Introduction to KAOS-G presented at FOSS4G Asia 2014!

1. Introduction to OSGeo Kor, KAOS-G
: to share a passion for Open Source GIS in South Korea
4th December 2014
Heegu Park
OSGeo Korean Chapter
Gaia3D

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Open source in South Korea
 People tend to think Open source is free!!!
 “Why do I have to pay for Open source?”
Many ways to make profit by Open source!
 Selling service instead of selling software
 Making money from providing maintenance
 …

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Open source in South Korea
 People tend to think Open source is foreign product!
 Government should consider proper portion between foreign products and domestic
products because they have the right to promote domestic products.
 Some domestic software companies in South Korea regard Open source as their enemy!!!
made in Korea
Partly true, but
 If it’s true, all software developed using development tools such as Eclipse or Visual studio
are all foreign products.
 Domestic software programmers could contribute Open source projects.

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Open source in South Korea
 People tend to think Open source has low quality than proprietary software.
 They don’t even think Android and Linux have better quality than other commercial OS.
It was true to some extent in old days,
 These days, more talented people contribute their ability to improve Open source
software, so the quality of Open source software is getting better and better which is
almost similar to or much better than proprietary software.

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Open source in South Korea
 People tend to think security of Open source software is vulnerable to attack.
 Some people think they could attack if they know source code of a system.
Even though source code is open, the security level is not low.
 Open source even has security code inside and all packets used in open source are
ciphered.
 Also, security hardware such as firewall is quite important regardless of source code.

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Open source in South Korea
 People tend to think Open source has poor service.
 In terms of clients, service like maintenance or upgrade is very important when choosing
software for their service.
 Commercial Open source software companies should be required.
If no one doesn’t’ pay for the service, this might be true.
 However, there are commercial Open source software companies who provide paid
maintenance service.
 RedHat is using Open source, but has better service than competitors.

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Open source in South Korea
 Sometimes, clients who’re using Open source want to hide the fact that they’ using Open
source.
 Companies who’re using Open source tend to hide the fact when they do their business
because using Open source seems like that they don’t have enough technologies.
 Open source should be open, but it sometimes become secrecy in South Korea.
This is our job to overcome these kinds of prejudice.

8. However,
It has changed little by
little… and finally,

9. Open source GIS trend in
South Korea

10. Open source policies in South Korea
 In South Korea, Open Source Software Competence Plaza(of National IT Industry
Promotion Agency under Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning) takes charge of
Open source policies for promotion, marketing, incubating, and funding.
 From 2004, test projects to use Open source software were conducted and Linux
started being used by Government and public organizations.
 From 2008, there started some policies to make better Open source software eco
system throughout enhancement of software production, enlargement of market
base, creation of Open source demand, and international cooperation.
 Korea Open Source Software Association established in 1999 is an organization for
software companies using Open source and invigorating Open source market in South
Korea.
 Supporting international marketing(Global exhibition, Marketing consultant, etc.)
 Trying to raise low awareness of Open source projects, license policy, and so on
 Providing consulting service about how to use Open source software
 Supporting Open source communities
 Communities(OSGeo Korea Chapter, KAOS-G, etc)
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11. Open source policies in South Korea
 Detailed guideline of 2013 budget proposal by Ministry of Strategy and Finance
 It was very ambiguous in 2012, but it became more specific in 2013.
2012 Guideline 2013 Guideline
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Detailed Guideline
(1) Device purchase cost and rent
o Software purchase cost
<new>
~~~~~
(3) System maintenance cost
o Open source software maintenance cost
<new>
Detailed Guideline
(1) Device purchase cost and rent
o Software purchase cost
• When purchasing commercial software, it
is recommended to consider using Open
source software in terms of total cost.
~~~~~
(3) System maintenance cost
o Open source software maintenance cost
• In order to receive necessary service for
Open source software operation, consider
necessary service level and items and
make budgets at a flat rate throughout
quotations and refer Open source
software maintenance service guideline.

