OSGeo - User contributions [en]

User:Arnulf

2023-10-19T13:40:23Z

Arnulf: Redirected page to Arnulf Christl

#redirect [[Arnulf_Christl]]

User:Seven

2020-05-23T07:48:46Z

Arnulf: location updated

{{OSGeo Member
|Name=Arnulf Christl
|Address=Innsbruck, Austria
|Coordinate=47.2696, 11.3997
}}

Arnulf Christl

2020-05-23T07:46:30Z

Arnulf: updated

[[Image:Arnulf_Christl.jpg|thumb|right|320px|Arnulf on a bright black and white day]]

Arnulf Christl is a Geospatial Systems Architect, founding and [http://www.osgeo.org/charter_members Charter Member] of OSGeo, served on the [[Board of Directors]] from 2006 to 2012 and was the OSGeo president from 2008 to 2012. He is honored to have been elected to the list of [[OSGeo Spanish Charter Members]]. He contributes to the [[Incubation Committee]], [[SAC]] and the [[Conference Committee]].

== Tasks in OSGeo ==
* Incubation Mentor for:
** [[GRASS Incubation Progress | GRASS]] (successfully graduated)
** [[PostGIS]] (successfully graduated)
** [[Marble]] (successfully graduated)
** helped with the [[GeoTools Incubation Progress]] (successfully graduated)
* Point of Contact for [[GLTN]]
* Help maintain a bridge between [[OGC]] and [[OSGeo]]
* Initiator of the [[MOU_ICA | Memorandum of Understanding with the ICA]] now home of the [[GeoForAll]] initiative.
* [[Chief Returning Officer]] for OSGeo elections in 2012 and 2013
* SysOp of this Wiki ([http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers&group=sysop see all])
* [[SAC:Primary Administrators | Low key admin]] for parts of the OSGeo infrastructure
* The [[User:Seven | Assimilator]]

== Contact ==
Arnulf lives in Innsbruck, Austria. His work address is:
: Metaspatial
: Arnulf Christl
: Schartenweg 11
: 94169 Tharpaling
: Germany

: Foundation contact mailto:arnulf@osgeo.org
: For business inquiries please see [https://www.metaspatial.com Metaspatial]
: [https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?whereami=1&query=48.80580%2C13.29864#map=16/48.8058/13.2988 Show on OpenStreetMap]

; UTC (GMT) offset
: Standard time zone: UTC +2 (Germany)

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[[Category:OSGeo Member]]
[[Category:Incubation Committee]]
[[Category:OSGeo Charter Member]]
[[Category:OSGeo-es-MDV Member]]
[[Category:OSGeo-es Member]]
[[Category:Former OSGeo Director]]
[[Category:Sol Katz Awardee]]

User:Arnulf Christl

2020-05-23T07:23:28Z

Arnulf:

{{OSGeo Member
|Name=Arnulf Christl
|Address=Tharpaling, Germany
|Coordinate=48.8058, 13.29864
}}

Oskari Incubation Status

2019-10-09T08:43:47Z

Arnulf: /* Community Functioning */

==General==

#'''Has the project been approved for incubation by the OSGeo board?'''
Yes. The project passed the incubation motion on 23 April 2017 and was approved and confirmed by the Board of Directors in May (see [[Board Meeting 2017-05-11]]).
#'''Has an Incubation Mentor been assigned to the project?'''
Yes. [[Arnulf Christl]] volunteered as mentor.

== Infrastructure Transition ==

#'''Is the OSGeo bug tracker being used for the project? If not, why? Is the OSGeo mailing list manager (http://lists.osgeo.org/) being used for the project? If not, why?'''
No. An existing bug tracker is being used by the project: https://github.com/oskariorg/
#'''Is the OSGeo SVN being used for the project? If not, why?'''
No. An existing version control system is being used for the project: https://github.com/oskariorg/oskari-docs/issues
#'''Are binary and source downloads available from http://download.osgeo.org ? If not, why?'''
No. Downloads are available from the existing web site: http://oskari.org/download If OSGeo provides for a root directory http://oskari.osgeo.org the team would be happy to maintain a download link on that site.

== Community Functioning ==

#'''Is there a functioning user support mechanisms (ie. mailing list)?'''
The project currently provides support through a [https://oskari.slack.com/ Slack channel] with 188 registered users. Oskari is also starting to use the OSGeo Mailing list https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/oskari-user.

#'''Are source and binary downloads for the package available?'''
Downloads are available from the existing web site: http://oskari.org/download

#'''Has a Project Steering Committee been formed, and given control of the project?'''
Yes: https://github.com/oskariorg/oskari-docs/wiki/Project-Steering-Committee

#'''Does the Project Steering Committee have documentation on project procedures for PSC decisions, contributor guidelines?'''
Yes: https://github.com/oskariorg/oskari-docs/wiki/Project-Steering-Committee See also: https://gitter.im/oskariorg/psc

#'''How many active developers are there? Are they from multiple organizations? Indicate number and some organizations involved.'''
There are more than ten active developers from multiple organizations, both from the public and private sectors. Examples of organizations are National Land Survey of Finland, Natural Resources Institute Finland, Dimenteq Ltd, CGI Finland Ltd.

Find more details at https://github.com/oskariorg/oskari-server/graphs/contributors and https://verkosto.oskari.org/en/community-2/ (organizational members)

==Foundation Membership==
#'''Have project documents been updated to reflect membership in the foundation, and the relationship of the project to the foundation? If not, indicate when this will occur.'''
The project documentation has not yet been modified. It was assumed that this can only happen after graduation as to avoid confusion about the official status.

#'''Has an effort been made to brand the project web site with OSGeo foundation web styling and branding marks? If not, indicate what is planned.'''
Yes. The OSGeo incubation logo has been added to oskari.org front page and it links to this document.

==License==
https://github.com/oskariorg/oskari-docs/blob/master/LICENSE.md

==Code Copyright Review==
#'''Has a Code Provenance Review document been prepared for the project?'''
* All code has been developed by the registered developers listed on github who have signed the CLA. All external libraries have project compatible licenses. The project has been started as a regular Open Source project following the guidelines as set out by OSGeo. A file-per-file code review was therefore deemed superfluous.

#'''Have issues raised in the provenance review been adequately addressed? Indicate outstanding issues.'''
* Currently no outstanding issues.

#'''Are Committer Responsibilities Guidelines covering legal issues in place?'''
* http://www.oskari.org/documentation/development/how-to-contribute
* https://github.com/oskariorg/oskari-docs/blob/master/documents/CLA.txt

[[Category:Incubation]]

Contact

2019-05-28T15:54:11Z

Arnulf: linked to official web site fixed, minor edits

Please go to the official [https://www.osgeo.org/about/contact/ OSGeo Contacts] page for more information. The [https://www.osgeo.org/about/faq/ OSGeo FAQ] is good starting point to learn more about the organization itself.

OSGeo is broadly inclusive and diverse. Therefore it is impossible to provide one point of contact for all kinds of requests. One good place to start getting into contact with people inside the OSGeo Foundation are the [https://www.osgeo.org/about/faq/osgeo-mailing-lists/ Mailing Lists]. If you roughly know where you want to go, especially if you are looking for a specific software community or Local Chapter then the [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo OSGeo Lists Server] may be a easy way in.

OSGeo:About

2019-05-28T15:44:59Z

Arnulf:

'''The Open Source Geospatial Foundation, or OSGeo, is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to support the collaborative development of open source geospatial software, and promote its widespread use.'''

This is the community Wiki of OSGeo. Please refer to the official web site at http://www.osgeo.org/ for stable documents and policies.

This Wiki is the place where documents can be created collaboratively (ie. adoption processes, user hints, suggestions, committee notes, etc.). All web pages that are adopted as official documents are managed using SVN and will be published on the [http://www.osgeo.org OSGeo web site] which is is the only official site for documents.

* [https://www.osgeo.org/about/contact/ Contact]
* [https://www.osgeo.org/wp-content/uploads/osgeo_certificate.pdf Certificate of Incorporation]

OSGeo:About

2019-05-28T15:44:45Z

Arnulf: updated contact link and OSGeo Certificate of Incorporation

'''The Open Source Geospatial Foundation, or OSGeo, is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to support the collaborative development of open source geospatial software, and promote its widespread use.'''

This is the community Wiki of OSGeo. Please refer to the official web site at http://www.osgeo.org/ for stable documents and policies.

This Wiki is the place where documents can be created collaboratively (ie. adoption processes, user hints, suggestions, committee notes, etc.). All web pages that are adopted as official documents are managed using SVN and will be published on the [http://www.osgeo.org OSGeo web site] which is is the only official site for documents.

* [https://www.osgeo.org/about/contact/ Contact]]
* [https://www.osgeo.org/wp-content/uploads/osgeo_certificate.pdf Certificate of Incorporation]

User:Arnulf Christl

2019-01-17T11:16:17Z

Arnulf: contact information updated

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|JobTitle=Director
|Company=Metaspatial
|Address=Gutenbergstraße
|Country=Austria
|State=Tyrol
|City=Innsbruck
|Coordinate=47.27742 11.40627
|LocalChapter=FOSSGIS
|Email=arnulf.christl(æ)metaspatial.net
|Phone=+49 172 2958 004 or +43 670 2085788
|Website=http://metaspatial.net/
|Photo=Arnulf-christl suited.jpg
|Languages=German; English; Spanish;
|Info=Agile Coach with expertize in software architecture, Open Source and geospatial software. Currently building and managing agile teams at Telekom AG and providing SDI consultancy for the Computing Center of Minden Ravensberg Lippe (KRZ).
}}
{{OSGeo Experience
|User=Yes
|Committee=Yes
|Board=No
|Coder=No
|Translate=No
|PSC=No
|ExBoard=Yes
|Charter=Yes
|Chair=No
|SolKatz=Yes
|Committer=No
}}
=== [[Arnulf Christl]] ===

[[File:Arnulf-christl suited.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Arnulf Christl in Norway 2014]]

Director, [http://www.metaspatial.net Metaspatial]

Location: Innsbruck, Austria [http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=47.277&lon=11.406&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF (show on OpenStreetMap)]

Arnulf Christl is [http://arnulf.us/Geospatial_Systems_Architect Geospatial Systems Architect], founding and [http://www.osgeo.org/charter_members Charter Member] of OSGeo, served on the [[Board of Directors]] from 2006 to 2012 and was OSGeo president from 2008 to 2012. He contributes to the [[Incubation Committee]]. Arnulf is a versed speaker and keynoter at conferences, gives workshops and moderates panels. He is knowledgeable in OSGeo technology, agile development, [[Open Source]] methodology, [[:Category:Advocacy | data licensing]] and [[OpenStreetMap]]. Read [[Arnulf Christl | more....]]

; OSGeo Experience [[File:OSGeo_exboard.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Board_Members]] [[File:OSGeo_charter.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Charter_Members]] [[File:OSGeo_committee.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#Developers_and_Committee_Members]] [[File:OSGeo_user.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Community_Members]][[File:SolKatz.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#Sol_Katz_Award]]
:
* Represents OSGeo at conferences, trade shows and [http://arnulf.us/Seven:Current_events events].
* Pursues [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Category:Advocacy FOSS advocacy]
* Develops and promotes FOSSGIS [[Business]] Models
* Helps to build and maintain a bridge between [[OSGeo]] and [[OGC]]
* SysOp of the OSGeo Wiki ([http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers&group=sysop see all])
* [[Chief Returning Officer]] for the [[:Category:Elections | OSGeo Elections]] in 2012 and 2013
* [[Conference Committee]] election facilitator 2018

; Contact
: Email: arnulf(æ)osgeo.org. For business inquiries please contact arnulf.christl(æ)metaspatial.net
: Phone: +49 172 2958 004
: IRC: seven

; Spoken Languages: German (Muttersprache), English (fluent), Spanish (suficiente)

; Profile last updated: 2015-06-24

[[Category:OSGeo Advocate]]

Arnulf Christl

2019-01-17T10:47:09Z

Arnulf: /* Contact */ updated

[[Image:Arnulf_Christl.jpg|thumb|right|320px|Arnulf on a bright black and white day]]

Arnulf Christl is a [http://arnulf.us/Geospatial_Systems_Architect Geospatial Systems Architect], founding and [http://www.osgeo.org/charter_members Charter Member] of OSGeo, served on the [[Board of Directors]] from 2006 to 2012 and was the OSGeo president from 2008 to 2012; as such Arnulf is the president emeritus of OSGeo. He is honored to have been elected to the list of [[OSGeo Spanish Charter Members]]. He contributes to the [[Incubation Committee]], [[SAC]] and the [[Conference Committee]]. He is a lurker on the [[Public Geospatial Data Committee]] and avid advocate for [http://metaspatial.net/conferences/gwf2013_opendata.html Open Data], the Linked Open Data idea and geospatial semantics on the Web in general.

Find [http://arnulf.us/Category:Bio Arnulf's CV] and lots more about what he does on his [http://arnulf.us private web site].

== Tasks in OSGeo ==
* Incubation Mentor for:
** [[GRASS Incubation Progress | GRASS]] (successfully graduated)
** [[PostGIS]] (successfully graduated)
** [[Marble]] (successfully graduated)
** helped with the [[GeoTools Incubation Progress]] (successfully graduated)
* He represents OSGeo at conferences, trade shows and events, as President Emeritus. Check out his current [http://arnulf.us/Events Events] list. [http://www.metaspatial.net/en/contact Contact Arnulf] to talk at your event.
* Point of Contact for [[GLTN]]
* Help maintain a bridge between [[OGC]] and [[OSGeo]]
* Initiator of the [[MOU_ICA | Memorandum of Understanding with the ICA]] now home of the [[GeoForAll]] initiative.
* [[Chief Returning Officer]] for OSGeo elections in 2012 and 2013
* SysOp of this Wiki ([http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers&group=sysop see all])
* [[SAC:Primary Administrators | Low key admin]] for parts of the OSGeo infrastructure
* The [[User:Seven | Assimilator]]

== Contact ==
Arnulf is either in Innsbruck, Austria or at work in Bonn, Germany or [http://arnulf.us/Seven:Current_events here].

: Foundation contact mailto:arnulf@osgeo.org
: For business inquiries please [http://www.metaspatial.net/en/contact contact Metaspatial]
: Private [http://arnulf.us/ Web] & [http://arnulf.us/sevendipity/ Blog] & [http://twitter.com/sevenspatial Twitter]
; Base location
: 47.27742N 11.40627E
: Innsbruck, Austria
: [http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=47.2774&lon=11.4062&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF Show on OpenStreetMap]

; UTC (GMT) offset
: Standard time zone: UTC +2 (Germany)

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[[Category:OSGeo Member]]
[[Category:Incubation Committee]]
[[Category:OSGeo Charter Member]]
[[Category:OSGeo-es-MDV Member]]
[[Category:OSGeo-es Member]]
[[Category:Former OSGeo Director]]
[[Category:Sol Katz Awardee]]

All Members

2019-01-17T10:21:16Z

Arnulf: Removed protection from "All Members": write protection removed on user request because some private information is outdated

'''''This page is deprecated. Please add the <nowiki>[[Category:OSGeo Member]]</nowiki> to your user page if you consider yourself an [http://www.osgeo.org/membership OSGeo Member]. Read the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:OSGeo_Member details on how to add yourself as an OSGeo Member].'''''

{| border="1" class="wikitable" style="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse;"
! style="background:#efefef;" | Name
! style="background:#ffdead;" | Affiliations
! style="background:#efefef;" | OSGeo Projects
! style="background:#ffdead;" | Location
! style="background:#efefef;" | About
|-
| Add yourself
| Everyone is welcome
| In which OSGeo Projects and Committees are you involved
| Input your latitude and longitude here (and watch out for [[Axis Order Confusion]])
| Copy and paste this entry, put it last, and add your information
|-
| Bobby H. Braswell
| Complex Systems Research Center
| OpenLayers, MapServer, and GDAL/OGR user
| (43.056, -70.775)
| I am a researcher at the University of New Hampshire, USA
|-
| Chris Holmes
| [http://topp.openplans.org The Open Planning Project], [http://geoserver.org GeoServer]
| [http://incubator.osgeo.org Incubator], [http://board.osgeo.org Board], [http://geotools.org GeoTools]
| (40.72,-74.00)
| I come from the Java side of the OSGeo fence, getting my start in GeoServer, where I was lead developer for a couple years, and GeoTools, where I still serve on the PMC. My time is made possible by [http://topp.openplans.org The Open Planning Project (TOPP)], a great non-profit in New York that has been the lead supporter of GeoServer for years now. I spent the last year in Zambia on a Fulbright Scholarship, looking at the potential for open source software to help implement spatial data infrastructures in developing countries. It was a bit of a failure, but I learned a ton, and I see a lot of potential for open source in developing countries, towards truly open spatial data infrastructures. I'm back at TOPP, in a new role as VP of Strategic Development, helping to grow the organization, and figuring out how to make our geospatial stuff self sustaining. Once that's rolling, I hope to reinvest extra revenue in to figuring out and building a truly open geospatial web. And just like apache and linux are the bedrock that the World Wide Web rests on, so too do I believe that the geospatial web necessarily must be built on a foundation of OS Geo software. My continuing thoughts on all of this can be found at http://cholmes.wordpress.com
|-
| Michael P. Gerlek
| [http://www.lizardtech.com LizardTech]
| [http://visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org Promotion and Visibility Committee] (chair)
| (47.673166,-122.530143)
| Manager of LizardTech's Engineering department, where we do MrSID and JPEG 2000 stuff and play with with the next generation of technologies for supporting raster data GIS workflows. No, our products are not open source -- but we do very much support and use open source and open standards. (I think there is room in the world for both the open and closed development models, and I have a strong interest in helping "closed" companies understand the value of, and contribute to, the open software world.) [[User:mpg]]
|-
| Frank Warmerdam
| Independent
| [http://www.gdal.org GDAL/OGR], [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu MapServer], [http://incubator.osgeo.org Incubator], [http://board.osgeo.org Board]
| (45.45,-77.25)
| Lead developer of GDAL/OGR and freelance geospatial software developer.
|-
| Jason Birch
| [http://www.nanaimo.ca/ City of Nanaimo]
| [http://webcommittee.osgeo.org Web Site], [http://visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org Promotion & Visibility]
| (49.155, -124.005)
| I am a long-time GIS/IT/'Net junkie, and am currently working for the City of Nanaimo's IT department as a Sr. Applications Analyst (GIS Specialist). I am excited about what I see happening in the open source geospatial world, with OSGeo as a catalyst. [[User:Jasonbirch]]
|-
|Howard Butler
| [http://www.hobu.biz/ Hobu, Inc]
| [http://webcommittee.osgeo.org Web Site Committee],
| (42.00, -93.00)
| MapServer hacker, MTSC member. GDAL hacker. ESRI ArcSDE hack. Purveyor of Windows binary builds [[User:hobu]]
|-
| Markus Neteler
| [http://mpa.itc.it ITC-irst], [http://www.cealp.it CEA], [http://www.gdf-hannover.de GDF Hannover]
| [http://grass.itc.it GRASS GIS], [http://board.osgeo.org Board], [http://geodata.osgeo.org Public Geodata Com.], [http://edu.osgeo.org Education Com.], [http://visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org Promotion & Visibility Com.]
| (46.06714, 11.15113)
| Developer of GRASS GIS, researcher at ITC-irst + CEA, Trento, Italy and co-founder of GDF Hannover [[User:neteler]]
|-
| R. Paul Warriner
| [http://www.orchardparkny.org/ Town of Orchard Park]
| [http://fundraising.osgeo.org Fundraising Committee], [http://webcommittee.osgeo.org Web Site Committee]
| (43.17, -78.69)
| Network Coordinator, old oil field hand (really, I do know what a christmas tree is).
[[User:RPaulW]]
|-
|Bart van den Eijnden
| [http://www.osgis.nl/ OSGIS]
| [http://chameleon.maptools.org Chameleon],
| (52.0768396070808, 5.12454)
| Freelancer working with several open source GIS tools, mainly Chameleon, Mapserver and Geoserver.
[[User:bartvde]]
|-
|Simone Giannecchini
| [http://simboss.wordpress.com/ blog] ,[http://www.geo-solutions.it GeoSolutions]
| [http://geoserver.org GeoServer], [http://http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Home GeoTools]
| (gotta look for it :-))
| I have been working as a freelance consultant in the GIS and Image Processing field since early 2004, mainly in scientific and military environment. I am PMC member of [http://http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Home GeoTools] and active developer of [http://geoserver.org GeoServer]. I am also providing some patches for the [https://jai.dev.java.net/ JAI] and [https://jai-imageio.dev.java.net/ ImageIO] SUN libraries for image processing in Java.

