OSGeo - User contributions [en]

OSGeo:Administrators

2006-03-20T18:28:31Z

Wiki-WikiSysop:

There is no such thing as a Project Administraotr of this Wiki. This Wiki is the place for comprehensive discussion of the [http://www.osgeo.org Open Source Geospatial Foundation]. Check out the http://www.osgeo.org site for stable information and individual projects and their respective Project Administrators, Committee Members, Chairs, Sofas and such. This Wiki is only administered not managed and not moderated. To keep it this way a WikiSysop is needed to make backups, maintain the software, etc. That is [mailto:thelen@ccgis.de Benjamin]. The backup Sysop is [mailto:arnulf@osgeo.org Arnulf]. From a technical perspective they do everything to the system. They do not edit any content that way though. Whenever they tinker with content they do it the same way as everybody else, cerate an account and hit the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=OSGEO:Administrators&action=edit edit] button and leave their traces in the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=OSGEO%3AAdministrators&diff=2380&oldid=2379 history].

== Informational Pollution ==
Yet this might change. Because it might happen that non-benevolent users or machines spam our Wiki. These polluters are by nature evil, folks also call them spam robots. Whenever a spam robot spills informational waste the WikiSysops comes into action and exerts pollution control. These methods include IP blocks, page protections, etc. Whenever you feel that the Wiki is being polluted please immediately report to [mailto:arnulf@osgeo Arnulf] or [mailto:thelen@ccgis.de Benjamin].

== Trolls ==
Rest assured that "pollution" does not translate into "stupid" or "wrong". Whenever you think someone edited something stupid, or wrong - go hack it yourself and do not bother the administrators with it. They will only react to repeated mechanical spamming and direct order from the president ([User:Warmerda Frank Warmerdam]). If somebody appears to put stupid comments in the Wiki it might be a [http://develop.consumerium.org/wiki/index.php/Troll Troll]. Trolls are very important for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll health of a Wiki community] although sometimes they can get really on your nerves because they mess up everything. Well, they are Trolls. Nonetheless in a healthy ecosystem you need all kinds to make a world, be it informational, environmental or technical.

There is no such thing as a final truth. Not the way our minds work. All and everything that we can do is communicate some thought in words. Compared to a heavy club this is about the most unreal thing imaginable. Unreal thoughts cannot be true or wrong then, can they? See, it should not not really hurt anybody if there is something inside that you do not consider to be the truth. If you want to amend it, go hack the Wiki and say why you think that this truth is different. This is called communication, trying to understand the truth of somebody else is the one essential part, the other being the ability to explain the own point of view. Ignorance is what prevents this from happening. Ignorance can be amended, thats why we have this Wiki here.

== Warning ==
In some larger Wikis administrator privileges have been misused to change content or prevent people from changing content. Both are incorrect use of this authorization and must be avenged, usually by revoking these privileges. If you think that a WikiSysop has done soomething like this please immediately report to [mailto:arnulf@osgeo Arnulf] or [mailto:thelen@ccgis.de Benjamin]. In the best case report directly to the [[WikiSysop]] herself because it might be that she did not mean to break anything. In the worst case report to all the user lists that you know. Rest assured that avenging is going to take place.

Board of Directors

2006-03-18T22:46:59Z

Wiki-WikiSysop: completed board text

An interim Board of Directors with 5 members has been elected on February 4th by the initial members of the [http://www.osgeo.org Open Source Geospatial Foundation]. On March 18th the board has been completed to now total nine members.

== OSGeo Foundation Board of Directors ==
* [[User:Arnulf Christl | Arnulf Christl]]
* [[User:Cholmes | Chris Holmes]]
* [[User:Garylang | Gary Lang]]
* [[User:Mlucas17 | Mark Lucas]]
* [[User:Davemac | Dave McIllhagga]]
* [[User:Neteler | Markus Neteler]]
* Venkatesh Raghavan
* [[User:JoWalsh | Jo Walsh]]
* [[User:Warmerda | Frank Warmerdam]]

== Community Manager ==
* [[User:Dbrookshier | Daniel Brookshier]]

== Legal Support ==
* [[User:Rich steele | Rich Steele]]

Interim Board of Directors

2006-03-18T22:44:12Z

Wiki-WikiSysop: Interim Board of Directors moved to Board of Directors: With the new members the board is complete and 'interim' can be removed

#redirect [[Board of Directors]]

Board of Directors

2006-03-18T22:44:12Z

Wiki-WikiSysop: Interim Board of Directors moved to Board of Directors

The interim Board of Directors has been elected on February 4th by the initial members of the [http://www.osgeo.org Open Source Geospatial Foundation]. It will grow to a total of nine members within the next weeks. Please check the Open Source Geospatial Foundation homepage (http://www.osgeo.org) for the details of the nomination and election process.

