gvSIG

As in past years, gvSIG will have the honour to take part on the Google Summer of Code as part of the OSGeo Foundation projects, so this is the kind of mail I love to send to mailing lists (who don’t love to give good news??)

Hi all,

I’m proud to announce that four of the five proposals presented for the gvSIG project have been accepted at the Google Summer of Code program (filter by title “gvSIG”). I want to thank also Raul Broseta, our only non accepted student for his effort. I hope you will continue participating on the gvSIG community.

Our accepted proposals are:

• Adding GPS survey capabilities to gvSIG Mini and shapefile driver
  • Student: Carlos Sánchez Periñán
  • Mentor: Alberto Romeu
• Solver for the TSP and VRP for gvSIG Desktop
  • Student: David Pinheiro
  • Mentor: Fran Peñarrubia
• Add tests and educational games support to gvSIG Educa/Batoví
  • Student: Nadal Francisco
  • Mentor: César Ordiñana
• gvSIG Desktop plugin for change detection from multi-temporal sequence of satellite images using principal component analysis
  • Student: Sergio Izquierdo
  • Mentor: Nacho Brodin

Good luck students and mentors, we hope to have a lot of feedback on progress at lists/blogs/whatever, have a great summer!!

Cheers
Jorge

Do you think it would be worth to ask a few questions to our students and post them here so they can present themselves to the broader community?

Filed under: community, development, english Tagged: google, gsoc, osgeo, scholarships

As last year, the day before the International gvSIG Conference we are planning a Code Sprint. This year our focus will be on gvSIG Desktop 2.0, but of course as always, it’s up to the participants to decide the topics they want to deal with.

There is an open wiki where you can add pages for your ideas, but is encouraged to use the development mailing lists (in English or Spanish) to discuss the bug fixes or features that will be treated at the Code Sprint.

It will be held as the last year at the Innova Room of the Polytechnic University of Valencia, again kindly sponsored by the ai2 Institute (thanks!!).

If you want to participate, please add yourself on the attendants list and send me an email (jsanz [at] gvsig [dot] com) with a valid ID number, the university ask us for a list of participants to prepare the Internet connection. You will also have to come with an ethernet wire as no wi-fi is available for visitors on that room.

That’s all, see you soon!!

gvSIG Code Sprint 2010 at Innova Room

Filed under: community, development, english, events Tagged: gvsig7 codesprint

Hi I reproduce here this important mail from the gvSIG Team on mailing lists, as it’s important for the release of next gvSIG Desktop 1.12 version. Best, Jorge.

Dear gvSIG users and developers,

As most of you know we made a call for contributions for gvSIG 1.12 last June. September 21st was the deadline to send bugfixes and fortunately we got lots of them. Now it’s time to review and integrate them but the problem is that all the team is now focused on the development of gvSIG 2.0 since it is our most priority task at the moment.

Although we think that gvSIG 1.12 is very interesting for our users and developers since it will come with quite a few bugfixes and improvements, we really think that we can’t afford to delay the release of gvSIG 2.0 anymore.

That’s why we make a new call for contributors today. These are the main tasks we would need you to do:

• Review the received patches
• Build the binaries
• Test the binaries

Please read these documents to find more info about the tasks:

• Contributions and patches to the gvSIG code
• Creating a gvSIG installer
• Qué debo hacer para corregir un bug (only in Spanish)
• Interesting links for testers

In case you are willing to help us to release gvSIG 1.12 just reply this email and tell us what tasks are you interested in and a coordinator will contact you.

Thanks in advance
The gvSIG team.

Filed under: community, english, gvSIG Desktop

This is an attempt to translate into English the last post from Gabi about what the gvSIG Association is. I’ve done my best to keep the meaning of his post and I apologize for any misunderstanding. Bold and italics are mine to emphasize some of their texts, as I consider them specially important to understand what are we doing at gvSIG Association.