I am a big GDAL fan, I have been involved in the last year in an effort for putting GDAL behind ImageIO
for widening the number of supported formats. The goal is to make this formats avalaible through GeoTools to the GeoServer. If you are interested in supporting or joining this effort, please, drop me a few lines at simone.giannecchini-at-geo-solutions.it or simboss1-at-gmail.com
[[User:simboss]]
|-
| Helena Mitasova
| [http://skagit.meas.ncsu.edu/~helena/ North Carolina State University]
| [http://grass.itc.it GRASS GIS], [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Core_Curriculum_Project Curriculum project]
| (35.77, -78.69)
| Researcher at NCSU (geospatial technology, environmental modeling, sustainable development), Developer of GRASS GIS. [[User:Helena]]
|-
| Daniel Morissette
| [http://www.mapgears.com/ Mapgears]
| [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/ MapServer], [http://www.gdal.org GDAL/OGR]
| (48.42, -71.04)
| Involved in MapServer, GDAL/OGR and most [http://maptools.org/ MapTools.org] projects, mostly around webmapping and data access and distribution. [[User:dmorissette]]
|-
| Tamas Szekeres
| [http://www.hmeirt.hu/ MoD ED Co.]
| [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/ MapServer]
| (47.56, 19.08)
| M.Sc.El.Engineer, Head of Development Department, GPS Division , MapServer contributor/hacker, mapscript C# maintainer, involved in various WEB mapping and desktop applications, GPS navigation and tracking systems. [[User:szekerest]]
|-
| Ari Jolma
| [http://users.tkk.fi/~jolma/index.html TKK]
| [http://www.gdal.org GDAL/OGR], [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Core_Curriculum_Project Curriculum project]
| (60° 16' , 24° 47' 4'')
| Professor at TKK, Finland (geoinformatics, environmental information systems, water resources systems), [http://map.hut.fi/PerlForGeoinformatics/ just another Perl hacker] [[User:ajolma]]
|-
| Jeff McKenna
| [http://www.dmsolutions.ca DM Solutions Group]
| [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/ MapServer]
| (45.401397610, -75.725861625)
| MapServer documentation, [http://www.maptools/ms4w MS4W] maintainer, [http://www.maptools.org maptools] co-maintainer. [[User:jmckenna]]
|-
| Ian Turton
| [http://www.geovista.psu.edu/members/turton/index.html work][http://pennspace.blogspot.com/ blog]
| [http://www.geotools.org GeoTools]
| (40.7932, -77.847)
| [http://www.geotools.org GeoTools] founder and developer, [http://www.geovistastudio.psu.edu GeoVistaStudio] benevolent dictator, [http://geoserver.org GeoServer] user. [[User:ianturton]]
|-
| David Blasby
| [http://topp.openplans.org The Open Planning Project], [http://geoserver.org GeoServer], [http://geotools.org GeoTools]
| [http://geotools.org GeoTools]
| (varies)
| Currently, I'm the Project Lead for Geoserver and am on the GeoTools Project Management Committee. I'm just starting a GeoWiki (Public Participation GIS) (please contact me if you're interested). I was the orginal creator of PostGIS, and have contributed to several OS GIS projects, including JTS, JUMP, and Mapserver.
|-
| Andrey Kiselev
| "Radar" R&D Centre (Russia)
| GDAL/OGR
| (60.04,30.33)
| Freelance developer and contributor to GDAL/OGR project.
|-
| Helton Uchoa
| [http://www.geolivre.org.br Geolivre Community], [http://www.open3dgis.org Open 3D GIS Project]
| [http://webcommittee.osgeo.org Web Site Committee] and [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Public_Geospatial_Data_Project Public Geospatial Data Project]
| (-22.96, -43.11)
| I'm a Geomatics Enginner and I work at [http://www.opengeo.com.br OpenGEO Company] as a GIS Specialist. I'm responsible for many GIS projects using FOSS and the OpenGIS Specifications in Brazil and I have some relevant papers and scientific articles presented in Brazilian and Latin-American conferences and published in scientific magazines. In last year, I have helped, as a teacher, introduce the GNU/FSF philosophy at the Transportation Engineering Department of IME ([http://www.ime.eb.br Military Institute of Engineering - IME], Brazil). I have worked in Geolivre Rio 2004 and 2005 as member of organization commitee. Now I'm working in [http://www.geolivre.org Geolivre Conference 2007]. [[User:Uchoa]]
|-
| Toru Mori
| [http://www.orkney.co.jp/english Orkney, Inc.]
| [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/ MapServer], [http://grass.itc.it GRASS GIS]
| (35.448, 139.642)
| President of Orkney, Inc. Advocate of Open Geospatial tools in Japan and Asia. Promote open geospatial data. [[User:moritoru]]
|-
| Allan Doyle
| [http://www.eogeo.org EOGEO],[http://museum.mit.edu/cmp MIT Museum],[http://spg.gsfc.nasa.gov/ NASA Earth Science Data Systems Standards Process Group]
| [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Public_Geospatial_Data_Project Public Geospatial Data Project]
| (42.28, -71.24)
| President of [http://www.eogeo.org EOGEO] and [http://www.intl-interfaces.com International Interfaces], long-time geo-interoperability interests, opensourced (is that a verb?) [http://openmap.bbn.com OpenMap], originator of OGC testbed idea, Web Mapping Testbed, WMS spec editor, worked on WMS Context, [http://www.georss.org GeoRSS]. [http://www.eogeo.org/Members/adoyle more details]. [http://think.random-stuff.org Blog][[User:adoyle]]
|-
| Ned Horning
| [http://cbc.amnh.org/ Center for Biodiversity and Conservation], [http://www.amnh.org/ American Museum of Natural History]
| [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Core_Curriculum_Project Curriculum project]
|(43.9933, -73.0407)
|Program manager for [http://geospatial.amnh.org/ remote sensing/GIS]. Promoter of open source geospatial tools in the global conservation community.
|-
| Paul Spencer
| [http://www.dmsolutions.ca DM Solutions Group]
| [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/ MapServer], [http://chameleon.maptools.org Chameleon], [http://ka-map.maptools.org kaMap], [http://maptools.org/maplab/index.phtml MapLab], [http://maptools.org/ms4w/index.phtml MS4W], [http://openev.sourceforge.net/ OpenEV]
| (45.401397610, -75.725861625)
| CTO of DM Solutions Group, designer/developer/contributor to many open source packages, especially based on MapServer. Recent interest/focus is on AJAX clients for mapping applications. [[User:pagameba]]
|-
| Mark Lucas
| remotesensing.org
| [http://www.remotesensing.org remotesensing.org] and [http://www.ossim.org ossim]
| (27.9690219N, 080.5590534W altitude sea level + 5m)
| CTO, original founder of ImageLinks and remotesensing.org. Board of Directors [http://www.oss-institute.org/ Open Source Software Institute] and the [http://www.ncospr.org/ National Center for Open Source Policy and Research]. Member of [http://www.opentechdev.org Open Technology Development] Tiger team for the Department of Defense (USA). Lead a team of talented developers on the OSSIM and [http://www.ossim.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=3 osgPlanet] projects. Previously spent 22 years in the United States Air Force and [http://www.nro.gov/ National Reconnaissance Office] and the [http://www.fas.org/irp/nro/hall3.htm Secretary of the Air Force Special Projects] organization working with various classified programs. Prior to Radiant Blue Technologies, was a Lead Scientist for Intelligence Data Systems, Titan Corporation, and L3-Communciations. [http://web.mac.com/mlucas17/iWeb/Site/Welcome.html Personal Web site]. [[User:mlucas17]]
|-
| Jo Walsh
| [http://okfn.org/geo/ Open Knowledge Foundation],[http://mappinghacks.com/ Mapping Hacks], [http://publicgeodata.org Public Geodata]
| Open Geodata committee
| (42.368297,-71.108696)
| Came to geospatial software through collaborative mapping on the semantic web work. Organising events to get geospatial hackers together with data-creating people and promote public access to state collected geodata. If you are in Europe please see [http://publicgeodata.org Public Geodata] and consider writing to an MEP about public domain data and "intellectual property rights" issues. If you collect GPS tracks, please consider uploading them to [http://openstreetmap.org/ OpenStreetmap] - my only real contribution to this project is to talk about it a lot. I co-wrote "Mapping Hacks" with Schuyler Erle and Rich Gibson, with a lot of contributions from OSGeo type of people. Last year wrote a lot of software using OSM and [http://openguides.org/ OpenGuides] with [[Mapserver]] to provide a basis for collaborative local "portal" type services on community wireless networks. Now more interested in doing collaborative writing and research projects. [[User:JoWalsh]]
|-
| Dave McIlhagga
| [http://www.dmsolutions.ca DM Solutions Group]
| [http://visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org Promotion and Visibility Committee]
| (45.401397610, -75.725861625)
| President & CEO of DM Solutions Group. Active promoter of open source geospatial technologies. Led DM Solutions Group to become a major contributor and advocate of MapServer and development of key open source MapServer utilities including [http://chameleon.maptools.org Chameleon], [http://ka-map.maptools.org kaMap], [http://maptools.org/maplab/index.phtml MapLab], [http://maptools.org/ms4w/index.phtml MS4W]. Provided financial and resource support for setup of a key home for open source geospatial projects at [http://www.maptools.org MapTools]. Led the organizing committee for [http://www.omsug.ca/osgis2004/index.html OSGIS], the first Open Source Geospatial conference in North America which coincided with the second MapServer User Meeting. Spearheaded the integration of the two major open source geospatial conferences from North America and Europe/Asia, as the [http://www.foss4g2006.org/ Free and Open Source Software for Geoinformations] single international event to be held in Lausanne Switzerland. [[User:davemac]]
|-
| Pericles (Perry) Nacionales
| [http://land.umn.edu University of Minnesota]
| [http://webcommittee.osgeo.org Web Site Committee]
| (44.9873167, -93.1851500)
| Promoter of open source geospatial technologies specially in the field of natural resources management and conservation, advocate of open and interoperability standards, MTSC member, author of [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/tutorial/tutorial/tutorial MapServer Tutorial].
|-
| Norman Vine
| Independent
|
| (41:31:38N, 70:39:43W)
| Independent software developer [[User:Nhv]]
|-
| Mike Adair
| [http://www.geoconnections.org/CGDI.cfm Natural Resources Canada/GeoConnections]
| [http://communitymapbuilder.org MapBuilder]
| (45.27, -75.75)
| Contributor and member of MapBuilder PMC. Interested primarily in AJAX client technology for mapping, but also in the whole SDI stack. [[User:madair]]
|-
| Stefan F. Keller
| University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil (HSR), [http://www.ifs.hsr.ch Institute for Software]
| [http://webgis.hsr.ch/javawps JavaWPS]
| (47.2240, 8.8181)
| Promotor of open source and commercial technologies specially in the field of information retrieval, databases, GIS and visualization. Advocate of open and interoperability standards, member of national GIS standardization (e-geo, SNV) and umbrella (SOGI) organizations. Creator of [http://wwww.geometa.info geometa.info], one of the first search engines for geospatial services (WMS), metadata and online maps (Lucene-based); contributor of geo-webservices for german Wikipedia. [[User:Sfkeller]]
|-
| [[User:Arnulf Christl | Arnulf Christl]]
| [http://metaspatial.net Metaspatial], [http://www.osgeo.org OSGeo Charter Member], [http://www.opengeospatial.org OGC Member]
| [http://www.mapbender.org Mapbender], [http://www.fossgis.de FOSSGIS]
| (47.27742N, 11.40627W)
| [http://www.gnu.org Free] and [http://www.opensource.org Open] Source Software [[Business]] advocate on a mission to reduce [[FOSSFUD]].
|-
|V.RaviKumar
|Geologist
|OSGeo member [http://freegis.gnu.org.in/grass_geosciencedataset.pdf],[''GRASS Indian exmple'']
| 17° N 79° E
| A Geologist from India who is interested in FOSS software. GRASS in particular. Conducted a FOSS workshop at Hyderabad, India in May 2005. The workshop boosted our spirits with a large participation and good articles on various FOSS software. An entire session was for GRASS, Qgis software. Presently lecturing in various forums on the capability of GRASS and allied FOSS GIS. With the help of Free Software Foundation India, trying to spread awareness of GRASS GIS, GNU-Linux and FOSS. Countries like India have a lot to gain with the spread of FOSS.
|-
|David Hastings
|UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok
|Member of original Grass Interagency Steering Committee, etc.
| 13.75°N 100.5°E
| A physicist/geophysicist/geological engineer who has used GRASS since 1987, and on the GRASS Interagency Steering Committee for the original public-domain package. I wrote the Linux Mini-HOWTO on GRASS-GIS (which is now woefully out of date); and taught short courses in scientific (as opposed to cartographic) GIS since 1980. In 1994 I moved my teaching to the Web, developing the CyberInstitute Short-Course on GIS. Currently, I'm at UN ESCAP. Open-Source is a great capacity- building environment for software communities worldwide. In developing countries, rather than being stuck merely teaching people to cut and paste stuff within a proprietary office suite, you can be part of the full development team, customizing the software to your community's needs, helping your country to have its own software development community - and hopefully making a satisfying living in the process.
|-
| Gary Sherman
| [http://mrcc.com Micro Resources], [http://qgis.org Quantum GIS]
| OSGeo Member
| (-149.567, 61.32138)
| Consultant, "Father" of Quantum GIS, long-time Linux user and Open Source proponent.
|-
| Astrid Emde
| [http://www.mapbender.org Mapbender], MapServer, PostgreSQL/PostGIS
| Mapbender Development
| (7.0707, 50.7342)
| Projects with MapServer, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, Mapbender. Part of the Mapbender Developer Team. Courses for Mapbender, UMN MapServer, PostgreSQL/PostGIS and WMS, WFS
|-
| Jeroen Ticheler
| [http://geonetwork-opensource.org GeoNetwork opensource], [http://sourceforge.net/projects/intermap InterMap opensource], [http://www.fao.org/geonetwork Food and Agriculture Organization GeoNetwork]
| OSGeo member, [http://www.osgeo.org/geonetwork GeoNetwork]
| 42.07420°N, 12.34343°E
| I've initiated the development of the GeoNetwork opensource Spatial Data Catalog software and its embedded InterMap opensource Map Viewer. I hope to contribute possitively to the creation of a comprehensive, FOSS based toolkit for Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs) that help people share and use geospatial data and information in an easy and cost effective way. I focus especially on the data sharing within the United Nations system and in countries under development. I promote free and open source software as an excellent option for more sustainable development in these countries, proving it works by applying and further developing it in my day to day work. [http://lists.eogeo.org/mailman/listinfo/opensdi OpenSDI] is a forum to discuss foss and cots integration.
|-
| Dirceu Machado
| [http://www.pti.org.br Itaipu Tecnology Park]
| OSGeo member,GRASS
| 59°S, -24°E
| I'm a brazilian developer of open source GIS/WEB_GIS applications using PHP, JAVA and Python with Mapserver and PostGIS and also a user and enthusiast of Linux and BSD's OS. I'm excited with the idea of a community like this one and i wish to help in any way i can with development's (if necessary) and/or documentation translations to portuguese language. Actualy i'm working in a project to develop a GIS viewer and map generator (for printing purposes) in Python based on the idea of the JUMP Project.
|-
| Kevin Yam
| [http://www.ene.gov.on.ca Ontario Ministry of the Environment], [http://www.lio.mnr.gov.on.ca, Land Information Ontario]
| OSGeo member
| 43.709, -79.544
| Program coordinator for information management within the Provinicial Ministry of the Environment. I focus especially on data sharing between government agencies, departments and local stakeholders, and I am a promoter of open source geospatial tools applicable to environmental monitoring and observing [[User:kevinyam]]
|-
| Colin Gowens
| Geographer, GIS Professional
| OSGeo member
| 33.7518, -84.3920
| User of GRASS, GDAL, OGR, PostGIS and Mapserver since 2002. The open source GIS software and community have proven tremendously valuable to my GIS endeavors.
|-
| David Bitner
| [http://maps.macnoise.com/interactive/ Metropolitan Airports Commission], [http://dbspatial.com/ dbSpatial]
| OSGeo member, Geodata Committee
| 44.844, -93.560
| Active PostGIS and MapServer user. GIS application developer for airport authority and other freelance projects. Serve on Regional/State committees (Minnesota) for Data Sharing and Enterprise Geospatial Architecture. Member of Twin Cities Mapserver Users Group.
|-
| Tyler Mitchell
| [http://spatialguru.com, Spatialguru.com]
| OSGeo Executive Director, [http://visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org Promotion and Visibility Committee], [http://edu.osgeo.org Education Committee]
| 52.13, -121.13 (lat/lon)
| MapServer, PostGIS, GRASS, GDAL user. [http://oreilly.com/catalog/webmapping, O'Reilly Author], writer, promoter of Open Source GIS.
|-
| Rafael Medeiros Sperb
| [http://www.univali.br, G10 - UNIVALI]
| OSGeo Member
| -26.60, -48.70 (lat/lon)
|-
| Steven M. Ottens
| [http://www.geodan.com/ Geodan]
| [http://communitymapbuilder.org MapBuilder]
| 52.34, 4.91 (lat/lon)
| Contributor and member of MapBuilder PMC. [[User:stvn]]
|-
| Stefano Maffulli
| Politecnico di Milano
| [http://visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org Promotion and Visibility Committee], [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/International_Outreach International Outreach], [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Public_Geospatial_Data_Project Public Geospatial Data]
| 45, 9 (Lat,Lon)
| Architect, worked within the GIS_Lab at University of Florence on research about sustainable development of historical cities. At Joint Research Center (Ispra) worked within the EU funded project [http://commongis.org CommonGIS]. Currently working with Politecnico di Milano as consultant on [http://www.corila.it/ Methodologies and technologies for conservation and restoration of historical Venetian buildings]
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| Dave Patton
| [http://members.shaw.ca/davepatton/ CIS Canadian Information Systems]
| helping the Website Committee
| 49.27N 123.15W
| Self-employed computer consultant. Co-lead developer for [http://punt.sourceforge.net/ Punt], an Open Source multi-language Windows desktop application that allows the user to view the terrain of any world in 3D. Canadian Coordinator and co-administrator of [http://www.confluence.org/index.php the Degree Confluence Project] [[User:Dpatton]]
|-
| Jody Garnett [[User:Jive]]
| [http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Home GeoTools]
| Iccubation and limited Website Committee
| missing
| It seems all I do is email, must be due to [http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Home GeoTools], [http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOS/Home GeoServer], [http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEO/Home GeoAPI] and [http://udig.refractions.net uDig]. I am working at [http://www.refractions.net/ Refractions Research, Inc], a small consulting company with an open source habit.
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| Justin Deoliveira
| [http://topp.openplans.org The Open Planning Project], [http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Home GeoTools], [http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOS/Home GeoServer]
| [http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Home GeoTools]
| undeterministic
| [http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Home GeoTools] module maintainer, [http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOS/Home GeoServer] developer, and [http://udig.refractions.net uDig] committer. I have been kicking around the Java GIS world for approximately 3 years contributing as an active developer on said projects. For the last year or so I have been working for a non-profit company known as [http://topp.openplans.org The Open Planning Project].
|
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| Dylan Beaudette
| [http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/drupal/node/38 UCD]
| GRASS
| Input lat/long here
| Soils and Biogeochemistry M.S. student at University of California, Davis. Interested in the use and proliferation of OSS in the sciences, particularly soil science. GIS and geomorphologic analysis; presentation of USDA-NCSS digital soil survey information / soils education through visual example.
|-
| Stuart Eve
| [http://www.lparchaeology.com L - P : Archaeology]
| Mapserver (user), GRASS (user)
| Input lat/long here
| Involved in using web-based Open Source technologies to make archaeological data accessible to a wider audience. We use Mapserver in a number of applications, including [http://www.fastionline.org Fasti Online]
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| [[User:Pmarc | Paulo Marcondes]]
| [http://www.marcondes.org marcondes.org], [http://hamstuff.blogspot.com Blog]
| [http://grass.itc.it GRASS] (translator), OSGeo Member (?), [[Brasil | OSGeo Brasil]] (proponent)
| (-22.915,-42.229), Maidenhead: GG87vc
| Working in the GRASS translation to portuguese (pt_br), somewhat involved (at least intelecutally) with Debian-GIS, involved in the local Debian User Group. My interests range from everything spatial to everything geospatial, GIS, GPS, Ham Radio, wardriving, etc. I have a B.S. in Geology (2001) Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil. I do R&D in the oil industry in a non GIS arena, but plan migrating to the GIS arena in the near future. I'm also planning a M.S. in GIS sometime in the future (accepting suggestions).
I would like to see free software adopted everywhere. I don't dislike proprietary software per se, but the attitude it usually inspires.
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| [[User:anselm | Anselm Hook]]
| [http://hook.org hook.org], [http://maps.civicactions.net maps.civicactions.net] [http://placedb.org placedb]
|
| (-122.673,-45.5371), Portland Oregon
| Both commercial and open source developer. Led engineering for platial.com and wrote placedb.org - also wrote maps.civicactions.net (an ajax tile map engine with a dataset behind it). Also wrote a small java spinny globe at [http://hook.org/headmap headmap]. Interested in providing fully open source map data (not simply applications or tools but actual content). Primarily interested in social and environmental issues with an eye towards modelling near term outcomes of decision making.
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| Oscar Cantán
| University of Zaragoza, Spain
| Member
| (41.666,-0.888)
| Currently working on the development and implementation of geospatial interoperability standards. Specially interested in OGC catalog services specification (CSW, SRW) and metadata content standards (ISO 19119-19139).
|-
| Lorenzo Becchi
| http://www.ominiverdi.org
| OSGeo Member
| moving
| ka-Map developer. User:[[User:Ominiverdi|Ominiverdi]]
|-
| Christoph Baudson
| http://www.mapbender.org
| OSGeo Member
| here, there and everywhere
| Mapbender developer. See [[User:christoph|Christoph]]
|-
| Georg Lösel
| http://www.grass-verein.de GRASS-Anwender-Vereinigung
| User (GRASS, QGIS); Free Geodata
| 52,3625/9,7481
| [[User:Georgloesel|Georg Lösel]]
|-
| Reinhard Simon
| [http://www.cipotato.org [International Potato Center, Lima, Peru]
| Project lead: [http://research.cip.cgiar.org/confluence/display/divagis/Home DIVA-GIS]
| NA
| [[User:rsimon|Reinhard Simon]]
|-
| Todd Jamison
| http://www.observera.com
| OSGEO Member; User: OSSIM, GDAL, MapServer; Contributor: OSSIM
| (38.898489, -77.500484)
| Chief Image Scientist and CEO of Observera, Inc. Observera worked on the original OSSIM library with ImageLinks and we have developed several projects using the OSSIM library and MapServer, including ALLEGRO (Land-cover / Land-use Classification) and the Change Detection WorkStation (CDWS), both for the US Army. Expertise includes spectral, thermal, microwave sensors, photogrammetry, image registration, image processing, morphology, resolution enhancement, workflow automation, machine learning (e.g., neural nets, support vector machines, genetic algorithms), Geologic GIS and bunches of other stuff. Glad to be a part of OSGEO.
|-
| Laurent Jégou
| [http://www.univ-tlse2.fr/geoprdc UTM Dept. Géo], [http://www.forumsig.org Forum SIG], [http://www.portailsig.org Portail SIG]
| User and wanabee [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Core_Curriculum_Project Curriculum project] contributor.
| (43.6N, 1.4E)
| Cartographer (conception, production, integration), cartography and GIS teacher for masters degrees, open source mapping software developper (.Net and Java), technology developpement monitoring.
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| Hardeep Singh Rai
| [http://www.gndec.ac.in/ Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana, Punjab]
| -
| (30.55N,75.54E)
| Willing to see growth of GPL/OpenSource softwares in every field. Civil Engineer, in teaching profession since 1989. Presently Professor and Head of Civil Engineering Department.
|-
| Paolo Cavallini
| [http://www.faunalia.it Faunalia]
|
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| M. Agus Salim
| [http://gislab.cifor.cgiar.org/fsic Forest Spatial Information Catalog]
| User
| Bogor, Indonesia [106.752E,6.5533S]
| Working as GIS Assistant in Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR). Currently i am interested in exploring geospatial open source software capabilities and hope to involved more than a user in the future
|-
| Janusz Michalak
| [http://www.ptip.org.pl/ Polish Association for Spatial Information]
[http://netgis.geo.uw.edu.pl/ Warsaw University, Dept. of Geology]
| GRASS user
| Warsaw, Poland (52.2118,20.9864)
| Will be added later
|-
| Chris Tweedie
| [http://www.dli.wa.gov.au/ Dept. of Land Information]
| OSGeo Lurker
| Perth, Australia [116.0043,-31.8869]
| Deploying a statewide SDI for WA using largely OSGeo projects. General lurker i'm afraid, lots of ideas, not enough time~
|-
| The Sunburned Surveyor (A.K.A. - Landon Blake)
| [http://openjump.blogspot.com/index.html My Blog]
| OSGeo Lurker
| Stockton, California
| Project administrator and developer for The JUMP Pilot Project and the SurveyOS Project.
|-
| Rob Atkinson
| [http://online.socialchange.net.au]
| Geoserver PSC, Geotools
| Wollongong,Australia
| SDI Architect. Involved in data standards and tools to deploy them, registry design, standards development (mainly OGC and ISO, INSPIRE.) Generally, enabling Observations and Measurements patterns in OS tools and other consistency/productivity/scalability requirements.
|-
| Mateusz Loskot
| [http://mateusz.loskot.net/ http://mateusz.loskot.net]
| [http://www.gdal.org/ GDAL/OGR] hacker, [http://fdo.osgeo.org FDO] PSC and hacker, [http://wl.sggw.waw.pl/ Warsaw Agricultural University]
| Warsaw,Poland (52.2373 21.0834)
| A freelance geospatial software developer and contributor to various FOSS/GIS projects. Interested in [http://mobile.maptools.org/ mobile GIS solutions]. Active member of various Open Source Software communities. [[User:mloskot]]
|-
| Asif Ahmed
| http://www.on.ec.gc.ca/orise
| Osgeo Member
| Toronto, Canada
| Mapserver user, Chameleon user, Coldfusion, .NET, C and Perl experience. Open source enthusiast.
|-
|-
| Dongpo Deng
| [http://www.iis.sinica.edu.tw/~dongpo/cv.html About me]
| OSGeo Lurker
| Taipei, Taiwan(25.041N 121.614E)
| A researcher for open geospatial techniques and data.
|-
| Ian Ibbotson
| http://developer.k-int.com
| Osgeo Lurker
| Sheffield, UK (37.0625,-95.677068)
| Information Retrieval / Information Repository Developer. Worked with USGS on combining text and spatial IR systems, on the GEO Z3950 profile, and on exposing GEO access points in the SRW/SRU protocol. Developer on UK Peoples Network cultural heritage / digital preservation amongst other projects with public information / spatial faceted data.
|-
| Josef Assad
| Independent (for now)
| Still figuring out where I can be most useful as an OSGEO slave
| Cairo, Egypt (30.070877;31.220312)
| Free software, open standards are my primary areas of interest.
|-
| Ben Discoe
|
| [http://vterrain.org Virtual Terrain Project (VTP)]
| Ahualoa, Hawai'i (20.0532,-155.5085)
| After some years in the virtual reality field, i got the geospatial religion. With some support from Intel, i began what later grew into the VTP. 7 years after public launch, it is now a thriving community, educational website, and suite of open-source geovisualization software, which is likely to become an official OSGeo project at some point.
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| Emilio Mayorga
| [http://marine.rutgers.edu/BGC/ Rutgers], [http://garrobo.org/ CAEE]
|
| New Brunswick, New Jersey (40.505,-74.399)
| Post-doc researcher at Rutgers, working on [http://www.marine.rutgers.edu/globalnews/ global carbon and nutrients exports from rivers to the ocean], and very interested in pushing FOSS tools (geospatial and otherwise) and the open, community aspects surrounding them, into the Earth Sciences community. I'm doing more and more Python lately (and enjoying it), but previously have worked with Perl, C, the whole ESRI stack, Matlab, etc. In my recent, previous life, I was a lead GIS Analyst at a [http://www1.co.snohomish.wa.us/Departments/Public_Works/Divisions/SWM/ Washington state county]; that 5-year experience strongly colored my perspective and interests. I've also worked with [http://garrobo.org/ a small group compiling and redistributing environmental data (mostly geospatial) for Central America], where I've pushed a FOSSG stack (MapServer, GDAL, qgis). I hope to help out with the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Public_Geospatial_Data_Project Public Geospatial Data Project], focusing on scientific datasets, developing countries, and practical implementations. [[User:Emayorga]]
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| Aarti Singh
| Johns Hopkins - KGMU Collaborative Projects
| OSGeo Member
| Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India (26.55, 80.59)
| We're working on public health research and are using GIS tools to map our study area.
|-
| Dan Jacobson/積丹尼
| (none)
| [[Taiwan|Taiwan Chapter]] member
| Dongshi, Taiwan 120.87 E, 24.18 N
| House address planning, utility pole coordinates, bus routes. See http://jidanni.org/
|-
| Yves Jacolin
| [http://georezo.net GeoRezo moderator] for the Webmapping forum
| Francophone Local Chapter / OSGeo Member / GRASS, QGIS and MapServer User
| Suresnes, France (48.87N, 2.23E)
| Translate and write documentation or how-to about GDAL-ORG, QGIS, GRASS, MapServer, ... Help in georezo.net forumsig.org OS and webmapping forum. Work on the creation of the [[Francophone|francophone local chapter]].
|-
| [[User:Jsanz|Jorge Sanz]]
| [http://www.prodevelop.es Prodevelop], [http://www.gvsig.gva.es gvSIG project] [http://geomaticblog.net geomaticblog.net]
| OSGeo Member / [[Español|Spanish Local Chapter]]
| Valencia, Spain (40.396N,3.713W)
| I'm working as GIS developer and power user :P. Free software fan since 2000 and enthusiastic GNU/Linux user. I'm translating OSGeo portal pages.
|-
| [[User:Chenrg|Chen Rongguo]]
| [http://www.igsnrr.ac.cn/ IGSNRR], [http://www.lreis.ac.cn/ LREIS]
| OSGeo Member / [[China| China Local Chapter]]
| Beijing, China (39N,116E)
| Professor at Lreis, IGSNRR, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
|-
| [[User:Gaoang|Gao Ang]]
| [http://www.igsnrr.ac.cn/ IGSNRR], [http://www.lreis.ac.cn/ LREIS]
| OSGeo Member / [[China| China Local Chapter]]
| Beijing, China (39N,116E)
| Ph.D student at Lreis, IGSNRR, Chinese Academy of Sciences. My homepage is [http://www.gaoang.com/ Grid GIS].
|-
| [[User:MarkusLupp|Markus Lupp (Markus Müller)]]
| [http://www.deegree.org deegree], [http://www.lat-lon.de lat/lon]
| OSGeo member, editor of the Topical Studies secion of the OSGeo journal
| Hamburg, Germany (10.00, 52.74)
| I am one of the founding members and managers of the [http://www.deegree.org deegree] project. Besides this I am actively involved in the work of the [http://www.opengeospatial.org OGC], e.g. as editor of Symbology Encoding and SLD profile of WMS specifications. For OSGeo, I serve es editor for the Topical Studies section of the OSGeo journal.
|-
| Bob Bruce
| Handyside Web Programming Services [http://www.hwps.ca]
| MapServer, QGIS user, co-creator of the mapping interface for www.TheMuralsofWinnipeg.com [http://www.themuralsofwinnipeg.com/Mpages/indexMuralsMap.php]
| Winnipeg, Canada (49.86059N, 97.104989W)
| I am an advocate for open source geospatial software
|-
| [[User:milovanderlinden|Milo van der Linden]]
| CTO 3DSite IT&C bv, the Netherlands
| [http://www.3dsite.nl 3DSite]
| (51.516N,3.880E)
| BSc in Geo-science, 10 years experience in GIS. Started my own company in jan 2007. Focus on 3D GIS, Google Earth, Fleet management, Routing and Navigation. Open Sourcing with: MapWindow GIS, OpenStreetMap, OGR/GDAL, QuantumGIS, dotProject, Blender. Developer in VB6, VB.NET and C#
|-
| Kevin Flanders
| PeopleGIS Inc. [http://www.peoplegis.com]
| MapServer, home of MapsOnline...a municipal online mapping service
| Concord, MA USA (42.459N, 71.3518W)
| PeopleGIS has built MapsOnline and other related products on open source software for over five years, working with many people on this list.
|-
| [[User:AndrewTurner|Andrew Turner]]
| [http://highearthorbit.com HighEarthOrbit], [http://mapfacture.com Mapufacture]
| OSGeo Lurker
| Ann Arbor, MI, US (42.2774N x 83.7611W)
| [http://oreilly.com/catalog/neogeography Neogeographer] - interested in helping GIS be usable and creatable by non-geo-savvy users. Helps develop [http://mapstraction.com Mapstraction], and [http://georss.org/geopress GeoPress] web mapping and publishing tools. Active contributor to the [http://georss.org GeoRSS Community].
|-
| Wolf Bergenheim
| none. I'm a free OS coder
| GRASS as a developer and GSoC 2007 Mentor. PostGIS user
| 60.237N 24.823E (Espoo Finland)
| I'm an independend student of geoinformatics and OpenSource. Interested in developing GRASS and helping to add more features to the already rich feature set. I'm prepared to develop modules for GRASS on commission / request.
|-
| [[User:peterrushforth|Peter Rushforth]]
| [http://www.geoconnections.org Natural Resources Canada/GeoConnections]
| OGR user
| Ottawa, Ont, Canada
| Interested in GML / XSLT processing.
[[Category:Membership]]
|-
| [[User:percyd|David Percy]]
| [http://gisgeek.pdx.edu Portland State University Geology Department Geospatial Data Manager]
| FOSS4G 2007 Workshops Committee
| Portland, OR, USA (45.51238, -122.682500)
| Interested in web mapping and most things to do with GIS, databases, and networking, especially related to Earth Science. I work with a large portion of the geologic mapping community in the United States at the state and federal levels to bring geologic maps into some semblance of interoperability. This effort is also internationalized via the [http://www.bgs.ac.uk/cgi_web/ Commission for the Management and Application of Geoscience Information]. We use almost all open source GIS software for this effort. See the [http://ngmdb.usgs.gov National Geologic Map Database] for progress.
[[Category:Membership]]
|-
| [[User:lolostar|Laurent Pierre]]
| [Electricité de France R&D]
|
| Montrouge, 92, France (48.812, 2.317)
| Interested in web mapping, SVG, spatial databases.
[[Category:Membership]]
|-
| [[User:gfleming|Gavin Fleming]]
| [http://www.gissa.org.za/sig/opensource/open-source Geoinformation Society of South Africa FOSS SIG chair], [http://www.mintek.co.za Senior GISc and sustainable development researcher at Mintek]
| FOSS4G 2008 conference chair, OSGeo Africa Chapter chair
| Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa (-26.0896, 27.9782)
| I use and promote FOSS GIS for sustainable development and in particular in mining, environmental and related fields.
|-
| [[User:Smitch|Scott Mitchell]]
| Carleton University
| GRASS PSC, Ottawa Local Chapter, Education/Curriculum
| Ottawa, ON, Canada (45.381, -75.699)
| See my [[User:Smitch|user page]] for more information.
|-
| [[User:Mleslie|Mark Leslie]]
| LISAsoft
| MapServer, GeoTools
| Sydney, NSW, Australia (-33.864575,151.194353)
| Broad spectrum open source geospatial developer.
|-
| [[User:dhirner|Daniel Hirner]]
| [http://www.bc-ebc.ca BC Electoral Boundaries Commission]
| [http://www.bc-ebc.ca/proposed_smp Our site using Google Maps API]
| Vancouver, BC (49.260470,-123.113940)
| Production Manager (GIS)
|-
| Julia Harrell
| [http://www.enr.state.nc.us/ NC DENR]
| OSGeo Lurker
| Raleigh, NC, US (35.78686 N, -78.63868 W)
| GIS Coordinator for NC Department of Environment and Natural Resources. Advocate of Open Source GIS Software.
|-
| Darryl Woodley
| [http://www.esquimalt.ca/ Township of Esquimalt]
| MapGuide 6.5 user
| | Victoria, BC (48.429984, -123.413500)
| I am the lead GIS person on staff for the Township of Esquimalt. We are currently running MapGuide 6.5 on our intranet only. I am not too involved in the nuts and bolts of our GIS as our staff level requires us to contract out most of the GIS work.
|-
| David Zhou
| GIS DataBse Consultant
|
|Vancouver ,BC
| I am GIS DataBase Consultant in the Maxwell Geoservices Company.
|-
| [[User:Mmontesinos|Miguel Montesinos]]
| [http://www.prodevelop.es Prodevelop]
| [http://www.gvsig.gva.es gvSIG] / [[Capítulo local hispano-hablante|Spanish-speaking Local Chapter]]
| Valencia, Spain (39.479N,0.369W)
| Working with GIS since 1994. For too many years with privative and closed GIS technology, and working and promoting FOSS4GIS for a few years. CTO of Prodevelop. Member of the Project Management Committee (~PSC) of gvSIG. Member of the Technical Management Committee of gvSIG. gvSIG Mobile development Project Manager. Member of [http://www.pmi.org Project Management Institute]. Active member of [http://www.openstreetmap.org OpenStreetMap] community. [[User:Mmontesinos]]
[[Category:Membership]]
|-
| [http://www.frigne.be Dirk Frigne]
| [http://majas.dfc.be/confluence/display/MAJAS/MAJAS+-+Mapping+with+AJAX+and+SVG MAJAS]
| AJAX based webmapping applications. I am working on MAJAS wich is a platform I want to introduce as a client server solution for web mapping applications. The server side is JAVA. The client side is javascript. Intention to start the Belgium Local Chapter
| Gent, Belgium (51° 08' N 3° 47'E)
| In his professional life, Dirk Frigne is founder and CEO of DFC Software Engineering. He has extensive software development experience as a developer, architect, project manager and has been involved with the development and implementation of numerous IT infrastructures using a variety of technologies on multiple platforms. In an IT career spanning more than 20 years, Dirk understands that leadership and team building are the keys to successful IT and development projects. His key skills are situated in CAD and GIS related domains. Recently Dirk has been appointed to project manager for the open source project [http://www.gegis.org “Generic GIS for e-Government”]. He is also a regular contributor and editor of the VI Matrix journal and CAD Magazine. Furthermore, Dirk is secretary of FLAGIS, the Flemish association for geographic information systems.
|-
| Claudia A Engel
| Stanford University
| GRASS User
| 37.426845, -122.169545 (lat/lon)
| http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel
|-
| [[User:Olea |Ismael Olea]]
| Planeta Olea S.L.
|
| 40.4454º north y 3.6742º west
| [http://olea.org/mini-biografia.en.html About me]
|-
| [[User:jacarma|Javi Carrasco]]
| [http://www.prodevelop.es Prodevelop]
| [http://www.gvsig.gva.es gvSIG] / [[Capítulo local hispano-hablante|Spanish-speaking Local Chapter]]
| Valencia, Spain (39.479N,0.369W)
| gvSIG Mobile developer. [[User:jacarma]]
|-
| [[User:Adiez|Agustin Diez]]
| [http://www.fguv.org/ Fundació General Unversitat de València]
| [http://www.gvsig.gva.es gvSIG], [http://grass.itc.it GRASS GIS], [http://geodata.osgeo.org Public Geodata], [http://edu.osgeo.org Education ], [[Capítulo local hispano-hablante|Spanish-speaking Local Chapter]]
| Valencia, Spain (39.479N,0.369W)
| Grass and gvSIG user. [[User:Adiez|Agustin Diez]]
|-
| [[User:vehrka|Pedro-Juan Ferrer]]
| [http://geomaticblog.net geomaticblog.net]
| OSGeo Member / [[Español|Spanish Local Chapter]]
| Valencia, Spain (39.4565N, 0.3905W)
| I'm working as GIS analyst. Helping with the Libro Libre del SIG.
|-

