5. Community?
“a body of persons of common and
especially professional interests
scattered through a larger society”
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7. 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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8. OSGeo's Mission Statement
“To support the development of open source geospatial
software, and promote its widespread use.”
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9. 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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10. 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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11. 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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13. 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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14. OSGeo Structure
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Committees
Committees
Committees
Board of 9 Directors
and President
Local
Chapters
Local
Chapters
Local
Chapters
Officers
Officers
25 Officers
Local
Chapters
Local
Chapters
Foundation
Projects
Committees
Committees
Committees
elected by Membership147 Charter Members
Charter Members vote
represent
Sponsors
15. OSGeo Projects (part 1)
deegree
GeoMoose
MapServer
GeoServer
Web mapping
Desktop
Web mapping
GRASS
Quantum GIS
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OpenLayers
17. 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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18. 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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19. 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 other
Charter members and board members
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21. Local Chapters
Italy
Korea
China Germany
British Columbia
Canada
Japan
French
Language
India
New Mexico
United States
Poland
Ottawa
Canada
Quebec
Canada
Japan KoreaJapan
Twin Cites
United States
Spanish
Language
United Kingdom
Cascadia
In formation: Africa, Australia & New Zealand,
Brazilian, Greek, Finland, Portugal, Taiwan
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22. 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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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,UK
University of Girona, Spain
University of Southampton, UK
Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
Newcastle University, UK
Laboratorio di Geomatica, Italy
University of Warwick, UK
UNEP/GRID-Warsaw Centre, Poland
Federal University of Paraná, Brazil
São Paulo State University (UNESP), Brazil
National Amazonian University of Madre de Dios (UNAMAD), Peru
Universidad de la República, Uruguay
North Carolina State University,USA
University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Information Center for the Environment, University of California
Laboratorio Nacional de Software Libre, Mexico
UNMC, Malaysia
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Malaysia
National College of Public Administration and Governance (NCPAG), University of the Philippines
Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC), Philippines
University of Pretoria, South Africa
Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), Kenya
University of Ghana, Ghana
University of Melbourne, Australia
36. 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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37. Sol Katz Award
Awarded annually by OSGeo to those
that have demonstrated leadership
in the community
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38. OSGeo Service Providers
Small-medium sized companies
offering professional support for
OSGeo projects
Becoming very important
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39. 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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40. Challenges
avoid being NA-centric
attracting innovative projects to participate
attracting sponsorship to support the
community
certification?
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41. What Does the
Community Need?
YOU!
Helping with documentation
Testing/providing feedback
Answering questions on mailing lists
Sharing your passion
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- registered in United States, but members/chapters/projects based all across the world - could mention the initial backing by Autodesk (public knowledge)
- coming together through email lists, IRC sessions, annual conferences, local events - compared to the sports community: - 21 years of competitive ice hockey - brother played in the top professional level for 8 years - global community - now i have been involved in the Open Source geospatial community for over 10 year
- registered in United States, but members/chapters/projects based all across the world - could mention the initial backing by Autodesk (public knowledge)
- registered in United States, but members/chapters/projects based all across the world - could mention the initial backing by Autodesk (public knowledge)
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- talk about technical infrastructure (trac, wikis, mailing lists) - funding is dispersed through osgeo to projects - branding is big, in terms of competing with large proprietary products
- osgeo4w, ms4w - curriculum materials are available for education (there is a committee specifically for this)
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- talk about locations of each sponsor and size (small to large) -
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- most of those requirements are recommended (first 2 points are required) -
- very important for future of osgeo -
- tell them to become a member by registering for free on osgeo.org !!!! -
- tell them that this is where the work gets done -