From warmerdam at pobox.com Wed Apr 4 05:37:41 2007 From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam) Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 08:37:41 -0400 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] FOSS4G 2007 Call for Presentations Message-ID: <46139C15.40507@pobox.com> We are pleased to announce the Call for Presentations for the FOSS4G (Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial) 2007 conference, being held September 24-27, in beautiful Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Held annually, FOSS4G is the premier conference for the open source geospatial community, providing a full-immersion experience in established and leading edge geospatial technologies for developers, users, and people new to open source geospatial. http://www.foss4g2007.org FOSS4G 2007 presentations are 25 minute talks, with 5 minute question and answer sessions at the end. Presentations cover the use or development of open source geospatial software. Anyone can can submit a presentation proposal and take part in the conference as a presenter. Some topics of interest for this year are: * Case Studies: Relate the experiences of you and your organization using open source geospatial. Where do things work well? Poorly? What problems did you solve, and at what cost? What do you recommend for others? Why? * Benchmarks: Comparisons between pieces of geospatial software. How do features compare? Speed? Ease of use? What do you recommend for others? * Visualization: Tell about your tips and tricks for effective visualization. How do you present information in a compelling way? 3D? Cartographic tricks? Labelling and naming ideas? Graphs and hybrid map/data combinations? * Development: What are the new developments in your open source geospatial software product? How does it work, how do people use it, what are the technical issues you are running into? * Hacks and Mashing: Have you put together something novel or cool this year? What did you stick together, how did it work, show us your gizmo! * Collaboration: What techniques are you using to improve collaboration between organizations and between individuals. Public geodata, collaborative data collection, data sharing, open standards, de facto standards, and more! If you have an open source geospatial story to tell, we want to hear it! For more information, see the FOSS4G site: http://www.foss4g2007.org/presentations/ The deadline for presentation submissions is June 29, 2007. Submit early, submit often! From warmerdam at pobox.com Wed Apr 11 22:37:17 2007 From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam) Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 01:37:17 -0400 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] OSGeo Welcomes Sixteen Students for Google Summer of Code Message-ID: <461DC58D.9080706@pobox.com> OSGeo has selected sixteen students to participate in development efforts spread across the GDAL, GRASS, GeoTools, PostGIS, uDig, and GeoServer projects as part of the Google Summer of Code for 2007. Google is providing funding for the selected students, while the project communities are providing mentors to assist the students. A full list of students, mentors and planned developments is available at: http://code.google.com/soc/osgeo/about.html OSGeo thanks Google for it's support of this great program, and looks forward to the participation of these students in our community. From warmerdam at pobox.com Fri Apr 13 10:34:18 2007 From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam) Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:34:18 -0400 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] deegree day 2007: Call for Participation Message-ID: <461FBF1A.5030608@pobox.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Jens Fitzke, [fitzke at lat-lon.de] lat/lon GmbH, Aennchenstr. 