[[Category:Membership]]
[[Category:OSGeo Member]]

All Members

2019-01-17T10:19:20Z

Arnulf: infos updated

Project Graduation Checklist

2018-07-25T11:15:28Z

Arnulf: /* Review Notes */ link updated

'''Please note that this Wiki page is out of date. Find the current Checklist on the official OSGeo web site at: https://www.osgeo.org/resources/project-graduation-checklist/'''

------

= Review Notes =
* This wiki provides a draft for a 3.0 version of the [https://www.osgeo.org/resources/project-graduation-checklist/ Project Graduation Checklist].
* It incorporates some content from the OSGeo [[General_Principles_of_Incubation]], which is proposed to be retired.
* It incorporates some concepts from the [[Live_GIS_Disc_Apply| selection criteria for adding a project to OSGeoLive]].
* New text is in red font. Removed text in strike font. All points in the checklist now have an indentifier.
* When publishing the final section, these Review Notes will be removed.

'''The official copy of this document lives at http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/project_graduation_checklist.html'''

= Document Status =
This is the draft version of the stable document living at: http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/project_graduation_checklist.html

'''Version:''' TBD 
'''Status:''' draft 
'''Last Edited:''' TBD 
'''Previous:''' 2.0 

= Purpose =
The purpose of this checklist is to determine whether an Incubator Project produces quality products, remains true to its stated licence and is sustainable. Satisfying this checklist is a pre-requisite for graduation.

* A project should have institutionalized the processes in this list or provide justification why the process is not used.
* See also the [http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/application.html Incubation Application Questionnaire]

= Terms and Definitions =

; Mentor : A member of the Incubation Committee chosen to assist a Project through the Incubation Process.
; Institutionalized Process : A documented process which which addresses a need and is actively in use. It typically takes months before a process becomes institutionalized. ''A more detailed definition of institutionalization is found in the [http://www.sei.cmu.edu/pub/documents/02.reports/pdf/02tr012.pdf Capability Maturity Model (CMMI)] - "Generic Goal 2: Institutionalize a Managed Process"''
; Open Source License : a license recognized by the [http://opensource.org Open Source Initiative]

= Incubation Checklist =

== Open ==

The project has demonstrated that it has an open, active and healthy user and developer community:
# [open.1] Open: projects are expected to function in an open and public manner and include:
#* [open.1a] Open source license(s),
#* [open.1b] Open communication channels,
#* [open.1c] Open decision making process,
# [open.2] Active and healthy community:
#* [open.2a] The project should have a community of developers and users who actively collaborate and support each other in a healthy way. Eg. collaboration on project activities such as testing, release and feature development.
#* [open.2b] Long term viability of the project is demonstrated by showing participation, support and direction from multiple developers, and/or power users, and/or sponsors, who come from multiple organisations. Eg. The project is resilient enough to sustain loss of a developer or supporting organisation, often referred to as having a high [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor bus factor].
#* [open.2c] Decisions are made openly instead of behind closed doors, which empowers all developers to take ownership of the project and facilitates spreading of knowledge between current and future team members.
#* <strike>[open.2d] Users are supported and encouraged, via an email list or similar.</strike>
#* [open.2d] The project has a Code of Conduct. This may be a reference to the [http://www.osgeo.org/code_of_conduct OSGeo Code of Conduct].

== Copyright and License ==

We need to ensure that the project owns or otherwise has obtained the ability to release the project code by completing the following steps:
# [copyright.1] All project source code is available under an Open Source license.
# [copyright.2] Project documentation is available under an open license, such as Creative Commons.
# [copyright.3] [copyright.1] The project code, documentation and data has been adequately vetted to assure it is all properly licensed, and a copyright notice included, as per a [http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/codereview.html Provenance Review].
# [copyright.4] The project maintains a list of all copyright holders identified in the Provenance Review Document.
# [copyright.5] All code contributors have agreed to abide by the project's license policy, and this agreement has been documented and archived.

== Processes ==

# [processes.1] The project has code under configuration management. Eg, subversion, git.
# [processes.2] The project uses an issue tracker and keeps the status of the issue tracker up to date.
# [processes.3] The project has documented and follows its management processes. This is typically done within a Developers Guide or Project Management Plan.
#* [processes.3a] The project has a suitable open governance policy ensuring decisions are made, documented and adhered to in a public manner. This typically means a Project Management Committee has been established with a process for adding new members. A robust Project Management Committee will typically draw upon developers, users and key stakeholders from multiple organisations as there will be a greater variety of technical visions and the project is more resilient to a sponsor leaving.
#* [processes.3b] The project uses public communication channels for decision making to maintain transparency. E.g. archived email list(s), archived IRC channel(s), public issue tracker.

== Documentation ==

# [documentation.1] The project has user documentation:
#* [documentation.1a] Including sufficient detail to guide a new user through performing the core functionality provided by the application.
# [documentation.2] The project has developer documentation:
#* [documentation.2a] Including checkout and build instructions.
#* [documentation.2b] Including commented code, ideally published for developer use. Examples: javadocs for Java applications, or Sphinx documentation for Python applications.
#* [documentation.2c] Providing sufficient detail for an experience programmer to contribute patches or a new module in accordance with the project's programming conventions.
# [documentation.3] The project has deployment documentation:
#* [documentation.3a] Including, where appropriate, how to deploy, configure and optimise the application.

==Release Procedure==

In order to maintain a consistent level of quality, the project should follow defined release and testing processes.

# [release.1] The project follows a defined release process:
#* <strike>[release.1a] Which supports both stable and development releases.</strike>
#* [release.1b] Which includes execution of the testing process before releasing a stable release.
# [release.2] The project follows a documented testing process.
#* [release.2a] Ideally, this includes both automated and manual testing.
#* [release.2b] Ideally this includes documented conformance to set quality goals, such as reporting Percentage Code Coverage of Unit Tests.
# [release.3] Release and testing processes provide sufficient detail for an experienced programmer to follow.
# [release.4] The project has released stable, feature complete releases.
#* Ideally this is demonstrated by describing risk adverse organisations who have deployed releases into production systems.

= OSGeo Committees and Community =

The OSGeo Foundation is made up of a number of committees, projects and local chapters. This section gathers up information these groups have requested from OSGeo projects. These expectations are not mandatory requirements before graduation, but a project should be prepared to address them in order to be considered a good OSGeo citizen.

== Board ==

The OSGeo [[Board]] holds ultimate responsibility for all OSGeo activities. The Board requests:

# [board.1] A project provide a Project Officer as a contract point:
#* The Project Officer should be listed at: [[Contacts#Software_Projects|Project Officer]]
#* This person is established when the incubation committee recommends the project for graduation
#* Your community can change the project officer as needed (just add an agenda item to the next board meeting so they can recognise the change of officer).

== Marketing ==

Access to OSGeo's [[Marketing_Committee]] and associated [[Marketing_Pipeline]] is one of the key benefits of joining the OSGeo foundation. The Marketing Committee requests:

# [marketing.1] Marketing artefacts have been created about the project in line with the incubation criteria listed in the OSGeo Marketing Committee's [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Marketing_Artefacts Marketing Artefacts]. This lists the documentation requirements for [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live]. Marketing Artefacts include:
#* [marketing.1a] Application Overview
#* [marketing.1b] Application Quick Start
#* [marketing.1c] Logo
#* [marketing.1d] Graphical Image
# [marketing.2] Ideally, stable version(s) of executable applications are bundled with appropriate distributions. In most cases, this will at least include [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live], but may also include [http://wiki.debian.org/DebianGis DebianGIS], [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGIS UbuntuGIS], and/or [http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ osgeo4w] [http://www.ms4w.com ms4w], etc.)
# [marketing.3] The project incorporates OSGeo branding, such as including an OSGeo logo on its website.
# [marketing.4] The project has been registered with Open HUB, and Open HUB has been updated to reference the correct code repository(s) for the project. [https://www.openhub.net/ Open HUB] provides metrics to help assess the health of a project. 

== Projects ==

# [projects.1] Projects do not exist in isolation; and are expected to communicate and collaborate on key issues. As an example, the PostGIS release procedure asks that the release be checked with MapServer, GeoServer and others.
# [projects.2] Where applicable, projects are expected to interoperate effectively with other applications.
#* [projects.2a] Interoperability is preferably achieved by supporting relevant Open Standards.
#* [projects.2b] Where applicable, standards compliance is verified by executing compliance tests, such as provided by OGC CITE testing.

Project Graduation Checklist

2018-07-25T11:14:34Z

Arnulf: This page is outdated! Link to current Incubation Checklist on the OSGeo web site updated and note added.

'''Please note that this Wiki page is out of date. Find the current Checklist on the official OSGeo web site at: https://www.osgeo.org/resources/project-graduation-checklist/'''

------

= Review Notes =
* This wiki provides a draft for a 3.0 version of the [http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/project_graduation_checklist.html Project Graduation Checklist].
* It incorporates some content from the OSGeo [[General_Principles_of_Incubation]], which is proposed to be retired.
* It incorporates some concepts from the [[Live_GIS_Disc_Apply| selection criteria for adding a project to OSGeoLive]].
* New text is in red font. Removed text in strike font. All points in the checklist now have an indentifier.
* When publishing the final section, these Review Notes will be removed.

'''The official copy of this document lives at http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/project_graduation_checklist.html'''

= Document Status =
This is the draft version of the stable document living at: http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/project_graduation_checklist.html

'''Version:''' TBD 
'''Status:''' draft 
'''Last Edited:''' TBD 
'''Previous:''' 2.0 

= Purpose =
The purpose of this checklist is to determine whether an Incubator Project produces quality products, remains true to its stated licence and is sustainable. Satisfying this checklist is a pre-requisite for graduation.

* A project should have institutionalized the processes in this list or provide justification why the process is not used.
* See also the [http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/application.html Incubation Application Questionnaire]

= Terms and Definitions =

; Mentor : A member of the Incubation Committee chosen to assist a Project through the Incubation Process.
; Institutionalized Process : A documented process which which addresses a need and is actively in use. It typically takes months before a process becomes institutionalized. ''A more detailed definition of institutionalization is found in the [http://www.sei.cmu.edu/pub/documents/02.reports/pdf/02tr012.pdf Capability Maturity Model (CMMI)] - "Generic Goal 2: Institutionalize a Managed Process"''
; Open Source License : a license recognized by the [http://opensource.org Open Source Initiative]

= Incubation Checklist =

== Open ==

The project has demonstrated that it has an open, active and healthy user and developer community:
# [open.1] Open: projects are expected to function in an open and public manner and include:
#* [open.1a] Open source license(s),
#* [open.1b] Open communication channels,
#* [open.1c] Open decision making process,
# [open.2] Active and healthy community:
#* [open.2a] The project should have a community of developers and users who actively collaborate and support each other in a healthy way. Eg. collaboration on project activities such as testing, release and feature development.
#* [open.2b] Long term viability of the project is demonstrated by showing participation, support and direction from multiple developers, and/or power users, and/or sponsors, who come from multiple organisations. Eg. The project is resilient enough to sustain loss of a developer or supporting organisation, often referred to as having a high [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor bus factor].
#* [open.2c] Decisions are made openly instead of behind closed doors, which empowers all developers to take ownership of the project and facilitates spreading of knowledge between current and future team members.
#* <strike>[open.2d] Users are supported and encouraged, via an email list or similar.</strike>
#* [open.2d] The project has a Code of Conduct. This may be a reference to the [http://www.osgeo.org/code_of_conduct OSGeo Code of Conduct].

== Copyright and License ==

We need to ensure that the project owns or otherwise has obtained the ability to release the project code by completing the following steps:
# [copyright.1] All project source code is available under an Open Source license.
# [copyright.2] Project documentation is available under an open license, such as Creative Commons.
# [copyright.3] [copyright.1] The project code, documentation and data has been adequately vetted to assure it is all properly licensed, and a copyright notice included, as per a [http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/codereview.html Provenance Review].
# [copyright.4] The project maintains a list of all copyright holders identified in the Provenance Review Document.
# [copyright.5] All code contributors have agreed to abide by the project's license policy, and this agreement has been documented and archived.

== Processes ==

# [processes.1] The project has code under configuration management. Eg, subversion, git.
# [processes.2] The project uses an issue tracker and keeps the status of the issue tracker up to date.
# [processes.3] The project has documented and follows its management processes. This is typically done within a Developers Guide or Project Management Plan.
#* [processes.3a] The project has a suitable open governance policy ensuring decisions are made, documented and adhered to in a public manner. This typically means a Project Management Committee has been established with a process for adding new members. A robust Project Management Committee will typically draw upon developers, users and key stakeholders from multiple organisations as there will be a greater variety of technical visions and the project is more resilient to a sponsor leaving.
#* [processes.3b] The project uses public communication channels for decision making to maintain transparency. E.g. archived email list(s), archived IRC channel(s), public issue tracker.

== Documentation ==

# [documentation.1] The project has user documentation:
#* [documentation.1a] Including sufficient detail to guide a new user through performing the core functionality provided by the application.
# [documentation.2] The project has developer documentation:
#* [documentation.2a] Including checkout and build instructions.
#* [documentation.2b] Including commented code, ideally published for developer use. Examples: javadocs for Java applications, or Sphinx documentation for Python applications.
#* [documentation.2c] Providing sufficient detail for an experience programmer to contribute patches or a new module in accordance with the project's programming conventions.
# [documentation.3] The project has deployment documentation:
#* [documentation.3a] Including, where appropriate, how to deploy, configure and optimise the application.

==Release Procedure==

In order to maintain a consistent level of quality, the project should follow defined release and testing processes.

# [release.1] The project follows a defined release process:
#* <strike>[release.1a] Which supports both stable and development releases.</strike>
#* [release.1b] Which includes execution of the testing process before releasing a stable release.
# [release.2] The project follows a documented testing process.
#* [release.2a] Ideally, this includes both automated and manual testing.
#* [release.2b] Ideally this includes documented conformance to set quality goals, such as reporting Percentage Code Coverage of Unit Tests.
# [release.3] Release and testing processes provide sufficient detail for an experienced programmer to follow.
# [release.4] The project has released stable, feature complete releases.
#* Ideally this is demonstrated by describing risk adverse organisations who have deployed releases into production systems.

= OSGeo Committees and Community =

The OSGeo Foundation is made up of a number of committees, projects and local chapters. This section gathers up information these groups have requested from OSGeo projects. These expectations are not mandatory requirements before graduation, but a project should be prepared to address them in order to be considered a good OSGeo citizen.

== Board ==

The OSGeo [[Board]] holds ultimate responsibility for all OSGeo activities. The Board requests:

# [board.1] A project provide a Project Officer as a contract point:
#* The Project Officer should be listed at: [[Contacts#Software_Projects|Project Officer]]
#* This person is established when the incubation committee recommends the project for graduation
#* Your community can change the project officer as needed (just add an agenda item to the next board meeting so they can recognise the change of officer).

== Marketing ==

Access to OSGeo's [[Marketing_Committee]] and associated [[Marketing_Pipeline]] is one of the key benefits of joining the OSGeo foundation. The Marketing Committee requests:

# [marketing.1] Marketing artefacts have been created about the project in line with the incubation criteria listed in the OSGeo Marketing Committee's [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Marketing_Artefacts Marketing Artefacts]. This lists the documentation requirements for [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live]. Marketing Artefacts include:
#* [marketing.1a] Application Overview
#* [marketing.1b] Application Quick Start
#* [marketing.1c] Logo
#* [marketing.1d] Graphical Image
# [marketing.2] Ideally, stable version(s) of executable applications are bundled with appropriate distributions. In most cases, this will at least include [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live], but may also include [http://wiki.debian.org/DebianGis DebianGIS], [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGIS UbuntuGIS], and/or [http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ osgeo4w] [http://www.ms4w.com ms4w], etc.)
# [marketing.3] The project incorporates OSGeo branding, such as including an OSGeo logo on its website.
# [marketing.4] The project has been registered with Open HUB, and Open HUB has been updated to reference the correct code repository(s) for the project. [https://www.openhub.net/ Open HUB] provides metrics to help assess the health of a project. 

== Projects ==

# [projects.1] Projects do not exist in isolation; and are expected to communicate and collaborate on key issues. As an example, the PostGIS release procedure asks that the release be checked with MapServer, GeoServer and others.
# [projects.2] Where applicable, projects are expected to interoperate effectively with other applications.
#* [projects.2a] Interoperability is preferably achieved by supporting relevant Open Standards.
#* [projects.2b] Where applicable, standards compliance is verified by executing compliance tests, such as provided by OGC CITE testing.

Incubation Committee

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Arnulf: /* Documents */ some links to OSGeo web site fixed

The project incubation committee is responsible for overseeing the incubation process for new projects entering the foundation. The incubation committee provides resources to assist new projects to reach full membership, and makes recommendations to the board when they feel projects have completed incubation.

== About the Incubation Committee ==

The OSGeo Incubation Committee is responsible for:

# OSGeo website project review
#* Reviewing applications to list projects on the OSGeo website
#* Preparing and recommend criteria and review process for projects to be listed on the OSGeo website
# Community project program
#* Reviewing community project applications and recommending projects to the board to be accepted as community projects
#* Reporting on the status of projects in the community project program to the board periodically (via Chair)
#* Preparing and recommending community project process and criteria to the board.
# OSGeo Incubation
#* Reviewing applications for incubation and making recommendations to the board on projects that should be admitted into incubation.
#* Appointing mentors for incubation projects.
#* Reviewing progress of projects against incubation requirements, and recommending projects for full project status to the board, when deemed appropriate.
#* Reporting on the status of projects in incubation and the incubation process to the board periodically (via Chair).
#* Preparing and recommending incubation process and criteria to the board.

The OSGeo incubation committee is not responsible for OSGeo Projects, who report directly to the board via their project officer.

=== Committee Members ===

'''Volunteers Welcome''' - if you would like to take part we are always looking for new members, sign up to the email list, and introduce yourself to volunteer.

