Annual General Meeting

Open Source Geospatial Foundation AGM 2017

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www.osgeo.org

OSGeo AGM

You cannot stop the signal

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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.

Open Source Geospatial Foundation

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13 July 2017

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

Open Source Geospatial Foundation

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13 July 2017

Supported by sponsors worldwide

Open Source Geospatial Foundation

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13 July 2017

OSGeo Status Overview

Open, free membership:

920 members registered on wiki,

28343 OSGeo mailman server unique subscribers 2016_10_01

Source: M Neteler's monthly cronjob

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312 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

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OSGeo Status Overview

Board of directors:

• major rebranding, new website
• FOSS4G conferences and code sprints support
• travel grants, student award
• and a lot more - see board wiki

Committees:

• merged or restructured (web, marketing, education),
• new: Open Science, UN
• addiotional review and updates are needed

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OSGeo Status Overview

Projects:

• 23 graduated OSGeo projects (2 passed incubation last year: GeoNode, ORFEO ToolBox), 6 in the incubation process
• 6 community projects
• need for periodic review of the projects: project health check - see also OSGeo Live,
• working group was formed�(Jeff Johnson, Jeff McKenna, Michael Smith, Angelos Tzotsos)

Chapters

• 25 local chapters
• new regional chapters Europe, GeoForAll Iberoamerica

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OSGeo Status Overview

Sponsors

revived sponsorship activities (thanks Jody and sponsors)

10 current sponsors http://www.osgeo.org/content/sponsorship/sponsors.html

Partners

MoUs - several renewed, new established

existing OGC, LH Corp, ICA, ISPRS, UCGIS, AGILE, IGU, STP India

new USA DOI pending

Legal

Review CLA with NGA

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OSGeo in 2017 - Conferences

15+ Regional FOSS4G conferences and meetings

• FOSS4G BE, Brussels September 22, 2016
• FOSS4G Romania, October 7-8, 2016
• FOSS4G Hungary, November 25, 2016
• FOSS4G Asia, January 26-29, 2017
• GFOSS Italy, February 8-11
• FOSGIS Germany, March 22-25
• FOSS4G SE USA (Knoxville, TN) May 19
• FOSS4G Finland, May 23
• OSGeo Irish Local chapter symposium, May 26
• SIG Libre Spain June 1,2
• FOSS4GNL Groningen NL, June 28
• FOSS4G-JP Hokkaido - June 30
• OSGeo Africa June 28 - July 1
• FOSS4G Europe July 18 - 22
• QGIS conference August 2-10
• FOSS4G Korea 30 Aug ~ 1st Sep

Source http://www.osgeo.org/event , news and other on-line resources

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OSGeo in 2017 - Code Sprints

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• FOSSGIS Hacking event January 20-22
• Daytona, FL, Feb. 7-10; 17 participants, (PDAL, GDAL, Mapserver, ODM)
• Java 2017 - GeoServer, 12 participants (Lucca, Tuscany, IT)
• Bolsena Code Sprint June 11 - 17
• QGIS developer meeting, QGIS hackathon
• gvSIG events
• Geo4Africa Kampala, Uganda, July 11-14

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OSGeo in 2017 - Participation at events

Booth, sessions at related conferences:

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• Booth swaps! OSCon booth, AAG, .. postgresqopen (Help - Sep 6-8)
• European Geophysical Union annual meeting - town hall
• International Cartographic Congress - workshop

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Google Summer of Code

Umbrella for GSoC - 15 students admitted, 13 remaining students working for 8 projects

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OSGeo in 2017 - Thanks to Volunteers

Board

September 2016 - August 2018

Michael Smith - Hanover, NH, USA; Treasurer, Vasile Craciunescu - Bucharest, Romania; Maria Brovelli - Como, Italy; Angelos Tzotsos - Athens, Greece

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October 2015 - September 2017