12. Open source GIS policies in South Korea
 MOLIT(Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport) in in charge of most GIS such as
7 Action Plans of 5th National Spatial Information Policy
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surveying, mapping, and so on.
 added “Open source GIS” into one of their action plans of 5th National Spatial
Information Policy.
 It seems Government has changed their mind from hostile to favorable toward Open
source GIS.
1. Constructing high quality GIS data and opening expansion of high quality GIS data
2. Invigorating GIS convergence industry
3. Enhancing platform service based on spatial big data
4. Promoting GIS convergence R&D
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Developing Open source GIS
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5. Enhancing cooperative GIS system and usability expansion
6. Nurturing creative and talented people in GIS field
7. Establishing GIS convergence promotion system
 Open source GIS planning project by KARI(Korean Aerospace Research Institute) has been
conducted in order to find appropriate Open source GIS project or service suitable for
Korean market and people.

13. Open source GIS policies in South Korea
 Land Information R&D Total Plan(2013) of MOLIT(Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and
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Transport)
Core Goals Action Plans
[Policy Goal 1 – Coexisting
Economy]
Realizing coexisting economy through
geospatial information
1. Development of Bigdata analysis and application technology based on geospatial information
2. Development of Open Source based geospatial information processing and application technology
3. Development of industry customized geospatial information providing technology
4. Research for national land usage investigation and construction plan
[Policy Goal 2 –
Welfare/Happiness]
Happy world for everyone by
geospatial information
5. Development of indoor location information providing service
6. Development of geospatial application technology for comfortable life
[Policy Goal 3 – Safety]
Geospatial information taking
responsible for safe people’s life
7. Development of next generation all-weather ultralight UAV
8. Construction of geospatial information of cities protected from crimes and disasters
9. Development of underground geospatial information system technology
[Policy Goal 4 – Reunification]
Spatial information preparing the
future of Korean Peninsula
10. Geospatial information construction of North Korea area for the improvement of land
competitiveness
11. Preparation of coutilization of North Korea area
[Policy Goal 5 – Industry
Vitalization]
Nurturing geospatial information
industry to new growth power for the
future
12. Development of exclusive geospatial satellite technology
13. Development of various geospatial image information service technology
14. Development of commercialization technology for 3D geospatial information
15. Construction of location based carbon emission monitoring system and trading system using
geospatial information
16. Development of hydrologic cycle management system using geospatial information

14. Open Source R&D projects funded by Korean Government
 GIS integrated platform development using Open Source GIS for researches and education
 Participating organizations: KRIHS(Korean Research Institute for Human Settlements),
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Gaia3D, Mango Systems
 Period: 19th November 2012 ~ 18th November 2015
 Budget: $1.1M
 Goal: To develop open oriented GIS platform using Open Source GIS for researches
and education
 Result: GEEPS(GEospatial Education PlatformS)
http://geeps.krihs.re.kr/wiki/index.php/%EB%8C%80%EB%AC%B8
 KAOS-G QGIS: QGIS(2.6) + Spatial Statistical functions & OGC WPS
 KAOS-G GeoServer: GeoServer + OGC WPS API to use spatial statistical functions

15. Open Source R&D projects funded by Korean Government
 Open Source GIS R&D project(according to Open source GIS planning project by KARI)
 Participating organizations: Pusan National University, Spatial Information Technology,
Gaia3D, Mango Systems, Hansung University, University of Seoul, Turbo Soft, Kunsan
National University, KRIHS, Ewha University
 Period: 19th August 2014 ~ 31st December 2017
 Budget: $12M
 Goal: To build Open Source GIS eco system in South Korea throughout acquiring Open
Source GIS technologies and invigorating GIS industry in South Korea
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 Result: Coming soon!

16. They have changed their
attitude and mind toward
Open Source GIS little by
little…

17. This is by lots of efforts and
contributions of Open
Source GIS communities
and people!!

18. OSGeo Korean Chapter &
KAOS-G

19. OSGeo Korean Chapter & KAOS-G – Relationship
OSGeo KAOS-G
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 Aims to encourage the development
of domestic Open source GIS and
Environmental
 Online activities / Offline meetings
 Anyone can join
 Union of companies for the
empowerment from private sectors and
expansion of Open source GIS industry
 Offline meetings / Online activities
 Consists of 10 companies(2014)
OSGeo
members
KAOS-G
members
Members - Win-win relationship together & many intersections exist