Current members:

* Bruce Bannerman
* Bob (CI-StPaul) Basques
* Landon Blake
* Howard Butler
* Arnulf Christl
* [[User:JoCook|Jo Cook]]
* Jody Garnett (chair)
* Dimitris Kotzinos
* Tom Kralidis
* Julien-Samuel Lacroix
* Mark Lucas
* Steve Lime
* Daniel Morissette
* Markus Schneider
* Cameron Shorter
* Norman Vine
* Frank Warmerdam

'''Thanks you''' - we ask that volunteers remain active, joining the discussion and voting on the email list. If you are unable to take part please send us an email. As volunteers we understand that life can get in the way of advocacy – you are welcome to rejoin at any time. We will also retire inactive members as needed. Prior members:

* Robert Bray
* Chris Holmes
* Judit Mays
* Jeff McKenna
* Markus Neteler
* Paul Spencer
* Jeroen Ticheler

=== Committee Operation ===

The incubation committee operates within the OSGeo committee guidelines, operating in a close working relationship with the OSGeo board as reflected in our responsibilities above.

* Voting members: Voting members are maintained on this page as outlined below. This committee is volunteer based with committee member ship driven by email request to be added or removed. Inactive members (see below) are removed as needed to preserve committee function.
* Project mentors: Have volunteered to represent our organization at a personal level as a guest on the projects email list and meetings. Project mentors are responsible for recommending when a project is ready for graduation based on this first hand experience. For more information see mentor guidelines.
* Committee chair: Committee chair appointed by motion, result forward to the board for approval and recognition as an officer of the foundation. Committee chair is responsible for operation of the committee.
* Communication: This committee operates on the [https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/incubator incubator mailing list]. With the occasional breakout IRC meeting, hangout, or phone call to explore specific issues.
* Decision making: Decision making is performed by email motion. Motions are held open for a two week period. Each motion requires a 50% quorum within the two week period. Voting consists of +1 (approval), +0 (slight agreement), -0 (slight disagreement), -1 (against). The committee chair is responsible for replying to the email thread with voting results and motion resolution.
** Email motions should be clearly worded and have a subject line “Motion:”.
** Motions are held open for a two week period to give everyone a chance to respond, this accounts for volunteers that are only available on weekends.
** At discretion of the chair a motion may be held open longer than two weeks.
** If a motion does not gather a 50% response within a two week period we may need to revisit our active member list – removing members that have not voted within the last year.
** Voting +0 and -0 are a good way to reach quorum for volunteers that have not had a chance to follow the discussion.
** There is no veto in the incubation committee, but we tend to respect -1 votes and withdraw motions that are divisive. It is noted that when reviewing graduation checklists -1 votes tend to track outstanding issues that are then addressed within the voting period.
* Independence: Our mandate is focused on providing to the OSGeo board as outlined above.

Example email:

subject: motion: accept blink as a community project

The following motion has been made by Landon Blake:

Motion to accept Blink Raster as an community project.

This motion is held open for two weeks closing January 29th, requiring 50% quorum,
from the following incubation committee members:

- Bruce Bannerman
- Bob (CI-StPaul) Basques
- Landon Blake +1 initial motion
- Howard Butler
- Arnulf Christl
- Jody Garnett
- Dimitris Kotzinos
- Tom Kralidis
- Julien-Samuel Lacroix
- Mark Lucas
- Steve Lime
- Daniel Morissette
- Markus Schneider
- Cameron Shorter
- Norman Vine
- Frank Warmerdam

A subsequent email will be sent when the motion is completed, either by the elapsed time period, or by unanimous consent before the closing period.

== Documents ==

* Official incubator public web page is at: https://www.osgeo.org/about/committees/incubation/ (with members list).
* [[Incubation FAQ]]
* [[Official_IncCom_Documents]]
* Incubation process docs: https://www.osgeo.org/about/committees/incubation/incubation-process/ (original [[Official_IncCom_Documents|wiki draft documents]])
* [[Incubation Badges]]

Draft or Example Documents
* Draft [[Commiter Responsibilities Guidelines]]
* OSGeo Distribution and Committer [[http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/legal/licenses.html licenses] which can be used as is, or as an example for projects starting off with participatory open source.
** Geotools Copyright Assignment ([http://download.osgeo.org/osgeo/legal/GeotoolsAssignmentToOSGeo.pdf pdf], [http://download.osgeo.org/osgeo/legal/GeotoolsAssignmentToOSGeo.odt odt]) - previous example
** [[Project Copyright Assignment]] - previous example
* [[Contributor Agreement]] and FAQ
* [[Incubation Phases]] proposal

Document Refresh 2014
* [[Project Graduation Checklist]]

Projects:
* [[OSGeo Labs]] - for OSGeo related projects that haven't reached incubation status
* List of [[Project Steering Committees]]

Reference:
* [[Project Infrastructure Migration]]
* [http://producingoss.com/html-chunk/index.html Producing OSS] - by Karl Fogel - an excellent primer on running an FOSS project.

Reports:
* [[Incubation Committee Report 2012]]
* [[Incubation Committee Report 2011]]

Trac:
* [http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&component=Incubator&order=priority Open Incubator Trac Issues]
* [http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&component=Incubator&keywords=%7Eapplication&order=priority Pending Incubation Applications]

Discussion:
* [[5-star-rating]] - discussion about more fine incubation procedure
Reference:

== Meetings and Reports ==
Meetings are scheduled via [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/incubator Mailing List] and take place via [[Getting_Started#Jump_on_IRC | IRC]] at the times specified in the [[Foundation Calendar]].
* [[IncCom Meeting1|First Meeting]] - March 13th 2006
* [[IncCom Meeting2|Second Meeting]] - March 20th 2006
* [[IncCom Meeting3|Third Meeting]] - March 27th 2006
* [[IncCom Meeting4|Fourth Meeting]] - April 10th 2006
* [[IncCom Meeting5|Fifth Meeting]] - April 24th 2006
* [[IncCom Meeting6|Sixth Meeting]] - June 19th 2006
* [[IncCom Meeting7|Seventh Meeting]] - August 7th 2006
* [[IncCom Meeting8|Eighth Meeting]] - October 30th 2006
* [[IncCom Meeting9|Nineth Meeting]] - February 12th 2007
* [[IncCom Meeting10|Tenth Meeting]] - June 11th 2007
* [[IncCom Meeting11|Eleventh Meeting]] - October 29th 2007
* [[IncCom Meeting12|Twelfth Meeting]] - September 8th 2008
* [[IncCom Meeting13|Thirteenth Meeting]] - October 29th 2009
* [[IncCom Meeting14|Fourteenth Meeting]] - March 1th 2010
* [[IncCom Meeting15]] - Nov 21 2011
* [[IncCom Meeting16]] - Jan 17 2012
* [[IncCom Meeting17]] - March 19 2012
* [[IncCom Meeting18]] - May 21 2012
* [[IncCom Meeting19]] - July 23 2012
* [[IncCom Meeting20]] - Sep 24 2012
* [[IncCom Meeting21]] - Feb 18 2013
* [[IncCom Report22]] - 2013 Q2
* [[IncCom Report23]] - 2013 Q3
* [[IncCom Report24]] - 2014 Q1
* [[Fall 2014 Committee Report for OSGeo Journal]]

== Incubator ==

The OSGeo incubation process takes place in three stages:

# Initial Application
# Incubation
## Project Status: project details, and a few resourcing questions for the system admin committee (see [[Project Status Template]]).
## Provenance Review: quick check to ensure the project is open source and has permission to distribute its source code.
## Final Checklist: review the project procedures and gather requested information for OSGeo participation
# Graduation

The following projects are currently in OSGeo incubation. The links provided are used to track the progress of incubation projects and are used by the developer team (and OSGeo mentor). In many cases the links will take you to a project specific wiki or website in order to be closer to their target community.

When projects have completed the incubation checklist their mentor will recommend them to the Incubation committee for graduation.

== Projects Currently In Incubation ==
=== IstSOS ===

'''IstSOS''': http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/IstSOS
# [[IstSOS Provenance Review]]
# [[IstSOS Incubation Status]]
# ''Mentor'': [[User: Jeff_McKenna|Jeff McKenna]]

=== MetaCRS ===

'''MetaCRS''': http://trac.osgeo.org/metacrs/
# [[MetaCRS Incubation Status]]
# no provenance review provided
# no check list provided
# ''Mentor'': [[User: Dmorissette|Daniel Morissette]]

=== Opticks ===

'''Opticks''': http://opticks.org
# [[Opticks Incubation Status]]
# no provenance review provided
# [[Opticks Incubation Checklist]]
# ''Mentor'': [[User: Mark_Lucas|Mark Lucas]]

=== OSGeoLive ===

'''OSGeoLive''': http://live.osgeo.org
# [https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/2002 OSGeoLive Incubation Application]
# [[Live_GIS_Incubation_Graduation_Checklist|OSGeoLive Graduation Checklist]]
# ''Mentor'': [[Jody Garnett]]

=== Oskari ===

'''Oskari''': http://oskari.org/
# [[Oskari Incubation Application]]
# [[Oskari Incubation Status]]
# ''Mentor'': [[Arnulf Christl]]

=== TEAM Engine ===

'''TEAM Engine''': http://teamengine.sourceforge.net
# status template not filled out
# no provenance review provided
# no check list provided
# ''Mentor'': [[User: Jdeolive|Justin Deoliveira]]

=== ZOO-Project ===

'''ZOO-Project''': http://www.zoo-project.org
# [[ZOO-Project_Incubation_Status]]
# [http://zoo-project.org/trac/wiki/Provenance%20Review Provenance Review]
# [[ZOO-Project Incubation Checklist]]
# ''Mentor'': [[User: Kotzino|Dimitris Kotzinos]]

== Graduated ==

The following status and provenance documents are for historical purposes, and are no longer actively maintained.

* Community Mapbuilder: [[Community Mapbuilder Incubation Progress]] | [[Community Mapbuilder Provenance Review]] (Entered 2006-02-04, Graduated 2006-07-14, Mentor: Steve Lime)
* deegree: [[deegree Incubation Status]] | [[deegree Provenance Review]] (Entered: 2008-06-09, Graduated 2010-02-04, Mentor: Jody Garnett)
* FDO: [[FDO Incubation Status]] | [[FDO Provenance Review]] (Entered 2007-03-06, Graduated 2008-02-08, Mentor: Daniel Morissette)
* GEOS: [[GEOS Incubation Status]] | [[GEOS Provenance Review]] (Entered 2007-11-02, Graduated 2012-04-28, Mentor: Frank Warmerdam)
* GDAL/OGR: [[GDAL Incubation Progress]] | [[GDAL Provenance Review]] (Entered 2006-02-04, Graduated 2008-02-08, Mentor: Paul Spencer)
* Geomajas: [[GeoMajas Incubation Status]] | [[GeoMajas Provenance Review]] (Entered 2010-03-04, Graduated 2010-11-22, Mentor: Paul Spencer)
* GeoNetwork: [[GeoNetwork Incubation Status]] | [[GeoNetwork Provenance Review]] (Entered 2006-11-10, Graduated 2008-06-21, Mentor: Jody Garnett)
* GeoNode: [[GeoNode Incubation Status]] [[GeoNode Provenance Review]] [[GeoNode Incubation Checklist]] (Entered 2015-08-13, Graduated 2016-11-09, Mentor: David Bitner)
* GeoMOOSE: [[GeoMoose Incubation Status]] | [[GeoMoose Provenance Review]] | [[GeoMoose Incubation Checklist]] (Entered 2011-12-08, Graduated 2013-04-19, Mentor: Jody Garnett)
* GeoTools: [[GeoTools Incubation Progress]] | [[GeoTools Provenance Review]] (Entered 2006-02-27, Graduated 2008-07-18, Mentor: Cameron Shorter)
* GeoServer: [http://old.geoserver.org/OSGEO%20incubation%20questionnaire.html Incubation Questionnaire] | [http://old.geoserver.org/GeoServer%20Incubation%20Status.html Incubation Status] | [https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/wiki/GeoServer-Provenance-Review Provenance Review] | [https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/wiki/GeoServer-Incubation-Checklist Incubation Checklist] | [[Geoserver Mentor Notes]] (Entered 2009-11-05, Graduated 2013-03-15, Mentor: Landon Blake)
* gvSIG: [[gvSIG Incubation Status]] | [[gvSIG Provenance Review]] | [[gvSIG Incubation Checklist]] (Entered 2007-09-07, Graduated 2015-11-26, Mentor: Dimitris Kotzinos)
* GRASS: [[GRASS Incubation Progress]] | [[GRASS Provenance Review]] (Entered 2006-02-27, Graduated 2008-02-08, Mentor: Norman Vine and Arnulf Christl)
* Mapbender: [[Mapbender Incubation Progress]] | [[Mapbender Provenance Review]] (Entered 2006-02-04, Graduated 2006-07-15, Mentor: Paul Spencer)
* MapFish: [[MapFish Incubation Status]] | [[MapFish Provenance Review]] (Entered 2009-11-09, Graduated 2011-09-01, Mentor: Gary Sherman)
* MapGuide Open: [[MapGuide Incubation Status]] | [[MapGuide Provenance Review]] (Entered 2006-02-04, Graduated 2007-03-02, Mentor: Daniel Morissette)
* MapServer: [[MapServer incubation status]] | [[MapServer Provenance Review]] (Entered 2006-02-04, Graduated 2008-12-16, Mentor: Chris Holmes)
* Marble: [[Marble Incubation Status]] | [[Marble Code Provenance Review]] | [[Marble Graduation Checklist]] (Entered 2012-10-12, Graduated 2013-10-17, Mentor: Arnulf Christl)
* OpenLayers: [[OpenLayers Incubation Status]] | [[OpenLayers Provenance Review]] (Entered 2006-11-10, Graduated 2007-11-16, Mentor: Howard Butler)
* Orfeo ToolBox (OTB): [[OTB Project Incubation Status]] | [[OTB Code Provenance Review]] (Entered 2009-10-26, Graduated 2017-07-20, Mentor: Landon Blake)
* PostGIS: [[PostGIS Incubation Status]] | [[PostGIS Provenance Review]] (Entered 2009-08-06, Graduated 2012-06-07, Mentor: Arnulf Christl)
* pycsw: [https://github.com/geopython/pycsw/wiki/Project-Status Incubation Status] | [https://github.com/geopython/pycsw/wiki/Project-Graduation-Checklist Graduation Checklist] | [https://github.com/geopython/pycsw/wiki/pycsw-Provenance-Review Provenance Review] (Entered 2013-03-30, Graduated 2015-03-05, Mentor: Jeff McKenna)
* PyWPS: [[PyWPS|Incubation Status]] | [https://github.com/geopython/pywps/wiki/ProjectGraduationChecklist Graduation Checklist] | [https://github.com/geopython/pywps/wiki/ProjectProvenanceReview Provenance Review] (Entered 2009-02-27, Graduated 2018-04-11, Mentor: Tom Kralidis)
* OSSIM: [[OSSIM incubation status]] | [http://trac.osgeo.org/ossim/wiki/ossimprovenance OSSIM Provenance Review] (Entered 2006-02-27, Graduated 2009-06-02, Mentor: Richard Gould)
* QGIS: [[QGIS Incubation Status]] | [[QGIS Provenance Review]] (Entered 2007-03-02, Graduated 2008-03-14, Mentor: Bob Bray)

The initial projects to go through the incubation process helped define what is required. The above pages tracked the progress (and capture the experience) of these projects.

== Withdrawn ==

The following projects did not complete incubation:

* '''[http://www.rasdaman.org rasdaman]''': : [[ rasdaman Incubation Status ]] | [http://rasdaman.org/wiki/OSGeoCodeProvenance Code Provenance] | [http://www.rasdaman.org/wiki/OSGeoIncubationChecklist Incubation Checklist] (Mentor [[User: Bruce.bannerman|Bruce Bannerman]] )

==OSGeo Community Projects==
The Incubation Committee also assists [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Community_Projects OSGeo Community Projects].

[[Category:Incubation]]
[[Category:Committees]]

User:Arnulf Christl

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Arnulf: /* Arnulf Christl */

{{OSGeo Member
|Name=Arnulf Christl
|JobTitle=Director
|Company=Metaspatial
|Country=Austria
|State=Tyrol
|City=Innsbruck
|Coordinate=47.265 11.382
|LocalChapter=FOSSGIS
|Email=arnulf.christl(æ)metaspatial.net
|Phone=+49 172 2958 004
|Website=http://metaspatial.net/
|Photo=Arnulf-christl suited.jpg
|Languages=German; English; Spanish;
|Info=Agile Coach with expertize in software architecture, Open Source and geospatial software. Currently building and managing agile teams at Telekom AG and providing SDI consultancy for the Computing Center of Minden Ravensberg Lippe (KRZ).
}}
{{OSGeo Experience
|User=Yes
|Committee=Yes
|Board=No
|Coder=No
|Translate=No
|PSC=No
|ExBoard=Yes
|Charter=Yes
|Chair=No
|SolKatz=Yes
|Committer=No
}}
=== [[Arnulf Christl]] ===

[[File:Arnulf-christl suited.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Arnulf Christl in Norway 2014]]

Director, [http://www.metaspatial.net metaspatial]

Location: Innsbruck, Austria [http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=47.265&lon=11.382&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF (show on OpenStreetMap)]

Arnulf Christl is [http://arnulf.us/Geospatial_Systems_Architect Geospatial Systems Architect], founding and [http://www.osgeo.org/charter_members Charter Member] of OSGeo, served on the [[Board of Directors]] from 2006 to 2012 and was OSGeo president from 2008 to 2012. He contributes to the [[Incubation Committee]], [[SAC]] and the [[Conference Committee]]. Arnulf is a versed speaker and keynoter at conferences, gives workshops and moderates panels. He is knowledgeable in OSGeo technology, agile development, [[Open Source]] methodology, [[:Category:Advocacy | data licensing]] and [[OpenStreetMap]]. Read [[Arnulf Christl | more....]]

; OSGeo Experience [[File:OSGeo_exboard.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Board_Members]] [[File:OSGeo_charter.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Charter_Members]] [[File:OSGeo_committee.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#Developers_and_Committee_Members]] [[File:OSGeo_user.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Community_Members]][[File:SolKatz.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#Sol_Katz_Award]]
:
* Represents OSGeo at conferences, trade shows and [http://arnulf.us/Seven:Current_events events].
* Pursues [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Category:Advocacy FOSS advocacy]
* Develops and promotes FOSSGIS [[Business]] Models
* Helps to build and maintain a bridge between [[OSGeo]] and [[OGC]]
* SysOp of the OSGeo Wiki ([http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers&group=sysop see all])
* [[Chief Returning Officer]] for the [[:Category:Elections | OSGeo Elections]] in 2012 and 2013

; Contact
: Email: arnulf(æ)osgeo.org. For business inquiries please contact arnulf.christl(æ)metaspatial.net
: Phone: +49 172 2958 004
: IRC: seven

; Spoken Languages: German (Muttersprache), English (fluent), Spanish (suficiente)

; Profile last updated: 2015-06-24

[[Category:OSGeo Advocate]]

User:Arnulf Christl

2018-06-11T19:15:12Z

Arnulf:

{{OSGeo Member
|Name=Arnulf Christl
|JobTitle=Director
|Company=Metaspatial
|Country=Austria
|State=Tyrol
|City=Innsbruck
|Coordinate=47.265 11.382
|LocalChapter=FOSSGIS
|Email=arnulf.christl(æ)metaspatial.net
|Phone=+49 172 2958 004
|Website=http://metaspatial.net/
|Photo=Arnulf-christl suited.jpg
|Languages=German; English; Spanish;
|Info=Agile Coach with expertize in software architecture, Open Source and geospatial software. Currently building and managing agile teams at Telekom AG and providing SDI consultancy for the Computing Center of Minden Ravensberg Lippe (KRZ).
}}
{{OSGeo Experience
|User=Yes
|Committee=Yes
|Board=No
|Coder=No
|Translate=No
|PSC=No
|ExBoard=Yes
|Charter=Yes
|Chair=No
|SolKatz=Yes
|Committer=No
}}
=== [[Arnulf Christl]] ===

[[File:Arnulf-christl suited.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Arnulf Christl in Norway 2014]]

Director, [http://www.metaspatial.net metaspatial]

Location: Inssbruck, Austria [http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=47.265&lon=11.382&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF (show on OpenStreetMap)]

Arnulf Christl is [http://arnulf.us/Geospatial_Systems_Architect Geospatial Systems Architect], founding and [http://www.osgeo.org/charter_members Charter Member] of OSGeo, served on the [[Board of Directors]] from 2006 to 2012 and was OSGeo president from 2008 to 2012. He contributes to the [[Incubation Committee]], [[SAC]] and the [[Conference Committee]]. Arnulf is a versed speaker and keynoter at conferences, gives workshops and moderates panels. He is knowledgeable in OSGeo technology, agile development, [[Open Source]] methodology, [[:Category:Advocacy | data licensing]] and [[OpenStreetMap]]. Read [[Arnulf Christl | more....]]

; OSGeo Experience [[File:OSGeo_exboard.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Board_Members]] [[File:OSGeo_charter.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Charter_Members]] [[File:OSGeo_committee.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#Developers_and_Committee_Members]] [[File:OSGeo_user.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Community_Members]][[File:SolKatz.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#Sol_Katz_Award]]
:
* Represents OSGeo at conferences, trade shows and [http://arnulf.us/Seven:Current_events events].
* Pursues [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Category:Advocacy FOSS advocacy]
* Develops and promotes FOSSGIS [[Business]] Models
* Helps to build and maintain a bridge between [[OSGeo]] and [[OGC]]
* SysOp of the OSGeo Wiki ([http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers&group=sysop see all])
* [[Chief Returning Officer]] for the [[:Category:Elections | OSGeo Elections]] in 2012 and 2013

; Contact
: Email: arnulf(æ)osgeo.org. For business inquiries please contact arnulf.christl(æ)metaspatial.net
: Phone: +49 172 2958 004
: IRC: seven

; Spoken Languages: German (Muttersprache), English (fluent), Spanish (suficiente)

; Profile last updated: 2015-06-24

[[Category:OSGeo Advocate]]

Incubation Committee

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Arnulf: /* OSGeoLive */ subtitle fixed

Marketing Committee Members

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Arnulf: /* Committee Members */ removed myself due to inactivity

== Committee Members ==
Committee members are eligible to vote. The process to become Committee member is to send a nomination (self nomination is fine) with an introduction of the candidate. The committee will then make a motion at the next meeting.

* [[User:pmbatty | Peter Batty]]
* [[User: NBozon | Nicolas Bozon]]
* [[User:Astrid_Emde | Astrid Emde]]
* [[User:Jive | Jody Garnett]]
* Harrison Grundy
* [[User:Ortelius | Jeff Johnson ]]
* [[User:wildintellect|Alex Mandel]]
* Peter Mooney
* [[User:camerons | Cameron Shorter]]
* [[User:Gsteinmon | Guido Stein]]
* [[Marc Vloemans | Marc Vloemans]], Chair

=== Inactive Members ===
* [[User:Mmontesinos|Miguel Montesinos]]
* [[User:Pnaciona | Perry Nacionales]]
* [[User:bitner| David Bitner]] (occasionally)
* [[User:tbowden|Tim Bowden]]

=== Past Members ===
''Please help list past members here for reference and Kudos''
* [[User:Mpg | Michael P. Gerlek]]
* [[User:Torsten Brassat | Torsten Brassat]]
* [[User:Nathalie Mainland | Nathalie Mainland]]
* [[User:Tmitchell | Tyler Mitchell]] (chair)
* [[User:Ticheler | Jeroen Ticheler]]
* [[User:Dan | Daniele Nascimento]]
* [[User:Darkblue_b | Brian M Hamlin]]
* [[User: JoCook | Jo Cook]]
* [[User:Arnulf Christl]]

[[Category:Marketing]]

Europe archive

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Arnulf: /* List of initial members */

= Europe =

Welcome to the wiki page of the Europe OSGeo chapter.

== ToDo list ==

* Decide about the legal structure: Done: (BOF FOSS4G Paris)
* Recognize the formation of the osgeo european chapter: Done: (F2F meeting Board OSGeo - Boston)
* publish the Bylaws
* Create activity calender
* Set up priorities and goals for 2017/2018
* Write meeting report of the meeting October 5 2016 (Maria - Vasile - Dirk): obsolete - did not happen

== Introduction ==

FOSS4G Europe is rooted in the FOSS4G Central and Eastern Europe conference series, back in 2012. The latter evolved in 2014 as the first edition of FOSS4G Europe in Bremen. The conference is now becoming the main european FOSS4G event, gathering people and OSGeo local chapters from all over Europe and beyond.

Since the conference in Bremen, thoughts and ideas where exchanged to organise OSGeo more on a European basis. The Industry group was started, a platform of people supporting the idea arose, but there was no real initiative for action.

This year we (OSGeoEU) have the ambition to organise a legal entity OSGEO-EU to create a stronger software group in Europe to defend the rights of open source from the perspective of the Geo-ecosystem.

In preparation for this official expression of interest, a couple of
meetings have already taken place.
a physical BOF @FOSS4G 2014 in Bremen, some mails, a BOF @FOSS4G 2015 in Como and some one physical meetings.

== Why should OSGeo have a European local chapter ==

* Europe has specific needs in terms adoption rate of open source software.
* An important initiative called 'INSPIRE' needs specific localised attention.
* OSGeo.EU is a sparring partner and representation (Single point of contact) for the European institutions in Brussels on behalve OSGeo, the other committees, local chapters and projects. Giving the existing local chapters a voice in Brussels.
* Europe also has specific business ecosystem.
** more than 99% of all the European businesses are SME's
** software industry in Europe is as big as the software industry in the US, but the driving forces are more divided
** FLOSS can be used as an opportunity to create a strong industry leadership in Europe
** OSGeo.EU can play a supporting role in this process

== Mission and objectives ==

After discussion amongst the active local chapter members we come to the
following list of mission objectives:

* Community-building and networking around specific European themes

* support the European OSGeo members using FOSS4G software, help them to organise and bring into contact with governmental agencies and research institutes. Help them with European funded projects.

