Reports and Announcements
Steve Marley has left Ecologic. Liping Di agreed to represent the Federation
at GAI meetings starting in March. The next OGC meeting is being hosted by
CIESIN - its Technical Working Group meetings will be Feb 4-6. CIESIN is also
involved in the development of disater planning scenario for OGC using WFS and
WMS.
Proposed Federation Technical Workshop The current list of Workshop presenters includes: MapServer (U Minnesota), FGDC compliance (CIESIN), ESML (UAH), WMS (Rob), WCS (Liping), ArcIMS (CIESIN?), DODS, as well as non-GIS presenters: Mercury, GCMD, New DISS awardees. FGDC and MapServer would like up to 2 days; others could use 1/2 day. Bruce agreed that for such a large number of presenters, a standalone venue might be appropriate. We will present two budgets - one for a standalone workshop and the second for a venue associated with the Federation Spring meeting in the DC area. The Workshops would be open to non-Federation particiapants (e.g. other data providers). A registration fee could partially offset costs. The Interoperability will cosponsor and actually present the proposal to the Federation.
GIS Services Brochure
We have a draft web version, from which the brochure insert will be extracted
(based on contributions received by Wed.).
Alaska Meeting
Several ESIPs will provide GIS-related demos at the ClusterFest.
We will meet as a group over lunch at the Federation Meeting on Thursday or Friday.