From warmerdam at pobox.com Tue Oct 9 20:08:58 2012 From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam) Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 20:08:58 -0700 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] Incubation Anouncements Message-ID: <5074E6CA.2020600@pobox.com> The incubation committee is pleased to report that two projects have entered incubation (and are already underway): * ZOO-Projec t: A WPS (Web Processing Service) open source project released under a MIT/X-11 style license . It provides an OGC WPS compliant developer-friendly framework to create and chain WPS Web services. Frank Warmerdam will be acting as mentor for the project. * Opticks : Expandable remote sensing and imagery analysis software platform. Mark Lucas has volunteered as mentor for the project. The board also confirmed that PostGIS has completed the Foundation's incubation requirements and has accepted Paul Ramsey as "PostGIS Project Officer". Congratulations to the PostGIS project! We have another two projects just entering incubation: * OGC Team Engine : The Test, Evaluation, And Measurement (TEAM) Engine is a test script interpreter. It executes test scripts written in Compliance Test Language (CTL) to verify that an implementation of a specification. Thanks to Justin DeOlivera for volunteering as mentor. * Marble Virtual Globe : Marble is a Virtual Globe and World Atlas that you can use to learn more about Earth. Marble is also a light weight generic geographical map component for use in your own Qt 4.x / C++ application. Arnulf Christl will be mentoring the project. There are additional projects ready to take part in the Foundation - but they are missing a critical thing: You! If you are in position to help out in the role of "mentor" and introduce new projects to the OSGeo Foundation we would love to hear from you. From warmerdam at pobox.com Thu Oct 18 10:41:47 2012 From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam) Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 10:41:47 -0700 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] Open Source Geospatial Research and Education Lab established at North Carolina State University Message-ID: *Open Source Geospatial Research and Education Lab established at North Carolina State University* ** ** We are pleased to announce the establishment of first Open Source Geospatial Research and Education (OSGeoREL) Laboratory in the United States at the Center for Earth Observation, North Carolina State University, Raleigh. The laboratory is one of the founding members of a worldwide network developed under the auspices of the ICA-OSGeo Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).**** ** ** In 2011, the International Cartographic Association (ICA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) with a view to develop global collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organisations in the field of open source GIS software and data. The MoU aims to provide expertise and support for the establishment of Open Source Geospatial Laboratories and Research Centres across the world to support the development of open source geospatial software technologies, training and expertise.**** ** ** OSGeoREL at NCSU is led by Dr. Helena Mitasova and Dr. Laura Tateosian. The laboratory has an established program in graduate education in geospatial information science and technology using FOSS4G and extensive research in geospatial analysis, modelling and visualization with focus on natural resources.**** ** ** Dr. Helena Mitasova is an Associate Professor at the Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, OSGeo charter member since 2006, member of the OSGeo education and conference committees and Sol Katz award recipient http://www.osgeo.org/solkatz. She has been actively involved in the GRASS GIS development since 1991 and together with Markus Neteler she has co-authored the first book about GRASS GIS.**** ** ** Dr. Laura Tateosian is Research Assistant Professor at the Center for Earth Observation Her research interest focus is on visualization, human visual perception, computer graphics, geospatial sciences, non-photorealistic rendering, and human-computer interaction.**** ** ** ** ** More details of the lab at http://gis.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/**** ** ** ** ** For those of you attending the Open Source Geospatial Research and Education Symposium (OGRS 2012)http://www.ogrs2012.org/ later this month it will be good opportunity to also hear Helena's Keynote presentation on "Building open source geospatial education at research universities" to get more ideas on future research activities.**** ** ** Our aim is to establish 20 new research labs in the next 3 years. These new research labs are strategic to help us accelerate research developments in this research area for the future. If your university wishes to establish Open Source Geospatial Lab, please contact Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk **** ** ** We look forward for your active participation for building up Open Source, Open Standards, Open Data research globally and helping share the benefits of geospatial technologies to all.**** ** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From warmerdam at pobox.com Thu Oct 25 10:10:35 2012 From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam) Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 10:10:35 -0700 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] Venkatesh Raghavan Receives 2012 Sol Katz Award Message-ID: Prof. Venkatesh Raghavan was honored today with the 2012 Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software during the inaugural session of the FOSS4G-India 2012 (http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/foss4gindia/) conference in Hyderabad, India. The award was presented by Ravi Kumar and Vundavallu Aruna Kumar, Member of Parliament. Venka received a memento on behalf of the OSGeo-India Chapter. Venka's dedication to FOSS4G and his community work around the world, promoting open source geospatial, is second to none. He has been involved in OSGeo since the foundation was formed in 2006, and we are lucky to have such a strong global voice in him. The OSGeo foundation wishes to thank Venka for his wonderful dedication. Background 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. 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