Cheers
Jorge

There is a lot of information about the gvSIG Association publicly available for anyone who wants to consult and study. [1]

Of course, there will always be so much to explain and interpret. We believe that to understand better the gvSIG Association it’s interesting to explain on a very clearly way how the gvSIG Association sees Free Software.

How we interpret Free Software

At gvSIG we support a professional development model of Free Software in the field of geomatics. The gvSIG Association’s mission is to evolve gvSIG, to ensure software quality, to guarantee the existence of professional services (support, consultancy, etc.). and finally the sustainability of the project. To this end, the Association is responsible for coordinating efforts and ensuring consistency of growth and dissemination.

There may be people who devote part of their free time to work with Free Software projects and we really agree that. It happens that many of these people have to use proprietary software at work and in their spare time they enjoy to devote some time to Free Software projects.

We want to help people to work professionally with Free Software and if someone wants to pursue her commitment to Free Software also on his spare time, that’s perfect. But we insist, the Association claims that people should work professionally with Free Software and that this will happen with the construction of a new model of production/development/business where values ​​such as cooperation, solidarity and knowledge sharing are essential. Because ultimately, software is a means and not an end in itself.

Another objective of the Association is to ensure that the work of all volunteers and project partners can be really useful and is done in a coordinated way. We would make a big mistake if the Association doesn’t work to convert into reality the contributions of those people that want to help. We believe that all these contributions must be made in a coordinated way to convert them into useful inputs for all and guarantee that a gvSIG as a product is getting better and with the higher quality standards.

Ensure project sustainability

To carry out these objectives is needed to ensure the sustainability of gvSIG and this is one of the main objectives of the Association. How to ensure sustainability? If we talk of creating a new business model, we want that part of its benefit reverts on the sustainability. The sustainability of a product on which to develop professional services.

This may be easy to say but less easy to do. We all know that FUD [2] is still a common practice by companies of proprietary software against Free Software, usually quite large companies. It’s on this context where small companies need to collaborate together, to be stronger enough to achieve objectives and projects so far vetoed for Free Software solutions. That is one of the offers of the gvSIG Association: to build a framework that create opportunities for companies interested in gvSIG and FOSS4G, pursuing new opportunities.

It is here where the business model of the gvSIG Association differs from other Free Software projects (which of course may be more or less appropriate depending on the type of project).

In that sense, we find projects sponsored by a single company that carries most of the development, and generates benefits about this product.

Other projects are born and raised mostly around the academic environment, and are usually maintained by a small group of power developers and by many collaborations like master thesis or papers of students who can then follow or not involved with the project.

There are also associations or foundations which have their main source of income in other activities such as conferences and the contribution of sponsors, being able to find between these companies some whose business model may or may not be Free Software.

The main difference with this type of projects is that gvSIG Association companies are funding a percentage of the projects carried out as well as an annual fee that depends on the turnover of the company.

Thus, the more business is generated around Free Software, the more business for companies, but also more funds for the Association, which has more resources to invest in the improvement and sustainability of the project (remember that the Association is a non-profit organization).

Professional Guarantee

Imagine that a potential customer wants to hire for free solutions. So he wants to have professional support. The world’s largest privative software firms will say that only with privative software you’ll have a professional guarantee (well they call it commercial software). The Association helps to dismantle this myth by providing professional support to let the customer gain confidence with Free Software solutions, because it is the Association for the promotion of free geomatics and development of gvSIG, being free geomatics (FOSS4G) and gvSIG where their services are offered.

The community inputs are analysed and incorporated carefully from this professional perspective to provide an integrated and solid product.

gvSIG benefits from this environment of professional Free Software, yet open and participatory, where input from volunteers and companies all contribute to a better product, suitable to the needs of all.

Large companies

As a companies association, there’s sometimes comments on the danger of gvSIG Association and gvSIG project being controlled by larger companies. And we say big companies because that’s the way we’ve read about them. We find it curious, what do we mean by large companies? Association companies are all small and medium enterprises, where regardless of size, there is one vote per member.

