OSGeo Community Sprint 2025
Annual Code Sprint comes to Riga (Latvia) in 2025!
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Purpose
Bring together project members to make decisions and tackle larger geospatial problems as in previous years:
- Riga (2025)
- Vienna (2023)
- Virtual Event (2020)
- Minnesota (2019)
- Bonn (2018)
- Daytona_Beach (2017)
- Paris (2016)
- Philadelphia (2015)
- Vienna (2014)
- Boston (2013)
- Island Wood (Seattle) (2012)
- Montreal (2011)
- New York City (2010)
- Toronto (2009)
Sponsors
Sponsoring Find out about Sponsoring the Event.
- Co-Host
Dates and Times
- Date: Monday 29 September to Friday 03 October
- Time: 9h - 17h local time, each day
Other Events in Q4 2025
- please add your event
Location
BIDS25
The OSGeo Community Sprint 2025 will be hosted by the Big Data from Space 2025 (BiDS) event.
Coding Venue
- The venues for the code sprint will be as follows:
- Monday, Tuesday: University of Latvia (OpenStreetMap)
- Wednesday, Thursday, Friday: National Library of Latvia (OpenStreetMap)
Parking
Accommodation
Several hotels and apartments are close to the venue. You will be able to find lots of options within walking distance.
Social Evening
Not planned yet
How to get there
TBD
Metro
Suburban Rail
Bus Services
Taxi
Project Plans
(i.e what do you wish/want/plan to work on during the sprint ?)
- project name:
- Work items
Participants
Please add your name and the projects you are planning to sprint and note the likeliness of your attendance. IMPORTANT NOTE: If you wish to register to the Code Sprint please also complete the registration on the BIDS portal.
| No | Name | Country | Organisation | Projects | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Accommodation | Likelihood | Food Restrictions | social event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Angelos Tzotsos | GR | tzotsos(at)osgeo.org | OSGeo | pycsw, OSGeoLive, GeoNode, UbuntuGIS, pygeoapi, OTB, EOEPCA | x | x | x | x | x | Yes | No | ||
| 2 | Tom Kralidis | CA | tomkralidis(at)gmail.com | OSGeo | pycsw, OWSLib, pygeoapi, GeoHealthCheck, MapServer, other geopython | x | x | x | x | x | x | Yes | No | |
| 3 | Michael Smith | US | michael.smith.erdc(at)gmail.com | OSGeo | gdal, proj, mapserver, pdal pygeoapi, other geopython | x | x | x | x | x | Mostly | No | ||
| 4 | Alexander Kmoch | EE | alexander.kmoch(at)ut.ee | Uni Tartu, Pangeo, OGC | pydggsapi, dggri4py, xarray-xdggs, xdggs-dggrid4py, DGGRID, DGGS QGIS plugin | x | x | x | x | x | x | Yes | No | |
| 5 | Felix Cremer | DE | felix.cremer(at)bgc-jena.mpg.de | Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, JuliaGeo | JuliaGeo | x | x | x | x | x | x | Yes | No | |
| 6 | Joana Simoes | PT | joana(at)doublebyte.net | OGC, OSGeo | pygeoapi, QGIS | High | Pescetarian | Yes |
Participants remote:
Communication
- Please join the mailing list: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/tosprint
- Matrix Room: https://matrix.to/#/#sprint:osgeo.org
- Telegram Group: https://t.me/+2E8SSn3u_OdjMGI0
Costs
Participants should plan for the following costs:
- Travel to Riga
- Accommodation for x nights
Individual preparation
- Bring your own laptop
- Bring your power connector adapter if needed. See also https://www.power-plugs-sockets.com
- Install Git and compiler tools, and come with a working development environment
Sponsoring
The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) has a longstanding tradition of organizing code sprints for developers of Open Source geospatial software.
An international community/code sprint for OSGeo will take place from 29 September to 03 October 2025.
Over 80 developers from all over the world are expected to attend, from various OSGeo projects. Whether desktop application, geospatial library, metadata catalogue or web mapping: be sure to find products in the list that you use. The sprint is also an opportunity for your developers to meet with the core developers of the projects, get a deeper insight into the software and participate in the development.
The sprint will take place in Riga and will be hosted by Big Data From Space '25 and organized by members of the local OSGeo chapter.
In addition to the costs of providing the technical infrastructure and space, food and drink for the developers represents the main cost. Morning/afternoon meals and drinks during the day are planned. In addition, we hope to provide several evening meals and social events.
In order to cover these costs we would be overjoyed to accept offers of sponsorship!
What we can offer:
- Your logo on top of the community sprint website as well as on all official documents used during the sprint
- Acknowledgement in all sprint related emails
- Our undying gratitude, which comes in handy when you least expect it (remember that feature you wanted?)
Our sponsorship levels:
- Gold: >= 2500 USD
- Silver: 1500 USD
- Bronze: 750 USD
So...
- get your company talking to the top project developers.
- encourage your geospatial developers to take advantage of this opportunity, there is no better opportunity to learn!
- support the software you use - you benefit immediately.
Thank you very much!
Contact: To sponsor, please contact tzotsos@osgeo.org directly.
Event Owner
Budget
- The 2025 budget will be available soon.
Press Release
We are looking forward to the next OSGeo Commumnity Sprint!