OSGeo Vision for UN-GGIM 2 - Revision history

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 OSGeo was initially formed with several of the best-of-breed Open Source geospatial software projects of the day : MapServer, GDAL/OGR, GRASS and GeoTools. Note that the initial roster of projects, and subsequent additions, covers the spectrum of server-side data storage, plug-in libraries for data transformation and format conversion, presentation and editing of data on the web, as well as traditional desktop GIS analysis. OSGeo projects now include those for mobile devices.
-Very quickly, OSGeo participants realized that geospatial data itself was both crucial to the software efforts and may also achieve benefits similar to those for software, in an Open Source environment. OpenStreetMap had been founded in 2004, following the massive success of Wikipedia, roughly founded in 2001, and both were expanding rapidly with unexpectedly high quality results. OSGeo started thinking about how the role of government might fit with the role of the independent Open Source software development world in geodata.
+Very quickly, OSGeo participants realized that geospatial data itself was both crucial to the software efforts and may also achieve benefits similar to those for software in an Open Source environment. OpenStreetMap had been founded in 2004, following the massive success of Wikipedia, roughly founded in 2001, and both were expanding rapidly with unexpectedly high quality results. OSGeo started thinking about how the role of government might fit with the role of the independent Open Source software development world in geodata.
 It is a truism that science itself is an open source project. The success of the scientific method and communities of research in the last several hundred years may well be a sign that Open Source software development is here to stay, but the modern conflicts in science over funding and publishing may also be an indicator of some difficulties that lie ahead.
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 OSGeo Local Chapters operate in more than 25 countries around the world. It is safe to say there are participants in every industrialized nation world-wide, and good representation from a handful of smaller countries in the third world.
-OSGeo facilitates a growing and thriving, international Open Source software development network of networks, with rigorous review criteria and adaptive community models baked in.  The necessary crucible for the next generation of major advancements in geospatial software is a combination of the ability to combine and grow common source code libraries,  a rigorous legal framework, and support for community infrastructure. OSGeo sets out to provide all of these.
+OSGeo facilitates a growing and thriving, international Open Source software development network of networks, with rigorous review criteria and adaptive community models baked in.  The necessary crucible for the next generation of major advancements in geospatial software is a combination of the ability to combine and grow common source code libraries,  a rigorous legal framework, and support for community infrastructure. OSGeo sets out to enable and grow all of these.
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 OSGeo Local Chapters operate in more than 25 countries around the world. It is safe to say there are participants in every industrialized nation world-wide, and good representation from a handful of smaller countries in the third world.
-OSGeo facilitates a growing and thriving, international Open Source software development infrastructure, with rigorous review criteria and adaptive community models.  The necessary crucible for the next generation of major advancements in geospatial software is a combination of the ability to combine and grow common source code libraries,  a rigorous legal framework, and support for community infrastructure. OSGeo sets out to provide all of these.
+OSGeo facilitates a growing and thriving, international Open Source software development network of networks, with rigorous review criteria and adaptive community models baked in.  The necessary crucible for the next generation of major advancements in geospatial software is a combination of the ability to combine and grow common source code libraries,  a rigorous legal framework, and support for community infrastructure. OSGeo sets out to provide all of these.
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 === Current Development ===
-OSGeo is a world-wide organization operating on the Internet and as local chapters and interest groups.
+OSGeo is a world-wide organization operating on the Internet, and as local chapters and interest groups.
 OSGeo operates common hosting and communications infrastructure, including:
 * more than 150 active mailing lists,

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 === Current Development ===
-OSGeo is a world-wide organization operating on the Internet and through local chapters and interest groups.
+OSGeo is a world-wide organization operating on the Internet and as local chapters and interest groups.
 OSGeo operates common hosting and communications infrastructure, including:
 * more than 150 active mailing lists,

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 * more than 700 active source code committers
 * combined source code base of more than 100 million lines of code
 OSGeo Local Chapters operate in more than 25 countries around the world. It is safe to say there are participants in every industrialized nation world-wide, and good representation from a handful of smaller countries in the third world.

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	It is a truism that science itself is an open source project. The success of the scientific method and communities of research in the last several hundred years may well be a sign that Open Source software development is here to stay, but the modern conflicts in science over funding and publishing may also be an indicator of some difficulties that lie ahead.		It is a truism that science itself is an open source project. The success of the scientific method and communities of research in the last several hundred years may well be a sign that Open Source software development is here to stay, but the modern conflicts in science over funding and publishing may also be an indicator of some difficulties that lie ahead.
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 Highly competitive entities are in some cases committing significant resources to Open Source software development projects, however, the case with data is far less clear. It is arguable that a role of government is to provide reliable, comprehensive data infrastructures as a basis for good governance and economic growth, as we see in the United States and the European Union, but this is not universally practiced. In some cases it is up to disruptive, skunk-works projects to take on the challenge of common data infrastructure.
-In the case of emergency response, participatory, cooperative models making extensive use of Open Source software have out-performed previous emergency response efforts in at least two very high profile cases: the Haiti Earthquake; and Hurricane Katrina. Emergency response and civil defense agencies have widely made these into case studies in the future of disaster mobilization.
+In the case of emergency response, participatory, cooperative models making extensive use of Open Source software and data have out-performed previous emergency response efforts in at least two very high profile cases: the Haiti Earthquake; and Hurricane Katrina. Emergency response and civil defense agencies have widely made these into case studies in the future of disaster mobilization.
 Access to data is impossible in modern terms without software. Software development is the key to the evolution of the acquisition, management, dissemination and analysis of data. Currently there is a powerful and sometimes  difficult evolution going on, as the roles of government, private sector and academia are blurred and redefined again and again, with respect to geospatial data and software. Arguably government is a laggard in the evolution of data access, while the private sector races forward, and cooperative communitarian models flourish on the web.