There are several methods for avoiding one of these big companies becoming a member of the Association. That is, the association is prevented from them.

At gvSIG we’ve always been very critical about the fact that how, on a quite naturally way, some allow to large multinationals to take positions and lead Free Geomatics, those multinationals that have their business model on hiding access to information, on the sole property and with a huge economic power.

Our intention is not to convince anyone about which model is better or which model is the kindest, most ethical, efficient, and so on. Everyone is free to choose which you want to, of course. What we do want is to clarify and explain why and how the gvSIG Association is designed, with our defects (there will be a lot, and we will try to solve them), and with our virtues, if we have any.

[1]

Association Website: http://www.gvsig.com/welcome?set_language=en (English)

Bylaws of the gvSIG Association in Spanish, English and French at: http://www.gvsig.com/asociacion

Members, Honorary members and Association collaborators:

http://www.gvsig.com/association/members
http://www.gvsig.com/association/collaborators
http://www.gvsig.com/association/honour-members

And several articles and presentations:

http://gvsig-desktop.forge.osor.eu/downloads/pub/documents/reports/gvSIG_Community_and_how_to_participate_OSGIS_2011_part1.pdf

http://gvsig-desktop.forge.osor.eu/downloads/pub/documents/reports/gvSIG_Community_and_how_to_participate_OSGIS_2011_part2.pdf

[2]  FUD ( Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear, _uncertainty_and_doubt

Filed under: community, english, gvSIG Association, opinion

Tomorrow is the feature freeze dateline for the fifth release of the OSGeo Live project. As always we are at the last chance to update our scripts to add to the DVD our latest release of gvSIG. So thanks to the help of José Vicente Higón, from Software Colaborativo, I’ve updated the script. Thus, the next OSGeo Live DVD will ship with gvSIG 1.11.

There are also some changes. As gvSIG 1.11 comes with an integrated help (yes it’s on the, surprise!, help menu) I’ve removed downloading any documentation. With the overview, the integrated help and the nice quick start created by Simon, the OSGeo Live disc has enough information for any newcomer. The interface will start in English by default so no problem for new users struggling about how to change from Spanish to whatever.

I’ve spent a couple of hours to create and configure a sample project using Natural Earth data present on the disc, showcasing a little of the gvSIG symbology and legend capabilities. I’ve also added a sample map with the typical suspects (grid, legend, titles, etc).  So when any new user opens gvSIG this project will automatically be opened with data ready to play. I’m not fully satisfied with the sample project, we can do a lot more with Natural Earth data to show more gvSIG capabilities but well, for this time I think is good enough.

Of course, as the disc will come with a lot of OGC services and other kinds of data, the user will be able to experiment and learn about a great stack of FOSS4G and open data!!

Filed under: english, events, gvSIG Desktop Tagged: foss4g, osgeo, osgeolive

It’s been recurrent on mailing list of people asking for a community process to decide the artwork of the gvSIG Desktop product, specially the opening splash screen. One of our active members has proposed some of them and well at the end we came up with a competition to let our community express their design preferences for our next big release of gvSIG Desktop.

We asked for designs and we received a nice bunch of proposals, see.

gvSIG Desktop 2.0 proposals

Well I have to admit some of them are nicer than others, and my intention sending my proposals was mostly to animate the whole thing, so don’t laugh so much about my lack of design capabilities

With those proposals we set up a poll that is still open, so please, go to the overview page, select your best and vote!!

Filed under: community, english, gvSIG Desktop Tagged: splash screen

Los lectores de nuestro planet seguro que están al tanto porque nuestra sección brasilera ha estado creando expectación sobre un nuevo proyecto por aquellos lares que nos tenía intrigados. Hoy se ha desvelado el misterio y se ha lanzado la web, un planeta y una revista alrededor de la geomática libre que están produciendo un grupo de profesionales entusiastas brasileños, algunos de ellos miembros de nuestro planet.