Anita Graser - Vienna, Austria; Helena Mitasova - Raleigh, NC, USA Vice-President; Jody Garnett - Victoria, British Columbia, Canada; Sanghee Shin - Seoul, South Korea; Venkatesh Raghavan - Osaka, Japan President

Committee chairs

OSGeo members and advocates

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OSGeo in 2017 - Treasurer Report

• Significant increase in sponsorships
• European Bank Account is in process
• Donations to TGP via PayPal - huge success
• OSGeo funded signing certificates being used by projects
• OSGeo handled Project specific expenses

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OSGeo in 2017 - Secretary report

• Collecting papers
• MoUs https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:MoU
• Contribution Agreements: cca 170 (8 sofar for 2017)
• Missing CA-Public body (gov. org.) template
• Plan 2017
• To move our papers togit.osgeo.org
• To discuss, whether the “Secretary” should not be part of the board again.

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OSGeo in 2017 - Elections

member elections: 2017-08-21 to 2017-09-04

• To be elected a charter member need a nomination by a current charter member and at least one other charter member seconding the nomination.
• Only veto can be raised by sending a private e-mail to the CRO that has to inform the board for an anonymous review.
• If the veto is accepted by the board, then the CRO shall make it public and the charter member is not elected.

board elections: 2017-09-04 to 2017-10-03

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OSGeo Website Rebranding

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Can we afford this?

• OSGeo has not been spending any money
• Budgets are repeatedly set at 75,000 USD
• Our volunteers only been spending a portion of this each year
• Events
• FOSS4G is responsible for the vast majority of our finances
• Smaller events, and even code sprints, often turn-a-profit
• We have enough set aside to run 2-3 foss4g conferences
• Sponsorship program
• Rebooted in 2015 by Jeff and Jody�(Primarily focused on recognizing the supporters we do have)

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Open Source Geospatial Foundation

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22 July 2017

Can we spend money responsibly?

• Website has fallen into disrepair
• First made in 2006
• Rebranding was paid for in 2009�(but never used due to lack of volunteers)

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• The system administration committee
• Demonstrates that small contracts can work

Open Source Geospatial Foundation

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22 July 2017

Can we inspire volunteers

• OSGeo Board provide a mandate
• Trusted the marketing committee to run this task
• Supplied an initial budget marking this possible
• Marketing Committee
• Took on this responsibility
• Worked on fundraising to demonstrate commitment
• Jeffrey Johnson
• Supplied the experience running an “Expression of Interest”
• Brought in examples, wording and most importantly expectations on what we could expect for our money�

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22 July 2017

Website/Branding Budget

OSGeo Budget

• 40K OSGeo Board
• 5k Marketing Committee

Sponsorship

• Key sponsors

Open Source Geospatial Foundation

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22 July 2017

• Sponsors / Supporters

Expression of Interest

Get Interactive

• Diverse portfolio
• Realistic schedule
• Leader in value
• Amount of work scheduled / dollars spent

• www.getinteractive.nl
• short video

More information

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22 July 2017

Branding Result Logo and Colors

Open Source Geospatial Foundation

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22 July 2017

#4DB05B

#003A40

Booth Materials and Collateral

Open Source Geospatial Foundation

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16 August 2017

Website content & communication!

• Most of the work has focused on getting our story straight

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• Focus on what visitors want to know
• Not just what we want to tell
• This makes for some heartbreaking tradeoffs

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• Content Migration
• News
• Pages
• Announcements
• Press releases
• Thanks Frank Warmerdam!

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• Pictures
• Grab a team photo please!

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16 August 2017

Geospatial Open Source

Open Source Geospatial Foundation

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16 August 2017

Supported, Sustainable, Open Source

Open Source Geospatial Foundation

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16 August 2017

Stand up, take part, be amazing!

