From astrid_emde at osgeo.org Mon Apr 2 09:25:53 2018 From: astrid_emde at osgeo.org (Astrid Emde (OSGeo)) Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2018 18:25:53 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] OSGeo UN Committee Educational Challenge Message-ID: Link to the OSGeo Foundation News: https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-un-committee-educational-challenge/ Proposals for developing open geospatial educational material for three challenges are invited. Prize money of USD 3,000 for each challenge is sponsored by OSGeo and Boundless. The OSGeo UN Committee promotes the development and use of open source software that meets UN needs and supports the aims of the UN. In the last few years, the Committee has mainly worked on the UN Open GIS Initiative (https://www.osgeo.org/initiatives/un-initiative/), a project "... to identify and develop an Open Source GIS bundle that meets the requirements of UN operations, taking full advantage of the expertise of mission partners (partner nations, technology contributing countries, international organizations, academia, NGOs, private sector). The strategic approach shall be developed with best and shared principles, standards and ownership, in a prioritized manner that addresses capability gaps and needs without duplicating efforts of other Member States or entities. The UN Open GIS Initiative strategy shall collaboratively and cooperatively develop, validate, assess, migrate, and implement sound technical capabilities with all the appropriate documentation and training that in the end provides a united effort to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of utilizing Open Source GIS around the world." (more details at [1]). The first two challenges (one of them sponsored by Boundless) are related to the UN Open GIS Initiative. The third challenge is more general and relates to the use of high resolution and high quality global datasets available for environmental, social and economical analysis everywhere, especially in developing countries. This challenge is aimed at addressing the current lack of training material for using such data with open source software in support of UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Winners will be guided by mentors from Boundless [2], the UN Open GIS Initiative [3] and OSGeo [4] to ensure that the material meets the requirements of the target audience. Winning material will be included and distributed in OSGeoLive [5], a freely available and self-contained bootable DVD, USB thumb drive or Virtual Machine based on Lubuntu, containing a wide variety of open source geospatial software that can be tried out without installing anything. Challenge 1: Spiral 1 of UN - GeoSHAPE platform for data collection Prize: USD 3,000 sponsored by Boundless Requirements: This call is for the development of education material that teaches the user how to apply the GeoSHAPE platform [6] to assist in a real-life scenario involving a relevant theme in today?s world. Themes could include humanitarian aid, disaster management, emergency management, or sustainable development. The scenario could be an ongoing, recent, or historical event or could be created for the purposes of the challenge. If the scenario is created, it should be as realistic and relevant to today?s challenges as possible and use data relevant to a geographic location on the earth. The instructional materials should teach the user how to perform specific workflows relevant to the scenario. The proposal should specify: 1. A description of the applied scenario. 2. A list of workflows to be included in the scenario. The list should be specific enough to highlight how the platform can be used in assist in the effort. For example, distributed editing could be used to track and share the location of resources in the field in real-time. 3. A list of the types of relevant datasets to be used with a short description. The datasets should include freely available and open geodatasets. Given the nature of the challenge, datasets may need to be created for the purposes of the scenario. Target audience: professionals at local, regional, national or international agencies, especially those in developing countries that may use in the platform in one of the above mentioned themes. Mentors: Christina Hupy chupy at boundlessgeo.com Challenge 2: Spiral 3 of UN - Functionalities for UN Operations Prize: USD 3,000 sponsored by OSGeo Requirements: Do you analyze geospatial data for your business/research? There are several geospatial-analysis-functions available in open source for geospatial community. GeoAnalysis library [7] is a java-based open source for geospatial analysis. This call is for development of an educational material using GeoAnalysis library Please assume that you would like to teach your students/folks how to use the GeoAnalysis library by using desktop SW like uDig or through Internet, and how to use geo-analysis functions for their business/research. Proposal should specify: 1. Description of a business (purpose of using GeoAnalysis, scenario, etcs) 2. Description of analysis model (analysis