* encourage interoperability in European projects

* support European open standards and European directives such as INSPIRE

* provide support for the use of OSGeo software in education via European curriculum development, outreach, and capacity building

* to encourage communication between the different European local chapters

* to encourage different communities to work together where relevant

* Organisation of events

* Networking with other typically European organisations and groups (notably OSM, JRC, European projects, FIWARE, EUROGI, SMESpire, ... )

* Being logical parter to European Commission to discuss about open source software for geospatial and open geospatial data

== List of initial members ==

The European OSGeo Chapter has the support of the following initial
founding members (alphabetic?? - first name):

* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Dirkf Dirk Frigne] - Vice president
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Vasile Vasile Crăciunescu] - board member
* [[Jáchym Čepický]] - Secretary of OSGeo
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Schpidi Stephan Meißl] - charter member
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Till_Adams Till Adams] - charter member
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:MarcVloemans Marc Vloemans] - Charter member
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Neteler Markus Neteler] - Charter member
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Jgrocha Jorge Gustavo Rocha] - Charter member
* [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Alexbruy Alexander Bruy] - Charter member
* [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:OliverMay Oliver May] - Charter member
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Delawen María Arias de Reyna] - charter member
* [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Angelos_Tzotsos Angelos Tzotsos] - Board member
* [[Jeff McKenna]] - President Emeritus
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:ianturton Ian Turton] - charter member
* [[Jorge Sanz]] - Charter member
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:djay Gérald Fenoy] - Charter member
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:ajolma Ari Jolma] - Charter member
* Kari Salovaara - Charter member
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Milena_Nowotarska Milena Nowotarska] Milena Nowotarska - Charter member
* [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Maxi71 Massimiliano Cannata] - Charter member
* [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Nbozon Nicolas Bozon] - Charter member
* [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Maria Maria Brovelli] - Board member
* [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Silli Silvia Franceschi] - Charter member
* [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:moovida Andrea Antonello] - Charter member
* [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Mantonovic Milan Antonovic] - Charter member
* Mirko Cardoso - Charter member
* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Mlechner Marco Lechner] - charter member
* [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Helmut_Kudrnovsky Helmut Kudrnovsky] - charter member
* [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Stevenfeldman Steven Feldman] - Charter member
* [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Tfr42 Torsten Friebe] - Charter member
* [[Arnulf Christl]]

== Some early stuff ==
[[Local_Chapter_EU_History History]]

==Building relations with other European communities==
===SMESpire===
* Goal: look if SMESPire is a good platform to organise the European FOSS Geo-ICT industry
* action: contact Giacomo Martirano / action: Dirk Frigne - ongoing
===FIWare===
* [[https://www.fiware.org/]]
* action: investigate if structural relationship can be of interest for OSGeo.
===new entry===
* reference to the event
*register your name if you will participate

== Tradeshows and events ==
* European Events where OSGeo is represented

===ISPRS===
[[ISPRS 2016]]
* contact: [[User:Jachym|Jachym]]

=== FOSSDEM ===

[https://fosdem.org/2016/practical/ FOSSDEM 2016]
* contact: [[User:johanvdw|Johanvdw]]

=== GWF2016 ===
[http://geospatialworldforum.org/ GWF 2016]
* contact: [[User:Dirkf|Dirk Frigne]]

=== FOSS4G 2016 ===
[http://2016.foss4g.org/home.html FOSS4G 2016 Bonn]
* OSGeo Europe local chapter BoF https://www.flickr.com/photos/stevenfeldman/29294641505/in/pool-foss4g/
* contact: [[User:MarcVloemans|Marc Vloemans]]

=== FOSS4G 2017 ===
[http://europe.foss4g.org/2017/ FOSS4G 2017 Paris]
* topic talks - volunteers
* contact: [[User:Dirkf|Dirk Frigne]]
** TT01 An overview of the best Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial
** TT02 OSGeo-Live for INSPIRE
** TT03 Sustainability of OSGeo projects
** TT04 FOSS4G-Europe welcomes new volunteers to the OSGeo community
** TT05 The future of SDI
** TT06 Economics of FOSS4G - "Sustainability of OSGeo projects"

=== INSPIRE 2017 Kehl / Strasbourg ===
[https://inspire.ec.europa.eu/events/inspire-conference-2017 INSPIRE Conference 2017 Kehl / Strasbourg]
 
Goal is to promote OSGeo during the conference. One of the actions is a presentation of the OSGeo-Live environment, also ready for INSPIRE.
 
following OSGeo members are attending:
* [[User:Dirkf|Dirk Frigne]] - 4 - 8 sept 2017
* Add your name here if you attend

== Communication & Comments ==

=== Mailing list ===

* OSGeo Europe ([https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/eu subscribe]) ([http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/European-Union-Chapter-f5250537.html search])

=== IRC Chat ===

* IRC-channel: #osgeo-europe channel on freenode.net
* how to connect: choose your favorite IRC client, or go directly through browser with [https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=osgeo-europe webchat]

=== Meeting minutes ===

==== Meeting 24 May 2016 ====
* workshop on the initial wiki page - discussion mission and goals
* change the status from draft to final
* decide for formal proposal to the next board meeting
* attendees:
 
Till Adams (Fossgis) 
Marc Vloemans (Chair Marketing committee) 
Dirk Frigne (Vice President OSGeo) 
Pieter De Graef (Charter member) 
Gert-Jan van der Weijden (OSGeo.nl) 
Johan Van de Wauw (OSGeo.be) 

==== BoF 24 Aug 2016 ====
* bof at FOSS4G 2016 [[Europe-meeting-2016-08|2016_08_24]]

==== BoF 19 Jul 2017 ====
* bof at FOSS4G-Europe [[Europe-meeting-2017-07|2017_07_19]]

[[Category:Local Chapters]]
[[Category:Europe]]

OGC Membership

2017-10-17T15:44:14Z

Arnulf: /* Current Members */ end of terms updated

This page describes OSGeo's process for selecting individuals as per the [[OSGeo signs Memorandum of Understanding with OGC | agreement between OGC and OSGeo]] by which up to six OSGeo community members can become OGC Individual Members free of cost.

== Members of OGC and OSGeo ==
Many individuals, companies, universities and public administrations involved with OSGeo and Open Source software are also regular members of the OGC. The full list is available at the [http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/members OGC web site]. A lot of interaction and communication is already maintained through these members.

== OSGeo Member Access to OGC Membership ==
Especially innovative new projects with no existing infrastructure or a regular commercial champion often did not have a chance to participate in the internal OGC processes. Both the OGC and OSGeo have a mutual interest in facilitating this collaboration and have as per their [[OSGeo signs Memorandum of Understanding with OGC | Memorandum of Understanding]] agreed to allow for six OGC Individual Memberships to be used by OSGeo members. To obtain a membership, you must:
# Determine if you are eligible for membership, based on the [http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/join/level/individual OGC Individual Membership] rules.
# Submit a short summary of why you want an OGC membership and what work you plan to do with it. This summary should be sent to the selection committee (listed below).
# Every six months, send a summary of what you have done with your membership to the selection committee and the standards list.

Memberships are valid for one year, after which you may reapply by submitting a short summary of why you want an OGC membership.

== Selection Committee ==
The selection committee keeps track of who is using our OGC memberships and what they are doing with them. The committee is appointed by the board of directors and periodically reports back to the board on the status of our OGC activity.

The members of this committee are currently:
* [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [[Bruce Bannerman]]

The committee operates transparently, recording its action on the [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/standards Standards Mailing List].

== Current Members ==
# [[Angelos Tzotsos]] term ends on 2018-03-31 ''(confirmed active on 2016-09-10; reported to list on 2016-09-10)''
# [[User:Bruce.bannerman | Bruce Bannerman]] term ends on 2018-08-27 ''(confirmed active on 2017-08-30; reported to list on 2017-08-30)''
# [[Jáchym Čepický]] term ends on 2018-02-28 ''(confirmed active on 2017-04-28; reported to list on 2016-09-08)''
# [[User:lastools | Martin Isenburg]] term ends on 2018-07-06 ''(confirmed active on 2017-01-31; reported to list on 2015-09-10)''
# [[Even Rouault]] currently applying
# ''Vacant''

[[Category:OGC]]

OGC Membership

2017-10-16T15:47:52Z

Arnulf: /* Selection Committee */

This page describes OSGeo's process for selecting individuals as per the [[OSGeo signs Memorandum of Understanding with OGC | agreement between OGC and OSGeo]] by which up to six OSGeo community members can become OGC Individual Members free of cost.

== Members of OGC and OSGeo ==
Many individuals, companies, universities and public administrations involved with OSGeo and Open Source software are also regular members of the OGC. The full list is available at the [http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/members OGC web site]. A lot of interaction and communication is already maintained through these members.

== OSGeo Member Access to OGC Membership ==
Especially innovative new projects with no existing infrastructure or a regular commercial champion often did not have a chance to participate in the internal OGC processes. Both the OGC and OSGeo have a mutual interest in facilitating this collaboration and have as per their [[OSGeo signs Memorandum of Understanding with OGC | Memorandum of Understanding]] agreed to allow for six OGC Individual Memberships to be used by OSGeo members. To obtain a membership, you must:
# Determine if you are eligible for membership, based on the [http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/join/level/individual OGC Individual Membership] rules.
# Submit a short summary of why you want an OGC membership and what work you plan to do with it. This summary should be sent to the selection committee (listed below).
# Every six months, send a summary of what you have done with your membership to the selection committee and the standards list.

Memberships are valid for one year, after which you may reapply by submitting a short summary of why you want an OGC membership.

== Selection Committee ==
The selection committee keeps track of who is using our OGC memberships and what they are doing with them. The committee is appointed by the board of directors and periodically reports back to the board on the status of our OGC activity.

The members of this committee are currently:
* [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [[Bruce Bannerman]]

The committee operates transparently, recording its action on the [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/standards Standards Mailing List].

== Current Members ==
# [[Angelos Tzotsos]] term ends on 2018-03-31 ''(confirmed active on 2016-09-10; reported to list on 2016-09-10)''
# [[User:Bruce.bannerman | Bruce Bannerman]] term ends on 2018-08-27 ''(confirmed active on 2017-08-30; reported to list on 2017-08-30)''
# [[Jáchym Čepický]] term ends on 2018-02-28 ''(confirmed active on 2017-04-28; reported to list on 2016-09-08)''
# [[User:lastools | Martin Isenburg]] term overextended, currently applying ''(confirmed active on 2017-01-31; reported to list on 2015-09-10)''
# [[Even Rouault]] currently applying
# ''Vacant''

[[Category:OGC]]

OGC Membership

2017-10-16T09:31:06Z

Arnulf: /* Current Members */ memberships updated

This page describes OSGeo's process for selecting individuals as per the [[OSGeo signs Memorandum of Understanding with OGC | agreement between OGC and OSGeo]] by which up to six OSGeo community members can become OGC Individual Members free of cost.

== Members of OGC and OSGeo ==
Many individuals, companies, universities and public administrations involved with OSGeo and Open Source software are also regular members of the OGC. The full list is available at the [http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/members OGC web site]. A lot of interaction and communication is already maintained through these members.

== OSGeo Member Access to OGC Membership ==
Especially innovative new projects with no existing infrastructure or a regular commercial champion often did not have a chance to participate in the internal OGC processes. Both the OGC and OSGeo have a mutual interest in facilitating this collaboration and have as per their [[OSGeo signs Memorandum of Understanding with OGC | Memorandum of Understanding]] agreed to allow for six OGC Individual Memberships to be used by OSGeo members. To obtain a membership, you must:
# Determine if you are eligible for membership, based on the [http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/join/level/individual OGC Individual Membership] rules.
# Submit a short summary of why you want an OGC membership and what work you plan to do with it. This summary should be sent to the selection committee (listed below).
# Every six months, send a summary of what you have done with your membership to the selection committee and the standards list.

Memberships are valid for one year, after which you may reapply by submitting a short summary of why you want an OGC membership.

== Selection Committee ==
The selection committee keeps track of who is using our OGC memberships and what they are doing with them. The committee is appointed by the board of directors and periodically reports back to the board on the status of our OGC activity.

The members of this committee are currently:
* [[Arnulf Christl]]
* [[Bruce Bannerman]]

The committee operates transparently, recording its action on the [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/standards Standards Mailing List].

== Current Members ==
# [[Angelos Tzotsos]] term ends on 2018-03-31 ''(confirmed active on 2016-09-10; reported to list on 2016-09-10)''
# [[User:Bruce.bannerman | Bruce Bannerman]] term ends on 2018-08-27 ''(confirmed active on 2017-08-30; reported to list on 2017-08-30)''
# [[Jáchym Čepický]] term ends on 2018-02-28 ''(confirmed active on 2017-04-28; reported to list on 2016-09-08)''
# [[User:lastools | Martin Isenburg]] term overextended, currently applying ''(confirmed active on 2017-01-31; reported to list on 2015-09-10)''
# [[Even Rouault]] currently applying
# ''Vacant''

[[Category:OGC]]

Oskari Incubation Status

2017-09-14T13:22:26Z

Arnulf:

==General==

#'''Has the project been approved for incubation by the OSGeo board?'''
Yes. The project passed the incubation motion on 23 April 2017 and was approved and confirmed by the Board of Directors in May (see [[Board Meeting 2017-05-11]]).
#'''Has an Incubation Mentor been assigned to the project?'''
Yes. [[Arnulf Christl]] volunteered as mentor.

== Infrastructure Transition ==

#'''Is the OSGeo bug tracker being used for the project? If not, why? Is the OSGeo mailing list manager (http://lists.osgeo.org/) being used for the project? If not, why?'''
No. An existing bug tracker is being used by the project: https://github.com/oskariorg/
#'''Is the OSGeo SVN being used for the project? If not, why?'''
No. An existing version control system is being used for the project: https://github.com/oskariorg/oskari-docs/issues
#'''Are binary and source downloads available from http://download.osgeo.org ? If not, why?'''
No. Downloads are available from the existing web site: http://oskari.org/download If OSGeo provides for a root directory http://oskari.osgeo.org the team would be happy to maintain a download link on that site.

== Community Functioning ==

#'''Is there a functioning user support mechanisms (ie. mailing list)?'''
The project currently provides support through a [https://oskari.slack.com/ Slack channel] with 188 registered users. Oskari is also startingto use the OSGeo Mailing list https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/oskari-user.

#'''Are source and binary downloads for the package available?'''
Downloads are available from the existing web site: http://oskari.org/download

#'''Has a Project Steering Committee been formed, and given control of the project?'''
Yes: https://github.com/oskariorg/oskari-docs/wiki/Project-Steering-Committee

#'''Does the Project Steering Committee have documentation on project procedures for PSC decisions, contributor guidelines?'''
Yes: https://github.com/oskariorg/oskari-docs/wiki/Project-Steering-Committee

#'''How many active developers are there? Are they from multiple organizations? Indicate number and some organizations involved.'''
* Sami Mäkinen, sami.makinen@nls.fi, National Land Survey of Finland
* Marko Kuosmanen, marko.kuosmanen@dimenteq.fi, Dimenteq Ltd
* Tapio Keisteri, tapio.keisteri@karttatieto.fi, Karttatieto Ltd
* Matti Pulakka, matti@pulakka.com, Spatineo Ltd
* Hanna Visuri, hanna.visuri@nls.fi, National Land Survey of Finland
* Tatjana Murtola, tatjana.murtola@nls.fi, National Land Survey of Finland
* Ilkka Nyholm, ilkka.nyholm@cgi.com, CGI Finland Ltd
* Pekka Helesuo, pekka.helesuo@siili.com, Siili Ltd
* Harri Pitkänen, harri.pitkanen@luke.fi, Natural Resources Institute Finland
* Jaakko Ruutiainen, jaakko.ruutiainen@sito.fi, Sito Ltd
* Tero Keskivalkama, tero.keski-valkama@cybercom.com,Cybercom Ltd
* Lukasz Strzyzewski, lukasz.strzyzewski@sito.fi, Sito Ltd
* Mikko Johansson, mikko.johansson@gmail.com, Qliktech Ltd

Find more details at https://github.com/oskariorg/oskari-server/graphs/contributors

==Foundation Membership==
#'''Have project documents been updated to reflect membership in the foundation, and the relationship of the project to the foundation? If not, indicate when this will occur.'''
The project documentation has not yet been modified. It was assumed that this can only happen after graduation as to avoid confusion about the official status.

#'''Has an effort been made to brand the project web site with OSGeo foundation web styling and branding marks? If not, indicate what is planned.'''
It was assumed that this can only happen after graduation as to avoid confusion about the official status. Tasked now.

==License==
https://github.com/oskariorg/oskari-docs/blob/master/LICENSE.md

==Code Copyright Review==
#'''Has a Code Provenance Review document been prepared for the project?'''
* All code has been developed by the registered developers listed on github who have signed the CLA. All external libraries have project compatible licenses. The project has been started as a regular Open Source project following the guidelines as set out by OSGeo. A file-per-file code review was therefore deemed superfluous.

#'''Have issues raised in the provenance review been adequately addressed? Indicate outstanding issues.'''
* Currently no outstanding issues.

#'''Are Committer Responsibilities Guidelines covering legal issues in place?'''
* http://www.oskari.org/documentation/development/how-to-contribute
* https://github.com/oskariorg/oskari-docs/blob/master/documents/CLA.txt

[[Category:Incubation]]

Incubation Committee

2017-09-14T13:21:18Z

Arnulf: /* Incubator */ added Oskari

Oskari Incubation Status

2017-09-14T13:20:18Z

Arnulf: initial committ

==General==

#'''Has the project been approved for incubation by the OSGeo board?'''
Yes. The project passed the incubation motion on 23 April 2017 and was approved and confirmed by the Board of Directors in May (see [[Board Meeting 2017-05-11]]).
#'''Has an Incubation Mentor been assigned to the project?'''
Yes. [[Arnulf Christl]] volunteered as mentor.

== Infrastructure Transition ==

#'''Is the OSGeo bug tracker being used for the project? If not, why? Is the OSGeo mailing list manager (http://lists.osgeo.org/) being used for the project? If not, why?'''
No. An existing bug tracker is being used by the project: https://github.com/oskariorg/
#'''Is the OSGeo SVN being used for the project? If not, why?'''
No. An existing version control system is being used for the project: https://github.com/oskariorg/oskari-docs/issues
#'''Are binary and source downloads available from http://download.osgeo.org ? If not, why?'''
No. Downloads are available from the existing web site: http://oskari.org/download If OSGeo provides for a root directory http://oskari.osgeo.org the team would be happy to maintain a download link on that site.

== Community Functioning ==

#'''Is there a functioning user support mechanisms (ie. mailing list)?'''
The project currently provides support through a [https://oskari.slack.com/ Slack channel] with 188 registered users. Oskari is also startingto use the OSGeo Mailing list https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/oskari-user.

#'''Are source and binary downloads for the package available?'''
Downloads are available from the existing web site: http://oskari.org/download

#'''Has a Project Steering Committee been formed, and given control of the project?'''
Yes: https://github.com/oskariorg/oskari-docs/wiki/Project-Steering-Committee

#'''Does the Project Steering Committee have documentation on project procedures for PSC decisions, contributor guidelines?'''
Yes: https://github.com/oskariorg/oskari-docs/wiki/Project-Steering-Committee

#'''How many active developers are there? Are they from multiple organizations? Indicate number and some organizations involved.'''
* Sami Mäkinen, sami.makinen@nls.fi, National Land Survey of Finland
* Marko Kuosmanen, marko.kuosmanen@dimenteq.fi, Dimenteq Ltd
* Tapio Keisteri, tapio.keisteri@karttatieto.fi, Karttatieto Ltd
* Matti Pulakka, matti@pulakka.com, Spatineo Ltd
* Hanna Visuri, hanna.visuri@nls.fi, National Land Survey of Finland
* Tatjana Murtola, tatjana.murtola@nls.fi, National Land Survey of Finland
* Ilkka Nyholm, ilkka.nyholm@cgi.com, CGI Finland Ltd
* Pekka Helesuo, pekka.helesuo@siili.com, Siili Ltd
* Harri Pitkänen, harri.pitkanen@luke.fi, Natural Resources Institute Finland
* Jaakko Ruutiainen, jaakko.ruutiainen@sito.fi, Sito Ltd
* Tero Keskivalkama, tero.keski-valkama@cybercom.com,Cybercom Ltd
* Lukasz Strzyzewski, lukasz.strzyzewski@sito.fi, Sito Ltd
* Mikko Johansson, mikko.johansson@gmail.com, Qliktech Ltd

Find more details at https://github.com/oskariorg/oskari-server/graphs/contributors

==Foundation Membership==
#'''Have project documents been updated to reflect membership in the foundation, and the relationship of the project to the foundation? If not, indicate when this will occur.'''
The project documentation has not yet been modified. It was assumed that this can only happen after graduation as to avoid confusion about the official status.

#'''Has an effort been made to brand the project web site with OSGeo foundation web styling and branding marks? If not, indicate what is planned.'''
It was assumed that this can only happen after graduation as to avoid confusion about the official status. Tasked now.

==License==
https://github.com/oskariorg/oskari-docs/blob/master/LICENSE.md

==Code Copyright Review==
#'''Has a Code Provenance Review document been prepared for the project?'''
* All code has been developed by the registered developers listed on github who have signed the CLA. All external libraries have project compatible licenses. The project has been started as a regular Open Source project following the guidelines as set out by OSGeo. A file-per-file code review was therefore deemed superfluous.

#'''Have issues raised in the provenance review been adequately addressed? Indicate outstanding issues.'''
* Currently no outstanding issues.

#'''Are Committer Responsibilities Guidelines covering legal issues in place?'''
* http://www.oskari.org/documentation/development/how-to-contribute
* https://github.com/oskariorg/oskari-docs/blob/master/documents/CLA.txt

Oskari Incubation Application

2017-04-04T09:16:57Z

Arnulf: Category:Incubation added

'''1. Please provide the name and email address of the principal Project Owner.'''

* Owner: Oskari Network
* Current coordinator of Oskari Network: National Land Survey of Finland, Jani Kylmäaho (jani.kylmaaho@nls.fi)

'''2. Please provide the names and emails of co-project owners (if any).'''

In 2014 the development of Oskari platform was organised as an open network consisting today of 32 organisations from public and private sectors. Here are the main project owners of Oskari:

* City of Helsinki, Outi Hermans (outi.hermans@hel.fi)
* City of Tampere, Marko Kauppi (marko.kauppi@tampere.fi)
* Dimenteq Ltd, Jan Lindbom (jan.lindbom@dimenteq.fi)
* Finnish Transport Agency, Matti Pesu (matti.pesu@liikennevirasto.fi)
* Helsinki Region Environmental Services Authority, (sirpa.joukainen@hsy.fi)
* National Board of Antiquities, Miikka Haimila (miikka.haimila@nba.fi)
* National Land Survey of Finland, Jaakko Viitala (jaakko.viitala@nls.fi)
* Population Register Centre, Marko Latvanen (marko.latvanen@valtionkonttori.fi)
* Regional Council of Southwest Finland, Kaisa Savola (kaisa.savola@varsinais-suomi.fi)
* Statistics Finland, Rina Tammisto (rina.tammisto@stat.fi)

'''3. Please provide the names, emails and entity affiliation of all official committers'''

* Sami Mäkinen, sami.makinen@nls.fi, National Land Survey of Finland
* Marko Kuosmanen, marko.kuosmanen@dimenteq.fi, Dimenteq Ltd
* Tapio Keisteri, tapio.keisteri@karttatieto.fi, Karttatieto Ltd
* Matti Pulakka, matti@pulakka.com, Spatineo Ltd
* Hanna Visuri, hanna.visuri@nls.fi, National Land Survey of Finland
* Tatjana Murtola, tatjana.murtola@nls.fi, National Land Survey of Finland
* Ilkka Nyholm, ilkka.nyholm@cgi.com, CGI Finland Ltd
* Pekka Helesuo, pekka.helesuo@siili.com, Siili Ltd
* Harri Pitkänen, harri.pitkanen@luke.fi, Natural Resources Institute Finland
* Jaakko Ruutiainen, jaakko.ruutiainen@sito.fi, Sito Ltd
* Tero Keskivalkama, tero.keski-valkama@cybercom.com,Cybercom Ltd
* Lukasz Strzyzewski, lukasz.strzyzewski@sito.fi, Sito Ltd
* Mikko Johansson, mikko.johansson@gmail.com, Qliktech Ltd

Project Steering Committee: https://github.com/nls-oskari/oskari.org/wiki/Project-Steering-Committee

'''4. Please describe your Project.'''

Oskari is an open source service platform for browsing, sharing and analysing geographic information from distributed data sources (e.g. national spatial data infrastructures). Furthermore it is a platform for publishing embedded maps on other websites.

Oskari was initially released as an open source project in 2011 by the National Land Survey of Finland. Now it is in use in several Finnish and European public and private sector instances. The development of Oskari began in 2009 when the National Land Survey of Finland (NLS FI) started to build a national geoportal to support the implementation of the INSPIRE directive. Since a traditional geoportal can't fulfil all user needs, NLS FI decided to create an open source service platform in order to support and encourage a wide use of the national spatial data infrastructure (SDI) as a part of e-Government services.

Oskaris main features are the ability to showcase OGC and INSPIRE compatible interfaces, offer embedded maps, add your own datasets, analyse datasets and combine statistical information in order to create thematic map layers. Embedded maps can be integrated easily into other websites and eGovernment services and interactively controlled using the remote procedure call (RPC) interface.

Oskari consists of two main entities: frontend (JavaScript-based user interface) and backend (Java servlet and other server-side components). The key idea is to reuse existing open source components and technologies and package them in a way, that the platform is extendable and configurable. This has made it possible to develop Oskari and add new features in collaboration with multiple organizations: there are guidelines
how to extend the functionality in a coordinated manner. For example, a new type of data source for place name / address search can be added just by adding a plugin, not having to redevelop the whole search functionality.

Oskari user interface is implemented as a collection of reusable bundles. Bundles are used as uniform containers to ship and share new functionality to the application setups. Additions to existing functionality are implemented as Plugins shipped within the bundles. Server-side functionality of the platform is implemented as a Java servlet, which can also be extended to handle new functionality.

The platform is flexible: functionality can be added both to the user interface and the server, and the application libraries can be changed as new versions or more advanced implementations become available. The platform is designed to run under a servlet container such as Jetty or Tomcat, so it should run in environments for which all the dependencies are available.

