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What’s a  “GECCo”? In this case it is a 2-day invitational session to promote Geospatial support for Emegency Managers, “Geospatially Enabling Community Collaboration”, October 27-28, 2011. Part of a nationwide series of events inaugurated by GITA, the Twin Cities GECCo is supported by a number of sponsors including the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), […]

What do you get when you put together 900 people – software developers, users, sponsors, from legendary coders to newbies – and let them talk about their latest Open Source projects? Lots of excitement, lots of sharing, lots of opportunities for collaboration – and a lot of great solutions for problems ranging from national infrastructure […]

Mon. 9/12, 1-5 pm, Tower Ct. B – Workshop on GeoMoose, an extensible client framework for MapServer that provides a robust web mapping interface but with data maintenance and management distributed to the data owners. Bob Basques & Jim Klassen, with Dan Little http://2011.foss4g.org/sessions/moose-loose-mapping-geomoose Weds. 9/14, 5:30 or 7 pm, (Room TBA) Birds-of-a-Feather session on […]

Steve Swazee returned from the GITA national meeting impressed by the widespread interest in using Open Source solutions to enable critical response in major industries. Check out his talk, recently accepted for presentation at the international Open Source Geospatial conference, Foss4G, in Denver. http://2011.foss4g.org/sessions/opensource-and-common-operating-picture-cop

At the end of June it appeared that the MnGeo image service that so many depend on would be shut down with other MN State services. SharedGeo offered to provide a backup site, since we had the capacity and expertise needed, and the state GIO accepted our offer. About 4 hours before the cutoff deadline […]

SharedGeo contributed to the Open Source community through the OSGeo Code Sprint in Montreal March 14-18, with programmer Jim Klassen working primarily on areas related to MapServer, including maintenance to Ruby bindings for both MapServer and OGR. For a general description of the work done (and photos of participants), check out Daniel Morissette’s blog at […]