Presented at FOSS4G 2008 in Osaka, Japan - 2008-11-07

1. Growing the FOSS4G Community Jeff McKenna Gateway Geomatics 2008-11-07 | OSGeo 2008. All rights reserved

3. In the beginning...

4. Current community

5. FOSS4G conferences

6. Local chapter growth

7. Future

8. Challenges 2008-11-07 | OSGeo 2008. All rights reserved

9. “ a body of persons of common and especially professional interests scattered through a larger society” Community? 2008-11-07 | OSGeo 2008. All rights reserved

11. unable to access other resources

12. bored

13. looking for places to travel :)

14. looking for people to have a drink with :)

15. unemployed 2008-11-07 | OSGeo 2008. All rights reserved

17. able to partner with other organizations

18. always busy

19. able to travel :)

20. recognized as a key member of the community 2008-11-07 | OSGeo 2008. All rights reserved

22. MapServer Project Steering Committee member

23. Founding and Charter member of OSGeo

24. Founding co-chair of OSGeo Ottawa local chapter 2008-11-07 | OSGeo 2008. All rights reserved

26. no global organization

27. many projects were immature In the Beginning... 2008-11-07 | OSGeo 2008. All rights reserved

28. OSGIS 2004, Ottawa, Canada Important Events 2008-11-07 | OSGeo 2008. All rights reserved

29. Important Events 2008-11-07 | OSGeo 2008. All rights reserved

30. + = ??? Important Events 2008-11-07 | OSGeo 2008. All rights reserved

32. goal is to promote the use of Open Source geospatial software

33. structure includes Board of Directors, Executive Director, and Committees Important Events 2008-11-07 | OSGeo 2008. All rights reserved

34. Current Community 2008-11-07 | OSGeo 2008. All rights reserved OSGeo Stack: http://www.ohloh.net/stacks/151/report 1474 person years Effort $81,072,382 Replacement Cost 200 Contributors 16 Projects 5,450,649 Source Lines of Code

36. Geospatial

37. Mature

38. Strong user community

39. Substantial and diverse developer community

40. ... Becoming an OSGeo Project 2008-11-07 | OSGeo 2008. All rights reserved http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/evaluation.html

42. 5.2 release in July 2008, with nearly 200 tickets closed

43. 5.4 release in early 2009 The MapServer Project 2008-11-07 | OSGeo 2008. All rights reserved

45. large corporate sponsors (Google, ESRI)

46. 2010 host to be determined by December FOSS4G Conferences 2008-11-07 | OSGeo 2008. All rights reserved

49. locations include Australia-NZ, Germany, Finland, UK, Korea, Spain, Italy, France, Quebec, Japan, India, South Africa, Brazil, Netherlands,.. Local Chapters 2008-11-07 | OSGeo 2008. All rights reserved

51. more reliance on local chapter work

52. possibly a community-based site for OSGeo users

53. FOSS4G2009 in Sydney Australia

54. improved installers for projects What about the Future? 2008-11-07 | OSGeo 2008. All rights reserved

56. “ The documentation is out-of-date”

57. “ I'm new,...”

58. “ When is the next release?” Is the Community Easy to Work With? 2008-11-07 | OSGeo 2008. All rights reserved

60. avoid being NA-centric

61. giving credit to both small and large organizations

62. attracting sponsorship to support the community Challenges 2008-11-07 | OSGeo 2008. All rights reserved

64. documentation

65. testing

66. answering questions on mailing lists What Does the Community Need? 2008-11-07 | OSGeo 2008. All rights reserved

67. 2008-11-05 | OSGeo 2008. All rights reserved Jeff McKenna Gateway Geomatics [email_address] Questions? Shibuya: 2008-11-03