Distribution Special Interest Groups

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This page proposes to create and promote a group of interest for distribution related issues.

Some aspects of distribution development and maintainance, as well as quality assurance practices are often quite obscure for many application developers, but essential to ensure an easy approach to free GIS for naive or also advanced users.

The key goals of this project are:

  • Facilitate the integration of quality, stable, GeoFOSS packages into Software Distributions.
  • Develop "Live CDs" for new users to trial GeoFOSS.
  • Develop baseline GeoFOSS to be used as a basis for workshops, tutorials and presentations.

To achieve these goals, we will:

  • Define and simplify the process for incorporating GeoFOSS packages into software distribution.
  • Open channels of communication between packagers and application developers.
  • Providing tools to facilitate GeoFOSS packaging.

Well known GNU/Linux distributions which have a GIS dedicated team are:

RPM-based distributions, such as Fedora Linux and SuSE Linux, do not have a dedicated GIS teams, but there are several parties maintaining independent RPM archives that could be persuaded to band their efforts together under the aegis of the foundation:


Unlike the Debian-GIS SIG, which already has mailing list / code repository infrastructure, the RPM-using community does not have such infrastructure and would benefit from hosting by OSGeo.

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