Difference between revisions of "GvSIG Report 2008"

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gvSIG

Contact name: Jorge Sanz

Key Accomplishments

The community portal (http://www.gvsig.org) allowed to publish:
- User documentation (in several languages)
- Tehcnical documentation (at this moment only in Spanish)
- A catalog of contributions (new extensions, non-official gvSIG releases, more documentation, etc.)
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 for gvSIG and gvSIG Mobile
A new public FTP repository has been published at ftp://gvsig.org
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 and the gvSIG synchronization extension(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)
- Second version of 3D support and Dielmo OpenLIDAR extension (21 of January)
International events where gvSIG project has been officially represented:
- TopCart, Valencia, Spain
- Primer simposio GIS Educación en América Latina, Quito, Ecuador
- II Jornadas SIG Libre, Girona, Spain
- FOSSGIS2008, Freiburg, Germany
- Primo incontro degli utenti italiani di gvSIG, Trieste, Italy
- XXII International Geodesy Students Meeting, Valencia, Spain
- AGIT, Salzburg, Germany
- 1er encuentro Geomática Libre, Mérida, Venezuela
- FOSS4G2008, Cape Town, South Africa
- Open Source World Conference, Málaga, Spain
- Intergeo, Bremen, Germany
- Latinoware'08, Foz de Iguazú, Brasil
- Jornadas para las Infraestructuras de Datos Espaciales de España, Tenerife, Spain
- III Congreso de Software Libre de la Comunitat Valenciana, Alicante, Spain

gvSIG Commons

Aiming to produce reusable components not only for gvSIG software but also for other Java FOSS projects, gvSIG project is releasing some products as independent sub-projects at the gvSIG Commons initiative. At this moment the Open Scene Graph Virtual Planets project is releasing versions and is published also at the SVN (http://subversion.gvsig.org/osgvp)

4th gvSIG Conference

The 4th gvSIG Conference was a succesful event with more than 600 delegates where gvSIG developers and users presented their last year experiences. In the same context (the Valencia Conference Centre) a OGC TC/PC meeting and the first Spanish Eclipse Day took place.

There were 9 workshops to show last gvSIG features as well as more than 30 presentations and plenary sessions.


Conference Hall (Photo by Jorge Sanz)	Session (Photo by Camino Rodero)	Session (Photo by Verónica Navarro)

Downloads

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

Releases
Version	Binaries	Sources (no SVN)
1.9alpha	1186	0
1.1.2	56.504	30.380
1.1.1	41.791	757
1.1	50.647	2.238
1.0.2	17.700	0
Mobile 0.1	3.387	3978

Pilots and extensions
Pilots	Downloads
jCRS	1.869
Raster	12.791
3D	3.679
Synchro	963
Publishing	738

Documentation
Manuals	Downloads	Courses	Downloads
1.0	2.036	0.3	1.731
Mobile	2.501	1.0	2.070
Mobile install	4129	1.1	8.759
1.1	32.142	Extension dev.	1.588
1.0 install	740
Scripting	527
Metadata	1.760
Roadmap	5.317

Other statistics

Known countries where gvSIG is beeing used

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
Help us joining the testing team for a more formal work
Help us and join the translation group

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

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 ** A catalog of contributions (new extensions, non-official gvSIG releases, more documentation,  etc.)
 * 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
+* The project source repository has been published at http://subversion.gvsig.org for gvSIG and gvSIG Mobile
 * A new public FTP repository has been published at ftp://gvsig.org
 * Releases of gvSIG extensions and releases during 2008:
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 ** ArcSDE extension ([http://tinyurl.com/bdj5lt 6 of February])
 ** gvSIG 1.1.2 ([http://tinyurl.com/cwomzm 4 of March])
-** First official release of gvSIG Mobile ([http://tinyurl.com/d4k5db 13 of March])
+** First official release of gvSIG Mobile and the gvSIG synchronization extension([http://tinyurl.com/d4k5db 13 of March])
 ** Raster pilot extension ([http://tinyurl.com/b4vmjb 27 of March])
 ** Publishing extension ([http://tinyurl.com/bpde5u 30 of July])
 ** Metadata management extension ([http://tinyurl.com/bsl3nc 23 of September])
 ** gvSIG 1.9alpha ([http://tinyurl.com/cclq4n 27 of November])
+** Second version of 3D support and Dielmo OpenLIDAR extension ([http://tinyurl.com/crpu4x 21 of January])
 * International events where gvSIG project has been officially represented:
 ** ''TopCart'', Valencia, Spain
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+====gvSIG Commons====
+Aiming to produce reusable components not only for gvSIG software but also for other Java FOSS projects, gvSIG project is releasing some products as independent sub-projects at the [https://gvsig.org/web/projects/gvsig-commons gvSIG Commons] initiative. At this moment the ''[https://gvsig.org/web/projects/gvsig-commons/osgvp Open Scene Graph Virtual Planets]'' project is releasing versions and is published also at the SVN (http://subversion.gvsig.org/osgvp)
 ====4th gvSIG Conference====
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+[[Image:DSC07898 2.jpg|325px|Hall of the Valencia Conference Centre]]
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+[[Image:4th gvSIG conf session2.jpg|338px|Plenary session]]
 |-
 |Conference Hall (Photo by [[Jorge Sanz]])
 |Session (Photo by [http://picasaweb.google.es/caminoroderomerino/JornadasGvSIG_4diciembre2008# Camino Rodero])
+|Session (Photo by Verónica Navarro)
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 ====Other statistics====
-[[Image:GvSIG spread 2008.png|thumb|500px|right|Known countries where gvSIG is beeing used]]
+[[Image:GvSIG spread 2008.png|thumb|300px|right|Known countries where gvSIG is beeing used]]
 * gvSIG GUI translated in more than 20 languages
 * Mailing lists subscribers: