From jsanz at osgeo.org Wed Jul 13 00:57:22 2016 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 09:57:22 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] First Anniversary edition of our Geo4All Newsletter and invitation to be our GeoAmbassador Message-ID: We are pleased to announce the first year anniversary of our GeoforAll Newsletter (this is our twelfth issue). On behalf of the GeoforAll community, I would like to thank Nikos Lambrinos (Chief Editor) and our wonderful team of co-editors Rizwan Bulbul, Pavel Kikin, Alexey Kolesnikov, Rania Elsayed, El?bieta Wo?oszy?ska-Wi?niewska, Antoni Perez Navaro, Emma Strong, Sergio Acosta Y Lara and production designer Nikos Voudrislis for their selfless dedication and volunteer efforts which made this possible. This newsletter has been an amazing instrument to share information and ideas with the wider geocommunity and also highlight and honour the contributions of our excellent colleagues from across the world. Details at http://www.geoforall.org/newsletters/ This newsletter is a community initiative run by the community for the community. We welcome all community members to contribute and share their updates to the newsletter for the benefit of the wider geo community. We have made 'Open Principles' as the key guideline for all articles. Relevant updates and information on free and open software, open data, open standards, open education resources are all welcome for future editions. It has been a learning curve for all of us, and we request you all to help us on this initiative. We have great pleasure in introducing Professor Georg Gartner as our GeoAmbassador for this first Anniversary edition of our Geo4All Newsletter. More information at http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/07/geoambassodor-professor-georg-gartner/ So how can you contribute to enable geospatial education opportunities to all ? Everyone who is interested in enabling geospatial education opportunities to all are our GeoAmbassadors. It is not just the thousands of OSGeo members but also thousands of colleagues in ICA, ISPRS, UCGIS, AGILE, GSDI, AGS who all work for Geoeducation opportunities for all who are our GeoAmbassadors. Geo for All is a world wide movement that provides immediate benefit to the world. Share the free and open educational resources and software that are available from OSGeo Live to MapStory to Teacher Training resources (developed thanks to the contributions to thousands of volunteers) all available free and open to all at http://www.geoforall.org/training/ to colleagues globally and be our GeoAmbassadors. Also it is our great pleasure to introduce our colleagues at SIGTE, University of Girona [1] , Spain, as our ?Geo4All? lab of the month. One of the founder labs of the Geo for All initiative, SIGTE has been contributing immensely to our teaching, research, and service activities. SIGTE colleagues have been the pioneers of a very successful summer school program dedicated to free and open geographic information software and aimed at promoting the use and development of free geospatial solutions and empowering students. Details are available at http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/07/geo4all-lab-of-the-month-sigte-university-of-girona-spain/ We thank Gemma Boix, Llu?s Vicens, Gemma Pons, Rosa Olivella, Ferran Ordu?a,Toni Hernandez, Alexandre Busquets, Josep Sitjar, Laura Olivas and all colleagues and students at SIGTE lab for their contributions to the Geo4All initiative and look forward to working and building more collaborations with all interested on this education mission. Share the power of Geographic Information that SIGTE developed https://vimeo.com/22069904 This is a wonderful introductory video that can be used by all colleagues globally to promote GIS at all levels . The final sentence in the video is ?In the not so distant future, it is hoped that GIS will help us build a better and more efficient society for all? ? This is exactly why we are all working on Geo4All? The contributions of SIGTE colleagues is a good example of our philosophy and why we are working on Geo4All at http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/07/sharing-is-caring-why-openness-is-key-for-true-empowerment-and-sustainability/ Let us work together work together to support open principles in education and enable Geo technologies in empowering communities and helping improving the Quality of Life and standards of living for everyone. Let us all work together to help create a world that is more accessible, equitable and full of innovation and opportunities for everyone. Happy Anniversary to all. Best wishes, Suchith Anand http://www.geoforall.org/ From jsanz at osgeo.org Wed Jul 13 01:01:53 2016 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 10:01:53 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] Sol Katz Award 2016 - Call for Nominations Message-ID: The Open Source Geospatial Foundation would like to open nominations for the 2016 Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software. The Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software (GFOSS) will be given 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. 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 while at the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. This early GFOSS archive provided both source code and applications freely available to the community. Sol was also a frequent contributor to many geospatial list servers, providing much guidance to the geospatial community at large. Sol unfortunately passed away in 1999 from Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, but his legacy lives on in the open source world. Those interested in making a donation to the American Cancer Society, as per Sol's family's request, can do so at https://donate.cancer.org/index. Nominations for the Sol Katz Award should be sent to [mailto:SolKatzAward at osgeo.org SolKatzAward at osgeo.org] with a description of the reasons for this nomination. Nominations will be accepted until [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=4&year=2016&hour=23&min=59&sec=59 23:59 UTC on August 4th]. A recipient will be decided from the nomination list by an OSGeo designated selection committee. The winner of the Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software will be announced at the FOSS4G-Bonn event in August. 