OGC Technical and Planning Committee Meeting Sydney

By on 17 November, 2015

Australian Technology Park

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) will be holding their next Technical and Planning Committee Meeting in Sydney from Monday 30 November 2015 – Friday 4 December 2015. The tentative agenda is available on the event website and registrations are now open to all, with an earlybird price ending 27 November.

The event is sponsored by the Australian Federal Government, CSIRO and Data61, and will be held at Sydney’s Australian Technology park in Eveleigh.

Running over four full days, as well as a fifth invite only day on the Friday, the meeting will encompass the operations of both the OGC Technical Committee and the OGC Planning Committee. The technical Committee is responsible for all aspects of the formal consensus OGC standards process, including initiatives to:

  1. Coordinate development of and modifications to the OpenGIS Abstract Specification;
  2. Coordinate development and adoption of OpenGIS Implementation standards;
  3. Act on change proposals (acceptance, rejection, and conditional acceptance);
  4. Other responsibilities concerning evaluation, approval and recommendations of various documents and proposals.

On the other hand, the Planning Committee has ultimate responsibility for approving Technical Committee recommendations for the adoption and release of OGC standards, and for specification program planning.
Name: OGC Technical and Planning Committee
Time: 08:00 Mon – 17:00 Fri
Date: Monday, 30 November, 2015 – Friday, 4 December, 2015
Venue: Australian Technology Park
Address: Level 5, 13 Garden Street, Eveleigh NSW 2015, Australia
Cost: Non-members: $325 for four days or $200 per day.
Event Website: http://www.opengeospatial.org/event/1512tc

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