Oskari is already reused across borders. The national mapping agencies in Europe have launched together a showcase application as a part of the European Location Framework (ELF) project and the Arctic Council has published the Arctic SDI Geoportal in collaboration with the member countries. In 2016 Iceland released the national geoportal powered by Oskari. In addition, Oskari is reused by administration at all levels in Finland.

* [http://oskari.org/documentation/architecture_basics Oskari architecture is described here].
* [http://oskari.org/examples/ Examples for using Oskari]
* [https://github.com/nls-oskari Oskari in GitHub]

'''5. Why is hosting at OSGeo good for your project?'''

We need the support and visibility of OSGeo organisation in order to grow and make Oskari known world wide. We also need more users and contributors and OSGeo is a sign of stability and trust in the open source community. The aim is also to be part of OSGeo Live package and ease the setting up of Oskari package.

'''6. What type of application does this project represent(client, server, standalone, library, etc.):'''

Oskari can be used as a standalone web-application, but the client and server are in separate repositories and they can be used independently. There is also a library-component as part of the project for controlling the embedded maps.

'''7. Please describe any relationships to other open source projects.'''

Oskari uses standard Open Source components such as OpenLayers, GeoTools, GeoServer, PostgreSQL, Jackson and jQuery. The developed Open Source code stitches these applications together and makes it possible to extend the functionality of the platform in a coordinated manner.

'''8. Please describe any relationships with commercial companies or products.'''

Oskari supports consuming ESRI’s ArcGIS rest API.

''Note from the mentor: This question is meant to ask for contributing parties. Are companies involved who may have a private business interest or own critical components which could break the software in case they are taken away or made proprietary. (My guess is none of this applies, but please add a quick note on this). It is actually good to have businesses involved because they offer an easy route to get paid work done. But they should not have unique control.''

'''9. Which open source license(s) will the source code be released under?'''

From the beginning the source code has been available by the dual open licenses (MIT and EUPL).

'''10. Is there already a beta or official release? '''

Master branch has stable production ready code that is in use for example at http://demo.oskari.org/ and http://www.paikkatietoikkuna.fi/web/fi/kartta. Current version of Oskari is 1.40.0. [http://oskari.org/examples/ Examples can be found here].

'''11. What is the origin of your project (commercial, experimental, thesis or other higher education, government, or some other source)?'''

Government

'''12. Does the project support open standards? Which ones and to what extent? (OGC, w3c, ect.) Has the software been certified to any standard (CITE for example)? If not, is it the intention of the project owners to seek certification at some point?'''

Oskari supports OGC and the European INSPIRE directive compatible APIs. It can act as a geoportal showcasing e.g. CSW, WMS, WMS-T, WMTS, WFS, WFS-T interfaces. More supported standards are coming and described in the road map.

The software has not been certified to any standards. WMS-client Cite test could be applied if necessary.

'''13. Is the code free of patents, trademarks, and do you control the copyright?'''

The code is free and open source. Current owner of the Oskari.org is Oskari Network.
''Note from the mentor: Is the Oskari Network a legal body (incorporated association, non-profit, government association, etc.)?''

'''14. How many people actively contribute (code, documentation, other?) to the project at this time?'''

There are around 18 active contributors for code, 1 main architect for the project.

'''15. How many people have commit access to the source code repository?'''

* [https://github.com/nls-oskari/oskari Frontend]: 8
* [https://github.com/nls-oskari/oskari-server Server]: 7
* [https://github.com/nls-oskari/oskari.org Support site:] 11

'''16. Approximately how many users are currently using this project?'''

10 active project owners. 32 organisations are involved in Oskari Network in different ways. There are 188 members in Oskari communication channel Slack. Thousands of users through different projects.

'''17. What type of users does your project attract (government, commercial, hobby, academic research, etc. )?'''

Government and commercial, end users are normally citizens or public sector organization.

'''18. If you do not intend to host any portion of this project using the OSGeo infrastructure, why should you be considered a member project of the OSGeo
Foundation?'''

At least the mailing list could be hosted by OSGeo infrastructure. Oskari will strive to be part of the OSGeo Live release. We are confident that Oskari is suitable as a OSGeo project, since Oskari is utilizing major OSGeo member projects, such as OpenLayers and GeoTools.

'''19. Does the project include an automated build and test?'''

The server-component of the project is built with Maven that produces Java WAR-files which can be deployed to Java-based application servers. Maven runs JUnit tests when compiling the code. The server code is compiled as nightly snapshots and updated to [http://oskari.org/nexus Maven repository].

The frontend has Grunt-based build-scripts examples, but as the application is modular, a one-size-fits-all solution cannot be provided. The frontend is currently tested internally with Selenium scripts that are run in SauceLabs, but the tests are not open sourced at the moment.

Both server and frontend code is analyzed with SonarQube nightly with results visible in [http://demo.oskari.org/sonar/ Demo Oskari.]

'''20. What language(s) are used in this project? (C/Java/perl/etc)'''

The user interface is JavaScript, the Oskari-server is built on Java.

'''21. What is the dominant written language (i.e. English, French, Spanish, German, etc) of the core developers?'''

English and Finnish.

'''22. What is the (estimated) size of a full release of this project? How many users do you expect to download the project when it is released?'''

At the moment at least 17 project owner organizations are hosting Oskari platform instances (some of them multiple instances for different purposes). We hope that the usage will increase in the future.

[[Category:Incubation]]

UnitedNations Committee

2017-03-27T09:04:13Z

Arnulf: /* Members */

== Background ==
The OSGeo Board of Directors met with the UN GIS team at FOSS4G in Seoul, Korea in September 2015. The UN GIS team is very interested in having OSGeo "at the table". Mr. Kyoung-Soo Eom, chief of the UN Geospatial Information Section, has invited OSGeo to be part of a working group on Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters to support the UN migration to Open Source Geospatial software solutions.

===UN Open GIS initiative===
"... it is to identify and develop an Open Source GIS bundle that meets the requirements of UN operations, taking full advantage of the expertise of mission partners (partner nations, technology contributing countries, international organizations, academia, NGOs, private sector). The strategic approach shall be developed with best and shared principles, standards and ownership, in a prioritized manner that addresses capability gaps and needs without duplicating efforts of other Member States or entities. The UN OpenGIS Initiative strategy shall collaboratively and cooperatively develop, validate, assess, migrate, and implement sound technical capabilities with all the appropriate documentation and training that in the end provides a united effort to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of utilizing Open Source GIS around the world."

===UN Open GIS Initiative Terms of Reference (draft)===

1. Objectives

The Objective of the UN Open GIS Initiative is to identify and develop open source geospatial software and services that meet the requirements of UN operations, taking full advantage of the expertise of mission partners including partner nations, technology developed by contributing countries, international organizations, academia, NGOs, and private sector.

2. Terms of Reference

These Terms of Reference are effective as of (date) and will be ongoing until terminated by agreement of the Strategic Board (SB).

3. Membership

The members of the UN Open GIS Initiative are composed of:

* Contributors: Any organization who agrees with the objectives of the UN Open GIS and actively contributes to the UN Open GIS Initiative in terms of financial, materials, solutions, technologies, or human resources. The Contributor membership shall be decided by the Strategic Board.

* Observers: Any individual person or organization who agrees with the objectives of the UN Open GIS and participate in the UN Open GIS Initiative activity. The Observer membership shall be granted by the Strategic Board.

4. Roles and Responsibilities

The governance structure of the UN Open GIS Initiative comprises of:

* Strategic Board:

* Co-Chairs and Secretariats

* Technical Advisory Group

* Requirement Advisory Group

* Assessment Team

* Spirals

4.1 Strategic Board (SB)

The Strategic Board consists of representatives from each contributor where each contributor nominates one representative to the Strategic Board. The Strategic Board is responsible for deciding goals, strategic planning, creation of new spiral, election of co-chairs, appointment of technical advisory group members, requirement advisory group members, and assessment team members.

4.2 Co-Chairs

There are three Co-Chairs, where one Co-Chair is appointed from UN and two Co-Chairs are elected among the Strategic Board members. They chair the Strategic Board meeting and take the responsibility of all UN Open GIS Initiative activities.

4.3 Secretariat

The secretariat is made of representatives of the contributors in support of the Co-Chairs and the activities of the UN Open GIS.

4.4 Technical Advisory Group (TAG)

The Technical Advisory Group consists of key technical experts from the contributors and specialists, appointed by the SB. This group is responsible for the synchronization of spirals and technical decisions on the UN Open GIS architecture. The TAG will elect one group leader and co-leaders, who organize and moderate the activities of the group.

4.5 Requirement Advisory Group (RAG)

The Requirement Advisory Group consists of key experts from UN and the contributors appointed by the SB. This group is responsible for identifying and providing the requirements of geospatial solutions and services for UN operations. The RAG will elect one group leader and co-leaders, who organize and moderate the activities of the group.

4.5 Assessment Team (AT)

The Assessment Team consists of key experts from UN and the contributors appointed by the SB. This team defines proper assessment methods and procedures, and carries out assessments of the deliverables. The AT elects one leader and co-leaders, who are responsible for maintaining the activities of the team.

4.6 Spirals

Since each goal of the UN Open GIS Initiative is achieved in incremental ways, we operate working group, called Spiral, for each specific goal. New Spirals are created by the SB for specific goals. The SB will designate one leader and co-leaders. The leader and co-leaders will develop a work plan to achieve the goals.

Annex

A. Definition of Open Source

Open Source encompasses two related concepts regarding the way software is developed and licensed. They are codified in the "Free Software" and the "Open Source" definitions. "Free and Open Source Software" refers to software which has been made available under a free software license with the rights to run the program for any purpose, to study how the program works, to adapt it, and to redistribute copies, including modifications. These freedoms enable Open Source software development, a public, collaborative model that promotes early publishing and frequent releases. The Open Source Initiative has developed a set of 10 requirements of any software license that is to be considered an Open Source license under the Open Source Definition.

B. (March 11, 2016) The Founding Contributors comprises of

* UN (Headquarter, GSC, Field Mission Teams)

* GeoSHAPE Project (USA)

* OpenGeo Suite Project (USA)

* OpenGDS (Republic of Korea)

* OSGeo (NGO)

* GeoForAll (Educational Outreach of OSGeo Foundation)

* GeoSDI (Italy)

C. The list of Spirals is as follows;

- Spiral 1 – UN Open Geo-Portal (March 11, 2016) led by Anthony Calamito

- Spiral 2 – Capacity Building (May, 2016) led by Maria Brovelli

- Spiral 3 – Geo-Analysis (March 11, 2016) led by Hae Kyong Kang

- Spiral 4 – Data Acquisition (March 11, 2016) led by Ki-Joune Li

D. (October 30, 2016) The initial Strategic Board Members comprises of

- GeoSHAPE: Juan Hurtado

- OpenGeo Suite: Anthony Calamito

- OpenGDS: Ki-Joune Li

- OSGeo: Massimilliano Cannata

- Geo4All: Maria Brovelli

- GeoSDI: Dimitri Dello Bruono

- UN HQ: Kyoung-Soo Eom

- UN GSC: Mohamed A. Mohamed

- UN Missions: Jasenko Udovicic, Kais Zouabi

E. The Co-Chairs are

- Juan Hurtado (March 11, 2016)

- Ki-Joune Li (March 11, 2016)

- Kyoung-Soo Eom (August 30, 2016)

F. (August 30, 2016) The Secretariat comprises of

- Danica Baptist

- Hae-Kyong Kang

(Modification History)

* Initially Drafted by Ki-Joune Li, Aug. 26, 2016

* Corrected by Danica Baptist, Aug. 26, 2016

* Corrected at SB meeting, Aug. 30, 2016

* Corrected by Ki-Joune Li, Oct. 10, 2016 to finalize SB and Secretariats and to reflect the modification of the initiative name

* Corrected by Ki-Joune Li, Oct. 21, 2016 to reflect the comments from OSGeo members.

== Goals ==

* Support the UN's member states and committees through:
** OSGeo's service providers
** the GeoForAll network
* Emphasize to the UN and its members the benefits of the stable OSGeo stack of projects
* Establish communication between the UN-GIS team and the OSGeo community.
* Foster the outreach activities of OSGeo

== Communication ==

* a new "UN" mailing list has been created, please subscribe at https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/un and add your name to the list of the committee members at the end of this page.

== Activities ==

===October 2015===
* OSGeo has formally expressed interest in joining the [[UN-GGIM-Working-Group]] on Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters
** this was discussed at OSGeo's [[Board_Meeting_2015-10-15]]
** the UN is looking for feedback on the working group's [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/UN-GGIM-Working-Group#Draft_terms_of_reference_.28TOR.29 TOR draft]

===March 2016===
* OSGeo participated to a UNopenGIS initiative (Brindisi, Italy, 5-10th March 2016) meeting and where formally incorporated in the UN Open GIS initiative as member of the initiative technical committee.
* Call for "UN Training Material". The Material available here: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/UNTraining

===April 2016===
* Birth of "Spiral 2: Capacity Building" Working Group under the direction of Maria Antonia Brovelli (OSGeo), Diego Gonzales Ferreiro (UN) and Juan Curtado (US South Command).
* Decision (taking into account UN exigencies) to start the training with QGIS, PostGIS, Geonode, Geoserver, OpenLayers
* Call for volunteers within GeoForAll for revising available tutorials related to QGIS, PostGIS, GeoNode, Geoserver, OpenLayers

===May - June - July 2016 ===
* Revision and discussions about QGIS, PostGIS and GeoNode tutorials. People contributing: Alberta Albertella, Gregory Giuliani, Scott Hatcher, Ivana Ivanova, Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith, Mike Pumphrey, Vivien Deparday, Ariel Núñez, Paolo Corti, Francesco Stompanato, Dimitris Karakostis, Dilek Emanetoglu, Arun Kumar Muthusamy, Andres Felipe Poveda Sanchez, Stanly Shaji

===August 2016===
* UNopenGIS governance has been defined and OSGeo and GeoForAll have been incorporated in it:

Massimiliano Cannata and Maria Brovelli are member of the Strategic Board, Serena Coetzee and Jeffrey Johnson are member of the User Requirement Committee, Jeroen Ticheler and Sanghee Shin are members of the Technical Committee, and Gregory Giuliani member of the Assessment Committee.

* A logo contest has been set up and run by OSGeo to brand the initiative (see [[UN_OpenGIS_logo_contest]])

===September 2016===
* The 19th September 2016 the first UN virtual class of Spiral 2 will start their activity with GeoAcademy QGIS.The virtual class will work using the Beep Platform of Politecnico di Milano, as teaching platform. Tutors of this first course will be:
Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith and Youngok Kang. Alberta Albertella will help in accessing and using the platform (for sharing material, upload files, homework, webconference, blog, etc)

Four editions of this course will be issued for a total of 72 GIS experts of Operational Field (Peacekeeping Actions) of UN.
The courses will be:
19 September - 18 October 2016
19 October - 18 November 2016
19 November - 19 December 2016
9 January - 8 February 2017

Volunteers who will be involved are:
Thomas Mueller, Rick Smith, Youngok Kang, Lene Fischer and Kurt Menke.
Volunteers who will be activated if needed:
Darshana Rawal, Ivana Ivanova, Adeymo Ayodele Oba

===November 2016===
* Second UN openGIS initiative workshops will be held in Seoul 7-11 November

== Committee Meetings ==

; Next meeting:
* '''planned for MARCH 27th, tentative time 10 am GMT'''.
* Meeting Planner: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2017&month=3&day=27&hour=10&min=0&sec=0&p1=179&p2=189&p3=224&p4=22&p5=240&p6=215
Time can be refined taking into account people who are interested in attending.
Please write here: name/main city in your time zone/ mail address / in such a way that I try to plan the best option.

* Maria Brovelli / Rome / maria.brovelli@gmail.com/
* Cameron Shorter / Sydney, Australia / cameron . sh or ter AT gmail
* Serena Coetzee / Pretoria, South Africa / serenacoetzee@gmail.com

; Previous meetings:
* [[UN Meeting 2015-11-17]] 16.00 UTC

== Chairs ==
* [[User:Maxi71|Massimiliano_Cannata]]
* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]]

== Members ==
* [[Jeff McKenna]]
* [[Jochen Albrecht]]
* [[Bob Basques]]
* [[Massimiliano_Cannata]]
* [[User:Ticheler|Jeroen Ticheler]]
* [[Micha Silver]]
* [[User:GodwinYeboah|Godwin Yeboah]]
* [[User:Assefa|Yewondwossen Assefa]]
* [[User:Nikos|Nikos Alexandris]]
* [[User:AndrewTurner|Andrew Turner]]
* [[Venkatesh Raghavan]]
* [[User:Djay|Gérald Fenoy]]
* [[User:Pmooney|Peter MOONEY]]
* [[User:13scoter|Scott Hatcher]]
* [[User:kotzino|Dimitris Kotzinos]]
* [[User:ElaWoloszynska|Ela Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska]]
* [[User:Jachym|Jachym Cepicky]]
* [[User:endofcap|Sanghee Shin]]
* [[User:Giulianoramat|Giuliano Ramat]]
* [[User:Gregory.giuliani|Gregory Giuliani]]
* [[User:Till Adams|Till Adams]]
* [[Tanya Haddad]]
* [[User:Maria gridw|Maria Andrzejewska]]
* [[User:rburhum|Ragi Y. Burhum (OSGeo - California / OSGeo Perú)]]
* [[User:darkblue_b|Brian M Hamlin]]
* [[User:Danielkastl|Daniel Kastl]]
* [[User:WernerLeyh|Werner Leyh]]
* [[User:Bruce.bannerman|Bruce Bannerman]]
* [[User:Ortelius|Jeffrey Johnson]]
* [[User:pnaciona|Pericles Nacionales]]
* [[User:Novacite|Junyoung Choi]]
* [[User:dirkf|Dirk Frigne]]
* [[User:pierzen|Pierre Béland]]
* [[User:maria|Maria Antonia Brovelli]]
* [[User:Mikel|Mikel Maron]]
* [[User:Rickasmith|Rick Smith]]
* [[User:Serenacoetzee|Serena Coetzee]]
* [[User:LeneFischer|Lene Fischer]]
* [[User:Darshana Rawal|Darshana Rawal]]
* [[User:Kurt Menke|Kurt Menke]]
* [[User:Tom Mueller|Tom Mueller]]
* [[User:Jbelo|Javier Belo]]
* [[User:Fjbehr|Franz-Josef Behr]]
* [[User:Sanand|Suchith Anand]]
* [[User:simboss|Simone Giannecchini]]
* [[Arnulf Christl]]

[[Category:UnitedNations]]
[[Category:Committees]]

STDM

2017-03-21T19:50:08Z

Arnulf: /* Code Sprint 2017 */

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''' Mailing Lists''' 
Please register with the mailing lists to learn more about the software developed in STDM.
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/stdm-user Users]: This list is suitable for all kind of users and general discussions.
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/stdm-dev Developers]: Subscribe here if you are interested in the software and database schema development.
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/stdm-announce Announce]: This is a low volume moderated list, subscribe to receive general project announcements.
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''The Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) is a [[GLTN]] project supported by UN-Habitat. Explore the web site at: http://www.stdm.gltn.net/''

== Code Sprint 2017 ==
The Global Land Tool Network [[GLTN]] and OSGeo organize a code sprint that will bring together geospatial experts to further support the enhancement of the STDM ecosystem. The Professional Cluster of the Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) has allocated a budget to organize and conduct the code sprint and support travel and accommodation of selected participants. The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) also supports the code sprint financially.

The objectives of the code sprint are threefold:
# Improve the STDM software.
# Jump-start potential new contributors.
# Train and educate Open Source concepts and software.

The code sprint will take place from April 24 to 27 at the Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD) in Nairobi, Kenya. It is organized by Metaspatial (Germany) in close cooperation with UN-Habitat and Kartoza (South Africa). The event is financially supported by GLTN and OSGeo and is supported by the RCMRD, UN Habitat, Kartoza and Metaspatial. If you are also interested in sponsoring the code sprint please contact stdm(æ)metaspatial.net for more information.

=== Registration ===
Please apply for the code sprint using the [https://form.jotformeu.com/70752659519366 Application Form]. Seats are limited and registration is mandatory. Applicants will be selected based on their qualification and experience. Attendance at the code sprint is free of cost. The registration application contains an option to apply for travel grants. Please first check out all other funding options you may have to give those a chance who cannot at all unless they get supported. Thank you for your consideration.

=== Code Sprint Objectives ===
The code sprint will focus on five main objectives including:
* Internationalization of the tool’s user interface;
* Improve the end-user manual of the tool;
* Incorporate prototype support for the OGC Geopackage standard;
* Evaluate the level of effort that will be required to incorporate a production-ready GeoODK or QField extension;
* Feedback and support to the QGIS core development.

During the Code Sprint participants will acquire all the know-how needed to operate, maintain and improve all the Open Source tools around the STDM project. The application form will open on March 20.

== Introduction ==
The world is becoming increasingly urban with half of humanity now living in cities. For many of the poorest countries, urban growth is almost synonymous to slum expansion. Slums are informal, illegal and unplanned settlements and are strongly associated with urban poverty. It is in this context that UN-Habitat and Slum Dwellers International (SDI), in collaboration with Uganda's Ministry of Land, Housing and Urban Development (MoLHUD), have initiated a joint project aimed at addressing the information requirements of the urban poor in the Municipality of Mbale. The initial phase began in August 2011. The results of this project have lead to the formation of the STDM software project. It consists of a QGIS Plug-In implementing functionality required to map unplanned and informal settlements and link them with anonymized tenure data. It is based on a Postgres database schema leveraging PostGIS for geospatial functionality.

== Initial Project Objectives ==
The specific objective of the first phase of activities was to pilot test the Social Tenure Domain Model. The long-term objective is to address the land information requirements of women and men living in slum communities and to build their capacity in the use and application of the land information systems based on free and open source software packages and in mainstreaming the thinking behind the continuum of land rights.

== Project Activities ==
Through the support and intervention from the Ministry of Land, Housing and Urban Development (MoLHUD) and Municipality of Mbale, the community-driven enumeration and mapping exercise of the project was a success. The resulting software was bundled in STDM.

In a second step STDM was customized to be able to modify the enumeration questionnaire and identify the resources available such as satellite imagery and a handheld GPS. The GLTN Technical Team proceeded to make some adjustments to customise the STDM system to fit the purpose. The customised version of STDM was well received and appreciated by project stakeholders including by the slum federation members and enumerators.

=== Mapping and Structure Numbering ===
Using STDM, Actogether assisted the Slum Federation and community members to digitize structures from the satellite imagery and produce initial maps. Using the initial map, assigned enumerators and Slum Federation members number all existing structures in the slum settlements using a unique code. They made use of the handheld GPS to identify available community facilities and utilities such as water points, public toilet, dumping ground to update the map as the satellite imagery used in the process may no longer reflect the actual realities on the ground. For example, new structures were built or some structures as reflected by satellite imagery were not existent anymore.

=== Interviews and Data Collection ===
As scheduled and communicated with the community, enumeration teams mostly accompanied by local leaders or elders and municipal officials, conducted house to house interviews administering the questionnaire. In addition, they collected other information such as supporting documents and photos, with the unique code painted or written in the structure as a background.

=== Data Entry and Analysis ===
Using the results of the questionnaires and collected information including supporting documents and photos, the enumeration teams entered all the data into the STDM system. This process also included the updating of the initial digital maps. STDM, being a simple and user-friendly system, is able to undertake quick analyses and reporting. The slum federation leaders and enumerators were trained on how to use STDM to analyse the data and produce reports.

=== Data Validation and Continuous Updating ===
As part of quality assurance, the gathered information were printed and disseminated to community members. Community members then have the opportunity to validate and correct the information. This process enhanced the acceptability of the information and all stakeholders appreciated the fact that the turnaround time between the enumeration exercise and the production of results is relatively fast. After the validation period, enumeration teams and slum federation leaders updated the information in the system. Those community members who were not able to provide their comments and corrections during the validation period may come to the Slum Federation office to update the data. Some Slum Federation leaders and members were trained to manage the system and to continue the updating process.

== Key Achievements ==
Most stakeholders including slum dwellers themselves appreciated the added value of STDM in addressing the information requirements of the urban poor particularly for improving tenure security and enhancing planning and access to basic services and infrastructure. Some stakeholders including government officials appreciated STDM as a potential tool for much larger urban development objectives.

At the close of 2010 and early 2011, building from the prototype, the intermediate version was developed within UN-Habitat/GLTN. The intermediate version replaced ILWIS as the GIS component with [[QGIS]]. The intermediate version was developed using some data and process from a Kenya-based urban NGO called Pamoja Trust, an affiliate of SDI. This version becomes a QGIS plugin which allows users to make use of the other functionality offered by the software. This version of STDM is the basis for a publicly available version which was launched in June 2014.

* 2014 June first: STDM is published on https://github.com/gltn/stdm
* 2014: Launch of STDM 1.0 at the [http://www.fig.net/resources/proceedings/fig_proceedings/fig2014/techprog.htm FIG Conference in Kuala Lumpur]
* 2015: Release of STDM 1.2 at the World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty in Washington DC, USA
* 2016: STDM as a tool for Improving Land Governance: [https://www.conftool.com/landandpoverty2016/index.php?page=browseSessions&abstracts=show&form_session=510&presentations=show Global Partners' Experiences and Lessons] presentation at the World Bank Conference in Washington DC, USA
* 2016: Next phase: [https://www.conftool.com/landandpoverty2016/index.php?page=browseSessions&abstracts=show&form_session=446&presentations=show STDM-Online, the Social Tenure Domain Model on the Web].
* 2017 [http://stdm.gltn.net/ Release of STDM version 1.4]
* 2017 STDM Online prototype based on [Sahana Eden] launches at the World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty 2017.

== Next Steps ==
GLTN and partners continue to improve the system including the training package. It is also exploring further testing of the tool in other context and currently initiating a partnership agreement with FIG and known universities to review STDM and make further recommendations for improvement.