Open Source Geospatial Foundation

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16 August 2017

How to take part

Training with Get Interactive

• Playtest beta website (and report issues)
• osgeo.getinteractive.nl
• github.com/osgeo/osgeo/issues
• Hands on training with Get Interactive

Open Source Geospatial Foundation

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16 August 2017

OSGeo Projects

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OSGeo Community

Annual reports from our open source project teams

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OSGeo-Live Status

OSGeo-Live 11.0 released

(on 2017-08-09)

• “Reboot” for 11.0 release

(by reducing scope)

• Reviewed all projects,

focusing on quality of

documentation

• Dropped some applications that did not meet our review criteria

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OSGeo-Live Status

What is new in OSGeo-Live 11.0

• OS updated to Lubuntu 16.04.2
• Core debian packaging relies on DebianGIS
• Major documentation updates
• Preparing to move translations to Transifex for 12.0
• Embraced OSGeo re-branding
• Updated packages will soon become UbuntuGIS
• Full changelog: https://git.osgeo.org/gogs/osgeo/OSGeoLive/src/master/CHANGES.txt

All FOSS4G 2017 attendees received a USB drive with OSGeo-Live 11.0

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GRASS GIS

Releases

• 4 releases since last AGM
• 7.0.5 (with 2 release candidates)
• 7.2.0 (with 2 release candidates)
• 7.2.1 (with 2 release candidates)
• 6.4.6
• Version 6 discontinued on Aug 27, 2016 after 6 years of development

Roadmap

• 7.2.2 (summer/fall 2017)
• 7.4.0 (fall/winter 2017)
• 8.0.0 (planning started)

Team

• New PSC, Sep 2016 (5 re-elected, 4 new)
• 1 new core committer: Veronica Andreo
• 8 new addon committers

Community sprints

• Bonn 2016 (FOSS4G 2016 Code Sprint)
• Genova 2017
• Paris 2017 (FOSS4G-E 2017 Code sprint)

GSoC

• 2016: 4 students accepted, 3 passed
• 2017: 3 students accepted; 4 mentors; 2 managers for OSGeo

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GRASS GIS

Developments

• Temporal algebra
• Location management
• CLI for 3rd party software
• Translations via Transifex
• Cartography improvements
• Python interface improvements

Mission statement

Bringing advanced geospatial technologies to the world

Graphical identity

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GeoMoose

• New 3.0.0 is a major overhaul featuring React, Redux, and OpenLayers 4
• No more dojo! Modernized dev stack to Node / NPM
• Implements MapBox GL styles for styling vector layers.
• Dropped PHP for querying (now pure WFS / AGS FeatureService)
• MapBook XML is now optional but still awesome.
• Developed with support from the Minnesota Department of Transportation.

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ORFEO ToolBox

• Satellite image processing library
• Monteverdi, a satellite image viewer
• Accessible from C++, Bash, GUI, Python, QGIS, Monteverdi, WPS (Zoo)
• Apache v2.0 license
• Used at CNES, ESA, mission exploitation platforms, remote sensing labs, teaching. . .
• Standing on the shoulders of giants (ITK, GDAL, OSSIM, OpenCV. . . )
• An OSGeo project since July 2017 !

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OSGeo incubation

• Thanks to the incubation committee and the OSGeo board for the acceptance of OTB. This is great news for us !
• Special thanks to :
• All people of OTb community who participates in some way to the incubation
• Our mentor Landon Blake
• Jody Garnett and Brian M Hamlin who helped in the final stretch
• Other OSGeo projects related to OTB : GDAL, OSSIM, QGIS, OSGeo-Live, Zoo...
• Angelos Tzotsos, Even Rouault, Alexander Bruy, Victor Olaya, Paolo Cavallini, Vincent Picavet, Yves Jacolin, Gérald Fenoy, Markus Neteler. . .

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Release / Roadmap

• 4 releases since last AGM / OTB Users meeting in June (around 40 attendees)
• Future: improve integration in QGIS processing
• Improve machine learning and classification framework (new methods, object based image analysis)...

pycsw

• pycsw 2.0.3 is the latest stable release
• pycsw 1.10.5 still supported (security fixes)
• OGC CSW 2.0.2 & 3.0.0 reference implementation since 30 November 2016
• OSGeo Project since 11 March 2015
• working towards 2.2 release (planned for this fall)
• refactoring for flexible backends (work in progress)
• planning search engine integration (Elasticsearch, SOLR)
• keeping up to date with downstream projects: GeoNode, CKAN, HHypermap, Boundless Exchange, GeoShape, data.gov, NOAA, LINZ, WMO WOUDC and many others
• http://pycsw.org/community/ for more...

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GeoNode

• GeoNode 2.6.1 is the latest stable release
• Oauth2 security
• Geoserver 2.9
• New alternative mapping client (React + OL3)
• Support for Qgis server as alternative mapping engine
• OSGeo Project since 2016
• working towards 2.8 release (planned for end of the year)
• Integration with task queue
• Metadata wizard editor
• Geoserver 2.10
• Improved DevOps
• http://geonode.org/ for more…

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PyWPS

• Incubation almost finished (since 2015)
• Last task standing
• PSC
• T-Shirts, stickers
• PyWPS 4.0 out (December 2016)
• DB Logging (SQLAlchemy)
• Python 3
• Flask, WSGI
• Docker

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MapServer

• 7.2 release almost complete
• Vector tiling
• PHP 7 mapscript support
• Python 2 & 3 mapscript seamless support
• Vendor-specific WMS filters for JS clients
• Participated in OSGeo-Dayton sprint
• Will join OSGeo-Bonn sprint
• Well attended BoF Wed night
• Talk of implementing call for sponsors
• Regular monthly PSC meetings through IRC

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ZOO project

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GeoServer Project Status

How about team user-list?

• 2005 → 1400�(SF now checking activity on list)
• Also geoserver-italia, espanol and opengeo.cn mailing lists

Team GeoServer

28 → 37 members

500+ → 525 pull requests

• New contributors being added�(others stepping back)
• Smaller base of active contributors this year.
• Pull requests still going strong, very active codebase.
• Simone replaces Andrea as OSGeo Officer.

13 releases this year

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Local Chapter Updates!

Open Source Geospatial is here to help!

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OSGeo Korean Chapter

• FOSS4G Korea 2016
• 31st Aug ~ 2nd Sep
• Around 300 attended
• 1st co-organizing conference with LH Corp.

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• Technical Seminars
• Ocean GIS Seminars(March 2017)
• Drone Mapping Seminars(May 2017)

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• Trainings & Outreach
• Joint Open Source GIS Trainings with LX

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OSGeo Korean Chapter

GfOSS.it

Main Activities

• member of Italian Coalition for digital skills, promoted by the government Agency for Digital Italy (AgID);
• technical partner of LIBERA - Associations against mafias in a project to counter gambling addiction;
• agreement with the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research to disseminate the culture of open-source software and open data in schools.

Italian OSGeo Chapter

GFOSS.it is a no-profit association

Members of the association (about 100) are software developers, professionals, public administration technicians, students and university professors.

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Visit: associazionegfoss.it

GfOSS.it

Outreach Events

• XVII MEETING of GRASS and GFOSS italian users, Parma;
• Open Source Geospatial Research & Education Symposium, Perugia;
• Cartography, services and use of GFOSS. Updates, news and perspectives, Politecnico di Torino.

Events Organized

• GFOSS DAY 2016, Cagliari;
• special session dedicated to FOSS4G and earthquake risk, within ASITA Congress (national geomatics conference)
• FOSS4G-Italia, Genova; with over 250 people!
• local foss4g and open geodata events�(Politecnico di Torino, local Linux User Groups…).

