a new vision for osgeo

A new Visionfor OSGeo

Jody Garnett(Boundless)

IntroductionJody Garnett Community Lead jgarnett@boundlessgeo.com @jodygarnett

Open Source Geospatial Foundation Board Member OSGeo Incubation Chair GeoTools Project Officer

Eclipse Foundation LocationTech Project Steering Committee LocationTech Technology Project

Boundless Boundless provides geospatial tools and services for managing data and building applications.

Open Source Projects GeoTools GeoServer uDig

IntroductionHelena Mitasova Professor at the Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and the Center for Geospatial Analytics

Open Source Geospatial Foundation Vice-President GeoForAll Recipient of Sol Katz Award

North Carolina State University

Bio GRASS GIS development since 1991 and co-authored the first book on GRASS. Editorial boards for Geomorphology, Computers and Geosciences and Transactions in GIS and has published over 80 publications demonstrating applications of GRASS GIS. She has researched methods for terrain analysis, geospatial modeling and visualization. She received her PhD from the Slovak Technical University, Bratislava, Slovakia.

OSGeo History

History 1• Formed in 2006

• Loosely based on Apache Model (because they are Amazing)

• Great focus on users and community

• How it works

• Officers: President, Treasure, Secretary

• Board of Directors

• Director - single employee to do a lot of the things

• Money - Sponsor based (helping provide that single employee)

History 2• Restructured in 2013

• Adjust for reality of less sponsorship

• Pause in financing as we sorted out not-for-profit / non-profit status

• How it works

• Officers: President, Treasure, Secretary

• Board of Directors

• Approach: volunteer focused

• Money: Low-capital

History 3• Refresh OSGeo with a new Vision (this talk)

• Some great (harsh) feedback from our membership

• Finances healthy enough to back our volunteers with resources

• How it works

• Officers: President, Treasure, Secretary

• Board of Directors

• Approach: Volunteer led initiatives

• Money: Sponsorship to enable community excellence

The challenge

osgeo-discuss• OSGeo is transparent - resulting in rather honest feedback

• OSGeo lacks "leadership"

• Shout out to Darrell Fuhriman - Thanks!

• Rated objectives according to progress

• Many objectives could not be measured

• Out of date with current fashions.(Projects no longer ask for hosting)

• Volunteers have not shown interest in pursuing all goals (to promote freely available geodata)

Darrell Fuhriman

leaders

Jeff McKenna

Frank Warmerdam

Arnulf Christl

Board Face to Face meeting• Meeting in January, in part to address this challenge

• define new leadership

• revised vision and mission

• defined aspirational objectives

• for the next ten years

• strategic objectives

• measurable objectives for yearly strategic plan

OSGeo Board 2016

The next ten years

VisionEmpower everyone with open source geospatial

MissionFoster global adoption of open geospatial technology by being an inclusive software foundation devoted to an open philosophy and participatory community driven development.

Aspirational Objectives• Foundation objectives revised to match what we do today

and more importantly who we want to be tomorrow

• These are not intended to be measurable (if they are we did it wrong)

• Measurable "strategic objectives" are saved forthe annual strategic plan

Internal Objectiveprovide resources for foundation projects

• Discussion

• Infrastructure? Do not need to be a Forge / GitHub

• Legal? We reach out for assistance (FSF, Eclipse Foundation)

External Objectivefoster the use of open source geospatial software

• Discussion

• because really this is what it is all about

• there are so many opportunities for us to make the world better!

External Objectiveencourage interoperability with open and community standards

• Discussion

• Formal relationship with Open Geospatial Consortium

• This was extended from previous focus on Open Standards (because we love the can-do community standards like GeoGSON)

• Remain strongly committed to open standards(key enabler of our community)

Internal ObjectiveEnsure interoperability between

the foundation projects

• Discussion

• This is strongly worded! Hard to accomplish with volunteers

• But we do expect OSGeo projects to work together(kind of embarrassing if they could not)

• Many projects cross-test as part of release process (!)

