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Arnulf Christl OSGeo President OSGeo Spatially Empowered Open Source Geospatial World Forum 2011 – Hyderabad, India Agenda Free Software Licenses FS Open Source Methodology OS What is OSGeo? FOSS4G Vision and Mission How it works: Formal Structures Local Chapters, Conferences & Fairs OSGeo Live This presentation is available as editable ODP (2.4MB) and PDF (1.1MB) GWF 2011 – Hyderabad, India OSGeo - Spatially Empowered Open Source 2/35 Proprietary Licensing You are not allowed to copy You are not allowed to modify You are not allowed to give away You are not allowed to improve You are not allowed to install You are not allowed to share You are not allowed to... ...today the revival is in the Terms of Services! GWF 2011 – Hyderabad, India OSGeo - Spatially Empowered Open Source 3/35 Free Software Licensing Free Software Licensing Not as in "free beer" but as in free speech You are free to: use it anywhere for any purpose understand and improve it pass it on to anybody else make money by providing training, maintenance and services GWF 2011 – Hyderabad, India OSGeo - Spatially Empowered Open Source 4/35 Free Software Licensing Free Software Licensing Not as in "free beer" but as in free speech You are free to: dd!! use it anywhere for anye purpose teee understand andnn improvet it aa pass it onaa torr anybody else make moneyuu by providing training,GG maintenance and services GWF 2011 – Hyderabad, India OSGeo - Spatially Empowered Open Source 5/35 Free Software Licensing Free Software is a legal licensing model that protects your interests. The opposite is proprietary (or closed) software. The term "commercial software" is a misnomer and misleading because Free Software is not anti-commercial! GWF 2011 – Hyderabad, India OSGeo - Spatially Empowered Open Source 6/35 Copying is not Theft There is a big difference between material theft and digital copying. We have difficulties understanding this because we are material. But our Mind is not entirely material. So we should be able to understand. A great 60 second cartoon by Nina Paley: Copying is not Theft. GWF 2011 – Hyderabad, India OSGeo - Spatially Empowered Open Source 7/35 Open Source Development Open Source is a development model The source code of a software contains all the functionality in a readable format Only source code can be modified End users generally work with the compiled, machine readable version Developers prefer open development models because it is a lot easier to share, debug, reuse, improve, and simply to use it. GWF 2011 – Hyderabad, India OSGeo - Spatially Empowered Open Source 8/35 Open Source Development Proprietary motivation: Make Money Open Source motivation: Solve Problem Market analysis Problem is identified Development team Software development team develops software Goal: Solve problem beta version release for beta tester Publish Code beta tester reports errors to development team Internet as communication pool and distribution media development team reproduces the error Participators find errors and solve the problem development team reports to the product management Improved code is development team solves published on the Web problem after OK from pm new version is released Goal: Sell licenses Product launch GWF 2011 – Hyderabad, India OSGeo - Spatially Empowered Open Source 9/35 The Open Source Paradigm: 1. Publish early! 2. Release often! GWF 2011 – Hyderabad, India OSGeo - Spatially Empowered Open Source 10/35 Open Source Development Summarizing: Open Source is the superior development model The big business has recognized this long ago and provides full Open Source services (IBM). Software vendors adopt Open Source in geospatial including Autodesk, Oracle, esri and many others. Even Microsoft recognizes that Open Source works. GWF 2011 – Hyderabad, India OSGeo - Spatially Empowered Open Source 11/35 Using Open Source? Yes, ¼ but: Anybody can call anything "Open Source" A name does not automagically make better software! GWF 2011 – Hyderabad, India OSGeo - Spatially Empowered Open Source 12/35 UUbbuunnt The largestt uuopenGG IISS source development Knowledge Base site Source codehouse hosts hundredsForge of thousands of software projects Blogs Tweet TThhee SSttaattee ooff OOppeenn SSoouurrccee GGIISS GWF 2011 – Hyderabad, India FFr O reeee pe GGI nS ISS.. ou oorr OSGeo - Spatially Empowered Open Sourcerc gg eG IS .o rg 13/35 Quality Open Source Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org Your Open Source Compass ...organizes spatial IT GWF 2011 – Hyderabad, India OSGeo - Spatially Empowered Open Source 14/35 OSGeo's Mission Support and promote the highest quality Open Source Geospatial Software GWF 2011 – Hyderabad, India OSGeo - Spatially Empowered