flow, analysis functions, input/output dataset) of the business described in 1) 3. List of datasets to be used for the analysis 4. Others Target audience: Researchers, educators and professionals at local, regional, national or international agencies, especially those in developing countries. Mentors: HaeKyong Kang hkkang at krihs.re.kr, MinPa Lee minpa.lee at mangosystem.com and DHN Cho dhncho at gmail.com Challenge 3: Open geospatial data and software for UN sustainable development goals Prize: USD 3,000 sponsored by OSGeo Requirements: This call is for the development of educational material that teaches users how to work with with free and open source geospatial software and freely available global open datasets (higher interest in high resolution datasets) on tasks that contribute towards achieving at least one of the UN Sustainable Development Goal [8]. The proposal should specify 1. A description of the tasks and how they contribute to achieving one or more UN Sustainable Development Goals. 2. The list of freely available global open geodatasets that will be included in the educational material, with a short description of each dataset, its spatial and temporal resolution and a link (URL) to the dataset. 3. The list of free and open source geospatial software for which the educational material will be developed, with a short description for each software and a link (URL) to its website. Target audience: Researchers, educators and professionals at local, regional, national or international agencies, especially those in developing countries. Mentors: Maria Brovelli maria.brovelli at polimi.it and Serena Coetzee serena.coetzee at up.ac.za Inclusion of winning material in OSGeoLive Educational material for all three challenges can be included in OSGeoLive in one of two ways: 1. As a Quickstart Tutorial for a software project included in OSGeoLive (e.g. GeoServer, QGIS etc). Current Quickstart Tutorials are listed at [9]. Quickstart Tutorials are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License for Quickstarts. 2. As Workshop Material. Current Workshop Material is listed at [10]. Workshop Material is licensed under the Creative Commons ByAttribution (CC-BY) License. Proposals Proposals (in English) of not more than 5 pages should describe the material that you plan to develop, comprising: 1. A title for the proposed open geospatial educational material. 2. Identification of the challenge (1, 2 or 3). 3. Name, address, e-mail address, CV of the proposer. 4. Full outline of the proposed geospatial educational material, including learning outcomes, prerequisite knowledge, educational approach and content. 5. Any additional information requested for the specific challenge (see above). 6. A signed statement agreeing that the winning educational material may be published in OSGeoLive. Your proposal should clearly indicate whether you propose to provide material for OSGeoLive as QuickStart Tutorial or Workshop Material or both, and that you agree to publish it with the respective Creative Commons license. 7. A schedule for the development of the training material, indicating important milestones. For start and end dates, see important dates below. See the following examples of related educational material: training material used by GeoForAll to support the United Nations in their migration to geospatial open source applications [11] and courses developed by the GeoAcademy [12]. You can submit proposals for more than one challenge. However, one proposal should be for one challenge only. Only proposals by individuals will be accepted (no proposals by teams). Proposals should be submitted to un at osgeo.org. Evaluation Criteria for evaluation: 1. Proposer is an OSGeo Charter Member: 10 (max) 2. Proposer?s documented experience in education and training: 20 (max) 3. Proposer?s age (20 if < 40 years old; 0 if >40 years old): 20 (max) 4. Experience with respect to what is proposed by the specific challenge: 10 (max) 5. Proposal: 40 (max) Proposals will be evaluated by the OSGeo UN Committee Educational Challenge Judging Commission comprising representatives from OSGeo, Boundless and UN Open GIS. The proposal will be shortlisted and its content reviewed only if the sum of the first four criteria is at least 40. Evaluation criteria for the content include the suitability of the proposed material for the target audience and requirements, feasibility of the proposal, as well as the gender, relevant experience, qualifications and language proficiency of the proposer. Important dates * Announcement of the OSGeo Educational Challenge 30 March 2018 * Deadline for submission of proposals: 30 April 2018 * Announcement of the winners: 31 May 2018 * Winners receive first third (USD 1,000) of the prize money: 15 June 2018 * Submission of educational material by the winners: 15 August 2018 * Evaluation of the educational material by mentors: 30 September 2018 Subsequent to a positive evaluation, winners receive the remaining prize money (USD 2,000). Prize money will be transferred in one of two ways: 1. Winners provide their IBAN/Swift info and OSGeo/Boundless deposits the money directly into their bank account via Wire Transfer. 