[science-iwg] Unconference at ECE

[UOMo <uomo@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I saw topics are filling up quite nicely for the Science WG Unconference.

I spoke to STEM contributors during the last conf call (another one is in a week) and Chris from BFR said he might say something on STEM, but was hoping he could also get a ticket for the whole conference week. Maybe he has to check with his boss or institute about that.

Timeslot 4 is still pretty empty, so I wanted to know, if there's interest in a quick session and live demo on how migration from (rejected) JSR 275 could work to the new final and official JSR 363?

Both LocationTech and Science projects (e.g. DawnSci) are known users of JSR 275 either directly, via JScience or GeoAPI. Some of these or e.g. Apache SIS drove download numbers of 275 to extraordinary figures in recent months: https://bintray.com/keilw/maven/javax.measure%3Ajsr-275#statistics

On average between 600 and 700 per day. We hope, that's still not a reason for Oracle to sue any project or product using it (the Spec License for JSRs seems quite clear, that everyone probably should have destroyed it when 275 was rejected in 2010;-)

The biggest user, GeoAPI is about to upgrade to Java 7 and with it plans a vote on upgrading to JSR 363 with a new release. SmartHome has asked to include JSR 363 into Orbit. While IP processing can be very slow as you heard, at some point in the next couple of months that shall work.
At least when the new GeoAPI version is released, LocationTech will want to use it and with it JSR 363 is inevitable, otherwise they have to stick with existing GeoAPI.

I'm happy to give a quick "live hacking" demo of how to migrate from one to the other.

Would that be of interest for the Unconference?

Talking later in the day is not so bad, I come by train from Frankfurt and plan to return the same night, so I don't need a hotel in Ludwigsburg.

CU,

Werner