What The Open Source Geospatial Foundation Can Do For You

This is a five minute talk about the isness of OSGeo that is designed to get people who have an open source orientation but not much of a GIS orientation psyched about what we are doing.


 * OSGeo is a "new kind of foundation"
 * Geospatial stack - the projects are by nature complementary - analogy unix kernel, userspace, network space - "need one another" - thus coming together
 * What projects get out of coming together:
 * Visibility
 * Legitimacy
 * Cross-pollination
 * OSGeo is about more than just software
 * This is partly specific to the GIS domain
 * It's extremely data-driven - open source developers need open access to data
 * It's very "civic-minded" - 80% of government information is geospatial
 * It needs deep background - educational resources are crucial
 * Something optimistic yet pragmatic
 * Something inspiring

That's probably 5 minutes?

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