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As posted by User:Neteler . Once established please move this page to Press Release and delete this line.

'''''Press release'''''

== Open Source Geospatial Foundation: An umbrella for community-led GIS and mapping projects ==

The [http://www.osgeo.org Open Source Geospatial Foundation] has been created to support and build high quality open source geospatial software. The foundation's goal is to encourage the use and collaborative development of community-led projects. During a meeting in Chicago structure and vision were defined.

During the meeting a interim Board of Directors was formed. Five project managers were elected from a longer list. They come from North America and Europe and represent various communities along with different technology (C, C++, Java, etc.):

Arnulf Christl - [http://www.mapbender.org Mapbender], CCGIS, Germany;
Chris Holmes - [http://www.geoserver.org/ GeoServer]/[http://www.geotools.org/ GeoTools], The Open Planning Project, U.S.;
Gary Lang - [http://www.osgeo.org/mapguide/ MapGuide], Autodesk, U.S.;
Markus Neteler - [http://grass.itc.it/ GRASS], Istituto Trentino Di Cultura, Italy;
Frank Warmerdam - [http://gdal.maptools.org/index.html GDAL]/[http://gdal.maptools.org/ogr/ OGR], Canada.

The first set of board members will be extended by another four members to be selected by the community subsequently.

OSGF membership will be on an individual which is inspired as also other structure elements by the [http://www.apache.org/ Apache Foundation]. For now, the five board members, and 16 other participants in the meeting are members. More are to be added soon to reach the goal of 45, nominations are ongoing. Each nominated person shall be recognized due to her/his contribution in terms of software, documentation, translation or other. From the list of nominations, 24 members will be elected by the current members.

The foundation will only accept projects released under Open Source licenses certified by the [http://www.opensource.org Open Source Initiative (OSI)]. The long term goal is to encourage licenses that allow the different projects to work better together and permit for code exchange among the foundation projects. Means of avoiding the inclusion of proprietary or patented code will be established.

While an initial set of projects was proposed as founding projects, several projects such as [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/ MapServer] and GeoTools are currently seeking for a decision within their communities weather to join. Initial OSGF projects are Mapbender, MapBuilder, MapGuide, GDAL/OGR, GRASS, and [http://www.ossim.org/ OSSIM].

The foundation will also be pursuing goals beyond software development, such as promoting more open access to government produced spatial data. Access under reasonable conditions to geospatial data is a major problem outside of Northern America.

Thanks to the use of Internet Relay Chat [http://logs.qgis.org/geofoundation/%23geofoundation.2006-02-04.log (IRC) during the meeting], discussions were open to peers outside of the meeting room. The consensus reached at the Chicago meeting paves the way to establish a powerful, inclusive foundation.

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 == Translations of Press release ==
-If possible it would be great if you could translate the press release to as many languages as possible. Please create an account to access this Wiki (just hit the <edit> tab on top, it will guide you to the create account dialog).
+If possible it would be great if you could translate the [[Proposed Press Release]] to as many languages as possible. Please create an account to access this Wiki (just hit the <edit> tab on top, it will guide you to the create account dialog). Deadline: 1st March 2006.
 After you have finished translation please contact the OSGeo board members so that the page can be locked in order to prevent unsolicited edits.
 == Language Version Links ==

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 == Translations of Press release ==
 If possible it would be great if you could translate the press release to as many languages as possible. Please create an account to access this Wiki (just hit the <edit> tab on top, it will guide you to the create account dialog).
 == Language Version Links ==