=== Identifying Interest Groups ===
From OSGeo's perspective there are at least 3 distinct interest groups which should be addressed with dedicated outreach material:

#End users
#* End users from NGOs who are on site and discover that they need some kind of "geospatial" tool
#* End user organizations (NGOs like Slum/Shack Dwellers International) who have a clearer understanding of what is needed but maybe not the means to acquire sustainable solutions based on proprietary software.
#* Municipalities who have an area of interest and are dedicated to do something but lack know-how or means
#* National bodies with the mission to address land tenure issues (overlap with SOLA)
# Donors
#* who have a budget for a limited period and want to make sure that whatever IT system they support will live beyond the funded period.
#* Inform donors '''how''' they can tap into Open Source development resources, what they need to take into account to make it sustainable
# Software developers
#* of the core projects (OSGeo peers), to make them aware of potential needs arising out of the evolution of STDM
#* New software developers, preferably local and regional to the target areas where STDM will be used. These will be critical to support the STDM plug-in, data model and "operations handbook", especially in the transition from externally funded to long term operational.

STDM

2017-03-17T19:11:15Z

Arnulf: added code sprint activities

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''' Mailing Lists''' 
Please register with the mailing lists to learn more about the software developed in STDM.
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/stdm-user Users]: This list is suitable for all kind of users and general discussions.
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/stdm-dev Developers]: Subscribe here if you are interested in the software and database schema development.
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/stdm-announce Announce]: This is a low volume moderated list, subscribe to receive general project announcements.
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''The Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) is a [[GLTN]] project supported by UN-Habitat. Explore the web site at: http://www.stdm.gltn.net/''

== Code Sprint 2017 ==
The Global Land Tool Network [[GLTN]] and OSGeo organize a code sprint that will bring together geospatial experts to further support the enhancement of the STDM ecosystem. The Professional Cluster of the Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) has allocated a budget to organize and conduct the code sprint and support travel and accommodation of selected participants. The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) also supports the code sprint financially.

The objectives of the code sprint are threefold:
# Improve the STDM software.
# Jump-start potential new contributors.
# Train and educate Open Source concepts and software.

The code sprint will take place from April 24 to 27 at the Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD) in Nairobi, Kenya. It is organized by Metaspatial (Germany) in close cooperation with UN-Habitat and Kartoza (South Africa). The event is financially supported by GLTN and OSGeo and is supported by the RCMRD, UN Habitat, Kartoza and Metaspatial. If you are also interested in sponsoring the code sprint please contact stdm(æ)metaspatial.net for more information.

=== Code Sprint Objectives ===
The code sprint will focus on five main objectives including:
* Internationalization of the tool’s user interface;
* Improve the end-user manual of the tool;
* Incorporate prototype support for the OGC Geopackage standard;
* Evaluate the level of effort that will be required to incorporate a production-ready GeoODK or QField extension;
* Feedback and support to the QGIS core development.

During the Code Sprint participants will acquire all the know-how needed to operate, maintain and improve all the Open Source tools around the STDM project. The application form will open on March 20.

== Introduction ==
The world is becoming increasingly urban with half of humanity now living in cities. For many of the poorest countries, urban growth is almost synonymous to slum expansion. Slums are informal, illegal and unplanned settlements and are strongly associated with urban poverty. It is in this context that UN-Habitat and Slum Dwellers International (SDI), in collaboration with Uganda's Ministry of Land, Housing and Urban Development (MoLHUD), have initiated a joint project aimed at addressing the information requirements of the urban poor in the Municipality of Mbale. The initial phase began in August 2011. The results of this project have lead to the formation of the STDM software project. It consists of a QGIS Plug-In implementing functionality required to map unplanned and informal settlements and link them with anonymized tenure data. It is based on a Postgres database schema leveraging PostGIS for geospatial functionality.

== Initial Project Objectives ==
The specific objective of the first phase of activities was to pilot test the Social Tenure Domain Model. The long-term objective is to address the land information requirements of women and men living in slum communities and to build their capacity in the use and application of the land information systems based on free and open source software packages and in mainstreaming the thinking behind the continuum of land rights.

== Project Activities ==
Through the support and intervention from the Ministry of Land, Housing and Urban Development (MoLHUD) and Municipality of Mbale, the community-driven enumeration and mapping exercise of the project was a success. The resulting software was bundled in STDM.

In a second step STDM was customized to be able to modify the enumeration questionnaire and identify the resources available such as satellite imagery and a handheld GPS. The GLTN Technical Team proceeded to make some adjustments to customise the STDM system to fit the purpose. The customised version of STDM was well received and appreciated by project stakeholders including by the slum federation members and enumerators.

=== Mapping and Structure Numbering ===
Using STDM, Actogether assisted the Slum Federation and community members to digitize structures from the satellite imagery and produce initial maps. Using the initial map, assigned enumerators and Slum Federation members number all existing structures in the slum settlements using a unique code. They made use of the handheld GPS to identify available community facilities and utilities such as water points, public toilet, dumping ground to update the map as the satellite imagery used in the process may no longer reflect the actual realities on the ground. For example, new structures were built or some structures as reflected by satellite imagery were not existent anymore.

=== Interviews and Data Collection ===
As scheduled and communicated with the community, enumeration teams mostly accompanied by local leaders or elders and municipal officials, conducted house to house interviews administering the questionnaire. In addition, they collected other information such as supporting documents and photos, with the unique code painted or written in the structure as a background.

=== Data Entry and Analysis ===
Using the results of the questionnaires and collected information including supporting documents and photos, the enumeration teams entered all the data into the STDM system. This process also included the updating of the initial digital maps. STDM, being a simple and user-friendly system, is able to undertake quick analyses and reporting. The slum federation leaders and enumerators were trained on how to use STDM to analyse the data and produce reports.

=== Data Validation and Continuous Updating ===
As part of quality assurance, the gathered information were printed and disseminated to community members. Community members then have the opportunity to validate and correct the information. This process enhanced the acceptability of the information and all stakeholders appreciated the fact that the turnaround time between the enumeration exercise and the production of results is relatively fast. After the validation period, enumeration teams and slum federation leaders updated the information in the system. Those community members who were not able to provide their comments and corrections during the validation period may come to the Slum Federation office to update the data. Some Slum Federation leaders and members were trained to manage the system and to continue the updating process.

== Key Achievements ==
Most stakeholders including slum dwellers themselves appreciated the added value of STDM in addressing the information requirements of the urban poor particularly for improving tenure security and enhancing planning and access to basic services and infrastructure. Some stakeholders including government officials appreciated STDM as a potential tool for much larger urban development objectives.

At the close of 2010 and early 2011, building from the prototype, the intermediate version was developed within UN-Habitat/GLTN. The intermediate version replaced ILWIS as the GIS component with [[QGIS]]. The intermediate version was developed using some data and process from a Kenya-based urban NGO called Pamoja Trust, an affiliate of SDI. This version becomes a QGIS plugin which allows users to make use of the other functionality offered by the software. This version of STDM is the basis for a publicly available version which was launched in June 2014.

* 2014 June first: STDM is published on https://github.com/gltn/stdm
* 2014: Launch of STDM 1.0 at the [http://www.fig.net/resources/proceedings/fig_proceedings/fig2014/techprog.htm FIG Conference in Kuala Lumpur]
* 2015: Release of STDM 1.2 at the World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty in Washington DC, USA
* 2016: STDM as a tool for Improving Land Governance: [https://www.conftool.com/landandpoverty2016/index.php?page=browseSessions&abstracts=show&form_session=510&presentations=show Global Partners' Experiences and Lessons] presentation at the World Bank Conference in Washington DC, USA
* 2016: Next phase: [https://www.conftool.com/landandpoverty2016/index.php?page=browseSessions&abstracts=show&form_session=446&presentations=show STDM-Online, the Social Tenure Domain Model on the Web].
* 2017 [http://stdm.gltn.net/ Release of STDM version 1.4]
* 2017 STDM Online prototype based on [Sahana Eden] launches at the World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty 2017.

== Next Steps ==
GLTN and partners continue to improve the system including the training package. It is also exploring further testing of the tool in other context and currently initiating a partnership agreement with FIG and known universities to review STDM and make further recommendations for improvement.

=== Identifying Interest Groups ===
From OSGeo's perspective there are at least 3 distinct interest groups which should be addressed with dedicated outreach material:

#End users
#* End users from NGOs who are on site and discover that they need some kind of "geospatial" tool
#* End user organizations (NGOs like Slum/Shack Dwellers International) who have a clearer understanding of what is needed but maybe not the means to acquire sustainable solutions based on proprietary software.
#* Municipalities who have an area of interest and are dedicated to do something but lack know-how or means
#* National bodies with the mission to address land tenure issues (overlap with SOLA)
# Donors
#* who have a budget for a limited period and want to make sure that whatever IT system they support will live beyond the funded period.
#* Inform donors '''how''' they can tap into Open Source development resources, what they need to take into account to make it sustainable
# Software developers
#* of the core projects (OSGeo peers), to make them aware of potential needs arising out of the evolution of STDM
#* New software developers, preferably local and regional to the target areas where STDM will be used. These will be critical to support the STDM plug-in, data model and "operations handbook", especially in the transition from externally funded to long term operational.

Oskari Incubation Application

2017-03-15T18:52:48Z

Arnulf: minor edits, comments and questions

STDM 2017 Code Sprint

2017-03-13T21:29:05Z

Arnulf:

Codesprints are clearly within the scope of OSGeo's mission, and the OSGeo Foundation supports them. This page provides the information required for OSGeo to decide whether the sprint should be supported, and if so in what fashion.

== Basic Information ==

* Audience: 20+ participants
* Participants can apply for travel grants. It is expected to be able to support 10 participants from Africa, Asia, Asia Pacific or South America.
* Region: The sprint will take place in Nairobi, Kenya with a focus on Eastern Africa.
* Projects: The sprint is focused on the software implemented for the Social Tenure Domain Model ([[STDM]]). Work is planned to focus on the QGIS plugin and the Sahana implementation of STDM and associated documentation and tutorials using QGIS, PostGIS, Postgresql.
* As a secondary effect the code sprint will help to dissemination know-how and allows for hands on training with core OSGeo software, specifically QGIS and PostGIS.
* Length: The sprint is planned to take place at the end of April and is scheduled for four days.
* Venue: The sprint will be held at the [http://www.rcmrd.org/ RCMRD] in Nairobi, Kenya. Food will be provided for all participants (both with travel grant and self sponsored). Overnight lodging will be provided for accepted travel grant applicants.

== Draft Budget ==
The budget for the code sprint travel grants, venue, catering and back-office is USD 18,500. The largest part is set aside for supporting participant travel and accommodation amounting to 11,000 USD. It is provided through the Professional Cluster of [[GLTN]]. The funding requested of OSGeo is allocated for catering.

{| border="1" cellpadding="2" class="wikitable"
!width="250"|Item
!width="50"|Budget
!width="50"|Status
!width="100"|Status
|-
| Participant travel || 6000 || funded || GLTN
|-
| Travel grants for accepted applicants || 5000 || funded || GLTN
|-
| Catering || 3000 || '''requested''' || ''OSGeo ''
|-
| Venue || 2500 || funded || GLTN
|-
| Administrative fee for operational back office (RCMRD) || 2000 || funded || GLTN
|-
| Professional instructor || in-kind || funded || Kartoza
|-
| Infrastructure || in-kind || funded || RCMRD
|-
| Organization || in-kind || funded || Metaspatial
|-
| Facilitation || in-kind || funded || UN Habitat
|-
|}

* There is no registration fee.
* Third-party sponsorship amounts to 15,500 USD plus in-kind contributions
* OSGeo is requested for 3,000 USD sponsorship

'''Profit / Loss / Risk'''

* The event is not planned to make any profit.
* The event will not incur a loss because all critical items which may incur a cost even if the event has to be canceled are already funded.

== Status of OSGeo Support Request ==
# Sprint organisers fill out the questionnaire above and submit it to Board list.
#* Done. Request submitted to the board mailing list on 2017-03-13
# Board adds a "Sprint support" agenda item for upcoming Board meeting, and invites sprint organiser(s) to join the meeting and provide clarification where needed.
#* Open.
# Board votes on the funding request.
#* Open.
# Upon approval, and within one month from the end of the sprint, sprint organisers provide a publicly accessible summary budget of the actual expenses. A more detailed budget shall be made available to OSGeo Treasurer. Should the final budget not be available to OSGeo, future fund requests will be with held until final budget publication.

[[Category:Code_Sprints]]

STDM 2017 Code Sprint

2017-03-13T21:28:14Z

Arnulf: /* Proposed workflow: */

Codesprints are clearly within the scope of OSGeo's mission, and the OSGeo Foundation supports them. This page provides the information required for OSGeo to decide whether the sprint should be supported, and if so in what fashion.

== Basic Information ==

* Audience: 20+ participants
* Participants can apply for travel grants. It is expected to be able to support 10 participants from Africa, Asia, Asia Pacific or South America.
* Region: The sprint will take place in Nairobi, Kenya with a focus on Eastern Africa.
* Projects: The sprint is focused on the software implemented for the Social Tenure Domain Model ([[STDM]]). Work is planned to focus on the QGIS plugin and the Sahana implementation of STDM and associated documentation and tutorials using QGIS, PostGIS, Postgresql.
* As a secondary effect the code sprint will help to dissemination know-how and allows for hands on training with core OSGeo software, specifically QGIS and PostGIS.
* Length: The sprint is planned to take place at the end of April and is scheduled for four days.
* Venue: The sprint will be held at the [http://www.rcmrd.org/ RCMRD] in Nairobi, Kenya. Food will be provided for all participants (both with travel grant and self sponsored). Overnight lodging will be provided for accepted travel grant applicants.

== Draft Budget ==
The budget for the code sprint travel grants, venue, catering and back-office is USD 18,500. The largest part is set aside for supporting participant travel and accommodation amounting to 11,000 USD. It is provided through the Professional Cluster of [[GLTN]]. The funding requested of OSGeo is allocated for catering.

{| border="1" cellpadding="2" class="wikitable"
!width="250"|Item
!width="50"|Budget
!width="50"|Status
!width="100"|Status
|-
| Participant travel || 6000 || funded || GLTN
|-
| Travel grants for accepted applicants || 5000 || funded || GLTN
|-
| Catering || 3000 || '''requested''' || ''OSGeo ''
|-
| Venue || 2500 || funded || GLTN
|-
| Administrative fee for operational back office (RCMRD) || 2000 || funded || GLTN
|-
| Professional instructor || in-kind || funded || Kartoza
|-
| Infrastructure || in-kind || funded || RCMRD
|-
| Organization || in-kind || funded || Metaspatial
|-
| Facilitation || in-kind || funded || UN Habitat
|-
|}

* There is no registration fee.
* Third-party sponsorship amounts to 15,500 USD plus in-kind contributions
* OSGeo is requested for 3,000 USD sponsorship

'''Profit / Loss / Risk'''

* The event is not planned to make any profit.
* The event will not incur a loss because all critical items which may incur a cost even if the event has to be canceled are already funded.

= Submission of a funding request =

== Status of OSGeo Support Request ==
# Sprint organisers fill out the questionnaire above and submit it to Board list.
#* Done. Request submitted to the board mailing list on 2017-03-13
# Board adds a "Sprint support" agenda item for upcoming Board meeting, and invites sprint organiser(s) to join the meeting and provide clarification where needed.
#* Open.
# Board votes on the funding request.
#* Open.
# Upon approval, and within one month from the end of the sprint, sprint organisers provide a publicly accessible summary budget of the actual expenses. A more detailed budget shall be made available to OSGeo Treasurer. Should the final budget not be available to OSGeo, future fund requests will be with held until final budget publication.

[[Category:Code_Sprints]]

STDM 2017 Code Sprint

2017-03-13T21:26:07Z

Arnulf: /* Expected budget */ numbers adjusted, wording "Expected" changed to "Draft"

Codesprints are clearly within the scope of OSGeo's mission, and the OSGeo Foundation supports them. This page provides the information required for OSGeo to decide whether the sprint should be supported, and if so in what fashion.

== Basic Information ==

* Audience: 20+ participants
* Participants can apply for travel grants. It is expected to be able to support 10 participants from Africa, Asia, Asia Pacific or South America.
* Region: The sprint will take place in Nairobi, Kenya with a focus on Eastern Africa.
* Projects: The sprint is focused on the software implemented for the Social Tenure Domain Model ([[STDM]]). Work is planned to focus on the QGIS plugin and the Sahana implementation of STDM and associated documentation and tutorials using QGIS, PostGIS, Postgresql.
* As a secondary effect the code sprint will help to dissemination know-how and allows for hands on training with core OSGeo software, specifically QGIS and PostGIS.
* Length: The sprint is planned to take place at the end of April and is scheduled for four days.
* Venue: The sprint will be held at the [http://www.rcmrd.org/ RCMRD] in Nairobi, Kenya. Food will be provided for all participants (both with travel grant and self sponsored). Overnight lodging will be provided for accepted travel grant applicants.

== Draft Budget ==
The budget for the code sprint travel grants, venue, catering and back-office is USD 18,500. The largest part is set aside for supporting participant travel and accommodation amounting to 11,000 USD. It is provided through the Professional Cluster of [[GLTN]]. The funding requested of OSGeo is allocated for catering.

{| border="1" cellpadding="2" class="wikitable"
!width="250"|Item
!width="50"|Budget
!width="50"|Status
!width="100"|Status
|-
| Participant travel || 6000 || funded || GLTN
|-
| Travel grants for accepted applicants || 5000 || funded || GLTN
|-
| Catering || 3000 || '''requested''' || ''OSGeo ''
|-
| Venue || 2500 || funded || GLTN
|-
| Administrative fee for operational back office (RCMRD) || 2000 || funded || GLTN
|-
| Professional instructor || in-kind || funded || Kartoza
|-
| Infrastructure || in-kind || funded || RCMRD
|-
| Organization || in-kind || funded || Metaspatial
|-
| Facilitation || in-kind || funded || UN Habitat
|-
|}

* There is no registration fee.
* Third-party sponsorship amounts to 15,500 USD plus in-kind contributions
* OSGeo is requested for 3,000 USD sponsorship

'''Profit / Loss / Risk'''

* The event is not planned to make any profit.
* The event will not incur a loss because all critical items which may incur a cost even if the event has to be canceled are already funded.

= Submission of a funding request =

== Proposed workflow: ==
# Sprint organisers fill out the questionnaire above and submit it to Board list.
#* Done. Request submitted to the board mailing list on 2017-03-13
# Board adds a "Sprint support" agenda item for upcoming Board meeting, and invites sprint organiser(s) to join the meeting and provide clarification where needed.
#* Open.
# Board votes on the funding request.
#* Open.
# Upon approval, and within one month from the end of the sprint, sprint organisers provide a publicly accessible summary budget of the actual expenses. A more detailed budget shall be made available to OSGeo Treasurer. Should the final budget not be available to OSGeo, future fund requests will be with held until final budget publication.

[[Category:Code_Sprints]]

STDM 2017 Code Sprint

2017-03-13T21:20:45Z

Arnulf: /* Proposed workflow: */

Codesprints are clearly within the scope of OSGeo's mission, and the OSGeo Foundation supports them. This page provides the information required for OSGeo to decide whether the sprint should be supported, and if so in what fashion.

== Basic Information ==

* Audience: 20+ participants
* Participants can apply for travel grants. It is expected to be able to support 10 participants from Africa, Asia, Asia Pacific or South America.
* Region: The sprint will take place in Nairobi, Kenya with a focus on Eastern Africa.
* Projects: The sprint is focused on the software implemented for the Social Tenure Domain Model ([[STDM]]). Work is planned to focus on the QGIS plugin and the Sahana implementation of STDM and associated documentation and tutorials using QGIS, PostGIS, Postgresql.
* As a secondary effect the code sprint will help to dissemination know-how and allows for hands on training with core OSGeo software, specifically QGIS and PostGIS.
* Length: The sprint is planned to take place at the end of April and is scheduled for four days.
* Venue: The sprint will be held at the [http://www.rcmrd.org/ RCMRD] in Nairobi, Kenya. Food will be provided for all participants (both with travel grant and self sponsored). Overnight lodging will be provided for accepted travel grant applicants.

== Expected budget ==
The budget for the code sprint travel grants, venue, catering and back-office is USD 19,000. The largest part is set aside for supporting participant travel and accommodation amounting to 11,000 USD. It is provided through the Professional Cluster of [[GLTN]]. The funding requested of OSGeo is allocated for catering.

{| border="1" cellpadding="2" class="wikitable"
!width="250"|Item
!width="50"|Budget
!width="50"|Status
!width="100"|Status
|-
| Participant travel || 6000 || funded || GLTN
|-
| Travel grants for accepted applicants || 5000 || funded || GLTN
|-
| Catering || 3000 || '''requested''' || ''OSGeo ''
|-
| Venue || 2500 || funded || GLTN
|-
| Administrative fee for operational back office (RCMRD) || 2000 || funded || GLTN
|-
| Professional instructor || in-kind || funded || Kartoza
|-
| Infrastructure || in-kind || funded || RCMRD
|-
| Organization || in-kind || funded || Metaspatial
|-
| Facilitation || in-kind || funded || UN Habitat
|-
|}

* There is no registration fee.
* Third-party sponsorship amounts to 16,000 USD plus in-kind contributions
* OSGeo is requested for 3,000 USD sponsorship

'''Profit / Loss / Risk'''

* The event is not planned to make any profit.
* The event will not incur a loss because all critical items which may incur a cost even if the event has to be canceled are already funded.

= Submission of a funding request =

== Proposed workflow: ==
# Sprint organisers fill out the questionnaire above and submit it to Board list.
#* Done. Request submitted to the board mailing list on 2017-03-13
# Board adds a "Sprint support" agenda item for upcoming Board meeting, and invites sprint organiser(s) to join the meeting and provide clarification where needed.
#* Open.
# Board votes on the funding request.
#* Open.
# Upon approval, and within one month from the end of the sprint, sprint organisers provide a publicly accessible summary budget of the actual expenses. A more detailed budget shall be made available to OSGeo Treasurer. Should the final budget not be available to OSGeo, future fund requests will be with held until final budget publication.

[[Category:Code_Sprints]]

STDM 2017 Code Sprint

2017-03-13T18:25:21Z

Arnulf:

Codesprints are clearly within the scope of OSGeo's mission, and the OSGeo Foundation supports them. This page provides the information required for OSGeo to decide whether the sprint should be supported, and if so in what fashion.

== Basic Information ==

* Audience: 20+ participants
* Participants can apply for travel grants. It is expected to be able to support 10 participants from Africa, Asia, Asia Pacific or South America.
* Region: The sprint will take place in Nairobi, Kenya with a focus on Eastern Africa.
* Projects: The sprint is focused on the software implemented for the Social Tenure Domain Model ([[STDM]]). Work is planned to focus on the QGIS plugin and the Sahana implementation of STDM and associated documentation and tutorials using QGIS, PostGIS, Postgresql.
* As a secondary effect the code sprint will help to dissemination know-how and allows for hands on training with core OSGeo software, specifically QGIS and PostGIS.
* Length: The sprint is planned to take place at the end of April and is scheduled for four days.
* Venue: The sprint will be held at the [http://www.rcmrd.org/ RCMRD] in Nairobi, Kenya. Food will be provided for all participants (both with travel grant and self sponsored). Overnight lodging will be provided for accepted travel grant applicants.

== Expected budget ==
The budget for the code sprint travel grants, venue, catering and back-office is USD 19,000. The largest part is set aside for supporting participant travel and accommodation amounting to 11,000 USD. It is provided through the Professional Cluster of [[GLTN]]. The funding requested of OSGeo is allocated for catering.

{| border="1" cellpadding="2" class="wikitable"
!width="250"|Item
!width="50"|Budget
!width="50"|Status
!width="100"|Status
|-
| Participant travel || 6000 || funded || GLTN
|-
| Travel grants for accepted applicants || 5000 || funded || GLTN
|-
| Catering || 3000 || '''requested''' || ''OSGeo ''
|-
| Venue || 2500 || funded || GLTN
|-
| Administrative fee for operational back office (RCMRD) || 2000 || funded || GLTN
|-
| Professional instructor || in-kind || funded || Kartoza
|-
| Infrastructure || in-kind || funded || RCMRD
|-
| Organization || in-kind || funded || Metaspatial
|-
| Facilitation || in-kind || funded || UN Habitat
|-
|}

* There is no registration fee.
* Third-party sponsorship amounts to 16,000 USD plus in-kind contributions
* OSGeo is requested for 3,000 USD sponsorship

'''Profit / Loss / Risk'''

* The event is not planned to make any profit.
* The event will not incur a loss because all critical items which may incur a cost even if the event has to be canceled are already funded.

= Submission of a funding request =

== Proposed workflow: ==
# Sprint organisers fill out the questionnaire above and submit it to Board list.
#* Open.
# Board adds a "Sprint support" agenda item for upcoming Board meeting, and invites sprint organiser(s) to join the meeting and provide clarification where needed.
#* Open.
# Board votes on the funding request.
#* Open.
# Upon approval, and within one month from the end of the sprint, sprint organisers provide a publicly accessible summary budget of the actual expenses. A more detailed budget shall be made available to OSGeo Treasurer. Should the final budget not be available to OSGeo, future fund requests will be with held until final budget publication.

[[Category:Code_Sprints]]

STDM

2017-03-13T15:27:58Z

Arnulf: /* Key Achievements */

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[[File:Stdm-logo.png|300px]]
''' Mailing Lists''' 
Please register with the mailing lists to learn more about the software developed in STDM.
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/stdm-user Users]: This list is suitable for all kind of users and general discussions.
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/stdm-dev Developers]: Subscribe here if you are interested in the software and database schema development.
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/stdm-announce Announce]: This is a low volume moderated list, subscribe to receive general project announcements.
</div></div>

''The Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) is a [[GLTN]] project supported by UN-Habitat. Explore the web site at: http://www.stdm.gltn.net/''

== Introduction ==
The world is becoming increasingly urban with half of humanity now living in cities. For many of the poorest countries, urban growth is almost synonymous to slum expansion. Slums are informal, illegal and unplanned settlements and are strongly associated with urban poverty. It is in this context that UN-Habitat and Slum Dwellers International (SDI), in collaboration with Uganda's Ministry of Land, Housing and Urban Development (MoLHUD), have initiated a joint project aimed at addressing the information requirements of the urban poor in the Municipality of Mbale. The initial phase began in August 2011. The results of this project have lead to the formation of the STDM software project. It consists of a QGIS Plug-In implementing functionality required to map unplanned and informal settlements and link them with anonymized tenure data. It is based on a Postgres database schema leveraging PostGIS for geospatial functionality.

