GvSIG Report 2008
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gvSIG
- Contact name: Jorge Sanz
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:
| Releases | 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 | Downloads |
| jCRS | 1.869 |
| Raster | 12.791 |
| 3D | 3.679 |
| Synchro | 963 |
| Publishing | 738 |
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 :)