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www.osgeo.org
About OSGeo Europe
and INSPIRE
Empower everyone with open
source geospatial
FOSS4G Europe – Guimarães
Dirk Frigne – 18 July 2018
President OSGeo Europe

Setting the scene
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The past
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The present
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The future
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OSGeo
– Europe
Past, present, and future is a concept
of comparing different eras in time
- the known past,
the uncertain present,
and the unknown (but often optimistic) future
(wikiquote)
The illusion of time : past,
present and future all exist
together (Quantum physics)
Copyright image: http://trendintech.com/2017/07/12/new-theory-says-that-the-past-is-influenced-
by-the-future/

The past
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Remembering how we started?
– It was about software development
– Tribes of developers finding each-other ….
– Start to share idea’s, know how and events
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(FOSS4G was born)

The past
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The Conference aims to bring together the European FOSS4G
community. It is not an academic neither a business event. It is
a community event, to support face to face meetings and
discussions, to foster interactions, to share knowledge and
passion.
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It’s all about the community
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Think global act local

The past
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Remembering how we started?
– Start Local chapters to help with ‘language’ barriers
– Start committees and share experience
– Start with local FOSS4G conferences
– Start with Global, Regional and local Foss4G conferences
– A lot of fun, a lot of energy, a lot of (free?) beer and pizza
– The opportunity to take local initiatives

OSGeo 10 Years
anniversary
New branding
New style guide
New website
New vision/mission

• 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 a volunteer driven
• Passionate membership of individuals from around the world.
23 July 2018 Open Source Geospatial Foundation 8

The present
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Who are we today?
– A group of developers?
– A group of professors and academia?
– A group of self deployed consultants?
– A group of friends?
– A group of (Geo-,) students
– A group working for a governmental department / NGO / reasearch institute /..

The present
OSGeo has grown into a large networked organisation
– Every year a big Conference world wide (NA, EU, Rest of world)
– More than 50 local chapters (almost every tree months a new one ...)
– Local Chapters on ‘political level’ (OSGEO Europe, OSGeo NA, more to come)
– Active in OGC
– Active in VN
– Set up partnerships
– New challenges appear (code of conduct, what binds us together, ...)

What binds us together?
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Open Source Software for Geo and Location
– From several perspectives
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Some of us are developers
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Some of us are users
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Some of us are students
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Some of us are professors
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Some of us work for a NGO
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Some of us work for Government
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Some of us are self deployed
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Some of us are business owners
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…

OSGeo Europe
1 Year old
Invitation to the
OSGeo Europe
General assemblee
18:30 – this room

Obviously, only one of the many ...
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FOSS4G is great, but ...
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can’t see the forest for the trees
– How can we help with very simple problems
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ex. available parking lots on a local website
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which OSGeo software project to use for what function
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What if we switch to open source
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Do we want to help (as a community)
– In the original spirit where developers helped out, sharing information
– If I put my time in it (because I need to solve it), you may as well use it
– How can we scale this to the future
– How can we support this

B2Bmixedvent 17 July 2018 – good initiative!
OpenGeoLabs (presentation of Jachym)
Initiative to create a legal entity to group a number
of consultans and developers to organise workshops,
training sessions to help people and organisations
migrate to open source
Other initiatives:
Geomatico.co
open geo group (Nl)

Topic talks, good initiative I missed!
(reintroduce)
Topic Talks

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Why do we need a European SDI

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What?
Data providers need tools for:
o Data harmonisation
o Discovery (metadata & CSW)
o View
o Download
SDI/INSPIRE are among the biggest ‘customers’ of FOSS
solutions
o Data providers
o Users

Implementation ‘state-of-play’
Source: EEA INSPIRE Dashboard
metadata
Viewable dataset (WMS)
Downloadable dataset
(WFS, SOS, Atom, WCS)
Viewable and
downloadable

OSGEO and INSPIRE
Source: OSGEO.org

The European Commission’s
science and knowledge service
Joint Research Centre
OSGEO-Live and INSPIRE

OSGEO-Live for INSPIRE
Contract No:
CCR.B.C650150.X0

What binds us together?
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FOSS4G is fun and gives energy

The OSGeo Europe website
We have the wiki page …
Not sufficient (only for internal communication)
Invitiation for the code sprint on friday to create the
OSGeo Europe website as a branch on the OSGeo
website

What is (Free and) Open Source Software?

Open source software is free as in free speech, not as in free beer

0. The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose
1. The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so
it does your computing as you wish
(Access to the source code is a precondition for this.)
2. The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your
neighbor
3. The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to
others
(By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to
benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a
precondition for this.)

