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\title{Brief News from the OSGeo Community}
\author{Compiled by Scott Mitchell}
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To keep abreast of OSGeo news, watch \url{http://www.osgeo.org/news}, or subscribe to its RSS feed.  This report includes highlights from recent months, plus items specifically sent to the News Editor.
\section{OSGeo Governance}
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Nominations are being sought for new OSGeo Charter Members.  OSGeo Charter Members form the pool of candidates for OSGeo directors, and they are the voters who choose the directors.  If you have a suggestion of someone who can bring energy and interest in the OSGeo mission, please submit your nomination by the 2nd of November, 2010.  Nominations are made by sending email to cro@osgeo.org with the name and contact email of your nominee and an explanation of your reasons for nominating her/him. The election will be held in the following week, closing on November 11, and results will be announced on November 13.  Full details of the selection process are available at (\url{http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2010#Charter_Member_Election}).
\section{Conferences}
\subsection{deegree day 2010 - Bonn}
deegree day, and annual community meeting of the open source deegree project, will take place November 16-17 at the Uniclub Bonn in Germany. The conference will be in German and English. A programme is available at (\url{http://deegreeday.deegree.org/2010/programme}), and registration is accessible at (\url{http://deegreeday.deegree.org/2010/registration}).
\section{Local OSGeo groups}
The OSGeo Japan chapter will receive the ``Japanese OSS Encouragement Award'' prize from the IT Promotion Agency, a Japanese government agency.  This award is granted to developers that establish and manage influential projects, superior developers that take active roles in global projects, and remarkable contributors to the spread of open source software.  The Japan chapter has been active since its formation late in 2006, and is holding its next event from October 31 and November 8 in Tokyo and Osaka.  See (\url{http://www.osgeo.jp/}).
\section{OSGEO Collaboration}
\subsection{OSGeo and Centre for Geospatial Science sign MoU}
On the 22nd of September, OSGeo and the Centre for Geospatial Science (CGS) at University of Nottingham announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding to create an Open Source Geospatial Lab, and to further develop collaborations between academics, industry, and governmental organisations involved in open source GIS and spatial data in the United Kingdom. Arnulf Christl, President of OSGeo, and Tyler Mitchell, Executive Director, have both made it clear that they hope this is the first of many formalized developments in OSGeo's support of educational partnerships. The agreement establishes a laboratory to support OS geospatial technology and training, and will provide internships for promising students.  The first phase of the internship program has been announced at (\url{http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cgs/news/internships.aspx}).
\section{Project News}
\subsection{GeoNetwork}
The GeoNetwork team has released GeoNetwork Open Source version 2.6.0 (\url{https://sourceforge.net/projects/geonetwork/}).  GeoNetwork is a standards based catalog application to assist the web publication of geospatial data, and is used in a number of Spatial Data infrastructure projects around the world. Highlights of new or improved functionality include performance improvements on search and indexing, an INSPIRE search panel and metadata viewer, an OpenLayers embedded web map viewer, multilingual support, keyword and coordinate reference system selection panels, advanced data and metadata exporting, metadata relations management, advanced schma and schematrong validation of metadata, and visual warnings in the metadata editor.

\subsection{Ingres Geospatial}
The Ingres Geospatial community project has released binaries for Ingres 10.1 with built-in new OGC Simple Features-based geospatial support. The software has been released under the GPL version 2 license, making it free to download, develop against, modify and redistribute. Installers can be accessed from (\url{http://www.fosslc.org/drupal/content/ingres-101-geospatial-support-available}), and the project wiki can be found at (\url{http://community.ingres.com/wiki/IngresGeospatial}). Ingres Geospatial incorporates many OSGeo projects including PROJ.4 and GEOS, and Ingres is supported by (or work on this support is in progress for) GDAL/OGR, GeoTools, MapServer, Drupal and other common tools in the OS geospatial world.  Ingres is also a sponsor of OSGeo, GDAL/OGR, and FOSS4G2010.

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