OSGeo - A Community of Communities
Tyler Mitchell, Executive Director
Open Source Geospatial Foundation
Why Is OSGeo Here?
- Mandate to support and promote projects
- Community events focus keeps it real
Why FOSS4G?
- Previous events loosely coordinated
- OSGeo now serves as host and coordinator
- International Committee
- Important venue for promoting our mission
- Key event for cross-project interaction
- For you
- For projects
OSGeo Casts the Net...
- To reach more users
- To encourage projects
- Raising awareness and knowledge
- Provide support
Community of Communities
- Draw together people
- Developers
- Users / Implementors
- Sponsors
- Draw together projects
- Projects come under umbrella
- 9 initial, 13 at present
- 4.6M LOC, 182 Contributors, 1,253 Years, $69M
- Diverse representation
- Active communities getting closer together
- FOSS4G brings together most of these
- Business networking
- Meeting of the tribes
- Project introductions
Remove Barriers
- Cross Geography & Language
- 6+ Local Chapters
- local/language organisation helping collaesce
- Cross Projects
- Refactoring / merging
- Stacks & binary builds
- Integration Demos
- Create New Projects
Champion
- Why this all matters!
- Not left up to individual companies
- Promoting great projects without marketing budgets
- Lending a bigger, formal voice to community efforts
- Helping keep FOSS on the radar
- conferences, papers, workshops
- Stabilising commercial future
- investment is safer
- projects will develop
- more developers clearly welcome
- Public-benefit conscious
- commitment is safer
- encouraging more participation
Opportunities
- BOFs and code sprint get you face-to-face with others
- Collaborating to host events
- local conferences & workshops
- booth space at conferences
- Integration Examples
- Membership
- Sponsors
History / Overview Mindmap
History / Overview Mindmap
Contact
Tyler Mitchell
- tmitchell@osgeo.org
- +1-250-277-1621
- http://www.osgeo.org
- http://wiki.osgeo.org