== Interim Board of Directors ==
* [[User:Arnulf Christl | Arnulf Christl]]
* [[User:Cholmes | Chris Holmes]]
* [[User:Garylang | Gary Lang]]
* [[User:Mlucas17 | Mark Lucas]]
* [[User:Davemac | Dave McIllhagga]]
* [[User:Neteler | Markus Neteler]]
* Venkatesh Raghavan
* [[User:JoWalsh | Jo Walsh]]
* [[User:Warmerda | Frank Warmerdam]]

== Community Manager ==
* [[User:Dbrookshier | Daniel Brookshier]]

== Legal Support ==
* [[User:Rich steele | Rich Steele]]

Board of Directors

2006-03-18T22:42:48Z

Wiki-WikiSysop: added new board members

OSGeo:Protected page guidelines

2006-02-22T18:57:10Z

Wiki-WikiSysop: What is a protected page?

== What is a protected page? ==
Some pages in this Wiki are 'protected' because they contain information that is stable and might have legal impacts if changed. Only users with [[User:WikiSysop]] access or privileges can edit or unprotect them.

Board of Directors

2006-02-22T18:53:29Z

Wiki-WikiSysop: Protected page edit! Added links to user pages

The interim Board of Directors has been elected on February 4th by the initial members of the [http://www.osgeo.org Open Source Geospatial Foundation]. It will grow to a total of nine members within the next weeks. Please check the Open Source Geospatial Foundation homepage (http://www.osgeo.org) for the details of the nomination and election process.

== Interim Board of Directors ==
* [[User:Arnulf Christl | Arnulf Christl]]
* [[User:Cholmes | Chris Holmes]]
* [[User:Garylang | Gary Lang]]
* [[User:Neteler | Markus Neteler]]
* [[User:Warmerda | Frank Warmerdam]]

== Community Manager ==
* [[User:Dbrookshier | Daniel Brookshier]]

== Legal Support ==
* [[User:Rich steele | Rich Steele]]

Press Release

2006-02-13T17:38:13Z

Wiki-WikiSysop: corrected link to GDAL/OGR

Once established please move this page to Press Release and delete this line.

'''''Press release'''''

== Open Source Geospatial Foundation ==

'''An umbrella for community-led GIS and mapping projects'''

The [http://www.osgeo.org Open Source Geospatial Foundation] has been created to support and build high quality open source geospatial software. The foundation's goal is to encourage the use and collaborative development of community-led projects. During a meeting in Chicago structure and vision were defined.

During the meeting a interim Board of Directors was formed. Five project managers were elected from a longer list. They come from North America and Europe and represent various communities along with different technology (C, C++, Java, PHP, Python, Javascript, etc.):

* Arnulf Christl - [http://www.mapbender.org Mapbender], CCGIS, Germany;
* Chris Holmes - [http://www.geoserver.org/ GeoServer]/[http://www.geotools.org/ GeoTools], The Open Planning Project, U.S.;
* Gary Lang - [http://www.osgeo.org/mapguide/ MapGuide], Autodesk, U.S.;
* Markus Neteler - [http://grass.itc.it/ GRASS], Istituto Trentino Di Cultura, Italy;
* Frank Warmerdam - [http://www.gdal.org/ GDAL/OGR], Canada.

The first set of board members will be extended by another four members to be selected by the community subsequently.

OSGF draws governance inspiration from several aspects of the [http://www.apache.org/ Apache Foundation], including a membership composed of individuals drawn from foundation projects. The initial membership consists of the five board members plus 16 other participants who attended the meeting. The target of 45 members is being established through a public nomination process from the wider open source geospatial community. Each nominated person shall be recognized due to her/his contribution in terms of software, documentation, translation or other. From the list of nominations, 24 members will be elected by the current members.

The foundation will only accept projects released under Open Source licenses certified by the [http://www.opensource.org Open Source Initiative (OSI)]. The long term goal is to encourage licenses that allow the different projects to work better together and permit for code exchange among the foundation projects. Means of avoiding the inclusion of proprietary or patented code will be established. Foundation projects are focused on interoperability, with one another at the library level, and with other proprietary and open source projects through the use of open standards.