Visit: associazionegfoss.it

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Visit: associazionegfoss.it

OSGeo Ireland

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Main Activities

• Regular tele-meetings
• Creation/Maintenance of Irish Wiki page
• OSGeo-IE Symposium 2017
• First event: 67 registered
• 1 Day Event in May
• Keynote by Markus Neteler
• Workshops: GRASS, QGIS, R
• Distributed 50 OSGeo-live USB keys

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About

• Local Chapter set-up in 2015
• All island focus

OSGeo Ireland

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OSGeo Support Wishlist

• Guidance notes on handling finances
• Supply OSGeo Live USB keys (otherwise need to copy manually)

Irish Chapter To Do List

• Organise next year’s event
• 2 technical workshops planned Q4
• Local Chapter Strategy document
• Update logo
• Continue promotion activities of OSGeo & OSGeo projects in Ireland

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D-A-Ch: FOSSGIS e.V. (Germany-Austria-Switzerland)

about

• founded in 2000 as G.A.V. (GRASS user community), converted to FOSSGIS in 2008
• 214 members
• also representant of German OpenStreetMap community
• applied for German local OSMF chapter in 2017

Activities

• annual FOSSGIS Conference (ø 400 attendees)
• Co-operation with TIB for long-term OSGeo conference video archiving
• 2 times/year Hacking Weekend at Linux-Hotel (~25 attendees)
• contribute to related events (fair trades, conferences, e.g.)
• funding for Code-Sprints, Community Events or related
• have fun!

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https://www.fossgis.de

D-A-Ch: FOSSGIS e.V. (Germany-Austria-Switzerland)

International Activities

• FOSS4G 2016 in Bonn
• 980 attendees
• SotM-EU 2014 in Karlsruhe
• 230 attendees
• Funding of (e.g.):
• OSGeo-CodeSprint 2014
• QGIS GRASS Plugin Upgrade
• OpenLayers3 CodeSprint 2015
• FOSS4G CodeSprint 2016
• GeoServer CodeSprint 2017

(see https://www.fossgis.de/wiki/Förderanträge for complete list)

2018 planned Activities

• FOSSGIS Conference in Bonn
• in parallel OSGeo CodeSprint in BaseCamp Bonn
• organize FOSSGIS & OSM track @FROSCON
• Open Source Parc @InterGEO
• [...]

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OSGeo:UK

Events 2017

Rasters Revealed (sponsored)

Events 2018

FOSS4Eco

FOSS4GUK

Sponsorship 2017

QGIS Codesprint

QGIS.org

Organisational

New constitution and management committee

Applying to become registered charity (no tax)

250 on mail list

9 Charter Members

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OSGeo.JP

Organaized Events

2016.9.16 QGIS Hackfest

2016.10.30-31 FOSS4G NARA.KANSAI

2016.11.4-5 FOSS4G TOKYO

2017.1.28 FOSS4G Install handson

2017.6.30-7.1 FOSS4G Hokkaido

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OSGeo.JP

Participated events

2016.8.6 State of the Map Japan 2016

2016.8.8-19 Special session of FOSS4G

in the academic convention of Japan Cartographers Association.

2016.9.15 - 2017.1.30 QGIS small workshop at Tsukuba

2016.10.14 Some workshops in the Academic convention of

Geographical Information Systems Association Japan

2016.11.10-11 Kansai Open Forum Holed a seminar and boothe opened

2016.11.24-26 GeoSpatial Expo had some workshops

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OSGeo.JP

Upcoming events

2017.8.18-20 SOTM 2017 at Aizu (World conference)

2017.9.15-16 FOSS4G TOKYO

2017.10.15-16 FOSS4G KANSAI/KYOTO

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2018 FOSS4G ASIA ?　We proposed to hold FOSS4G Asia in 2018 in Japan.

　　　　　　　　　FOSS4G Asia 2018 was announced to be held in Sri Lanka.

Japan Chapter will support FOSS4G ASIA in Sri Lanka.

　　　　　　　　Let's meet next year in Sri Lanka！

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geo-spatial.org (OSGeo.RO)

An online portal containing articles, tutorials and open data regarding digital cartography, historical cartography, neogeography, 3D terrain modeling, remote sensing, GIS and GPS. The site was launched in 2007 and has grown into a community ever since. We have 47 contributors and a discussion list of over 900 members. We militate and promote free access to geospatial data and Open Source Geospatial Software.

