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The 2011 OSGeo international conference, FOSS4G (Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial), will take place the week of September 12 to 16 in Denver, CO. Spatialytics is pleased to support the event through a sponsorship as well as by giving different presentations on its Open Source GeoBI projects, a talk on commercialization of OS Geospatial and an other one giving an overview of the OS BI market.

Each month, Spatialytics publishes a newsletter covering the latest news from the company, its products, its activities and the ones in which the company participates as well as news on its GeoBI Open Source projects. The newsletter is mainly composed of three main sections: News and messages of importance, an editorial in a list; News from the blog of the company Spatialytics (Spatialytics.COM, orange logo) website; News from the blog of the website hosting the GeoBI Open Source projects (Spatialytics.ORG, green logo). Subscribe on the Spatialytics “e-news” page.

A simple post to list where to find Spatialytics on different social networks/social media like LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

I am very happy to announce that my DIY universal gripper project has been featured in Make magazine Volume 27. See the article below. Also check out my updated version of the gripper.

Confoo.ca has announced they’re now accepting applications for sessions for next year’s conference.

Quebec City (Canada), July 21st – Spatialytics presents the new version 2.0 of GeoKettle, the Open Source Spatial ETL now available to download (RC1) for free via www.spatialytics.org. GeoKettle (www.geokettle.org) is an incredible tool to clarify, automate, accelerate, standardize and secure all processes requiring steps and jobs to extract, process and load alphanumeric as well as geometric data.

The local chapter of OWASP, an international group dedicated to application security, invites anyone in Montreal interested in web application security to a presentation next thursday at 6:30pm. It’s going to be in Rom A-2330 at École des Technologies Supérieures, with David Mirza, founder of Subgraph, presenting their new open source product VEGA.

VentureBeat wrote a couple of days ago how Amsterdam aims to attract tech entrepreneurs. The article highlights the infrastructure (events, places, communities) offered by existing startups and individuals, and how it paves the way into making Amsterdam a place known in Europe for innovation, collaboration, and entrepreneurship.

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