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OSGeo has just past its 5th birthday, along with this 8th volume of the OSGeo Journal!  With this edition we bring a few news headlines from the past couple months, a few general articles and, most significantly, several top papers from the \textbf{FOSS4G 2009} conference event held in Sydney, Australia.

The Journal has become a diverse platform for several groups and growth in each area is expected to continue.  The key groups that read and contribute to the Journal include software developers sharing information about their projects or communities, power users showing off their solutions, academia seeking to publish their research and observations in a peer-reviewed, open source friendly medium.  OSGeo also uses the Journal to share community updates and the annual reports of the organisation.

Welcome to those of you who are new to the OSGeo Journal.  Our Journal team and volunteer reviewers and editors hope you enjoy this volume.  We also invite you to submit your own articles to any of our various sections.  To submit an article, register as an "author" and sign in at \url{http://osgeo.org/ojs}.  Then when you log in you will see an option to submit an article.\footnote{The direct URL for article submission is: \url{https://www.osgeo.org/ojs/index.php/journal/author/submit}}

We look forward to working with, and for, you in the upcoming year.  It's sure to be an interesting year as we see OSGeo, Open Source in general and all our relate communities continue to grow.   Nowhere else is this growth more apparent than at our annual conference: \textbf{FOSS4G 2011 Denver}, September, 2011.\footnote{FOSS4G 2011 Denver: \url{http://2011.foss4g.org}} Keep an eye on your OSGeo mailing lists, blogs and other feeds to follow the latest FOSS4G announcements, including the invitation to submit presentation proposals.\footnote{FOSS4G 2011 Abstract Submission: \url{http://2011.foss4g.org/program}}  It will be as competitive as ever to get a speaking slot, so be sure to make your title and abstract really stand out.

Wishing you the best for 2011 and hoping to see you in Denver!

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Tyler Mitchell \\
\email{tmitchell@osgeo.org} \\
Editor in chief, OSGeo Journal \\
Executive Director, OSGeo }



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