The document discusses the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo), a non-profit organization that supports open source geospatial projects and communities. It describes how OSGeo provides financial, organizational, and legal support to projects. It also discusses OSGeo's global membership, which includes individuals and local chapters around the world involved in events, code sprints, and advocacy for open geospatial technology. Local chapters help empower communities with open source geospatial software through meetings, trainings, and regional conferences.
2. Welcome
Jody Garnett
Technical Architect
jody.garnett@gmail.com
@jodygarnett
how2map.com
Design, Discussion and Documentation from
around the Java GIS world. Developer with a
hands-on approach available for consulting
and training.
Open Source Projects
• GeoServer, GeoTools, JTS, uDig
Open Source Geospatial Foundation
• Board Member, Incubation Chair
• GeoTools Project Officer
• Marketing Committee
Eclipse Foundation
• Technology Project Chair
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3. Annual General Meeting
Why didn’t you go!
• It had “meeting” in the title
• It was at 8 am this morning
• Could not walk, too much dancing at gala
Why you should go next year!
• Hear from each team in their own words!
• Inspirational
• See the successes, face the challenges
• The local chapters do so much
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Winning: Creative Commons means I can ”remix” the slides from the AGM!
5. Empower everyone with open source geospatial
• OSGeo is a not-for-profit software foundation
• Provides projects financial, organizational and legal support
• Outreach and advocacy
• Promoting global adoption of open source geospatial technology
• Partnerships on open approach to standards, data and
education.
• OSGeo is volunteer driven
• Passionate membership of individuals from around the world.
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6. Open Geospatial
• Working with our partners:
• Open Source: a collaborative approach to software development.
• Open Data: freely available information to use as you wish
• Open Standards: avoid lock-in with interoperable software
• Open Education: Removing the barriers to learning and teaching
• Open Science: Share data and software for responsible research
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10. Take a moment …
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● Everyone you meet will have
○ a different motivation for participation
○ expertise, enthusiasm and experience they are willing to share
○ limited time they are devoting to this activity
● How we get along
○ respect each other
○ enable each other
○ encourage each other
● Keep in mind
○ Open source community is not a vendor, does not owe support
○ Social contract, support community with participation
○ Aapproach support as a member of the community
(See https://www.ianturton.com/talks/foss4g.html)
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11. Not-for-profit
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• The organization is register in the US as a not-for-profit
• Same “category” used for neighborhood associations
• Work done by members can benefit the members
• So not a charity
• We do sponsorship, not donations
• We still have a strong “public service” focus
• It is just we are part of the neighborhood we are serving!
• My take?
• “Volunteer driven” ”Community Based”
12. Careful with Money
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• We are careful about spending money
• We started out with Autodesk as a key sponsor in 2006,
providing stable funding for one employee
• Restructured to be low-capital organization in 2013
(only supporting activates that could support themselves)
• Gradually relaxing, setting an annual budget for committees
and initiatives
• We are still working on this
• Sensitive that dollars go a lot further in different regions
• Our members time is the limiting factor
• fund activities that enable our members to be effective
15. Participants on Mailing List
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● Sign up to mailing lists, take part in events, help out on
the projects
○ 30460 “unique-subscribers” on our mailing lists
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● website around 370
● wiki has around 1250 members, over 5000 users
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• Charter members added through nomination process
• Have one responsibility, to vote in board elections
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390 elected charter members
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East Asia & Pacific, 45
Europe & Central Asia,
200
Latin America &
Caribbean, 17
North America, 101
South Asia , 20
Sub-Saharan Africa, 6
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390 elected charter members
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20. About those Elections
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• Charter Member Elections
• Criteria outlined for nomination process
• Charter members providing nominations,
review and vote on candidates
• Charter member election experiments
• Remember to ask the person first!
• Key community members could go unrecognized … for years!
• We found everyone nominated gets accepted
• Initially diversity was … focused on Java vs C tribe!
• Charter members can only nominate people we know,
hindering growth around the world
21. About those Elections
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• Board member elections
• Half the board is up for elections each year
• Nomination process, by electronic voting
• Board member elections experiments
• Gradually the community has requested candidates answer
some questions or provide a “manifesto” on what they would
like to accomplish
• Experimented with a Candidates debate
• We have some standing differences based on different
priorities, which are hard to debate kindly
• For a global community, we struggle with regional diversity
22. Member Communication
• discuss@osgeo.org
• Start here first!