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. It should be noted that past awardees and selection committee members are not eligible. Past Awardees: 2015: Maria Brovelli 2014: Gary Sherman 2013: Arnulf Christl 2012: Venkatesh Raghavan 2011: Martin Davis 2010: Helena Mitasova 2009: Daniel Morissette 2008: Paul Ramsey 2007: Steve Lime 2006: Markus Neteler 2005: Frank Warmerdam Selection Committee 2016 Venkatesh Raghavan (chair) Frank Warmerdam] Markus Neteler] Steve Lime Paul Ramsey Sophia Parafina Daniel Morissette Helena Mitasova Martin Davis Arnulf Christl Gary Sherman Maria Brovelli From jsanz at osgeo.org Wed Jul 13 01:10:03 2016 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 10:10:03 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] pycsw 2.0.0 "Doug" released Message-ID: The pycsw team proudly announces the release of pycsw 2.0.0 ?Doug?. The 2.0.0 ?Doug? release brings major features, enhancements and fixes to the codebase, including: * CSW 3 support (OGC Reference Implementation) * Python 3 support * WMTS harvesting (thanks @jfdickens) * JSON output improvements * XML output improvements * GM03 support for Swiss metadata * add temporal extent support to WMS layer harvesting The full list of enhancements and bug fixes is available at https://github.com/geopython/pycsw/milestone/8. Users are strongly advised to review the migration guide. The 2.0.0 release is codenamed ?Doug? in honour of Doug Nebert of the FGDC. Doug was internationally recognized as a champion of metadata, discovery and interoperability. Involved in numerous international standards bodies and spatial data infrastructure initiatives, Doug was one of the editors of the CSW 3.0 specification and encouraged pycsw developers to adopt and implement CSW 3.0 as part of US data.gov efforts. Doug?s vision and expertise will always be remembered and appreciated by the pycsw development team. 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. Since 2015, pycsw is an official OSGeo Project. pycsw allows for the publishing and discovery of geospatial metadata. Existing repositories of geospatial metadata can also be exposed via numerous APIs (CSW 2/CSW 3, OpenSearch, OAI-PMH, SRU), 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 Testers and developers are welcome. The pycsw developer team. http://pycsw.org/ From jsanz at osgeo.org Fri Jul 22 09:08:27 2016 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 18:08:27 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] ACM SIGSPATIAL 2016 Workshops. San Francisco, CA, Monday, October 31st, 2016 Message-ID: Greetings, The workshops for SIGSPATIAL 2016 can be found below: http://sigspatial2016.sigspatial.org/workshops/ Workshop Title Workshop Acronym Website URL 9th ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Computational Transportation Science (IWCTS 2016) IWCTS https://udi.ornl.gov/iwcts2016 7th ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on GeoStreaming (IWGS 2016) IWGS http://www.iwgeostream.com 2nd ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Emergency Management using GIS (EM-GIS 2016) EM-GIS http://www.dviz.cn/em-gis2016/ 5th ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Analytics for Big Geospatial Data (BigSpatial-2016) BigSpatial http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~chandola/workshops/bigspatial-2016/ 5th ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Mobile Geographic Information Systems (MobiGIS 2016) MobiGIS http://www.mobigis.org 2nd ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Smart Cities and Urban Analytics (UrbanGIS) 2016 UrbanGIS https://wp.nyu.edu/urbangis/ 3rd ACM SIGSPATIAL PhD Workshop PhD https://sites.google.com/site/sigspatialphd16/ 8th ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Indoor Spatial Awareness (ISA 2016) ISA https://sites.google.com/site/indoorspatialawareness2016/ ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Location-based Social Networks (LBSN 2016) LBSN 6th ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Mobile Entity Localization, Tracking and Analysis (MELT 2016) MELT https://sites.google.com/site/meltworks/home 10th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR 2016) GIR http://www.geo.uzh.ch/~rsp/gir16/index.html Follow ACMGIS @ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=4162155 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1450681355222657/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/sigspatial_gis http://sigspatial2016.sigspatial.org/ -- Ahmed M. 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Check the time in your country [2]) At the first webinar we'll see how to manage a gvSIG project. We'll create new views with cartography, and we'll apply symbology and labelling. We'll introduce the reference systems, and finally we will create a thematic map to be printed or exported to a PDF file. At the second webinar, we'll show how to create a new vector layer, where we'll digitalize several elements. We also will see the gvSIG toolbox, where we can find all the geoprocesses. We will apply one of them. We finally will see how the 3D extension works. - Registration for the ?Getting started with gvSIG? webinar: https://app.webinarjam.net/register/24718/711021346f - Registration for the ?Vector editing, 3D view and other gvSIG tools? webinar: https://app.webinarjam.net/register/24718/2ea6110ff3 We expect your participation! 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