At Jody Garnett’s suggestion I added a listing for a code sprint on the day after FOSS4G 2007 centred around GeoNetwork and exploring different kinds of metadata madness.
The outline says, Building crawler/harvester/aggregator applications on top of the GeoNetwork metadata catalog network and similar interfaces. Plugging client stuff like gvSIG and uDig into it. My plan was to camp in the middle of all the other code sprint sessions and try to attract defectors from projects like GeoTools and OpenLayers.
Stefan asked about remote participation, and yes OSGeo has a very broad IRC culture, and it would be interesting to organise voice conferencing for such an event, so that project contributors who aren’t able to attend the conference could participate more in any sprint. And I expect a lot of wiki and trac documentation of the sessions will happen.
Will anything happen in preparation for such an event? Well, what happens organically anyway, hopefully lots of experiments with different standards, with RDF, and with spatial extensions to ebRIM , to OAI-PMH and whatever else comes along and looks useful. September’s a way off in internet time…
