From GavinF at mintek.co.za Fri Jul 4 15:35:54 2008 From: GavinF at mintek.co.za (Gavin Fleming) Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 15:35:54 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] Thinking of Exhibiting at the most important GIS conference in SA this year? Reserve your stand by July 7 for Early Bird rates Message-ID: 2008 Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) Conference incorporating GISSA 2008, September 29 - October 3, Cape Town, South Africa We've extended the exhibitor early bird deadline because of mailing list hitches, so Reserve your stand by July 7 to get early bird rates: Commercial Exhibitors Booth size (3mX3m) Early i.e. reservation by July 7 is R17 500 (~$2270 USD) Government/Non-profit/Universities Booth size (3mX3m) Early i.e. reservation by July 7 is R12 500 (~$1620 USD) Exhibitors to date (4 July) include: Autodesk; SITA; Google; GIMS; Geograph; Borealis; Open Spatial Solutions; GIS Global Image; CDSM (Chief Directorate: Surveys and Mapping); Eskom ESI; MapWindow; United Nations; OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium); CSIR, Camptocamp, 52North, SAEON, Optron There are still sponsorship opportunities available. Sponsors to date (20 June) are: Platinum: Autodesk; Gold: SITA; Silver: Google and GIMS; Bronze: WhereGroup, MapGears, LatLon, GeoTerraImage, DM Solutions Group and Mintek. Registration Conference registration is covers the core 3.5 day conference, featuring academic, presentation and poster tracks, live demo theatre, plenaries, exhibition hall, wall-to-wall hands-on mini-workshops ('labs') and more! A fantastic Gala dinner at Moyo in Stellenbosch is an extra item that will be worth every cent. By 26 June we had 300 delegates from over 40 countries. Register at http://conference.osgeo.org/index.php/foss4g/2008/schedConf/registration Content We have been overwhelmed with quality submissions in our academic and presentation tracks. You will be able to choose from among 60 academic papers and 140 presentations, that will run in parallel with the labs. For a taste of the content to expect and to get your mouth watering, use the 'Browse' tools on the right panel of the conference website: www.foss4g2008.org . Hands-on workshops and labs At an additional cost, you get a full five days featuring all of the above PLUS the extremely popular FOSS4G hands-on workshops. We have added some interesting technical visits too this year. Get a feel for the workshops and labs here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G2008_Workshops_and_Labs. Keynote speaker Ed Parsons , chief of geospatial technology at Google and ex CTO of the UK Ordnance Survey will be a keynote speaker at the opening plenary. We hope to see you in Cape Town, South Africa in September, in just under three months! For up-to-date information, registration and program details, please visit the conference website: http://www.foss4g2008.org/ PS: please disseminate this as widely as possible -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.intevation.de/pipermail/freegis-list/attachments/20080704/80fb62dc/attachment.html From stephan.holl at intevation.de Mon Jul 14 14:49:40 2008 From: stephan.holl at intevation.de (Stephan Holl) Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:49:40 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] InteProxy 0.4.1 released Message-ID: <20080714144940.6d0beae6@thoe.hq.intevation.de> Hello, the new InteProxy version 0.4.1 is released. Get it from http://wald.intevation.org/frs/?group_id=23 This is mainly a bugfix-release: * Fixes Bug #616 * rewrites https-urls as well Changes: * can be installed without admin-rights * added preconfigured secure services from LGN to config-file * --rewrite-urls-parameter is now standard Since the Win32-Installer is reworked, it is adwised to delete all former installations of InteProxy before installing this release. Note that deinstalling old inteproxy-releases may still need administration-rights. Have fun and please report any experiences. All the best Stephan Holl -- Stephan Holl , http://intevation.de/~stephan Tel: +49 (0)541-33 50 8 32 | Intevation GmbH | AG Osnabr?ck - HR B 18998 Gesch?ftsf?hrer: Frank Koormann, Bernhard Reiter, Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner From Thierry.Badard at scg.ulaval.ca Sat Jul 19 17:38:30 2008 From: Thierry.Badard at scg.ulaval.ca (Thierry Badard) Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 11:38:30 -0400 Subject: [Freegis-list] IEEE SITIS 2008 - Track Open Source Software Development and Solutions (OSSDS) Message-ID: <48820A76.2090902@scg.ulaval.ca> Hello, Please note that due to many requests the submission of papers for the new track of the SITIS conference dedicated to "Open Source Software Development and Solutions", which includes topics related to geospatial software, services and applications, has been postponed to September 4, 2008. Do not hesitate to forward this call for papers to students, colleagues and other lists if you think they can be interested in. Regards, Th. ---------- !!! New deadline September 4th, 2008 !!! *** Apologies for multiple postings *** The 4th International SITIS 