While an initial set of projects was proposed as founding projects, several projects such as [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/ MapServer] and [http://www.geotools.org/ GeoTools] are currently seeking for a decision within their communities weather to join. Initial OSGF projects are [http://www.mapbender.org Mapbender], [http://mapbuilder.sourceforge.net/ MapBuilder], [http://www.osgeo.org/mapguide/ MapGuide], [http://www.gdal.org/ GDAL/OGR], [http://grass.itc.it/ GRASS], and [http://www.ossim.org/ OSSIM].

The foundation will also be pursuing goals beyond software development, such as promoting more open access to government produced spatial data. Access under reasonable conditions to geospatial data is a major problem outside of Northern America.

Thanks to the use of Internet Relay Chat [http://logs.qgis.org/geofoundation/%23geofoundation.2006-02-04.log (IRC) during the meeting], discussions were open to peers outside of the meeting room. The consensus reached at the Chicago meeting paves the way to establish a powerful, inclusive foundation.

Press Release

2006-02-13T17:37:06Z

Wiki-WikiSysop:

Once established please move this page to Press Release and delete this line.

'''''Press release'''''

== Open Source Geospatial Foundation ==

'''An umbrella for community-led GIS and mapping projects'''

The [http://www.osgeo.org Open Source Geospatial Foundation] has been created to support and build high quality open source geospatial software. The foundation's goal is to encourage the use and collaborative development of community-led projects. During a meeting in Chicago structure and vision were defined.

During the meeting a interim Board of Directors was formed. Five project managers were elected from a longer list. They come from North America and Europe and represent various communities along with different technology (C, C++, Java, PHP, Python, Javascript, etc.):

* Arnulf Christl - [http://www.mapbender.org Mapbender], CCGIS, Germany;
* Chris Holmes - [http://www.geoserver.org/ GeoServer]/[http://www.geotools.org/ GeoTools], The Open Planning Project, U.S.;
* Gary Lang - [http://www.osgeo.org/mapguide/ MapGuide], Autodesk, U.S.;
* Markus Neteler - [http://grass.itc.it/ GRASS], Istituto Trentino Di Cultura, Italy;
* Frank Warmerdam - [http://www.gdal.org/ GDAL/OGR], Canada.

The first set of board members will be extended by another four members to be selected by the community subsequently.

OSGF draws governance inspiration from several aspects of the [http://www.apache.org/ Apache Foundation], including a membership composed of individuals drawn from foundation projects. The initial membership consists of the five board members plus 16 other participants who attended the meeting. The target of 45 members is being established through a public nomination process from the wider open source geospatial community. Each nominated person shall be recognized due to her/his contribution in terms of software, documentation, translation or other. From the list of nominations, 24 members will be elected by the current members.

The foundation will only accept projects released under Open Source licenses certified by the [http://www.opensource.org Open Source Initiative (OSI)]. The long term goal is to encourage licenses that allow the different projects to work better together and permit for code exchange among the foundation projects. Means of avoiding the inclusion of proprietary or patented code will be established. Foundation projects are focused on interoperability, with one another at the library level, and with other proprietary and open source projects through the use of open standards.

While an initial set of projects was proposed as founding projects, several projects such as [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/ MapServer] and [http://www.geotools.org/ GeoTools] are currently seeking for a decision within their communities weather to join. Initial OSGF projects are [http://www.mapbender.org Mapbender], [http://mapbuilder.sourceforge.net/ MapBuilder], [http://www.osgeo.org/mapguide/ MapGuide], [http://gdal.maptools.org/ GDAL]/[http://gdal.maptools.org/ogr/ OGR], [http://grass.itc.it/ GRASS], and [http://www.ossim.org/ OSSIM].

The foundation will also be pursuing goals beyond software development, such as promoting more open access to government produced spatial data. Access under reasonable conditions to geospatial data is a major problem outside of Northern America.

Thanks to the use of Internet Relay Chat [http://logs.qgis.org/geofoundation/%23geofoundation.2006-02-04.log (IRC) during the meeting], discussions were open to peers outside of the meeting room. The consensus reached at the Chicago meeting paves the way to establish a powerful, inclusive foundation.

Board of Directors

2006-02-13T11:17:00Z

Wiki-WikiSysop: Created list of Interim Board of Director Members

The interim Board of Directors has been elected on February 4th by the initial members of the [http://www.osgeo.org Open Source Geospatial Foundation]. It will grow to a total of nine members within the next weeks. Please check the Open Source Geospatial Foundation homepage (http://www.osgeo.org) for the details of the nomination and election process.

