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    9/20/2008

    I'm coming home

    很巧的, 兩次來美國, 住的旅館都是 Marriott 系列的.
    上次是住 Residence Inn, 住了好像三個月, 很有家的感覺.
    還和同事在房間裡煮麵煮龍蝦, 人多倒也熱鬧 (那時候公司有四個人在 Boston 出差).

    短暫的回台灣報告後, 再去 Boston 就是租貴到爆炸的公寓了.
    不過整個算起來還是比租旅館便宜, 也算幫公司有省到錢啦.

    這次, 因為會議關係直接住在 Atlanta 的 Marriott, 從 9/13 到 9/20.
    今天也該要 check out 了 (正在煮咖啡ing)
    Marriott 感覺不錯, 加上水不用錢, 除了洗澡之外, 幾乎天天都把浴缸倒滿泡澡 (我是宜靜)
    不過以前 Residence Inn 有提供早餐晚餐, 這邊就沒了.

    來亞特蘭大, 除了爽快好笑的報告, 以及天天和這邊的人唬爛以外,
    去了 Coca-Cola Museum, The Masquerade for Children of Bodom, Atlanta Aquarium, CNN Center, Lenox shopping mall,
    還有昨天在 Turner Field 看勇士隊的球賽. 而昨天真的是頗為幸運的一場球賽.
    先不說 Jose Reyes 首席就全壘打 (在主場撒野?!), 最後比數是 9:5, 兩邊的砲火都算猛, 夠精采.
    不過當我在中場看到自己的座位號碼被選到 Fan Appreciation 的時候, 真的有爽到.
    在不知道獎品會是啥的情況下, 跟工作人員找來找去, 想說要在哪邊拿獎品.
    我本來以為可能只是顆一般的比賽球或是個手套之類的. 結果... 結果...

    靠! 居然是一顆 Chipper Jones 的簽名球!!!

    Singed by Chipper Jones

    我自己在簽名的時候還不太相信咧~ 哈哈哈
    每個被抽到獎的球迷, 獎品好像都不太一樣, 但是我這獎品真的夠爽了!!
    去 Gift Shop 看了一下, 這顆球要賣 USD.95 耶~ ㄎㄎ

    比賽結束免不了又來個樂團對尬 (可以參考 Drum Line 這部電影), 最後煙火雖然因風大取消, 不過也是噴了幾個.
    哈哈, 飄飄然的搭了接駁公車回來, 一整個覺得 high 啊 :D

    今天待會的行程是 Stone Mountain, 租了台 Ford Fusion, V6 引擎, 開起來感覺不錯.
    因為還欠林博士一篇演講內容 (9/22 早上到台灣, 9/23 就又要上台演講 Orz ),
    可能在 LA 轉機還要多多趕工一下了 (我真是拖稿大王, 太超過了!!)

    Anyway, I'm coming home.
    home sweet home...

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    這樣記錄好像我在這邊過的很爽...
    其實會議期間真的很累說, 大家都只看到爽的一面.....  Orz

    好吧, 反正也不會有人相信 (囧)rz

    9/17/2008

    搞定收工!

    剛剛結束了報告, 反應看起來還不錯,
    Omega 的 last minutes suggestion 超屌~

    這個 session 來說, 林北的掌聲應該是最大的, ㄎㄎ...
    接下來我們的東西應該可以跟著這個規格的核心, 甚至影響他的走向了.

    講了35分鐘, 在台上用聊天的態度, 加上破英文還蠻有笑果的, 哈哈~
    我們和 ASUS 合作的東西也讓他們覺得很有趣,
    同時也兔了他們一些槽, 一些規格還沒弄好的地方.
    總之, 是很有趣的經驗.

    真的感謝在背後支持的大家, 謝謝你們 ^^

    沒有圖, 不過有錄影, 有空再放, 嘿嘿...
    接下來總算可以好好聽聽人家幹啥, 好好找人虎爛我們台灣多好了, 哇哈哈~

    9/13/2008

    等待轉機@LAX

    收到了 OGC 最新的議程, 終於把我們的部份放進去...
    就想說, 協會主席都答應讓我們報告和討論了, Working Group 的主席沒道理忽略我們吧, ㄎㄎ...
    很久沒有在國外嘴炮了, 我會帶著大家的執念認真的阿!!

    謝謝你們 開懷大笑 我們是最棒的團隊!!

