[OSGeo-Discuss] 22 students accepted for OSGeo Google Summer of Code 2012

2012-04-23 Thread Anne Ghisla
Hello all, and sorry for cross-posting, let me warmly welcome the 22 accepted students and their mentors for this edition of Google Summer of Code! This is a record for OSGeo GSoC, together with GSoC itself, that accepted 1212 students. In detail, we accepted ideas for 10 OSGeo projects: - QGIS

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Whitebox Geospatial Analysis Tools v. 2.0

2012-04-23 Thread Cameron Shorter
Doug, John, From the next release of OSGeo-Live (6.0), we will need to retire support for Sun Java. Hence OpenJDK will be required instead. Good news is that OpenJDK has gotten much better, and I suggest checking again to see if Whitebox GAT can be moved to OpenJDK. On 24/04/2012 1:57 AM, dou

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Whitebox Geospatial Analysis Tools v. 2.0

2012-04-23 Thread Doug_Newcomb
Software looks nice. With regards to putting on the live DVD, I noticed that Whitebox requires the SUN Java JRE to be installed. I'm not sure you can distribute the JRE on a live DVD, since Oracle retired the 'Operating System Distributor License for Java’. http://jdk-distros.java.net/ Do

[OSGeo-Discuss] OGRS2012 :: SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS - Open Source Geospatial Research and Education Symposium

2012-04-23 Thread Olivier ERTZ
OGRS2012 :: SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS (closing at May 28th) Open Source Geospatial Research and Education Symposium October 24 – 26, 2012 in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland Hosted by School of Busin