Welcome to the Open Source Geospatial Foundation Annual General Meeting offering a project by project, local chapter by local chapter update of our activities in 2018

1. www.osgeo.org
Annual General Meeting
2018
Open Source Geospatial Foundation

2. 2018
Annual General Meeting
Open Source Geospatial Foundation
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3. 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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4. Open Geospatial
•Working with our partners:
• 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
• Open Science: Share data and software for responsible research
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5. Supported by sponsors worldwide
13 July 2017 Open Source Geospatial Foundation 5

6. OSGeo Status Overview
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Open, free membership:
51424/8/2018
members on website, 5621 members registered on wiki,
30846 OSGeo mailman server unique subscribers 2018_08_01
Source: M Neteler's monthly cronjob
390 elected charter members: developers, activists, advocates,
distribution by year, region and country
http://bl.ocks.org/jsanz/raw/779f9b9954b92461fa50/
Thanks to Jorge Sanz for the graphics

7. OSGeo Status Overview
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Board of directors:
Committees:

8. OSGeo Status Overview
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Projects:
• 24 graduated OSGeo projects
• 13 community project
• incubation status
• Project status outreach from board
• working group considered last year was not formed
• https://www.osgeo.org/projects/
Local Chapters
• 24 local chapters
• new regional chapters OSGeo.US, …
• http://www.osgeo.org/events/

9. OSGeo Status Overview
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Sponsors
15 current sponsors https://www.osgeo.org/sponsors/
Partners
existing OGC, LH Corp, ICA, ISPRS, UCGIS, AGILE, IGU, STP India
new
Legal
Review CLA with NGA (stalled)

10. OSGeo in 2018 - Conferences
20+ Regional FOSS4G
conferences and meetings
● FOSS4G Hyderabad India workshop - Jan 24-26
● FOSS4G Italy - Feb 19-22
● FOSS4G UK - Mar 8
● FOSSGIS D-A-CH - Mar 21-24
● FOSS4G NA - May 14-16
● FOSS4G IE - May 25
● FOSS4G Israel - June 11
● FOSS4G Hokkaido - June 24
● FOSS4G NL - July 11-12
● FOSS4G Europe - July 17-19
● FOSS4G Thailand - July 23-24
● FOSS4G Knoxville - Aug 13
● FOSs4G Huntsville - Aug 14
● FOSS4G India - Aug 16-17
● FOSS4G Tokai - Aug 24
● FOSS4G Brazil - Sept 17-19
Source: Jeff’s records 10
● FOSS4G Korea - Oct 12-14
● FOSS4G Kansai - Oct 14-16
● FOSs4G Belgium - Oct 25
● FOSS4G Tokyo - Nov 9-10
● FOSS4G Oceania - Nov 20-23
● FOSS4G HU - Nov 26
● FOSS4G Asia - Dec 2-5
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11. • Friendly work party, with project focused code sprints and our
community sprints!
• FOSSGIS/OSGeo Bonn
• FOSS4G-Europe Guimarães
• Bolsena Code Sprint
• FOSS4G 2018 Community Sprint
• Join us this weekend in Dar es Salaam!
• FOSSGIS Hackings, FOSS4G NA, QGIS Developer, ...
• Comming up!
• PostGIS Sept 2018 Code Sprint
• Java_2018_Code_Sprint in Europe, North America and Oceania
• 2019 OSGeo sprint in Minneapolis
OSGeo in 2018 - Code Sprints
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12. OSGeo in 2018 - Participation at events
Booth, sessions at related conferences:
• No booth swaps undertaken this year?
• European Geophysical Union annual meeting - town hall
• International Cartographic Congress - workshop
• FOSSGIS, FOSS4G-Europe, AGIT, FOSS4G-NA, INTERGEO
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13. OSGeo in 2018 - Thanks to Volunteers
Board
September 2016 - August 2018
Michael Smith - Hanover, NH, USA; Treasurer, Vasile Craciunescu - Bucharest, Romania;
Maria Brovelli - Como, Italy; Angelos Tzotsos Vice President - Athens, Greece
September 2017 - August 2019
María Arias de Reyna President- Sevilla, Spain; Astrid Emde, Germany Secretary; Jeff
McKenna Vice President - Canada; Helena Mitasova Vice President U.S.; Jody Garnett
Committee chairs
OSGeo members and advocates
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14. OSGeo in 2018 - Treasurer Report
• Treasurer Report
• Summary of financial status
• OSGeo Budget 2018 established in January
• Helps plan spending with our projects and committees
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15. • Astrid Emde is Secretary. Former Secretary Jachym
Cepicky passed information at FOSS4G Europe
• https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Secretary
• CLA for people who want to get involved
• MoU Memorandum of Understanding were signed
TIB German National Library of Science and Technology,
American Geophysical Union (AGU), YouthMapper
OSGeo in 2018 - Secretary report
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16. Chief Returning Officer
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Charter Members list
• Vicky assembling charter
members list on website
• Login to OSGeo website
before elections
Chief Returning Officer
● TBD (please volunteer)

