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  Climate Challenge Integration Plugfest
  
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  Call for Sponsors: Climate Challenge Integration Plugfest at FOSS4G 
  
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  Wayland, MA, June 11, 2009. The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®), the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) and the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) are conducting a Climate Challenge Integration Plugfest (CCIP) to be launched at the FOSS4G (Free, Open Source Software for Geomatics) Conference in Sydney, Australia, 20-23 October, 2009. 
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    CCIP
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  CCIP demonstrates standards based interoperability between geospatial applications based on a
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    Climate Change scenario
  \. It consists of a server with multiple virtual machines, each installed with geospatial applications offering standards based web services. All web services will demonstrate a common dataset, and will be accessed by a range of geospatial client applications installed on client computers.
  The showcase is designed to underpin many initiatives, including:
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      Technology demonstrators at conferences
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      Geospatial training programs
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      Demonstration Software CDs
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      Testing suite programs
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      Spatial Data Infrastructure development
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      Open Data programs
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    More info