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		+	If possible it would be great if you could translate the press release to as many languages as possible. Please create an account to access this Wiki (just hit the <edit> tab on top, it will guide you to the create account dialog).
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		+	== Language Version Links ==
		+	Please change the link name if you would believe that another name would be more suitable.
		+	* [[Press Release Japanese]]
		+	* [[Press Release Italiano]]
		+	* [[Press Release Portugues]]
		+	* [[Press Release Indonesia]]
		+	* [[Press Release German]]
		+	* [[Press Release Polish]]
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−	~~'''''Press release'''''~~
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−	~~== Open Source Geospatial Foundation: An umbrella for community-led GIS and mapping projects ==~~
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−	~~The [http://www~~.~~osgeo~~.~~org Open Source Geospatial Foundation] has been created to support and build high quality open source geospatial software~~. ~~The foundation's goal is to encourage the use and collaborative development of community~~-~~led projects. During a meeting in Chicago structure and vision were defined.~~
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−	During the meeting a interim Board of Directors was formed. Five project managers were elected from a longer list. They come from North America and Europe and represent various communities along with different technology (C, C++, Java, etc.):
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−	~~Arnulf Christl~~ - [~~http://www.mapbender.org Mapbender], CCGIS, Germany;~~
−	~~Chris Holmes -~~ [~~http~~:~~//www.geoserver.org/ GeoServer~~]~~/[http://www.geotools.org/ GeoTools~~]~~, The Open Planning Project, U.S.;~~
−	~~Gary Lang - [http://www.osgeo.org/mapguide/ MapGuide], Autodesk, U.S.;~~
−	~~Markus Neteler - [http://grass.itc.it/ GRASS], Istituto Trentino Di Cultura, Italy;~~
−	~~Frank Warmerdam - [http://gdal.maptools.org/ GDAL]/[http~~:~~//gdal.maptools.org/ogr/ OGR]~~, ~~Canada.~~
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−	~~The first set of board members will be extended by another four members to be selected by the community subsequently.~~
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−	OSGF membership will be on an individual which is inspired as also other structure elements by the [http://www.apache.org/ Apache Foundation]. For now, the five board members, and 16 other participants in the meeting are members. More are to be added soon to reach the goal of 45, nominations are ongoing. Each nominated person shall be recognized due to her/his contribution in terms of software, documentation, translation or other. From the list of nominations, 24 members will be elected by the current members.
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−	The foundation will only accept projects released under Open Source licenses certified by the [http://www.opensource.org Open Source Initiative (OSI)]. The long term goal is to encourage licenses that allow the different projects to work better together and permit for code exchange among the foundation projects. Means of avoiding the inclusion of proprietary or patented code will be established.
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−	While an initial set of projects was proposed as founding projects, several projects such as [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/ MapServer] and [http://www.geotools.org/ GeoTools] are currently seeking for a decision within their communities weather to join. Initial OSGF projects are [http://www.mapbender.org Mapbender], [http://mapbuilder.sourceforge.net/ MapBuilder], [http://www.osgeo.org/mapguide/ MapGuide], [http://gdal.maptools.org/ GDAL]/[http://gdal.maptools.org/ogr/ OGR], [http://grass.itc.it/ GRASS], and [http://www.ossim.org/ OSSIM].
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−	The foundation will also be pursuing goals beyond software development, such as promoting more open access to government produced spatial data. Access under reasonable conditions to geospatial data is a major problem outside of Northern America.
−
−	~~Thanks to the use of Internet Relay Chat [http://logs.qgis.org/geofoundation/%23geofoundation.~~2006~~-02-04.log~~ (~~IRC~~) ~~during the meeting], discussions were open to peers outside of the meeting room. The consensus reached at the Chicago meeting paves the way to establish a powerful, inclusive foundation.~~

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 Gary Lang - [http://www.osgeo.org/mapguide/ MapGuide], Autodesk, U.S.;
 Markus Neteler - [http://grass.itc.it/ GRASS], Istituto Trentino Di Cultura, Italy;
-Frank Warmerdam - [http://gdal.maptools.org/index.html GDAL]/[http://gdal.maptools.org/ogr/ OGR], Canada.
+Frank Warmerdam - [http://gdal.maptools.org/ GDAL]/[http://gdal.maptools.org/ogr/ OGR], Canada.
 The first set of board members will be extended by another four members to be selected by the community subsequently.
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 The foundation will only accept projects released under Open Source licenses certified by the [http://www.opensource.org Open Source Initiative (OSI)]. The long term goal is to encourage licenses that allow the different projects to work better together and permit for code exchange among the foundation projects. Means of avoiding the inclusion of proprietary or patented code will be established.
-While an initial set of projects was proposed as founding projects, several projects such as [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/ MapServer] and GeoTools are currently seeking for a decision within their communities weather to join. Initial OSGF projects are Mapbender, MapBuilder, MapGuide, GDAL/OGR, GRASS, and [http://www.ossim.org/ OSSIM].
+While an initial set of projects was proposed as founding projects, several projects such as [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/ MapServer] and [http://www.geotools.org/ GeoTools] are currently seeking for a decision within their communities weather to join. Initial OSGF projects are [http://www.mapbender.org Mapbender], [http://mapbuilder.sourceforge.net/ MapBuilder], [http://www.osgeo.org/mapguide/ MapGuide], [http://gdal.maptools.org/ GDAL]/[http://gdal.maptools.org/ogr/ OGR], [http://grass.itc.it/ GRASS], and [http://www.ossim.org/ OSSIM].
 The foundation will also be pursuing goals beyond software development, such as promoting more open access to government produced spatial data.  Access under reasonable conditions to geospatial data is a major problem outside of Northern America.
 Thanks to the use of Internet Relay Chat [http://logs.qgis.org/geofoundation/%23geofoundation.2006-02-04.log (IRC) during the meeting], discussions were open to peers outside of the meeting room. The consensus reached at the Chicago meeting paves the way to establish a powerful, inclusive foundation.