17. Get ready for 2018
● CRO Volunteer needed!
● LimeSurvey
● September 17th
Charter Member Call
● October 15th
Board Member call
● November 12th
New OSGeo Board
OSGeo in 2017 - Elections
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Review of 2017
● TBD

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19. OSGeo Committees
Annual reports from our open source Committees
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20. OSGeo Committees
• United Nations
• GeoForAll
• Marketing
• Incubation
• Conference
• Open GeoScience
• Public Geospatial Data
• System Administration (SAC)
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• Committees meet on the IRC or via
conference calls as well as
operating by email list.
• From the committees' pages you
will find the missions, names of
the people involved, and links to
the working documents.
• Interested parties are encouraged
to join committee mailing lists,
contribute, and potentially
formally join the committees.

21. United Nations Committee
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Main activities
• UN Open GIS Project: monthly meetings and meeting in
Entebbe(Uganda) and (remotely) in S. Louis (US)
• OSGeo UN Committee Educational Challenge
• Challenge 1: Spiral 1 of UN – GeoSHAPE platform for data collection
(sponsored by Boundless), mentored by Christina Hupy (Boundless).
Winner: Ketty Adoch (Uganda)
• Challenge 2: Spiral 3 of UN – Functionalities for UN Operations, mentored
by Hae-Kyong Kang and MinPa Lee. Winner: Silvia Franceschi (Italy)
• Challenge 3: Open geospatial data and software for UN sustainable
development goals, mentored by Serena Coetzee and Maria Brovelli.
Winner: Codrina Maria Ilie (Romania)

22. GeoForAll
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Main activities
• Expanding open geospatial science and research in
universities worldwide through partnerships with like
minded organisations.
• New website form launched to make it easy for new
labs to join
• Student awards program expanded

23. GeoForAll
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How can you help?
Please spread the GeoForAll message through your
contacts/networks and invite them to join us…
Come tomorrow at 8 am in Gombe Room for the
GeoForAll meeting
Join us at https://www.osgeo.org/initiatives/geo-for-all/lab-submission/

24. Conference Committee
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● FOSS4G Conference
○ FOSS4G 2019 Completed
○ FOSS4G 2020 Process
● Travel Grant Program
○ Global Travel Grant
Program for FOSS4G 2018
○ Regional Travel Grant
Program just getting
started
(Requested for FOSS4G
Oceania)

25. Open GeoScience Committee
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Reach out:
• European Geoscience Union (EGU) General Assembly in Vienna:
4th OSGeo Townhall
• During the EGU GA, the MoU with American Geophysical Union
(AGU) was signed
Advocating OSGeo as part of Open Science:
• Enabling FAIR data - project: Representing OSGeo at meetings
(Washington DC, Potsdam, Vienna, Berlin)
• Representing OSGeo at NSF workshops for the US Geospatial
Software Institute (GSI) (Los Angeles, Chicago)
Upcoming:
• Open Source Geospatial Research & Education (OGRS 2018) in
Lugano, Switzerland
• Open GeoScience prize !
• OSGeo Townhall !

26. Marketing Committee 2018
• Chair: Vacant
• Thanks Marc for steering us
through 2017 and
rebranding effort
• 2018 Budget
• OSGeoLive USB sticks
• Stickers! Stickers! Stickers!
• some funds diverted to
afford foss4g booth
• Event attendance
• FOSS4G 2018 booth
• We support local chapters
(no local chapter no booth)
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● OSGeo Website
○ Engaged with Get
Interactive to address
some open issues
○ Collaborate with SAC to
work on functionality
improvements (hi Vicky!)
○ volunteers required for
mapping elements!
● Rebranding
○ html style guide pending

27. • Incubation progress
• pypws graduates!
• OSGeoLive graduates!
• Oskari progress
• Incubation stalled
• Many projects have not
done anything in years?
• Do we invite them back
when they are interested?
• Participation!
• Open source outreach!
• Mentors welcome
• todo: Docs on wiki/website
Management of website
• First-contact opportunity!
• Shows our OSGeo beliefs
Community projects
• Engaged with OSGeo
• Help fund participants to
attend bonn code sprint
and foss4g!
• work with board on
responsibilities
Incubation Committee
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28. System Administration Committee
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• new: follow @OSGeo_SysAdmin for service updates!
• regular weekly meetings on Thursdays
• hosting new website
• purchased new hardware
• setup SSL certificate for several project sites
• migrated GeoForAll domain
• looking at containerization
• setting up Nextcloud for Board file sharing
• currently one funded contract for SAC work
• looking for contributors, all skill levels

