\title{gvSIG}
\author{Jorge Sanz, \url{http://gvsig.osgeo.org}}
\maketitle

\begin{figure}
	\includegraphics[height=0.7in]{annual_report/projects/logo/logo_gvsig.png}
\end{figure}

\subsection{Key Accomplishments}
\begin{itemize}
\item  The \href{http://www.gvsig.org}{community portal} (\url{http://www.gvsig.org}) allowed to publish:
\begin{itemize}
\item  User documentation (in several languages)
\item  Technical documentation (at this moment only in Spanish)
\item  A catalog of contributions (new extensions, non-official gvSIG releases, more documentation, etc.) 
\end{itemize}
\item  gvSIG mailing lists have grown in subscribers (more than 2300, see numbers below) and a new mailing list has been created for the the Italian community
\item  The project source repository has been published at \url{http://subversion.gvsig.org} for gvSIG and gvSIG Mobile
\item  A new public FTP repository has been published at \url{ftp://gvsig.org}
\item  Releases of gvSIG extensions and releases during 2008:
\begin{itemize}
\item  First 3D pilot extension (\href{http://tinyurl.com/bkr27v}{7th of January})
\item  ArcSDE extension (\href{http://tinyurl.com/bdj5lt}{6th of February})
\item  gvSIG 1.1.2 (\href{http://tinyurl.com/cwomzm}{4th of March})
\item  First official release of gvSIG Mobile and the gvSIG synchronization extension(\href{http://tinyurl.com/d4k5db}{13 of March})
\item  Raster pilot extension (\href{http://tinyurl.com/b4vmjb}{27th of March})
\item  Publishing extension (\href{http://tinyurl.com/bpde5u}{30 of July})
\item  Metadata management extension (\href{http://tinyurl.com/bsl3nc}{23rd of September})
\item  gvSIG 1.9alpha (\href{http://tinyurl.com/cclq4n}{27th of November})
\item  Second version of 3D support and Dielmo OpenLIDAR extension (\href{http://tinyurl.com/crpu4x}{21st of January}) 
\end{itemize}

\noindent International events where gvSIG project has been officially represented:
\begin{itemize}
\item  \textit{TopCart}, Valencia, Spain
\item  \textit{Primer simposio GIS Educaci\'on en Am\'erica Latina}, Quito, Ecuador
\item  \textit{II Jornadas SIG Libre}, Girona, Spain
\item  \textit{FOSSGIS2008, Freiburg}, Germany
\item  \textit{Primo incontro degli utenti italiani di gvSIG}, Trieste, Italy
\item  \textit{XXII International Geodesy Students Meeting}, Valencia, Spain
\item  \textit{AGIT, Salzburg}, Germany
\item  \textit{1er encuentro Geom\'atica Libre}, M\`erida, Venezuela
\item  \textit{FOSS4G2008, Cape Town}, South Africa
\item  \textit{Open Source World Conference}, M\'alaga, Spain
\item  \textit{Intergeo, Bremen}, Germany
\item  \textit{Latinoware'08, Foz de Iguaz\'u}, Brasil
\item  \textit{Jornadas para las Infraestructuras de Datos Espaciales de Espa\~na}, Tenerife, Spain
\item  \textit{III Congreso de Software Libre de la Comunitat Valenciana}, Alicante, Spain 
\end{itemize}
\end{itemize}

\subsubsection{gvSIG Commons}

Aiming to produce reusable components not only for gvSIG software but also for other Java FOSS projects, gvSIG project is releasing some products as independent sub-projects at the \href{https://gvsig.org/web/projects/gvsig-commons}{gvSIG Commons} initiative. At this moment the \href{https://gvsig.org/web/projects/gvsig-commons/osgvp}{Open Scene Graph Virtual Planets} project is releasing versions and is published also at the SVN (\url{http://subversion.gvsig.org/osgvp})

\begin{figure}
	\centering
	 \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{annual_report/projects/gvsig/300px-4th_gvSIG_conf_people.jpg}
	 \caption{Conference Hall (Photo by \href{http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz}{Jorge Sanz})}
	 \label{ref:gvsig_conference}
\end{figure}


\subsubsection{4th gvSIG Conference}

The \href{http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/4th_gvSIG_Conference}{4th gvSIG Conference}\footnote{gvSIG Conference: \url{http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/4th_gvSIG_Conference}} was a succesful event with more than 600 delegates where gvSIG developers and users presented their last year experiences. In the same context (the Valencia Conference Centre) a OGC TC/PC meeting and the first Spanish Eclipse Day took place.

