More than 650 people participated in the 4th gvSIG Conference which took place at the Valencia Conference Centre from 1st - 5th December 2008. The slogan for these conference was: ‘gvSIG. Moving forward together.’. Our aim was not to go over what has already been done, but to build the future of gvSIG together. We wanted to exchange ideas and opinions, so that gvSIG keeps growing.

The Open Geospatial Consortium Meeting and the Eclipse Day event were celebrated at the same time. The objective was to consolidate them as the benchmark forum for open source GIS projects, to create a framework for defining open source and interoperable GIS standards and to create a conference where experiences can be shared among FLOSS communities.

The Conference were organized by the Valencian Regional Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport and were sponsored by the following groups:

- Honor: Prodevelop SL, Iver Tecnologías de la información

- Gold: ITI, Software Colaborativo, Disid Techtologies SL, Indra, Steria Ibérica S.A.U., Bull Espanya SA, Fujitsu – Siemens

- Silver: Univ. Jaume I, Fujitsu, DAESA, Eclipse Open Software SL

- Bronze: Lógica Extrema SL, Ai2, Igo Software, Dielmo 3D, Geovirtual

- Collaborator: Viatges Iberia, Institut Cartogràfic Valencià, Cons. Medi Ambient, Aigua, Urbanisme i Habitatge, Cons. de Sanitat, Cons. Educació, Agència Valenciana d'Energia, Cons. Industria, Comerç i Innovació, Entitat Transport Metropolità, Colegio de Topógrafos de Valencia, ETSIGCT, Latingeo-UPM, IDR-Instituto Desarrollo Regional, Univ. Girona, Univ. Extremadura, UPC, UOC, OSGeo, Polinux, Coordinadora en defensa de los Bosques del Turia, Neurowork, EMSHI,

- Associated Media: Gaceta Tecnológica, ACA-CV, Todolinux, Linux Magazine

You can have a look to the complete contents of the presented sessions, round tables and workshops in the following papers:

• Program detailed  ( 205 Kb)

• Summaries of the communications ( 2'5 Mb)