== Interim Board of Directors ==
* Arnulf Christl [[User:Arnulf Christl]]
* Chris Holmes - [[User:Cholmes]]
* Gary Lang - [[User:Gary Lang]] (please add link to your Wiki avatar once created)
* Markus Neteler - [[User:Neteler]]
* Frank Warmerdam - [[User:Warmerda]]

== Community Manager ==
* Daniel Brookshier [[User:Dbrookshier]]

== Legal Support ==
* Rich Steele [[User:Rich Steele]] (please add link to your Wiki avatar once created)

Press Release Francaise

2006-02-13T09:45:17Z

Wiki-WikiSysop:

Once established please move this page to Press Release and delete this line.

'''''Press release'''''

== Open Source Geospatial Foundation ==

'''An umbrella for community-led GIS and mapping projects'''

The [http://www.osgeo.org Open Source Geospatial Foundation] has been created to support and build high quality open source geospatial software. The foundation's goal is to encourage the use and collaborative development of community-led projects. During a meeting in Chicago structure and vision were defined.

During the meeting a interim Board of Directors was formed. Five project managers were elected from a longer list. They come from North America and Europe and represent various communities along with different technology (C, C++, Java, PHP, Python, Javascript, etc.):

* Arnulf Christl - [http://www.mapbender.org Mapbender], CCGIS, Germany;
* Chris Holmes - [http://www.geoserver.org/ GeoServer]/[http://www.geotools.org/ GeoTools], The Open Planning Project, U.S.;
* Gary Lang - [http://www.osgeo.org/mapguide/ MapGuide], Autodesk, U.S.;
* Markus Neteler - [http://grass.itc.it/ GRASS], Istituto Trentino Di Cultura, Italy;
* Frank Warmerdam - [http://gdal.maptools.org/ GDAL]/[http://gdal.maptools.org/ogr/ OGR], Canada.

The first set of board members will be extended by another four members to be selected by the community subsequently.

OSGF draws governance inspiration from several aspects of the [http://www.apache.org/ Apache Foundation], including a membership composed of individuals drawn from foundation projects. The initial membership consists of the five board members plus 16 other participants who attended the meeting. The target of 45 members is being established through a public nomination process from the wider open source geospatial community. Each nominated person shall be recognized due to her/his contribution in terms of software, documentation, translation or other. From the list of nominations, 24 members will be elected by the current members.

The foundation will only accept projects released under Open Source licenses certified by the [http://www.opensource.org Open Source Initiative (OSI)]. The long term goal is to encourage licenses that allow the different projects to work better together and permit for code exchange among the foundation projects. Means of avoiding the inclusion of proprietary or patented code will be established. Foundation projects are focused on interoperability, with one another at the library level, and with other proprietary and open source projects through the use of open standards.

While an initial set of projects was proposed as founding projects, several projects such as [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/ MapServer] and [http://www.geotools.org/ GeoTools] are currently seeking for a decision within their communities weather to join. Initial OSGF projects are [http://www.mapbender.org Mapbender], [http://mapbuilder.sourceforge.net/ MapBuilder], [http://www.osgeo.org/mapguide/ MapGuide], [http://gdal.maptools.org/ GDAL]/[http://gdal.maptools.org/ogr/ OGR], [http://grass.itc.it/ GRASS], and [http://www.ossim.org/ OSSIM].

The foundation will also be pursuing goals beyond software development, such as promoting more open access to government produced spatial data. Access under reasonable conditions to geospatial data is a major problem outside of Northern America.

Thanks to the use of Internet Relay Chat [http://logs.qgis.org/geofoundation/%23geofoundation.2006-02-04.log (IRC) during the meeting], discussions were open to peers outside of the meeting room. The consensus reached at the Chicago meeting paves the way to establish a powerful, inclusive foundation.

Press Release Polish

2006-02-13T09:45:08Z

Wiki-WikiSysop:

Once established please move this page to Press Release and delete this line.

'''''Press release'''''

== Open Source Geospatial Foundation ==

'''An umbrella for community-led GIS and mapping projects'''

The [http://www.osgeo.org Open Source Geospatial Foundation] has been created to support and build high quality open source geospatial software. The foundation's goal is to encourage the use and collaborative development of community-led projects. During a meeting in Chicago structure and vision were defined.

During the meeting a interim Board of Directors was formed. Five project managers were elected from a longer list. They come from North America and Europe and represent various communities along with different technology (C, C++, Java, PHP, Python, Javascript, etc.):

* Arnulf Christl - [http://www.mapbender.org Mapbender], CCGIS, Germany;
* Chris Holmes - [http://www.geoserver.org/ GeoServer]/[http://www.geotools.org/ GeoTools], The Open Planning Project, U.S.;
* Gary Lang - [http://www.osgeo.org/mapguide/ MapGuide], Autodesk, U.S.;
* Markus Neteler - [http://grass.itc.it/ GRASS], Istituto Trentino Di Cultura, Italy;
* Frank Warmerdam - [http://gdal.maptools.org/ GDAL]/[http://gdal.maptools.org/ogr/ OGR], Canada.

