[OSGeo-Discuss] We won. It's time for OSGeo 2.0.

[Jody Garnett]

We are a foundation to "support collaborative development of open source
geospatial software, and promote its widespread use".

Not sure we won quite yet - we have a few projects in incubation that could
are love and support :) And plenty more that would love to joint the party.



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Jody Garnett

On 31 July 2015 at 10:49, Michael Gerlek <mpg at flaxen.com> wrote:

> I've stayed out of the pre-survey discussions on charter membership and
> whatnot, but after taking the survey yesterday, I’m starting to think that
>
>
>         OSGeo has accomplished what it set out to do some years ago, and
> as currently construed OSGeo will no longer serve a useful purpose.
>
>
> Back when OSGeo was formed, open source GIS was a new area — islands of
> people here and there, looking for ways to collaborate on relatively young
> projects. Recall that hosting source code repositories was a big issue back
> in the day — but now we have GitHub and the problem no longer exists. Open
> source, and open source GIS, has reached mainstream acceptance, with lots
> of projects and lots of communities. To the extent that OSGeo helped get us
> to the broad level of practice we’re at today, we’ve won.
>
> OSGeo has always been about several different things: code development, of
> course, but also advocacy, education, live DVDs, and more. Open source GIS
> is now of a size that it is increasingly hard to keep all these interests
> aligned and under one big umbrella. The domains of these interests areas
> are large enough that they should perhaps now be looking to sustain
> themselves as independent projects — not looking to OSGeo for sponsorship
> or mentorship.
>
> Indeed, one of the things from the survey that brought me to this point
> was the question about whether or not some outside party “taking over”
> OSGeo was a concern or not… and, upon reflection, it turns out that I’m not
> the least bit concerned: if OSGeo went away, all the various communities of
> various sorts of open source GIS — MapServer users, LocationTech projects,
> GeoForAll initiatives — would just keep on doing their own thing.
>
> Where can OSGeo add value? Overseeing the annual international conference?
> Yes, that’s something that needs to have a home. Beyond that? I’m no longer
> sure.
>
>
> We won. It may now be time for OSGeo 1.0 to take its bows and exit the
> stage, making room for an OSGeo 2.0 with a new charter aimed at the world
> for 2016 and beyond.
>
> -mpg
>
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