Fostering FOSS4G through International Collaboration

Jeff McKennaOSGeo, Board of Directors

Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada

Osaka, Japan

And?

Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial

Demonstration: Collaborating on An Open Software Project

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Executive Director

LocalChapters

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Projects

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Why are you really here?

International Project

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Project Sponsor

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Project Partners

International Project

Project Goal: Improve the OSGeo Windows installer (OSGeo4W) through Internationalization

OSGeo4W Internationalization

OSGeo4W Internationalization

OSGeo4W Internationalization

OSGeo4W Internationalization

OSGeo4W Internationalization

OSGeo4W Internationalization

Is that all of the Collaboration?

New York City Code Sprint

20/02/2010

OCU Code Sprint

20/02/2010

Ok, so you like to sit in front of acomputer on Saturday night?

OSGeo Japan Local Chapter

Possibly the most active chapter

Brings international representatives to JP every year

Recommendation:

Be more visible outside of JP

FOSS4G 201x international?

Did someone say “Party”?

OSGeo.JP Bike

OSGeo.JP Phone

OSGeo.JP Cafe

Thank you!

Jeff McKennaOSGeo, Board of Directors

Requirements to Become an OSGeo Project

Code is under an OSI approved license

Geospatial software

Mature software

Substantial user community

Diverse developer community

Support relative standards

Links to existing OSGeo projects

(see: http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/evaluation.html)