The first set of board members will be extended by another four members to be selected by the community subsequently.

OSGF draws governance inspiration from several aspects of the [http://www.apache.org/ Apache Foundation], including a membership composed of individuals drawn from foundation projects. The initial membership consists of the five board members plus 16 other participants who attended the meeting. The target of 45 members is being established through a public nomination process from the wider open source geospatial community. Each nominated person shall be recognized due to her/his contribution in terms of software, documentation, translation or other. From the list of nominations, 24 members will be elected by the current members.

The foundation will only accept projects released under Open Source licenses certified by the [http://www.opensource.org Open Source Initiative (OSI)]. The long term goal is to encourage licenses that allow the different projects to work better together and permit for code exchange among the foundation projects. Means of avoiding the inclusion of proprietary or patented code will be established. Foundation projects are focused on interoperability, with one another at the library level, and with other proprietary and open source projects through the use of open standards.

While an initial set of projects was proposed as founding projects, several projects such as [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/ MapServer] and [http://www.geotools.org/ GeoTools] are currently seeking for a decision within their communities weather to join. Initial OSGF projects are [http://www.mapbender.org Mapbender], [http://mapbuilder.sourceforge.net/ MapBuilder], [http://www.osgeo.org/mapguide/ MapGuide], [http://gdal.maptools.org/ GDAL]/[http://gdal.maptools.org/ogr/ OGR], [http://grass.itc.it/ GRASS], and [http://www.ossim.org/ OSSIM].

The foundation will also be pursuing goals beyond software development, such as promoting more open access to government produced spatial data. Access under reasonable conditions to geospatial data is a major problem outside of Northern America.

Thanks to the use of Internet Relay Chat [http://logs.qgis.org/geofoundation/%23geofoundation.2006-02-04.log (IRC) during the meeting], discussions were open to peers outside of the meeting room. The consensus reached at the Chicago meeting paves the way to establish a powerful, inclusive foundation.

Press Release German

2006-02-13T09:44:58Z

Wiki-WikiSysop:

Once established please move this page to Press Release and delete this line.

'''''Press release'''''

== Open Source Geospatial Foundation ==

'''An umbrella for community-led GIS and mapping projects'''

The [http://www.osgeo.org Open Source Geospatial Foundation] has been created to support and build high quality open source geospatial software. The foundation's goal is to encourage the use and collaborative development of community-led projects. During a meeting in Chicago structure and vision were defined.

During the meeting a interim Board of Directors was formed. Five project managers were elected from a longer list. They come from North America and Europe and represent various communities along with different technology (C, C++, Java, PHP, Python, Javascript, etc.):

* Arnulf Christl - [http://www.mapbender.org Mapbender], CCGIS, Germany;
* Chris Holmes - [http://www.geoserver.org/ GeoServer]/[http://www.geotools.org/ GeoTools], The Open Planning Project, U.S.;
* Gary Lang - [http://www.osgeo.org/mapguide/ MapGuide], Autodesk, U.S.;
* Markus Neteler - [http://grass.itc.it/ GRASS], Istituto Trentino Di Cultura, Italy;
* Frank Warmerdam - [http://gdal.maptools.org/ GDAL]/[http://gdal.maptools.org/ogr/ OGR], Canada.

The first set of board members will be extended by another four members to be selected by the community subsequently.

OSGF draws governance inspiration from several aspects of the [http://www.apache.org/ Apache Foundation], including a membership composed of individuals drawn from foundation projects. The initial membership consists of the five board members plus 16 other participants who attended the meeting. The target of 45 members is being established through a public nomination process from the wider open source geospatial community. Each nominated person shall be recognized due to her/his contribution in terms of software, documentation, translation or other. From the list of nominations, 24 members will be elected by the current members.

The foundation will only accept projects released under Open Source licenses certified by the [http://www.opensource.org Open Source Initiative (OSI)]. The long term goal is to encourage licenses that allow the different projects to work better together and permit for code exchange among the foundation projects. Means of avoiding the inclusion of proprietary or patented code will be established. Foundation projects are focused on interoperability, with one another at the library level, and with other proprietary and open source projects through the use of open standards.

