From warmerdam at pobox.com  Tue Apr  3 14:29:20 2012
From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam)
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 14:29:20 -0700
Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] PostGIS 2.0.0 Released
Message-ID: <CA+YzLBdYvqNoFYYcvWi5MdjCG2Roa5qERt+1iBoycd5nD9LB5w@mail.gmail.com>

The PostGIS development team is super excited,
can hardly believe that they are actually doing this,
aren't maybe even sure that they are ready to make
this kind of commitment, not so young, and not when
we have so much more living to do, but:

PostGIS 2.0.0 is complete and available for download.

 http://postgis.org/download/postgis-2.0.0.tar.gz

The development process for 2.0 has been very long,
but has resulted in a release with a number of exciting
new features.

 * Raster data and raster/vector analysis in the database
 * Topological models to handle objects with shared boundaries
 * PostgreSQL typmod integration, for an automagical
  geometry_columns table
 * 3D and 4D indexing
 * Index-based high performance nearest-neighbour searching
 * Many more vector functions including
  * ST_Split
  * ST_Node
  * ST_MakeValid
  * ST_OffsetCurve
  * ST_ConcaveHull
  * ST_AsX3D
  * ST_GeomFromGeoJSON
  * ST_3DDistance
 * Integration with the PostgreSQL 9.1 extension system
 * Improved commandline shapefile loader/dumper
 * Multi-file import support in the shapefile GUI
 * Multi-table export support in the shapefile GUI
 * A geo-coder optimized for free US Census
  TIGER (2010) data

We are greatly indebted to our large community of beta testers
who valiantly tested PostGIS 2.0.0 and reported bugs so we could
squash them before release time.

And also we want to thank our parents for making PostGIS possible.

Yours,
The PostGIS development team


From warmerdam at pobox.com  Tue Apr 24 09:12:32 2012
From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam)
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 09:12:32 -0700
Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] 22 Students Accepted for OSGeo Google Summer of
	Code 2012
Message-ID: <CA+YzLBdtvkcwDaXmmR5H0ACo_x4kaFcZs-8zKF5LwP_u7nkH4Q@mail.gmail.com>

OSGeo warmly welcomes the 22 accepted students and their mentors
for this edition of Google Summer of Code! This is a record for OSGeo
GSoC, together with GSoC itself, that accepted 1212 students.

In detail, we accepted ideas for 10 OSGeo projects:
 - QGIS: 4 students
 - gvSIG: 4 students
 - GRASS GIS: 3 students
 - Opticks: 3 students
 - pgRouting: 2 students
 - uDig: 2 students
 - GDAL: 1 student
 - Geoserver: 1 student
 - OSSIM: 1 student
 - PostGIS: 1 student

See the full list on OSGeo wiki:

http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2012_Administrative#Accepted_students

taken from:
   http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/projects/list/google/gsoc2012

filter by Organisation name == OSGeo

All the best!

Anne Ghisla
-- 
OSGeo GSoC Administrator


From warmerdam at pobox.com  Sat Apr 28 20:02:46 2012
From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam)
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 20:02:46 -0700
Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] GEOS Graduates OSGeo Incubation
Message-ID: <4F9CAF56.5020200@pobox.com>

OSGeo is pleased to announce that the GEOS project has graduated from
the incubation process and is now a full fledged OSGeo project with
Sandro Santilli appointed as project representative (Vice President,
GEOS).

GEOS is C++ port of the Java Topology Suite (JTS). As such, it aims to
contain the complete functionality of JTS in C++. This includes all the
OpenGIS Simple Features for SQL spatial predicate functions and spatial
operators, as well as specific JTS enhanced topology functions.

   http://geos.osgeo.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/