19, 53177 Bonn, Germany Website: http://www.deegree.org/deegreeday deegree day 2007 ? Call for Papers Bonn April 13, 2007. After 6 years of continuous growth the deegree project currently provides the most comprehensive implementation of OGC/ISO standards in the Free Software world. To support the community process the second get together of users and developers will be held June 12th 2007, at the "Universitaetsclub Bonn". deegree day is designed to be a platform for interaction between users and developers, and knowledge exchange. Developers will present both current and upcoming features. Users have the opportunity to report on latest project solutions. Pressing open issues in technology, communication, and project organization will be discussed on deegree day. deegree day is open to all interested institutions and individuals free of charge. Call for Papers / Sponsoring We invite you to submit papers to be presented at deegree day. Papers should be of general interest to the conference participants and be related to the deegree project. This is a good chance to document your project results and your expertise and to discuss solution strategies with experts and users. Please send your abstract to: deegreedaypapers at deegree.org Abstracts should be a maximum of 1000 words and are due no later than May 11th, 2007. For regular presentations 15+5 minutes slots are available, for tutorials (more practice-oriented) 20, 30 or 45 minutes slots. Proposals will be evaluated by the programme committee and those accepted will be included in the online Conference proceedings. Sponsoring Institutions interested in sponsoring this event, please contact the deegree day team at deegreeday at deegree.org. Programme Committee Lars Bernard, Technical University of Dresden Klaus Greve, Bonn University Kai-Uwe Krause, HafenCity University Hamburg Karl-Heinz Spies, Wupperverband Alexander Zipf, University of Applied Science Mainz Further information on deegree day: http://www.deegree.org/deegreeday contact: deegreeday at deegree.org We look forward to seeing everyone in June. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PRESSEINFO ? aktuelle Information zur sofortigen Ver?ffentlichung Kontakt: Jens Fitzke, [fitzke at lat-lon.de] lat/lon GmbH, Aennchenstr. 19, 53177 Bonn, Germany Website: http://www.deegree.org/deegreeday deegree day 2007 ? Call for Papers Bonn, 13. April 2007. Nach 6 Jahren kontinuierlicher Entwicklung umfasst das deegree-Projekt heute die umfangreichste Implementierung der OGC/ISO-Standards in Freier Software. Um den Community-orientierten Entwicklungsprozess weiter voran zu treiben, findet am 12. Juni 2007 der zweite deegree day als Treffen von Entwicklern und Nutzern im Universit?tsclub Bonn statt. Der deegree day bietet eine Plattform zum Erfahrungsaustausch und zur Diskussion. Entwickler werden aktuelle und zuk?nftige Features von deegree vorstellen. Nutzer tragen aktuelle Projektergebnisse vor. Es besteht die Gelegenheit, wichtige offene Fragen zur deegree-Technologie und -Dokumentation zu diskutieren und sich ?ber die Projektorganisation der deegree-Entwicklung zu informieren. Im Anschluss an die Veranstaltung finden am 13. Juni kostenpflichtige Workshops zu den Themen "deeJUMP" und "iGeoPortal Portlet Edition" statt. Call for Papers / Sponsoring Wir laden Sie ein, einen Vortrag oder ein Tutorial auf dem deegree day zu halten. Vortr?ge und Tutorials sollten von allgemeinem Interesse f?r die Teilnehmer des deegree day sein und sich mit Aspekten des deegree-Projekts befassen. Die Dauer der Vortr?ge ist auf 15+5 Minuten beschr?nkt. Tutorials k?nnen 20, 30 oder 45 Minuten dauern. Sie unterscheiden sich von Vortr?gen darin, dass fachliche oder technische L?sungen in einer Werkstatt-Atmosph?re so vermittelt werden, dass die Teilnehmer sie verstehen und selbst nutzen k?nnen. Bitte senden Sie eine Kurzfassung Ihres Beitragsvorschlages in englischer oder deutscher Sprache an: deegreedaypapers at deegree.org Kurzfassungen sollten 1000 W?rter nicht ?berschreiten und m?ssen uns sp?testens am 11. Mai 2007 erreichen. Die Vorschl?ge werden vom Programmkomitee evaluiert. Akzeptierte Beitr?ge werden in die online-Dokumentation der Veranstaltung aufgenommen. Sponsoring: Wenn Sie die Veranstaltung finanziell unterst?tzen m?chten, setzen Sie sich bitte mit dem Organisationsteam in Verbindung (deegreeday at deegree.org). Programmkomitee: Lars Bernard, TU Dresden Klaus Greve, Universit?t Bonn Kai-Uwe Krause, HafenCity University Hamburg Karl-Heinz Spies, Wupperverband Alexander Zipf, Fachhochschule Mainz Weitere Informationen zum deegree day: http://www.deegree.org/deegreeday Kontakt: deegreeday at deegree.org. Wir freuen uns, Sie im Juni in Bonn begr??en zu k?nnen. -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: file:///tmp/nsmail-1.tmp URL: