Hi Everyone,
Welcome to the Location Industry Working Group (IWG) mailing list.
We're just booting up so to speak. The timing seems right to get
interested parties together so that the discussion may develop and
grow.
The Location IWG is a place for organizations and people with a
strong interest in Location related technologies. There will be
various threads of common interest such as reference implementations
of standards, developing re-usable components, collaborating around
commodity technology, collaborating around new and innovative
technology, as well as joint events and marketing.
In terms of next steps:
- Feel free to invite/recruit other interested parties to this
list. I'll create a wiki page shortly that will provide a little
background & serve as a landing page in the meantime before
the IWG's home page is available.
- We will get into discussing items of interest soon, both on
this list and via. conference call. Part of this will include
figuring out how to collaborate with other organizations doing
similar work such as OSGeo, OGC, USGIF, and many others
including open source projects.
- Also, many of us are going to be at the Location
Intelligence conference in Washington D.C. in May. This
may provide a good opportunity for a face to face meeting.
Please let me know (either off-list in private or on) if you
plan to be there so we can be sure to have enough room for
everyone.
- As we progress, we'll be able to complete the tasks required
to follow the Eclipse
IWG process and launch. For example, we'll define the
IWG's: scope, participation guidelines, identify a road map,
etc. We'll use this to create a proposal, then identify an
inaugural chair, satisfy the process requirements, and explore
the initiatives the group is interested in.
Best regards,
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