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An elegant place for sharing geoKnowledge & geoData since 2007

Our portal has a distributed architecture and it is build using only OS software.

geo-spatial.org (OSGeo.RO)

18 workshops in 10 years

1600+ participants

215 presenters

359 workshop instructors

1200+ workshop participants

280 talks

440 hours of workshops

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Software used: GRASS, VTP, uDig, LeoWorks, GDAL, TileMill, QGIS, Inkscape, gvSig, cartoDB, R, JOSM, Saga GIS, Cartoro, SNAP

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in numbers

and pictures

geo-spatial.org (OSGeo.RO)

SEE YOU IN BUCHAREST!

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OSGeo.??

• OSGeo Finland Chapter Report
• OSGeo Spanish Language Chapter
• OSGeo Africa ?
• OSGeo European!
• ...

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OSGeo Committees

Annual reports from our open source Committees

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OSGeo Committees

• United Nations
• GeoForAll
• OSGeo Website
• Marketing
• Incubation
• Conference
• Open GeoScience
• Public Geospatial Data (?)
• System Administration (SAC)
• Google Summer of Code

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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.

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United Nations Committee

UN Open GIS Initiative

• Objective of the UN Open GIS Initiative is to identify and develop open source geospatial software and services that meet the requirements of UN operations, taking full advantage of the expertise of mission partners including partner nations, technology developed by contributing countries, international organizations, academia, NGOs, and private sector.

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• kickoff meeting in Brindisi, Italy, March 2016

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Working Groups of the UN Open GIS Initiative

• Spiral 1 – UN Open Geo-Portal (US DoD and Boundless)
• Spiral 2 – Capacity Building (GeoForAll)
• Spiral 3 – Geo-Analysis (OpenGDS)
• Spiral 4 – Data Acquisition (OPenGDS)

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UN Open GIS Initiative Capacity Building

Aim

• UN Open GIS Capacity Building is thought for providing the UN staff
• the suitable background about open source geospatial software
• the education tailored to the solution that has been being developed within the project itself.

Steps

• UN’s staff survey
• Collection of available material
• Online self-paced basic courses tutored by GeoForAll volunteers and using the Politecnico di Milano Educational Platform (Beep)
• Tailored courses, possible on-site

Chairs and Beep responsible

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Courses so far (4 editions)

• QGIS GeoAcademy

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GeoForAll

New Labs (since Sept 2016)

111. Department of Civil Engineering. PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh, India
112. DePaul University, Department of Geography, Chicago, USA
113. University of Wisconsin, Cartography Lab, Madison, USA
114. Center for Agricultural Networking and Information Sharing (CANIS), Nairobi, Kenya
115. Spatiotemporal Data Research and Education Laboratory Southern Illinois University, Computer Science Department, Edwardsville, USA
116. Lakeland Community College, Geography and Geospatial Technology, Kirtland, OH, USA

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117. GIS Lab of Ewha Womans UniversityDept of Social Studies (Geography), Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea
118. School of Science & Technology GeoForAll Lab of The University of Fiji, Saweni, Lautoka, Fiji Islands
119. Laboratorio de Geomática de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Bogotá, Colombia
120. Centro de Investigación en Recursos Naturales y Sustentabilidad (CIRENYS), Universidad Bernardo O Higgins, Santiago, Chile

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Webinars (Since Sept 2016)

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1. August 31 2016 - Tangible Landscape: open source environment for geospatial learning, science, and community engagement. Presented by Helena Mitasova, Anna Petrasova, Brendan Harmon, Vaclav Petras, Payam Tabrizian, Ross Meentemeyer Center for Geospatial Analytics, North Carolina State University
2. September 29 2016 - State of the use of FOSS and FOSS4G in Mexico. Manuel Haro, Laboratory for Open Source Software (LABSOL), Government of the State of Zacatecas, Mexico.
3. November 11 2016 - UN Open GIS Initiative – Open Source Geospatial S/W for the UN. MKi-Joune Li and Maria Brovelli
4. December 2 2016 - FOSS4G tools for geospatial analysis at the National Renewable Energy Lab. Nick Grue

