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Tech Stack Work Group Update
September 14, 2011
Main Group
• Workshop• Proposals• Coordination– Talks– Crossover
• other WGs• outside groups
– Wiki content improvement– Wiki system improvement
• Conferences
Focus Groups
• Cloud Computing• Scientific Computing & Analysis– Lots of Python activity of late
• National Map – Save Map As– Web Map Contexts– Web Service Contexts (https://my.usgs.gov/confluence/display/cdi/Web+Service+Contexts+-
+Standards+and+Options)
• Mobile Applications Development (MAD)
Cloud Computing
• Represented at Workshop• Focused on GIS on Amazon Cloud (currently)
Scientific Computing & Analysis
National Map – Save Map As
• Web Service Contexts • https://my.usgs.gov/confluence/display/cdi/Web+Service+Contexts+-+Standar
ds+and+Options
• Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) • Discussions
– USGIN/Steve Richards – ESIP
Mobile Applications Development (MAD)
• Long term goals:– Provide a learning environment and a forum
• discuss technical and design issues • training• best practices for coding and design. • Results of these interactions (articles, reviews, presentations, tech
trend watches) will be captured in the Confluence Wiki.
– facilitate collaboration & promote joint projects • Fish Passage Data Collection Application• Augmented Reality Platform Project
– Submitted as a proposal to CDI in Aug 2011– Collaboration already initiated
– Work with vendors to keep up on new technologies
Mobile Applications Development (MAD)
• Short term goals– Hackathon: vote on a mobile application idea that
would be coded during or code sprint at the next CDI workshop
– Mobile Apps Policy• Elevated to higher level• MAD participation• Wiki page:
https://my.usgs.gov/confluence/display/cdi/USGS+Mobile+Environment+-+Developing+a+USGS+Framework