29. Each OSGeo project operates as a committee in our foundation
represented in our AGM by their project officer.
OSGeo Projects
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30. GRASS GIS
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Releases
• 7.4.0, 7.4.1 (new stable version)
• 7.2.2, 7.2.3 (old stable version)
• 7.0.6 (4th year of support!)
Roadmap
• 7.6.0 (fall/winter 2018)
• 8.0.0 (in planning)
Feature highlights
• Python: pip install grass-session
• CLI: grass … --exec v.clean ...
• File-like management of “grassdata”
• Integrations: PROJ 5, QGIS 3, OpenEO
cloud API
Team & Sprints
• 1 new core dev: Stefan Blumentrath
• 3 new addon devs
• 4 new babies – a long-term plan ;-)
• Code Sprint 2018 at Basecamp Bonn
GSoC & GCI
• 2017: 3 students accepted, 2 passed; 4 mentors;
2 admins for OSGeo
• 2018: 3 students accepted, 2 passed; 6 mentors;
2 admins for OSGeo
• GCI: ~120 students; 2 mentors; 2 admins for
OSGeo
Celebrating 35th birthday!

31. QGIS
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Releases
• 3.2.2 - Bonn (newest version)
• 2.18.23 - Las Palmas (LTR version)
Roadmap
• 2018-10-26 -> 3.4.0
• 2019-02-22 -> 3.6.0
• 2019-02-22 -> 3.4.4 (LTR)
Feature highlights
• First API break since 2013
• Python 3, QT5
• too many new features:
https://t.co/fJ3ajwEqpu
• Server certified as WMS 1.3 reference
implementation by OGC
Team & Sprints
• New project chair -> Paolo Cavallini
• New project co-chair -> Marco Bernasocchi
• HF: Madeira, Zanzibar (first non European)
• Next HF:
• A Coruña Provisionally March 2019
• Bucharest 2019 in parallel to
2019.FOSS4g.org
• 3rd grant program results:
http://blog.qgis.org/2018/06/22/qgis-grant-progr
amme-2018-results/
Misc
• Please visit panel “QGIS: The future”: Friday,
09:45 - 10:30 in Selous (main auditorium)
• Prototyping certifications system for training
organisations
Version 3.x released

32. GeoMoose
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- TBD

33. GDAL project status
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- Key accomplishments mid-2018/mid-2019
- Celebrated 20 years of existence !
- Bugfix releases: GDAL 2.2.2, 2.2.3, 2.2.4 and 2.3.1
- Feature version: GDAL 2.3.0 (May 2018)
- Migration to GitHub for tickets & code ⇒ significant increase in
contributions from non-core devs, easier for maintainers
- Funding from OSGeo for higher nr. of Travis-CI concurrent jobs
- Huge bug crunching (>1000 bug fixes) using OSS-Fuzz
infrastructure
- GDAL talks at FOSS4G-France and FOSS4G-Europe
- Outlook for mid-2018/mid-2019
- GDAL 2.3.X maintenance releases ~ every 3 months
- GDAL 2.4.0 ~ May 2020. Will feature completely revamped SRS
support (a.k.a “gdalbarn”): WKT 2, SQLite SRS database, more
accurate datum transforms, better use of PROJ 5 new features

34. ORFEO ToolBox
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• Key accomplishments
• 3 releases (6.2, 6.4 and 6.6)
• Move infrastructure to self hosted GitLab (more committers,better code review)
• Workshops and presentations at FOSS4G France and FOSS4G-Europe
• New version of OTB QGIS plugin
• Rewrite from scratch (better and simpler, facilitate maintenance and future
upgrades)
• Compatible with OTB 6.6 and QGIS 3.2 (LTS version)
• Beta version available here.
• Hopefully will be moved to QGIS processing core in a future version
• Thanks to QGIS developers for their helps and support !
• Fruitful collaborations of OTB with other OSGeo projects (QGIS, Zoo, GDAL…)
• Upcoming OTB User Day (Montpellier, France 19/10/2018) -> Already 70 people
registered!
• Outlook for 2019
• We will be looking perhaps into a budget request to support initiatives in 2019
(participation to OSGeo or QGIS code sprint)
• Improve ORFEO ToolBox overview and quickstart in OSGeo-Live (old and a bit
“outdated”)
Open Source processing of remote sensing images

35. pycsw
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-Key accomplishments
- 2.2.0 released at Bonn Code Sprint (March 2018)
- WMS 1.3.0 and WPS process harvesting
- plugin support enhancements
- Docker support
- Athens dev meeting (July 2018)
- set course for pycsw 3.0
-Outlook for 2019
- OGC CSW 4.0 (pycsw is part of the specification team)
- pycsw 3.0
- OpenAPI
- integration with pygeoapi
- lightweight install
- Code sprint

36. GeoNode
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• New PSC elected in May and monthly PSC telcos are held
• Need to appoint a new OSGeo Project Officer.
• New releases during 2018: 2.8.1 and 2.10.0 (out soon)
• Held the GeoNode summit in March in Turin (Italy) with ~50
attendees
• Participated in Bonn Code sprint.
• Big organizations involved that help to keep alive the
community (The World Bank, UNESCO, IGAD, WFP, JRC, ...)
• Need to increase the number of active developers as now is
mainly GeoSolutions working on it
• Roadmap for 3.0 is under definition
• Couldn’t make to mentor a GSOC student in 2018 but is
foreseen in 2019

