During the 7th International gvSIG Conference there will be different workshops. They will be about Geoserver, Development on gvSIG 2.0, gvSIG applied to the municipal management, Gearscape Geoprocessing Language, and a seminar about gvSIG 3D.

The workshop “Introduction to GeoServer” will be held on Thursday December 1st 2011, at 9 o’clock. It will be given by Simone Giannecchini, founder of  GeoSolutions  and it will provide a hands on introduction to the GeoServer usage and configuration.

In particular the workshop will cover the following topics:

• GeoServer installation
• brief theoretical introduction to GeoServer configuration and data models vector data – – – configuration (shapefile) and raster data configuration (GeoTIFF), basic usage of WMS and WFS
• styling data with SLD
• KML file generation and Google Earth integration, with time series and extrusion handling

The attendees are required to install the following application before the beginning of the workshop: http://www.vmware.com/products/player/.

An ISO will be provided to install along with VMWare player which is a self contained Ubuntu install with all the needed pieces.