[OSGeo-Discuss] OGRS2012 :: SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS - Open Source Geospatial Research and Education Symposium
OGRS2012 :: SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS (closing at May 28th) Open Source Geospatial Research and Education Symposium October 24 26, 2012 in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland Hosted by School of Business and Engineering Vaud (HEIG-VD) Website: http://www.ogrs2012.org Contact: c...@ogrs2012.org Notice, PDF version of this call is available here : http://cfp.ogrs2012.org. - (our apologies for cross-postings) Dear colleagues, The Open Source Geospatial Research and Education Symposium (OGRS) is a meeting dedicated to exchanging ideas on development and use of open source geospatial software in both research and education. Motivated by the inaugural symposium in Nantes, France, OGRS2012 will be held from October 24 26, 2012 in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland. The symposium is hosted and organized by the School of Business and Engineering Vaud (HEIG-VD), in partnership with EPFL Lausanne, University of Lausanne, University of Geneva, which are all academic institutions in Western Switzerland, and the Institute for Research on Urban Sciences and Techniques in France. The main goals are: - to build a panel of new scientific research and education practices using and contributing to open source initiatives in the geospatial fields; - to discuss a framework and highlight a rationale about geospatial open source technology usage in research and education activities; - to provide an innovation platform to network and develop ideas for future collaborative work between academia from research to education and other actors of the field (associations, foundations, local authorities, industry etc.). For more details, visit the overview page on the website. Keynote speakers : - Luc Anselin, Director, Regents' Professor and Walter Isard Chair at School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Director at GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation, Arizona State University; - Grard Hgron, Scientific Director in charge of sustainable city at IFSTTAR (French Institute of Science and Technology for Transport, Planning and Networks); - Helena Mitasova, Associate Professor at Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University; - Robert Weibel, Professor of Geographical Information Science at Department of Geography, University of Zrich. Submission : The symposium will integrate several opportunities for presenting : oral presentations, workshops, posters and discussion groups. To participate in any of these opportunities, authors are invited to submit an extended abstract (1000 to 1500 words, references and keywords excluded) through the conference website. The official language is English. The international scientific advisory board will review and select abstracts for inclusion in the symposium and publication in the symposium proceedings. A subset of contributions will be invited to submit full papers for possible publication in a special issue of the Journal of Spatial Information Sciences (JOSIS), pending a peer review of full papers. For more details on how to submit a contribution, please visit the call for papers page on the website : http://cfp.ogrs2012.org. Important dates : - submission deadline for abstracts is May 28, 2012. - authors will be notified by June 30, 2012 on program inclusion and selection for JOSIS submission - deadline to submit full papers is September 30, 2012. We would appreciate if you could kindly distribute this call to other interested parties of your acquaintance. Best regards, OGRS2012 program committee ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Whitebox Geospatial Analysis Tools v. 2.0
Software looks nice. With regards to putting on the live DVD, I noticed that Whitebox requires the SUN Java JRE to be installed. I'm not sure you can distribute the JRE on a live DVD, since Oracle retired the 'Operating System Distributor License for Java’. http://jdk-distros.java.net/ Doug Doug Newcomb USFWS Raleigh, NC 919-856-4520 ext. 14 doug_newc...@fws.gov - The opinions I express are my own and are not representative of the official policy of the U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service or Dept. of the Interior. Life is too short for undocumented, proprietary data formats. Cameron Shorter cameron.shor...@gmail.com Sent by: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org 04/22/2012 04:46 PM To John Lindsay jlind...@uoguelph.ca, OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org cc Subject Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Whitebox Geospatial Analysis Tools v. 2.0 John, Congratulations on your release. I wonder whether this project is a candidate for OSGeo-Live, http://live.osgeo.org. In looking through your introduction I have a few questions, which were not obvious to me. What type of user would wish to make use of Whitebox GAT? What tasks would they be performing? Does Whitebox make use of other geospatial libraries? Maybe geotools or sextante? One of the most effective ways of attracting co-developers is to build upon an existing project or library and adopt developers from this project. Who is currently using Whitebox GAT? You would likely wish to weave answers to these questions into your website home page. On 22/04/2012 10:39 PM, John Lindsay wrote: Hello, Many of you have been asking when a new version of the open-source GIS Whitebox would be released. Well we've been very busy working on it, and now we're are excited to announce that the new version of Whitebox GAT has finally arrived. Please visit http://www.uoguelph.ca/~hydrogeo/Whitebox/index.html for more information. Whitebox has been completely re-written. The main reason for this was to allow Whitebox to be truly multi-platform, running equally well on MS Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. This has been a major undertaking and as such there are still a few tools and features from Whitebox 1.0.7 that need to be translated over to the new version. We're looking for volunteers to help with the work yet to be done (including working on the help documentation, testing and reporting bugs). Whitebox is now written using Java, the world's most popular multi-platform programming language. I know there are a lot of you out there with Java programming skills who could contribute to the project. There have also been many additions to version 2.0, including support for displaying vector ShapeFiles, plenty of new tools, new image processing functionality, and an improved user interface ( http://www.uoguelph.ca/~hydrogeo/Whitebox/screenshots.html ). As always, we welcome any feedback to help improve the software. Please contact John Lindsay with any comments you may have. John Lindsay, Ph.D., Associate Professor Department of Geography, University of Guelph Guelph, Ont. N1G 2W1 CANADA Phone: (519) 824-4120 x56074 Fax: (519) 837-2940 Email: jlind...@uoguelph.ca Department Web: http://www.uoguelph.ca/geography/people/faculty/lindsay.shtml Whitebox GAT Web: http://www.uoguelph.ca/~hydrogeo/Whitebox/index.html ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Cameron Shorter Geospatial Solutions Manager Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050 Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254 Think Globally, Fix Locally Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open Source http://www.lisasoft.com ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Whitebox Geospatial Analysis Tools v. 2.0
