From jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com Wed Sep 5 11:05:02 2018 From: jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com (Jeff McKenna) Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2018 15:05:02 -0300 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] Astrid Emde Receives 2018 Sol Katz Award In-Reply-To: <7923a19c-9b22-6d93-12af-d26bc8c0fd62@gatewaygeomatics.com> References: <7923a19c-9b22-6d93-12af-d26bc8c0fd62@gatewaygeomatics.com> Message-ID: <7ab7c2e5-4398-e65a-9d4c-723616776437@gatewaygeomatics.com> (online version: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Astrid_Emde_Receives_2018_Sol_Katz_Award ) Astrid Emde was honoured with the 2018 Sol Katz Award, presented on 29 August 2018, during the gala dinner of the FOSS4G event in Dar es Salaam. This was the 14th year of the award. Astrid has been involved in FOSS for a long time, starting through her early Mapbender work at the CCGIS company in Germany, to becoming one of the leaders of the Mapbender team at the WhereGroup company, and now the backbone of OSGeo (working with the OSGeoLive team, helping with the OSGeo news items, organizing OSGeo Board meetings, processing license agreements as the OSGeo Secretary role, and becoming a true leader as an OSGeo Board of Director). Astrid is very active organizing events such as FOSSGIS events, the FOSSGIS e.V. local chapter events, preparing OSGeo booth materials, and helping organize code sprints all around the world. Astrid is constantly working behind the scenes for the community, and her calm nature has helped many across the world to feel comfortable and grow. On behalf of the OSGeo and FOSSGIS communities we congratulate and thank Astrid for all of her passion. Thank you Astrid, you deserve this. From astrid_emde at osgeo.org Mon Sep 10 22:46:31 2018 From: astrid_emde at osgeo.org (Astrid Emde (OSGeo)) Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 07:46:31 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] Wonderfull FOSS4G 2018 Community Sprint in Dar es Salaam Message-ID: See the OSGeo Foundation news with photos at: https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/wonderfull-foss4g-2018-community-sprint-in-dar-es-salaam/ The FOSS4G 2018 Community Sprint was held in Dar es Salaam at dLAB Tanzania September 1 to 2, the weekend after the closing sessions of FOSS4G. This sprint brought together nearly 70 members of the OSGeo community, HOT and students from closeby. dLAB - Tanzania Data Lab, located on the beautiful campus of the University of Tanzania, was a great place to meet with several workshop rooms, a nice patio (we all love patios) and a welcoming team that organized amazing food that was served on the patio (in fact the food arrived by tuk-tuk / bajaj). It was a very relaxing and calm atmosphere with all you need. After an introduction by the 2018 Sol Katz winner Astrid Emde, we split in smaller teams and worked on several topics like ODK, OSGeoLive, Mapbender, MapServer, GeoServer and more. OSGeoLive There was an introduction on OSGeoLive 12.0, the new version that was prepared for FOSS4G 2018. Some students tried the brand new OSGeoLive with a bootable stick that was handed out to them as a present. Everything worked fine. Also a new language Swahili was added to Transifex (great!) and Peter, a student from Tanzania, made his first translations. Hopefully more volunteers will join to work on the Swahili translation. It is a lot of work. During the Community Sprint some volunteers also worked on the Finnish and German translation of OSGeoLive. Thanks for all your help! ODK (Open Data Kit) Ping (one of the ODK developers), Iddy (from HOT) and Ivan (from HOT) did an introduction and tutorial session to Open Data Kit (https://opendatakit.org/). It is open source software for collecting, managing, and using data in resource-constrained environments. The tutorial was about creating a simple use case to get familar with the concepts of ODK. The students could choose between roles like coder, writer, translator and user. Jose from Brazil gives feedback on his experiences: "The code sprint was a very good experience to me. In the first day I could talk about the open source software I develop to manage the water pipes and consumers as a GIS application to two participants that were very interest to learn more. Better than this I also learned about Open Data Kit (ODK), an open source software developed with the participation of Google. This software enabled us to go to the field and collect data; then we went to the field, and returned with the data that we collected. Later I learned how to use Transifex and started to work n the translation to Brazilian Portuguese that was already started by Portugal. On Sunday I continue the translation and then Ivan and Ping teach us how to install the source code of the Collect software and we read an issue from GitHub and did an improvement in the software to then commit and create a pull request. It was approved and tested through the continuous integration implementation to then be delivered at the PlayStore. I also had the opportunity to introduce information about OSGeo and the activities we were doing at the code sprint to a new person from Tanzania, that was for the first time in a code sprint." MapServer Jeff, Karsten and Lars where discussing how to improve the visibility of MapServer and how to make it more attractive to new users or even contributors. Multiple talking points were collected and will be discussed with the PSC and the MapServer comunity within the next weeks. Among these points are code spints and improved documentation with mentioning third party tools utilizing MapServer like mappyfile, scribeui or porting the QGIS export plugin to the new version. From one of the QGIS developers Pirmin Kalberer a new benchmarking tool (https://github.com/pka/mvt-benchmark) for vector tiles was recently published, and it was agreed here that since MapServer can also output vector tiles in MVT format, it might be worth contributing a MapServer test case for the MVT benchmark. GeoServer A team worked together on GeoServer and a delegate made his first commit to the projects and learned about the full process. Mapbender On the second day Astrid Emde from the Mapbender team and two participants from Pakistan had a workshop on Mapbender. They created a WebGIS application with Mapbender for Pakistan. In the end the team created an application with several WMS, lots of functionality and a search module for places in Pakistan. Maybe in the future Mapbender will be translated to Urdu and the gallery will show an application from Parkistan. Would be great! OSGeo & FOSS4G