GvSIG Report 2017

gvSIG Report 2017

Key Accomplishments

* Release of gvSIG Desktop 2.4 RC3 (29/09/2017). 
* Release of the new gvSIG Mobile (22/11/2017) 
* Development of gvSIG Crime. 
* gvSIG Batoví (gvSIG Educa)  
* Google Summer of Code 2017 participation.

Events

* 13th International gvSIG Conference (Spain) 10/2017 (http://www.gvsig.com/es/eventos/jornadas-gvsig/13as-jornadas-gvsig) 
* 2nd gvSIG Festival (virtual conference) 05/2017 (http://www.gvsig.com/es/eventos/gvsig-festival/2o-gvsig-festival)  
* 9as Jornadas de Latinoamérica y Caribe de gvSIG (Brazil) 10/2017 (http://www.gvsig.com/es/eventos/jornadas-lac/2017)  
* 4as Jornadas de México de gvSIG (México) 10/2017 (http://www.gvsig.com/es/eventos/jornadas-mexico/2017) 
* Different conferences in universities (University of Vigo, Miguel Hernández University in Elche, UCM in Madrid)

Presentations at other conferences

Sharing and Reuse Conference by European Commission (Lisbon – Portugal)
NASA Europa Challenge (Helsinki Finland)
GIS Day Sudan (University of Karthoum - Sudan)
VI Conference in Memory of Petr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky (Lipetsk - Russia)
Space Apps Challenge of NASA (Valencia - Spain)
VIII Jornadas Ibéricas de Infraestructuras de Datos Espaciales (Lisbon – Portugal)
Visualizar’17: Migrations (Madrid - Spain)
Iberflora 2017 (Plants and flowers trade fair in Valencia - Spain)
I National Meeting of Geobloggers (Valencia - Spain)
Ateneo Mercantil of Valencia (Valencia – Spain)
CONAMA (Valencia – Spain)

Awards

* 1st prize in “Cross-border category” at “Sharing & Reuse Awards” of European Commission.
* “Europa Challenge” at Helsinki awarded by NASA to the gvSIG Suite in the “Professional” category.
* Excellence “Internationalization” Award given by the Professional Union of Valencia.
* “ITC Promoter organization” prize awarded by the Valencian Telecommunications.

Articles

Many papers that include gvSIG were published in scientific journals and conference proceedings in 2017: https://gvsig.org/web/docusr/divulgacion/articulos/

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 case studies.
Developing new addons.

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

Outlook for 2018

Release of gvSIG Desktop 2.5 Improvements in gvSIG Mobile Events (Latin American, International,...)