From warmerdam at pobox.com Tue Nov 3 08:26:21 2009 From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam) Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:26:21 -0500 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] Daniel Morissette Receives Sol Katz Award Message-ID: <4AF059AD.1070807@pobox.com> During the closing plenary of the FOSS4G 2009 conference, Daniel Morissette was honored with the Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software (GFOSS) for 2009. Daniel is a major contributor and Project Steering Committee member of the MapServer project and is often referred to as mother of MapServer. He is also a major contributor, and PSC member of the GDAL/OGR project, and author of the MITAB, and AVCE00 data access libraries. Co-founder of the MapTools.org open source hosting site and the DM Solutions Group and MapGears open source service companies. Active in the OSGeo Incubation committee, and co-founder of the Quebec OSGeo Chapter. The Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software is awarded annually by OSGeo to individuals who have demonstrated leadership in the GFOSS community. Recipients of the award will have contributed significantly through their activities to advance open source ideals in the geospatial realm. The hope is that the award will both acknowledge the work of community members, and pay tribute to one of its founders, for years to come. Sol Katz was an early pioneer of GFOSS and left behind a large body of work in the form of applications, format specifications, and utilities. In the early 80's, Sol assisted in the development of a public domain GIS package called MOSS (Map Overlay and Statistical System). This software was arguably the first open source GIS software in the world. Sol would later go on to release and maintain PC MOSS. He was also one of the first involved in public data translator utilities. Utilities that he developed for converting DEMs and reading SDTS files were contributed back to the geospatial community, and are still available today. Sol was also a frequent contributor to many geospatial list servers, providing much guidance to the geospatial community at large. Sol Katz's collection of GIS utilities at the BLM is still available at ftp://ftp.blm.gov/pub/gis/. Sadly, after fighting Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma for almost a decade, Sol died April 23, 1999 in bed. His legacy will always live on in the GFOSS world. -- ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmerdam at pobox.com light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Programmer for Rent From warmerdam at pobox.com Wed Nov 11 10:40:01 2009 From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam) Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:40:01 -0500 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] GeoServer and MapFish enter OSGeo Incubation Message-ID: <4AFB0501.8030803@pobox.com> The OSGeo Board is pleased to announce that it has approved the application by the MapFish and GeoServer projects to enter the incubation process. Incubation is a stepping stone to becoming a full fledged OSGeo project. http://www.osgeo.org/incubator GeoServer is a server written in Java that allows users to share and edit geospatial data. Designed for interoperability, it publishes data from any major spatial data source using open standards. GeoServer is the reference implementation of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Feature Service (WFS) and Web Coverage Service (WCS) standards, as well as a high performance certified compliant Web Map Service (WMS). GeoServer makes extensive use of the GeoTools Java library. http://geoserver.org/ MapFish is a flexible and complete framework for building rich web-mapping applications. It is based on the Pylons Python web framework, and emphasizes high productivity, and high-quality development. MapFish also provides a complete RIA-oriented JavaScript toolbox. The JavaScript toolbox is composed of the ExtJS, OpenLayers, GeoExt JavaScript toolkits, and specific components for interacting with MapFish web services. MapFish supports several OGC standards, including WMS, WFS, WMC, KML and GML via GeoExt and OpenLayers. http://mapfish.org/ From warmerdam at pobox.com Fri Nov 20 20:48:55 2009 From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam) Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:48:55 -0500 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] MapGuide Open Source 2.1 Released Message-ID: <4B077137.6090203@pobox.com> We are pleased to announce that the MapGuide Open Source project team has made MapGuide Open Source 2.1 Final Release publically available. Release notes: http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/Release/2.1/Notes Downloads: http://mapguide.osgeo.org/download/releases/2.1.0 Documentation: Please continue to use the 2.0 documentation for now. Along with the many bug fixes, this release has * many improvements in performance, scalability and stability; * an improved error reporting system; * raster re-projection; * and CS-Map as the coordinate system library. Please continue to submit defects using Trac: http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide. Thanks to the ever growing team of developers who are contributing to make the MapGuide Open Source project a more self-sustaining project. A special thanks to Jackie and Jason who worked tirelessly on the Windows installer and builds. Trevor Wekel