Review OSGeo 2006

This page reflects the OSGeo success story.

Committees
The committees are part of the official structure of OSGeo. The following committees were established:
 * Board of Directors
 * Website Committee (WebCom)
 * Fundraising Committee (FunCom)
 * Incubation Committee (IncCom)
 * Promotion and Visibility Committee (VisCom)
 * Public Geospatial Data Committee (GeodataCom)
 * Education and Curriculum Committee (EduCom)
 * System Administration Committee (SAC)
 * Conference Committee

Additionally, an Executive Director was hired.

Membership
Elected charter members

Open mailing lists:
 * announce: 579
 * discuss: 402

OSGeo Projects

 * Web Mapping Software
 * Mapbender - first approved OSGeo project
 * MapBuilder (I)
 * MapGuide Open Source and FDO (I)
 * MapServer (I)
 * OpenLayers (I)


 * Desktop Applications Software
 * GRASS (I)
 * OSSIM (I)


 * Geospatial Libraries Software
 * GDAL/OGR (I)
 * GeoTools (I)


 * Metadata Catalog Software
 * GeoNetwork Opensource (I)


 * Other Projects
 * Public Geospatial Data
 * Education and Curriculum

(I): in incubation

Local Chapters
The following Local Chapters have been established, and many more are in formation:
 * Japan
 * China
 * India
 * Ottawa, Canada

Annual OSGeo Conference

 * FOSS4G 2006 in Lausanne, Switzerland was a great success.
 * FOSS4G 2007 in planning for Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, September 24-27, 2007, http://www.foss4g2007.org/

GRASS / OSGeo Newsletter Published
On December 20th, 2006, the GRASS-News editors and OSGeo Promotion and Visibility Committee announced the first combined GRASS-News / OSGeo-News (5.3MB pdf) volume. http://grass.itc.it/newsletter/index.php

Systems Infrastructure

 * Alliance with Telascience to provide hosting, high bandwidth and hefty processing for projects.
 * Establishment of BuildBot build and smoke test server for projects.
 * Provision of hardware (c/o Telascience) for Kids GIS Portal
 * SVN Server setup for projects.
 * Community Drupal server set up for foundation and committees.

LinuxTag 2006
OSGeo had a booth at the LinuxTag 2006 event in Wiesbaden, Germany.

Where 2.0 Conference, 2006
The Where 2.0 2006 saw a big OSGeo presence and the OSGeo at Where PressEvent with talks and presentations by Christopher Schmidt showing OpenLayers, Brent and Arnulf (GeoServer and Mapbender)) and Gary Lang talking about how and why he got to understand Open Source.

Intergeo Conference and Trade Fair 2006
OSGeo operated the Open Source Park at the Intergeo_2006. It was the first large Booth operated by OSGeo.

FOSS4G 2006 Lausanne Conference, 2006
OSGeo staffed a booth at the FOSS4G 2006 in Lausanne that was home to a GeoTools development sprint and had representatives from MapGuide Open Source, GRASS, Mapbender, MapServer and many more FOSS GIS projects.

OSGeo Swag Store
OSGeo has an online store, selling everything from our classic Black Shirts to Tote Bags to Teddy Bears, all with our distinctive and increasingly prestigious logo. And of course, all profits go to support our Foundation's activities. http://www.cafepress.com/OSGeo

OSGeo Logo Chosen
OSGeo had a community contest to vote for an official logo. Several excellent entries were received and the final version selected by a community voting process. In late 2006 the logo was modified slightly to allow easier use in various printing processes and to provide more options for use. Here is an example of the official current logo:

http://www.osgeo.org/content/logo/images/OSGeo_wTag.png