Jeff McKenna Gateway Geomatics Living in the FOSS4G Community 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

Outline OSGeo Goals Sponsors Structure Projects FOSS4G community 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

OSGeo

Goals

Sponsors

Structure

Projects

FOSS4G community

(based on http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Open_Source_GIS_History) Open Source Geospatial Timeline 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

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, only the Executive Director is employed by the Foundation 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

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, only the Executive Director is employed by the Foundation

OSGeo's Mission Statement “ To support the development of open source geospatial software, and promote its widespread use.” 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

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 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

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

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 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

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

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 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

Support use and development in the worldwide community

Operate annual FOSS4G conference

Award the Sol Katz award for service to the community

Sponsors of OSGeo Sustaining sponsors Supporting sponsors Associate sponsors 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

OSGeo Structure 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved Board of Directors Executive Director Local Chapters Officers Officers Officers Loc Chapters Foundation Projects Committees

OSGeo Projects (part 1) Web mapping Desktop Web mapping In incubation: deegree In incubation: OSSIM, gvSIG 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved Mapbender MapGuide Open MapServer OpenLayers GRASS Quantum GIS

OSGeo Projects (part 2) Geospatial libraries Metadata Catalog In incubation: GEOS, metaCRS 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved FDO GDAL GeoTools GeoNetwork

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) 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

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

A Project's Steering Committee Each individual project within OSGeo must have a committee that: Makes decisions on changes to the software through a democratic vote Makes sure proposed changes are documented Makes sure changes are followed and adopted Distributes sponsorship funds to developers 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

Makes decisions on changes to the software through a democratic vote

Makes sure proposed changes are documented

Makes sure changes are followed and adopted

Distributes sponsorship funds to developers

Types of OSGeo Members - 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 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved Participant Member Charter Member

OSGeo Committees 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved Education Website Conference Finance Board Systems Marketing Public geodata Incubation

Local Chapters In formation: Africa, Australia & New Zealand, Brazilian, Greek, Finland, Portugal, Taiwan 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved Italy Korea China Germany British Columbia Canada Japan French Language India New Mexico United States Poland Ottawa Canada Quebec Canada Japan Korea Japan Twin Cites United States Spanish Language United Kingdom Cascadia

Role of Local Chapters Bring a more local context to OSGeo Translate documents, websites, software Provide networking opportunities Provide training and support to local community Promote OSGeo through events 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

Bring a more local context to OSGeo

Translate documents, websites, software

Provide networking opportunities

Provide training and support to local community

Promote OSGeo through events

How to Sponsor OSGeo Foundation sponsorship Sustaining sponsor: 50,000 USD Principal sponsor: 20,000 USD Supporting sponsor: 10,000 USD Associate sponsor: 3,000 USD Project sponsorship Conference sponsorship 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

Foundation sponsorship

Sustaining sponsor: 50,000 USD

Principal sponsor: 20,000 USD

Supporting sponsor: 10,000 USD

Associate sponsor: 3,000 USD

Project sponsorship

Conference sponsorship

Current Community 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved OSGeo Stack: Source: http://www.ohloh.net/ (2009-05-07) 3397 person years Effort $186,820,158 Replacement Cost 200+ Contributors 15 Projects 12,154,652 Source Lines of Code

Source Lines of Code 154,981 Contributors 32 Effort 40 person years Replacement Cost $2,186,828 Source: http://www.ohloh.net/ (2009-05-07) MapServer Numbers 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

Source Lines of Code 631,287 Contributors 27 Effort 173 person years Replacement Cost $9,540,746 Source: http://www.ohloh.net/ (2009-05-07) GDAL Numbers 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

Source Lines of Code 517,818 Contributors 60 Effort 140 person years Replacement Cost $7,673,493 Source: http://www.ohloh.net/ (2009-05-07) GRASS Numbers 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

Source Lines of Code 142,296 Contributors 17 Effort 36 person years Replacement Cost $1,971,363 Source: http://www.ohloh.net/ (2009-05-07) PostGIS Numbers 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

Source Lines of Code 68,482 Contributors 12 Effort 17 person years Replacement Cost $910,709 Source: http://www.ohloh.net/ (2009-05-07) OpenLayers Numbers 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

Source Lines of Code 517,818 Contributors 60 Effort 140 person years Replacement Cost $7,673,493 Source: http://www.ohloh.net/ (2009-05-07) QGIS Numbers 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

Source Lines of Code 3,607,707 Contributors 29 Effort 1054 person years Replacement Cost $57,970,570 Source: http://www.ohloh.net/ (2009-05-07) GeoNetwork Numbers 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

Number of users registered in OSGeo email lists. (2009-05-02) 9791 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

Number of users registered on the OSGeo Wiki. (2009-05-07) 6,126 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

Total pages on the OSGeo Wiki. (2009-05-07) 3,751 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

Unique visitors to osgeo.org for the month of April 2009 41,876 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

Google hits for “osgeo”. (2009-05-03) 616,000 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

OSGIS 2004, Ottawa, Canada In the Beginning... 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

FOSS4G Conference Annual event bringing together the OSGeo community Events have been held in Canada, United States, Switzerland, South Africa 2009 will be in Australia, and 2010 in Spain Growth in attendance from ~100 attendees in 2004 to ~1,000 attendees Large corporate sponsors such as ESRI and Google 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

Annual event bringing together the OSGeo community

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

2009 will be in Australia, and 2010 in Spain

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

Large corporate sponsors such as ESRI and Google

Awarded annually by OSGeo to those that have demonstrated leadership in the community 2006 2007 2008 2005 Frank Warmerdam GDAL Markus Neteler GRASS Steve Lime MapServer Paul Ramsey PostGIS, GEOS, uDig Sol Katz Award 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

OK, I see it's an active community, but are there companies offering services around OSGeo projects? 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

YES! OSGeo operates a service provider directory: http://www.osgeo.org/search_profile 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

Developers / Non-developers: Send an email to the mailing list and introduce yourself Decision makers Contact an OSGeo service provider What Does the Community Need? 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

Send an email to the mailing list and introduce yourself

Contact an OSGeo service provider

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Questions? Jeff McKenna [email_address] Me with the “neogeographers”, October 2008 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved