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OpenLayers Blog
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OpenLayers 3 Lausanne Sprint Summary
A group of nine developers gathered in Lausanne or participated remotely in an OpenLayers 3 sprint just over a week ago. This was an intensive, productive, and fun week. There’s still a long way to go, but we think OpenLayers 3 is looking great already! This post reports on the code sprint’s achievements and discussions. [...]
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OL3 Lausanne Sprint Kick-Off
Blogging on a saturday?? You bet! Blogging and sprinting even. As part of our ongoing OpenLayers 3 development effort, a number of us are gathering in Lausanne for a short sprint. Our calendars were tight and ambitions high, so we found an opening and made quick travel plans. Today was an OpenGeo gathering; Andreas, Bart, [...]
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Why are we building OpenLayers 3?
A recent blog post by OpenGeo provides one explanation of why the OpenLayers community is working towards OpenLayers 3. On behalf of the OpenLayers development team, we’d like to give a few more details. OpenLayers 2.0 was released six years ago, and the library has been under continuous development since. It is solid, flexible, and [...]
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Crowdfunding OpenLayers 3
We’ve been getting great feedback on our OpenLayers 3.0 fund raising effort, and to help ease contributions from individuals and smaller companies we’ve just launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo. We’re looking to raise at least $20,000 from users of OpenLayers, to complement larger contributions from big organizations who love OpenLayers. There are a number [...]
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OpenLayers 3 – Call for Funding
We’re excited to be embarking on a major development effort towards OpenLayers 3. Previous posts have detailed our progress through two concentrated sprints. At this point, we’re confident in the new design and are ready to start porting over existing OpenLayers functionality. We intend for the new library to have the same breadth of functionality [...]
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OL3 Vienna Code Sprint Report
With the OL3 Vienna Code Sprint coming to its end now is probably a good time for a recap on what we’ve achieved. We have done a lot of work on consolidating the architecture and project infrastructure, and have also added new functionality along the way. The above image is screenshot of one of our [...]
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OL3 Sprint #2
This week, four developers (Eric Lemoine and Tom Payne for Camptocamp, Tim Schaub and Andreas Hocevar for OpenGeo) are getting together in Vienna to focus on OpenLayers 3 again, in a code sprint together with developers from GeoServer. During a 1-week sprint with seven developers in June and in follow-up discussions, an agreement has been [...]
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OL3 Sprint
We are a group of seven people working on a new major version of OpenLayers this week: Marc Jansen (Terrestris), Mike Adair (DM Solutions), Petr Pridal (KlokanTech / MZK), Tim Schaub (OpenGeo), Andreas Hocevar (OpenGeo), Tom Payne (Camptocamp), and myself (Eric Lemoine, Camptocamp). Our goal for this sprint is to lay the foundations of what [...]
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Promotion
We’re excited about Erik Hazzard’s new book on OpenLayers. We also wanted to promote Till Adams and Marc Jansen’s German OpenLayers book. Both are now featured on the OpenLayers homepage: http://openlayers.org/ In addition, I’ve added a small donation button at the bottom of the page. Financial contributions to OpenLayers support both the OSGeo foundation and [...]
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Simplified License for OpenLayers 2.11
For the upcoming 2.11 release, we’re simplifying the license under which we distribute OpenLayers. We’ve chosen to adopt the more widely used 2-clause BSD License, also known as the FreeBSD License. This new license differs from our old license in a number of ways: The new 2-clause license omits the non-endorsement clause. Our old license [...]
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