From jsanz at osgeo.org Sun Apr 2 06:09:35 2017 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2017 09:09:35 -0400 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] OSGeo Africa 2017 Message-ID: The OSGeo Africa local chapter and the QGIS South Africa User Group are holding a regional FOSS4G Africa conference from 28 June to 1 July 2017 at St Johns College, Houghton, Johannesburg. It is being held in conjunction with a similar conference aimed at geography educators, organised by SAGTA (South African Geography Teachers? Association) and GeoforAl. Each of the two ?sub-conferences? will overlap by a day (the 28th) to foster cross-pollination between the tech crowd and industry and the educators, especially secondary school teachers. There will be the usual mix of FOSS4G presentations and workshops as well as map and app competitions. On Saturday 1 July a code sprint / UN GIS Hackathon will be held around the corner at the JSCE (Johannesburg Centre for Software Engineering) Website: http://foss4g-africa.org. Please register and submit a presentation, map or workshop! From jsanz at osgeo.org Fri Apr 7 13:33:34 2017 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2017 16:33:34 -0400 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] gvSIG receives the award for the best European open source project Message-ID: Last week the gvSIG project received the European Commission award for the best European open source project in the highest category (Cross border) at ?Sharing and Reuse Awards? [1]. The objective of these competition was to give awards to existing IT solutions that have been developed and successfully shared by public administrations, and that can be further reused across Europe. There were 118 applications at the first phase, and 96 of them fulfilled the requirements. Finally the Evaluation Commitee selected the best 17 applications. This prize is an important recognition of the career of the gvSIG project, which was born in the Generalitat Valenciana and has created a new software production model led by the gvSIG Association, based on collaboration, solidarity and shared knowledge. It started as a project to develop a desktop GIS and now it is a complete suite to address any need related to geomatics, with the integration of the geographic component in information systems. Currently the software under the gvSIG brand is used in more than 160 countries, and it's translated to more than 25 languages. [1] https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/sharingandreuse/og_page/awards-contest From jsanz at osgeo.org Mon Apr 10 14:55:02 2017 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 17:55:02 -0400 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] OSGeo-Live 10.5 Released Message-ID: OSGeo-Live 10.5 Released 10 April 2017 Version 10.5 of the OSGeo-Live GIS software collection has been released, ready for the FOSS4G-Europe 2017 conference in Paris Marne-la-Vall?e, France ## Download Download the OSGeo-Live 10.5 image at http://live.osgeo.org/en/download.html ## Release Highlights Applications Supporting isohybrid ISO images with UEFI GRASS 7.2.0 QGIS 2.14.11 GDAL 2.1.3 GeoServer 2.10.1, now with NetCDF plugin PostGIS 2.3.2 GEOS 3.5.1 MapServer 7.0.4 pycsw 2.0.2 GeoMoose 2.9.2 OTB 5.8.0 SAGA 2.3.1 ZOO-Project 1.6.0 pgRouting 2.3.2 52nSOS 4.3.9 MapProxy 1.9.0 rasdaman 9.3.0 Deegree 3.3.18 retired Cartaro ## Known Issues and Errata Post release issues are listed here: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc/Errata/10.5 ## About OSGeo-Live OSGeo-Live is a self-contained bootable DVD, USB flash drive and Virtual Machine, pre-installed with robust open source geospatial software, which can be trialled without installing anything. It includes: * Over 50 quality geospatial Open Source applications installed and pre-configured * Free world maps and sample datasets * Project Overview and step-by-step Quickstart for each application * Lightning presentation of all applications, along with speaker's script * Translations to multiple languages Homepage: http://live.osgeo.org Download details: http://live.osgeo.org/en/download.html ## Credits Over 180 people have directly helped with OSGeo-Live packaging, documenting and translating, and thousands have been involved in building the packaged software. Developers, packagers, documenters and translators include: Activity Workshop, Alan Boudreault, Alex Mandel, Alexandre Dube, Amy Gao, Andrea Antonello, Angelos Tzotsos, Anton Patrushev, Antonio Santiago, Argyros Argyridis, Ariel N??ez, Astrid Emde, Balasubramaniam Natarajan, Barry Rowlingson, Ben Caradoc-Davies, Ben Caradoc-Davies, Benjamin Pross, Brian Hamlin, Bruno Binet, Bu Kun, Cameron Shorter, Dane Springmeyer, Daniel Kastl, Danilo Bretschneider, Dimitar Misev, Edgar Soldin, Eike Hinderk J?rrens, Eric Lemoine, Erika Pillu, Etienne Dube, Fabian Schindler, Fran Boon, Frank Gasdorf, Frank Warmerdam, Fran?ois Prunayre, Friedjoff Trautwein, Gabriele Prestifilippo, Gavin Treadgold, Gerald Fenoy, Guillaume Pasero, Guy Griffiths, Hamish Bowman, Haruyuki Seki, Henry Addo, Hernan Olivera, Howard Butler, Ian Edwards, Ian Turton, Jackie Ng, Jan Drewnak, Jane Lewis, Javier Rodrigo, Jim Klassen, Jinsongdi Yu, Alan Beccati, Jody Garnett, Johan Van de Wauw, John Bryant, Jorge Sanz, Jos? Vicente Hig?n, Judit Mays, Klokan Petr Pridal, Kristof Lange, Lance McKee, Larry Shaffer, Luca Delucchi, Mage Whopper, Marc-Andr? Barbeau, Manuel Grizonnet, Margherita Di Leo, Mario Carrera, Mark Leslie, Markus Neteler, Massimo Di Stefano, Micha Silver, Michael Owonibi, Micha?l Michaud, Mike Adair, Milan P. Antonovic, Nathaniel V. Kelso, Ned Horning, Nicolas Roelandt, Oliver Tonnhofer, Patric Hafner, Paul Meems, Pirmin Kalberer, Regina Obe, Ricardo Pinho, Roald de Wit, Roberto Antolin, Robin Lovelace, Ruth Schoenbuchner, Scott Penrose, Sergio Ba?os, Sergey Popov, Simon Cropper, Simon Pigot, Stefan A. Tzeggai, Stefan Hansen, Stefan Steiniger, Stephan Meissl, Steve Lime, Takayuki Nuimura, Thierry Badard, Thomas Gratier, Tom Kralidis, Trevor Wekel, Matthias Streulens, Victor Poughon, Zoltan Siki, ?scar Fonts, Raf Roset, Anna Mu?oz, Cristhian Pin, Marc Torres, Assumpci? Termens, Estela Llorente, Roger Veciana, Dominik Helle, Lars Lingner, Otto Dassau, Thomas Baschetti, Christos Iossifidis, Aikaterini Kapsampeli, Maria Vakalopoulou, Agust?n D??ez, David Mateos, Javier S?nchez, Jes?s G?mez, Jorge Ar?valo, Jos? Antonio Canalejo, Mauricio Miranda, Mauricio Pazos, Pedro-Juan Ferrer, Roberto Antol??n, Samuel Mesa, Valenty Gonz?lez, Luc?a Sanjaime, Andrea Yanza, Diego Gonz?lez, Nacho Varela, Mario Andino, Virginia Vergara, Christophe Tuff?ry, Etienne Delay, Hungary, M Iqnaul Haq Siregar, Andry Rustanto, Alessandro Furieri, Antonio Falciano, Diego Migliavacca, Elena Mezzini, Giuseppe Calamita, Marco Puppin, Marco Curreli, Matteo De Stefano, Pasquale Di Donato, Roberta Fagandini, Nobusuke Iwasaki, Toshikazu Seto, Yoichi Kayama, Hirofumi Hayashi, Ko Nagase, Hyeyeong Choe, Milena Nowotarska, Damian Wojs?aw, Alexander Bruy, Alexander Muriy, Alexey Ardyakov, Andrey Syrokomskiy, Anton Novichikhin, Daria Svidzinska, Denis Rykov, Dmitry Baryshnikov, Evgeny Nikulin, Ilya Filippov, Grigory Rozhentsov, Maxim Dubinin, Nadiia Gorash, Pavel, Sergey Grachev, Vera, Alexander Kleshnin, kuzkok, Xianfeng Song, Jing Wang, Zhengfan Lin ## Sponsoring organisations * The Open Source Geospatial Foundation provides development & hosting infrastructure for OSGeo-Live and many of the included applications. * JIROTECH provides sustaining resources and staff toward management and packaging. * Information Center for the Environment (ICE) at the University of California, Davis provides hardware resources and development support. * Remote Sensing Laboratory at the National Technical University of Athens, provides hardware resources and development support. * The Debian GIS and UbuntuGIS teams provide and quality-assure many of the core packages. Okeanos is kindly providing Virtual Machines for building the OSGeo-Live iso images. -- Angelos Tzotsos, PhD OSGeo Charter Member http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos