From jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com  Tue Jun 28 16:40:46 2011
From: jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com (Jeff McKenna)
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:40:46 -0300
Subject: [Freegis-list] REMINDER: FOSS4G 2012 Call for Hosting
Message-ID: <4E09E7EE.9020008@gatewaygeomatics.com>

A reminder that a short letter of intent to host the 2012 FOSS4G 
international event
is due this Thursday (time:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2011&month=06&day=30&hour=23&min=0&sec=0). 

  I encourage all communities who are thinking of hosting, to submit a
short 2 page (max) letter of intent.  Thanks!

http://www.osgeo.org/conference/rfp

-OSGeo Conference Committee





From gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com  Wed Jun 29 18:38:37 2011
From: gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com (Angelos Tzotsos)
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 19:38:37 +0300
Subject: [Freegis-list] pycsw 1.0.0 released
Message-ID: <4E0B550D.1030202@gmail.com>

The pycsw team announces the release of pycsw 1.0.0.

This is the first formal release (previous version 0.1.0), and adds numerous core features since 0.1.0 (see below).

pycsw is an OGC CSW server implementation written in Python.  pycsw implements clause 10 (HTTP protocol binding (Catalogue Services for
the Web, CSW)) of the OpenGIS Catalogue Service Implementation Specification, version 2.0.2.

pycsw allows for the publishing and discovery of geospatial metadata.  Existing repositories of geospatial metadata can be exposed via  OGC:CSW
2.0.2.  pycsw is Open Source, released under an MIT license, and runs on all major platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X).

Source and binary downloads:
----------------------------------------

The source code is available at:

http://pycsw.org/download.html


Version 1.0.0 (2011-06-29):
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  * simplified setup and configuration
  * support for INSPIRE Discovery Services
  * support for CSW-T
  * support for additional databases
  * Ubuntu and openSUSE installer
  * support GetCapabilities updateSequence parameter
  * support for FGDC profile
  * support for NASA DIF

Testers and developers are welcome.

The pycsw developer team.

http://pycsw.org/