== Initial Project Objectives ==
The specific objective of the first phase of activities was to pilot test the Social Tenure Domain Model. The long-term objective is to address the land information requirements of women and men living in slum communities and to build their capacity in the use and application of the land information systems based on free and open source software packages and in mainstreaming the thinking behind the continuum of land rights.

== Project Activities ==
Through the support and intervention from the Ministry of Land, Housing and Urban Development (MoLHUD) and Municipality of Mbale, the community-driven enumeration and mapping exercise of the project was a success. The resulting software was bundled in STDM.

In a second step STDM was customized to be able to modify the enumeration questionnaire and identify the resources available such as satellite imagery and a handheld GPS. The GLTN Technical Team proceeded to make some adjustments to customise the STDM system to fit the purpose. The customised version of STDM was well received and appreciated by project stakeholders including by the slum federation members and enumerators.

=== Mapping and Structure Numbering ===
Using STDM, Actogether assisted the Slum Federation and community members to digitize structures from the satellite imagery and produce initial maps. Using the initial map, assigned enumerators and Slum Federation members number all existing structures in the slum settlements using a unique code. They made use of the handheld GPS to identify available community facilities and utilities such as water points, public toilet, dumping ground to update the map as the satellite imagery used in the process may no longer reflect the actual realities on the ground. For example, new structures were built or some structures as reflected by satellite imagery were not existent anymore.

=== Interviews and Data Collection ===
As scheduled and communicated with the community, enumeration teams mostly accompanied by local leaders or elders and municipal officials, conducted house to house interviews administering the questionnaire. In addition, they collected other information such as supporting documents and photos, with the unique code painted or written in the structure as a background.

=== Data Entry and Analysis ===
Using the results of the questionnaires and collected information including supporting documents and photos, the enumeration teams entered all the data into the STDM system. This process also included the updating of the initial digital maps. STDM, being a simple and user-friendly system, is able to undertake quick analyses and reporting. The slum federation leaders and enumerators were trained on how to use STDM to analyse the data and produce reports.

=== Data Validation and Continuous Updating ===
As part of quality assurance, the gathered information were printed and disseminated to community members. Community members then have the opportunity to validate and correct the information. This process enhanced the acceptability of the information and all stakeholders appreciated the fact that the turnaround time between the enumeration exercise and the production of results is relatively fast. After the validation period, enumeration teams and slum federation leaders updated the information in the system. Those community members who were not able to provide their comments and corrections during the validation period may come to the Slum Federation office to update the data. Some Slum Federation leaders and members were trained to manage the system and to continue the updating process.

== Key Achievements ==
Most stakeholders including slum dwellers themselves appreciated the added value of STDM in addressing the information requirements of the urban poor particularly for improving tenure security and enhancing planning and access to basic services and infrastructure. Some stakeholders including government officials appreciated STDM as a potential tool for much larger urban development objectives.

At the close of 2010 and early 2011, building from the prototype, the intermediate version was developed within UN-Habitat/GLTN. The intermediate version replaced ILWIS as the GIS component with [[QGIS]]. The intermediate version was developed using some data and process from a Kenya-based urban NGO called Pamoja Trust, an affiliate of SDI. This version becomes a QGIS plugin which allows users to make use of the other functionality offered by the software. This version of STDM is the basis for a publicly available version which was launched in June 2014.

* 2014 June first: STDM is published on https://github.com/gltn/stdm
* 2014: Launch of STDM 1.0 at the [http://www.fig.net/resources/proceedings/fig_proceedings/fig2014/techprog.htm FIG Conference in Kuala Lumpur]
* 2015: Release of STDM 1.2 at the World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty in Washington DC, USA
* 2016: STDM as a tool for Improving Land Governance: [https://www.conftool.com/landandpoverty2016/index.php?page=browseSessions&abstracts=show&form_session=510&presentations=show Global Partners' Experiences and Lessons] presentation at the World Bank Conference in Washington DC, USA
* 2016: Next phase: [https://www.conftool.com/landandpoverty2016/index.php?page=browseSessions&abstracts=show&form_session=446&presentations=show STDM-Online, the Social Tenure Domain Model on the Web].
* 2017 [http://stdm.gltn.net/ Release of STDM version 1.4]
* 2017 STDM Online prototype based on [Sahana Eden] launches at the World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty 2017.

== Next Steps ==
GLTN and partners continue to improve the system including the training package. It is also exploring further testing of the tool in other context and currently initiating a partnership agreement with FIG and known universities to review STDM and make further recommendations for improvement.

=== Identifying Interest Groups ===
From OSGeo's perspective there are at least 3 distinct interest groups which should be addressed with dedicated outreach material:

#End users
#* End users from NGOs who are on site and discover that they need some kind of "geospatial" tool
#* End user organizations (NGOs like Slum/Shack Dwellers International) who have a clearer understanding of what is needed but maybe not the means to acquire sustainable solutions based on proprietary software.
#* Municipalities who have an area of interest and are dedicated to do something but lack know-how or means
#* National bodies with the mission to address land tenure issues (overlap with SOLA)
# Donors
#* who have a budget for a limited period and want to make sure that whatever IT system they support will live beyond the funded period.
#* Inform donors '''how''' they can tap into Open Source development resources, what they need to take into account to make it sustainable
# Software developers
#* of the core projects (OSGeo peers), to make them aware of potential needs arising out of the evolution of STDM
#* New software developers, preferably local and regional to the target areas where STDM will be used. These will be critical to support the STDM plug-in, data model and "operations handbook", especially in the transition from externally funded to long term operational.

STDM

2017-03-13T15:27:01Z

Arnulf: /* Key Achievements */

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[[File:Stdm-logo.png|300px]]
''' Mailing Lists''' 
Please register with the mailing lists to learn more about the software developed in STDM.
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/stdm-user Users]: This list is suitable for all kind of users and general discussions.
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/stdm-dev Developers]: Subscribe here if you are interested in the software and database schema development.
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/stdm-announce Announce]: This is a low volume moderated list, subscribe to receive general project announcements.
</div></div>

''The Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) is a [[GLTN]] project supported by UN-Habitat. Explore the web site at: http://www.stdm.gltn.net/''

== Introduction ==
The world is becoming increasingly urban with half of humanity now living in cities. For many of the poorest countries, urban growth is almost synonymous to slum expansion. Slums are informal, illegal and unplanned settlements and are strongly associated with urban poverty. It is in this context that UN-Habitat and Slum Dwellers International (SDI), in collaboration with Uganda's Ministry of Land, Housing and Urban Development (MoLHUD), have initiated a joint project aimed at addressing the information requirements of the urban poor in the Municipality of Mbale. The initial phase began in August 2011. The results of this project have lead to the formation of the STDM software project. It consists of a QGIS Plug-In implementing functionality required to map unplanned and informal settlements and link them with anonymized tenure data. It is based on a Postgres database schema leveraging PostGIS for geospatial functionality.

== Initial Project Objectives ==
The specific objective of the first phase of activities was to pilot test the Social Tenure Domain Model. The long-term objective is to address the land information requirements of women and men living in slum communities and to build their capacity in the use and application of the land information systems based on free and open source software packages and in mainstreaming the thinking behind the continuum of land rights.

== Project Activities ==
Through the support and intervention from the Ministry of Land, Housing and Urban Development (MoLHUD) and Municipality of Mbale, the community-driven enumeration and mapping exercise of the project was a success. The resulting software was bundled in STDM.

In a second step STDM was customized to be able to modify the enumeration questionnaire and identify the resources available such as satellite imagery and a handheld GPS. The GLTN Technical Team proceeded to make some adjustments to customise the STDM system to fit the purpose. The customised version of STDM was well received and appreciated by project stakeholders including by the slum federation members and enumerators.

=== Mapping and Structure Numbering ===
Using STDM, Actogether assisted the Slum Federation and community members to digitize structures from the satellite imagery and produce initial maps. Using the initial map, assigned enumerators and Slum Federation members number all existing structures in the slum settlements using a unique code. They made use of the handheld GPS to identify available community facilities and utilities such as water points, public toilet, dumping ground to update the map as the satellite imagery used in the process may no longer reflect the actual realities on the ground. For example, new structures were built or some structures as reflected by satellite imagery were not existent anymore.

=== Interviews and Data Collection ===
As scheduled and communicated with the community, enumeration teams mostly accompanied by local leaders or elders and municipal officials, conducted house to house interviews administering the questionnaire. In addition, they collected other information such as supporting documents and photos, with the unique code painted or written in the structure as a background.

=== Data Entry and Analysis ===
Using the results of the questionnaires and collected information including supporting documents and photos, the enumeration teams entered all the data into the STDM system. This process also included the updating of the initial digital maps. STDM, being a simple and user-friendly system, is able to undertake quick analyses and reporting. The slum federation leaders and enumerators were trained on how to use STDM to analyse the data and produce reports.

=== Data Validation and Continuous Updating ===
As part of quality assurance, the gathered information were printed and disseminated to community members. Community members then have the opportunity to validate and correct the information. This process enhanced the acceptability of the information and all stakeholders appreciated the fact that the turnaround time between the enumeration exercise and the production of results is relatively fast. After the validation period, enumeration teams and slum federation leaders updated the information in the system. Those community members who were not able to provide their comments and corrections during the validation period may come to the Slum Federation office to update the data. Some Slum Federation leaders and members were trained to manage the system and to continue the updating process.

== Key Achievements ==
Most stakeholders including slum dwellers themselves appreciated the added value of STDM in addressing the information requirements of the urban poor particularly for improving tenure security and enhancing planning and access to basic services and infrastructure. Some stakeholders including government officials appreciated STDM as a potential tool for much larger urban development objectives.

At the close of 2010 and early 2011, building from the prototype, the intermediate version was developed within UN-Habitat/GLTN. The intermediate version replaced ILWIS as the GIS component with [[QGIS]]. The intermediate version was developed using some data and process from a Kenya-based urban NGO called Pamoja Trust, an affiliate of SDI. This version becomes a QGIS plugin which allows users to make use of the other functionality offered by the software. This version of STDM is the basis for a publicly available version to be launched in June 2014.

https://github.com/gltn

* 2014 June first: STDM is published on https://github.com/gltn/stdm
* 2014: Launch of STDM 1.0 at the [http://www.fig.net/resources/proceedings/fig_proceedings/fig2014/techprog.htm FIG Conference in Kuala Lumpur]
* 2015: Release of STDM 1.2 at the World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty in Washington DC, USA
* 2016: STDM as a tool for Improving Land Governance: [https://www.conftool.com/landandpoverty2016/index.php?page=browseSessions&abstracts=show&form_session=510&presentations=show Global Partners' Experiences and Lessons] presentation at the World Bank Conference in Washington DC, USA
* 2016: Next phase: [https://www.conftool.com/landandpoverty2016/index.php?page=browseSessions&abstracts=show&form_session=446&presentations=show STDM-Online, the Social Tenure Domain Model on the Web].
* 2017 [http://stdm.gltn.net/ Release of STDM version 1.4]
* 2017 STDM Online prototype based on [Sahana Eden] launches at the World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty 2017.

== Next Steps ==
GLTN and partners continue to improve the system including the training package. It is also exploring further testing of the tool in other context and currently initiating a partnership agreement with FIG and known universities to review STDM and make further recommendations for improvement.

=== Identifying Interest Groups ===
From OSGeo's perspective there are at least 3 distinct interest groups which should be addressed with dedicated outreach material:

#End users
#* End users from NGOs who are on site and discover that they need some kind of "geospatial" tool
#* End user organizations (NGOs like Slum/Shack Dwellers International) who have a clearer understanding of what is needed but maybe not the means to acquire sustainable solutions based on proprietary software.
#* Municipalities who have an area of interest and are dedicated to do something but lack know-how or means
#* National bodies with the mission to address land tenure issues (overlap with SOLA)
# Donors
#* who have a budget for a limited period and want to make sure that whatever IT system they support will live beyond the funded period.
#* Inform donors '''how''' they can tap into Open Source development resources, what they need to take into account to make it sustainable
# Software developers
#* of the core projects (OSGeo peers), to make them aware of potential needs arising out of the evolution of STDM
#* New software developers, preferably local and regional to the target areas where STDM will be used. These will be critical to support the STDM plug-in, data model and "operations handbook", especially in the transition from externally funded to long term operational.

STDM 2017 Code Sprint

2017-03-13T15:10:51Z

Arnulf: funding request for STDM checked in

Codesprints are clearly within the scope of OSGeo's mission, and the OSGeo Foundation supports them. This page provides the information required for OSGeo to decide whether the sprint should be supported, and if so in what fashion.

== Basic Information ==

* Audience: 20+ participants
* Participants can apply for travel grants. It is expected to be able to support 10 participants from Africa, Asia, Asia Pacific or South America.
* Region: The sprint will take place in Nairobi, Kenya with a focus on Eastern Africa.
* Projects: The sprint is focused on the software implemented for the Social Tenure Domain Model ([[STDM]]). Work will is planned for the QGIS plugin and the Sahana implementation of STDM and associated documentation and tutorials using QGIS, PostGIS, Postgresql.
* As a secondary effect the code sprint will help to dissemination know-how and allows for hands on training with core OSGeo software, specifically QGIS and PostGIS.
* Length: The sprint is planned to take place at the end of April and is scheduled for four days.
* Venue: The sprint will be held at the RCMRD in Kenya, Nairobi. Food will be provided for all participants (both with travel grant and self sponsored). Overnight lodging will be provided for accepted travel grant applicants.

== Expected budget ==
The budget for the code sprint travel grants, venue, catering and back-office is USD 19,000. The largest part is set aside for supporting participant travel and accommodation amounting to 11,000 USD. It is provided through the Professional Cluster of [[GLTN]]. The funding requested of OSGeo is allocated for catering.

{| border="1" cellpadding="2" class="wikitable"
!width="250"|Item
!width="50"|Budget
!width="50"|Status
!width="100"|Status
|-
| Participant travel || 6000 || funded || GLTN
|-
| Travel grants for accepted applicants || 5000 || funded || GLTN
|-
| Catering || 3000 || '''requested''' || ''OSGeo ''
|-
| Venue || 2500 || funded || GLTN
|-
| Administrative fee for operational back office (RCMRD) || 2000 || funded || GLTN
|-
| Professional instructor || in-kind || funded || Kartoza
|-
| Infrastructure || in-kind || funded || RCMRD
|-
| Organization || in-kind || funded || Metaspatial
|-
| Facilitation || in-kind || funded || UN Habitat
|-
|}

* There is no registration fee.
* Third-party sponsorship amounts to 16,000 USD plus in-kind contributions
* OSGeo is requested for 3,000 USD sponsorship

'''Profit / Loss / Risk'''

* The event is not planned to make any profit.
* The event will not incur a loss because all critical items which may incur a cost even if the event has to be canceled are already funded.

= Submission of a funding request =

== Proposed workflow: ==
# Sprint organisers fill out the questionnaire above and submit it to Board list.
#* Open.
# Board adds a "Sprint support" agenda item for upcoming Board meeting, and invites sprint organiser(s) to join the meeting and provide clarification where needed.
#* Open.
# Board votes on the funding request.
#* Open.
# Upon approval, and within one month from the end of the sprint, sprint organisers provide a publicly accessible summary budget of the actual expenses. A more detailed budget shall be made available to OSGeo Treasurer. Should the final budget not be available to OSGeo, future fund requests will be with held until final budget publication.

[[Category:Code_Sprints]]

STDM

2017-03-13T14:59:36Z

Arnulf: /* Key Achievements */

<div align="right"><div style="float:right; max-width:300px; min-width:200px; border:0px solid #dddddd; background-color:#ffffff; padding:11px; text-align:left; position:float">
[[File:Stdm-logo.png|300px]]
''' Mailing Lists''' 
Please register with the mailing lists to learn more about the software developed in STDM.
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/stdm-user Users]: This list is suitable for all kind of users and general discussions.
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/stdm-dev Developers]: Subscribe here if you are interested in the software and database schema development.
* [http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/stdm-announce Announce]: This is a low volume moderated list, subscribe to receive general project announcements.
</div></div>

''The Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) is a [[GLTN]] project supported by UN-Habitat. Explore the web site at: http://www.stdm.gltn.net/''

== Introduction ==
The world is becoming increasingly urban with half of humanity now living in cities. For many of the poorest countries, urban growth is almost synonymous to slum expansion. Slums are informal, illegal and unplanned settlements and are strongly associated with urban poverty. It is in this context that UN-Habitat and Slum Dwellers International (SDI), in collaboration with Uganda's Ministry of Land, Housing and Urban Development (MoLHUD), have initiated a joint project aimed at addressing the information requirements of the urban poor in the Municipality of Mbale. The initial phase began in August 2011. The results of this project have lead to the formation of the STDM software project. It consists of a QGIS Plug-In implementing functionality required to map unplanned and informal settlements and link them with anonymized tenure data. It is based on a Postgres database schema leveraging PostGIS for geospatial functionality.

== Initial Project Objectives ==
The specific objective of the first phase of activities was to pilot test the Social Tenure Domain Model. The long-term objective is to address the land information requirements of women and men living in slum communities and to build their capacity in the use and application of the land information systems based on free and open source software packages and in mainstreaming the thinking behind the continuum of land rights.

== Project Activities ==
Through the support and intervention from the Ministry of Land, Housing and Urban Development (MoLHUD) and Municipality of Mbale, the community-driven enumeration and mapping exercise of the project was a success. The resulting software was bundled in STDM.

In a second step STDM was customized to be able to modify the enumeration questionnaire and identify the resources available such as satellite imagery and a handheld GPS. The GLTN Technical Team proceeded to make some adjustments to customise the STDM system to fit the purpose. The customised version of STDM was well received and appreciated by project stakeholders including by the slum federation members and enumerators.

=== Mapping and Structure Numbering ===
Using STDM, Actogether assisted the Slum Federation and community members to digitize structures from the satellite imagery and produce initial maps. Using the initial map, assigned enumerators and Slum Federation members number all existing structures in the slum settlements using a unique code. They made use of the handheld GPS to identify available community facilities and utilities such as water points, public toilet, dumping ground to update the map as the satellite imagery used in the process may no longer reflect the actual realities on the ground. For example, new structures were built or some structures as reflected by satellite imagery were not existent anymore.

=== Interviews and Data Collection ===
As scheduled and communicated with the community, enumeration teams mostly accompanied by local leaders or elders and municipal officials, conducted house to house interviews administering the questionnaire. In addition, they collected other information such as supporting documents and photos, with the unique code painted or written in the structure as a background.

=== Data Entry and Analysis ===
Using the results of the questionnaires and collected information including supporting documents and photos, the enumeration teams entered all the data into the STDM system. This process also included the updating of the initial digital maps. STDM, being a simple and user-friendly system, is able to undertake quick analyses and reporting. The slum federation leaders and enumerators were trained on how to use STDM to analyse the data and produce reports.

=== Data Validation and Continuous Updating ===
As part of quality assurance, the gathered information were printed and disseminated to community members. Community members then have the opportunity to validate and correct the information. This process enhanced the acceptability of the information and all stakeholders appreciated the fact that the turnaround time between the enumeration exercise and the production of results is relatively fast. After the validation period, enumeration teams and slum federation leaders updated the information in the system. Those community members who were not able to provide their comments and corrections during the validation period may come to the Slum Federation office to update the data. Some Slum Federation leaders and members were trained to manage the system and to continue the updating process.

== Key Achievements ==
Most stakeholders including slum dwellers themselves appreciated the added value of STDM in addressing the information requirements of the urban poor particularly for improving tenure security and enhancing planning and access to basic services and infrastructure. Some stakeholders including government officials appreciated STDM as a potential tool for much larger urban development objectives.

At the close of 2010 and early 2011, building from the prototype, the intermediate version was developed within UN-Habitat/GLTN. The intermediate version replaced ILWIS as the GIS component with [[QGIS]]. The intermediate version was developed using some data and process from a Kenya-based urban NGO called Pamoja Trust, an affiliate of SDI. This version becomes a QGIS plugin which allows users to make use of the other functionality offered by the software. This version of STDM is the basis for a publicly available version to be launched in June 2014.

* 2014: Launch of STDM 1.0 at the [http://www.fig.net/resources/proceedings/fig_proceedings/fig2014/techprog.htm FIG Conference in Kuala Lumpur]
* 2015: Release of STDM 1.2 at the World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty in Washington DC, USA
* 2016: STDM as a tool for Improving Land Governance: [https://www.conftool.com/landandpoverty2016/index.php?page=browseSessions&abstracts=show&form_session=510&presentations=show Global Partners' Experiences and Lessons] presentation at the World Bank Conference in Washington DC, USA
* 2016: Next phase: [https://www.conftool.com/landandpoverty2016/index.php?page=browseSessions&abstracts=show&form_session=446&presentations=show STDM-Online, the Social Tenure Domain Model on the Web].
* 2017 [http://stdm.gltn.net/ Release of STDM version 1.4]
* 2017 STDM Online prototype based on [Sahana Eden] launches at the World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty 2017.

== Next Steps ==
GLTN and partners continue to improve the system including the training package. It is also exploring further testing of the tool in other context and currently initiating a partnership agreement with FIG and known universities to review STDM and make further recommendations for improvement.

=== Identifying Interest Groups ===
From OSGeo's perspective there are at least 3 distinct interest groups which should be addressed with dedicated outreach material:

#End users
#* End users from NGOs who are on site and discover that they need some kind of "geospatial" tool
#* End user organizations (NGOs like Slum/Shack Dwellers International) who have a clearer understanding of what is needed but maybe not the means to acquire sustainable solutions based on proprietary software.
#* Municipalities who have an area of interest and are dedicated to do something but lack know-how or means
#* National bodies with the mission to address land tenure issues (overlap with SOLA)
# Donors
#* who have a budget for a limited period and want to make sure that whatever IT system they support will live beyond the funded period.
#* Inform donors '''how''' they can tap into Open Source development resources, what they need to take into account to make it sustainable
# Software developers
#* of the core projects (OSGeo peers), to make them aware of potential needs arising out of the evolution of STDM
#* New software developers, preferably local and regional to the target areas where STDM will be used. These will be critical to support the STDM plug-in, data model and "operations handbook", especially in the transition from externally funded to long term operational.

OGC Membership

2017-03-01T11:12:53Z

Arnulf: terms updated

This page describes OSGeo's process for selecting individuals as per the [[OSGeo signs Memorandum of Understanding with OGC | agreement between OGC and OSGeo]] by which up to six OSGeo community members can become OGC Individual Members free of cost.

== Members of OGC and OSGeo ==
Many individuals, companies, universities and public administrations involved with OSGeo and Open Source software are also regular members of the OGC. The full list is available at the [http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/members OGC web site]. A lot of interaction and communication is already maintained through these members.

== OSGeo Member Access to OGC Membership ==
Especially innovative new projects with no existing infrastructure or a regular commercial champion often did not have a chance to participate in the internal OGC processes. Both the OGC and OSGeo have a mutual interest in facilitating this collaboration and have as per their [[OSGeo signs Memorandum of Understanding with OGC | Memorandum of Understanding]] agreed to allow for six OGC Individual Memberships to be used by OSGeo members. To obtain a membership, you must:
# Determine if you are eligible for membership, based on the [http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/join/level/individual OGC Individual Membership] rules.
# Submit a short summary of why you want an OGC membership and what work you plan to do with it. This summary should be sent to the selection committee (listed below).
# Every six months, send a summary of what you have done with your membership to the selection committee and the standards list.

Memberships are valid for one year, after which you may reapply by submitting a short summary of why you want an OGC membership.

== Selection Committee ==
The selection committee keeps track of who is using our OGC memberships and what they are doing with them. The committee is appointed by the board of directors and periodically reports back to the board on the status of our OGC activity.

The members of this committee are currently:
* [[Arnulf Christl]]
* [[Bruce Bannerman]]

The committee operates transparently, recording its action on the [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/standards Standards Mailing List].

== Current Members ==
# [[Angelos Tzotsos]] term ends on 2017-04-01 ''(confirmed active on 2015-09-10; reported to list on 2015-09-10)''
# [[Gerald Fenoy]] term ends on 2017-09-28 ''(confirmed active on 2015-09-18)''
# [[User:Kotzino | Dimitris Kotzinos]] term ends on 2017-10-16 ''(confirmed active on 2015-09-11; reported to list on 2015-10-26)''
# [[User:lastools | Martin Isenburg]] term ends on 2018-01-08 ''(confirmed active on 2017-01-31; reported to list on 2015-09-10)''
# ''Vacant''
# ''Vacant''
[[Category:OGC]]

User talk:Adrian

2017-02-07T16:32:08Z

Arnulf: Welcome!

'''Welcome to ''OSGeo Wiki''!'''
We hope you will contribute much and well.
You will probably want to read the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Contents help pages].
Again, welcome and have fun! [[User:Arnulf Christl|Arnulf Christl]] ([[User talk:Arnulf Christl|talk]]) 08:32, 7 February 2017 (PST)

User:Adrian

2017-02-07T16:32:08Z

Arnulf: Creating user page for new user.

Fullstack .NET/Javascript ontwikkelaar met Geo-ICT skils. Sinds kort actief op de markt als freelancer.

User talk:Omartiz

2017-02-07T16:31:23Z

Arnulf: Welcome!

User:Omartiz

2017-02-07T16:31:23Z

Arnulf: Creating user page for new user.

I am a professional of GIS, with more than 15 years of experience.

User talk:Jgendron

2017-02-07T16:28:09Z

Arnulf: Welcome!

User:Jgendron

2017-02-07T16:28:08Z

Arnulf: Creating user page for new user.

Interested in Geospatial development activities using open source tools. Involved in GIS developement and training the students and community using open source tools like Geoserver, Postgres, OpenLayers and Python.

User talk:Gisunit

2017-02-07T16:28:01Z

Arnulf: Welcome!

User:Gisunit

2017-02-07T16:28:01Z

Arnulf: Creating user page for new user.

I would like to become a GIS programmer and spend my life on developing GIS. I'm spatially interested in data analysis, network solutions, designing and administrating Geographic Information Systems.

User talk:Chrysostomos

2017-02-07T16:27:54Z

Arnulf: Welcome!