Doug, John, From the next release of OSGeo-Live (6.0), we will need to retire support for Sun Java. Hence OpenJDK will be required instead. Good news is that OpenJDK has gotten much better, and I suggest checking again to see if Whitebox GAT can be moved to OpenJDK. On 24/04/2012 1:57 AM, doug_newc...@fws.gov wrote: Software looks nice. With regards to putting on the live DVD, I noticed that Whitebox requires the SUN Java JRE to be installed. I'm not sure you can distribute the JRE on a live DVD, since Oracle retired the 'Operating System Distributor License for Java’. http://jdk-distros.java.net/ Doug Doug Newcomb USFWS Raleigh, NC 919-856-4520 ext. 14 doug_newc...@fws.gov - The opinions I express are my own and are not representative of the official policy of the U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service or Dept. of the Interior. Life is too short for undocumented, proprietary data formats. *Cameron Shorter cameron.shor...@gmail.com* Sent by: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org 04/22/2012 04:46 PM To John Lindsay jlind...@uoguelph.ca, OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org cc Subject Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Whitebox Geospatial Analysis Tools v. 2.0 John, Congratulations on your release. I wonder whether this project is a candidate for OSGeo-Live, http://live.osgeo.org. In looking through your introduction I have a few questions, which were not obvious to me. What type of user would wish to make use of Whitebox GAT? What tasks would they be performing? Does Whitebox make use of other geospatial libraries? Maybe geotools or sextante? One of the most effective ways of attracting co-developers is to build upon an existing project or library and adopt developers from this project. Who is currently using Whitebox GAT? You would likely wish to weave answers to these questions into your website home page. On 22/04/2012 10:39 PM, John Lindsay wrote: Hello, Many of you have been asking when a new version of the open-source GIS Whitebox would be released. Well we've been very busy working on it, and now we're are excited to announce that the new version of Whitebox GAT has finally arrived. Please visit http://live.osgeo.org/http://www.uoguelph.ca/~hydrogeo/Whitebox/index.html for more information. Whitebox has been completely re-written. The main reason for this was to allow Whitebox to be truly multi-platform, running equally well on MS Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. This has been a major undertaking and as such there are still a few tools and features from Whitebox 1.0.7 that need to be translated over to the new version. We're looking for volunteers to help with the work yet to be done (including working on the help documentation, testing and reporting bugs). Whitebox is now written using Java, the world's most popular multi-platform programming language. I know there are a lot of you out there with Java programming skills who could contribute to the project. There have also been many additions to version 2.0, including support for displaying vector ShapeFiles, plenty of new tools, new image processing functionality, and an improved user interface ( http://www.uoguelph.ca/%7Ehydrogeo/Whitebox/index.htmlhttp://www.uoguelph.ca/~hydrogeo/Whitebox/screenshots.html ). As always, we welcome any feedback to help improve the software. Please contact John Lindsay with any comments you may have. John Lindsay, Ph.D., Associate Professor Department of Geography, University of Guelph Guelph, Ont. N1G 2W1 CANADA Phone: (519) 824-4120 x56074 Fax: (519) 837-2940 Email: jlind...@uoguelph.ca Department Web: http://www.uoguelph.ca/%7Ehydrogeo/Whitebox/screenshots.htmlhttp://www.uoguelph.ca/geography/people/faculty/lindsay.shtml Whitebox GAT Web: http://www.uoguelph.ca/~hydrogeo/Whitebox/index.html ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://www.uoguelph.ca/%7Ehydrogeo/Whitebox/index.htmlhttp://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Cameron Shorter Geospatial Solutions Manager Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050 Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254 Think Globally, Fix Locally Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open Source http://www.lisasoft.com ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://www.lisasoft.com/http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Cameron Shorter Geospatial Solutions Manager Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050 Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254 Think Globally, Fix Locally Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open Source http://www.lisasoft.com ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] 22 students accepted for OSGeo Google Summer of Code 2012
Hello all, and sorry for cross-posting, let me warmly welcome the 22 accepted students and their mentors for this edition of Google Summer of Code! This is a record for OSGeo GSoC, together with GSoC itself, that accepted 1212 students. In detail, we accepted ideas for 10 OSGeo projects: - QGIS: 4 students - gvSIG: 4 students - GRASS GIS: 3 students - Opticks: 3 students - pgRouting: 2 students - uDig: 2 students - GDAL: 1 student - Geoserver: 1 student - OSSIM: 1 student - PostGIS: 1 student See the full list on OSGeo wiki: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2012_Administrative#Accepted_students taken from http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/projects/list/google/gsoc2012 -- filter by Organisation name == OSGeo All the best! Anne Ghisla -- OSGeo GSoC Administrator signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
