OpenGeo: a 'dot-org' to build the Open Geospatial Web

–Chris Holmes

Overview

• History

• Present

• Future

In the beginning

(The Open Planning Project)

The first project

GeoServer Incubation: 2001 - 2003

Steady Growth 2003–2007

(Personal Interlude)

Towards OpenGeo

• From a side project of TOPP

• To sustaining contract work

• And the push to grow

Grow!

Building a stack

The Client

OpenLayers

The Cache

The Database

The Rich Client

Overview

• History

• Present

• Future

The OpenGeo Suite

Funding

OpenGeo.org

OpenGeoSuite Enterprise

The full solution

Overview

• History

• Present

• Future

Building the Open Geospatial Web

• Making Geospatial Information Open and Accessible

• By bringing Open Source Principles to Geo

• Working by building OS software that gets used by all

• In the context of a hybrid organization

Partners

• Align incentives• OpenGeo does core software• Partner network focuses on

implementation • Translations and custom solutions for

countries and markets, built by people closest.

Growing the core software

• Incubate and encourage niche applications

• Build core to be flexible to meet all needs• Each benefits from improvements by

others• Transit, Asset Management, Disaster

Reduction, Air Traffic Management, Biogeographic Information, SDI, etc, etc

SDI In Action

Towards the ‘dot-org’

• Full Cost Recovery for OpenGeo• Spin off like Mozilla Corporation• Reinvest profit in similar ‘dot-orgs’

– Make Capital viral like the GPL• Require complete transparency• Business built on Open Source

principles