The document discusses a new vision for the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). It summarizes OSGeo's history and outlines a new vision, mission, and aspirational objectives for the next ten years that emphasize empowering everyone with open source geospatial technology. It also details a proposed 2016 operational budget and strategic plan focused on showcasing excellence, engaging external partners, and fostering OSGeo's goals. The strategic plan identifies community building and engaging 12 industry verticals as priorities for 2016.

1. A newVision
for OSGeo
Jody Garnett
(Boundless)

2. Introduction
Jody 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

3. Introduction
Helena 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.

4. OSGeo History

5. 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)

6. 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

7. History 3
• Refresh OSGeo with a newVision (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

8. The challenge

9. 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

10. leaders
Jeff McKenna
Frank Warmerdam
Arnulf Christl

11. 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

12. OSGeo Board 2016

13. The next ten years

14. Vision
Empower everyone with open source geospatial

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

16. 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 for
the annual strategic plan

17. Internal Objective
provide resources for foundation projects
• Discussion
• Infrastructure? Do not need to be a Forge / GitHub
• Legal? We reach out for assistance (FSF, Eclipse Foundation)

18. External Objective
foster 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!

19. External Objective
encourage 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)

20. Internal Objective
Ensure 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

21. Quality and Innovation
Encourage 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

22. External Objective
Champion 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)

23. Internal Objective
Enable 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!

24. Internal/External Objective
Champion community building
through horizontal (local chapters) engagement and
through vertical (sector specific) agreements
with like- minded organizations
• Discussion
• Key strategy for our Foundation

25. Internal/External Objectives
Be 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

26. Internal Objective
Celebrate 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)

27. 2016 Strategic Plan

28. 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

29. 2016 Strategic Plan
• strategic objectives
4 things for 2016
• community ecosystem
12 industries/verticals to consider
• actions
reach out to membership for ideas!

30. 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

31. Community Ecosystem
• Users
• Developers
• Business
• Education
• Public Sector
• NGOs
• Research
• Partners

32. Ask for Members for Actions

33. What Next?
• Reach out to committees for actions
• Reminder that operational budget is available
• Please align additional funding requests
with 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

34. Progress

35. New Deal Leadership
Dirk Frigne Helena Mitasova
Venkatesh Raghavan
President
Vice President

36. 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

37. OSGeo Sponsors 2016

38. New Deal Projects
Responsibility Project Community Everyone
Open Source x x x
Participatory x x
Open Community x x
Active/Healthy Community x
Development Process x
Documentation x
Benefit Project Community Everyone
Foundation representation officer via chair
Infrastructure and facilities x x x
Promotion and marketing x x x
Budget and fundraising x x

39. 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

40. New Deal Open Education
• GeoForAll restructured as an OSGeo committee

41. External relationships

42. Like-minded Organizations
• Different relationships for different organizations
(Memorandum of understanding, Membership, Support)
SIGTE

43. GeoForAll

44. 110 Labs - are you next?

45. Internal relationships

46. Projects
OSGeo 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

47. Local Chapters

48. Join the Future
Volunteer with OSGeoToday!

49. Questions