From warmerdam at pobox.com Fri Oct 6 08:13:07 2006 From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam) Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 11:13:07 -0400 Subject: FOSS4G 2006 Conference - A Great Success Message-ID: <45267283.7000107@pobox.com> FOSS4G 2006 Conference - A Great Success The energy and enthusiasm of the Free and Open Source Software for Geoinformatics (FOSS4G) Conference continues to grow. This year over 500 attendees made their way to Lausanne, Switzerland from September 12-15th to participate in this annual international event. Tyler Mitchell has prepared a conference summary on the various highlights of the conference. https://www.osgeo.org/content/news/news_archive/foss4g_conference_summary.html From warmerdam at pobox.com Fri Oct 6 18:12:34 2006 From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam) Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 21:12:34 -0400 Subject: Intergeo Open Source Park Message-ID: <4526FF02.2030707@pobox.com> The INTERGEO is the spatial industry's meeting point. With more than 17,000 visitors and delegates from more than 80 countries the INTERGEO and the FIG World Conference 2006 in Munich,Germany will be the largest meeting point for the industry sectors geodesy, geoinformation and land management in Europe and beyond. http://www.intergeo.de/ INTERGEO premieres -- Open Source Park "The launch of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) at the start of this year and the Open Source Park, which is being staged for the first time at INTERGEO 2006, reflect the importance of free software in the GIS sector, both in Germany and elsewhere," says Arnulf Christl, one of OSGeo?s nine directors. Projects from the international and German-speaking Free and Open Source Software community will be showcased in Hall C3 on a special area covering 400m2. Service providers from throughout the Free and Open Source Software sectors will be presenting their solutions. Each day, a series of presentations will be held on well-known open source software packages such as UMN MapServer, Mapbender, PostGIS or Geotools. The focus is on new applications, security mechanisms and the OSGeo Foundation. The speakers are suppliers and users of FOSSGIS software and report on their motivation for using open source software and their experiences with it. http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Intergeo_2006 From warmerdam at pobox.com Thu Oct 19 08:44:27 2006 From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam) Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:44:27 -0400 Subject: Open Source Geospatial Foundation Selects Tyler Mitchell, Open Source,Advocate, as Executive Director Message-ID: <45379D5B.5010703@pobox.com> Contact: Michael Gerlek Email: mpg at osgeo.org Open Source Geospatial Foundation Selects Tyler Mitchell, Open Source Advocate, as Executive Director Mitchell to Assist OSGeo in the Collaborative Development of Open Source Geospatial Technologies and Data Seattle, Washington, Oct. 19, 2006- The Open Source Geospatial Foundation, or OSGeo, today announced that Tyler Mitchell has been hired as its new executive director. Mitchell-who has a decade of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) experience as an Analyst, Manager, open source advocate and author-will be responsible for the Foundation's day-to-day operations, supporting development and promotion. An independent not-for-profit legal entity established to support the needs of the open source geospatial community, OSGeo serves as an outreach and advocacy organization. Since its inception in February 2006, OSGeo has met with encouraging success with local chapters forming around the world. "We are extremely pleased to welcome Tyler Mitchell as our new Executive Director," said the Foundation's President Frank Warmerdam. "His early vision was instrumental in the formation of the Foundation, and with his extensive background in open source and GIS he is highly qualified to help this organization achieve its mission." "It is a distinct honor to be asked to help the Open Source Geospatial Foundation," Mitchell said. "This is an exciting time for the OSGeo. I look forward with great enthusiasm to working more closely with OSGeo's dedicated members, the Board, and its partners as we strive to meet the goals of the Foundation." GIS Professional, Author and Open Source Advocate Mitchell began his GIS career in British Columbia forestry in 1996, where he performed GIS analysis and research for natural resource management. He has been using open source software for nearly a decade, with a particular focus on the Linux operating system and geospatial tools including MapServer, PostGIS, and other applications and libraries. In 2005, Mitchell wrote Web Mapping Illustrated: Using Open Source GIS Toolkits which was published by O'Reilly Media. Tyler is a well known international speaker and open source advocate-in 2004 he began proposing an independent foundation for open source geospatial technologies and has been a dedicated volunteer ever since. About OSGeo The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (http://www.osgeo.org/) is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to support and promote the collaborative development of open geospatial technologies and data. The Foundation provides financial, organizational and legal support to the broader open source geospatial community. It also serves as an independent legal entity to which community members can contribute code, funding and other resources, secure in the knowledge that their contributions will be maintained for public benefit. OSGeo also serves as an outreach and advocacy organization for the open source geospatial community, and provides a common forum and shared infrastructure for improving cross-project collaboration. The foundation's projects are all freely available and usable under OSI-certified open source licenses. All brand names, product names, or trademarks belong to their respective holders. (c) 2006 The Open Source Geospatial Foundation. All rights reserved. # # # From warmerdam at pobox.com Thu Oct 26 13:04:56 2006 From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam) Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 16:04:56 -0400 Subject: Request for Proposal for Hosting 2007 Conference Message-ID: <454114E8.5020907@pobox.com> The Open Source Geospatial Foundation, or OSGeo, today announced that the OSGeo Conference committee has released a request for proposal, or RFP, (available at http://community.osgeo.org/files/osgeo-conference-2007-request-for-proposal.pdf) for the hosting of the 2007 conference. After a very successful FOSS4G 2006 conference in Lausanne Switzerland (http://www.foss4g2006.org/), OSGeo aims for the 2007 conference to be *the* geospatial conference of the year. The RFP solicitation closes Dec 1st, 2006. thanks. --- OSGeo Conference Committee From warmerdam at pobox.com Tue Oct 31 14:02:03 2006 From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam) Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 17:02:03 -0500 Subject: GRASS GIS 6.2.0 released 31 Oct 2006 Message-ID: <4547C7DB.5070703@pobox.com> GRASS GIS releases version 6.2.0 31 October 2006 http://grass.itc.it This new stable release adds hundreds of new features, support for the latest GIS data formats, and includes new translations for many languages. The Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS) is a Geographic Information System (GIS) used for spatial modeling, visualization of both raster and vector data, geospatial data management and analysis, processing of satellite and aerial imagery, and production of sophisticated presentation graphics and hardcopy maps. GRASS combines powerful raster, vector, and geospatial processing engines into a single integrated software package. The GRASS GIS project is developed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (the GPL) by volunteers the world over. GRASS differs from many other GIS software packages used in the professional world in that it is developed and distributed by users for users, mostly on a volunteer basis, in the open, and is given away for free. Emphasis is placed on interoperability and unlimited access to data as well as on software flexibility and evolution rate. The source code is freely available allowing for immediate customization, examination of the underlying algorithms, addition of new features, and fast bug fixing. GRASS is currently used around the world in academic and commercial settings as well as by many governmental agencies and environmental consulting companies. Download at http://grass.itc.it/download/ and http://grass.ibiblio.org/download/ as well as many mirror sites. Detailed announcement: http://grass.itc.it/announces/announce_grass620.html