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| Abbreviation | OSGeo |
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| Founded | February 4, 2006; 19 years ago (2006-02-04) |
| Founders | Arnulf Christl,Chris Holmes,Gary Lang,Markus Neteler,Frank Warmerdam |
| Founded at | Chicago, US |
| Type | NGO |
| Purpose | Open source geospatial software and data |
Region served | global |
President | Angelos Tzotsos[1] |
| R.O.R. Id | https://ror.org/00cjqbk89 |
| Volunteers | 30000+ |
| Website | www |
TheOpen Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo), is anon-profitnon-governmental organization whose mission is to support and promote the collaborative development of opengeospatialtechnologies and data. The foundation was formed in February 2006 to provide financial, organizational and legal support to the broaderLibre/Free andopen-source geospatial community.[2] It also serves as an independent legal entity to which community members can contribute code, funding and other resources.
OSGeo draws governance inspiration from several aspects of theApache Foundation, including a membership composed of individuals drawn from foundation projects who are selected for membership status based on their active contribution to foundation projects and governance.
The foundation pursues goals beyond software development, such as promoting moreopen access to government produced geospatial data,FAIR_data geodata, and geodata created and maintained by theOpenStreetMap project. Education and training are also addressed. Various committees within the foundation work on implementing strategies.
The OSGeo Foundation is community driven and has an organizational structure consisting of elected members and nine directors, including the president.[1] Software projects have their own governance structure, by requirement.seeFAQ. The OSGeo communitycollaborates via aWiki,Mailing Lists andIRC.
OSGeo projects include:
OSGeo runs an annual international conference calledFOSS4G – Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial. Starting as early as 2006, this event has drawn over 1100 attendees (2017 Boston) and the tendency is to increase this number every year. It is the main meeting place and educational outreach opportunity for OSGeo members, supporters and newcomers - to share and learn from one another in presentations, hands-on workshops and a conference exhibition. The FOSS4G ribbon, part of every FOSS4G event logo, symbolizes the flow of ideas, innovation, and sharing within the Open Source geospatial community. The event history dates back to an important face-to-face meeting of the 3 original founders of the event (Venkatesh Raghavan, Markus Neteler, and Jeff McKenna), who met initially in Bangkok Thailand in 2004, and planned to create a new annual event for the whole Open Source geospatial community, with the event named "FOSS4G"; the event would go on to help change the history of the geospatial industry.
There are also many regional and local events following thisFOSS4G philosophy.[4]
The OSGeo community is composed of participants from everywhere in the world. As of 24 May 2020[update], there were 35,176 unique subscribers to the more than 384 OSGeo mailing lists. As of September 2012[update], OSGeo projects were built upon over 12.7 million lines of code contributed by 657 code submitters including 301 that have contributed within the last 12 months.[5]
TheSol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software (GFOSS) is awarded annually by OSGeo to individuals who have demonstrated leadership in the GFOSS community. Recipients of the award have contributed significantly through their activities to advance open source ideals in the geospatial realm.
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