El primer número de la revista, de 50 páginas, tiene una pinta estupenda y realmente profesional. Se nota el duro trabajo dedicado a generar un producto de calidad para la comunidad, libre para su descarga y realizado con herramientas de software libre. Entrando en contenidos, estamos orgullosos de ver que han dedicado un capítulo a analizar gvSIG desktop, pero también hay una sección sobre dispositivos móviles donde aparecen gvSIG mobile y gvSIG mini. Hay también entrevistas, artículos sobre la historia de la geomática libre y de divulgación por lo que vale la pena mejorar el portuñol echándole un rato.

No sé con qué periodicidad van a sacar ediciones de la revista pero desde luego, cada nuevo número seguro será más que bienvenido por toda la comunidad tanto lusa como hispanohablante.

Filed under: community, gvSIG products, opinion, spanish Tagged: fossgis brasil

César Medina ha movido por las listas un evento que me gustaría compartir en el blog. Se trata de la organización de las primeras jornadas Sudamericanas FOSS4G, un evento de un día que tendrá lugar en la Universidad Mayor de Santiago de Chile.

gvSIG tendrá su presentación, así como de otras temáticas relacionadas con la geomática libre así que si resides cerca de la localización puede ser una ocasión interesante para conocer a otros usuarios de SIG libre y compartir experiencias, no sólo a través de las ponencias sino también del networking con el resto de asistentes.

Puedes seguir la actividad del evento en su web, su cuenta en twitter y su página en facebook.

¡Mucho éxito al comité organizador!

Filed under: community, events, spanish Tagged: chile, foss4g

A month passed since the start of Planet gvSIG and I would post a small summary of the activity of the planet.

• 19 blogs aggregated
• more than 35 authors
• almost 60 posts
• Location:
  • Spain: 9
  • Brazil: 5
  • Italy: 2
  • Argentina, Germany, Russia: 1
• Languages used at blogs:
  • English: 6
  • Spanish: 10
  • Portuguese (BR): 6
  • Italian: 2
  • Russian: 1

I’m quite proud about those numbers, they reflect more or less the distribution of our community right now (at least the more talkative one) but I would love to see new languages being present like French or German and new countries where active users could start new communities.

We’ve adapted the Planet GNOME Guidelines to our planet so now you can see some general guidelines to add your blog to the Planet gvSIG, if you are thinking about starting a blog, don’t be shy, start writing and we will be very happy to have you on board!!

Filed under: community, english Tagged: planet

I’ve just wrote this mail on international mailing lists of the gvSIG project and I thought it could be worth to paste it also here, just in case anyone can help.

(From project web page) “OSGeo-Live is a self-contained bootable DVD, USB thumb drive or Virtual Machine based on Xubuntu, that allows you to try a wide variety of open source geospatial software without installing anything. It is composed entirely of free software, allowing it to be freely distributed, duplicated and passed around.”

gvSIG Desktop is packaged at this Live DVD, I’ve been maintaining the install script for gvSIG Desktop for a while, an easy task thanks to the gvSIG Desktop Debian package. I also created the gvSIG overview page and finally translated some documents into Spanish.

The point is that gvSIG Desktop lacks a good quick start document and I’m not able to prepare it for the next release so I’m asking here if anyone wants to help creating that document.

A “quick start” is a document describing for a someone who never has used gvSIG Desktop how to load some data (remote or local) and do some simple tasks (i.e. create a thematic map, or a layout)

You can see more quick starts here.

So, if anyone is interested about helping on this, it would be a nice contribution to the gvSIG project. I can help translating the quick start into the markup format is needed on the project, so a ODT or HTML would be OK.

Of course, you can reuse any of the existing gvSIG Desktop training materials available out there, but they have to be adapted to the OSGeo LiveDVD data to enable any LiveDVD user to follow the quick start document.

