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Hold a chance to win free copy of  Building Web and Mobile ArcGIS Server Applications with JavaScript  written by 'Eric Pimpler', just by commenting! For the contest we have 5 eBooks to be given away to 5 lucky winners.

How you can win:

To win your copy of this book, all you need to do is visit the book page and come up with a comment below highlighting the reason “why you would like to win this book” and share a post about this book with this unique short link on your social media profiles: Don’t forget to drop your email address and the permalink of your social media post in your comment.

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Duration of the contest & selection of winners: The contest is valid till 11th May. Winners will be selected on the basis of their comment posted.

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April 22
Portland, OR, USA

Community voting open through May 5th

What presentations do you want to see at FOSS4G?  Now is the time to tell us!  

The FOSS4G community at large can now read and score potential presentations.  The conference committee will use the aggregate scores from the community review process to help choose which presentations to accept, and to assign presentations to appropriately sized rooms.

The community review process is an important part of creating a conference that benefits and reflects the community. Your input is a significant part of what makes FOSS4G a great conference. Note that you do not need to be registered for the conference to vote. And remember, all presentations will be available online, so even if you are unable to attend, your vote matters.

Please complete your voting by May 5th.

Important Conference Dates

See the full calendar for more details.

• June 15th: Early bird registration ends
• Sept 8th-9th: Workshops
• Sept 10th-12th: Main Conference
• Sept 13th: Code Sprint

About FOSS4G

The annual FOSS4G conference is the largest global gathering focused on open source geospatial software. FOSS4G brings together developers, users, decision-makers and observers from a broad spectrum of organizations and fields of operation. Through six days of workshops, presentations, discussions, and cooperation, FOSS4G participants create effective and relevant geospatial products, standards, and protocols.

FOSS4G has been held all over the world and draws attendees from over 40 countries. Nottingham, England hosted the conference in. In, Portland, Oregon, USA will host FOSS4G’s tenth year.

About OSGeo

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) was founded in to support and build the highest-quality open source geospatial software. The foundation's goal is to encourage the use and collaborative development of community-led projects, data development and education. Many projects live under the OSGeo umbrella, including FOSS4G.

About PDX-OSGeo - Portland Area and Oregon OSGeo Chapter

The PDX-OSGeo chapter of OSGeo has been meeting, discussing and promoting the use of open source geospatial technology. Chapter members often organize or present on open source software at regional geospatial conferences. PDX is the airport code and like the PDX airport, the group has a wide catchment area.

Sponsors

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Media Partners

These leading geospatial media organizations have partnered with FOSS4G to keep their readers informed.

The necessary tasks in gvSIG 2.1 for maintenance and management of translations in the different languages have been carried out already. Now they have to be updated in order to have the final version with as many languages as possible.

The participation of the Community is fundamental in order to get this objective.

If you are interested in collaborating with the existing languages updating, as well as in translating gvSIG 2.1 to a new language.

Translations that aren't finished when the final version is released will be published as a package to be loaded from the gvSIG Add-ons manager.

Here's the recent geonews in batch mode.

On the open source / open data front:

• Here's AmigoCloud's open source GDAL/OGR plugin for ArcGIS
• I learned about dat, an open source 'data management package' with revision control, with similarities (competing with?) with GeoGit, related, GeoGit for Python: Announcing geogit-py
• We already told you about GeoJSON over GitHub, but you can go further with GitSpatial, a spatial API for GitHub-hosted GeoJSON files
• MySQL trying to catch up PostGIS, MySQL 5.7 GIS building on Boost Geometry
• GeoA shares an entry on StoryMap JS: Tell your own story using the Open-Source Story Map tool
• Amongst recent software updates, MapTiler 0.5.3
• More editing ahead, 500,000 km2 Satellite Imagery Update for OpenStreetMap Tracing, meanwhile you can do it yourself; Drone Adventures Imagery for Tracing in OpenStreetMap: Fukushima + Lima

On the Esri front:

• 'Explorer for ArcGIS', yes, that's for this month on iOS, Explorer for ArcGIS is coming!
• Interoperability, Using OpenLayers to work with REST and OGC services from ArcGIS Server
• 2TB of new imagery, New DigitalGlobe content released in World Imagery basemap
• Updated, ArcGIS API for JavaScript Version 3.9 Released
• Becoming open, Esri ArcGIS Open Data Update

On the Google front:

• That's it, anyone in the U.S. can finally buy their own Google Glasses, but if you want one, you need to buy it on Tuesday April 15 or wait until it becomes really available to everyone, anytime, Anyone Can Buy Google Glass April 15 and directly over CNN, Google Glass available to anyone for one day only - and yes, quantities are limited
• A generic and informative article About Google Earth Imagery
• With the data layer, Build a map infographic with Google Maps & JavaScript
• Maps everywhere, USGS Maps in Google Maps Gallery
• Angkor Wat, Wander through Angkor’s thousand-year-old temples on Street View
• Another article on The obscured areas of Google Earth

