[Board] Invitation to FOSS4G Observatory (ex-OSS4gEO) (working) meeting

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Dear OSGeo board,

It is with great pleasure to announce that the https://www.oss4geo.org/ team, with the support of the European Space Agency, will continue the work on mapping and further uncovering of the open source for geospatial ecosystem.

In the months to come we are extending our scope, not only to document FOSS4G projects and build the connecting graph - we have now over 480 projects in the database - but we also want to make steps towards understanding what drives a FOSS project from the scientific realm into operational and even into the policy sustained use - with the scope of guiding our further developments of the initiative towards an effective self-assessment tool for its users.

One of the long term goals is to define a set of guidelines to support and enhance an overlap between the principles in scientific, commercial and policy ways of addressing the development, management and use of the open source environment. To get a picture of that, we try to better understand what are the decision drivers, code metrics vs project viability, incubation-type process and such.

To that end, we are starting by  organising a public (work)meeting on Friday, from 12:30 to 14:00 GMT+2. After a short demo and presentation of what has been done so far and what are the overall future plans, we open the digital floor for discussions on the matters mentioned above.

On Friday's meeting, Mark Padgham (https://github.com/mpadge) from ropensci.org, Angelos Tzotsos (thank you for accepting our invitation), Margherita Di Leo from JRC, along side with other ESA people, such as Anca Anghelea, leading the EarthCODE project (https://earthcode.esa.int/) or Claudia Vitolo, an application specialist for the Digital twin Earth are joining in.

The meeting is open to all from all sectors: scientific, commercial and public within the geospatial open source community, so I would like to extend the invitation to the board of OSGeo to participate to the discussions, within the limit of their time and interest. I also apologise for the very short notice, FOSS4G Belem was indeed a great conference :)

FOSS4G Observatory meeting details
Friday, 13 December · 12:30 – 2:00pm
Time zone: Europe/Bucharest
Google Meet joining info
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/dmz-pdkp-dma
Or dial: (RO) +40 31 227 7273 PIN: 576 654 381#
More phone numbers: https://tel.meet/dmz-pdkp-dma?pin=1374079739053


If you are interested to attend, please help us organise better by filling in this form https://forms.gle/UkTR9TknNHC8Fnkc6.


Thank you,
Vasile