Keynote presentation at the 1st QGIS Users Conference, in Nodebo, Denmark, on 2015-05-18. https://qgis2015.wordpress.com/

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Jeff McKenna
President, OSGeo
Open Source Geospatial Foundation
Growing Communities

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Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Blue Rocks, Nova Scotia, Canada
It's not this sunny ever..

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Blue Rocks, Nova Scotia, Canada
2015 April ?!?!

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Who Am I ?
● Named as President of OSGeo, Dec '12
● MapServer Project Steering Committee (PSC) Member
● Member of the FOSS4G family
● Started consulting company in 2008

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Who Am I Really
● A geographer
● Frequent traveler
● Non-developer
● Stints in civil engineering, registered nursing, professional
ice hockey, forest fire attack
● Come from a “big” family

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Community?
“a body of persons of common and
especially professional interests
scattered through a larger society”

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Current Needs of the Community
● Easy access to geospatial tools
● Affordable solutions
● Standards support (data sharing)
● Available professional assistance
● Read raw data formats
● Stability

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Why Open Source Geospatial?
● Easily accessible
● Affordable
● Stable
● Strong communities
● Innovative
● Standards support are not add-ons
● Backed by OSGeo

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Strong Link Between
Open Standards and Open
Source
● The Open GRASS Foundation (OGF) started in 1992
● OGF restructured to become the “Open GIS Consortium”
in 1994
● Renamed in 2004 to Open Geospatial
Consortium

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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
● Everyone is a volunteer (no paid staff)

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OSGeo's Mission Statement
“To support the development of open source geospatial
software, and promote its widespread use.”

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Sponsors of OSGeo

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How to Sponsor OSGeo
1. Foundation sponsorship
● Sustaining sponsor: 50,000 USD
● Principal sponsor: 20,000 USD
● Supporting sponsor: 10,000 USD
● Associate sponsor: 3,000 USD
2. Project sponsorship
3. Conference sponsorship

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QGIS
Project Sponsors

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OSGeo Structure
2013-02-20 | OSGeo 2013. All rights reserved
Committees
Committees
Committees
Board of 9 Directors
and President
Local
Chapters
Local
Chapters
Local
Chapters
Officers
Officers
Officers
Local
Chapters
Local
Chapters
Foundation
Projects
Committees
Committees
Committees
elected by Membership244 Charter Members
Charter Members vote
represent
Sponsors

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OSGeo Charter Members

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OSGeo Projects (part 1)
deegree
geomajas
GeoMoose
Mapbender
Web mappingWeb mapping
Mapfish
MapGuide Open
GeoServer
MapServer
OpenLayers

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OSGeo Projects (part 2)
GEOS
GDAL
GeoTools
Geospatial libraries
Metadata Catalog GeoNetwork
OSSIM
PostGIS
FDO
pycsw

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OSGeo Projects (part 3)
GRASS
Marble
QGIS
Desktop

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OSGeo Projects in Incubation
ZOO Project
Team Engine
gvSIG
opticks
MetaCRS
rasdaman
istSOS
pyWPS
Orfeo ToolBox (OTB)

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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)

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Role of Local Chapters
● Bring a more local context to OSGeo
● Provide networking opportunities
● Provide training and support to local community
● Promote OSGeo through events
● Translate documents, websites, software

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Number of unique registrants in OSGeo email lists.
(2015-05-01)
QGIS-user 2845
PostGIS-users 1742
GDAL-dev 1682
OpenLayers-users 1458
MapServer-users 1411
Discuss 1335
GRASS-user 1069
QGIS-developer 814
26,395

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OpenStreetMap
MapServer
MapFish
web mapping
GRASS GIS
Quantum GIS OSSIM
desktop GIS
metadata
GEOS
GDAL/OGR
GeoTools
libraries
MetaCRS
PostGIS
GeoMajas
Quantum GIS
MapServer
deegree
OpenLayers
GeoServer
MapGuide OS
deegree GIS
MapNik
Viking
KOSMO
gvSIG
SpatialLite
uDig
Geopublisher
Mapbender
pycsw
GeoKettle
GMT
ZOO Project
FDO
GeoNetwork
live.osgeo.org

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ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS Labs Network
• Goal 1 - Establishing research and training opportunities
in open source GIS
• Goal 2 - Provide worldwide learning platform
• Goal 3 - Build teaching and research infrastructure
worldwide
http://www.geoforall.org/

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ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS Labs Network
95 labs!

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Community Events

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OSGIS 2004
OSGIS 2004, Ottawa, Canada

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FOSS4G 2008

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FOSS4G-Sydney 2009

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FOSS4G 2011 Denver Code Sprint

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FOSS4G Buenos Aires 2013

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FOSS4G CEE 2013 (Bucharest)

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Upcoming Events...

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Sol Katz Award
Awarded annually by OSGeo to those
that have demonstrated leadership
in the community
Gary Sherman, 2014

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 OSGeo is mentor organization
 13 students were accepted for 2015 summer
From Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, India,
Italy, Luxemburg, Portugal, Spain and Sri Lanka

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 Projects: GDAL, GRASS, gvSIG, istSOS,
JGRASSTOOLS, MapServer, Opticks, OTP,
OSGeo-Live, OSSIM, pgRouting, PyWPS,
QGIS

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OSGeo Service Providers
 Local private companies
offering professional support for
OSGeo projects
 Very important for community

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Working with other Global
Communities
 Current synergy between ISPRS, ICA,
OSGeo
 GLTN and OSGeo beginning to work together
 Members active in LocationTech

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Working with other Global
Communities
3 July, 2014
@AfricaGEO

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Thank you!
Jeff McKenna
President, OSGeo
@mapserving