While an initial set of projects was proposed as founding projects, several projects such as [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/ MapServer] and [http://www.geotools.org/ GeoTools] are currently seeking for a decision within their communities weather to join. Initial OSGF projects are [http://www.mapbender.org Mapbender], [http://mapbuilder.sourceforge.net/ MapBuilder], [http://www.osgeo.org/mapguide/ MapGuide], [http://gdal.maptools.org/ GDAL]/[http://gdal.maptools.org/ogr/ OGR], [http://grass.itc.it/ GRASS], and [http://www.ossim.org/ OSSIM].

The foundation will also be pursuing goals beyond software development, such as promoting more open access to government produced spatial data. Access under reasonable conditions to geospatial data is a major problem outside of Northern America.

Thanks to the use of Internet Relay Chat [http://logs.qgis.org/geofoundation/%23geofoundation.2006-02-04.log (IRC) during the meeting], discussions were open to peers outside of the meeting room. The consensus reached at the Chicago meeting paves the way to establish a powerful, inclusive foundation.

Press Release Indonesia

2006-02-13T09:44:49Z

Wiki-WikiSysop:

Once established please move this page to Press Release and delete this line.

'''''Press release'''''

== Open Source Geospatial Foundation ==

'''An umbrella for community-led GIS and mapping projects'''

The [http://www.osgeo.org Open Source Geospatial Foundation] has been created to support and build high quality open source geospatial software. The foundation's goal is to encourage the use and collaborative development of community-led projects. During a meeting in Chicago structure and vision were defined.

During the meeting a interim Board of Directors was formed. Five project managers were elected from a longer list. They come from North America and Europe and represent various communities along with different technology (C, C++, Java, PHP, Python, Javascript, etc.):

* Arnulf Christl - [http://www.mapbender.org Mapbender], CCGIS, Germany;
* Chris Holmes - [http://www.geoserver.org/ GeoServer]/[http://www.geotools.org/ GeoTools], The Open Planning Project, U.S.;
* Gary Lang - [http://www.osgeo.org/mapguide/ MapGuide], Autodesk, U.S.;
* Markus Neteler - [http://grass.itc.it/ GRASS], Istituto Trentino Di Cultura, Italy;
* Frank Warmerdam - [http://gdal.maptools.org/ GDAL]/[http://gdal.maptools.org/ogr/ OGR], Canada.

The first set of board members will be extended by another four members to be selected by the community subsequently.

OSGF draws governance inspiration from several aspects of the [http://www.apache.org/ Apache Foundation], including a membership composed of individuals drawn from foundation projects. The initial membership consists of the five board members plus 16 other participants who attended the meeting. The target of 45 members is being established through a public nomination process from the wider open source geospatial community. Each nominated person shall be recognized due to her/his contribution in terms of software, documentation, translation or other. From the list of nominations, 24 members will be elected by the current members.

The foundation will only accept projects released under Open Source licenses certified by the [http://www.opensource.org Open Source Initiative (OSI)]. The long term goal is to encourage licenses that allow the different projects to work better together and permit for code exchange among the foundation projects. Means of avoiding the inclusion of proprietary or patented code will be established. Foundation projects are focused on interoperability, with one another at the library level, and with other proprietary and open source projects through the use of open standards.

While an initial set of projects was proposed as founding projects, several projects such as [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/ MapServer] and [http://www.geotools.org/ GeoTools] are currently seeking for a decision within their communities weather to join. Initial OSGF projects are [http://www.mapbender.org Mapbender], [http://mapbuilder.sourceforge.net/ MapBuilder], [http://www.osgeo.org/mapguide/ MapGuide], [http://gdal.maptools.org/ GDAL]/[http://gdal.maptools.org/ogr/ OGR], [http://grass.itc.it/ GRASS], and [http://www.ossim.org/ OSSIM].

The foundation will also be pursuing goals beyond software development, such as promoting more open access to government produced spatial data. Access under reasonable conditions to geospatial data is a major problem outside of Northern America.

Thanks to the use of Internet Relay Chat [http://logs.qgis.org/geofoundation/%23geofoundation.2006-02-04.log (IRC) during the meeting], discussions were open to peers outside of the meeting room. The consensus reached at the Chicago meeting paves the way to establish a powerful, inclusive foundation.

Press Release Portugues

2006-02-13T09:44:39Z

Wiki-WikiSysop:

Once established please move this page to Press Release and delete this line.

'''''Press release'''''

== Open Source Geospatial Foundation ==

'''An umbrella for community-led GIS and mapping projects'''

The [http://www.osgeo.org Open Source Geospatial Foundation] has been created to support and build high quality open source geospatial software. The foundation's goal is to encourage the use and collaborative development of community-led projects. During a meeting in Chicago structure and vision were defined.