• Can be efficient
• Be careful of “bike shed”
discussions
(everyone has an opinion)
• Lively during events and
elections!
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26. OSGeo as an Organization
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27. Building OSGeo as an Organization
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Board of Directors President Secretary
Officers
Committees
Committees
Committees
Treasurer
28. Building OSGeo as an Organization
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Board of Directors President Secretary
Officers
Committees Committee Chair
Committees Committee Chair
Committees Committee Chair
Open Source Project Committee Chair
Open Source Project Committee Chair
Open Source Project Committee Chair
Treasurer
29. Building OSGeo as an Organization
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Board of Directors President Secretary
Officers
Committees Committee Chair
Committees Committee Chair
Committees Committee Chair
Open Source Project Committee Chair
Open Source Project Committee Chair
Open Source Project Committee Chair
Inititive
Inititive
Initiative
Treasurer
30. Ambassador
Building OSGeo as an Organization
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Board of Directors President Secretary
Officers
Treasurer
Committees Committee Chair
Committees Committee Chair
Committees Committee Chair
Open Source Project Committee Chair
Open Source Project Committee Chair
Open Source Project Committee Chair
Inititive
Inititive
Initiative
Vice-President
Vice-President
Chair
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Vice-President
Ambassador
31. Local Chapters
Open Source Geospatial is here to help!
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32. OSGeo Horizontal Outreach
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OSGeo
Local Chapters
Regional Local
Chapter
Language Based
Local Chapter
Informal
“Meetups”
GeoBeers
Local Chapters
“Starting”
Regional Local
ChapterRegional Local
Chapter
33. Local Chapter Communication
• Visit website for:
• mailing list signup
• contact details
• Link to website, wiki,
social media
• Activities range from
• Regional foss4g events
• Small workshops
• Meetups
• GeoBeers
• Local Industry Events
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34. OSGeo Korean Chapter
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- FOSS4G Korea 2016
- Around 300 attended,
co-organizing with LH Corp.
- Technical Seminars
- Ocean GIS Seminars
- Drone Mapping Seminars
- Trainings & Outreach
- Joint Open Source GIS
Trainings with LX
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35. tcmug@lists.osgeo.org
• The Twin Cities, MN OSGeo chapter regularly meets once a
month on the 2nd Wednesday @ 4:30pm at local businesses
or organizations in or near St. Paul, Minnesota.
• Some meetings have been dedicated to planning a local
codesprint.
• Held discussions related to retaining a local incorporated
entity as sponsor.
• MapServer and GeoMoose projects are a primary topic of
discussion.
• Organizing and hosting of local presentations.
• Coordination with local GIS agencies and efforts.
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36. OSGeo.US
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Cultivate and support local
OSGeo chapters and
projects in the United
States.
Support activities and
events that build awareness
of the OSGeo and create
opportunities to grow the
OSGeo community.
37. Events Organized
• GFOSS DAY 2016, Cagliari;
• ASITA Congress foss4g and earthquake
risk
• FOSS4G-Italia, over 250 people!
• local foss4g and open geodata events
Italian OSGeo Chapter
● GFOSS.it is a no-profit association
● Members of the association (about 100)
are software developers, professionals,
public administration technicians,
students and university professors.
Main Activities
• Italian Coalition for digital skills
• LIBERA - associations against mafias in
a project to counter gambling addiction;
• disseminate the culture of open-source
software and open data in schools.
GfOSS.it
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Main Activities
- tele-meetings
- Irish Wiki page
- OSGeo-IE Symposium 2017
- First event: 67 registered
- OSGeo-IE Symposium 2018
- Planned for May 25th!
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About
- Local Chapter started 2015
- All island focus
OSGeo Ireland
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39. OSGeo California
• Mailing List - Join it!
• Impromptu Meetup in Dar
• Planning to invite new members from active community
• #maptimeDavis Celebrates 1 year!
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40. OSGeo-fr
Done:
- FOSS4G-fr 2018
- QGIS-User-fr 2017
To come:
- Paris OpenSource Summit (november)
- QGIS-User-fr 2018 (december)
- Capitole du Libre (Toulouse)
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41. OSGeo.nl - Netherlands
• Est. 2011, Foundation 2012
• Sponsors: gold: GeoCat,
OpenGeoGroep
• Yearly FOSS4G-NL (2017, 2018)
• User/hacking Days: QGIS, ...
