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52°North SOS and WPS on OSGeo Live DVD 8.5

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OSGeo-Live 8.5 has been released! For this release, geospatial applications have been updated to their latest stable release.  OSGeo-Live is a self-contained bootable DVD, USB flash drive and Virtual Machine based upon Ubuntu Linux (version 12.04 LTS). OSGeo-Live is pre-configured with a wide variety of robust open source geospatial software. All applications can be trialled without installing anything on your computer, simply by booting the computer from a DVD or USB drive, or running in a Virtual Machine environment. Each featured package is accompanied by both a publication quality one page descriptive summary and a short tutorial on how to get started using it. more >

52°North seeks students for GSoC 2015

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Once again, 52°North has been chosen to be a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code 2015 (GSoC)!  The Google Summer of Code is a global program that offers students stipends to write code for open source projects. Stipend recipients receive $ 5.500,- for 3 months of  successful software development for 52°North. A mentor from a 52°North partner organization supervises the student during this period.

As such, we now look for students who are interested in writing code for various 52°North projects. If you are interested in writing code for software developed by the 52°North communities, we have a number of interesing project ideas. Please have a look at https://wiki.52north.org/bin/view/Projects/GSoC2015.

Student Application opens on March 16, 2015 at 19:00 UTC – but the discussion can start right now!

This summer, flip bits not burgers with 52°North!

Any questions? Please contact Jan Schulte () or join us at *irc.freenode.net* *#52north*.

Google Summer of Code 2014 Wrap up

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52°North completed its third year in a row as a Google Summer of Code mentoring organization. This year we experienced some growing pains. After being thrilled to receive a record number of students – thanks Google for allotting us six (!) spaces in 2014 – 52°North was disappointed that two of the students disqualified themselves within the first few weeks. Nevertheless, we were particularly pleased to work with new mentors from ITC (The Netherlands), Hunter College (USA) and the Jacobs University (Bremen, Germany) and four students this summer. 52°North’s overall goals for the projects were to extend software with strategically promising features and to improve usability of the software.

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