[Gvsig_english] First Meeting of German-Speaking gvSIG Users

[comunicacion_gvsig at gva.es]

On May 26 the "First Meeting of German-Speaking gvSIG Users" was held  
in Munich, with an attendance of nearly 60 professionals from Germany,  
Austria, Switzerland, northern Italy and Bosnia & Herzegovina.

Presentations from many different perspectives were shown,  
demonstrating some of the projects that are being carried out in  
German-speaking countries; from the use of gvSIG with the artistic  
heritage of Bavaria and for the reconstruction of landscape  
geomorphology, through to its use in organisations for development
cooperation.

The Department of Health and Environment of Munich City Council opened  
the conference with a speech about the process of migrating to free  
software that is being undertaken by the Council, and more  
specifically, the use of gvSIG as the tool selected for the migration  
process by the Department.

The company CSGIS [1] presented news relating to version 1.9 of gvSIG,  
while José Vicente Higón, as a representative of the gvSIG  
Association, explained the benefits that the future version 2.0--to be  
announced at the end of the year--will bring to developers. WhereGroup  
[2] gave a presentation on the creation of "OGC Services" with the  
gvSIG publication extension.

The conference was enhanced by a presentation about the application of  
raster and geostatistical methods using gvSIG and Sextante.

Attendees had the opportunity to share experiences directly with  
members of the Technical Steering Committee of gvSIG, which was very  
well received.

During the final session of the conference there was an interesting  
discussion about the various possibilities for active participation in  
gvSIG available to the German-speaking user community.  Here, there  
were reports on the current state of the translation of the manual and  
the methodology of project  documentation [3].

On their own initiative, users have created a Wiki [4] for the  
exchange of documentation relating to the gvSIG project. The event's  
presentations are available on the web [5].

The conference was organised by the Department of Health and  
Environment of Munich City Council, the Chamber of Commerce of Munich  
and Oberbayern and the company CSGIS.

[1] www.csgis.de
[2] www.wheregroup.com
[3] www.gvsig.org
[4] www.webmapping.info/mwgvsig
[5] webmapping.info/mwgvsig/index.php?title=Bericht_gvSIG_Anwendertreffen_2009




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