20. OSGeo Korean Chapter – Information Hub
 Notices, Meetings, Offline activities, Updates, News, Trends, Q&As, and so on.
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Hompage (Notices)
Mailing lists (Q&A)
2014 - about 180 Questions
2013 - about 230 Questions
https://groups.google.com/http://www.osgeo.kr/ forum/?fromgroups#!forum/osgeo-kr

21. OSGeo Korean Chapter – Hosting offline meetings
 Socializing through offline meetups, and sharing information
Seoul offline meeting Busan offline meeting
 3 times in 2014
 2 times in 2012
 There were mainly Seoul meetups, but in 2014, it started a separate offline
meetup in Busan (All of members love the Soju.)
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22. OSGeo Korean Chapter – Key figures
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[Sanghee Shin]
Charter member
Spiritual leader
Facebook big mouth
[Minpa Lee]
Charter member
technic leader
Good, friendly
[BJ Jang]
Charter member
Geoserver expert
Mustache-beard
Hard strong feel
[Omegathrone Park]
Planning leader
Really Smart, smilely
[Junghwan Yun]
PostGIS expert
kindly “Bogus”

23. KAOS-G – Beginning..
 Government funded business to support small professional software
companies to promote software industry and nurture small companies
 Annual project
 Fund: 1st year: $19,000 and from 2nd year: $24,0000
 # of forums: (New)5 forums are selected (Ongoing)5 forums are remained
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 Goal
 Networking
 Sharing technologies
 Developing technologies
 Acquiring technologies
 Publishing manuals or writings
 Current forums
 Big data forum
 Web standard solution forum
 Open source GIS forum
 …

24. KAOS-G – Korea Open source GIS forum
Forum is…
 Promoting and encouraging Open source GIS
 Sharing Open source GIS technologies and marketing strategies
 Handling Government’s policies about Open source GIS
 Cooperating and collaborating against global and dominant players
Qualitative goal
 Providing channels to strengthen networks among participants in forum
 Collaborating about Open source GIS issues in South Korea
 Trying to improve and develop Open source GIS technologies and share them in South
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Korea to create values
Quantitative goal
 Developing and releasing integrated Open source GIS package
 Making business model and conducting co-project and co-research
 Training Open source GIS and sharing Open source GIS technologies
 Enhancing networks among companies in forum
 Holding FOSS4G Korea 2013
 Trying to host FOSS4G International 2015

25.  10 small companies get together for better world using Open source GIS!!
 8companies(2003) -> 10 companies (2014)
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KAOS-G – Members
Chairman
Representing company
Participating companies
Agathosergon
 OSGeo Charter Member
 CEO of Gaia3D
 MBA @ KAIST

26.  Consists of various companies in various fields
 Each company has its own special field and technologies.
Ocean GIS
Open source
GIS
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Transportation
GIS
GIS Consulting
KAOS-G – Members
 Nice combination!!!
 Gaia3D Inc.,
Meteorology
General GIS GIS DB
Environment
GIS
GIS
 Gaia3D
 Mango Systems
 EnGIS
 E3
 …
 E3
 EnGIS
 GNT Solution
 EnGIS
 E3
 CE Tech
 GU
 Gaia3D
 Agathosergon
 EnGIS
 Noa Solution
 …

27.  Understanding Open source GIS core technologies
 Developing Open source GIS package to the international level
 Cooperating and sharing knowledge, technologies, and experience among participants
 Rapidly coping with Government policy and global GIS company’s strategy
KAOS-G
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Participating core Open source GIS projects
Open source GIS guild
Open source GIS Korean manual publishing
FOSS4G International 2015 event hosting
KAOS-G aims at
Exporting Open source GIS package
Developing domestic GIS industry
Developing domestic software industry

28. Activities

29. Activities: Participated in FOSS4G International events
 KAOS-G has supported the participation expenses
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Junghwan
Yun Minpa Lee
Toru Mori

30. Activities: Participated in FOSS4G International events
 Presentaion: “Why Open Source GIS is a Viable Option for Korean National GIS
Program?”(Gaia3D, Sanghee Shin), “The Architecture Of Mobile Traffic Map
Service”(Gaia3D, Hayan Shin)
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31. Activities: Participated in FOSS4G International events
 KAOS-G has supported the participation expenses
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Bomb
maker
Minpa Lee
Junghwan
Yun
BJ Jang
Toru Mori

32. Activities: Participated in FOSS4G International events
 Presentation : “Big size meteorological data processing and mobile displaying
system using PostgresSQL and GeoServer”(Gaia3D, Jaehyun Gwun)
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33. Activities: Participated in FOSS4G International events
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Played FOSS4G Seoul
2015 promotion video
Jeff is announcing
FOSS4G Seoul 2015!