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• January 27, 2017 - Open Source Statewide Lidar Visualization in Web Browsers. Howard Butler
• April 7, 2017 - How Free/Open Source Geomatics Can be Integrated into Rural Communities to Improve Resilience and Quality of Life. Presented by Andrea Giacomelli aka pibinko, Dario Canal, Simone Sandrucci, Pietro Marini and Luigi Ciampini
• Friday April 2017 - GRASS GIS – A Point Cloud Evaluation Resource. Practical experiences in open source point cloud data assessment. Presented by Robert S. Dzur
• Friday May 12, 2017 - The Launch of Open Litter Map Presented by Seán Lynch

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Geo4all Webinars YouTube Channel

Thanks to Rafael Moreno, University of Colorado Denver FOSS4G Lab

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Newsletters (Since Sept 2016)

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• Monthly Newsletter with updates about the Community, Lab of the Month, GeoAmbassador of the Month.
• Thanks to the Editors:
• Nikos Lambrinos (Chief Editor)
• Rizwan Bukbul, Pavel Kikin, Alexey Kolesnikov, Ranya Elsayed, Seraphim Alvanides, Antoni Perez Navaro, Emma Strong, Sergio Acosta y Lara, Codrina Ilie, Nikos Voudrislis

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Conference Committee

2018 RfP was extensively revised

FOSS4G 2018 awarded to Dar es Salaam

Travel Grant Programme run for the 1st time inc crowdfund

2019 RfP (Europe) will start September - need guidance on any changes from Board

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OpenGeoScience Committee

Observation

•Open Science: paradigm change within geosciences, driven by funding organisations

•Core concepts of Open Science (Open Source, Open Data, Open Access) are already crucial to OSGeo

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Vision

•Reach out to science organizations, share OSGeo’s experience

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Mission

•Discussion of all aspects “bridging both worlds”

•Raise awareness for OSGeo within the large geoscience organisations (AGU/EGU), especially for early career scientists

•Foster networking by OSGeo folk at EGU/AGU meetings (EGU: 15.000 people, AGU: 30.000 people)

•Support persons working in both worlds (science and OSGeo project communities) to get due credit

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OpenGeoScience Committee

•Science Union reach out ({E|A}GU)

•Workshops,Townhalls, Reach out @ EGU General Assembly

•AGU events: BOF, meetings ([2012],2018?,..) (tentative)

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•Open_Monitoring_Systems_Working_Group

•open monitoring systems for in-situ earth observations.

•implementing joint programmes to advance the topic

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•Software and Data Citation: persistent identifiers (tentative)

•Open Lunar Science Working Group (tentative)

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Chairs: Peter Löwe & Massimiliano Cannata

Mailing list: opengeoscience@lists.osgeo.org

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Marketing Committee

Booth swap:

• OSGeo at GIS Events
• OSCon
• AAG
• POSTGRESOPEN
• volunteer needed!
• Sep 6-8, San Francisco
• subscribe@postgisopen.org

Chair: Marc Vloemans

• Strategy and Budget
• Reset + Recruit Volunteers

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Website / Rebranding:

• Key focus for 2017
• Jeff Johnson Leading
• Fundraising
• EOI Process

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Incubation Committee

Graduation:

• GeoNode
• ORFEO ToolBox

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Participation in rebranding:

• OSGeo Project Logo
• OSGeo Community Logo
• Motion on Incubation Logo

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Incubating:

• istSOS
• MetaCRS
• Opticks
• PyWPS
• TEAM Engine
• ZOO-Project

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GSoC 2017 Report

• 11th year of OSGeo participation
• This year: 15 students from 10 countries
• 39 mentors
• 3 evaluation phases
• BoF at FOSS4G-Europe

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Thank you!

Welcome to open geospatial

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