OSGeo At FOSS4G 2007

Tyler Mitchell, Executive Director

Open Source Geospatial Foundation

Why Is OSGeo Here?

  • Mandate to support and promote projects
  • Community events focus keeps it real
  • More in my talk on Thursday

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

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