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    話說回來, 看到自己的名字是寫 "slayer" - Kuo-Yu Chuang 覺得有好笑到, 一整個有白爛的 fu 吐舌頭
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    Working Group Meeting agendas for the Atlanta TC

     

    Abbreviations:

    TC= Technical Committee

    DWG = Domain Working Group

    SWG = Standards Working Group

     

    MONDAY, September 15

     

    Opening Plenary

    • Empire Challenge (EC08) Update (Sam Bacharach)
    • OGC Catalogue standard – Issues (Lidia Geitler, Denmark)
    • Status update on EPSG database. Roel Nicolai

    OAB Closed Session – Geospatial Search Summit

    Several months ago the OAB determined that the ability to have a consistent expression for geospatial search – web would be highly beneficial to all communities dealing with web search technology and standards. This Summit will focus on requirements and standards based solutions to geospatial search on the web.

     

    New Member Orientation

    Presentation focuses on the structure and processes of the OGC. Goal of the orientation is to provide attendees a fundamental understanding of OGC terminology, policies, and procedures. Greg Buehler

     

    Data Quality DWG

    • A summary of our review of the coverage for data quality measures in existing specs
    • Any other specs we should review?
    • Who here uses these specs (Discuss)
    • Comments/omissions/opinions
    • Maybe a review of the uncertainty / measurement errors email discussion that went on from Carl.
    • Mention that the UncertML document that was presented in Potsdam has been finished and is available for review for interested parties.

    GMLJP2 SWG

     

    CRS DWG

    • Topic 2 - change request and correction of inconsistencies (Arliss Whiteside)
    • URN's in OGC namespace, proposed amendments (Roel Nicolai)
    • Topic 19 - General Reference Systems (Arliss Whiteside)
    • GeoPDF - alignment with Topic 2 (doc. OGC 08-139 - Patrick Graves)

    Decision Support DWG

    • ISO 19117 / SLD Harmonization – Dan Gleason
    • User Experience Thinking at OGC – Martin Kyle

    WCS 1.2

    ·        WCS output coverage encoding change request, pending document 08-016

    • Progress on extension documents to WCS 1.1 Corrigendum 2
    • Status of the WCS 1.2 SWG work items listed on the Twicki
    • Status of dividing WCS 1.2 into parts

    TUESDAY, September 16    

     

    Architecture DWG

    • Presentation on the new Place Identifier Architecture submission to ISO, Carl Reed for the NWIP Submission team
    • An Overview of the Homeland Security Geospatial Data Model (GDM), Tom McCarty

    Catalog DWG

    • ebXML RegRep 4: Update and Overview, Farrukh Najmi
    • Register or Catalogue? - A Comparison of Standards for Managing Geospatial Metadata, Lidia Gietler
    • Recap on "Geospatial Search Summit" to discuss community practice on catalogue search with interest in alignment on geospatial search. Doug Nebert

    OWS Common 1.2 SWG

    • Open CR Issues
    • Review document edits

    Coverages DWG

    • GALEON Status Update: WCS Client Library Exercises Ben Domenico
    • Revision of AS Topic 6/ISO 19123 Open Discussion

    Architecture DWG Services Sub-group

    • An update  and discussions on both the group's work and on resource extensions to the general feature model by Thomas Usländer.

    SWE Common Data Model 1.1 SWG

    • Discussion on use of GML 3.2 – Derivation of base types from a different type than AbstractGMLType. SWE data component types are data types (not classes) but an ID is often used to avoid repeating similar type definitions.
    • Discussion on mandating a single version of GML (a priori 3.2) in the normative schemas for SWE 1.1
    • Discussion on new rules for preserving backward compatibility between revisions
    • State of the document: Should UML diagrams match XSD schemas exactly?
    • Discussion on models for data stream encoding specification

    GeoRM DWG

    • GeoRM Domain Model (Martin Kyle)
    • How do you like your DRM? Heavy or Lite? Wayne Richards and Chris Body

    GML DWG

    • GML coverages
    • Versioning policy for GML

    3DIM DWG (Also on Wednesday)

    • Working Group Introductions
    • Oracle and 3D Implementations: Demonstration with Q&A

    Sensor Web Enablement DWG

    ·        Standards Working Group Status

      • SWE Common (Alex Robin)
      • SPS (Ingo Simonis)
      • SensorML Charter (Mike Botts)
    • Sensor Event Service & Event Pattern Markup Language (Johannes Echterhoff and Thomas Everding)
    • SWE Discovery and Peer-to-Peer (Alex Robin)
    • Empire Challenge 08 and future (Sam Bacharach)
    • SWE for Home Surveillance in Mass Market (“slayer” - Kuo-Yu Chuang)
    • 10 Important Lessons about Standards and How they Apply to SWE (Bryan Gorman and Mike Botts)
    • O&M v2.0 NWIP to ISO  (David Lemon for Simon Cox)

    GeoRM 1.0 SWG

     

    Geosemantics DWG

     

    DocTeam - OGC URN Naming Authority

    • Review URN Request for CSW-ebRIM object identifiers in the 'ogc' URN namespace
    • Review and discuss ISO document URN approach for possible use in the OGC.
    • More schema and namespace goo
    • And once again, should we (OGC) begin to post public documents as HTML.

