GvSIG Report 2008

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gvSIG

 * Contact name: Jorge Sanz

Key Accomplishments

 * The community portal (http://www.gvsig.org) has grown in user and technical documentation, allowing the translation of its contents to any language in a community driven process (mainly user documentation).
 * gvSIG mailing lists have grown in subscribers (more than 2300, see numbers below) and a new mailing list has been created for the the Italian community
 * The project source repository has been published at http://subversion.gvsig.org
 * International events where gvSIG project has been officially represented:
 * Primer simposio GIS Educación en América Latina, Quito, Ecuador
 * Intergeo, Bremen, Germany
 * FOSSGIS2008, Freiburg, Germany
 * FOSS4G2008, Cape Town, South Africa
 * Latinoware'08, Foz de Iguazú, Brasil
 * 1er encuentro Geomática Libre, Mérida, Venezuela
 * AGIT, Salzburg, Germany
 * Open Source World Conference, Málaga, Spain
 * II Jornadas SIG Libre, Girona, Spain
 * Releases of gvSIG extensions and releases during 2008:
 * First 3D pilot extension ( 7 of January)
 * ArcSDE extension (6 of February)
 * gvSIG 1.1.2 (4 of March)
 * First official release of gvSIG Mobile (13 of March)
 * Raster pilot extension (27 of March)
 * Publishing extension (30 of July)
 * Metadata management extension (23 of September)
 * gvSIG 1.9alpha (27 of November)

Downloads
These are approximate numbers about gvSIG releases downloads during 2008 (as of 17 of December of 2008):

Other statistics

 * gvSIG GUI translated in more than 20 languages
 * Mailing lists subscribers:
 * Users: 1255
 * Developers: 618
 * International: 521
 * Italian: 160
 * Known countries with registered users: 42
 * Known countries where gvSIG has been downloaded: 59

Areas for Improvement
gvSIG project needs to:


 * Open the bug tracking system
 * Open the gvSIG project organization to the community
 * Stablish a fixed release schedule (like Ubuntu Linux)
 * Create more technical documentation in English

Opportunities to Help

 * Test gvSIG and report bugs and annoyances at mailing lists
 * Write use cases and report them
 * Offer services (development, training) with gvSIG
 * Propose new features and discuss them on the mailing lists

Outlook for 2009

 * Start a new organization to strength the project and allow new companies, universities and public administrations to participate actively on the project management
 * Start a community-driven formal testing
 * Release a stable version of gvSIG with new features:
 * Refactored data access (hopefully without users taking account of it)
 * New symbology support
 * Raster analysis (classification, principal components analysis, mosaic, etc.)
 * Network geoprocessing
 * Topology creation, editing and validating
 * 3D support
 * And others: LIDAR, geocoding, reports and charts, WPS,...
 * Release a stable version of gvSIG Mobile with new features:
 * Refactored core with gvSIG desktop compatibility
 * Full editing
 * Custom forms
 * Phone ME support (finally a trully free JVM for PDA!)
 * GPS library
 * OpenMoko and Android versions