From a.ghisla at gmail.com Sun Mar 16 04:48:47 2014 From: a.ghisla at gmail.com (Anne Ghisla) Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 12:48:47 +0100 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] OSGeo Code Sprint 2014 goes to Vienna Message-ID: <20140316124847.30ad3bd0@galadriel.localdomain> From March 24 to 28 OSGeo developers will gather in Vienna for the annual OSGeo Code Sprint of the "C Tribe" OSGeo projects. Vienna was selected to continue a series of code sprints after Toronto, New York, Montreal, Island Wood, and Boston. Leading developers of popular software projects like MapServer, QGIS, GRASS, GDAL, PostGIS, PDAL, pycsw, and many more get together to discuss new ideas, hack, decide, tackle large geospatial problems, etc. simply to have fun. Almost 70 developers have already registered to a full week of concentrated work and fun. We want to thank our generous sponsors supporting the Code Sprint. * [City of Vienna MA14](http://www.wien.gv.at/english/administration/ict/index.html) provides the venue for the event * [OSGeo](http://www.osgeo.org) provides considerable funding * Gold Sponsors * [Airborne Interactive Ltd](http://airborne.aero/) * [Austrospace](http://www.austrospace.at/), a non-profit association of Austrian space industries and research institutions focusing on: *) Comprehensive information about Austrian space activities and *) Representation of common interests of Austrian suppliers and users of space technologies vis-a-vis Austrian authorities and international organizations. * [TYDAC](http://www.tydac.ch) * [FOSSGIS e.V.](http://www.fossgis.de/) * Silver Sponsors * [ITS Vienna Region and the realtime trafficservice AnachB.at](http://www.anachb.at/mehr), jointly created in 2006 by Austria's three Federal Provinces of Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland (Vienna Region) and supporting them in optimizing their traffic management and e-government. AnachB.at offers intermodal journey planners for all means of transport and a dynamic traffic map free of charge, as Smartphone App and as Widget. * Bronze Sponsors * [metaspatial Institute](http://www.metaspatial.net/en/institute) * [Oslandia](http://www.oslandia.com/index-en.html) * [rapidlasso](http://rapidlasso.com) * [Azavea](http://www.azavea.com), a B Corporation (a social enterprise) that creates civic, geospatial software for the web. Our open source work includes civic projects, like DistrictBuilder and OpenTreeMap, as well as GeoTrellis, a fast geoprocessing framework based on Scala. * [GFOSS.it](http://gfoss.it) * [EOX](http://eox.at) provides in-kind support to the organization of the event * Further in-kind support is provided by OSGeo and FOSSGIS members It is a great honor and privilege to be able to welcome so many well-known OSGeo developers in Vienna. At the same time it is an excellent opportunity for the Austrian, in particular the Viennese, Open Source community to network and show international presence. Yours, Stephan Vienna OSGeo Code Sprint 2014 Organizer -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 836 bytes Desc: not available URL: From a.ghisla at gmail.com Sun Mar 16 05:20:00 2014 From: a.ghisla at gmail.com (Anne Ghisla) Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 13:20:00 +0100 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] FOSS4G 2014 Announces Opening Keynote & Workshop Reminder Message-ID: <20140316132000.0cd6256a@galadriel.localdomain> ** Opening Keynote Speaker ------------------------------------------------------------ We are pleased to announce that Mike Bostock (http://bost.ocks.org/mike/) will be featured as the opening keynote speaker for FOSS4G 2014. Bostock designs interactive graphics for The New York Times. He is also the author of D3.js (http://d3js.org) , a popular open-source library for visualizing data using web standards, and TopoJSON (https://github.com/mbostock/topojson) , an extension to GeoJSON that encodes topology. D3.js is one of the most exciting visualization technologies to appear recently, and we're very excited to have Mike at FOSS4G. You can see some of his work at his website (http://bost.ocks.org/mike/) and be sure to check out his numerous elegant D3.js examples at http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock. ** Workshop Proposal Reminder ------------------------------------------------------------ Workshop Proposals are due March 15th, just a couple of days away. We've had lots of great submissions, but would love to have yours, too. Workshops are always very popular, and are a great way to introduce people to your work. No project or idea is too small to be worth submitting. Read the Call for Workshops (https://2014.foss4g.org/calls-for-papers/workshop-proposals/) or go right to the submission page (https://2014.foss4g.org/submit-workshop/) . ** Upcoming Dates ------------------------------------------------------------ Workshop Proposals Due - March 15th Registration Begins - April 1st Academic Track Papers Due - April 15th Presentation Submissions Due - April 15th Workshops - Sept 8th-9th Main Conference - Sept 10th-12th Code Sprint - Sept 13th ** About FOSS4G ------------------------------------------------------------ The annual FOSS4G conference is the largest global gathering focused on open source geospatial software. FOSS4G brings together developers, users, decision-makers and observers from a broad spectrum of organizations and fields of operation. Through six days of workshops, presentations, discussions, and cooperation, FOSS4G participants create effective and relevant geospatial products, standards, and protocols. 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This release powers the data.gov CSW endpoints (http://catalog.data.gov/csw). data.gov is the home of the U.S. Government's open data. http://www.geoplatform.gov/announcements/announcing-availability-geoplatformgov-datagov-catalog http://www.fgdc.gov/fgdc-news/geospatial-platform-catalog-api The 1.8.0 release brings significant features, enhancements and fixes to the codebase, including: * support for PostgreSQL Full Text Search * support for repository filtering (http://pycsw.org/docs/1.8.0/repofilters.html) * support for PostgreSQL schemas other than 'public' * implement database connection pooling for WSGI * more robust native model * fix csw:AnyText population to be finer grained for OGC data services * fix UTF-8 handling in configuration The full list of enhancements and bug fixes is available at https://github.com/geopython/pycsw/issues?milestone=9&state=closed pycsw is an OGC CSW server implementation written in Python. pycsw fully implements the OpenGIS Catalogue Service Implementation Specification (Catalogue Service for the Web). Initial development started in 2010 (more formally announced in 2011). The project is certified OGC Compliant, and is an OGC Reference Implementation. pycsw allows for the publishing and discovery of geospatial metadata. Existing repositories of geospatial metadata can also be exposed via OGC:CSW 2.0.2, providing a standards-based metadata and catalogue component of spatial data infrastructures. pycsw is Open Source, released under an MIT license, and runs on all major platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X). Source and binary downloads: -------------------------------------------- The source code is available at: http://pycsw.org/download.html Testers and developers are welcome. The pycsw developer team. http://pycsw.org/ http://pycsw.org/2014/03/20/pycsw-180-released.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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