During the meeting a interim Board of Directors was formed. Five project managers were elected from a longer list. They come from North America and Europe and represent various communities along with different technology (C, C++, Java, PHP, Python, Javascript, etc.):

* Arnulf Christl - [http://www.mapbender.org Mapbender], CCGIS, Germany;
* Chris Holmes - [http://www.geoserver.org/ GeoServer]/[http://www.geotools.org/ GeoTools], The Open Planning Project, U.S.;
* Gary Lang - [http://www.osgeo.org/mapguide/ MapGuide], Autodesk, U.S.;
* Markus Neteler - [http://grass.itc.it/ GRASS], Istituto Trentino Di Cultura, Italy;
* Frank Warmerdam - [http://gdal.maptools.org/ GDAL]/[http://gdal.maptools.org/ogr/ OGR], Canada.

The first set of board members will be extended by another four members to be selected by the community subsequently.

OSGF draws governance inspiration from several aspects of the [http://www.apache.org/ Apache Foundation], including a membership composed of individuals drawn from foundation projects. The initial membership consists of the five board members plus 16 other participants who attended the meeting. The target of 45 members is being established through a public nomination process from the wider open source geospatial community. Each nominated person shall be recognized due to her/his contribution in terms of software, documentation, translation or other. From the list of nominations, 24 members will be elected by the current members.

The foundation will only accept projects released under Open Source licenses certified by the [http://www.opensource.org Open Source Initiative (OSI)]. The long term goal is to encourage licenses that allow the different projects to work better together and permit for code exchange among the foundation projects. Means of avoiding the inclusion of proprietary or patented code will be established. Foundation projects are focused on interoperability, with one another at the library level, and with other proprietary and open source projects through the use of open standards.

While an initial set of projects was proposed as founding projects, several projects such as [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/ MapServer] and [http://www.geotools.org/ GeoTools] are currently seeking for a decision within their communities weather to join. Initial OSGF projects are [http://www.mapbender.org Mapbender], [http://mapbuilder.sourceforge.net/ MapBuilder], [http://www.osgeo.org/mapguide/ MapGuide], [http://gdal.maptools.org/ GDAL]/[http://gdal.maptools.org/ogr/ OGR], [http://grass.itc.it/ GRASS], and [http://www.ossim.org/ OSSIM].

The foundation will also be pursuing goals beyond software development, such as promoting more open access to government produced spatial data. Access under reasonable conditions to geospatial data is a major problem outside of Northern America.

Thanks to the use of Internet Relay Chat [http://logs.qgis.org/geofoundation/%23geofoundation.2006-02-04.log (IRC) during the meeting], discussions were open to peers outside of the meeting room. The consensus reached at the Chicago meeting paves the way to establish a powerful, inclusive foundation.

Press Release Italiano

2006-02-13T09:44:28Z

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Once established please move this page to Press Release and delete this line.

'''''Press release'''''

== Open Source Geospatial Foundation ==

'''An umbrella for community-led GIS and mapping projects'''

The [http://www.osgeo.org Open Source Geospatial Foundation] has been created to support and build high quality open source geospatial software. The foundation's goal is to encourage the use and collaborative development of community-led projects. During a meeting in Chicago structure and vision were defined.

During the meeting a interim Board of Directors was formed. Five project managers were elected from a longer list. They come from North America and Europe and represent various communities along with different technology (C, C++, Java, PHP, Python, Javascript, etc.):

* Arnulf Christl - [http://www.mapbender.org Mapbender], CCGIS, Germany;
* Chris Holmes - [http://www.geoserver.org/ GeoServer]/[http://www.geotools.org/ GeoTools], The Open Planning Project, U.S.;
* Gary Lang - [http://www.osgeo.org/mapguide/ MapGuide], Autodesk, U.S.;
* Markus Neteler - [http://grass.itc.it/ GRASS], Istituto Trentino Di Cultura, Italy;
* Frank Warmerdam - [http://gdal.maptools.org/ GDAL]/[http://gdal.maptools.org/ogr/ OGR], Canada.

The first set of board members will be extended by another four members to be selected by the community subsequently.

OSGF draws governance inspiration from several aspects of the [http://www.apache.org/ Apache Foundation], including a membership composed of individuals drawn from foundation projects. The initial membership consists of the five board members plus 16 other participants who attended the meeting. The target of 45 members is being established through a public nomination process from the wider open source geospatial community. Each nominated person shall be recognized due to her/his contribution in terms of software, documentation, translation or other. From the list of nominations, 24 members will be elected by the current members.