2. Winners provide their PayPal info and OSGeo/Boundless transfers the money into their PayPal account. Queries For queries on specific challenges, contact the mentors of respective challenges (see above). Any other queries can be addressed to un at osgeo.org. References [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/UnitedNations_Committee [2] https://boundlessgeo.com/ [3] http://unopengis.org/ [4] https://www.osgeo.org/ [5] https://live.osgeo.org [6] http://geoshape.org/ [7] https://github.com/MapPlus/spatial_statistics_for_geotools_udig [8] http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/ [9] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/UNTraining [10] https://fossgeo.org/ From xurxosanz at gmail.com Thu Apr 5 07:35:21 2018 From: xurxosanz at gmail.com (Jorge Sanz) Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2018 16:35:21 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] pgRouting v2.6.0 release Message-ID: The pgRouting team, during the OSGeo Code Sprint taking place in Bonn, is pleased to announce the releases Release 2.5.3 Release 2.6.0 *Release 2.5.3* Making this release so that pgRouting can compile for postgreSQL version 11-dev Code can be found at: https://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting/releases/tag/v2.5.3 *Release 2.6.0* We appreciate the colaboration of Anthiony Tasca for the new experimental function, that is included in this new release: * pgr_lineGraphFull Code can be found at: https://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting/releases/tag/v2.6.0 Regards pgRouting team From astrid_emde at osgeo.org Wed Apr 11 08:39:54 2018 From: astrid_emde at osgeo.org (Astrid Emde (OSGeo)) Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 17:39:54 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] OSGeo and AGU sign a Memorandum of Understanding Message-ID: Link to News Item on OSGeo webside: https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-and-agu-sign-a-memorandum-of-understanding/ Vienna, April 11 2018 The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and the American Geophysical Union (AGU) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) during the European Geoscience Union (EGU) General Assembly in Vienna on April 9 2018. The aim of the agreement is to develop coordinated activities and share expertise by promoting sustainable open science through reliable open source geospatial software, open datasets and related resources, especially for early career scientists. Specifically both organizations through the MOU will work together to: - improve scientific recognition for open software and open resource-related efforts by suitable citation standards and best-practices. - hold joint international workshops and conference sessions on open geo-datasets and open source geospatial software for the geophysical sciences. Both organizations will establish a liaison to ensure good information flow and cooperation. Peter L?we, Vice President of the Open GeoScience Committee at Open Geospatial Foundation said: ?this is an important step forward for the recognition of open source software as a pilar of reproducible open science, which will set standards for the next generation of scientists?. Brooks Hanson, Director at American Geophysical Union said: ?The AGU values scientific research integrity, transparency, and reproducibility. The software used in scientific research is an important research output that needs to be managed and as open as possible. OSGeo?s role in supporting open source software is an important service to our researchers and to further science?. About AGU The American Geophysical Union (https://sites.agu.org/) is dedicated to advancing the Earth and space sciences for the benefit of humanity through its scholarly publications, conferences, and outreach programs. AGU is a not-for-profit, professional, scientific organization representing 60,000 members in 137 countries. Join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and our other social media channels. About OSGeo OSGeo (https://www.osgeo.org/) is a not-for-profit organization founded in 2006 whose mission is to support and promote the collaborative development of open source geospatial technologies and data. The Foundation provides financial, organizational and legal support to the broader open source geospatial community. It also serves as an independent legal entity to which community members can contribute code, funding and other resources, secure in the knowledge that their contributions will be maintained for public benefit. In 2018 OSGeo is the home for over 30 geospatial open source projects, and the OSGeo foundation has over 30,000 members. Since 2006 OSGeo has also hosted the widely popular international FOSS4G (Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial) conference, rotating it all over the globe each year. Read more about partnerships with OSGeo: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_OSGeo_All From astrid_emde at osgeo.org Wed Apr 11 09:55:30 2018 From: astrid_emde at osgeo.org (Astrid Emde (OSGeo)) Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 18:55:30 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] OSGeo and AGU sign a Memorandum of Understanding Message-ID: Link to News Item on OSGeo webside: https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-and-agu-sign-a-memorandum-of-understanding/ Vienna, April 11 2018 The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and the American Geophysical Union (AGU) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) during the European Geoscience Union (EGU) General Assembly in Vienna on April 9 2018. The aim of the agreement is to develop coordinated activities and share expertise by promoting sustainable open science through reliable open source geospatial software, open datasets and related resources, especially for early career scientists. Specifically both organizations through the MOU will work together to: - improve scientific recognition for open software and open resource-related efforts by suitable citation standards and best-practices. - hold joint international workshops and conference sessions on open geo-datasets and open source geospatial software for the geophysical sciences. Both organizations will establish a liaison to ensure good information flow and cooperation. Peter L?we, Vice President of the Open GeoScience Committee at Open Geospatial Foundation said: ?this is an important step forward for the recognition of open source software as a pilar of reproducible open science, which will set standards for the next generation of scientists?. Brooks Hanson, Director at American Geophysical Union said: ?The AGU values scientific research integrity, transparency, and reproducibility. The software used in scientific research is an important research output that needs to be managed and as open as possible. OSGeo?s role in supporting open source software is an important service to our researchers and to further science?. About AGU The American Geophysical Union (https://sites.agu.org/) is dedicated to advancing the Earth and space sciences for the benefit of humanity through its scholarly publications, conferences, and outreach programs. AGU is a not-for-profit, professional, scientific organization representing 60,000 members in 137 countries. Join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and our other social media channels. About OSGeo OSGeo (https://www.osgeo.org/) is a not-for-profit organization founded in 2006 whose mission is to support and promote the collaborative development of open source geospatial technologies and data. The Foundation provides financial, organizational and legal support to the broader open source geospatial community. It also serves as an independent legal entity to which community members can contribute code, funding and other resources, secure in the knowledge that their contributions will be maintained for public benefit. In 2018 OSGeo is the home for over 30 geospatial open source projects, and the OSGeo foundation has over 30,000 members. Since 2006 OSGeo has also hosted the widely popular international FOSS4G (Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial) conference, rotating it all over the globe each year. Read more about partnerships with OSGeo: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_OSGeo_All From jsanz at osgeo.org Sat Apr 21 04:10:22 2018 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2018 13:10:22 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] FOSS4G-Europe: Academic track deadline adjourned Message-ID: Dear Community, at the behest of various members, the LOC has decided to adjourn the submission deadline for the Academic Track of the coming FOSS4G-Europe. The new date is now Wednesday, the 25th of April. We hope this extension can accommodate the abstracts still in preparation. Happy writing! The FOSS4G-Europe 2018 Local Organisation Committee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jsanz at osgeo.org Thu Apr 26 13:26:46 2018 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 22:26:46 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] uDig release 2.0.0 Message-ID: Today, we are happy to announce uDig release 2.0.0 uDig is not an offical Eclipse project (just in incubation) and this release isn't an official Eclipse-Foundation/LocationTech Release Thank you for your support during the last month of collaborating to get it out, special kodos for contributions and testing goes to Emily Gouge Hendrik Peilke Nikolaos Pringouris You can find Release Notes and Artifacts right here: https://github.com/locationtech/udig-platform/releases Supported platforms: Windows 32/64bit Linux 32/64bit MacOSX 64bit[1] Right now we haven't packaged any platform specific installed such as DMG for MacOSX and EXE for Windows, if necessary just drop a line If you have findings or contributions, please file an issue (https://github.com/locationtech/udig-platform/issues/new) or submit a Pull request (https://github.com/locationtech/udig-platform/pulls/new) but consult open issues/pulls first ;) [1] MacOSX 32bit isn't supported anymore because Eclipse Platform doesn't support SWT for this platform anymore -- Frank Gasdorf