• Workshops: GRASS, PostGIS,...
• SIGs: QGIS, GeoNetwork,...
• Becoming QGIS User Group
• National https://geoforum.nl
• More: https://osgeo.nl
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42. D-A-Ch: FOSSGIS e.V.
about
- Germany-Austria-Switzerland
- founded in 2000 as GRASS user
community
- Converted to FOSSGIS in 2008
- 214 members
- OpenStreetMap community,
applied for German local
OSMF chapter in 2017
Activities
- FOSSGIS around 400 people
- OSGeo conference video
archiving with TIB
- Hacking Weekend twice a
year
- Contribute to related events
(fair trades, conferences, e.g.)
- funding for Code-Sprints,
Community Events, Projects,..
- have fun!
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https://www.fossgis.de
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45. OSGeo:UK
Events 2017
Rasters Revealed
(sponsored)
Events 2018
FOSS4Eco
FOSS4GUK
Sponsorship 2017
QGIS Codesprint
QGIS.org
Organisational
New constitution and
management committee
Applying to become
registered charity (no tax)
250 on mail list
9 Charter Members
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46. OSGeo.cz
● Dorming status
● Planed cooperation with “Open
cities” ngo and OSM.cz
● Regular Geomatics by Beer
meetings
● Planning to organize FOSS4G-
Europe 2020
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The Czech republic local chapter
47. OSGeo:Au NZ
• Local chapter is quiet
• New committee formed
to organise FOSS4G SotM
Oceania
• Lots of momentum
around event
• Looking at ways to
ensure this momentum
continues for future
events
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48. OSGeo.JP
Events
2016.9.16 QGIS Hackfest
2016.10.30-31 FOSS4G NARA.KANSAI
2016.11.4-5 FOSS4G TOKYO
2017.1.28 FOSS4G Install handson
2017.6.30-7.1 FOSS4G Hokkaido
2017.8.18-20 SOTM 2017 at Aizu
2017.9.15-16 FOSS4G TOKYO
2017.10.15-16 FOSS4G KANSAI/KYOTO
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50. Geoinquiet@s Argentina
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t.me/geoinquietosar 66 members
Since 2012
• Conferences
2014
FOSS4G Buenos
Aires
2016
FOSS4G
Argentina
2017
FOSS4G + SOTM
Argentina
Supporting institutions:
Working with other communities
• Talks and workshops in universities
• Webinars
• Mapathons with OSM Argentina community
Coming soon:
51. OSGeo Europe
Conference
FOSS4 2018 Guimarães
- participants ~??
- code sprint & workshops
Initiatives
- OSGeo Live for INSPIRE
- Code Sprint Bonn
- Discuss first lobby initiatives
- Prepare a poster for DI4R
(datainfrastructures for research)
- Yesterday, the organizers of the Eastern Partenership e-Infrastructure
Conference (EaPEC 2018) confirmed a presentation about the activites of
OSGeo Europe (to foster Open Science in Europe). the conference will take
place in Moldavia in october
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52. OSGeo Europe
Representing to the outside world
- first initiative: INSPIRE
Conference (18-21 Sept Antwerp)
- launch and test of representing
the “OSGeo Eco System”
(at least one government,
university and industry
promoting OSGeo: their story to
promote OSGeo, from their
perspective)
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53. geo-spatial.org (OSGeo.RO)
The site was launched in 2007
and has grown into a
community ever since. We have
47 contributors and a
discussion list of over 900
members. Promote free access
to geospatial data and Open
Source Geospatial Software.
• 18 workshops in 10 years
• 1600+ participants
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An elegant place for sharing
geoKnowledge & geoData
since 2007
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54. OSGeo Finland
.fi
Conferences
FOSS4GFI 2017 and 2018
- common/public
- participants ~160
devALPO 2017
- developers
- participants ~30
AGM Finland
Workshops & events
QGIS Meetup
- once 2017
Workshop at national GIS Expo
for public
Project to translate QGIS totally
in Finnish
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http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/sevilla
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Geoinquietos_Sevilla
735 members779 followers
GEOBIRRAS
DATE ACTIVITY
10/ 2017 Proposal FOSS4G Sevilla 2019
11/ 2017 Virtual Meeting about Accessibility.
Groups Spain
11/ 2017 Moisés Arcos, Authorization CDAU ->
OSM
12/ 2017 Complete the Map. Mapillary
05/ 2018 Complete the Map, Spring. Mapillary
06/ 2018 Social Mapping Party. San Jerónimo.