Discussed over Slashdot:

• Thanks open licenses, New York Public Library Releases Over 20,000 Hi-Res Maps
• Another way to do 3D viz,  3D Display Uses Misted Water
• Taxi sharing, Taxis By Algorithm: Streamlining City Transport With Graph Theory
• Still possible in, Russian GLONASS Down For 12 Hours
• Crowdsourced traffic app, In Israel, Class-Action Plaintiff Requests Waze Source Code Under GPL
• Location privacy once again, London's Public Bike Data Can Tell Everyone Where You've Been
• A map of submarine cables, Oxford Internet Institute Creates Internet "Tube" Map
• Another kind of map, Physicists Produce Antineutrino Map of the World
• Thanks OpenStreetMap once again, Racing To Contain Ebola, the map on MapBox: Mapping an entire city in a day

In the everything else category:

• We never specifically addressed the TopoJSON format, which is topological GeoJSON, related, GeoJSON for linked data, The GeoJSON-LD project
• A post that clearly demonstrates why GML was never a good solution: GML madness, hope GeoPackage will be a better one
• We never really mentioned the Internet of Things yet, worth reading a bit about this current buzz word since it has obvious geolocation ties, related, The Internet of Things forecasted to include 26 billion intelligent devices by
• Another informative entry on what is geofencing, Geofencing And My Business
• An why not, Cloak – location-based anti-social app lets you avoid annoying friends and exes
• A Make article on DIY Satellites: Now and Near Future and another one named Your Own Satellite: 7 Things to Know Before You Go
• Here's why remote sensing is a profession, Earth observation data and revenue generation; the catch and guidelines and it's evolving fast, Earth observation satellite startups set to transform the EO imaging ecosystem
• Corporate privacy is dead too, monitor Saudi Arabia oil reserves from satellites, Monitoring Oil reserves from Space

In the maps category:

• GeoCurrents offers a series over Ukraine, Ukrainian Regionalism and the Federal Option, Energy Issues in the Ukrainian Crisis and Russian Envelopment? Ukraine’s Geopolitical Complexities, also related, How cartographers should map Crimea?
• In the UK? UK Air Pollution Forecast Map
• Maps is money, The interactive map of taxi trips in New York city
• And a map of companies and their worldwide presence OpenCorporates Maps by KILN
• Fiction maps, The Secrets and Clues of the Official Game of Thrones Maps and why not, The Geology of 'Game of Thrones'

April 11
Portland, OR, USA
 

Regular Session and Academic Track proposals due

A reminder to all FOSS4G attendees - the proposal submission deadline for both the Academic Track and Regular Sessions is next Tuesday, April 15th. For the Regular Sessions, we strongly recommend reviewing our advice for successful proposals before submitting.

The community voting on the Regular Sessions will directly follow the deadline, April 18th to 28th.  

Travel Grant Announcement

We realize that traveling to and attending a conference can be expensive, and that not everyone who uses or develops open source software has provided funding to pay their way or the means to pay for it themselves. To make sure that as many deserving people as possible can attend FOSS4G, we're creating a travel grant program with funds to cover registration and travel costs. Watch for details coming soon.

One additional reminder: Early Bird Registration is open!

Important Conference Dates

See the full calendar for more details.

• April 15th: Academic Paper/Presentation Proposals Due
• June 15th: Early bird registration ends
• Sept 8th-9th: Workshops
• Sept 10th-12th: Main Conference
• Sept 13th: Code Sprint

About FOSS4G

The annual FOSS4G conference is the largest global gathering focused on open source geospatial software. FOSS4G brings together developers, users, decision-makers and observers from a broad spectrum of organizations and fields of operation. Through six days of workshops, presentations, discussions, and cooperation, FOSS4G participants create effective and relevant geospatial products, standards, and protocols.

FOSS4G has been held all over the world and draws attendees from over 40 countries. Nottingham, England hosted the conference in. In, Portland, Oregon, USA will host FOSS4G’s tenth year.

About OSGeo

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) was founded in to support and build the highest-quality open source geospatial software. The foundation's goal is to encourage the use and collaborative development of community-led projects, data development and education. Many projects live under the OSGeo umbrella, including FOSS4G.

About PDX-OSGeo - Portland Area and Oregon OSGeo Chapter

The PDX-OSGeo chapter of OSGeo has been meeting, discussing and promoting the use of open source geospatial technology. Chapter members often organize or present on open source software at regional geospatial conferences. PDX is the airport code and like the PDX airport, the group has a wide catchment area.

Sponsors

Silver Level Sponsors

Bronze Level Sponsors

Supporters

Media Partners

These leading geospatial media organizations have partnered with FOSS4G to keep their readers informed.