Filed under: community, english, gvSIG Desktop Tagged: osgeo, osgeo live

The gvSIG Team is proud to congratulate the Open Source Geospatial Foundation on its 5th birthday. We are on the same trip to promote free software and knowledge so OSGeo successes are ours too. Happy birthday!!

Filed under: community, english, opinion Tagged: osgeo, osgeobirthday

One of the most important elements of any free software project is its community, that is the companies, entities, users and developers working and using gvSIG products and technologies. Planets are a great way to aggregate all the blogging activity around a common project so we are setting up a gvSIG project planet.

If you want to be part of the planet you only have to contact us posting here a comment or using the gvsig.org contact form. We need an RSS or Atom feed about your gvSIG posts (it depends on your blogging system, some use categories, other labelling) or if you simply have a blog entirely devoted to gvSIG (yes, we have some of those) send us your blog feed.

We also need a photo or logo to be added to your posts on the planet. Maybe you feel geek enough to create a hackergotchi!! (probably we won’t reach the gnome planet level, anyway)

It’s not important if you just post from time to time about gvSIG, the more sources we get, the more activity will the planet have and more diversity will show. We are open to blogs writing about development, user stories or whatever related with gvSIG and of course, in any language.

Filed under: community, english Tagged: planet, rss

Víctor Olaya anda muy atareado por el Code Sprint como nos ha contado en su blog, así que os comento, hemos subido un archivo comprimido con el material adicional que será necesario para poder realizar las prácticas del Curso de SEXTANTE que se hará en las Jornadas gvSIG.

Para poder hacer el curso de SEXTANTE únicamente será necesario llevar gvSIG 1.10 correctamente instalado y descargar el fichero y por tanto no será necesario llevar el juego de datos de North Carolina.

El archivo lo podéis descargar aquí (zip de 10MB)

Filed under: events, gvSIG Desktop, spanish Tagged: 6gvSIG, SEXTANTE

I want to share an interesting post from Anna Hodgkinson on the gvSIG international mailing list about how to edit a gvSIG produced map layout on Inskcape using PDF format as an exchange format.

Dear Wolfgang, dear list,

I have been exporting maps from gvSIG and editing (fine-tuning) them later with Inkscape for a while now and never had any major problems.

My usual workflow is as follows:
- Create the map layout in gvSIG, do as much fine-tuning as possible before exporting, such as making sure the scalebar is set to the right Intervals etc., but don’t worry – you can do a lot of editing in Inkscape, so even rectangles in white that you might want to use to offset map elements against backgrounds can be changed etc. Make sure you set your margins and page size correct (Map – age setup)!!!

- Export as PDF (use the PDF button on the toolbar).

- Open Inkscape, and do “File – Import” – select the PDF you just created in gvSIG and import it. The page size should remain the same!

- In Inkscape, ungroup all elements – select all (either ctrl+a or “draw” a frame around all elements), then do “Object – Ungroup”. Repeat this several times, you will have to select all objects again before repeatedly ungrouping. Make sure you “draw” your selection frame around the entire batch of objects to be ungrouped – click on them and you may accidentally move them!

Pay attention to the scalebar: You can, after about 3-4 “ungrouping” actions unmerge the numbers from the bar to make it “look nice”, same with all sorts of map elements, change colours, line weights etc.

You can either “mask” any vector data that, through ungrouping, has been exploded and now sticks out beyond the margins, or (cheap and easy) draw white, frameless rectangles in the margins to cover them up.

- In Inkscape do “File – save as” and save as PDF. When closing Inkscape you will be prompted to save the drawing as .svg as well – it’s worth doing so, as you will be able to do further editing in case you need to.

I hope this helps. I have been using this methodology for over a year now, and find it very simple and good to use!

Please refer to the manual for editing maps in Inkscape, recently published by Oxford Archaeology [1] for details on the above procedure!

