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This just came through the FreeGIS Mailinglist:
The 52°North Open Source Initiative hereby issues a call for entries for the 52°North Student Innovation Prize for Geoinformatics.
The aim of this innovation prize is to encourage students to make a contribution to the development and practical realization of innovative concepts in the field of geoinformatics. The competition is […]

The Center for Geospatial Science (CGS) and the Service-Oriented Software Research Network (SOSoRNET) are organizing a workshop about Geospatial Web Services. It will be held at the CGS in Nottingham from 16-17 June 2008. It is meant to get insights into key research activities in the field of Geospatial Web Services, but also to give […]

This year’s GI-days conference (16-17 June), held in Muenster, Germany, is focusing on Interoperability and spatial processing in GI applications. The conference program has just been released and it seems, that Processing Services are one of the major topics. Two separate sessions are held on WPS. Additionally there will be workshops on Wednesday, which also […]

Somehow, I have missed the OGC press anouncement, or will there be none? Whatever, the WPS has been released as an implementation specification at OGC after a long trail. All the documents are available through here. The schemas can be also downloaded from here.
Just in time, 52north released a new version of the 52n […]

The foss4g conference, which is held this year in Victoria, is the biggest event on Open Source GI-software development. As already stated in Paul Ramsey’s blog there are 217 submissions, of which 120 presentations have to be selected for a presentation. The comittee decided to go for an open review process. Anybody can start and […]

JTS and GEOS are the backbone of most Open Source GIS applications. JTS is a java-based API implementing the Simple Features Specification and providing a lot of feature analysis tools. GEOS is the geometry engine for the PostGIS database. So a review of the history of such prominent pieces of GI-libraries is really worthy to […]

For the AGILE workshop about Test-bed for geospatial web service interoperability which was held last week before the AGILE conference, I prepared with Bastian Schaeffer, MSc. student from the University of Muenster, a Web Processing Service demo. The demo client is based on udig and allows the user to integrate different remote sources (WFS & […]

As it can be read in the article about this year’s Foss4G in the joint newsletter of the OSGeo Foundation and the Grass GIS team, the next Foss4g (Free And Open Source Software for Geoinformatics) in 2007 will be held in Victoria Canada from 24-27 September. Foss4g is the former MapServer User Conference and turned […]

Brent Owens of openplans.org announced on the geoserver mailing list the new geoserver blog. The blog will cover all geoserver related stuff as announcements, tutorials, tips and developer notes. This blog is meant for people, who cannot follow all mailing list discussions.

Ok, it is summer, but someone (Mateusz Łoskot) is just preparing himself for the upcoming OpenSource conference Foss4G in September in Lausanne, Switzerland and initiated an IRC channel for the conference. The IRC log of this channel does not yet include interesting content, but this could change during the conference. Also some blogging will be […]