From warmerdam at pobox.com Wed Sep 7 08:25:13 2011
From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam)
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 08:25:13 -0700
Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] OSGeo-Live 5.0 released - the Open Source
Geospatial DVD
Message-ID: <4E678CD9.5040508@pobox.com>
Version 5.0 of the OSGeo-Live GIS software collection
(http://live.osgeo.org) has been released.
OSGeo-Live is a self-contained bootable DVD, USB flash
drive and Virtual Machine based upon Ubuntu Linux that
is pre-configured with a wide variety of robust open
source geospatial software.
The applications can be trialled without installing
anything on your computer, simply by booting the computer
from the DVD or USB drive.
A DVD or USB of OSGeo-Live is being distributed to every
delegate at the upcoming international conference for Free
and Open Source Software (http://2011.foss4g.org).
Highlights
* 47 Quality GeoSpatial Open Source applications installed
and pre-configured
* Quality free world maps
* One page overviews and quick starts for all applications
* Overviews of key OGC standards
* Translations for Greek, German, Polish, Spanish and Japanese
Contents
Browser Clients
* OpenLayers 2.10 - Browser GIS Client
* Geomajas - 1.8 Browser GIS Client
* Mapbender 2.7.2 - Geoportal Framework
* MapFish 2.2 - Web Mapping Framework
* GeoMoose 2.4 - Web GIS Portal
Crisis Management
* Sahana Eden 0.5.5 - Disaster management
* Ushahidi 2.1 - Mapping and Timeline for events
Databases
* PostGIS 1.5 - Spatial Database
* SpatiaLite 2.3.1 / 2.4 beta - Lightweight Database
* Rasdaman 8.2 - Multi-Dimensional Raster Database
* pgRouting 1.05 - Routing for PostGIS
Desktop GIS
* Quantum GIS (QGIS) 1.7.0
* GRASS GIS 6.4.1
* gvSIG Desktop 1.11
* User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) 1.2.2
* Kosmo Desktop 2.0.1
* OpenJUMP GIS 1.4.0.1
* SAGA 2.0.7
* OSSIM 1.8.6 - Image Processing
* Geopublisher 1.7 - Catalogue
* AtlasStyler 1.7 - Style Editor
* osgEarth 2.0 - 3D Terrain Rendering
Navigation and Maps
* GpsDrive 2.11 - GPS Navigation
* Marble 1.0.2 - Spinning Globe
* OpenCPN 2.5.0 - Marine GPS Chartplotter
* OpenStreetMap Tools - JOSM, Merkaartor, Gosmore, Osmarender
* Prune 12 - View, Edit and Convert GPS Tracks
* Viking 9.9.94 - GPS Data Analysis and Viewer
* zyGrib 5.0 - Weather Forecast Maps
Spatial Tools
* GeoKettle 2.0-RC1 - ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) Tool
* GDAL/OGR 1.8.0 - GeoSpatial Data Translation Tools
* GMT 4.5.2 - Cartographic Rendering
* Mapnik 0.7.1 - Cartographic Rendering
* MapTiler 1.0beta2 - Create Map Tiles
* OTB 3.10 - Image Processing
* R Spatial Task View 2.12.1 - Statistical Programming
Web Services
* GeoServer 2.1.1
* MapServer 6.0.1
* deegree 3.0
* GeoNetwork 2.6.4 - Metadata Catalog and Catalog Services for Web
* MapProxy 1.1.1 - Proxy WMS & tile services
* QGIS Server 1.7.0 - Web Map Service
* 52?North WSS 2.2.0 - Web Security Service
* 52?North WPS - 2.0 RC6 - Web Processing Service
* 52?North SOS - 3.2.0 Sensor Observation Service
* TinyOWS 1.0 - WFS-T Service
* ZOO Project 1.0.0 - Web Processing Service
Data
* Natural Earth 1.3.1 - Geographic Data Sets
* OSGeo's North Carolina, USA Educational dataset
* OpenStreetMap - Sample extract from OpenStreetMap
Geospatial Libraries
* GeoTools - Java GIS Toolkit
* MetaCRS - Coordinate Reference System Transformations
* libLAS - LiDAR Data Access
Credits
Over 80 people have directly helped with OSGeo-Live packaging,
documenting and translating, and thousands have been involved
in building the packaged software.
Packagers, documenters and translators include: Activity Workshop,
Agust?n D?ez, Aikaterini Kapsampeli, Alan Boudreault, Alexandre
Dube, Alex Mandel, Andrea Antonello, Andrea Yanza, Angelos Tzotsos,
Anne Ghisla, Anton Patrushev, Argyros Argyridis, Astrid Emde, Brian
Hamlin, Bruno Binet, Cameron Shorter, Christos Iossifidis, Dane
Springmeyer, Daniel Kastl, David Terrativa, Diego Gonz?lez, Dominik
Helle, Eike Hinderk J?rrens, Eric Lemoine, Etienne Dube, Fran Boon,
Fran?ois Prunayre, Frank Gasdorf, Gavin Treadgold, G?rald Fenoy,
Hamish Bowman, Haruyuki Seki, Henry Addo, Hernan Olivera, Howard
Butler, Ian Turton, Jackie Ng, Jan Drewnak, Javier Sanchez, Jes?s
G?mez, Jim Klassen, Jody Garnett, Johan Van de Wauw, Jorge Sanz,
Jos? Antonio Canalejo, Judit Mays, Klokan Petr Pridal, Kristof
Lange, Lance McKee, Lars Lingner, Luc?a Sanjaime, Mage Whopper,
Manuel Grizonnet, Marco Puppin, Mark Leslie, Massimo Di Stefano,
Mauricio Miranda, Mauricio Pazos, Michael Owonibi, Mike Adair,
Milena Nowotarska, Nathaniel V. Kelso, Ned Horning, Nobusuke Iwasaki,
Oliver Tonnhofer, ?scar Fonts, Otto Dassau, Pedro-Juan Ferrer, Pirmin
Kalberer, Ricardo Pinho, Ruth Schoenbuchner, Samuel Mesa, Sergio Ba?os,
Simon Cropper, Simon Pigot, Stefan A. Tzeggai, Stefan Hansen, Steve
Lime, Thierry Badard, Thomas Baschetti, Trevor Wekel, Valenty Gonzalez,
and Yoichi Kayama.
Sponsoring organisations:
* LISAsoft provides sustaining resources and staff toward the management
and packaging of software onto the Live DVD. http://www.lisasoft.com
* Information Center for the Environment at the University of California,
Davis provides hardware resources and development support to the OSGeo
Live project. http://ice.ucdavis.edu
* The DebianGIS and UbuntuGIS teams provide and quality-assure many of the
core packages. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianGis and
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGIS
From warmerdam at pobox.com Thu Sep 8 21:03:08 2011
From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam)
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 21:03:08 -0700
Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] Board Election Results
Message-ID: <4E698FFC.1010000@pobox.com>
Here are the final results from the voting for the open seats
of the OSGeo Board of Directors. There were five seats open and
they have been filled by, in alphabetical order:
* Peter Batty
* Jo Cook
* Michael Gerlek
* Mark Lucas
* Jeff McKenna
Thanks to everyone for running, all candidates received good
support (> 20 votes each). The voting participation was 89% and
there were no tie scores to arbitrate. Thank you to all who
voted!!
Your complete resulting Board is:
* Peter Batty
* Arnulf Christl
* Jo Cook
* Michael Gerlek
* Mark Lucas
* Jeff McKenna
* Daniel Morissette
* Tim Schaub
* Frank Warmerdam
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Election_2011_Results