorge Rocha is Auxiliary Professor at University of Minho. 

Schedule info

Time slot: 
Wed, 09/14/2011 - 2:00pm - 2:30pm
Room: 
Spruce

Google Maps this, GeoMoose that, what's a NonProfit to do?

Session Type: 
Tech Session
Presenter(s): 
Mr. Bob Basques
Mr. Jim Klassen

Getting a non-profit off the ground and running on it's own can be a daunting task. Add in the fact that it's a Geographically oriented non-profit and the issues related to keeping it afloat are compounded.  Open Source Software for Non-Profits working in the geographic arena can provide a significant leg up on the competition while at the same time allowing their services to be interchangeable and economically integrated with other like organizations.
 
The ability to remain flexible and diverse with respect to implementing and maintaining new technologies while still providing value to the customers can be mitigated to a large degree by using the Geographic Open Source tool bag.  The possibilities are  almost limitless with what can be accomplished.  Sometimes it's harder to stop innovating when working in the Open Source world, simply because it's so easy to do.  Using core development strategies built around the Open Source model of creation can afford an organization an unprecedented level of freedom in the quality and diverse nature of potential products they can put into production, in many instances accomplishing the tasks both economically as well as working within very tight time lines during the process.
 
Follow along with us as we describe the triumphs and pitfalls we've encountered while working on our various Open Sourced projects over the last few years and where all of these projects have gotten our organization.  We'll demonstrate some of our Open Source projects as well as describe some of our wish list items for the future.  Anyone interested in starting their own non-profit or even for profit company will gain some insight from this presentation.

Speaker Bio: 

With his 25+ years of work at the City of St. Paul, Minnesota, Bob has extensive experience with GIS web services and enterprise geospatial publishing projects. His efforts to date have focused on design and management of the data catalog for the City's GISmo mapping interface, which feeds the enterprise master spatial data set to desktop applications such as AutoCAD and other off the shelf GIS productss as well as other mapping applications such as GISmo. The GISmo application is built on the GeoMOOSE open source project software, of which, Bob is a founding member. Bob has been involved in GIS related community projects for the last fifteen years. From this diverse 'front line' experience, Bob has gained extensive knowledge in data publishing and distributed data maintenance issues and techniques.

Schedule info

Time slot: 
Thu, 09/15/2011 - 3:30pm - 4:00pm
Room: 
Tower Court B

Corporate FOSS Adoption – Managing Risk

Session Type: 
Tech Session
Presenter(s): 
Dr Ignacio Guerrero, Andes GeoConsulting LLC

FOSS4G usage at the corporate and government levels continues to grow at a fast pace. Many organizations are reluctant to adopt open source due to perceived risk. One such risk is the availability of supporting services and long term sustainability. There is ample literature addressing this topic. Perhaps lesser known are the legal risks resulting from license terms and obligations.

In this presentation we will briefly review the taxonomy of open source licenses and examine the common terms, conditions and obligations associated with such licenses. In particular we will discuss how the intended usage of a particular open source program is critical in understanding license obligations.

Open Source Governance is a process that mitigates the risk associated with open source usage. We will discuss the elements of a solid open sources governance model that will allow organizations to adopt FOSS with confidence. In addition, we will outline some of the tools, services and resources supporting open source governance available in the market (some of the tools are open source!). As we discuss these topics we will provide many examples based on commonly used FOSS4G programs.

Speaker Bio: 

Dr. Ignacio Guerrero is currently Principal and sole member of Andes GeoConsulting LLC, providing CTO consulting services with a focus on Geospatial Technology. Prior to this he held CTO level positions at Intergraph Corporation (1981-2007) and Rolta India Ltd. (2008-2011)

Schedule info

Time slot: 
Thu, 09/15/2011 - 3:00pm - 3:30pm
Room: 
Tower Court C

PostGIS Replication

Session Type: 
Tech Session
Presenter(s): 
Steven Singer, Slony Development Team

Database replication allows you to distribute spatial queries to multiple servers increasing the scalability and fault-tolerance of your database.

Two popular methods of replicating PostGIS databases are PostgreSQL 9.0's hot-standby replication and the Slony-I replication system. This talk will explain why you want to replicate your PostGIS databases and provide an overview of both Slony-I and hot-standby. The talk will explain the key features and limitations of each and help you choose which technology is appropriate for your situation.

Speaker Bio: 

Steve Singer is a software developer and has been involved with the PostgreSQL community since 2001 and is one of the maintainers of the Slony-I replication system. Steve uses and has contributed to many open source projects and has been involved with the OpenStreetMap project.

Schedule info

Time slot: 
Fri, 09/16/2011 - 10:30am - 11:00am
Room: 
Windows
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