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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 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
- 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
