[OSGeoLive] OSGeoLive 14.0 “Malena” Released - 21. May 2021

[Astrid Emde (OSGeo)]

OSGeoLive 14.0 "Malena" Released
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25 May 2021
See news item: 
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeolive-14-0-malena-released/

The OSGeoLive team are proud to announce the release of version 14.0 [1] 
of the ​OSGeoLive GIS software collection.

We would like to dedicate this version to our friend Malena Libman who 
passed away shortly before OSGeoLive 14.0 was released. FOSS4G 2021 
Buenos Aires was her dream.
Farewell Malena, we will miss you.

Release Highlights
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Highlights for this release include:

- Based on Lubuntu 20.04.1 Focal
- New applications pygeoapi, Re3gistry, GeoStyler.
- Version ​updates to most of the included packages [2].
- The Virtual Machine version now includes applications that could not 
fit into the iso version. List of VM only applications available here.
- Additional Python modules like Fiona, rasterio, cartopy, pandas, 
geopandas, mappyfile, Jupyter.
- Improved documentation and four new translations, now supporting: 
English | Deutsch | Español | Suomen kieli | Français | Italiano | 日本語 | 
Hungarian.
- 100 % translation to Hungarian. Zoltán Siki, one of the Hungarian 
translators, pointed out the need for the translation and will use it at 
GIS courses at University in Budapest.
- 100 % translation to Spanish. Special thanks to Martha Vergara that 
did 99% of the translation.
- Command line introduction.
- Improved Quickstart for OpenStretMap? thanks to Enock Seth Nyamador.


Marco Minghini, Scientific Project Officer at the European Commission, 
says
"Open source geospatial software is a key building block of many data 
infrastructures managed and operated by the European Commission, 
powering high-level, pan-European initiatives such as INSPIRE and 
Copernicus. The role of OSGeoLive to teach and promote the use of open 
source geospatial software has no equivalent. Big thanks to OSGeo and 
the OSGeoLive team!"

OSGeoLive 14 is ready to be used at events. It will be used at ​FOSSGIS 
Konferenz 2021 [3] in June and ​FOSS4G 2021 [4] in September 2021.

Download
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Download the OSGeoLive 14.0 image at 
https://live.osgeo.org/en/download.html [5]

About OSGeoLive
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​OSGeoLive is a ​Lubuntu 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 
tried 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

Credits
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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.

Sponsoring organisations
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​- OSGeo - the Open Source Geospatial Foundation provides development & 
hosting infrastructure for OSGeoLive and many of the included 
applications.
​- 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 
OSGeoLive iso images.

Enjoy the new Version!

The OSGeoLive Team

[1] https://live.osgeo.org/en/index.html
[2] Changes 
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive/master/CHANGES.txt
[3] https://fossgis-konferenz.de/2021
[4] http://foss4g.org/
[5] Download https://live.osgeo.org/en/download.html