From tmitchell at osgeo.org Mon Feb 1 10:21:16 2010 From: tmitchell at osgeo.org (Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)) Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:21:16 -0800 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] FOSS4G 2010 Call for Abstract Message-ID: <4B671B9C.4090103@osgeo.org> We are pleased to announce the Call for Abstract for the FOSS4G (Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial) 2010 conference, being held September 6-9, in beautiful Barcelona, Spain. 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://2010.foss4g.org FOSS4G 2010 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://2010.foss4g.org/presentations.php The deadline for abstract submissions is April 1, 2010. Submit early, submit often! Academic Track The FOSS4G 2010 academic track aims to bringing together researchers, developers, users and practitioners carrying out research and development in the geospatial and the free and open source fields and willing to share original and recent research developments and experiences. The academic track will act as an inventory of current research topics, but the major goal is to promote cooperative research between OSGeo developers and the academia. The academic track is the right forum to highlight the most important research challenges and trends in the domain, and let them became the basis for an informal OSGeo research agenda. It will foster interdisciplinary discussions in all aspects of the geospatial and free and open source domains. It will be organized in a way to promote networking between the participants, to initiate and favour discussions regarding cutting-edge technologies in the field, to exchange research ideas and to promote international collaboration. Submission guidelines All submissions to the academic track must be original unpublished work written in English. Papers should not exceed the 6000 words limit. Formatting guidelines will be available soon. Submitted papers will be thoroughly reviewed by three members of the international scientific committee and refereed for their quality, originality and relevance. Submission deadline (full paper for the academic track) - May, 31th, 2010 upcoming milestones * 15 Jan 2010, Call for Workshops/Tutorials opens * 30 Jan 2010, Call for Workshops/Tutorials closes * 1 Feb 2010, Call for Abstracts opens * 16 Feb 2010, Notification of acceptance for workshops/tutorials * 22 Feb 2010, Registration for workshop and tutorials opens * 1 Apr 2010, Abstract submission deadline * 1 May 2010, Presenters notified of acceptance for talks * 15 Jun 2010, Author/Early registration deadline * 15 Jul 2010 Full article submission deadline * Aug 2010, Completed program available * 6-7 Sep 2010, FOSS4G Workshops * 7-9 Sep 2010, FOSS4G Presentations and Tutorials * 10 Sep 2010, FOSS4G Code Sprint From warmerdam at pobox.com Sun Feb 7 17:05:05 2010 From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam) Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:05:05 -0500 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] deegree Graduates OSGeo Incubation Message-ID: <4B6F6341.1000002@pobox.com> OSGeo is pleased to announce that the deegree project has graduated from the incubation process and is now a full fledged OSGeo project with Markus Schneider appointed as project representative (Vice President, deegree). 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). deegree encompasses OGC Web Services as well as Clients and security components. http://deegree.org/ 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 -- ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- 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 tmitchell at osgeo.org Fri Feb 26 10:02:16 2010 From: tmitchell at osgeo.org (Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)) Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:02:16 -0800 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] FOSS4G 2010 Workshops ready for inscriptions In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4B880CA8.7020005@osgeo.org> Barcelona, Spain. 26 February 2010. The Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) conference is pleased to announce this year's Workshops panel. Workshops are a unique experience to learn about open source software from the experts in a hands-on environment. Workshops are 3 hour courses presented in full computer labs, with two attendees per computer, in the Barcelona School of Computer Science. We are offering 14 workshops this year, in two sessions, on Monday afternoon, September 6, and on Tuesday morning, September 7. When registering, workshop attendees will be asked to choose one workshop in each session. Following is a breaf description for each workshop. For more detailed information and registration, please visit FOSS4G 2010 web page: http://2010.foss4g.org. On the Conference web page you will also find the Tutorials panel, to be held during the conference days, September 7-9, which are included in the conference fee. And you can take the opportunity to book the gala dinner tickets too. Workshops have a high demand, and classroom capacity is limited. Register soon, don't miss them! ---- September 6 Workshops (Monday afternoon, 15-18h) W-01: Web mapping with GeoServer Attendees will learn how to load, publish, and share geospatial data with GeoServer. Discussion will include navigating the GeoServer user interface, loading and publishing data, OGC web services, and styling data with SLD. Also showcased will be Styler, a browser-based graphical style (SLD) editor. W-02: gvSIG 1.9 user workshop The main objective of the workshop is to show the new features