[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: FOSSGIS Brazil Magazine

Thu Mar 31 12:00:29 PDT 2011

Dear Arnulf,

Thanks for the comments. It would be a pleasure to have articles from you or any other Osgeo member in our magazine. The language is not a problem at all. Our team is composed of very good professionals in Brazil and Portugal and we can provide the translations.
So anyone who's interested in sending a message to Brazilian Fossgis community feel invited to submit articles to submissao at fossgisbrasil.com.br.
Best regards,

Felipe dos Santos Costa
Vinde, exultemos de alegria no Senhor aclamemos o rochedo que nos salva!
Ao seu encontro caminharemos com louvores, e com cantos de alegria o celebremos!

Felipe,
congratulations and thanks for this, looks like a great magazine (from
the little that I actually understand...).

It is nice to see that some OSGeo resources are reused including Wiki
and graphics. This is what OSGeo set out to do, support the geospatial
FOSS idea in as many regions and languages possible. Please feel free to
add the OSGeo logo and a link back to the web site.

I guess that there will be many people in Brazil who have no clear
concept of what OSGeo is all about. So maybe it would be a good idea to
have an article with some basic information about OSGeo in one of your
next editions (as you have a good one about OGC in this edition).
Unfortunately I am not able to write in Portuguese myself, so all I can
do is ask others... :-)

Best regards,
Arnulf

Felipe Costa wrote:
> Time to end the mystery and reveal what really is project FOSSGIS Brazil.
> 
> Many bet that was an event, or a
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> organization, but nobody has come to settle what really is this project.
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> 
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> In recent years the Free Geo has grown and seconded as a real option in the
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> corporate market, and with it an increase in
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> demand for these technologies. Today there are several blogs, lists and
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> discussion forums in Portuguese dealing with various matters
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> related and provide free support to those technologies. But until today
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> there was a magazine specializing in Free Geotechnologies.
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> 
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> With this intention comes Magazine FOSSGIS Brazil, seeking to fill that gap.
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> To make this project the major names in the Free Will of Geo teamed up to
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> create a high quality material based on the principles of free software.
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> In this first edition we will talk about initiatives like OL4JSF, a 100%
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> Brazilian project, which is already making a success out there. Besides the
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> OGC, the history of Geo Free, gvSIG, GIS applications for mobile devices,
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> among others. There is also an issue in this
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> exclusive interview with Gilbert Câmara, general director of INPE (National
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> Institute for Space Research).
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> The journal is entirely free, without needing to make records, pay taxes or
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> something like that. To get your copy of the magazine is only necessary to
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> download.
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> We hope you enjoy this new initiative.
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> Best regards,
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> 
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> FOSSGIS Brazil team
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> Felipe dos Santos Costa
> Vinde, exultemos de alegria no Senhor aclamemos o rochedo que nos salva!
> Ao seu encontro caminharemos com louvores, e com cantos de alegria o celebremos!
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 12:51:34 -0300
From: Fabio Renzo Panettieri <fpanettieri at xoomcode.com>
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New AcidMaps with Geoserver plugin
To: OSGeo Discussions <discuss at lists.osgeo.org>
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On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 19:54 +1100, Cameron Shorter wrote:
> Looks cool.
> Are there plans to move acid maps code into the geoserver code base at 
> some point?

I don't think that the core of acidmaps would be moved to geoserver,
because we like the idea of a shared library that can be accessed form
multiple sources, JNI being one of those, some future implementations
could be a MapServer plugin, a plugin for QGis, etc...

We created first the geoserver plugin because that's what most of our
projects are using as map server, but we want to integrate it with
others systems too.

>  From a packaging and sales story, it will be much easier to install and 
> use acid maps if it comes default with GeoServer.

>From the top of my head, another easier way to install it can be a
self-contained jar with the plugin, and compiled native libraries
embedded. 

Other could be changing the plugin access to the native library from JNI
to JNA.

It would be good to know if the GeoServer team it's interested, we can
probably find a better/smarter way to integrate AcidMaps.

> (I'm thinking about the best way to include acid maps in OSGeoLive 
> http://live.osgeo.org )

Given the live cd it's based on ubuntu, I think that the library can be
installed on system path, and the geoserver plugin be already deployed
in geoserver/WEB-INF/lib.

-- 
Fabio R. Panettieri
Lead Software Engineer
http://www.xoomcode.com 

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