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=== Key Accomplishments ===
 
=== 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).
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* The community portal (http://www.gvsig.org) allowed to publish:
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** User documentation (in several languages)
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** Tehcnical documentation (at this moment only in English)
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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
 
* 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
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* A new public FTP repository has been published at ftp://gvsig.org
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* Releases of gvSIG extensions and releases during 2008:
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** First 3D pilot extension ( [http://tinyurl.com/bkr27v 7 of January])
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** ArcSDE extension ([http://tinyurl.com/bdj5lt 6 of February])
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** gvSIG 1.1.2 ([http://tinyurl.com/cwomzm 4 of March])
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** First official release of gvSIG Mobile ([http://tinyurl.com/d4k5db 13 of March])
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** Raster pilot extension ([http://tinyurl.com/b4vmjb 27 of March])
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** Publishing extension ([http://tinyurl.com/bpde5u 30 of July])
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** Metadata management extension ([http://tinyurl.com/bsl3nc 23 of September])
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** gvSIG 1.9alpha ([http://tinyurl.com/cclq4n 27 of November])
 
* International events where gvSIG project has been officially represented:
 
* International events where gvSIG project has been officially represented:
 
** ''Primer simposio GIS Educación en América Latina'', Quito, Ecuador
 
** ''Primer simposio GIS Educación en América Latina'', Quito, Ecuador
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** ''Open Source World Conference'', Málaga, Spain
 
** ''Open Source World Conference'', Málaga, Spain
 
** ''II Jornadas SIG Libre'', Girona, Spain
 
** ''II Jornadas SIG Libre'', Girona, Spain
* Releases of gvSIG extensions and releases during 2008:
 
** First 3D pilot extension ( [http://tinyurl.com/bkr27v 7 of January])
 
** 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])
 
** 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])
 
  
 
====Downloads====
 
====Downloads====

Revision as of 04:48, 3 March 2009

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gvSIG

Key Accomplishments

  • The community portal (http://www.gvsig.org) allowed to publish:
    • User documentation (in several languages)
    • Tehcnical documentation (at this moment only in English)
    • 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
  • A new public FTP repository has been published at ftp://gvsig.org
  • Releases of gvSIG extensions and releases during 2008:
  • 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

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

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