IPA (IT promotion agency Japan), a government agency, has announced that the OSGeo Japan Chapter will be awarded “Japanese Open Source Software Encouragement Award” on 28th October 2010.

IPA (IT promotion agency Japan) has earlier funded the internationalization of GRASS GIS and Mapserver and it is just that they have been fast it recognizing the good work done by OSGeo and the Japan Local Chapter.

The Japan chapter was established in late 2006 and the local community has been growing steadily and dedicating effort to promoting FOSS4G.

Press release by IPA (in Japanese)
https://www.ipa.go.jp/about/press/20101015_2.html

About the award
IPA grants “Japanese OSS Contributor Award” to a developer who has established and has been managing the development project which has the nfluence, to a superior developer who takes an active role in the global projects and to a contributor to spread the Open Source Software. Also IPA grants “Japanese Open Source Software Encouragement Award” to the individual or the group which has a remarkable activity to develop and/or spread OSS.

About IPA
https://www.ipa.go.jp/english/about/index.html

The latest OSGeo Journal has been published:

 

OSGeo Journal Volume 6 – All Articles PDF
59 pages

Table of Contents

From the Editor… PDF
Tyler Mitchell 1
Volunteer Recognition (Volume 6) PDF
Landon Blake 2

News

News  PDF
Scott Mitchell 4

Events

CASCADOSS International Symposium and International Information Workshop. Events’ report. PDF
Rafal Wawer, Monika Rusztecka, Erika Orlitowa, Adam Podolcsak, Therese Steenberghen, Therese Steenberghen 7
Summer Training Courses on FOSS4G 2007-2009Â PDF
Rafal Wawer, Jos Van Orshoven, Jos Van Orshoven 4

Topical Studies

Why Every Open Source Software Project Needs A Good Dictator PDF
Landon Blake 2

Programming Tutorials

GPGPU with GDAL – Basics of GPGPU interfacing PDF
Yann Chemin 3

Case Studies

gvSIG is a viable robust alternative to commercially available GIS packages PDF
Simon Christopher Cropper 3

Project Spotlight

GRASS Image Processing Environment. Application to evapotranspiration Direct Readout PDF
Yann Chemin, Thomas Alexandridis, Ines Cherif 5
SEXTANTE, a free platform for geospatial analysis PDF
Victor Olaya 8

Research Papers

Usability Trumps Features: User needs and the redesign of a web-based GIS to support community environmental monitoring PDF
Martin Joseph Bunch, Micheal David MacLennon