37. PyWPS
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● New member of PSC - Carsten Ehbrecht
● Working on 4.2 version
○ Jinja2 templates for output generation
○ Docker support for process containers
○ Support for HPC (Slurm, GridEngine)
○ Support for URL-based data input (OpenDAP, download on demand)
○ To be released by end of 2018
● Started to work on WPS 2.0 support (GetCapabilites and
DescribeProcess already implemented)
● GSoC student - Jan Pisl
○ Database output storage (along with default FileStorage)
● Participating at OSGeo Code Sprint 2018 in Bonn
○ https://github.com/geopython/pywps/wiki/Code-Sprint-2018-Bonn

38. Mapbender
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• Mapbender team is quite active, meetings every week
• Growing user community
• Better documentation
• New versions came out last month and this week
• Work on OpenLayers 4 integration nearly finished
You are welcome to sponsor the OpenLayers 4 integration
Talk on friday about Mapbender !

39. MapServer
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- Participated in OSGeo sprint in Bonn
- Participated in Google Code-in contest
- monthly PSC meetings throughout 2017 & 2016
- need to reboot monthly meetings
- MapServer 7.2 release in July
- Vector Tile support
- Python3 support
- 22 contributors in last year
- need to start leveraging OSGeo budget
- need to setup project sponsorship

40. GeoServer Project Status
• 2018 Releases
• 2.14 Spring
• 2.15 September
• Team health / happy
• PSC Change due to activity
• monthly bug stomp balance
maintenance activities
• Security handling
• responsible disclosure
(geosever-security@osgeo.org)
• resource challenge
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• Java Outlook for 2019
• Oracle is investing in Java!
• 6 month release cycle
• Java 9 2017 September
• Java 10 2018 March
• Java 11 2018 September
• Java 8 ends January 2019
• JEE → Jakarta
• Java 9 modules “jigsaw”
• Big upgrade required
• Java_2018_Code_Sprint
(everyone welcome)

41. PostGIS Project Status
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- New Committer Darafei Praliaskouski Oct 2017
- New Committer Raúl Marín Rodríguez Jan 2018
- PostGIS 2.4.4 released April 6th, 2018
- PostGIS 2.5.0 Planned release Sept 2018
- PostGIS Code Sprint Planned Sept 2018
- Starting plans for PostGIS 3.0 -
https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/wiki/PostGIS3

42. GEOS Project Status
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- New Committer Kurt Schwehr June 2018
- New Committer Vicky Vergara July 2018
- GEOS 3.7.0 Planned release Aug 2018
- Work started to implement C++11 standards

43. deegree Project Status
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• deegree 3.4 released in April 2018 containing
• 13 new features
• 113 improvements & enhancements
• 171 bug fixes
• Official docker image for deegree 3.4 available at dockerhub
• OSGeoLive 12 comes with deegree 3.4.1
• deegree 3.4 has passed OGC compliance and is approved
reference implementation for 7 OGC standards
• Community activities
• Presenting deegree 3.4 at
• FOSSGIS 2018 in Bonn (Germany) and
• FOSS4G-Europe 2018 in Guimarães (Portugal)
• Participating at OSGeo Code Sprint 2018 in Bonn
https://github.com/deegree/deegree3/wiki/2018-OSGeo-CodeSprint

44. GeoNetwork Project Status Report
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PR merged 2018: 77%
PR merged 2017: 87%
Total PR 2018: 297 (August!)
Total PR 2017: 270
Forcing more collaboration
between teams/companies
Trying the biggest refactor ever:
from Lucene to Elastic Search
Testing dedicated channel for core
developers: so far, so good.
From now on, faster and
smaller releases

45. GeoNetwork Project Status Report
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Challenges:
• Stable but small team of developers
• Maintenance is hard
• Lots of non-developer users
• Some coming from non-opensource world, don’t understand support
• Users are not used to mailing lists to ask questions
• Percentage of private email is insane
• Project is big and there’s a lot of maintenance work
• How to make it smaller to fit OSGeo Live?
• Find budget/time to refactor Frankenstenian legacy code
• Not only the index migration, but much more!

46. - Incubation completed
during Bonn code sprint!
- New version (12.0) based on
Ubuntu 18.04 is about to be
released. Get RC1 from OSGeo
booth!
- PSC working great, holding
weekly meetings on IRC
- Moved to own Trac (and
wiki) instance.
OSGeoLive 2018 Report
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- Documentation moved to
Transifex for translations.
- We need more volunteers
for testing, docs review,
translations.
- We are looking for new
and promising projects to
introduce to the FOSS4G
community
- Please report issues found
during your workshops.