34.  QGIS, GeoServer, GeoNode, Geopaparazzi – Actively participating in the UI translation for the
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Activities: Translating UI
convenience of Korean language users
QGIS language translation
rate(Korean, 100%)
GeoServer language
translation rate(Korean,
100%)
Geopaparazzi language
translation rate(Korean,
100%)
Geonode language
translation rate(Korean,
100%)

35. Activities: Translating manuals and publishing
 PostGIS 2.0 Manual, GeoServer 2.4.0 Manual, QGIS Training Manual were published in
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Korean.
 All manuals are provided free of charge as a PDF or epub file on web
 http://www.osgeo.kr/141  https://drive.google.com/file/d/0
B1qbDNTel8EcNzhheGhQUWR1a0
U/edit?usp=sharing
 http://docs.qgis.org/2.2/ko/docs/t
raining_manual/

36. Activities: Open Source GIS Training
 Training about Open source GIS at Spatial Information Research Institute (in Korea Cadastral
Survey Corporation) – (July, September, November)
 Trained Surveying and Mapping related people in developing countries (Oct. 2013)
 Lectures about Open source GIS
 Presentation of cases of systems or service using Open source GIS
 Introduced Open Source GIS at Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements to 10 official
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in 7 countries (Sep. 2014)

37. Activities: Open Source GIS Training
 Training about Open source GIS at Spatial Information Research Institute (in Korea Cadastral
Survey Corporation)(http://lxsiedu.or.kr/) – (July, September, November)
 Next year, it will be five times trainings from March to July.
 Trained Surveying and Mapping related people in developing countries invited by
NGII(National Geographic Information Institute)
 Lectures about Open source GIS
 Presentation of cases of systems or service using Open source GIS
 Introduced Open Source GIS invited by Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements to
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10 official in 7 countries (September 2014)
 Introduced Open Source GIS invited by LX Corporate(Land Cadastral) to Republic of
Dominique (November 2014)

38. Activities: Open Source GIS Solution Day
 Hosted Open source GIS Solution Day(28th August 2013)
 Lectures about Open source license and business model
 Presentation about case studiesof systems or service using Open source GIS
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39. Activities: Participated FOSS4G Oaska 2013
 Presentation: "Introduction to KAOS-G" in the 2013 FOSS4G Osaka 2013
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40. Activities: FOSS4G Korea 2013
 Date : 14th November 2013(Workshop), 15th November 2013(Conference)
 Location : Toz(Workshop), COEX(Conference)
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41. Activities: FOSS4G Korea 2013
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42. Activities: FOSS4G Korea 2014
 Date : 26th August 2014 (Workshop), 27th August 2014 (Conference)
 Location : COEX #327
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43. Activities: FOSS4G Korea 2014
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44. Activities: FOSS4G Korea 2014
 Promoted through online or SNS (no need money)
 We offer a wide range of souvenirs (Bottle, round pan, published manual, T-shirts)
 Concerns were - how we can get a lot of participatants
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45. FOSS4G Seoul 2015

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FOSS4G Seoul 2015 개최
Approval letter
We need your
support and
participation!

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FOSS4G Seoul 2015!!!!
http://2015.foss4g.org/

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FOSS4G Seoul 2015!!!!
https://www.facebook.com/foss4g2015

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FOSS4G Seoul 2015!!!!
https://twitter.com/foss4g

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FOSS4G Seoul 2015!!!!

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FOSS4G Seoul 2015!!!!

52. Help FOSS4G Seoul 2015
Follow!
Promote!
Volunteer!
Participate!
Sponsor!(^^)

53. Thank you..

54. Introduction to OSGeo Kor, KAOS-G
: to share a passion for Open Source GIS in South Korea
4th December 2014
Heegu Park
OSGeo Korean Chapter
Gaia3D