[Gvsig_english] The gvSIG Association signs agreements of collaboration with six companies from Spain, Germany and Argentina

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On friday 4th of December, during the 5th gvSIG International  
Conference that was hold in Valencia (Spain), they were officially  
signed agreements of collaboration beetween the gvSIG Association and  
six GIS sector companies, which goals are to spread the use of gvSIG  
and other geomatic software and to boost the software industry,  
specially for the small and the medium-sized enterprises, under the  
premises of collaboration and the shared knowledge.

The spanish companies Dielmo 3D, DiSiD Technologies, Enxenio and  
Giservices.eu add to the gvSIG Association their high specialization  
in fields like LiDAR technology and Digital Terrain Models, JAVA  
technologies and distributed architectures or municipal management.

CSGIS is the first european and non-spanish company that signs an  
agreement of collaboration with the gvSIG Association. Located in  
Germany, is the gvSIG point of reference in the german-speakers  
countries and they were who organizated, the last year, the 1st gvSIG  
german-speakers users conference.

Geoopensource becomes the first latin-american collaborator of the  
gvSIG Association. Located in Argentina, it was the promoter of the  
1st latin-american and caribbean gvSIG Conference, that was holded in  
the last October with attendants of fourteen countries. Geoopensource,  
together with Creativa, member of the Association, make up the  
latin-american division of the project.

In the collaboration agreement signing participated, representing the  
gvSIG Association, the General Manager Álvaro Anguix and the Business  
Development Responsible Amelia del Rey, and representatives of the  
companies.

Álvaro Anguix pointed that the gvSIG project had reached a dimension  
that required an organization that ensures its sustainability from the  
generation of richness, applying now to the organization area the  
project principles that were applied from the beginnig to the  
technical area. He also pointed that this is an open organization and  
that these agreements are the first step of a path to be covered to  
belong to the Association as a full member.

The signing of this agreements means a new milestone for the gvSIG  
project within a new age represented by the gvSIG Association under  
the slogan: new ideas for a new model.

More information:
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