All the best,

Anna

[1] http://library.thehumanjourney.net/366/

Quite interesting, isn’t it? Well is not just as straight forward as having the possibility to direct render a map layout on SVG, but well is better than nothing and Anna has shown a succesful use case.

Filed under: english, gvSIG Desktop Tagged: Inskcape, pdf

En las 6as Jornadas gvSIG se realizará un taller sobre gvSIG mobile y gvSIG mini. El taller está orientado a usuarios finales y es interesante para cualquiera que quiera conocer en mayor detalle estas dos aplicaciones móviles: cómo tomar datos en campo, ver información tanto local como remota, etc.

gvSIG mobile

• Introducción a la interfaz de usuario de gvSIG mobile
• Navegación
• Carga de datos locales: tanto vectorial como raster
• Simbología de capas vectoriales
• Carga de capas WMS
• Características GPS
• Edición de datos vectoriales
• Uso de formularios personalizados

gvSIG mini

• Introducción a gvSIG mini
• Navegación y selección de capas
• Cálculo de rutas
• Localización de direccións y puntos de interés (POI)
• Carga de capas WMS adicionales

Según el programa de las jornadas, el taller tendrá lugar el viernes 3 de diciembre a las 12:30, ¡nos vemos allí!

Filed under: events, gvSIG mini, gvSIG Mobile, spanish Tagged: 6gvSIG

I’ve used twitter and facebook for a while more or less mixing personal and professional stuff because, well, I don’t want to deal with «where to write things», I have enough with all blogs I write for. Some time ago I created a gvSIG account for twitter and identi.ca and later a facebook fan page. The most succesful one by far is twitter with almost 200 followers.

I tried to reproduce the way I work with my own accounts (also with Prodevelop stuff) obviously with the reasonable differences that «official» media requires. Propagating the information gvSIG produces over those services is a challenge, you have to try to not annoy people with not interesting posts but also showing as much as you can the amazing work all the gvSIG team does everyday.

Next image shows the several information sources. We’re using now dlvr.it as a central way to spread the data in two configurations: one for the main sources  (black arrows) and another one to post the microblogging posts that me and others write on gvSIG twitter account (blue arrows).

There are several sources: we mainly use http://www.gvsig.org (Plone powered) as our central repository of documentation, translation and collaboration.  We are using also Plone for the gvSIG Association portal. Nabble is one of the archiving services, probably the most popular one. Lastly the newcomers are this blog, hosted on wordpress.com and the new kid on the block is the recently announced gvSIG Case Studies website, at Drupal Gardens hosting service. Those last two sources are deployed at external services but as they are built on open source software (WordPress and Drupal) so we have the possibility of moving them to a hosted version if we have any problem. This approach relaxes our IT team efforts (as they have a lot of work with our main Plone instance).

A lot of people say that this is Community Management stuff, so am I the gvSIG community manager? No. This is NOT community management, this is just information piping and some (micro)bloggae. Victoria Agazzi is our Community Manager and her work is by far more difficult than that. She is responsible of engage and help to build real new communities for the gvSIG project as she explained some time ago

So well, in my opinion, this (a little bit egocentric) work helps to spread the word about what all the gvSIG team is trying to do: create a solid community of users and developers around the world.

Filed under: community, english, opinion, press office Tagged: dlvr.it, drupal, facebook, identi.ca, nabble, plone, twitter, wordpress

My colleagues at Prodevelop have published at our YouTube channel some interesting videos I want to share. The first one is a «code swarm» showing the gvSIG Mobile SVN repository activity on a very cool way. The other two are short videos about gvSIG mini new features like multi-touch support and automatic map download.

Someday I’ll try to produce the code swarm of gvSIG Desktop SVN but it will be a very different beast to deal with…

Filed under: gvSIG mini, gvSIG Mobile Tagged: code swarm, video

Last week part of the gvSIG Team attended the Second Latin American and Caribbean gvSIG Conference. It has held in Caracas, Venezuela at Alba Caracas Hotel, organized by the National Information and Technology Centre (CNTI) and the Geographical Institute of Venezuela Simón Bolívar (IGVSB).

