This year’s FOSS4G Europe took me to Timișoara, the largest city in western Romania. The event was hosted by the West University of Timișoara (Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara).
I travelled there for 52°North to listen, to talk to people, and to present “Optimizing Resource Usage of Interoperable Geospatial Processing Infrastructures with Kubernetes.”
More on that below. The journey took me from the heat dome in Germany to the heat dome in Romania.But now, let’s set the scene.
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This week Simon and Daniel of the 52°North team took a welcome trip from grey Münster to sunny Barcelona to join an impressive list of lecturers at the IC_Cartotechnology study programme (International Course on Management and Applied Techniques in Cartography).
OSGeo-Live 6.0 is released. For this release, all OSGeo-Live java applications have been successfully migrated to OpenJDK 7. Migration to OpenJDK was driven by Oracle’s announcement that including Sun Java in Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu, or OSGeo-Live, is no longer allowed. In addition, the Xubuntu base has been upgraded to 12.04 LTS (Long Term Support).
OSGeo-Live 5.5 is released.
With this version, you can try running instances of the following 52°North service implementations: