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 its contents to any language in a community driven process (mainly user documentation).
  • 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
  • Releases of gvSIG extensions and releases during 2008:

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

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