Presented at the FOSSLC Summercamp 2009 at Algonquin College in Ottawa, Canada.

1. Jeff McKenna Gateway Geomatics Living in the FOSS4G Community 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

3. Sponsors

4. Structure

6. (based on http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Open_Source_GIS_History) Open Source Geospatial Timeline 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

8. A non-profit organization

9. Legally registered in Delaware, United States

10. Started in February 2006

11. Today is the leading voice for free geospatial software

12. Similar in operation to the Apache Foundation

13. Everyone is a volunteer, only the Executive Director is employed by the Foundation 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

14. OSGeo's Mission Statement “ To support the development of open source geospatial software, and promote its widespread use.” 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

16. Legal

18. Promote project use in industry

19. Encourage the use of standards

20. Provide a common brand of quality 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

23. Unix/Windows communities 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

25. Operate annual FOSS4G conference

26. Award the Sol Katz award for service to the community 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

27. Sponsors of OSGeo Sustaining sponsors Supporting sponsors Associate sponsors 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

28. OSGeo Structure 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved Board of Directors Executive Director Local Chapters Officers Officers Officers Loc Chapters Foundation Projects Committees

29. OSGeo Projects (part 1) Web mapping Desktop Web mapping In incubation: deegree In incubation: OSSIM, gvSIG 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved Mapbender MapGuide Open MapServer OpenLayers GRASS Quantum GIS

30. OSGeo Projects (part 2) Geospatial libraries Metadata Catalog In incubation: GEOS, metaCRS 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved FDO GDAL GeoTools GeoNetwork

32. Geospatial software

33. Mature software

34. Substantial user community

35. Diverse developer community

36. Support relative standards

37. Links to existing OSGeo projects ( see: http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/evaluation.html) 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

39. Makes sure proposed changes are documented

40. Makes sure changes are followed and adopted

41. Distributes sponsorship funds to developers 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

42. Types of OSGeo Members - Have not registered themselves on osgeo.org site - Have registered themselves on osgeo.org site - Publicly acknowledges their connection to OSGeo - Must be voted in by other Charter members - Have the right to vote in elections of other Charter members and board members 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved Participant Member Charter Member

43. OSGeo Committees 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved Education Website Conference Finance Board Systems Marketing Public geodata Incubation

44. Local Chapters In formation: Africa, Australia & New Zealand, Brazilian, Greek, Finland, Portugal, Taiwan 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved Italy Korea China Germany British Columbia Canada Japan French Language India New Mexico United States Poland Ottawa Canada Quebec Canada Japan Korea Japan Twin Cites United States Spanish Language United Kingdom Cascadia

46. Translate documents, websites, software

47. Provide networking opportunities

48. Provide training and support to local community

49. Promote OSGeo through events 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

51. Principal sponsor: 20,000 USD

52. Supporting sponsor: 10,000 USD

54. Conference sponsorship 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

55. Current Community 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved OSGeo Stack: Source: http://www.ohloh.net/ (2009-05-07) 3397 person years Effort $186,820,158 Replacement Cost 200+ Contributors 15 Projects 12,154,652 Source Lines of Code

56. Source Lines of Code 154,981 Contributors 32 Effort 40 person years Replacement Cost $2,186,828 Source: http://www.ohloh.net/ (2009-05-07) MapServer Numbers 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

57. Source Lines of Code 631,287 Contributors 27 Effort 173 person years Replacement Cost $9,540,746 Source: http://www.ohloh.net/ (2009-05-07) GDAL Numbers 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

58. Source Lines of Code 517,818 Contributors 60 Effort 140 person years Replacement Cost $7,673,493 Source: http://www.ohloh.net/ (2009-05-07) GRASS Numbers 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

59. Source Lines of Code 142,296 Contributors 17 Effort 36 person years Replacement Cost $1,971,363 Source: http://www.ohloh.net/ (2009-05-07) PostGIS Numbers 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

60. Source Lines of Code 68,482 Contributors 12 Effort 17 person years Replacement Cost $910,709 Source: http://www.ohloh.net/ (2009-05-07) OpenLayers Numbers 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

61. Source Lines of Code 517,818 Contributors 60 Effort 140 person years Replacement Cost $7,673,493 Source: http://www.ohloh.net/ (2009-05-07) QGIS Numbers 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

62. Source Lines of Code 3,607,707 Contributors 29 Effort 1054 person years Replacement Cost $57,970,570 Source: http://www.ohloh.net/ (2009-05-07) GeoNetwork Numbers 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

63. Number of users registered in OSGeo email lists. (2009-05-02) 9791 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

64. Number of users registered on the OSGeo Wiki. (2009-05-07) 6,126 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

65. Total pages on the OSGeo Wiki. (2009-05-07) 3,751 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

66. Unique visitors to osgeo.org for the month of April 2009 41,876 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

67. Google hits for “osgeo”. (2009-05-03) 616,000 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

68. OSGIS 2004, Ottawa, Canada In the Beginning... 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

70. Events have been held in Canada, United States, Switzerland, South Africa

71. 2009 will be in Australia, and 2010 in Spain

72. Growth in attendance from ~100 attendees in 2004 to ~1,000 attendees

73. Large corporate sponsors such as ESRI and Google 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

74. Awarded annually by OSGeo to those that have demonstrated leadership in the community 2006 2007 2008 2005 Frank Warmerdam GDAL Markus Neteler GRASS Steve Lime MapServer Paul Ramsey PostGIS, GEOS, uDig Sol Katz Award 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

75. OK, I see it's an active community, but are there companies offering services around OSGeo projects? 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

76. YES! OSGeo operates a service provider directory: http://www.osgeo.org/search_profile 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

78. 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved

79. Questions? Jeff McKenna [email_address] Me with the “neogeographers”, October 2008 2009-05-13 | OSGeo 2009. All rights reserved