FreeGIS.net  The development activities  for the compatibility of INSPIRE  specification  for the multilingual View Services of the Map Server open source Software has been completed.

MapServer has been successfully extended to support the compatibility of the INSPIRE specifications for the multilingual  View Services (TG View Services 3.0). The functionality is understood by the  official MapServer sources  and is available in all versions starting from 6.2.0.
Information for the users can be found in the official MapServer documentation
http://mapserver.org/ogc/inspire.html.
VM: Virtual Machine
All software tools that has been developed by FreeGIS.net for publishing multilingual geographic data according to the OGC standards and INSPIRE specifications will be  available on a DVD. The DVD is  basically a virtual machine, the  components are all  installed and configured and  the related documentation is also provided. The virtual machine is now being updated with the latest versions of the different components and will be distributed during the following events that are scheduled for autumn 2013   : ASITA, ANCI's Annual Conference , GFOSS.  The SW FreeGIS.net  tools  are all based on open source applications  and released under an open source license.
FreeGis.net's  education events
The last two FeeGis.net's   training events takes part in November . These events are about issues related to the OGC standards, INSPIRE specifications and the free geographical software and will be organized during the  South Tyrolean Free Software Conference (SFSCON) . They are  addressed to GIS managers of public administrations and private companies, who want to know more about the standardization of data and geographic services and  the tools  that were developed by FreeGIS.net. The participants  receive a  DVD containing the training material and the virtual machine with the applications which were previously developed within the project.

The Open Talk's position paper  "Smart communities & Open Geo Data" has been published  on the Wiki of "Stati Generali dell'Innovazione"(General States of Innovation)

The meeting will be held  at the Academy "Cassa di Risparmio"(Sparkasse Strasse 16) on  Friday, September 27th as part of the Innovation Festival in Bolzano, http://www.innovationfestival.bz.it/it/index.asp  ;The beginning is scheduled at 14:00.
We suggest you to  visit the SGI's webpage, http://www.statigeneralinnovazione.it/online/bolzano-festival-dellinnovazione-26-28-settembre-2013/,  here you will find more details about the workshop, the goals, the program, the registration form and references to access the  position paper ‘s draft .
The text drafting will be in progress until the  public meeting . The final version will be acquired by the participants and considered the main track for  the work. Anyone can contribute to  promote the collaborative exchange and the ongoing implementation of theses and best practices  by  simply going to the following webpage  http://www.statigeneralinnovazione.it/online/wiki/ …. join the wiki and ... participate!

Let's contribute to the Manifesto for the Digital Agenda in South Tyrol!

In addition to the position paper, the same wiki page  presents the " Manifesto for the Digital Agenda in South Tyrol". In fact, the Autonomous Province of Bolzano  in collaboration with ‘Stati  Generali dell'Innovazione'    has started  a participatory process for the definition of the 'Digital Agenda in South Tyrol. The starting point is the Manifesto. http://www.statigeneralinnovazione.it/wiki/index.php?title=Attivit%C3%A0:Eventi:Bolzano_2013  edited by ‘Stati Generali dell'Innovazione'  and the  Autonomous Province of Bolzano and inspired by the Carta d'Intenti per l'Innovazione(Paper for innovative  purpouses)
It's an open document and  thanks to the Ideascale platform  proposals, amendments, corrections and additions to the proposed version can be forwarded.  We welcome your inputs  about the use and development of GI!

Conference  "Open Data & Smart location"

The conference ""Open Data & Smart location aware applications: Opportunities for Development and New Services " will be held as part of the exhibition-conference  "Smart Mobility World, Turin " on September  27th http://www.itnexpo.it/itn/agenda/. This initiative wants  to review the Italian situation  and show how to  create new services and business opportunities in the development of software capable to maximize the open data.

The Conference program 2013 AMFM GIS Italy

The 2013 edition of AMFM GIS Italy Conference , Rome September 26 th http://www.amfm.it/,  will be about Building Information Modeling (BIM),  multiscalarity  and 3D. In addition, the conference will host a panel on "INSPIRE in Italy", to which  the protagonists of the implementation process for  the Directive were invited. This was a very discussed topic.  In fact, the congress works  of INSPIRE 2013 in Florence (last June)have  started lively discussions about the the INSPIRE Directive's implementation  in Italy and the prospects for our country: among all we want to remember you  this editorial: http://www.rivistageomedia.it/editoriali/direttiva-inspire-in-italia-il-re-e-nudo.html.

The annual meeting of the Italian community of OpenStreetMap  this year in Rovereto (4th  to 6th  October)

OSMIT 2013 is open to anyone who wants to share his experience with OpenStreetMap and collaborative sharing of knowledge. During the event workshops on the use of OpenStreetMap and Wikipedia are organized. In fact, the event is also considered to be  a meeting between OpenStreetMap and Wikipedia, in collaboration with the association Wikimedia Italy. http://conf.openstreetmap.it/

Conference GFOSSDAY 2013

The sixth edition of the Italian Conference on the geographic software and free geographic data (GFOSS DAY 2013) will take place in Bologna from  October 10th  to 11th  2013( meeting rooms of the region Emila –Romagna V.le  della Fiera,8)  . The main purpose of the conference is to involve businesses, government agencies, schools, universities, research institutions, developers, citizens, workers of this sector and fans of  the free  geographic software and the  open  data. http://www.gfoss.it/drupal/gfossday2013

Conference ASITA: special session about "IDT and smart cities"

The program of the 17th conference ASITA (Riva del Garda, 5-7 November)is now being defined . The Federation ASITA  in collaboration with  ‘Stati Generali  dell' Innovatiozione' will propose a special session "Spatial Data Infrastructure for innovative spatially enabled smart cities ". The program will be announced soon :  reports by the the National Observatory Smart City ANCI, the initiative Forum PA iCity-LAB, the JRC (project European Union Location Framework),  ISTAT (Open Data and Big Data) of Open Knowledge Foundation and the ‘Stati Generali dell' Innovazione'  www.asita.it