IV. Jornadas Sig Libre: The State of OSGeo and the Global SDI

Cover Page The state of OSGeo and the global SDI Arnulf Christl OSGeo President IV Jornadas SIG Libre, Girona Download: http://arnulf.us/publications/IV_Jornadas_SIG_Libre_The_state_of_OSGeo_and_the_global_SDI.pdf

Introducing OSGeo OSGeo is a nonprofit organization created to support and build the highestquality Open Source geospatial software. The foundation provides financial, organizational, and legal support to the broader Open Source geospatial community. It also serves as an independent legal entity to which community members can contribute code, funding and other resources, secure in the knowledge that their contributions will be maintained for public benefit. Dor more details see the very good "A not so short introduction to OSGeo" slides at: http://www.osgeo.org/node/764 The state of OSGeo and the global SDI – Girona 2010 – Arnulf Christl 2/19

Graduated Projects Web Mapping & SDI Desktop Applications deegree GRASS GIS Mapbender OSSIM MapGuide Open Source Quantum GIS MapServer Geospatial Libraries OpenLayers FDO Metadata Catalog GDAL/OGR GeoNetwork GeoTools The state of OSGeo and the global SDI – Girona 2010 – Arnulf Christl 3/19

Incubating Projects For more Details go to the Incubation Committee GeoMajas – Integrated Web Mapping Platform GEOS – Spatial Library in C GeoServer – OGC WMS and WFS Transactional Server gvSIG – Desktop GIS in Java (Status!) MapFish – Web Mapping Development Framework MetaCRS – Meta Project for Coordinate System Libraries PostGIS – Spatial Extension for PostgreSQL The state of OSGeo and the global SDI – Girona 2010 – Arnulf Christl 4/19

Global SDI with OSGeo Software A Selection of Global SDI Use Cases MapFish INSPIRE Geoportal Mapbender PortalU Environmental Metadata Portal OpenLayers at the Whitehouse GeoNetwork FAO Metadata Catalogs GDAL/OGR powered Software and Portals PostGIS based Spatial Database Extensions (SDE) Many more at: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Use_Cases The state of OSGeo and the global SDI – Girona 2010 – Arnulf Christl 5/19

Web Mapping Software News Web Mapping – Tool Diversity MapFish enters OSGeo Incubation with OpenLayers Client, GeoExt ExtJS, REST API, MultiLanguage Framework GeoMajas enters OSGeo Incubation, Fully Integrated Java Web Mapping Solution Mapbender integrates OpenLayers, and many Code Sprints boost Activity Ne WMS Inspector AddOn for Firefox Launched w! The state of OSGeo and the global SDI – Girona 2010 – Arnulf Christl 6/19

Web Dev: ExtJS and jQuery – Distribution Google Trends: jquery, jquery ui, extjs The state of OSGeo and the global SDI – Girona 2010 – Arnulf Christl 7/19

Mapfish and Mapbender Ext JS jQuery UI Ext Core jQuery Mapbender jQuery GeoExt Plugins MapFish Client Mapbender Client The state of OSGeo and the global SDI – Girona 2010 – Arnulf Christl 8/19

...and OpenLayers Ext JS jQuery UI Ext Core jQuery Open Mapbender Open Layers jQuery Layers GeoExt Plugins MapFish Client Mapbender Client The state of OSGeo and the global SDI – Girona 2010 – Arnulf Christl 9/19

What's Hot? Spatially Extending jQuery Mapbender uses jQuery since 2007 First thoughts to extend OpenLayers with jQuery were exchanged at FOSS4G 2009 in Sydney Mapbender with jQuery deploys OpenLayers Geo jQuery BoF at the FOSSGIS Conference in Germany OSGeo Mailing List, Website: http://www.geojquery.org Geo jQuery BoF at Jornadas SIG Libre Ne w! The state of OSGeo and the global SDI – Girona 2010 – Arnulf Christl 10/19

Local Chapter Activity OSGeo Japan (Tokyo, Osaka) FOSSGIS / OSGeo DACH (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) OSGeoES (Hispano Hablante) Cataluña, España, ... Sud América (Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, México, Brazil, y muchos más...) Canada (Ottawa, Chiqutimi, Victoria, Nova Scotia, ...) EEUU (California, NY, …) More at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Local_Chapters The state of OSGeo and the global SDI – Girona 2010 – Arnulf Christl 11/19

FOSS4G and Local Conferences GRAS & MapServer Meetings in Asia, America, Europe, … FOSS4G Meeting of the Tribes in Lausanne (2006), Victoria (2007), Cape Town (2008), Sydney (2009) FOSS4G Japan in Tokyo and Osaka, regular event FOSSGIS in Germany, regular event Jornadas SIG Libre Girona, regular event GFOSSit in Italy, regular event GeoEvenement in France, regular event … & many more The state of OSGeo and the global SDI – Girona 2010 – Arnulf Christl 12/19

The Nature of Software is Immaterial Software is immaterial! It is not matter & not physical! As such it can be copied at a very low cost. This is a phenomenal feature because it multiplies by giving away. This is a foreign concept for a material world. Software is the only good that only grows by giving it away! Software is untouchable The state of OSGeo and the global SDI – Girona 2010 – Arnulf Christl 13/19

The Nature of Software is Immaterial Software can be copied and transported on Floppy disk, Hard disk, USB memory sticks Satellite connection, Wired networks, Email, FTP, HTTP, SCP, pretty much anything... … or even printed on paper ... How can you restrict something that cannot be locked away? The state of OSGeo and the global SDI – Girona 2010 – Arnulf Christl 14/19

Legal Restriction: By Proprietary Licenses You are not allowed to copy You are not allowed to modify You are not allowed to give away You are not allowed to improve You are not allowed to install You are not allowed to sahre You are not allowed to... The Proprietary Software License Model The state of OSGeo and the global SDI – Girona 2010 – Arnulf Christl 15/19

Political Restriction: By Embargo The US Export Restriction are a good thing for: Biological, Chemical, and Nuclear Weapons, ... War, Desease, Terrorism, ... Maybe even Money, … ? But, as we have just learned: You cannot prevent Software from spreading anywhere! It does not Work for Software The state of OSGeo and the global SDI – Girona 2010 – Arnulf Christl 16/19

OSGeo is Truly Globalized Therefore OSGeo respects Local Rules and Regulations and Laws OSGeo is Incorporated in the USA Therefore OSGeo has an Export Restrictions Regulation It is good to go as it is, because it does not restrict our daily work and does not hinder collaboration When it is required, OSGeo will react At the Moment this is not necessary The state of OSGeo and the global SDI – Girona 2010 – Arnulf Christl 17/19

Summary Local Chapters are the most important aspect of OSGeo The Incubation process is a highly useful and accepted tool to doublecheck, create and maintain quality software OSGeo Software is recognized as a quality brand New projects emerge between mature existing OSGeo products and link back to mainstream IT OSGeo is here to stay! The state of OSGeo and the global SDI – Girona 2010 – Arnulf Christl 18/19

Thank you for your Attention, and see you at FOSS4G 6th to 9th September 2010 FOSS4G: The Global Free and Open Source Conference for the Geospatial Domain With friendly support by: Metaspatial This slide set is copyrighted to the commons Author: Arnulf Christl, Metaspatial The state of OSGeo and the global SDI – Girona 2010 – Arnulf Christl 19/19

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