1. Growing the FOSS4G Community Jeff McKenna Gateway Geomatics 2008-11-07 | OSGeo 2008. All rights reserved

2. Outline What the community means to me In the beginning... Current community FOSS4G conferences Local chapter growth Future Challenges 2008-11-07 | OSGeo 2008. All rights reserved

3. Community? 2008-11-07 | OSGeo 2008. All rights reserved “a body of persons of common and especially professional interests scattered through a larger society”

4. Without the Community I am... just another geographer unable to access other resources bored looking for places to travel :) looking for people to have a drink with :) unemployed 2008-11-07 | OSGeo 2008. All rights reserved

5. But With the Community I am... part of a network of thousands of users, developers, and decision makers able to partner with other organizations always busy able to travel :) recognized as a key member of the community 2008-11-07 | OSGeo 2008. All rights reserved

6. And I am Able to Become... chair of the OSGeo conference committee MapServer Project Steering Committee member Founding and Charter member of OSGeo Founding co-chair of OSGeo Ottawa local chapter 2008-11-07 | OSGeo 2008. All rights reserved

7. In the Beginning... 2008-11-07 | OSGeo 2008. All rights reserved individual user meetings across the world no global organization many projects were immature

8. Important Events 2008-11-07 | OSGeo 2008. All rights reserved OSGIS 2004, Ottawa, Canada

9. Important Events 2008-11-07 | OSGeo 2008. All rights reserved

10. Important Events 2008-11-07 | OSGeo 2008. All rights reserved + = ???

11. Important Events 2008-11-07 | OSGeo 2008. All rights reserved OSGeo founded in February/March 2006 goal is to promote the use of Open Source geospatial software structure includes Board of Directors, Executive Director, and Committees

12. Current Community 2008-11-07 | OSGeo 2008. All rights reserved 1474 person yearsEffort $81,072,382Replacement Cost 200Contributors 16Projects 5,450,649Source Lines of Code OSGeo Stack: http://www.ohloh.net/stacks/151/report

13. Becoming an OSGeo Project 2008-11-07 | OSGeo 2008. All rights reserved Code is under an OSI approved license Geospatial Mature Strong user community Substantial and diverse developer community... http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/evaluation.html

14. The MapServer Project 2008-11-07 | OSGeo 2008. All rights reserved ready to graduate and become an official OSGeo project 5.2 release in July 2008, with nearly 200 tickets closed 5.4 release in early 2009

15. FOSS4G Conferences 2008-11-07 | OSGeo 2008. All rights reserved steady growth in attendance large corporate sponsors (Google, ESRI) 2010 host to be determined by December

16. Sol Katz Award 2008-11-07 | OSGeo 2008. All rights reserved Awarded annually by OSGeo to those that have demonstrated leadership in the community

17. Local Chapters 2008-11-07 | OSGeo 2008. All rights reserved steady growth locations include Australia-NZ, Germany, Finland, UK, Korea, Spain, Italy, France, Quebec, Japan, India, South Africa, Brazil, Netherlands,..

18. What about the Future? 2008-11-07 | OSGeo 2008. All rights reserved focus on more OSGeo local events more reliance on local chapter work possibly a community-based site for OSGeo users FOSS4G2009 in Sydney Australia improved installers for projects

19. Is the Community Easy to Work With? 2008-11-07 | OSGeo 2008. All rights reserved NO! “Is my bug fixed?” “The documentation is out-of-date” “I'm new,...” “When is the next release?”

20. Challenges 2008-11-07 | OSGeo 2008. All rights reserved language barriers avoid being NA-centric giving credit to both small and large organizations attracting sponsorship to support the community

21. What Does the Community Need? 2008-11-07 | OSGeo 2008. All rights reserved YOU! documentation testing answering questions on mailing lists

22. OSGeo4W demonstration 2008-11-07 | OSGeo 2008. All rights reserved http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/

23. 2008-11-05 | OSGeo 2008. All rights reserved Jeff McKenna Gateway Geomatics jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com Questions? Shibuya: 2008-11-03

24. 2008-11-05 | OSGeo 2008. All rights reserved Jeff McKenna Gateway Geomatics jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com Questions? Shibuya: 2008-11-03