47. - Translations status
- On transifex:
transifex.com/osgeo/osgeolive
- 1 rule to get a translation
included in a release:
All overviews translated
- So far 6 languages included:
- English
- Spanish
- German
- French
- Hungarian
- Italian
OSGeoLive 2018 Report
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• 20 languages available
• 67 translators

48. GeoTools 2018 Report
Monthly
stable/maintenance:
• GeoTools 19 March
• GeoTools 20 September
Community Health
• PSC change due to activity
Progress
• Java 9 compatibility
(ServiceRegistry → FactoryRegistry)
• Replace Units library
(JSR-275 units → JSR-363 units)
• JTS 1.16
(com.vividsolutions.jts.* → com.locationtech.jts.*)
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• Java 9 modules “jigsaw”
• gt-api uses package
org.geotools.data.DataStore
• gt-main uses package
org.geotools.data.AbstractDataStore
• Second one won’t load!
• Fix by January 2019
• refactor into different
jars?
• move code around?
• Libraries we use affected
• review/update/replace jars
• jts fixed in bonn code sprint
• Java_2018_Code_Sprint
(everyone welcome)

49. OSGeo Incubating
OSGeo Incubating projects are working with the Incubator Committee
to become an official OSGeo project..
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50. ZOO project
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● Releases
○ 1.7.0 is planned to be available before the end of the year (FOSS4G-ASIA)
○ 1.8.0 is planned to be released early next year and will include the HPC support
● New developper:
○ Rémi Cresson
● Achievements:
○ The ZOO-Kernel now support R functions as first class WPS services
○ The MapServer support has been updated to enhance the quality of the produced mapfile,
especially for imagery data (thanks to Rémi Cresson for his support and code)
○ The way data is downloaded and the value stored to pass to the services have been rewritten
implying also some ZOO-Services rewrite to be done / reviewed
● Workshop held in Pune ISQUAREIT where FOSS4G spirit can be shared with more than 50
attendees for inaugurating the Center of Excellence in Geoinformatics, I2IT, Pune , India
● Thanks to the support of the foundation, we were able to attend the following events:
○ Bonn Code Sprint
○ Dar Es Salam event (MapMint workshop and presentation, ZOO-Project presentation)

51. istSOS
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• Release istSOS 2.3.2 in October
• Bug fixes & Web Admin Viewer Improvements
• Now working on istSOS Version 3
• Big Data / IoT oriented
• Modular architecture
• Developer friendly
• Easy Plugins Development
• First tests demonstrated it is really fast
• Beta out for testing (github.com/istsos)
• Other activities
• Presented @ FOSS4G Europe 2018 and here tomorrow
• Google Summer of Code - Rahul Chauhan (istSOS3 plugin)
• Incubation Code Sprint sponsored by OSGeo (Thanks!!)
• planned this year @ FOSS4G Asia (Sri Lanka)

52. TEAM Engine Project Status
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• TEAM Engine 5.3 was released
• Feature: New HTML report
• Feature: REST API
• Many, many bug fixes
• Current work
• Actively working on bugs and enhancements reported via
GitHub issue tracker
(https://github.com/opengeospatial/teamengine/issues)
• Community activities
• Participating at OSGeo Code Sprint 2018 in Bonn
• Presenting TEAM Engine at FOSSGIS 2018 in Bonn

53. Oskari Project Status
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• Releases
• 1.44 October 2017
• 1.45 January 2018
• 1.46 April 2018
• 1.47 June 2018
• Achievements
• OpenLayers 4 migration (from OL2) completed
• Thematic maps tool developed heavily
• Time series tool (WMS-T) improvements for UI and GetCapabilities
auto-updating

54. Oskari Community Status
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• 38 organisations involved (public & private sector)
• 10 members in the joint development forum (Finland)
• Coordination between projects improved
• Sub-teams for documentation, marketing, technical
improvements
• Monthly PSC meetings
• Companies offering Oskari-services (training, installations,
hosted instances)
• Presentations in FOSS4GFI & FOSS4G

55. OSGeo Community
OSGeo Community projects are supported by our foundation,
but do not have a project officer to participate in our AGM.
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56. pgRouting
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pgRouting
v2.5 (sep 2017)
v2.6 (march 2018)
pgRoutingLayer
v2.2.0 (oct 2017)
v2.2.3 (nov 2017)
osm2pgrouting
v2.3.0 (oct 2017)
v2.3.5 (may 2017)
Committers:
No one can commit & push on the main repositories to master & develop branches without making a Pull Request.
A Pull Request has to be reviewed by at least one of the project team members.
Team member’s github id: (Depending on their expertise they can be reviewers of one or more pgRouting repositories)
AasheeshT, anitagraser, antonpa, apslight, cayetanobv, codeSG, cvvergara, daas-ankur-shukla, dkastl, fredj, halsk,
iamrohith94, Illedran, jay-mahadeokar, jinfu-leng, jordanderson, justjkk, manikanta-kondeti, mbasa, mukulpriya, robe2,
sanak, sarthak0415, smellman, vidhan13j07, woodbri, XJTUmg, yjacolin, zibon.
Plans:
pgRouting: Next release v3.0 will be on september 2019, with all deprecated functions gone,and proposed & experimental
functions be fully tested to move as official.
pgRoutingLayer: work has started to move from python2 to python3, we expect to have a first 3.0 version at end of
December
osm2pgrouting: Next mayor release also for september 2019 using libosmium, will allow to read from pbf files