Open Source 15/35 The OSGeo Foundation OSGeo is a global non-profit organization founded in February 2006 It is the Leading voice for Geospatial Open Source and Free Software The core structure has been gleaned from the Apache Foundation It is based on volunteer work and funded through sponsorship GWF 2011 – Hyderabad, India OSGeo - Spatially Empowered Open Source 16/35 OSGeo's Goals Provide resources for FOSS4G Projects: Infrastructure Legal Financial Promote free spatial data and access Create and promote a free curriculum Promote the use of standards Create and maintain a quality brand GWF 2011 – Hyderabad, India OSGeo - Spatially Empowered Open Source 17/35 OSGeo Activities Support FOSS4G on a global scale Organize outreach and promote FOSS4G Support and build local capacities for conferences, appearance at trade fairs, etc. Facilitate inter-project communication Build a solid market for business cases Interface with industry and business Support the education of domain experts instead of «brand-specialists» GWF 2011 – Hyderabad, India OSGeo - Spatially Empowered Open Source 18/35 Structure Officers Board of Directors Officers Officers Executive Director Local Local Committees Local Local Committees ChaptersLocal ChaptersFoundation Committees Chapters Chapters Chapters Projects Membership GWF 2011 – Hyderabad, India OSGeo - Spatially Empowered Open Source 19/35 Membership Officers Board of directors Officers Officers Executive Director Local Local Committees Local Local Committees ChaptersLocal ChaptersFoundation Committees Chapters Chapters Chapters Projects Membership GWF 2011 – Hyderabad, India OSGeo - Spatially Empowered Open Source 20/35 Membership The most important aspect of OSGeo are people like you Simply participate by joining OSGeo India, local chapter, project, or committee: Collaborate using software, mailing lists, Wiki, bug tracking, repositories, etc. Members work and vote in Committees Charter Members own and control the OSGeo Foundation GWF 2011 – Hyderabad, India OSGeo - Spatially Empowered Open Source 21/35 Local Chapters Officers Board of directors Officers Officers Executive Director Local Local Committees Local Local Committees ChaptersLocal ChaptersFoundation Committees Chapters Chapters Chapters Projects Membership GWF 2011 – Hyderabad, India OSGeo - Spatially Empowered Open Source 22/35 Local Chapters Local Chapters bring OSGeo into the local context They are groups who share OSGeo's goals in a common geographic region or with a common language Some have formed as legal entities like OSGeo India, others are informal GWF 2011 – Hyderabad, India OSGeo - Spatially Empowered Open Source 23/35 Conferences, Trade Fairs Conferences Jornadas SIGTE (Spain) FOSSGIS (Germany) gfoss.it (Italy) Trade Forums OSGIS UK (United Kingdom) Intergeo FOSS4G in Lausanne, Victoria, CeBIT Cape Town, Sydney, Barcelona, GITA and in 2011: Denver Where 2.0 Jornadas SASIG (Portugal) GWF Hyderabad FOSS4G (Japan) GeoWeb ...and many more …many more GWF 2011 – Hyderabad, India OSGeo - Spatially Empowered Open Source 24/35 Committees Officers Board of Directors Officers Officers Executive Director Local Local Committees Local Local Committees ChaptersLocal ChaptersFoundation Committees Chapters Chapters Chapters Projects Membership GWF 2011 – Hyderabad, India OSGeo - Spatially Empowered Open Source 25/35 Committees Incubation Conference Funding Public Marketing Education Geodata System Website Journal Administration GWF 2011 – Hyderabad, India OSGeo - Spatially Empowered Open Source 26/35 Committees Commitees self organize volunteers' work Commitees communicate openly through mailing lists, IRC meetings, etc. Everything is documented in the OSGeo Wiki All are welcome to join a committee and to actively participate in all processes GWF 2011 – Hyderabad, India OSGeo - Spatially Empowered Open Source 27/35 Committees Incubation Conference Funding Public Marketing Education Geodata System Web Journal Administration GWF 2011 – Hyderabad, India OSGeo - Spatially Empowered Open Source 28/35 Incubation Committee The OSGeo incubator is lead by a group of independent developers Projects go through the official incubation process to assure highest quality To graduate from incubation projects needs to abide by the Open Source rules of OSGeo GWF 2011 – Hyderabad, India OSGeo - Spatially Empowered Open Source 29/35 Foundation Projects Officers Board of Directors Officers Officers Executive Director Local Local Committees Local Local Committees ChaptersLocal ChaptersFoundation Committees Chapters Chapters Chapters Projects Membership GWF 2011 – Hyderabad, India OSGeo - Spatially Empowered Open Source 30/35 OSGeo Projects '09 UMN Quantum Mapbender OSSIM Mapserver GIS GRASS Map Guide gvSIG MapBuilder GIS OS desktop GIS