Well, it might sound a bit too pretentious, but we can definitely say we have helped on finding 2 new planets outside the solar system. All thanks to the great PlanetHunters.org project.
The candidate planets had been confirmed on a recent published paper:
The publication is pretty rough, but the good guys from PlanetHunters have published a blog post explaining it. Now, how do these planets look like? We can not really offer you an image of the planets, but here are some pics from their stars.
Congratulations to all volunteers who have help science on planethunters.org. Citizen Science is proving project by project that new ways to do science are possible by engaging the general public. Now that we have found planets outside the solar system, what about doing some citizen science to help the environment on our own planet? More coming soon!
Today Javier Alvarez made a great presentation at #FOSS4G on how to use HTML5 new technologies for web mapping.
In front of a packed room full of geo geeks, he demoed several of our most innovative projects in terms on web mapping. Unfortunately we dont have the video, but at least we can show you his great slides. Which for an extra geek factor, he developed on HTML and JS with embedded maps and so on. Pity you could not see it, because he georeferenced live where to go and eat spanish serrano ham!
One mor year FOSS4G is here. The most important conference on Geospatial Open Source software will take place this year at Denver, and we will be there. Actually big part of Vizzuality will be there: @saleiva @tokumin @xavijam and @jatorre
This is a very important year for us. We will be presenting lots of new developments that we have been working for a long time and that we will be releasing. More specifically expect to hear from us about CartoDB and CartoSet quite a lot.
We are presenting also quite a bit, look for these sessions to learn about our projects and Open Source Products.
We are very excited to participate and attend the great presentations we see in the program.
Finally we will be staying in a nice penthouse downtown with the good people from UNEP-WCMC. We will probably be hacking one day during the week on CartoSet and CartoDB for environmental datasets. If you feel like joining us let us know!
Looking forward to meet everybody!
We want to show you the latest video we have done to explain one of our favorite projects, PlanetHunters. The video was filmed by our great friends from Riot Cinema which we love to work with. We hope you will like it.
(Source: vimeo.com)
We are specially thrilled to announce that Vizzuality is sponsoring this year FOSS4G to be held in Barcelona.
This year is specially remarkable for two reasons: FOSS4G is coming to Spain and 2010 is the Biodiversity International Year. We are working hard to prepare a track specific about Open Source GIS software and Biodiversity and Conservation in general. We are looking for interested partners to help us organizing it and willing to participate.
Looking forward to seeing everybody from the Biodiversity Informatics community there.