Tekeando
DATE MEETING REGISTERED
01/ 2017 Work space 6
02/ 2017 GeoBirras 4
03/ 2017 Workshop 25
04/ 2017 Presentation 20
05/ 2017 Workshop 18
10/ 2017 GeoBirras 10
11/ 2017 Presentation 7
12/ 2017 Presentation 5
01/ 2018 Meeting 7
02 /2018 Meeting 9
05/ 2018 Meeting 6
06/ 2018 Meeting-GeoBirras 8
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ACTIVITIES & MEETINGS
OSGeo Spanish Chapter
FOSS4G Sevilla 2019
Proposal to OSGeo Conference Committee
Virtual meeting
Accessibility. Spain
Social Mapping Party
Complete the Map. Global Challenge
Authorization IECA -> OSM
Workshop introduction GIS
(25 registered)
Workshop introduction QGIS
(18 registered)
Smallworld, FME, PostGIS (7 registered)
Geoinquietos Córdoba visit us!!
Carto Builder with Cadastre Inspire.
GeoWe. (20 registered)
58. OSGeo Vertical Outreach
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OSGeo
Partners
Industry
Government
Friends
Education
NGO
Industry
Government
Education
NGO
64. OSGeo Board
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Jody GarnettMaría Arias de Reyna
Astrid Emde
Jeff McKenna
Victoria Rautenbach
Astrid Emde
Helena Mitasova Michael Smith
Angelos Tzotsos
65. OSGeo Board and Officers
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Jody GarnettMaría Arias de Reyna
President
Maria Brovelli
Jeff McKenna
Vice-President
Vasile Craciunescu
Astrid Emde
Secretary
Helena Mitasova
Vice-President
Michael Smith
Treasurer
Angelos Tzotsos
Vice-President
67. Working with the Board
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• Email List:
board@osgeo.org
• Officers
president@osgeo.org
treasurer@osgeo.org
secretary@osgeo.org
• To whom it may concern:
info@osgeo.org
68. Working with the Board
• Wiki
• coordinate meetings
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69. Working with the Board
• Wiki
• Planning
• Reports
• Annual Budget
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70. Working with the Board
• Wiki
• monthly meetings
• set agenda
• publish mins
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71. Working with the Board
• IRC
• For monthly meetings
• Logs provide a record
• About IRC
• Internet Relay Chat
• the original “slack”
• web bridges available
• not just for pirates
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72. Working with the Board
• Loomio
• Handles electronic voting
• Sends email reminders
• Webserver
• Recommended by QGIS.org
• https://www.loomio.org/g/kdSmIwxu/osgeo-board
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73. Working with the Board
• ”todo”
• experimental issue tracker
• track “action items”
• Experiment
• https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues
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75. OSGeo Committees
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• United Nations
• GeoForAll
• Marketing
• Incubation
• Conference
• Open GeoScience
• Public Geospatial Data
• System Administration
• Committees meet on the IRC or via
conference calls as well as
operating by email list.
• From the committees' pages you
will find the missions, names of
the people involved, and links to
the working documents.
• Interested parties are encouraged
to join committee mailing lists,
contribute, and potentially
formally join the committees.