2008 conference November 30th – December 3rd, 2008 Bali Dynasty Resort Bali, Indonesia (in cooperation with IEEE, ACM Sig App, IFIP TC 2 WG 2.13) Track Open Source Software Development and Solutions (OSSDS) *Objectives* The SITIS conference is dedicated to research on the technologies used to represent, share and process information in various forms, ranging from signal, image, and multimedia data to traditional structured data and semi-structured data found in the web. SITIS spans two inter-related research domains that increasingly play a key role in connecting systems across network centric environments to allow distributed computing and information sharing. SITIS 2008 aims to provide a forum for high quality presentations on research activities centered on four main tracks. This track focuses on new software engineering method for Open Source Software Development and Solution (OSSDS) in distributed and large scaled environments, strategies for promoting, adopting, using Open Source Solutions and case studies or success stories in specific domains. SITIS is also dedicated to bring together scientists from the world over, particularly from developing countries, to share and exchange knowledge, experience and research results. When the conference is hosted by research institutions in developing countries, a particular emphasis will be placed on the presentation of applied research, the organization of practical tutorials and workshops that may help address the information processing needs of these countries, and book give away sessions to allow conference attendees to donate books to the local institutions. *Important Dates* Tutorial proposals September 4 th, 2008 Paper Submission September 4 th, 2008 Acceptance/Reject notification September 15th, 2008 Final paper/registration September 30th, 2008 *Submission and publication* The conference will include keynote addresses, tutorials and regular and workshop sessions. SITIS 20007 invites submission of high quality and original papers on the topics of the major tracks described below. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers for technical merit, originality, significance and relevance to track topics. Papers must be up to 10 pages and follow IEEE double columns publication format. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and published IEEE Computer Society and referenced in IEEE explore and major indexes. The proceedings will be mailed by the IEEE CS press directly to registered authors after the conference. CD copies of the proceeding will be available during the conference. Selected accepted papers will be considered for publication in major journal. *Track Chairs* Eric Leclercq, University of Bourgogne, France Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy Kokou Yétongnon, University of Bourgogne, France *Topics* Software Engineering methods, users and communities interactions, software development platforms - Architecture and patterns for OSS development - Testing and reliability of OSS - OSS development methods in distributed collaborative environments - Licensing and other legal issues - Documentation of OSS projects - CASE tool to support OSS development - Agile principles and OSS development Open Source developments, project management - Ecology of OSS development - OSS stability, maintainability and scalability - OSS evaluation - OSS and innovation - Experiments, reports, field studies and empirical analysis - Open source for teaching software engineering / OSS and software engineering education - Revenue models - OSS and security, security implication of OSS, security concerns in using OSS Applications domain, case studies, success stories - Open Source and SOA strategies - Open Source for critical applications - OSS in Grid and P2P environments - Tools and infrastructures for OSS development - Bioinformatics - OSS solutions for data intensive applications - OSS in scientific computing - OSS simulation tools - Open Source security tools - Geospatial software, services and applications *Steering Committee* Djamal Benslimane, University of Lyon I, France Richard Chbeir, University of Bourgogne, France Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy Albert Dipanda, University of Bourgogne, France Roch, Glitho, Ericsson and Concordia University, Canada Vincent Oria, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Emmanuel Tonye, University of Yaounde I, Cameroon Kokou Yetongnon, University of Bourgogne, France *Local Committee* Co-chairs: I Wayan I Wayan Simri Wicaksana, Gunadarma University, Indonesia I Made Wiryana, Gunadarma University, Indonesia *Program Committee* Abdallah Al Zain (Heriot-Watt University, UK) Claudio Ardagna (Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy) Thierry Badard (University of Laval, Canada) Carlo Daffara (Connecta, Italy) Jesus Gonzalez-Barahona (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain) Scott A. Hissam (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Stefan Koch (Vienna University, Austria) Gregory Lopez, Thales group, France Sandro Morasca (Universita degli Studi dell'Insubria, Italy) Pascal Molli (University of Nancy, France) Witold Pedrycz (University of Alberta, Canada) Eric Piel (University of Delft, The Netherlands) Eric Ramat (University of Littoral, France) Sylvain Rampacek (University of Bourgogne, France) Marinette Savonnet (University of Bourgogne, France) Benoit Sibaud (France Telecom R&D, France) Alberto Sillitti (Università di Bolzano, Italy) Megan Squire (Elon University, USA) Marie-Noelle Terrasse (University of Bourgogne, France) Frank van der Linden (Philips Healthcare, The Netherlands) Christelle Vangenot (EPFL, Switzerland) http://www.u-bourgogne.fr/SITIS/08/ -- Prof. Thierry Badard, Ph.D. ____________________________________________________________ Professeur au Département des sciences géomatiques (http://www.scg.ulaval.ca) Chercheur régulier au Centre de Recherche en Géomatique (http://www.crg.ulaval.ca) Chercheur régulier du Réseau de Centres d'Excellence GEOIDE (http://www.geoide.ulaval.ca) Chercheur collaborateur de la chaire de recherche industrielle en base de données géospatiales décisionnelles (http://mdspatialdb.chair.scg.ulaval.ca) Responsable du projet de formation sur les normes internationales en géomatique (http://standards.scg.ulaval.ca) Administrateur du projet open source GeOxygene (http://oxygene-project.sourceforge.net) Département des sciences géomatiques Faculté de foresterie et de géomatique Pavillon Louis-Jacques Casault 1055, avenue du Séminaire Local 1343 Université Laval Québec (Québec) G1V 0A6 Canada Tél.: (418) 656-7116 - Fax: (418) 656-7411 Courriel : Thierry.Badard at scg.ulaval.ca Web: http://geosoa.scg.ulaval.ca ____________________________________________________________ *AVERTISSEMENT* Avis relatif à la confidentialité Notice of confidentiality Advertencia de confidencialidad http://www.rec.ulaval.ca/lce/securite/confidentialite.htm From a.ghisla at studenti.uninsubria.it Thu Jul 24 16:39:09 2008 From: a.ghisla at studenti.uninsubria.it (Anne Ghisla) Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:39:09 +0200 Subject: [Freegis-list] Announcing the release of QGIS 0.11.0 'Metis' Message-ID: <1216910349.6628.71.camel@galadriel> It is our great pleasure to announce the immediate availability of Quantum GIS (QGIS) Version 0.11.0. See below for press release: Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS) that runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows. QGIS supports vector, raster, and database formats. QGIS is licensed under the GNU General Public License. QGIS lets you browse and create map data on your computer. It supports many common spatial data formats (e.g. ESRI ShapeFile, geotiff). QGIS supports plugins to do things like display tracks from your GPS. QGIS is Open Source software and its free of cost (download here). We welcome contributions from our user community in the form of code contributions, bug fixes, bug reports, contributed documentation, advocacy and supporting other users on our mailing lists and forums. Financial contributions are also welcome. This release introduces several new features including python support and many new GRASS modules. The release also includes numerous bug fixes and stability improvements. QGIS is available is source form, and as binary executables for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and GNU/Linux. All versions can be obtained from our download page at http://download.qgis.org . As an open source project, we provide support for using QGIS via our mailing lists and bug tracker: * For general inquiries subscribe to our users mailing list at http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user * For developer related inquiries subscribe to our separate developers list at http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer * If you think you have found a bug, please report it using our bug tracker. When reporting bugs, please include some contact information in case we need help with replicating your issue at https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis Major changes in this release are: * over 60 bug fixes * legend improvements * revision of toolbars and dialogs for consistency improved usability * extended QML style support * automated generation of projection information in srs.db * improved view and filter for GRASS toolbox * support for Qt4.2.x discontinued * separation of python support into its own library QGIS is a completely volunteer driven project, and is the work of a dedicated team of developers, documenters and supporters. We extend our thanks and gratitude for the many, many hours people have contributed to make this release happen. The visual changelog is published at http://blog.qgis.org/ - visit that page for more for details. Best regards, -- Anne Ghisla QGis Release Team member -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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This first version specifically includes publishing of geospatial services through these software packages and standards: Mapserver: WMS, WCS & WFS. Geoserver: WFS. It is available in the Extensions section of the gvSIG web page (http://www.gvsig.gva.es/index.php?id=2010&L=2). Advice: To install this extension you must have correctly installed gvSIG 1.1.x version