• OSGeo LIVE helps keeps everyone honest

Quality and InnovationEncourage a high degree of quality and innovation

in foundation projects

• Discussion

• OSGeo Incubation really focuses on quality (risk adverse)

• Need a new approach if we want to focus on innovation

External ObjectiveChampion the use of open-source and community participation through the development of an open

education curriculum

• Discussion

• a real passion of our community, and a real need in the academic world

• pursuing this with GeoForAll initiative showing amazing progress

• (pervious objective focused just on open education)

Internal ObjectiveEnable communication and cooperation

amongst OSGeo communities

• Discussion

• We have so much enthusiasm and ideas,join forces and accomplish more

• don't code it alone - join OSGeo!

Internal/External ObjectiveChampion community building

through horizontal (local chapters) engagement and through vertical (sector specific) agreements

with like- minded organizations

• Discussion

• Key strategy for our Foundation

Internal/External ObjectivesBe a welcoming and inclusive worldwide

organization at all levels

• Discussion

• OSGeo is a volunteer organization - we are made of people

• Challenges code of conduct

• Diversity

Internal ObjectiveCelebrate excellence, openness and service

within the OSGeo community.

• Discuss

• We have amazing people and need to thank them early and often

• (helping is the most sincere form of thanks)

2016 Strategic Plan

Operational Budget 2016

1. Admin 9000 admin and overhead

2. Insurance 3200

3. SAC 12800 infrastructure and online presense

4. Outreach 15000 marketting committee

5. Travel 15000 travel / interaction with external parties

6. Events 20000 OSGeo internal / external events

Total 75,000 This is a 50k increase from last year

2016 Strategic Plan• strategic objectives

4 things for 2016

• community ecosystem12 industries/verticals to consider

• actionsreach out to membership for ideas!

Strategic Objectives

SO1

showcasing excellence

in our communities

SO2

proactively engage with

external partners

SO3

fostering our mission, vision

and goals

SO4

empowering our

communities and extending

our reach

Community Ecosystem • Users

• Developers

• Business

• Education

• Public Sector

• NGOs

• Research

• Partners

Ask for Members for Actions

What Next?• Reach out to committees for actions

• Reminder that operational budget is available

• Please align additional funding requestswith strategic objectives

• Signs of Success - committees can work better with funding

• System admin committee put a time and materials contract in place allowing OSGeo to pay for day-to-day activities

• GeoTools PMC secured legal advice on headers

Progress

New Deal Leadership

Dirk Frigne Helena Mitasova

Venkatesh Raghavan

President

Vice President

New Deal Sponsors• total sponsorship across OSGeo activities, projects, events

• discounts for prior sponsors

• discounts for low-middle income economies

Platinum 20000 15000

Gold 10000 7500

Silver 3000 2250

Bronze 500 375

OSGeo Sponsors 2016

New Deal ProjectsResponsibility Project Community Everyone

Open Source x x xParticipatory x xOpen Community x xActive/Healthy Community xDevelopment Process xDocumentation x

Benefit Project Community EveryoneFoundation representation officer via chairInfrastructure and facilities x x xPromotion and marketing x x xBudget and fundraising x x

New deal for Providers• Recognize those who employee our developer community

• service providers, product providers

• QGIS, MapServer, GeoServer rank providers based on responsibility and participation

New Deal Open Education• GeoForAll restructured as an OSGeo committee

External relationships

Like-minded Organizations• Different relationships for different organizations

(Memorandum of understanding, Membership, Support)

SIGTE

GeoForAll

110 Labs - are you next?

Internal relationships

ProjectsOSGeo Projects Incubation

Web Mapping deegree geomajas GeoMOOSE GeoServer Mapbender MapBuilder MapFish MapGuide Open Source MapServer OpenLayers

Desktop Applications GRASS GIS gvSIG Marble QGIS

Metadata Catalogs GeoNetwork pycsw

Geospatial Libraries FDO GDAL/OGR GEOS GeoTools OSSIM PostGIS

Outreach Projects OSGeo Live

Web Mapping istSOS PyWPS Team Engine ZOO-Project

Desktop Applications Opticks

Geospatial Libraries MetaCRS Orfeo ToolBox (OTB)

Content Management Systems GeoNode

Local Chapters

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