GvSIG Report 2008

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gvSIG

Key Accomplishments

  • The community portal (http://www.gvsig.org) has grown in user and technical documentation, allowing the translation of all this contents to any language in a community driven process.
  • gvSIG mailing lists have grown in subscribers (more than 2000) 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
  • Other:
    • Created a developers guide (only in Spanish at this moment)


  • 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):

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

Areas for Improvement

  • any weaknesses in process, software, management, etc. that you plan to address or recognise need some help

Opportunities to Help

  • list areas that could use some help from members and readers of the report

Outlook for 2009

  • this is the motivational part that is meant to inspire readers to keep their eyes open for great stuff in 2008 :)