A team worked also on the OSGeo website and improved the content and instructions. Others discussed FOSS4G and lesson learned and prepared already FOSS4G 2019. After an amazing week and a very successful FOSS4G Community Sprint everyone left with many impressions, new knowledge, new friends, a full & happy stomach, and feeling the vision of FOSS4G, OSGeo and Community. The Spirit of FOSS4G will now be shared by the community sprint attendees around the whole world. Let us all meet next year at FOSS4G 2019 in Bucharest (Romania). May the FOSS be with you! From astrid_emde at osgeo.org Mon Sep 10 23:04:16 2018 From: astrid_emde at osgeo.org (Astrid Emde (OSGeo)) Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 08:04:16 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] Press Release 83: OSGeo-Live 12.0 Released Message-ID: <1e55cee7e5e8837a6a26e751e1c8232a@posteo.de> Press Release 83: * https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive/wiki/Press Release 83 * https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-live-12-0-released/ 11. September 2018 Version 12.0 of the OSGeoLive GIS software collection (http://live.osgeo.org) has been released, and was distributed at FOSS4G 2018 (https://2018.foss4g.org/) - the International Conference for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Jeff McKenna, co-founder of FOSS4G and President Emeritus of OSGeo, says: "OSGeoLive 12.0 was a massive success at the FOSS4G event in Dar es Salaam last week. Leveraged in the hands-on workshops as part of the event, as well as used at the OSGeo booth for demonstrations, the feedback received on OSGeoLive from the attendees was overwhelmingly positive; they were truly excited to take the whole OSGeo stack back to their communities and continue sharing the passion for Open. So much effort goes in to each OSGeoLive release, from documentation to packaging to testing, that we must take a moment to thank those involved. The whole OSGeoLive team deserves a huge thanks. Thank you OSGeoLive team and congratulations on this release." Download Download the OSGeoLive 12.0 image at https://live.osgeo.org/en/download.html Release Highlights Highlights for this release include: * Updated to Lubuntu 18.04 Long Term Support (LTS) release. * Adopted Transifex Translation tool, and made our documentation generation process more efficient * Version updates to many of the included packages - see https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive/master/CHANGES.txt About OSGeoLive OSGeoLive is a Lubuntu (https://lubuntu.net) based distribution of Geospatial Open Source Software, available via a Virtual Machine, USB and DVD. OSGeoLive is pre-installed with robust open source geospatial software, which can be trialled without installing anything. It includes: * Close to 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: https://live.osgeo.org Credits Hundreds of people have directly helped with OSGeoLive packaging, documenting and translating, and thousands have been involved in building the packaged software. Thank you to all involved. https://live.osgeo.org/en/sponsors.html Sponsoring organisations * OSGeo - the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (http://www.osgeo.org) provides development & hosting infrastructure for OSGeoLive and many of the included applications. * Information Center for the Environment (ICE)] at the University of California, Davis (http://ice.ucdavis.edu) provides hardware resources and development support. * Remote Sensing Laboratory at the National Technical University of Athens (http://www.ntua.gr) provides hardware resources and development support. * The Debian GIS (https://pkg-grass.alioth.debian.org/ ) and UbuntuGIS (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGIS) teams provide and quality-assure many of the core packages. * Okeanos (https://okeanos.grnet.gr/) is kindly providing Virtual Machines for building the OSGeoLive iso images. From astrid_emde at osgeo.org Sat Sep 15 10:49:01 2018 From: astrid_emde at osgeo.org (Astrid Emde (OSGeo)) Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2018 19:49:01 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] PROJ 5.2.0 released Message-ID: <4ed9d2bed5c0dbf25dcc4e93a3bf23a5@posteo.de> On behalf of the PROJ development team I am happy to announce the release of PROJ 5.2.0. This release includes both bug fixes and new features (see https://proj4.org/news.html#proj-5-2-0 for details). The source distribution of the new version can be downloaded here: http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-5.2.0.tar.gz (http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-5.2.0.tar.gz.md5) http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-5.2.0.zip (http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-5.2.0.zip.md5) NOTE that this will be the last version of PROJ that publicly exposes the projects.h header. This will also be the last version including the NMAKE build system for Windows. Please adjust your software and workflows accordingly in preparation for the next version scheduled for release early next year. As well as a new version of PROJ we are also releasing new versions of the datumgrid packages. These are proj-datumgrid-1.8 (http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-datumgrid-1.8.zip) proj-datumgrid-europe-1.1 (http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-datumgrid-europe-1.1.zip) proj-datumgrid-north-america-1.1 (http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-datumgrid-north-america-1.1.zip) From jsanz at osgeo.org Thu Sep 20 02:07:16 2018 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2018 11:07:16 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] The program of the 14th International gvSIG Conference is now available In-Reply-To: <05045dd9-1221-1623-104b-0a46e89466ad@gvsig.com> References: <05045dd9-1221-1623-104b-0a46e89466ad@gvsig.com> Message-ID: The program of the 14th International gvSIG Conference [1] is now available. It includes a a great number of presentations in different thematic sessions and 7 free workshops about gvSIG Suite. Conference will take place from October 24th to 26th in Valencia, Spain, and registrations have to be done from the form available [2] at the event website. Registration for workshops will be independent. We will inform about it and all the workshops information at gvSIG Blog soon [3]. [1] http://www.gvsig.com/en/events/gvsig-conference/14th-international-gvsig-conference/program [2] http://www.gvsig.com/en/events/gvsig-conference/14th-international-gvsig-conference/registration [3] https://blog.gvsig.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: