The sprint will be held through remote participation/web-conferencing on November 9-10, 2020, from 9:00am 5:30pm [EST](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/usa/washington-dc). An OGC Sprint is a collaborative and inclusive event driven by innovative and rapid programming with minimum process and organisation constraints to support the development of new applications and open standards.
The code sprint will focus on refining the [OGC API - Environmental Data Retrieval candidate standard](https://www.ogc.org/pressroom/pressreleases/3280). The candidate standard uses current web technologies and best practices to enable end-users - or anyone with web development experience - to easily identify and retrieve a subset of data from ‘big data’ stores. The idea is to save those users interested in environmental (or other) data from having to transfer and deal with datasets that inevitably contain data concerning areas or time periods that are irrelevant to their interests.
A major objective of this second Code Sprint is to enable full interoperability of all existing, and new, client and server implementations that support the OGC API – EDR candidate standard. All participation will be remote, through web-conferencing services provided by OGC.
There will be an opportunity for joint discussion with all participants on the goals and objectives of the event, as well as the final briefing of findings and opinions of the participants. However, the majority of the time will be spent in collaboration between participants in active coding.
To learn more about the previous OGC API - EDR Code Sprint, as well as a refresher on the draft standard itself, read the post entitled [The OGC Environmental Data Retrieval API: simple access to big data](https://www.ogc.org/blog/3211) on the OGC blog.