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New areas of training and dissemination on the gvSIG website
A restructuring of the gvSIG project website [ www.gvsig.org ] has been launched. This goes beyond rearranging the existing information into the introduction of new content of interest to the community of users and developers of gvSIG. Two new areas of training and dissemination have been created, collecting all the official documentation available for the project as well as that generated by the gvSIG community.
In addition to all the existing information in the Portal of the Conselleria de Infrasestructuras y Transporte, there is new material in the ?Reports? [1] section where the latest presentations regarding gvSIG are kept as well as in the new "Articles" [2] section, a collection of all articles about gvSIG published in technical journals. Furthermore, a new section has been enabled to collect the reviews of the regular press echoing gvSIG [3].
There is a section devoted to the training material [4], where the visitor can access both the documentation for courses and workshops prepared under the project direction, as well as those materials provided by various partners. Within the new training material stands out a technical seminar for development in gvSIG 2.0 and new educational material in French. There are also a course of Introduction to gvSIG, prepared by the of IDEAndalucia team and a gvSIG Course prepared at the Seminary Agustín Horozco for the Jerez Teacher's Center.
Technical seminar for development in gvSIG 2.0.
There are available the videos and documentation from the technical seminar for development in gvSIG 2.0 [5], held 1-3 July2009 in the Conselleria de Infraestructuras y Transporte. During the seminar, there were adressed at the level of development the innovations introduced in gvSIG 2.0. The seminar lasted approximately 20 hours, and is fully available in video format. The following development issues were presented:
-Introduction to the architecture of gvSIG 2.0. -Projects and packages. -Maven as gvSIG construction system. -Construction of native libraries: JNI. -LibTools and logging with SLF4J. -DAL from the perspective of the library's client. -New Geometries API. -DAL from the perspective of the data provider. -Data transformations in gvSIG.
Requirements:
Correct understanding of the seminar requires knowledge of Java and Ant. Optionally, it is considered appropriate some knowledge of Maven, as this technology is not covered and it is necessary to explain the new mechanism of construction of the binaries in gvSIG. Likewise, it is recommended a minimal knowledge of the organization of the sources and architecture of gvSIG.
Teaching materials in French
The training documentation of gvSIG in French [6] is expanded with the materials generated by the Alkante company in collaboration with the University of Rennes 2. A full course of gvSIG, with demonstration videos complementing the tutorials can be found.
Finally, we would like to thank the collaborative spirit of all the people and organizations that have released documentation in order to help the gvSIG community. We invite you to continue working and moving forward together.
[1] http://www.gvsig.org/web/docusr/divulgacion/ponencias/view?set_language=en
[2] http://www.gvsig.org/web/docusr/divulgacion/articulos/view?set_language=en
[3] http://www.gvsig.org/web/communication/press-releases/view?set_language=en
[4] http://www.gvsig.org/web/docusr/learning/gvsig-courses-1/view?set_language=en
[5] http://www.gvsig.org/web/docusr/learning/gvsig-courses/gvsig_des_2.x_d/view?set_language=en
