OSGeo Mission

This page is provisional, and the following declarations are not appoved by the OSGeo board.

Mission
To support the development of open source geospatial software, and promote it's widespread use.

Goals
The following more detailed goals support the overall mission.


 * To provide resources for foundation projects - infrastructure, funding, legal, ...
 * To promote freely available geodata - free software is useless without data.
 * To promote the use of open source software in the geospatial industry (not just foundation software) - PR, training, outreach, ...
 * To encourage the implementation of open standards and standards based interoperability in foundation projects.
 * To ensure a high degree of quality in foundation projects to build and preserve the foundation "brand".
 * To make foundation and related software more accessable to end users - binary "stack" builds, cross package documentation, etc.
 * To provide support for the use of OSGeo software in education via curriculum development, outreach, and support.
 * To encourage communication and cooperation between OSGeo communities. ie. Java/C tribes, unix/windows, international
 * To operate an annual OSGeo Conference, possibly in cooperation with related efforts (ie. EOGEO).
 * To award the Sol Katz award for service to the OSGeo community.