The goal of the AGILE/EuroSDR/OGC initiative is to develop a European interest to advance a persistent testbed (PTB) capability to improve availability of interoperability development, testing, and implementation resources in support of geospatial research and major EU programs.
Details at http://plone.itc.nl/gitestbed
The next workshop of the AGILE/EuroSDR/OGC group on a Persistent Testbed for Research and Teaching in Europe will take place as pre-conference workshop WS6 of the AGILE 2009 conference on Tuesday 2nd of June 2009 in Hannover, Germany.
For more information, visit the workshop web pages, http://www.ikg.uni-hannover.de/agile/index.php?id=460