GvSIG Report 2008
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
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.
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Downloads
These are approximate numbers about gvSIG releases downloads during 2008 (as of 17 of December of 2008):
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Other statistics
- 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