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76. Committee Chairs / Officers
VP, Conference Committee: Frank Warmerdam
VP, Finance Committee: Daniel Morissette
VP, GeoforAll Committee:
Helena Mitasova and Suchith Anand
VP, Incubation Committee: Jody Garnett
VP, Marketing Committee: Marc Vloemans
VP, Public Geospatial Data Project: David Bitner
VP, System Administration Committee: Alex Mandel
VP, UN Committee: Maria Brovelli and Masimiliano
Canatta
VP, deegree: Markus Schneider
VP, FDO: Greg Boone
VP, GDAL/OGR: Even Rouault
VP, GEOS: Sandro Santilli
VP, geomajas: Pieter De Graef
VP, GeoMoose: Bob Basque
VP, GeoNetwork: Jeroen Ticheler
VP, GeoNode: Jeffrey Johnson
VP, GeoServer: Simone Giannecchini
VP, GeoTools Jody Garnett
VP, GRASS GIS: Markus Neteler
VP, Mapbender: Axel Schaefer
VP, MapFish: Eric Lemoine
VP, MapGuide Open Source: Robert Bray
VP, MapServer: Steve Lime
VP, Marble: Torsten Rahn
VP, OpenLayers: Bart van den Eijnden
VP, OSSIM: Mark Lucas
VP, PostGIS: Paul Ramsey
VP, QGIS: Tim Sutton
VP, pycsw: Angelos Tzotsos
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78. System Admin Committee
• Care and feeding of OSGeo
Infrastructure
• quietly enable so many
• Alex Mandel (Chair)
• Regina Obe
• Jeff McKenna (wiki)
• Vicky Vergara (website)
• Sandro (trac, gita)
• Frank (downloads, mailing
lists)
• https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/SAC#Members
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Vicky Vergara
79. Creating an OSGeo ID
• www.osgeo.org
• trac – issue tracker
• svn.osgeo.org
• git.osgeo.org/gitea
• shell access
• issues.qgis.org
• plugins.qgis.org
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80. Requesting a WIKI account
• wiki.osgeo.org
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81. SAC Communication
• Trac issue tracker
• everything goes here
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82. SAC Communication
• sac@osgeo.org
• Very short emails
• Trac notifications here
• used to schedule meeting
• Discussions end with a
request to move to trac!
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85. Conference Committee
• Members
• Aim 50% of committee
made up of chairs of past
foss4g conferences
• Rest is open to chairs of
regional conferneces
• Till Adams (chair)
• Mailing list
• Open to all
• only committee votes
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86. Committee Activities
FOSS4G Selection Process
1. Letter of Intent
2. Secret committee vote
3. Result ratified by board
• FOSS4G Handbook
• Travel Grant Program
• New in 2017
• Initially for global event
• Now for regional also!
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87. UN Committee
Formed to take part in the UN “Open GIS” to promote open source
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88. United Nations Committee
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UN Open GIS Initiative
• Objective of the UN Open GIS Initiative is
to identify and develop open source
geospatial software and services that
meet the requirements of UN
operations, taking full advantage of the
expertise of mission partners including
partner nations, technology developed
by contributing countries, international
organizations, academia, NGOs, and
private sector.
• kickoff meeting in Brindisi, Italy, March
2016
Working Groups of the UN
Open GIS Initiative
• Spiral 1 – UN Open Geo-Portal (US DoD
and Boundless)
• Spiral 2 – Capacity Building (GeoForAll)
• Spiral 3 – Geo-Analysis (OpenGDS)
• Spiral 4 – Data Acquisition (OPenGDS)
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89. UN Open GIS Capacity Building
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Aim
• UN Open GIS Capacity Building is
thought for providing the UN staff
• the suitable background about open
source geospatial software
• the education tailored to the
solution that has been being
developed within the project itself.
Steps
• UN’s staff survey
• Collection of available material
• Online self-paced basic courses tutored
by GeoForAll volunteers and using the
Politecnico di Milano Educational
Platform (Beep)
• Tailored courses, possible on-site
Chairs and Beep responsible
Courses so far (4 editions)
• QGIS GeoAcademy
• Boundless PostGIS
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91. GeoForAll
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Main activities
• Expanding open
geospatial science and
research in universities
worldwide through
partnerships with like
minded organisations.
• New website form
launched to make it easy
for new labs to join
• Student awards program
expanded
How can you help?
Please spread the GeoForAll
message through your
contacs/networks and invite
them to join us…
Join us at
https://www.osgeo.org/initiatives/geo-
for-all/lab-submission/
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92. GeoForAll
Communication
Newsletters (Since Sept 2016)
• Monthly Newsletter with
updates about the
Community, Lab of the
Month, GeoAmbassador of
the Month.
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93. OpenGeoScience
Promoting open data and open source for greater transparency in
research.
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94. OpenGeoScience Committee
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Observation
•Open Science: paradigm change within geosciences, driven by funding organisations
•Core concepts of Open Science (Open Source, Open Data, Open Access) are already crucial to
OSGeo
Vision
•Reach out to science organizations, share OSGeo’s experience
Mission
•Discussion of all aspects “bridging both worlds”
•Raise awareness for OSGeo within the large geoscience organisations (AGU/EGU), especially
for early career scientists
•Foster networking by OSGeo folk at EGU/AGU meetings (EGU: 15.000 people, AGU: 30.000
people)
•Support persons working in both worlds (science and OSGeo project communities) to get due
credit
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95. OpenGeoScience Committee
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•Science Union reach out ({E|A}GU)
•Workshops,Townhalls, Reach out @ EGU General Assembly
•AGU events: BOF, meetings ([2012],2018?,..) (tentative)
•Open_Monitoring_Systems_Working_Group
•open monitoring systems for in-situ earth observations.
