OSGeo Mission and Goals

To support the development of open source geospatial software, and promote its widespread use

• Provide resources for projects
• Technical
• Legal
• Funding
• Promote freely available data
• Promote project use in industry

Some more goals

• Encourage the use of standards
• Provide a common brand of quality
• Make software more accessible to users
• Provide installers
• Provide support for OSGeo software use in education

OSGeo Structure

OSGeo Committees

OSGeo Local Chapters

OSGeo Spanish Speaking Local Chapter

• Language oriented
• 492 members in mailing list
• Some devs, mainly support

Haiyan

Cartografiando en Filipinas para OSM

OSGeo Projects

Software

• Web Mapping
• Desktop Applications
• Geospatial Libraries
• Metadata catalogs

Some name-dropping

Not only software projects

• Public data
• Education & Curriculum
• Educational materials
• ICA-OSGeo Labs Network
• OSGeo Live

Events

• Annual international FOSS4G
• Regional events

Laussane, Victoria, Cape Town, Sidney, Barcelona, Denver, Nottingham, Portland

OSGIS 2004, Otawa, Canada

Where FOSS4G brand was born

1st international FOSS4G in Laussane, 2006. ~560 attendees

FOSS4G 2013 in Nottingham, UK. ~1000 attendees

Regional events

• Germany: FOSS4GIS, Berlin. 19-21 March 2014
• Portugal: SASIG, 2014?
• Spain: Jornadas de SIG Libre, Girona. 26-28 March 2014

Software in your pocket

OSGeo4W

• https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/
• Generic installer of FOSS4G for Windows
• 32 or 64bit
• Mostly C projects: QGIS, MapServer, GDAL, etc
• List of packages (x86 ~240)

OSGeo Live

live.osgeo.org

Live DVD of FOSS4G software

• 61 Open Source Geospatial Applications
• Open Datasets ready to use
• Project Overviews and Quickstarts (10 minute tutorials)
• Translations in 11 languages

What is good for:

• Excellent way for new users to quickly
  try Open Source GIS for the first time
• Has consistent summary of all projects, in one place
• Training resource for workshops and education

OSGeo Labs

“Geo for all”

OSGeo Labs Goals

1. Establishing research and training
   opportunities in open source GIS
2. Provide worldwide learning platform
3. Build teaching and research
   infrastructure worldwide

OSGeo Labs network

Source: OSGeo Labs locations

Join the network

• More info at geoforall.org
• How to join

OSGeo Community

Is the community easy to work with?

• “Is my bug fixed?”
• “The documentation is out-of-date”
• “I'm new...”
• “When is the next release?”

What does the community need?

• YOU!
• Helping with documentation
• Testing/providing feedback
• Answering questions on mailing lists
• Sharing your passion

Are you interested?

Join the discuss mailing list and come on board!