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2013-04-25 | OSGeo 2013. All rights reserved Jeff McKenna President, OSGeo The Open Source Geospatial Community

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Jeff McKenna

President, OSGeo

The Open Source Geospatial Community

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Outline

● What is OSGeo?

● FOSS4G

● Community

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Why?

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source: pcworld.com

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Community?

“a body of persons of common and

especially professional interests

scattered through a larger society”

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2000 to 2005

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What is OSGeo?

● Open Source Geospatial Foundation (www.osgeo.org)● A non-profit organization

● Legally registered in Delaware, United States

● Started in February 2006

● Today is the leading voice for free geospatial software

● Similar in operation to the Apache Foundation

● Everyone is a volunteer

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OSGeo's Mission Statement

“To support the development of open source geospatial software, and promote its widespread use.”

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OSGeo Goals (part 1)

● Provide resources for projects● Technical● Legal● Funding

● Promote freely available data

● Promote project use in industry

● Encourage the use of standards

● Provide a common brand of quality

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OSGeo Goals (part 2)

● Make software more accessible to users

● Provide installers

● Provide support for OSGeo software use in education

● Encourage cooperation between different OSGeo communities

● Java/C communities

● Unix/Windows communities

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OSGeo Goals (part 3)

● Support use and development in the worldwide community

● Operate annual FOSS4G conference

● Award the Sol Katz award for service to the community

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Sponsors of OSGeo

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How to Sponsor OSGeo

1. Foundation sponsorship

● Sustaining sponsor: 50,000 USD

● Principal sponsor: 20,000 USD

● Supporting sponsor: 10,000 USD

● Associate sponsor: 3,000 USD

2. Project sponsorship

3. Conference sponsorship

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OSGeo Structure

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CommitteesCommitteesCommittees

Board of 9 Directorsand President

LocalChaptersLocalChaptersLocalChapters

OfficersOfficers

25 Officers

LocalChaptersLocalChaptersFoundation

Projects

CommitteesCommitteesCommittees

elected by Membership 147 Charter Members

Charter Members vote

represent

Sponsors

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OSGeo Projects (part 1)deegree

GeoMoose

MapServer

GeoServer

Web mapping

Desktop

Web mapping

GRASS

Quantum GIS

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OpenLayers

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OSGeo Projects (part 2)

GEOS

GDAL

GeoTools

Geospatial libraries

Metadata Catalog GeoNetwork

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PostGIS

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Requirements to Become an OSGeo Project

● Code is under an OSI approved license

● Geospatial software

● Mature software

● Substantial user community

● Diverse developer community

● Support relative standards

● Links to existing OSGeo projects

(see: http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/evaluation.html)

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OSGeo Labs

● For projects that would like to become OSGeo Projects

● Can use OSGeo infrastructure

● http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Labs

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Types of OSGeo Members

Participant

Member

Charter Member

- Have not registered themselves on osgeo.org site

- Have registered themselves on osgeo.org site- Publicly acknowledges their connection to OSGeo

- Must be voted in by other Charter members- Have the right to vote in elections of otherCharter members and board members

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OSGeo Committees

Education

Website

Conference FinanceBoard

Systems

MarketingPublic

geodata

Incubation

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Local Chapters

Italy

Korea

China GermanyBritish Columbia

Canada

Japan

French Language

India

New MexicoUnited States

PolandOttawaCanada

QuebecCanada

Japan KoreaJapan

Twin CitesUnited States

SpanishLanguage

United Kingdom

CascadiaIn formation: Africa, Australia & New Zealand,Brazilian, Greek, Finland, Portugal, Taiwan

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Role of Local Chapters

● Bring a more local context to OSGeo

● Provide networking opportunities

● Provide training and support to local community

● Promote OSGeo through events

● Translate documents, websites, software

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OpenStreetMap

MapServer

MapFish

web mapping

GRASS GIS

Quantum GIS OSSIM

desktop GIS

metadata

GEOS

GDAL/OGR

GeoTools

libraries

MetaCRSPostGIS

GeoMajas

Quantum GIS MapServer

deegree

OpenLayers GeoServer

MapGuide OS

deegree GIS

MapNik

Viking

KOSMO

gvSIG

SpatialLite

uDig

Geopublisher

Mapbender

pycsw

GeoKettle

GMT

ZOO Project

FDO

GeoNetwork

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Number of OSGeo mailing lists.(2013-04-25)

197

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Number of unique registrants in OSGeo email lists.(2013-02-01)

19,160

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Number of users registered on the OSGeo Wiki.(2013-04-25)

12,811

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Total pages on the OSGeo Wiki. (2013-04-25)

2,783

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Unique visitors to osgeo.org for the month of April

32,013

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Google hits for “osgeo” (2013-04-25)

1,480,000

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(17,500 on 2006-03)

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ICA-OSGeo Labs Network

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ICA-OSGeo Labs Network

• Goal 1 – Establishing research and training opportunities in open source GIS

• Goal 2 -Provide worldwide learning platform• Goal 3 – Build teaching and research

infrastructure worldwide

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ICA-OSGeo Labs Network

University of Nottingham,UKUniversity of Girona, SpainUniversity of Southampton, UKCzech Technical University in Prague, Czech RepublicNewcastle University, UKLaboratorio di Geomatica, ItalyUniversity of Warwick, UKUNEP/GRID-Warsaw Centre, PolandFederal University of Paraná, BrazilSão Paulo State University (UNESP), BrazilNational Amazonian University of Madre de Dios (UNAMAD), PeruUniversidad de la República, UruguayNorth Carolina State University,USAUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst, USAInformation Center for the Environment, University of CaliforniaLaboratorio Nacional de Software Libre, MexicoUNMC, MalaysiaUniversiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), MalaysiaNational College of Public Administration and Governance (NCPAG), University of the PhilippinesEnvironmental Science for Social Change (ESSC), PhilippinesUniversity of Pretoria, South AfricaRegional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), KenyaUniversity of Ghana, GhanaUniversity of Melbourne, Australia

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Community Events

OSGIS 2004, Ottawa, Canada

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Community Events

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Community Events

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FOSS4G Conference

● Annual event bringing together the OSGeo community

● Events have been held in Switzerland, Canada, South Africa, Australia, Spain, United States

● Growth in attendance from ~100 attendees in 2004 to ~1,000 attendees

● Regional events now in NA, Europe, India, S.Korea, Japan, and BA

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Sol Katz Award

Awarded annually by OSGeo to those that have demonstrated leadership in the community

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OSGeo Service Providers

Small-medium sized companies

offering professional support for

OSGeo projects

Becoming very important

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Is the Community Easy to Work With?

“Is my bug fixed?” “The documentation is out-of-date” “I'm new,...” “When is the next release?”

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Challenges

avoid being NA-centric attracting innovative projects to participate attracting sponsorship to support the community certification?

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What Does theCommunity Need?

YOU! Helping with documentation Testing/providing feedback Answering questions on mailing lists Sharing your passion

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Thank you!

Jeff McKenna

President, OSGeo

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