•implementing joint programmes to advance the topic
•Software and Data Citation: persistent identifiers (tentative)
•Open Lunar Science Working Group (tentative)
Chairs: Peter Löwe & Massimiliano Cannata
Mailing list: opengeoscience@lists.osgeo.org
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97. Event packs
• Astrid Leading
• Collateral and handouts
Booth swap:
• OSGeo at GIS Events
• OSCon
• AAG
Marketing Committee
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Chair: vacant
• Previous: Marc Vloemans
• Strategy and Budget
• Reset + Recruit Volunteers
Website / Rebranding:
• Key focus for 2017
• Jeff Johnson Leading
• EOI Process
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98. Branding Result Logo and Colors
Branding Sub Brand use OSGeo Mark
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#4DB05B #003A40
Miriam
Libre
Sintony
Distinct Brand use own Mark
100. Booth Materials and Collateral
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101. Incubation Committee
Hands on help for open source projects and development teams
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102. Helps project teams with
open source.
Incubation Process
Provides project teams with
an experienced open source
mentor.
Incubation Committee
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Website project list
• Geospatial
• Open source
• Accepts contributions
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103. OSGeo Community
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Our “OSGeo community”
initiative is focused on
innovation and outreach
assisting development
teams that would like to
join the Open Source
GeoSpatial Foundation.
105. OSGeo Initiatives
Task / Activity based collaboration and outreach
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106. OSGeo Initiatives
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• GeoForAll
• FOSS4G
• Travel Grants
• Local Chapters
• Open GeoScience
• UN Inititive
• Google Summer of Code
• OSGeoLive
• Meta CRS Inititive
• Initiatives are task / activity based
• Less formal then a committee
(No officer, no budget)
• Often started by a committee to
collaborate with interested parties
• A chance to grow:
• OSGeoLive – now open source project
• GeoForAll – now a committee
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107. Google Summer of Code
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- 12th year of OSGeo participation
- BoF at FOSS4G-Europe
108. GSoC 2018 Report
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- GSoC 2018 - Google Summer of Code
- OSGeo projects (GRASS GIS, gvSIG, PostGIS, istSOS, PyWPS, ZOO-Project, pgRouting) and
guest projects (NASA-ESA Web World Wind, Gisquick) projects
- 10 successful students:
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/5051492877205504/#projects
- GSoC summit participants: Jeff McKenna (admin), Vaclav Petras (mentor) and Victoria
Rautenbach (GCI mentor, additionally invited by Google)
- GSoC 2017 - Google Summer of Code
- tasks created for OSGeo projects (GRASS GIS, QGIS, gvSIG, pycsw, istSOS, PyWPS,
pgRouting) and guest projects (NASA-ESA Web World Wind, OL3-Google-Maps,
OneBusAway) projects
- 13 successful students:
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/archive/2017/organizations/4554340639440896/
#projects
- GSoC summit participants: Margherita Di Leo (admin), Rohith Reddy (mentor)
109. GCI 2017 Report
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- students completed 649 tasks 11 OSGeo projects (i.e., FOSS4G, GeoServer, GeoTools, GRASS
GIS, gvSIG, MapServer, OpenLayers, OSGeoLive, pgRouting, PostGIS, and QGIS).
- experiences and conclusions of OSGeo's first participation in the Google Code-in (GCI)
competition:
- V. Rautenbach, M. Di Leo, V. Andreo, L. Delucchi, H. Kudrnovsky, J. McKenna & S. Acosta y
Lara 2018. Fostering pre-university student participation in OSGeo through the Google
Code-In competition. The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote
Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Volume XLII-4/W8, 2018. FOSS4G 2018 –
Academic Track, 29–31 August 2018, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
(https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-4-W8-175-2018)
- GCI summit participants: Jeff McKenna (admin) and winning OSGeo's GCI students
- GSoC/GCI admins 2017/2018:
- Margherita Di Leo (chair), Florin-Daniel Cioloboc, Anne Ghisla, Helmut Kudrnovsky,
Werner Macho, Jeff McKenna
110. OSGeo Projects
Each OSGeo project operates as a committee in our foundation
represented in our AGM by their project officer.