57. PROJ
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Releases
• 5.0.0, 5.0.1, 5.1.0
Roadmap
• 5.2.0 - September 15th 2018
• API updates, new features
• 6.0.0 - March 1st 2019
• The first results of the
GDALbarn.com effort
• Gradual move from C89
towards C++11
• Removal of projects.h API
Feature highlights
• New API introduced
• Significantly improved geodetic capabilities
• Spatiotemporal coordinates (4D) introduced
• New CLI applications: cct & gie
• Major documentation improvements
Community
• Withdrawn membership of MetaCRS
• Formed Project Steering Committee
• Seeking OSGeo incubation in the near future
• Project status report given at FOSS4G-Europe
First major release in ~25 years!

58. Regional / language outreach promoting our vision for open source!
Chapters operates at arms length, often incorporated as a
“non-profit” in their respective country to better engage with local
advocacy.
Local Chapter Updates
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59. OSGeo Korean Chapter
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60. Association:
- around 60 members
- collaboration with association
against mafie
- collaboration with OSM Italian
local chapter
- discussion with Instruction
ministry for a lessons in schools
GfOSS.it
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Visit: associazionegfoss.it
FOSS4G-it 2018:
- more than 200 attendees
- organized with OSM Italian local
chapter and ArcheFOSS community
- around 100 activities between
workshop, presentation and posters
FOSS4G-it 2019:
Padua, 20-22 February 2019
Visit: foss4g.it

61. 6161
OSGeo Ireland
2nd National Symposium
• Held in Portlaoise 25th May 2018
58 delegates
• 1 Keynote (Dr. Marco Minghini); 18 Lightning Talks
• 3 Workshops [QGIS, OTB/GDAL, GeoPython]
• Distributed over 50 OSGeo-Live USB keys to delegates
• More details
Upcoming events
• Smaller workshops (GRASS,LiDAR) in Q4 2018
• Organisation underway for 2019 Symposium

62. D-A-Ch: FOSSGIS e.V. (Germany-Austria-Switzerland)
- https://www.fossgis-konferenz.de/2018/
- official local Chapter Germany OSM Foundation
- Support of various projects and Community
Sprints
- FOSSGIS pays for Servers costs e.g. Overpass API
- Support of OSGeo Community Sprint
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https://www.fossgis.de

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1. FOSSGIS Konferenz
March 2006 in Bonn
mit 350 Participants
2003-2005 MapServer
Anwendertreffen
2018 Bonn > 400
2019 Dresden

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66. OSGeo:UK
TBD
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67. OSGeo:Au NZ
• Local chapter is quiet
• New committee formed
to organise FOSS4G SotM
Oceania
• Lots of momentum
around event
• Looking at ways to
ensure this momentum
continues for future
events
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68. OSGeo.JP
Organized Events
• 2017.9.15-16 FOSS4G TOKYO
• 2017.10.14-16 FOSS4G NARA.KANSAI
• 2017.12.2 FOSS4G Tokai
• 2018.4.14 QGIS Hackfest (Tokyo, Sapporo, Nagoya, Nara, Fukuoka)
• 2018.6.22-23 FOSS4G Hokkaido
• 2018.8.24-25 FOSS4G Tokai
OSGeo.JP logo is designed by 山形巧哉(ハウモリ) and 古川泰人(MIERUNE)

69. OSGeo.JP
Participated events
• 2017.4.13/2018.1/7 FOSS4G small workshop at Tsukuba
• 2017.10.28 Two workshops (Mapping party, OpenDroneMap) in the
Academic convention of GIS Association Japan
• 2017.11.10-11 Kansai Open Forum Holed a seminar and boothe opened
• 2017.11.13 GSI web map user's forum
Upcoming events
• 2018.11.9-10 FOSS4G TOKYO
• 2018.11.4-5 FOSS4G KANSAI/Okayama

70. OSGeo.nl - Netherlands
• Est. 2011, Foundation 2012
• Sponsors: gold: GeoCat,
OpenGeoGroep
• Yearly FOSS4G-NL (2017, 2018)
• User/hacking Days: QGIS, ...
• Workshops: GRASS, PostGIS,...
• SIGs: QGIS, GeoNetwork,...
• Becoming QGIS User Group
• National https://geoforum.nl
• More: https://osgeo.nl
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FOSS4GNL 2018 - July 11 - 160+ participants

71. geo-spatial.org (OSGeo.RO)
2017 has been a busy year!
- continued our traditional national workshops: Cluj,
Timisoara and Bucharest
- managing the OSGeo elections - CRO
but….. the important 2017 moment was
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An elegant place for sharing geoKnowledge & geoData since 2007

