FOSS4G 2009 In Brief

In brief:

• http://2009.foss4g.org/workshops/
  Workshops 3 hours hands on in a computer lab setting. Why do this? Your ticket to FOSS4G should be paid for; you can bring an assistant and they may also be paid for (depending on profits)
  March 9th
• http://2009.foss4g.org/tutorials/
  Tutorial 90 min session in a bring your own laptop setting (hopefully you can use the conference live DVD and/or windows installers). Hands on is recommended; but you can also just talk a lot. So far this is the easiest way to get speaking time at the confernece
  March 9th
• http://2009.foss4g.org/presentations/
  Presentations 30 mins just talking (you can try for a 3 min demo but that is risky). Competition for presentations slots is stiff.
  June 1st
• (only if I get organized)
  Demo theatre 10 mins showing running software (not slides)
  September 1st

GeoTools moves to OSGeo Repository

The GeoTools project has moved repositories today - to hardware maintained by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. We would like to thank Refractions Research for giving us a home for the last five years (they kindly provided an svn repository for us when Source Forge was going through some growing pains in 2003).

The new hardware is faster and has a better connection which will result in a faster build time for those building with maven.

The new code repository is located here

• http://svn.osgeo.org/geotools

To migrate an existing checkout to this new location please use:

svn switch --relocate http://svn.geotools.org/ http://svn.osgeo.org/geotools .

or

svn switch --relocate http://gtsvn.refractions.net/ http://svn.osgeo.org/geotools .

This move also opens up a new maven repository (used to host the compiled geotools artifacts so other projects can use them). 

Documentation that has been updated in response to this move:

• Source Code (checkout instructions)
• Committers (how to get commit access)
• First Project