An introduction to Open Source, Free Software and the Open Source Geospatial Foundation.

1. The OSGeo Foundation Professionally leveraging Open Source Geospatial Asia Geospatial Forum 2011 – Jakarta, Indonesia Arnulf Christl President

3. OGC Architecture Board Member

4. OpenStreetMap Advocate Founder of several companies and initiatives, travels a lot and provides consulting for SDI.

7. - with Agile management

8. A perspective on Open Source Geospatial

10. Proprietary and Open Source Thinking

11. Free Software Licensing

14. Software Development Software development team Solves the problem new version is released Software users have new requirements, find bugs Code is improved Problem is identified

15. Proprietary production Ask questions: When is the software released? When is new functionality implemented? Who cares if something breaks? How many people develop software? What do the others? Market analysis Development team develops software Goal: Sell licenses Product launch beta version release for beta tester beta tester reports errors to development team development team reproduces the error development team solves problem after OK from pm Proprietary motivation: Make Money development team reports to the product management

16. It might feel a bit fuzzy and complicated...

18. But this can be much easier!

19. Primary motivation: Solve Problem ...publish the Source Code! ...and allow anybody to copy it! Open Source Paradigm

20. Copying is not Theft There is a big difference between material theft and digital copying. We have difficulties understanding this because we are material. But our Mind is not entirely material. So we should be able to understand. A great 60 second cartoon by Nina Paley: Copying is not Theft .

22. Initially the advantages might look rather small

24. Typically bugs are fixed faster

25. Often more secure due to multiple scrutiny

26. Innovation is easier – and...

27. Users have full control about what they get

28. ...and many more advantages. Read http://producingoss.org by Karl Fogel for details

30. Overall Revenue in IT Less than 10% of revenue in IT is generated through selling software usage licenses. (i.e. by restricting copying) Read http://arnulf.us/Cadastre for more details

31. Now the advantages already appear to be quite sizeable

32. Restrict copying. Why do they do that? Because re-selling the same thing again and agin is highly profitable! Why is it not all Open Source? Because the Internet (main distribution media)– emerged late in the 1990s)! Proprietary Business

34. You are not allowed to modify

35. You are not allowed to give away

36. You are not allowed to improve

37. You are not allowed to install

38. You are not allowed to share

39. You are not allowed to... Proprietary Licenses ...today we can see a revival in the Terms of Services !

42. understand and improve it

46. understand and improve it

48. Free Software Licensing Free Software is a legal licensing model (a vaccine) protecting your interests. The opposite is proprietary software (also 'closed' or 'privative') protecting the vendor's interests . Nota bene: "commercial software" is a frequently used misnomer.

49. Summarizing: Open Source is the superior development model The big business has recognized this long ago and provides full Open Source services ( IBM ). Software vendors adopt Open Source in geospatial including Autodesk , Oracle , esri and many others. Even Microsoft nowadays recognizes that Open Source works . Open Source Development

50. If even the die-hards have adopted it... Why don't you too?

51. Yes, … but: Anybody can call anything " Open Source " And a name does not automagically make better software! Using Open Source?

52. Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org Your Open Source Compass ...organizes spatial IT Quality Open Source

55. Leading voice for

56. Geospatial Open Source

57. Structure similar to the Apache Foundation

58. Volunteer based

59. Funded by sponsorship

60. OSGeo's Mission Support and promote the highest quality Open Source Geospatial Software

62. Legal

64. Create and maintain a quality brand

65. Create and promote free curriculum

66. Promote and contribute to standards OSGeo's Goals http://www.osgeo.org

67. Word cloud copied from Paul Ramsey

69. Support local activities and capacities

70. Facilitate inter-project communication

71. Build a solid market for businesses and users

72. Interface with industry and business

73. Support the education of domain experts not «brand-specialists»

74. Many more... Activities

77. Seed event for local activities

78. Outreach and promotion

79. Inter-project communication

80. Workshops and tutorials

81. Networking

82. Meeting The FOSS4G Conference

83. OSGeo's Structure Committees Committees Committees Board of 9 Directors and President Local Chapters Local Chapters Local Chapters Officers Officers 25 Officers Local Chapters Local Chapters Foundation Projects Committees Committees Committees elected by Membership 104 Charter Members Charter Members vote represent Sponsors

84. Mailing Lists Year Number of Lists Subscribers Unique Subscribers 2008 106 13323 10410 2009 137 20640 12904 2010 164 27504 15423 2011 183 32109 19471 http://lists.osgeo.org/ Example activity meter

86. Development process quality

87. Documentation, tutorials, support

88. Community functioning

89. ... More details are available on the Web: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Incubation

90. OSGeo Projects 2009 Project in incubation deegree UMN Mapserver Mapbender OpenLayers MapFish Map Guide OS web mapping GRASS GIS Quantum GIS OSSIM gvSIG desktop GIS GeoNetwork metadata GEOS FDO GDAL/OGR GeoTools libraries MetaCRS PostGIS

91. Period Projects LOC contrib 12 mo contrib 2007-00 4700000 182 2008-11 15 7766360 442 279 2009-10 16 13406517 547 2010-03 19 12211439 636 299 2010-08 19 12767587 657 301 2011-09 19 15793310 743 269 Project stats 2011

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

93. Sponsors Charter Members vote appoints represent Board of 9 Directors and President Executive Director 91 Charter Members Sponsors Local Chapters Local Chapters Local Chapters Officers Officers 25 Officers Local Chapters Local Chapters Foundation Projects Committees Committees Committees

95. Have priority access to conferences and events

96. Have executive and expert contacts

99. Promote OSGeo & FOSS4G to universities and education

100. Organize code sprints (which typically self organize)

101. Legal support for software projects

102. Have fun

104. learning and then

105. contributing back to the community Open Source makes IT a safe investment. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Indonesia

106. Copyright : Arnulf Christl , metaspatial . This slide set is copyrighted to the commons. 2012 Beijing, China The annual Conference on Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial With friendly support by: Thank you for your Attention! http://www.metaspatial.net

108. OSGeo Mailing lists: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/

110. Open Source: http://producingoss.org by Karl Fogel

111. OGC standards: http://www.opengeospatial.org

112. metaspatial consulting: http://www.metaspatial.net

113. A note on Copyright: http://arnulf.us/Seven:Copyrights This presentation is available for download at http://arnulf.us/Publications