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111. Bootable Distribution
• Try out open source,
without installing
• Freely distributable
OSGeo-Live Status
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112. GRASS GIS
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Developments
• Temporal algebra
• Location management
• CLI for 3rd party software
• Translations via Transifex
• Cartography improvements
• Python interface improvements
Mission statement
Bringing advanced geospatial technologies to the world
Graphical identity
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113. Orfeo ToolBox
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Orfeo ToolBox is an open-source project for state-of-the-art remote sensing,
including a fast image viewer, apps callable from Bash, Python or QGIS, and a
powerful C++ API.
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114. GeoNode
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- OSGeo Project since 2016
- GeoNode is a web-based application and platform for
developing geospatial information systems (GIS) and for
deploying spatial data infrastructures (SDI).
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115. PyWPS
- Implementation of the
Web Processing Service
standard from the Open
Geospatial Consortium on
the server side.
- Written in Python.
- Integration, publishing and
execution of Python
processes via the WPS
standard.
• Jachym Cepicky Chair
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116. OSGeo Community
Open Source projects aligned with our core values.
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117. ZOO-Project
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ZOO-Project is a WPS written
in C, provides open source
platform for WPS 1.0.0 and
WPS 2.0.0.
• Community project
• Currently in Incubation
118. pgRouting
pgRouting extends the
PostGIS / PostgreSQL
geospatial database
providing routing
functionality.
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120. Community Discussion
Committees
• United Nations
• GeoForAll
• Marketing
• Incubation
• Conference
• Open GeoScience
• Public Geospatial Data
• System Administration
Initiatives
• GeoForAll
• FOSS4G
• Travel Grants
• Local Chapters
• Open GeoScience
• UN Initiative
• Google Summer of Code
• OSGeoLive
• Meta CRS Initiative
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Open source is responsible for so much good in the world, but it can be difficult to figure out how to start.
* Choosing an open source license, and what it says about your dreams and ambitions
* Trusting your code? Vaccination is important for herd resistance
* Building together with friends
* Success with open source, save the world, get paid
This is a joint presentation from the OSGeo and LocationTech who are here to offer you help, and hope, on your open source journey! Thea is a developer advocate with LocationTech will introduce the services of the Eclipse Foundation and the facilities available to help your project. Jody Garnett from the Open Source Software Foundation incubation committee will introduce how OSGeo supports open source.
If your organizations is migrating to using open source this talk provides insight into how projects are established, governed and developed. We will also look at the responsibilities taken on by software developers, along with the legal support and risk mitigation provided by a software foundation.
Development teams considering taking their projects to the next level, or seeking reassurance, should attend this talk to review what goes into making  open source safe, responsible and successful.
We are a not for profit foundation under IRS code 503(c)4 organized under Social Welfare advocacy
This is the initial structure of a not-for-profit organization
Committee chairs are recognized as officers in our foundation, we also make sure each osgeo project is recognized as a committee in our organization.
Breakout teams can work on a short term initiative, usually in response to a technical or social challenge.
The role of president became too much time commitment for one volunteer to manage, we have done our best to split up the responsibilities and travel expectations (with a vice-president or appointed ambassador in each region).
Local Chapters are the place you can connect with other OSGeo members in your country, region or language.
Many local chapters hold events annually.
The local chapter would be happy to pay for production/delivery costs. It is the key creation that is time consuming
Is https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Event_Management up to date?
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OSGeo charter members elect a 9 member board of directors who appoint officers and work together set the vision and goals for the foundation. The board empowers a set of committees and volunteers to execute on these goals
https://www.osgeo.org/partners/
OSGeo partners have a formal relationship, often participating in a join-inititive, or persuing collaboration as outlined in a memorandum of understanding.
OSGeo “friends” are groups we love and admire, but do not interested in setting up a formal relationship.
OSM and Natural Earth we like to promote as great examples of open data.
OSL and Funtoo are instrumental in the success of our sys admin committee.
https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues
Committee Reports (15 mins)
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/SAC
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conference_Committee
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conference_Committee
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conference_Committee
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conference_Committee
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conference_Committee
Committee Reports (15 mins)
3 mins: Helena - Vice - President, OSGeo - OSGeo status overview (formal requirement)
refer to keynote by Maxi? VERIFY the numbers
https://www.slideshare.net/cannata/massimiliano-cannata-keynote-foss4gasia-2017