First two days there were a pre-conference workshops about gvSIG and SDIs, Vector  features, 3D and Raster features and finally about gvSIG 2.0 development. I’m happy to say that the conference was a complete success, mainly because the organization was amazing. If you’ve managed a +700 people conference along 3 days you can imagine the huge effort is needed to assure that everything works smooth and they did it.

Registration desk

There were some demos and presentations from the gvSIG Team but the conference was mainly run by use cases, some projects developed with gvSIG and so on. I presented the OSGeo Spanish Language Local Chapter with Francisco Palm (Venezuela) and also I had the chance to present OpenStreetMap Project with César Medina (Chile). This presentation was not prepared but as one of the planned presentations failed, well, I was invited to present OSM and the opportunities this project has in South America.

Presenting OSM project

Besides the conference we were able also to do some kind of tourism visiting CatiaTve, a complete community-driven television channel and the 23 de enero community, it’s a suburb of Caracas were they are organizing themselves to try to be as much independent as they can, they have for example their own fish farm and a quite successful radio channel (Radio Arsenal).

At CatiaTve transmission facilities

Free Software has so many opportunities to be applied in geomatic arena that it represents a real alternative to privative solutions. This maybe sounds obvious on this blog or this context but trying to convince of that topic public administrations and private companies is a huge effort. In my opinion we (not just the gvSIG Team but all the Conference presenters) did a good job showcasing the gvSIG and FOSS4G software to the Venezuelan and other Latin American people, let’s see if we have more and more use cases of succesful projects there.

Some gvSIG people with organization team and friends

https://gvsig.org/web/community/events/jornadas-lac/2010/
Filed under: community, english, events, opinion Tagged: gvSIG LAC, Venezuela

It’s not me, the guys of TehcRadar have ranked gvSIG mini:

An incredibly comprehensive mapping tool which combines many major online maps like Google, Bing, Open Street Map and more, which will win UK fans for one huge reason alone – it supports the official and recently open-sourced Ordnance Survey data. This means you’re never more than a post code search away from seeing where you are in OS-level detail, which offers much more in the way of accurate local data than other map tools provide.

A lot of kudos for my colleagues of Prodevelop who are doing an amazing job bringing to the android and J2ME community a great application but also a free software available to anyone under the GPL license.

If you don’t know what gvSIG mini is, take a look on this video and see what it can do for you on a regular Android phone:

Filed under: english, gvSIG mini

Este año el FOSS4G tiene revisión en comunidad. Es decir, cualquier persona puede aportar su granito de arena para elegir cuáles son las ponencias que cree más interesantes para este importante evento. El proceso es sencillo, sólo hay que darse de alta y en pocos minutos se recibe por correo electrónico un enlace con el que se puede acceder a la lista completa de resúmenes enviados. También es posible realizar filtros para buscar aquellos resúmenes que cumplan con una temática o proyecto concretos.

En esa lista de resúmenes es posible valorar cada propuesta: ¿te deja indiferente?, ¿te parece normal?, ¿o realmente crees que la propuesta merece la pena?.

Hay más de 300 resúmenes por lo que no es para pusilánimes, hay que estar preparado para recibir un buen atracón de novedades en la geomática libre, de casos de éxito y nuevos proyectos que seguro darán que hablar en los próximos meses.

Yo ya hice mi revisión y ciertamente acabé cansado e impresionado a partes iguales por la cantidad de proyectos, empresas y entidades que apuestan por este evento como escaparate para sus novedades.

Anímate, mañana acaba el plazo para revisar las propuestas y si ves alguna interesante (sobre todo si es sobre gvSIG).. ¡¡dale un +2!!

Filed under: community, events, spanish Tagged: foss4g