From a.ghisla at gmail.com Wed May 1 04:07:45 2013 From: a.ghisla at gmail.com (Anne Ghisla) Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 13:07:45 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] Open Source Geospatial Laboratory established at the University of Southampton, UK Message-ID: <20130501130745.1879fda3@galadriel.localdomain> We are pleased to announce the establishment of the Open Source Geospatial Laboratory at the University of Southampton, United Kingdom. The laboratory is one of the members of a worldwide network developed under the auspices of the ICA-OSGeo Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). In 2011, the International Cartographic Association (ICA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) with the aim to develop global collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organisations in the field of open source GIS software and data. The MoU aims to provide expertise and support for the establishment of Open Source Geospatial Laboratories and Research Centres across the world and will support the development of open source geospatial software technologies, training and expertise. The University of Southampton is one of the top research universities in the UK and has strong research in geospatial science. The University of Southampton Open Source Geospatial Laboratory (OSGL) has been established by the GeoData Institute and Geography and Environment AU in collaboration with other initiatives in the UK and further afield. The initiative brings together staff from various disciplines (Engineering, Geography, Electronics and Computer Science) across the university. The current members of the lab are Prof.Pete Atkinson, Prof. David Martin, Jason Sadler, Chris Hill, Julia Branson, Craig Hutton, Andrew Murdock, Duncan Hornby, Andrew Harfoot, Gemma Gubbins, Homme Zwaagstra, Jeremy Austin, Ian Waldock, Oles Kit, Mike Clark, Samantha Cockings, Robin Wilson, Kirk Martinez, Kate Parks, Simon Blainey and Richard Treves. The Laboratory will engage in open source research for geospatial software and data, using open source geospatial software and data as tools and contributing to the development of tools, standards and data through research. The lab will seek to exploit new opportunities for research, often in partnership with other OSGLs and members of the ICA-OSGeo initiative. The Laboratory will also deliver open source geospatial training and CPD programs. The website of the new lab is at http://www.osgl.soton.ac.uk/ OSGeo is a not-for-profit organisation founded in 2006 whose mission is to support and promote the collaborative development of open source geospatial technologies and data. ICA is the world authoritative body for cartography, the discipline dealing with the conception, production, dissemination and study of maps. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 836 bytes Desc: not available URL: From a.ghisla at gmail.com Mon May 27 12:56:47 2013 From: a.ghisla at gmail.com (Anne Ghisla) Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 21:56:47 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] OSGeo accepts 22 students for Google Summer of Code 2013 Message-ID: <20130527215647.356bde46@galadriel.localdomain> Hi, let us warmly welcome the 22 accepted students for this round of GSoC! We received over 30 proposals from a variety of geospatial projects, and we accepted proposals from (in alphabetical order): GEOS, GRASS GIS, gvSIG, istSOS, MapServer, Opticks, OSGeo4W, OpenStreetMap, OSSIM, software packaging, pgRouting, QGIS and uDig/GeoTools. The list includes OSGeo projects (official and incubating) and like-minded projects such as OSM, pgRouting, uDig and istSOS - let GSoC be a "gathering of tribes", an occasion to improve communication among all geospatial open source initiatives. See the full list of OSGeo students here: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/osgeo We wish all students and mentors a great summer! Anne, Hamish and Dustan OSGeo GSoC Admins -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 836 bytes Desc: not available URL: