Great work from our CRIs

>
> Cheers,
>
>  Brent
>
> --- On Tue, 11/15/11, Tim McNamara <email obscured>> wrote:
>
> From: Tim McNamara <email obscured>>
> Subject: [ninjas] Great work from our CRIs
> To: "ninja-talk" <email obscured>>
> Date: Tuesday, November 15, 2011, 11:11 AM
>
> Just read today that our CRIs are using open source software to make
> their data more accessible. Lowering costs to government FTW.
>
>
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/open-source-front-end-for-environmental-data
>
> There's a brief mention of a workshop on the 22nd at the end of the
> article. Does anyone have a link to the details?
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Cheers,

 Brent

--- On Wed, 11/16/11, Andrew Watkins <email obscured>> wrote:

From: Andrew Watkins <email obscured>>
Subject: Re: [ninjas] Great work from our CRIs
To: <email obscured>
Cc: <email obscured>
Date: Wednesday, November 16, 2011, 10:08 AM

Just to say that we already use a fair amount of Open Source software
including Geonetwork Metadata, Map Server, Postgres/gis and so on.
The key point here is our focus on Open Standards such as OGC SOS.

Andrew

On 16 November 2011 09:34, <email obscured>> wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
> This is described here:
https://www.seegrid.csiro.au/wiki/Siss/SissWorkshopNZ2011
> The workshop is a cooperative venture between NIWA, GNS & LCR with the
Geospatial Office facilitating, bringing the speakers in from Australia.
>
> The following two days are discussing time series data management, discovery
& delivery, with a focus on the OGC Sensor Observation Service:
> http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/sos
> http://www.csiro.au/sensorweb/au.csiro.OgcThinClient/OgcThinClient.html
>
> Unfortunately, having helped organise it, I'm going to be away at sea from
tomorrow so will miss it...
>
> Cheers,
>
>  Brent
>
> --- On Tue, 11/15/11, Tim McNamara <email obscured>> wrote:
>
> From: Tim McNamara <email obscured>>
> Subject: [ninjas] Great work from our CRIs
> To: "ninja-talk" <email obscured>>
> Date: Tuesday, November 15, 2011, 11:11 AM
>
> Just read today that our CRIs are using open source software to make
> their data more accessible. Lowering costs to government FTW.
>
>
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/open-source-front-end-for-environmental-data
>
> There's a brief mention of a workshop on the 22nd at the end of the
> article. Does anyone have a link to the details?
>
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On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 6:09 PM, <email obscured>> wrote:

> And a bit political, but pretty much on topic:
>
> The Green Party has had an enlightened (my choice of adjective :-) policy
> about open source, open standards & interoperability in Govt computing for
> some years. As far as I'm aware this election is the first time one of the
> two big parties has actually mentioned Open Source as a serious policy item.
>
> Described:
> http://www.zdnet.com.au/nz-labour-reveals-ict-manifesto-339324411.htm
>
> Actual document:
> http://blog.labour.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/ICT-policy.pdf
>
>
> Of course, the relevance of these documents post election is always
> questionable :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
>  Brent
>
>
>
>
> --- On Wed, 11/16/11, David Medyckyj-Scott <
> <email obscured>> wrote:
>
> From: David Medyckyj-Scott <email obscured>>
> Subject: Re: [ninjas] Great work from our CRIs
> To: <email obscured>" <email obscured>>
> Date: Wednesday, November 16, 2011, 5:23 PM
>
> Ditto Landcare - we are using postgres/gis, mapserver, geoserver,
> geonetwork, openlayers, and qgis and R (statistical computing and graphics)
> as desktop applications. We are deploying web services based on open
> standards; WMS are already available, WFS coming soon and behind the scenes
> we are experimenting with web processing services (WPS) for data analysis.
> S-map online (smap.landcareresearch.co.nz) is one example of an
> application built entirely on an open source stack.
>
>
>
> David
>
>
>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: <email obscured> <email obscured>]
> On Behalf Of Andrew Watkins
> Sent: Wednesday, 16 November 2011 10:08 a.m.
> To: <email obscured>
> Cc: <email obscured>
> Subject: Re: [ninjas] Great work from our CRIs
>
>
>
> Just to say that we already use a fair amount of Open Source software
>
> including Geonetwork Metadata, Map Server, Postgres/gis and so on.
>
> The key point here is our focus on Open Standards such as OGC SOS.
>
>
>
> Andrew
>
>
>
> On 16 November 2011 09:34, <email obscured>> wrote:
>
> > Hi Tim,
>
> >
>
> > This is described here:
> https://www.seegrid.csiro.au/wiki/Siss/SissWorkshopNZ2011
>
> > The workshop is a cooperative venture between NIWA, GNS & LCR with the
> Geospatial Office facilitating, bringing the speakers in from Australia.
>
> >
>
> > The following two days are discussing time series data management,
> discovery & delivery, with a focus on the OGC Sensor Observation Service:
>
> > http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/sos
>
> > http://www.csiro.au/sensorweb/au.csiro.OgcThinClient/OgcThinClient.html
>
> >
>
> > Unfortunately, having helped organise it, I'm going to be away at sea
> from tomorrow so will miss it...
>
> >
>
> > Cheers,
>
> >
>
> > Brent
>
> >
>
> > --- On Tue, 11/15/11, Tim McNamara <email obscured>> wrote:
>
> >
>
> > From: Tim McNamara <email obscured>>
>
> > Subject: [ninjas] Great work from our CRIs
>
> > To: "ninja-talk" <email obscured>>
>
> > Date: Tuesday, November 15, 2011, 11:11 AM
>
> >
>
> > Just read today that our CRIs are using open source software to make
>
> > their data more accessible. Lowering costs to government FTW.
>
> >
>
> >
>
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/open-source-front-end-for-environmental-data
>
> >
>
> > There's a brief mention of a workshop on the 22nd at the end of the
>
> > article. Does anyone have a link to the details?
>
> >
>
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