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OSGeo Live DVD 8.0 available

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OSGeo-Live 8.0 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 @ FOSS4G Europe 2014

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FOSS4G-EIt has been a while since this year’s FOSS4G-Europe conference took place in Bremen; however, we would like to share our presentations and experiences in this blog post. Three members of 52°North staff attended the FOSS4G-E, which was conveniently located in the nearby city of Bremen, and talked about diverse topics involving INSPIRE, the WPS standard, collaborative software development, teaching, JavaScript, and more.more >

52°North updates licenses for WPS and XML schema bindings

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In the past weeks 52°North has updated the licenses of two projects to facilitate their usage by switching over to a non-copyleft license. The project 52n-commons-xml was switched completely to the Apache Software License Version 2.0. The internal API and dependent code from the 52°North WPS project was also moved to the Apache 2.0 license. The implementation of this API, however remains under GPL v2. We hope this will allow more users to integrate our work into their architectures and source code projects. Below is a short description of why and how we did this.more >

Welcome Google Summer of Code 2014 Students!

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52°North is pleased to welcome the following students to work with us closely this summer on five Google Summer of Code projects!

  1. Sensor Data Access for Rasdaman, Simona Badoiu (Romania)
  2. Using the ILWIS framework for geo-data capture with a mobile application, Bouke Pieter Ottow (Netherlands)
  3. Proposal for Access Control User Interface for SOS Servers, Dushyant Sabharwal (India)
  4. enviroCar App UX Design, Rahul Raja (India)

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