OGC Survey (prizes!); RFQ Withdrawn
Survey
Researchers from the University of Illinois (Dr. Mu Xia) and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Dr. Kexin Zhao) have developed a survey to research standards development organizations and standards effectiveness, and help the Consortium to improve its ability to address geospatial interoperability needs. Please help us with our interoperability mission by taking the survey.
The survey should take 15 to 20 minutes to complete. Your participation is strictly voluntary but critical to our research. Your response will be only used for research purposes. It will be kept strictly confidential to the two university researchers. Data gathered from this survey will be summarized in the aggregate, excluding all references to any individual responses, and made available to the OGC leadership. An executive summary will be provided to survey respondents after we analyze and interpret the data.
If you have already participated in a similar survey for OGC TC members conducted in the summer 2008, you do not need to answer this survey.
As a gesture of our appreciation, we invite you to register to win one of three technology prizes that will be awarded randomly to those who complete the survey. The three winners get their choice of: (1) Seagate Xtreme Black 1.5TB 3.5” Hard Drive - 7200, USB 2.0, FireWire-400, eSATA; (2) Apple iPod Touch 16GB MP3 Player; (3) Able Planet NC1000CH Clear Harmony Noise Canceling Headphones.
Withdrawal
The Request For Quotations and Call for Participation (RFQ/CFP) to solicit proposals in response to requirements for the Empire Challenge 09 Pilot (EC09 OGC Pilot) has been withdrawn (Jan 9) due to lack of funding. The PR came out in December for the Request and responses were due yesterday. The pilot was to “examine the suitability and performance of OGC Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) and OGC Web Services (OWS) standards for providing open management of and access to sensors of varied types and Web service access by analysts to the resulting data and products.”
