GvSIG Report 2012

Key Accomplishments

 * Release of gvSIG Desktop 1.12 (25/09/2012).
 * Release of gvSIG Desktop 2.0 RC 3 (27/12/2012)
 * Release of gvSIG Batoví 1.0 RC2 for secundary school (16/05/2012) & RC3 for primary school (28/08/2012).
 * Google Summer of Code 2012 participation.

Events

 * 8th International gvSIG Conference (Spain) 11/2012 (http://www.gvsig.org/web/community/events/jornadas-gvsig/8as/)
 * 3as Jornadas Brasileiras de gvSIG (Brazil) 10/2012 (http://www.gvsig.org/web/community/events/jornadas-brasileiras/2012/)
 * 4as Jornadas de Latinoamérica y Caribe de gvSIG (Uruguay) 09/2012 (http://www.gvsig.org/web/community/events/jornadas-lac/2012/inicio/view?set_language=es)
 * 2as Jornadas Argentinas de gvSIG (Argentina) 09/2012 (http://www.gvsig.org/web/community/events/jornadas-argentina/2012/)
 * 1as Jornadas Chilenas de gvSIG (Chile) 06/2012 (http://www.gvsig.org/web/community/events/jornadas-chile/2012/)
 * 1-я встреча пользователей gvSIG в России (Russia) 05/2012 (http://www.gvsig.org/web/community/events/russian-conference/2012/)

Presentations at other conferences

 * 1er Congreso Latinoamericano de Catastro (Bolivia).
 * Jornadas Técnicas “El Valor estratégico de la información territorial” (Spain)
 * Taza GIS (Morocco)
 * FOSS-CE (Czech Republic)

Articles
Many papers that include gvSIG were published in scientific journals and conference proceedings in 2012: https://gvsig.org/web/docusr/divulgacion/articulos/2012-1/

Opportunities to Help
There many ways to participate in the gvSIG project, with different levels of involvement, like:


 * Participating on the mailing lists, for users as well as developers, in may languages.


 * Testing the application.


 * Doing translations of the gvSIG user interface, user and developer documentation and the gvSIG portal.


 * Writing articles and use cases.


 * Developing new addons.

You can find more information in the following page: http://www.gvsig.org/web/community/participate

Outlook for 2013

 * Release of gvSIG Desktop 2.0
 * Events (Latin American, International,...)