Dear All, After the lecture of latest OSGeo Journal I would like the community to hear what has been going on in Poland in the last year, so let me write a short unofficial Poland Chapter Report.
2010 is the second year of Poland Chapter activity. We have localized QGIS, GRASS, gvSIG and lately gvSIG mobile GUI and we try to keep translations on very high level for every release of the software. This is work done by up to 3 people per project and entirely on volunteer basis. With the chapter's presence at several conferences, plus the creation and maintaining of a related Polish online forum we have encouraged many people to use FOSS4G for their daily work. The 2nd OSGeo-PL Conference "Open Software for Geodesy and Geoinformation Science" [1] was a great success and attracted about 160 participants. For the conference, we have prepared free GRASS and QGIS workshops and we were surprised by the number of attendees, which encouraged us to make two GRASS and one QGIS workshops in total, 2 hours each. Large interest of the Polish community in GRASS GIS was filled recently with yet another GRASS workshop [2] which gave us the possibility to meet and discuss about GRASS needs. As soon as the last student left, the workshop turned itself into unofficial GRASS hackfest. We are willing to hold an official one next year. Also Quantum GIS is gaining great, perhaps the bigest popularity which can be seen on Polish forum [3] and presence at several conferences [4]. >From 3 years, the idea of FOSS4G is present on annual geodetic conference in Wisła [5]. It was also present at GIS post-diploma studies all over the country, but starting form this year not only as lectures but workshop as well. The first QGIS workshop was made at Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences using Arramagong Virtual Machine on "click2try" (and it went surprisingly well as for the first serious cloud computing experience of mine!). Now we are invited by the oldest GIS post-diploma studies held by Wroclaw Technical University [6] for a block of FOSS4G lectures and workshops which will take almost 8% of the total studies hours. I think it is a lot when having in mind how big the field of GIS is. We are now busy preparing presentations and workshops for GIS Day [7] and looking forward to 4th Quantum GIS Hackfest, which will start in a week (!) in Wrocław [8]. I would like to thank my OSGeo-PL friends Robert Szczepanek, Borys Jurgiel, Piotr Pachół, Paweł Netzel and Maciek Sieczka for their effort in making world a better FOSS4G place. Best, Milena [1] http://www.gislab.up.wroc.pl/wogis2010/en/ [2] http://www.wgug.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=36:scientific-workshop-2010-qspatial-analysis-with-grassq&catid=2:warsztaty&Itemid=5 [3] http://forum.quantum-gis.pl/ [4] http://mapywsieci.pl/ [5] http://www.wodgik.katowice.pl/konferencja/2010/ [6] http://gis.pwr.wroc.pl/start.php [7] http://www.gisday.uw.edu.pl/start.php [8] http://www.qgis.org/wiki/4._QGIS_Hackfest_in_Wroclaw_2010 -- Milena Nowotarska http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Milena_Nowotarska http://quantum-gis.pl/ || http://grass-gis.pl/ http://www.qgis.org/wiki/4._QGIS_Hackfest_in_Wroclaw_2010 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
