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FOSS4G 2010 call for abstracts is now open! As usual, there will be a flood of awesome abstracts and ideas to be chosen from. Make sure a presentation proposal for your favourite project or case study gets in by the deadline, so you have your excuse to goto Barcelona :)

http://www.osgeo.org/foss4g/2010/call_for_abstracts

Call for papers at
http://cgs.nottingham.ac.uk/~osgis10/os_call.html

The abstract deadline is 30 January. Conference details at
http://cgs.nottingham.ac.uk/~osgis1/os_home.html

I just read about a recent Freenode fundraiser and thought you might be interested in supporting their work. OSGeo and members projects rely pretty heavily on their IRC network for a variety of real-time discussion needs. Their funding goals are quite small, so even a tiny donation will go a long way.

Donate now and get a free shirt :)

http://freenode.net/pdpc_seven.shtml

The OSGeo Poland Chapter is co-organizing a conference on the GIS applications of open source software. The event will take place on May 13-14 in Wroclaw, in co-operation with the Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation Science, Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences.

Foreign guests, including the representatives of national mapping agencies of the European Union member states have been invited to deliver plenary talks.

http://www.gislab.up.wroc.pl/wogis2010/

The OSGeo Poland Chapter is co-organizing a conference on the GIS
applications of open source software. The event will take place on May 13-14 in Wroclaw, in co-operation with the Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation Science, Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences.

Foreign guests, including the representatives of national mapping
agencies of the European Union member states have been invited to
deliver plenary talks.

More info: http://www.gislab.up.wroc.pl/wogis2010/

The Mapbender team has agreed on a date for the first code sprint in 2010. It will commence on Feb 20th 2010 in Bonn, Germany.

We will continue to work on our roadmap, for example working on a new template application with jQuery UI components, doing design with the jQuery UI CSS framework.

Everyone is welcome to attend, the past events have been very productive and a lot of fun. We do not only need developers, but UI designers, marketing people, testers, etc. Just join us!

We will be working on our roadmap and get things done for FOSSGIS 2010 in Osnabrück.

Further information in the Mapbender wiki.

The date is not confirmed. If you plan to attend, please vote for a date.

Everyone is welcome, testers, documentors, marketing folks, developers, designers...it will be fun!

February 16-19th there will be the Mil-OSS, military open source software focused event in Portland. I'm not sure I'll be able to make it this time around but I'm sure some fellow OSGeo Oregonians might be interested.

Note this is considered a working group meeting and therefore includes serious discussion about problems and solutions as opposed to sales pitches and business perspectives. For example, last years event had a "shorts and sandals, but no ties" dress code approach which was disarming and helped facilitate engaging discussion.

From a geospatial angle, it's always a great event for catching up with the OSSIM project and the Optiks image processing/remote sensing developers.

Door is open for speaker requests: http://www.mil-oss.org/speaker_form.htm

I'll be speaking at the huge AGU event this week for the first time. Other OSGeo members will be there as well. If you are around on Friday, or even nearby (downtown San Francisco) please don't hesitate to give me a buzz to meetup. If you stop by my talk on building an open source toolkit, please be sure to say hi afterwards.

Today the Mapbender development sprint took place in Bonn, Germany. We had discussed our roadmap at previous IRC meetings and started to work on it right away.

We have for example created a new application at Telascience. It uses several jQuery UI components, like accordion, slider or dialog. It furthermore uses jQuery effects to create a pseudo slippy map, along with double click zoom in/out or mousewheel zoom. We have also made use of the jQuery UI CSS framework for theming.

It's still a very basic and experimental application, but it was a great team effort. We will continue to improve this application over the next months, until it is released in Mapbender 2.7. A big thanks to all who were involved!