FOSS4G Communities


Who am I?


I'm a football fan
I'm a wine and asado lover
I'm a pseudo musician (aka noise maker)

I'm a FOSS4G evangelist

OSGeo

Open Source Geospatial Foundation

  • Goals:
    • To promote the use of Free Geomatics
      • Software, Data and Open Standards
    • To provide resources and quality assurance for foundation projects
    • To encourage communication and cooperation between OSGeo communities
  • 20+ projects
    • Web Mapping, Desktop, Metadata, Libraries
  • OSGeo-Live
  • OSGeo Advocates

OSGeo Umbrella

OSGeo Umbrella

Local Chapters

  • By Language or Geographic area
  • OSGeo-es
    • Since 2007
    • Not just Spain
    • Events: Jornadas de Girona, Jornadas Sudamericanas 2011, LatinOSGIS 2012, FOSS4G Buenos Aires 2013
  • Osgeo-br

gvSIG Association

New ideas for a new model

Álvaro Anguix
(next speaker)

Geoinquietos

  • Curious? Lively? Restless?
  • Very local and casual initiatives
  • Anarchy!!!
  • Almería, Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Cantabria, Córdoba, Galicia, Madrid, México DF, Sevilla, Tenerife, Valencia
  • Foz? Brasil?

Water related Use Cases

  • More than 20 projects (in a week of research)
  • 10+ specific software and plugins
  • Sri Lanka, USA, Italy, Mali, Germany, Spain, Vietnam, France, Rumania, Canada
  • PyWPS, Grass, GeoServer, OpenLayers, PostGIS, gvSIG, Sextante, Modflow, MapServer, Mapbender, GeoMoose, QuantumGIS, Deegree, GeoNetwork, istSOS, GeoExt, GDAL, GeoTrellis, 52° North SOS

Use cases and specifc software list

How to participate?

Not just using

  • Mailing lists (asking and answering)
  • Testing
  • Development
  • Become an evangelist!

Thanks!

Questions?

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