From jan at intevation.de Fri Jan 21 12:53:24 2005 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 12:53:24 +0100 Subject: [Intevation News] KDE innovates in =?iso-8859-15?q?Osnabr=FCck?= -- again! Message-ID: <20050121115324.GE30262@intevation.de> KDE innovates in Osnabr?ck -- again! Stripped of your calendar, addressbook and email, what would you do in modern business life? Exactly this are the applications the KDE PIM developers care for and this is what they did when they met for the 3rd time in early January in the city of Osnabr?ck in north-western Germany. KDE [1] is the world-wide used graphical user interface for GNU/Linux known to virtually any Linux user. PIM stands for Personal Information Management, basically the essential applications for most computer users. Developer meetings like this happen often with KDE and are of the reasons for its grand success. The computer programmers, ranging from spare timers to full-time professionals, discuss plans, technologies and the implementation in person. Of course a good deal of hacking happens also, usually up to the early morning hours. Intevation GmbH again provided their premises in the city-center of Osnabr?ck as well as infrastructure for the guests coming from various countries. The choice of location is not random. Intevation coordinated a number of contracted extensions of KDE -- professionally serving the customers needs and at the same time progressing KDE in general. In cooperation with the KDE developers those features where integrated into KDE mainstream for sustainable availability. Examples for this are email security (?gypten [2]) and groupware functionality (Kolab [3], [4]). Numerous photos and reports [5] document the success of the three meetings. Press Contact: Bernhard Reiter Intevation GmbH Georgstra?e 4 49074 Osnabr?ck Tel: +49 (0) 541/33508-33 [1] http://www.kde.org/ [2] http://intevation.de/projects/aegypten.en.html [3] http://intevation.de/projects/kroupware.en.html [4] http://www.kolab.org/ [5] http://pim.kde.org/development/meetings/osnabrueck3/overview.php From silke at intevation.de Wed Jan 26 13:38:46 2005 From: silke at intevation.de (Silke Reimer) Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 13:38:46 +0100 Subject: [Intevation News] Free GIS data converter edbsilon has been published. Message-ID: <20050126123846.GL17932@intevation.de> Free GIS data converter edbsilon has been published. Intevation GmbH has published a Free Software converter for the GIS data format EDBS. This data format is especially known in Germany where it's mainly used for cadastral data. The current version of edbsilon is 0.8.2. It can be downloaded as GNU GPL software from Intevation's homepage. edbsilon can be used for the initial migration of cadastral geodata as well as for updates coming in BZSN-format. The EDBS-files will be processed by scripts into SQL-commands for example for Oracle Spatial. edbsilon can easily be adapted to EDBS variants coming from different federal states or to application-specific table schemas. edbsilon is plattform independent and has been tested on GNU/Linux and Windows. edbsilon has been contracted by the administrative district Elbe-Elster in Brandenburg, Germany. "Existing tools didn't sufficiently comply to the demands of our customer" explains Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner, management director at Intevation. "In this case it has been more cost-effective for our client to implement it anew than adapting existing Free Software." It is planned to add new export interfaces to edbsilon such as PostGIS/PostgreSQL and Shapefiles until the release of version 1.0. http://edbsilon.intevation.org Contact: www.intevation.de Silke Reimer 0541 33 508 32 Intevation GmbH Georgstra?e 4 49074 Osnabr?ck Germany From jan at intevation.de Tue Mar 22 11:43:38 2005 From: jan at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 11:43:38 +0100 Subject: [Intevation News] FreeGIS: 3rd generation now online Message-ID: <20050322104338.GB17021@intevation.de> Free GIS Software increasingly successful - 3rd generation of expert platform unveiled Predictions have proven true: Software for managing geo-data increasingly becomes part of our daily life. Beside the obvious car navigation especially many web-based applications are popular. This is an area where Free Software products are in the lead with being flexible and most compatible with technical standards. To make Free Software for geo-data processing widely known, the FreeGIS project [1] was started in 1999. At that time it was only a link collection. Now the project has put the 3rd generation of its web portal online shortly after its 5th anniversary. The new side masters the increasing interest with an improved editorial system and multi-lingual support. "Now we can easily distribute the editorial tasks" explains Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner, coordinator of the FreeGIS project. "This way our volunteers can further increase the quality of the portal." The FreeGIS project also acts as promoter of commercial use of Free GIS Software and emphasizes the professional quality of several listed products. "A successful IT business has developed around this within the past few years" says Frank Koormann, managing director of Intevation GmbH [2], which hosts the FreeGIS portal on its servers. "This trend will continue because many products with high potential are yet unvalued. One example is the new GRASS GIS 6.0 [3] which has just been released." [1] http://www.freegis.org [2] http://www.intevation.net [3] http://grass.itc.it/ Contact: Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner jan-oliver.wagner at intevation.net +49 (0) 541 33508 55