From warmerdam at pobox.com Wed Jun 4 13:09:52 2008 From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam) Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:09:52 -0400 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] FOSS4G 2008 New Bronze sponsorship category and Workshop sneak preview Message-ID: <4846F690.4070609@pobox.com> FOSS4G 2008 is the best opportunity this year for exposure and networking for your organisation. We are expecting 800-1000 managers and decision makers, users and developers from all over the geospatial world. These will be from Government, NGOs and the private sector. We already have a full program of papers, presentations and hand-on workshops and labs. There are 5 days of potential face-to-face exposure time, including 3.5 days of core conference and exhibition, as well as media partners, website, programme and more. We still have slots open for Sponsors and stands available for Exhibitors. Please see this Prospectus for Sponsorship and Exhibition options. http://tinyurl.com/4voxub NEW SPONSORSHIP CATEGORY ANNOUNCED! Bronze Sponsor for R8 000 (~$1050) Other categories range from R40 000 (~$5300) to R500 000 (~$66000) and can be customised. Join Autodesk, SITA, Google and WhereGroup as sponsors. Exhibitors book your stand before 30 June to take advantage of EARLY-BIRD PRICING! * A 3m x 3m stand is now R17 500 (~$2300) but will be R20 000 (~$2600) after 30 June. Note that Government, NGO and Education exhibitors qualify for a DISCOUNT rate! * A discounted stand is now R12 500 (~$1600), after 30 June R15 000 (~$2000) For a sneak preview of hands-on WORKSHOPS and LABS that are under review this week see http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G2008_Workshop_Submissions If you sponsor computers for the workshops you get exclusive branding of the workshop venues (5 days worth!). Double your value by donating them onwards to needy schools. See you there! http://www.foss4g2008.org From warmerdam at pobox.com Mon Jun 9 09:30:37 2008 From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam) Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:30:37 -0400 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] deegree Enters OSGeo Incubation Message-ID: <484D5AAD.9080303@pobox.com> The OSGeo Board is pleased to announce that it has approved the application by the deegree project to enter the incubation process. Incubation is a stepping stone to becoming a full fledged OSGeo project. http://www.osgeo.org/incubator deegree is a Java Framework offering the main building blocks for Spatial Data Infrastructures. Its entire architecture is developed using standards of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and ISO/TC 211 (ISO Technical Committee 211 -- Geographic Information/Geomatics). http://www.deegree.org/ deegree implements standards including WMS, WFS, WCS, CSW, SOS, WTS/WPVS and WPS. deegree iGeoPortal standard and portlet edition are the browser-based clients for the mentioned OGC WebServices. deeJUMP provides a SDI-enabled Desktop-GIS. From warmerdam at pobox.com Fri Jun 20 07:10:06 2008 From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam) Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:10:06 -0400 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] FOSS4G 2008 Early Bird Registration Ends TODAY (20 June) + more news Message-ID: <485BBA3E.6040100@pobox.com> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 22480 bytes Desc: not available URL: From warmerdam at pobox.com Sat Jun 21 15:50:25 2008 From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam) Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:50:25 -0400 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] GeoNetwork Opensource Graduates OSGeo Incubation Message-ID: <485D85B1.7000504@pobox.com> OSGeo is pleased to announce that the GeoNetwork opensource project has graduated from the incubation process and is now a full fledged OSGeo project with Jeroen Ticheler appointed as project representative (Vice President, GeoNetwork). http://geonetwork-opensource.org/ GeoNetwork opensource is a catalog application to manage spatially referenced resources. It provides powerful metadata editing and search functions as well as an embedded interactive web map viewer. Graduating incubation includes requirements for open community operation, a responsible project governance model, code provenance and license verification and general good project operation. Graduating incubation is the OSGeo seal of approval for a project and gives potential users of the project added confidence in the viability and safety of the project. http://www.osgeo.org/incubator