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Supporting FOSS4G Comparison of OSGeo and LocationTech
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Supporting FOSS4GComparison of
OSGeo and LocationTech
Comparison ofOSGeo and LocationTech
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Welcome
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Jody Garnett Technical Lead [email protected] @jodygarnett
Open Source Geospatial Foundation OSGeo Incubation Chair GeoTools Project Officer
Eclipse Foundation LocationTech Project Steering Committee LocationTech Technology Project
Boundless Boundless provides geospatial tools and services for managing data and building applications.
Open Source Projects GeoTools GeoServer uDig
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GeoGig
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Loca%onTech
LocationTech
“Loca&onTech is a working group developing advanced loca&on aware technologies.”
Eclipse is a community for individuals and organiza&ons who wish to collaborate on commercially-‐friendly open source soAware.
Not-‐for-‐profit, member supported corpora&on.
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Working Groups
Advanced Geospatial Software
Internet of ThingsLong Term Support Embedded Systems
Vendor neutral collaboration:
★265+ projects ★~1100 active devs ★205+ members ★9M+ users ★
Scientific Research
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Full Service Foundation
Forge &
Build
IP mgmt
Dev Process
Licensing Model
CommunityMember Network
Governance
Run by:
Follows Eclipse Development Processes & IP Management
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LocationTech MembersStrategic
Participating
Guest
Membership
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Strategic Member
ParticipantMember Committer Guest
Steering Committee X Elected Elected InvitedArchitecture Committee X Elected Elected InvitedMarketing Committee X Elected Elected InvitedCollaboration infrastructure X X X XIP Due diligence X X X XCode repositories write access - - X -LTS Build Infrastructure X - - -LTS binary releases X - - -
Structure
Libraries Applications Processing
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Technology
GeoJinniGeoMesa
(GeoWave)
GeoffuDig
Mobile Map Technology
GeoGigGeoScript
JTSlibspatialindex
Spatial4jSFCurve(Torque)
Excellent: Public Outreach• Great public outreach and community spirit • Loca%onTech Tour:
• Similar "reach" to FOSS4G (but split up over ci%es). • Any spa%al projects are welcome. • Now entering its third year
• Easy collabora%on (OGC, OSGeo, etc... )
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6 cities By the numbers ★ 723 registrations ★ 640+ attendees ★ 56 speakers ★ Videos on YouTube ★ Positive feedback
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Tour 2013
3 continents http://tour.locationtech.org ★ Sponsorship:
$2K members$4.5K non-members
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Tour 2014
Excellent: Eclipse Staff• Experienced in introducing teams to open source • In posi%on to take on "thankless" tasks
• Trademark check • IP Check • Step up as mentor
• Special thanks to Andrew, Sharon and Mike
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Caution: New to Eclipse• Loca%onTech is new to the Eclipse Founda%on
• Not always sure how the infrastructure works yet(use of "portal" for commiPer nomina%on)
• While each project has a couple of mentors,we have ended up relying on eclipse staff for direc%on
• Incuba%on process is a lot of work • IP Team available to do the hard part(but you need to submit code and dependencies)
• Introducing Eclipse to a new industry • GIS standards like EPSG require an introduc%on
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Trouble• With so many new projects
• Ask projects to depend on the same version • Form an incuba%on queue
• Incuba%ng a moving target • Dependencies change before review is finished
• Plan for rejected dependencies • Replace or rewrite?
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OSGeoOpen Source Geospatial Foundation
OSGeoMission: Support the collaborative development of open source geospatial software, and promote its widespread use.
• Non-Profit,
• Vendor Neutral
• International
• Open Education, Open Data
Members
• Board
• 9 individuals - elected by charter members
• Charter Members
• 280 individuals - more nominated yearly
• Members
• volunteer organization - everyone welcome
OSGeo for New Projects
• OSGeo Foundation offers new spatial projects • A community of your peers • People who understand you!• Great cross project code sprints
• Assistance in building community• Marketting and Outreach • Incubation to help with Open Development
How OSGeo Protects• Foundation offer limited protection:
• Incubation review provides an opportunity topublicly state your code is in the clear.
• OSGeo has healthy body of prior art
• This is an area of collaboration with other foundations:
• Our focus is on fostering spatial software and promoting use
• We are not a strict “IP” machine
Spatial Experts
• OSGeo has a range of mapping experts
• Helpful, engaging and educational
• Great for collaboration on tough problems
• Developers can help translate “expert” advice
Participation
• OSGeo participation is free
• Sign up to an email list or committee and get involved
• Charter members are nominated yearly
• Board members are voted on by Charter members
Sponsors
Excellent: Public Outreach
• Great public outreach and community spirit
• Any spatial projects are welcome (no need to join)
• Easy collaborate (OGC, LocationTech, etc... )
World wide Events• FOSDEM 2015
Brussels, Belgium
• 2015 OSGeo Code SprintPhiladelphia, U.S.A.