    Data Preservation

    • Recruitment of new co-chair (10 minutes)
    • Review of content packaging problem area, Steve Morris (15 minutes)
    • The MEF import and export format, slides from Jeroen Ticheler (15 minutes)
    • Other topics and general discussion (20 min.)

    WEDNESDAY

     

    3DIM

    ·        CityGML Next steps to adoption and enhancement

    • AECOO-1 Testbed update
    • 3D in OWS-6 DSS Thread
    • 3D Portrayal initiative update and discussion
    • Other projects and issues (Geo-Collada)

    Workflow DWG

    • Basic Grid Workflow Tools – Satoshi Sekiguchi
    • Weather Forecast Use Case – Ben Domenico
    • Some Use-Cases for Image Processing Workflows – Michael Gerlek
    • Exposition of complex workflows as simple WPS processes – Bastian Schäffer

    CUAHSI / Hydrology ad hoc

    • The goal of this Ad-hoc group meeting will be to stand up a Hydrology/Ocean Observing Working Group within OGC, that would address application domain interests such as WaterML and ontology harmonization.
    • Prof. David Maidment, Univ. of Texas at Austin and Director of the CUAHSI Hydrologic Information System (HIS) project -- will talk about CUAHSI's advances in cataloguing and accessing US federal and state data sources for monitoring and analysing stream flow and water quality data.
    • David Lemon & Peter Fitch, CSIRO -- achievements to date and further plans for water observations modeling and web services. 
    • David Arctur, OGC -- upcoming workshops at ECMWF and the European Environment Agency to integrate appropriate OGC standards in meteorology. 

    OpenLS SWG

     

    SPS SWG

    • SPS 2.0 interface discussion
    • SPS 2.0 communication patterns
    • SPS 2.0 next steps

    Mass-Market DWG

    • Versioning P&P for mass market originated OGC standards

    Joint Advisory Group (ISO-OGC JAG)

    ·        Status of Joint ISO TC211/OGC Projects  - JAG Secretariat

    • Status of joint New Work Item Proposals (NWIPs)  - JAG Secretariat
    • Use of UML base models initiated by JRC - JRC
    • Harmonization of OGC SLD and ISO 19117 Portrayal  - JAG Co-chair for ISO TC211
    • Discussion of JAG Terms of Reference with regards to revising the document - JAG Secretariat

    Policy SWG (open by vote of the SWG)

    • A presentation by the SWG on 08-131 The Specification Model — Modular specifications, its purpose and status, followed by an open discussion.

    D & I DWG

    • GeoPDF 2.2 – Patrick Graves

    GeoRM

    • GeoRM Domain Model (Martin Kyle)
    • License Broker Spec (Rüdiger Gartmann)
    • Discussion on ccREL/RDFa* (Manu Sporny - Digital Bazaar, Inc)

    OpenLS SWG

     

    EC09 Planning Ad Hoc

     

    OAB (open session)

    • GML 3.2 schemas – revisions and namespaces.
    • URLs for documents – Results of discussion in the DocTeam meeting
    • Geosearch Summit Results and Discussion
    • OAB election this fall

    THURSDAY, September 18

     

    EONRE DWG

     

    EC08 Demo

     

    GML SWG

     

    CITE SC

    • Update on Compliance Test Policy document that was recently updated. OGC Staff
    • Overview of compliance testing tasks in OWS6. Jen Marcus
    • A presentation on compliance test profile development work his team is doing for NGA. Jim Ressler (NGIT)

    Closing Plenary

    • Oceans Interoperability Experiment: Summary and Findings (Luis Bermudez)
    • DHS Programs and requirements for geospatial standards (Bert Coursey)
    • CUASI and WaterML (David Maidment)
    • DWG and SWG reports

    Carl Reed, PhD
    CTO and Executive Director Specification Program
    OGC
     
    The OGC: Helping the World to Communicate Geographically


    9/12/2008

    Leaving for Atlanta

    Again, I'm at The More lounge in Tao-Yuan airport, waiting for my flight to Atlanta.
    Some uncertainty...
    Anyway, hope everything goes well and we can have a great and fruitful trip.
     
    OGC, let's wait and see...