included in the last stable version of gvSIG desktop (1.9). Also a brief introduction on gvsig.org, the main collaborative web portal of the gvSIG project. W-03: Setting up an OpenStreetMap rendering toolchain This workshop will walk the participants through getting raw OpenStreetMap data, rendering map tiles with Mapnik, and displaying them with OpenLayers. They will learn how to install and configure a mimic of the main OpenStreetMap toolchain, using the same technologies, that can be later customised to render other datasets. W-04: Introduction to PostGIS PostGIS is an open source spatial extension to the PostgreSQL open source enterprise relational database. Spatial databases such as PostGIS, Oracle Spatial and DB Spatial are used for high-performance multi-user access to large seamless data sets. If you are managing large volumes of read/write spatial data, using a spatial database can improve access speed, ease management overhead and guarantee data integrity. Built as an object extension to PostgreSQL, PostGIS has been certified as "Simple Features for SQL" compliant by the Open Geospatial Consortium. W-05: Introduction to the Mapbender geoportal framwework This workshop gives an in-depth introduction to the software Mapbender, a managed, web based geoportal framework. Mapbender is implementing the publish / register, find, bind, execute paradigm for geospatial data. The focus of the workshop lies on building web mapping applications with distributed Spatial Data Infrastructure components and how to manage user access. All this will be done by using Mapbender's administration interfaces, without the need to modify any source code. W-06: Solid web mapping with Python Covers the Shapely and GeoJSON libraries from the GIS Python Lab. It shows how to use these libraries together with SQLAlchemy and its GIS extension, GeoAlchemy, to create HTTP web services in an application developed with the Pylons web development framework. The workshop then teaches how to use MapFish to make the development of GIS web services easier. W-07: Practical introduction to ZOO, the powerful WPS platform The ZOO-Project provides a WPS (Web Processing Service) compliant and developer-friendly framework to easily create and connect OGC Webservices. During this workshop, participants will install the ZOO-Kernel and related material on their computers; upon installation the users will be ready to use and implement WPS 1.1.0 services. ---- September 7 Workshops (Tuesday morning, 9-12h) W-08: Getting started with MapServer This hands-on workshop is intended as an introduction to Web mapping with the University of Minnesota MapServer. The participants will go through the process of setting up a MapServer environment which includes configuring a Web server and creating a MapServer application. W-09: Quantum GIS and PostGIS: Solving spatial problems and creating web-based analysis tools Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a powerful open source GIS desktop application. It excels at viewing and manipulating a wide variety of GIS data and services, performing geographic analysis and preparing data for MapServer and GeoServer applications. QGIS has an extensible "plug-in" architecture and now provides comprehensive support for using and managing PostGIS databases. This workshop/tutorial will give students hands-on experience for applying QGIS to real-world spatial analysis problems and the development of PostGIS tools for web-based mapping and services. W-10: FOSS4G routing with PgRouting tools, OpenStreetMap road data and GeoEXT pgRouting adds routing functionality to PostGIS. This introductory workshop will show you how. It gives a practical example of how to use pgRouting with OpenStreetMap road network data. It explains the steps to prepare the data, make routing queries, assign costs and use GeoExt to show your route in a web-mapping application. W-11: Working with OpenLayers This workshop will guide participants through the library core, providing the experience necessary to build interactive mapping applications. We will cover best practices for dealing with a variety of raster and vector data sources, investigate client side styling, and discuss options for integrating OpenLayers with other JavaScript libraries. W-12: GeoNetwork for dummies, or how to setup an SDI in 3 hours The workshop will focus on the implementation of a GeoNetwork opensource based catalog to serve and access geospatial data in a Spatial Data Infrastructure. A local catalog will be installed and configured. Harvesting of spatial data resources from remote servers will be configured and geospatial web map services will be set up using the embedded GeoServer and configured for access through the catalog web interface. W-13: Geospatial for java This GeoTools session is back by popular demand in a new long format workshop. Offering a visual introduction for Java developers we will exploring how you can integrate GIS services into your next project. For those new to the GeoSpatial scene we provide an introduction to current concepts and projects, and how to avoid common pitfalls. W-14: Practical introduction to GRASS The workshop has two parts: a brief GRASS overview and a hands-on session by the attendees. The aim is to allow the first time users to understand the logic of the software and to experiment some significant, although necessarily limited, data processing for technical and environmental GIS applications. The workshop provides a brief introduction to GRASS and then a step by step tutorial to guide beginners in the basic applications of the software, highlighting GRASS' interoperability with other FOSS and proprietary software.