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73. OSGeo.cz
● Dorming status
● Planed cooperation with “Open
cities” ngo and OSM.cz
● Regular Geomatics by Beer meetings
● Planning to organize
FOSS4G-Europe 2020
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The Czech republic local chapter

74. tcmug@lists.osgeo.org
• The Twin Cities, MN OSGeo chapter regularly meets once a
month on the 2nd Wednesday @ 4:30pm at local businesses
or organizations in or near St. Paul, Minnesota.
• Some meetings have been dedicated to planning a local
codesprint.
• Held discussions related to retaining a local incorporated
entity as sponsor.
• MapServer and GeoMoose projects are a primary topic of
discussion.
• Organizing and hosting of local presentations.
• Coordination with local GIS agencies and efforts.
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75. OSGeo California
• Mailing List - Join it!
• Impromptu Meetup in Dar
• Planning to invite new members from active community
• #maptimeDavis Celebrates 1 year!
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76. OSGeo Hungary
• planning FOSS4G-HU for end of November
• working on the Hungarian translation of OSGeoLive
• opened the source of a program for land surveyors called
GeoEasy (see https://github.com/zsiki/GeoEasy)
• QGIS 3 Hungarian translation is 99%
• Our Linkedin group has 205 members
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77. OSGeo Portugal
TBD
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78. OSGeo-fr
Done:
- FOSS4G-fr 2018
- QGIS-User-fr 2017
To come:
- Paris OpenSource Summit (november)
- QGIS-User-fr 2018 (december)
- Capitole du Libre (Toulouse)
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79. OSGeo-fr
79
osgeo.asso.fr/foss4gfr-2018

80. Geoinquiet@s Argentina
80
t.me/geoinquietosar 66 members
Since 2012
• Conferences
2014
FOSS4G Buenos
Aires
2016
FOSS4G
Argentina
2017
FOSS4G + SOTM
Argentina
Supporting institutions:
Working with other communities
• Talks and workshops in universities
• Webinars
• Mapathons with OSM Argentina community
Coming soon:

81. OSGeo Finland .fi
Conferences
FOSS4GFI 2017 and 2018
- common/public
- participants ~160
devALPO 2017
- developers
- participants ~30
AGM Finland
Workshops & events
QGIS Meetup
- once 2017
Workshop at national GIS Expo for
public
Project to translate QGIS totally
in Finnish
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82. OSGeo Europe
Conference
FOSS4 2018 Guimarães
- participants ~ ??
- code sprint & workshops
Initiatives
- OSGeo Live for INSPIRE
- Code Sprint Bonn
- Discuss first lobby initiatives
- Prepare a poster for DI4R
(datainfrastructures for research)
- Yesterday, the organizers of the Eastern Partenership e-Infrastructure
Conference (EaPEC 2018) confirmed a presentation about the activites of
OSGeo Europe (to foster Open Science in Europe). the conference will take
place in Moldavia in october
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83. OSGeo Europe
Representing to the outside world
- first initiative: INSPIRE
Conference (18-21 Sept Antwerp)
- launch and test of representing
the “OSGeo Eco System”
(at least one government,
university and industry
promoting OSGeo: their story to
promote OSGeo, from their
perspective)
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http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/sevilla
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Geoinquietos_Sevilla
735 members779 followers
GEOBIRRAS
DATE ACTIVITY
10/ 2017 Proposal FOSS4G Sevilla 2019
11/ 2017 Virtual Meeting about Accessibility.
Groups Spain
11/ 2017 Moisés Arcos, Authorization CDAU ->
OSM
12/ 2017 Complete the Map. Mapillary
05/ 2018 Complete the Map, Spring. Mapillary
06/ 2018 Social Mapping Party. San Jerónimo.
Tekeando
DATE MEETING REGISTERED
01/ 2017 Work space 6
02/ 2017 GeoBirras 4
03/ 2017 Workshop 25
04/ 2017 Presentation 20
05/ 2017 Workshop 18
10/ 2017 GeoBirras 10
11/ 2017 Presentation 7
12/ 2017 Presentation 5
01/ 2018 Meeting 7
02 /2018 Meeting 9
05/ 2018 Meeting 6
06/ 2018 Meeting-GeoBirras 8

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ACTIVITIES & MEETINGS
OSGeo Spanish Chapter
FOSS4G Sevilla 2019
Proposal to OSGeo Conference Committee
Virtual meeting
Accessibility. Spain
Social Mapping Party
Complete the Map. Global Challenge
Authorization IECA -> OSM
Workshop introduction GIS
(25 registered)
Workshop introduction QGIS
(18 registered)
Smallworld, FME, PostGIS (7 registered)
Geoinquietos Córdoba visit us!!
Carto Builder with Cadastre Inspire.
GeoWe. (20 registered)