There were 9 workshops to show last gvSIG features as well as more than 30 presentations and plenary sessions.

	
\begin{figure}
	\centering
	 \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{annual_report/projects/gvsig/325px-DSC07898_2.jpg}
	 \caption{Session (Photo by \href{http://picasaweb.google.es/caminoroderomerino/JornadasGvSIG_4diciembre2008}{Camino Rodero} )}
	 \label{ref:gvsig_session_photo1}
\end{figure}


\begin{figure}
	\centering
	 \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{annual_report/projects/gvsig/338px-4th_gvSIG_conf_session2.jpg}
	 \caption{Session (Photo by Ver\'onica Navarro)}
	 \label{ref:gvsig_session_photo2}
\end{figure}

\subsubsection{Downloads}

These are approximate numbers about gvSIG release downloads during 2008 (as of 17 of December of 2008):

\begin{figure}[!h]
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{|l|c|c|}
\hline
\rowcolor{green} Version & Binaries & Sources (no SVN) \\
\hline
\hline
1.9alpha & 1,186 & 0 \\
1.1.2 & 56,504 & 30,380\\
1.1.1 & 41,791 & 757\\
1.1 & 50,647 & 2,238\\
1.0.2 & 17,700 & 0\\
Mobile 0.1 & 3,387 & 3,978\\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{\label{ref:gvsig_release}Releases}
\end{center}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[!h]
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{|l|c|}
\hline
\rowcolor{green} Pilots & Downloads\\
\hline
\hline
jCRS & 1,869\\
Raster & 12,791\\
3D & 3,679\\
Synchro & 963\\
Publishing & 738\\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{\label{ref:gvsig_pilot}Pilots and extensions}
\end{center}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[!h]
\begin{tabular}{|l|c|c|c|}
\hline
\rowcolor{green} Manuals & Downld & Courses & Downld\\
\hline
\hline
1.0 & 2,036 & 0.3 & 1,731\\
Mobile & 2,501 & 1.0 & 2,070\\
Mobile install & 4,129 & 1.1 & 8,759\\
1.1 & 32,142 & Extension dev & 1,588\\
1.0 install & 740 & & \\
Scripting & 527& & \\
Metadata & 1,760& & \\
Roadmap & 5,317& & \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{\label{ref:gvsig_documentation}Documentation}
\end{figure}

\subsubsection{Other statistics}

\begin{itemize}
\item  gvSIG GUI translated in more than 20 languages.
\item  Mailing lists subscribers:
\begin{itemize}
\item  Users: 1,255.
\item  Developers: 618.
\item  International: 521.
\item  Italian: 160.
\end{itemize}
\item  Known countries with registered users: 42.
\item  Known countries where gvSIG has been downloaded: 59.
\end{itemize}

\begin{figure}
	\centering
	 \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{annual_report/projects/gvsig/300px-GvSIG_spread_2008.png}
	 \caption{Known countries where gvSIG is being used}
	 \label{ref:gvsig_map_user}
\end{figure}


\subsection{Areas for Improvement}

gvSIG project needs to:
\begin{itemize}
\item  Open the bug tracking system.
\item  Open the gvSIG project organization to the community.
\item  Establish a fixed release schedule (like Ubuntu Linux).
\item  Create more English technical documentation.
\end{itemize}

\subsection{Opportunities to Help}
\begin{itemize}
\item  Test gvSIG and report bugs and annoyances at mailing lists.
\item  Write use cases and report them.
\item  Offer services (development, training) with gvSIG.
\item  Propose new features and discuss them on the mailing lists.
\item  Join the testing team for more formal work.
\item  Join the translation group.
\end{itemize}

\subsection{Outlook for 2009}
\begin{itemize}
\item  Start a new organization to strengthen the project and allow new companies, universities and public administrations to participate actively in project management.
\item  Start a community-driven formal testing.
\item  Release a stable version of gvSIG with new features:
\begin{itemize}
\item  Refactored data access (hopefully without users taking account of it).
\item  New symbology support.
\item  Raster analysis (classification, principal components analysis, mosaic, etc.).
\item  Network geoprocessing.
\item  Topology creation, editing and validating.
\item  3D support.
\item  And others: LIDAR, geocoding, reports and charts, WPS,{\dots}
\end{itemize}
\item  Release a stable version of gvSIG Mobile with new features:
\begin{itemize}
\item  Refactored core with gvSIG desktop compatibility.
\item  Full editing.
\item  Custom forms.
\item  Phone ME support (finally a trully free JVM for PDA!).
\item  GPS library.
\item  OpenMoko and Android versions.
\end{itemize}
\end{itemize}

	
