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52°North explores the Luneburg Heath

March 12, 2014 by Ann Hitchcock Leave a Comment

Last month, 52°North staff held their yearly retreat – this year at Camp Reinsehlen in the Luneburg Heath. The quietude of the heath provided a perfect ambience for focussed brainstorming and relaxing walks. We wracked our brains for three days, targeting 52°North road maps and aligning common goals and strategies for 2014. A subtle move from archery to darts gave us all the opportunity to test the first Open Source Software for Darts -> yadarts! Very cool…

We are now armed with new ideas and lots of motivation! more >

AGILE Conference Workshop: “Geoprocessing on the Web” – CfP

March 4, 2014 by Ann Hitchcock Leave a Comment

Filed Under: 52°North, Communities, Geoprocessing Tagged With: AGILE, API, geoprocessing, services, web-based geoprocessing

Today the Web serves as a universal information and communication infrastructure. We’re able to share data, documents, maps and apps based on web technologies. The efficient use of geoprocessing functionality for data analysis and presentation on the Web is an active topic in GIS science and application. The massive rise in available spatial data from mapping communities, sensor operators and public bodies has also spurred the demand by lay users and experts for readily available analysis and data processing tools. While Desktop and Workstation GIS are still widely used, there is also a trend towards sharing and reusing data processing and analysis workflows on the Web.more >

“Sensor Web for Environmental Research” Workshop @ AGILE: CfP

March 4, 2014 by Ann Hitchcock Leave a Comment

Filed Under: Communities, Sensor Web Tagged With: Citizen Science, data quality, internet of things, linked sensor data, Processing, Sensor Web, uncertainty, visualization

Call for Papers

The aim of the workshop “Sensor Web for Environmental Research” is to bring together researchers and practitioners in the field of Sensor Web for Environmental Research. The objectives are to get an overview of current Sensor Web technologies applications in practice and to discuss shortcomings and research challenges, such as dealing with uncertainties, incorporating quality information or automation of analysis of data published in the Sensor Web.more >

52°North seeks student applications for the Google Summer of Code 2014

February 25, 2014 by Ann Hitchcock Leave a Comment

Filed Under: Communities, GSoC Tagged With: 52North, Google Summer of Code, GSoC

52°North is thrilled to be chosen once again to be a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code 2014 (GSoC)! The Google Summer of Code is a global program that offers students stipends to write code for open source projects. In honor of the Google Summer of Code’s 10th anniversary, Google has upped the student stipend 10 %. Thus, the stipend recipient receives $ 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, please have a look at https://wiki.52north.org/bin/view/Projects/GSoC2014.

Student Application opens on March 10, 2012 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 (j.schulte@52north.org) or join us at *irc.freenode.net* *#52north*.