The foundation will only accept projects released under Open Source licenses certified by the [http://www.opensource.org Open Source Initiative (OSI)]. The long term goal is to encourage licenses that allow the different projects to work better together and permit for code exchange among the foundation projects. Means of avoiding the inclusion of proprietary or patented code will be established. Foundation projects are focused on interoperability, with one another at the library level, and with other proprietary and open source projects through the use of open standards.

While an initial set of projects was proposed as founding projects, several projects such as [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/ MapServer] and [http://www.geotools.org/ GeoTools] are currently seeking for a decision within their communities weather to join. Initial OSGF projects are [http://www.mapbender.org Mapbender], [http://mapbuilder.sourceforge.net/ MapBuilder], [http://www.osgeo.org/mapguide/ MapGuide], [http://gdal.maptools.org/ GDAL]/[http://gdal.maptools.org/ogr/ OGR], [http://grass.itc.it/ GRASS], and [http://www.ossim.org/ OSSIM].

The foundation will also be pursuing goals beyond software development, such as promoting more open access to government produced spatial data. Access under reasonable conditions to geospatial data is a major problem outside of Northern America.

Thanks to the use of Internet Relay Chat [http://logs.qgis.org/geofoundation/%23geofoundation.2006-02-04.log (IRC) during the meeting], discussions were open to peers outside of the meeting room. The consensus reached at the Chicago meeting paves the way to establish a powerful, inclusive foundation.

Press Release Japanese

2006-02-13T09:44:18Z

Wiki-WikiSysop:

Once established please move this page to Press Release and delete this line.

'''''Press release'''''

== Open Source Geospatial Foundation ==

'''An umbrella for community-led GIS and mapping projects'''

The [http://www.osgeo.org Open Source Geospatial Foundation] has been created to support and build high quality open source geospatial software. The foundation's goal is to encourage the use and collaborative development of community-led projects. During a meeting in Chicago structure and vision were defined.

During the meeting a interim Board of Directors was formed. Five project managers were elected from a longer list. They come from North America and Europe and represent various communities along with different technology (C, C++, Java, PHP, Python, Javascript, etc.):

* Arnulf Christl - [http://www.mapbender.org Mapbender], CCGIS, Germany;
* Chris Holmes - [http://www.geoserver.org/ GeoServer]/[http://www.geotools.org/ GeoTools], The Open Planning Project, U.S.;
* Gary Lang - [http://www.osgeo.org/mapguide/ MapGuide], Autodesk, U.S.;
* Markus Neteler - [http://grass.itc.it/ GRASS], Istituto Trentino Di Cultura, Italy;
* Frank Warmerdam - [http://gdal.maptools.org/ GDAL]/[http://gdal.maptools.org/ogr/ OGR], Canada.

The first set of board members will be extended by another four members to be selected by the community subsequently.

OSGF draws governance inspiration from several aspects of the [http://www.apache.org/ Apache Foundation], including a membership composed of individuals drawn from foundation projects. The initial membership consists of the five board members plus 16 other participants who attended the meeting. The target of 45 members is being established through a public nomination process from the wider open source geospatial community. Each nominated person shall be recognized due to her/his contribution in terms of software, documentation, translation or other. From the list of nominations, 24 members will be elected by the current members.

The foundation will only accept projects released under Open Source licenses certified by the [http://www.opensource.org Open Source Initiative (OSI)]. The long term goal is to encourage licenses that allow the different projects to work better together and permit for code exchange among the foundation projects. Means of avoiding the inclusion of proprietary or patented code will be established. Foundation projects are focused on interoperability, with one another at the library level, and with other proprietary and open source projects through the use of open standards.

While an initial set of projects was proposed as founding projects, several projects such as [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/ MapServer] and [http://www.geotools.org/ GeoTools] are currently seeking for a decision within their communities weather to join. Initial OSGF projects are [http://www.mapbender.org Mapbender], [http://mapbuilder.sourceforge.net/ MapBuilder], [http://www.osgeo.org/mapguide/ MapGuide], [http://gdal.maptools.org/ GDAL]/[http://gdal.maptools.org/ogr/ OGR], [http://grass.itc.it/ GRASS], and [http://www.ossim.org/ OSSIM].

The foundation will also be pursuing goals beyond software development, such as promoting more open access to government produced spatial data. Access under reasonable conditions to geospatial data is a major problem outside of Northern America.

Thanks to the use of Internet Relay Chat [http://logs.qgis.org/geofoundation/%23geofoundation.2006-02-04.log (IRC) during the meeting], discussions were open to peers outside of the meeting room. The consensus reached at the Chicago meeting paves the way to establish a powerful, inclusive foundation.

User:WikiSysop

2006-02-08T16:21:37Z

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currently Arnulf Christl & Banjamin Thelen