The document discusses the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo), an organization that supports open source geospatial projects. It provides information on how OSGeo supports projects through technical, social, and professional assistance. It outlines the process for a project to become an OSGeo community project or full OSGeo project, including graduation requirements. The document aims to help people understand how to get involved with OSGeo and open source geospatial projects.

1. www.osgeo.org
Open source is hard,
we are here to help!
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2. Welcome
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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. Open Source
Geospatial Foundation
Empower everyone with open source geospatial
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4. 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 a volunteer driven
• Passionate membership of individuals from around the world.
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5. Open Geospatial
• Open Source and more!
• 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
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6. 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
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7. Work with any Open Source License
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Use an open source initiative approved license!
• https://opensource.org

8. Outreach and advocacy
• Marketing Committee
• Communication
• Handouts
• Branding
• Local chapters
• Regional promotion
• one-on-one advocacy
• GeoForAll
• Research and Academic
• Incubation Committee
• Projects List
• Choose-a-project
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9. Add to Website
We ask projects to:
• Geospatial
• Open Source
• Participatory
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10. Project List
• Directory of open source goodness!
• Keep in mind
• Foundation wants to promote
open source geospatial!
• Not only OSGeo projects
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11. Choose-a-project
Don’t know where to start?
Guided “wizard”:
• Enthusiast
• Mapping
• Processing
• GIS Professional
• Cartography
• Analysis
• IT Professionals
• Development
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12. How to: Add to Website
Please ask!
1. Email to incubation list
• Introductions, discussion
2. Review
• GeoSpatial
• LICENSE.md
• CONTRIBUTING.md
3. Done
And then make a project page
1. Create an OSGeo UserID
• osgeo.org/osgeo_userid
• Sign into website
• Ask Vicky or Jody
for “project author” role
2. Create a project page
• Remember outreach focus!
3. Email incubation list
• Review and publish!
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13. OSGeo Community
• Support geospatial open
source project
• Marketing and outreach
• Community and Events
• Code sprints
• Infrastructure
• Budget via OSGeo board
• Support innovation in our
geospatial community
• Collaborate on ideas and
opportunities
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14. OSGeo Community
We ask that community projects be:
• Geospatial
• Open Source
• Participatory
Recognized as part of OSGeo
• Public recognition with use of “OSGeo
Community” logo
• Access to OSGeo infrastructure and
marketing committee
• Take part of OSGeo annual budget
(making request via board)
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15. How to: Community Project
Community Project
1. Email to incubation list
• Introductions, discussion
2. Review
• GeoSpatial
• LICENSE.md
• CONTRIBUTING.md
3. Done
• cross link websites
OSGeo Project
1. Incubation application
• create a ticket
2. Find a mentor
• Start with incubation list
3. “Incubation Process”
• mentor to answer questions
• can be quick, often slow
4. Complete Checklist
5. Graduation
• incubation  osgeo board
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16. OSGeo Project
• A full OSGeo committee
• Project “officer” for the team!
• Start initiatives, coordinate
fundraising
• Set OSGeo Annual Budget
• Help set the annual budget
• Budget provides gives team
independence to operating
• Responsible for
• Report to OSGeo Board
• Annual General Meeting Report
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17. OSGeo Projects
OSGeo projects demonstrate:
• Technical improvements, user
documentation, documenting their
release process.
• Social growth showing collaboration
with users, an open community with
clear transparent communication
• Fair governance clearly documenting
how contributors can take part with
leadership drawn from a number of
organizations for sustainability
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18. How to: OSGeo Project
Application for Incubation
1. Add to website
2. Community Project
3. Incubation application
• create a ticket
• email incubation list
4. Find a mentor
• Start with incubation list
• This can take time (sigh)
Incubation with Mentor
1. Go over checklist
• Clarifications with mentor
2. Work on needed items
• Example providence review
• Mentor provided for
private/sensitive/security
discussions with team
3. Graduation
• Mentor makes motion
• Incubation committee review
• Committee voting
• Chair recommends to board
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19. Graduation Checklist
• What OSGeo is looking for
• You can probably check off
most of this already!
• Be careful
• Teams get “inspired”
(and do too much!)
• Be creative
• It says “user list” but if you use
stack exchange it meets the
same goal!
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20. Providence Review
• Beyond checking headers
• License compatibility
• Check history
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21. Open source is hard,
we are here to help!
Top-Level
Technology Project
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22. LocationTech
“LocationTech is a working group developing
advanced location aware technologies.”
Eclipse is a community for individuals and
organizations who wish to collaborate on
commercially-friendly open source software.
Not-for-profit, member supported corporation.

23. Foundation provides vendor-neutral collaboration

24. Members

25. Work with Permissive Licenses
Approved licenses for this
group include EPL, MIT,
BSD, and Apache (v2).

26. ●Out-of-the-box Governance
●Manage committers
●Manage CLAs
●Incubation Includes
●Help sorting out Licenses
●Deep review of your code
●And all the code you use!
●Release review
●Sanity check for key releases!
Software Foundation Supports

27. Thank you!
From your friends at
OSGeo and LocationTech
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