[OSGeo-Announce] OSGeo Code Sprint 2014 goes to Vienna

From March 24 to 28 OSGeo developers will gather in Vienna for the
annual OSGeo Code Sprint of the "C Tribe" OSGeo projects. Vienna was
selected to continue a series of code sprints after Toronto, New York,
Montreal, Island Wood, and Boston.

Leading developers of popular software projects like MapServer, QGIS,
GRASS, GDAL, PostGIS, PDAL, pycsw, and many more get together to
discuss new ideas, hack, decide, tackle large geospatial problems, etc.
simply to have fun. Almost 70 developers have already registered to a
full week of concentrated work and fun.

We want to thank our generous sponsors supporting the Code Sprint.

  * [City of Vienna
    MA14](http://www.wien.gv.at/english/administration/ict/index.html)
    provides the venue for the event
  * [OSGeo](http://www.osgeo.org) provides considerable funding
  * Gold Sponsors
    * [Airborne Interactive Ltd](http://airborne.aero/)
    * [Austrospace](http://www.austrospace.at/), a non-profit
    association of Austrian space industries and research institutions
    focusing on: *) Comprehensive information about Austrian space
    activities and *) Representation of common interests of Austrian
    suppliers and users of space technologies vis-a-vis Austrian
    authorities and international organizations.
    * [TYDAC](http://www.tydac.ch)
    * [FOSSGIS e.V.](http://www.fossgis.de/)
  * Silver Sponsors
    * [ITS Vienna Region and the realtime trafficservice
    AnachB.at](http://www.anachb.at/mehr), jointly created in 2006 by
    Austria's three Federal Provinces of Vienna, Lower Austria and
    Burgenland (Vienna Region) and supporting them in optimizing their
    traffic management and e-government. AnachB.at offers intermodal
    journey planners for all means of transport and a dynamic traffic
    map free of charge, as Smartphone App and as Widget.
  * Bronze Sponsors
    * [metaspatial Institute](http://www.metaspatial.net/en/institute)
    * [Oslandia](http://www.oslandia.com/index-en.html)
    * [rapidlasso](http://rapidlasso.com)
    * [Azavea](http://www.azavea.com), a B Corporation (a social
    enterprise) that creates civic, geospatial software for the web.
    Our open source work includes civic projects, like DistrictBuilder
    and OpenTreeMap, as well as GeoTrellis, a fast geoprocessing
    framework based on Scala.
    * [GFOSS.it](http://gfoss.it)
  * [EOX](http://eox.at) provides in-kind support to the organization
    of the event
  * Further in-kind support is provided by OSGeo and FOSSGIS members

It is a great honor and privilege to be able to welcome so many
well-known OSGeo developers in Vienna. At the same time it is an
excellent opportunity for the Austrian, in particular the Viennese,
Open Source community to network and show international presence.

Yours,
Stephan
Vienna OSGeo Code Sprint 2014 Organizer