Software Foundation
• We are responsible for
• Supporting our great collection
of projects
• Fostering new talent and
innovation.
• OSGeo supports projects
• Technically with community of
their peers
• Socially with community
building and outreach
• Professionally ensuring each
project is governed in a fair and
sustainable manner

What is Software?
• Software is eating the world • Software is the language we
use to talk to machines, and
the language machines use to
talk to each other.
• The fuel of software is data
• Sensors are providing a lot of
data
• We are providing this data, as
human sensors

23/07/18 39WVI Workshop
Back to GI-S&T GIS

From acquisition to distribution
● Today abundance of Data
Internet of ThingsPeople as Sensors

Machine to machine communication

Big Data Challenge

What is Big Data ● huge in volume, consisting of terabytes or
petabytes of data;
● high in velocity, being created in or near real-
time;
● diverse in variety, being structured and
unstructured in nature, and often temporally
and spatially referenced;
● exhaustive in scope, striving to capture entire
populations or systems (n = all), or at least
much larger sample sizes than would be
employed in traditional, small data studies;
● fine-grained in resolution, aiming to be as
detailed as possible, and uniquely indexical in
identification
● while still respecting individuals’ privacy thanks
to aggregation and anonymisation;
● relational in nature, containing common fields
that enable the conjoining of different data sets;
● flexible, holding the traits of extensionality (can
add new fields easily) and scalability (can
expand in size rapidly).
(Boyd & Crawford, 2012; Kitchin &
& Cukier, 2013; Zikopoulos & Eaton, 2011)

Evolution
● Combination of Hardware, Software and Integration
– Hardware migration to standard micro components
– Software migration to standard micro services
– Integration becomes the new challenge
– Software becomes relative important to support any system
● Our lives depend on software
● It's the software, Stupid¹
– Need to migrate to open source software²
– Licenses become more and more important[1] free interpretation of the quote of James Carville by Dirk Frigne
[2] http://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-open-source-software-could-save-your-life/

The future
Deep learning
Get connected with IOT
Take the lead in Geo software development roadmap
What about the (European) software industry
How to learn to collaborate?

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What is a Community?
OSGeo in one sentence: “It is all about the community”

What is a Community[1]
?
•/K mju n ti/əˈ ː ɪ
1. a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic
in common.
2. the condition of sharing or having certain attitudes and interests in common.
3. Ecology
•a group of interdependent plants or animals growing or living together in natural
conditions or occupying a specified habitat.
[1]Google: definition: community

“It's all about the network”[1]
•/ net w rk/ˈ ˌ ə [2]
1. an arrangement of intersecting
horizontal and vertical lines.
2. a group or system of
interconnected people or things.
[1] Dirk Frigne, Vice president OSGeo, Keynote FOSS4G 2016 Bonn
[2] Google: definition: network

Next steps
If you want to contribute:
• Become part of the OSGeo family
• Start reading the mailing list
• Start replying to the mailing lsit
• Start contributing
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Or
• Go to a foss4G conference
• Go to a code sprint (often before/during a foss4G conference)
• The next Code sprint is in Germany / FOSSGIS 19-25 march

OSGeo Membership
• You don't to be a member to become involved: use / adapt /
spread OSGeo software
– Open Source Software is Free – not as in
• “Free Beer”
– but as in
• “Free Speech”
• OSGeo Involvement and Membership is Free
– Free as in “Free Beer”
• You become involved as an individual

How to become involved?
• For many, their first contact is a FOSS4G conference, like this one
• If you like the atmosphere and want more
– Try out the software
– Subscribe to one or more mailing lists
– Follow the discussions
– Contribute to the discussons
– Contact your local group
• If you are a developer
– Goto a codesprint
– Contribute to one or more projects

How to become involved? Cont ...
• If you are a user
– Go to a codesprint
– Contribute to one or more projects
– Write documentation
– Write a testimonal of your usage experience
• If you are a manager/enterpreneur
– Let your people use the software
– Get supported through a Professional Service Provider
– Provide Professional Support to others

How to become involved? Cont (2) ...
• If you are from a governmental organisation
– Let your people use the software
– Promote & contribute the use of OSS
• If you are a professor/teacher
– Get involved with Geo4All
– Use the material that is readily available for teaching
– Cocreate more teaching material
• If you are an academic researcher
– Contribute to OSGeo projects
– Use FOSS where you can
– Cite the software in your publications

OSGeo governance structure
● OSGeo Board (9)
● Officers (variable)
● Foundation projects
● Committees
● Local Chapters (>50)
● Charter members
● Members
OSGeo Board 2016

The future
The future is what we want!
OSGeo is a doacraty
In Europe we should become more organised
But if we want to this,
You will have to volunteer to help

OSGeo Europe meeting
The future is you,
And you can get involved by joining our
OSGeo Europe meeting
Same room
18:30

Thank you!
Welcome to open geospatial

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