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16th - 18th September 2013: East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham The AGI GeoCommunity '13 conference committee gathered for 2 days on the 25 and 26 April in order to agree and assemble this year's conference programme. We have ten streams running over the two days: BIM &...

  May 6, 2013 - The FOSS4G community has spoken! The open voting process (http://2013.foss4g.org/press-release-10th-april-2013/) closed with a record response of people sifting and reporting on their favourite submissions from a selection of over 320 abstracts. It clearly wasn’t always an easy...

  Apr 30, 2013 - We are pleased to announce the establishment of the Open Source Geospatial Laboratory at the University of Southampton, United Kingdom. The laboratory is one of the members of a worldwide network developed under the auspices of the ICA-OSGeo Memorandum of Understanding...

  April 2, 2013 - OSGeo are delighted to be able to announce a second Diamond sponsor for FOSS4G to accompany Ordnance Survey: The Met Office.  The Met Office, like Ordnance Survey is a familiar name to many (and is in fact  ranked in the top ten of 2012's Social Brands 100), but perhaps,...

FOSS4G Community Votes to see Multiple OpenGeo Sessions New York, NY, April 23, 2012 — OpenGeo, the commercial open source provider behind the OpenGeo Suite, will have a strong showing at the second annual FOSS4G North America conference. The gold level sponsor has had nine sessions and three...

FOSS4G-NA 2013 to be Held May 22-24, 2012 in Minneapolis, MN Minneapolis, MN, April 23, 2013 The Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial - North America (FOSS4G-NA) program committee has released the schedule for the upcoming 2013 conference. FOSS4G-NA 2013 will be held May 22-24, 2012 at...

  April 15, 2013 - The gvSIG Association announces the publishing of the gvSIG 2.0 final version. The main novelty of this version is its new architecture. The way gvSIG manage the data sources has been redesigned with the objective of improving the reliability as well as the modularity,...

-10th of April-The planning for the FOSS4G conference reaches a significant milestone with the closing of the Call for Presentations (12th April). Now the open source user community has the opportunity to review the abstracts submitted and vote for those that they want to hear at the conference....

  April 8, 2013 - OSGeo has been accepted as mentoring organisation at Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2013! This program provides funding for students to work on open source projects under the support of experienced mentors. All OSGeo projects are invited to propose ideas, and encourage...

  All Change:State of the Map Conference returns to UK after 6 years March 26, 2013 - OpenStreet Map's annual international conference  will be in the UK after an absence of 6 years. Birmingham will host the event from 6th-8th September 2013 at Aston University's Business...