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52°North SOS and WPS on OSGeo Live DVD 8.5

March 20, 2015 by Ann Hitchcock Leave a Comment

Filed Under: 52°North, Communities, Geoprocessing, Sensor Web Tagged With: clients, geoprocessing, osgeo-live, Sensor Observation, Sensor Web, SOS, WPS

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

March 3, 2015 by Ann Hitchcock Leave a Comment

Filed Under: 52°North, Communities, GSoC

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*.

exploring culinary horizons

December 31, 2014 by Ann Hitchcock Leave a Comment

Filed Under: 52°North, Communities

This year’s Christmas party at the LandGenussWerkstatt required 52Ners to push their culinary talents and tastes to the limit. Divided into 4 groups, we cooked and baked ourselved a delicious four course meal. The exquisite intermediate course won the favor of all! more >

GSoC Reunion 2014

November 17, 2014 by Carson Farmer Leave a Comment

Filed Under: 52°North, GSoC Tagged With: Mentor Summit

Once again, 52˚North had the excellent opportunity to participate in Google’s Summer of Code. We had four awesome projects, all of which were quite successful – so a big thanks to all our students and mentors! This was my first year with 52˚North and Google Summer of Code. I am pleased to report that it has been a positive and valuable experience for me and I hope the same can be said for the students and other mentors.

T-Shirt wall with 10 years of mentor T-Shirst (courtesy of Chandan Singh - http://chandansingh.net/blog/gsoc-reunion-summit-2014-my-point) — T-Shirt wall with 10 years of mentor T-Shirts (courtesy of Chandan Singh – http://chandansingh.net/blog/gsoc-reunion-summit-2014-my-point)

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