86. • Still meeting once a
month at the
Fox & Feather
• Small community with
academic, government
and private sector
members
OSGeo Ottawa
• Interesting presentations
on a number of topics:
• Virtual Reality
• Object based remote
sensing
• JavaScript APIs
• Unifying web services
• Vector tiles
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87. OSGeo Quebec
• Chapter has been quiet in
last few years
• Karine Jean joining
chapter steering
committee with new
energy and ideas
• GeoHack March 2019 in
Morocco organized by
OSGeo QC & SOR Energie
• Desire to partner with
other organizations to
promote collaboration
and open data, e.g. local
meetups
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88. OSGeo Africa• Although it happened
before Boston, FOSS4G
Africa 2017 was our most
recent major event
• OSGeo Africa mailing list
(started 2005) has >1000
members and is active
• AfricaGeo 2018 offered us a
free stand
• Activism for FOSS adoption
and open data in
government
• We’re still not an official
chapter! (Africa vs SA…)
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89. OSGeo Pacific-Islands
• Founded on November, 9 2012, Fiji Time.
• Felicitates the advancement of open source for geospatial
software, technologies and usage in the Pacific Islands
region by:
• Advocate Open Access, Open Education and Open Data in the Pacific
Islands
• Sharing source code, data, information, problems and solutions
among users
• Operation of a mailing list pacific-islands@lists.osgeo.org
• Encouraging the creation of national users groups
Organizing meetings, training/workshops and work towards
FOSS4G Pacific-Islands
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90. OSGeo Pacific-Islands
• The "GeoForAll Lab" at the University of Fiji, School of Science and
Technology
• Java Open Street Map (JOSM) using Open Street Map (OSM) Tracker in smart
mobile phones to capture HV lines of PNG Power Ltd sponsored by Columbia
University (NY), Linux, PostgreSQL/Postgis, QGIS Server, QGIS Web-Client,
LizMap-Web-Client, QGIS Desktop at PNG Power Ltd (PPL)
• Real-time vehicle tracking at SkyEye Geospatial, Apia, Samoa
• OpenGeo Suite with PostgreSQL/Postgis for database, GeoServer for
map/middleware and GeoEXT and OpenLayers for web client with plans to
use Geoexplorer by opengeo for webclient at Samoa Electric Power
Corporation
• Linux, PostGIS/PostgreSQL, QGIS Server, QGIS Web-Client,
LizMap-Web-Client, QGIS Desktop at the Solomon Islands Electricity
Authority (SIEA)
• Linux, PostGIS/PostgreSQL, QGIS Server, QGIS Web-Client, QGIS Desktop at the
Solomon Islands Ministry of Geology, Mines and Energy
• http://wiki.icttonga.to/index.php/GIS
• http://foss4g.icttonga.to
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91. OSGeo Initiatives
OSGeo Initiatives form to change down specific opportunities,
gathering together interested parties.
We ask initiatives that we support to provide a AGM status update.
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92. GSoC 2018 Report
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- GSoC 2018 - Google Summer of Code
- OSGeo projects (GRASS GIS, gvSIG, PostGIS, istSOS, PyWPS, ZOO-Project, pgRouting) and
guest projects (NASA-ESA Web World Wind, Gisquick) projects
- 10 successful students:
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/5051492877205504/#projects
- GSoC summit participants: Jeff McKenna (admin), Vaclav Petras (mentor) and Victoria
Rautenbach (GCI mentor, additionally invited by Google)
- GSoC 2017 - Google Summer of Code
- tasks created for OSGeo projects (GRASS GIS, QGIS, gvSIG, pycsw, istSOS, PyWPS,
pgRouting) and guest projects (NASA-ESA Web World Wind, OL3-Google-Maps,
OneBusAway) projects
- 13 successful students:
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/archive/2017/organizations/4554340639440896/
#projects
- GSoC summit participants: Margherita Di Leo (admin), Rohith Reddy (mentor)

93. GCI 2017 Report
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- students completed 649 tasks 11 OSGeo projects (i.e., FOSS4G, GeoServer, GeoTools, GRASS
GIS, gvSIG, MapServer, OpenLayers, OSGeoLive, pgRouting, PostGIS, and QGIS).
- experiences and conclusions of OSGeo's first participation in the Google Code-in (GCI)
competition:
- V. Rautenbach, M. Di Leo, V. Andreo, L. Delucchi, H. Kudrnovsky, J. McKenna & S. Acosta y
Lara 2018. Fostering pre-university student participation in OSGeo through the Google
Code-In competition. The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote
Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Volume XLII-4/W8, 2018. FOSS4G 2018 –
Academic Track, 29–31 August 2018, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
(https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-4-W8-175-2018)
- GCI summit participants: Jeff McKenna (admin) and winning OSGeo's GCI students
- GSoC/GCI admins 2017/2018:
- Margherita Di Leo (chair), Florin-Daniel Cioloboc, Anne Ghisla, Helmut Kudrnovsky,
Werner Macho, Jeff McKenna

94. Thank you!
Welcome to open geospatial
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