\title{News \& Event Headlines from 2008}
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\section{News}

\begin{description}
	\item[January]
	\item gvSIG update version 1.1.1, 3D pilot available
	\item deegree publishes 2.1 Demo Releases
\end{description}

\begin{description}
	\item[February]
	\item GeoTools 2.4.0 Released
	\item FDO, GDAL, GRASS Graduate OSGeo Incubation
	\item GeoWeb 2008 Student Contest
	\item MapGuide Open Source 2.0.0 Released
\end{description}

\begin{description}
	\item[March]
	\item GeoMoose Version 1.2.0 Released
	\item FDO Open Source 3.3.0 Release
	\item Quantum GIS Graduates OSGeo Incubation
	\item OSGeo Accepted for Google Summer of Code 2008
\end{description}

\begin{description}
	\item[April]
	\item GeoNetwork opensource Catalog v2.2.0 Released
	\item OpenLayers 2.6 Released
	\item OSGeo Welcomes 20 Students for Summer of Code
	\item GRASS GIS 6.3.0 Released
\end{description}

\begin{description}
	\item[May]
	\item QGIS Releases 0.10.0
	\item OSGeo Supports CASCADOSS
\end{description}

\begin{description}
	\item[June]
	\item deegree Enters OSGeo Incubation
	\item GeoNetwork Opensource Graduates
\end{description}

\begin{description}
	\item[July-August]
	\item GeoTools Graduates OSGeo Incubation
	\item MapServer Version 5.2.0 Released
	\item QGIS 0.11.0 'Metis' Released
	\item 2008 Board Election Results
	\item Autodesk Contributes Coord. System Software\dots
\end{description}

\begin{description}
	\item[September]
	\item $52\,^{\circ}$North Newsletter / ILWIS 3.5 Open Released
	\item New OSGeo President and Board Election Results
	\item Request for Proposal for Hosting 2010 Conference
\end{description}

\begin{description}
	\item[October]
	\item OpenLayers 2.7 Released
	\item Paul Ramsey Receives Sol Katz GFOSS Award
	\item GeoTools 2.5.0 Released
\end{description}

\begin{description}
	\item[November - December]
	\item Approved German, Spanish, Québécois Chapters
	\item GDAL/OGR 1.6.0 Released
	\item MapServer Graduates OSGeo Incubation
\end{description}


\section{Events}

\begin{description}
	\item[February]
	\item IX Italian GRASS/GFOSS Meeting, Perugia, Italy
	\item CUGOS January meeting
	\item PostGIS Presentation, SF Bay Area PostreSQL Users Group
	\item 2nd Annual Free GIS Days, Girona, Spain
\end{description}

\begin{description}
	\item[April - May]
	\item LocWeb2008: First Int'l Workshop - Location/Web
	\item Mapbender Dev. Sprint, Freiburg, FOSSGIS 2008
	\item German Open Source GIS community meeting
	\item 1Spatial Conference 2008 - 1 Source of Truth
	\item The Open Web Conference
	\item OSGeo UK Chapter Meeting
\end{description}

\begin{description}
	\item[June]
	\item deegree day 2008, Bonn
	\item 4th Workshop of the EARSeL / GISDECO 8, Istanbul, Turkey
	\item OSBOOTCAMP 6 - Geospatial Software, Ottawa
	\item Evaluating FOSS for Geoinformation, Warsaw, Poland
	\item Autodesk Geospatial DevCamp Conference
	\item OSGeo Hacking event, Bolsena - Italy
	\item Seminar and workshops Open Source Geo-ICT
	\item Geo. Web Services Workshop, Nottingham, UK
\end{description}

\begin{description}
	\item[July-August]
	\item Queensland Spatial Industry Conference 2008
	\item GeoWeb 2008 Conference, Vancouver, Canada
	\item Mobile Geo. Augmented Reality - 2nd Int'l Workshop
\end{description}

\begin{description}
	\item[September]
	\item FOSS4G 2008 - Open Source Geospatial
	\item Geoinformatics FCE CTU 2008 Workshop
	\item Workshop - Open Source in GEO ICT, Utrecht
	\item Open Source Park at Intergeo 2008
\end{description}

\begin{description}
	\item[November]
	\item GIN / RGI Symposium "Eye on a geo-future", Apeldoorn
	\item GFOSS day 2008, Italy
\end{description}