• FOSS4G-NA 2015 Burlingame, USA
• FOSSGIS 2015 Münster, Germany
• FOSSASIA 2015 Singapore
• 9as jornadas de SIG Libre Girona, Spain
• European Geoscience Union Vienna, Austria
• Open Source GIS Seminar Helsinki, Finland
• Bolsena Hacking Event 2015 Bolsena, Italy
• OTB Users Meeting and Hackfest,Toulouse, France
• Annual Portuguese QGIS user meeting,Covilhã (Serra da Estrela), Portugal
• FOSS4G India 2015 June 8-10, Dehradun, India
• FOSS4G-Europe 2015,Como, Italy
• Local Chapter Founding MeetingFinland
• FOSS4G Seoul 2015 Seoul, Korea
• 11th International gvSIG Conference,Valencia, Spain
FOSS4G
Excellent: Community Building
Excellent: Flexibility
• Flexible and Responsive to Project needs
• Migrating from hosted svn to github
• Public communication and transparency
Caution
• OSGeo is so helpful to projects
• ... that there is not much incentive to join!
• Projects entering incubation
• Get an immediate brand recognition boost ...and have little motivation to finish
• Public communication is not suitable for all occasions
Trouble
• Great for established open source projects but ...
• No clear guidance on how to start doing open-source
• Projects waiting years to get in (stuck on volunteers willing to "mentor")
Incubation Comparison
OSGeo Application• Straight forward application
• name, project, license, copyright, etc...
• how many users, types of users?
• 1-6 year response time? Update PyPWS is in!
Project Proposal• Straight forward applica%on
• background, scope, license, legal issues .. • why here, project scheduling, future work • TM Check • Quick response %me
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OSGeo Incubation• License: Any OSI Approved License, doc license
• Community: "Active and healthy"
• Source Code: please perform a manual check
• Dependencies: provide a list along with license
• List copyright holders / or collect contribution agreement
• Process: version control, issue tracker, docs, releases
• Governance: decide in public and how to take part
LocationTech Incubation• License: EPL, MIT, BSD, Apache • Trademark: checked and assigned to founda%on • Source code: checked by IP team (each release) • Dependencies: source code checked by IP team • Contributors: listed on portal, contributor license • Process:
• opening up to use of github, external issue trackers • common processes automated on portal
• Governance: • clear lines of communica%on, oZen automated
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IP Review
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Result is Bugzilla Ticket
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LocationTech Incubationfacts, figures and feedback
uDig• February 2013
• uDig project "crea%on review" • March 2013
• Code Review started • July 2013
• Code Review issues resolved • Feb 2015
• GitHub Repository created (ini%al checkin) • Ongoing
• SubmiPed 52 IP %ckets (out of 172)
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uDig Feedback• We are enthusias%c (yay Eclipse RCP!) • We also started early • Glad arrangements made for github hos%ng • Got stuck on two key issues
• vecmath -‐ replaced up stream in GeoTools 14.0 • EPSG -‐ open data license from 1974 • JAI -‐ oh crap
• Next? • Wai%ng for other projects go through dependencies • Sefng up a replacement for JAI is next
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GeoMesa• October 2013
• GeoMesa project "crea%on review" • November 2013
• Code Review started of (GeoMesa codebase) • 2014
• GitHub Repository created (ini%al checkin) • Ongoing
• Dependency Review • SubmiPed 125 IP %ckets
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GeoGig• February 2013
• uDig project "crea%on review" • March 2013
• Code Review started • July 2013
• Code Review issues resolved • Feb 2015
• GitHub Repository created (ini%al checkin) • Ongoing
• SubmiPed 45 IP %ckets
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GeoGig Feedback• A few glitches
• vecmath (not open source) • name change (tm check)
• We are ready: • A 1.0 product wai%ng to release
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OSGeo Incubationfacts, figures and feedback
GeoTools• 2006
• GeoTools enters incubation, Initial Code Review (Jody)
• 2007
• Asked OSGeo to hold copyright
• 2008
• Second code review (Adrian)
• Graduation, with 13 known issues (better than unknown!)
GeoTools Feedback
• Removed ArcSDE Jars (distribution terms)
• Removed Oracle JDBC driver (distribution terms)
• Confirmed distribution of derivative EPSG database (hsql)
• Headers: GeoTools PMC --> OSGeo Foundation
• Where test case data originated from?
• Questions about a few specific headers
GeoServer• 2009
• GeoServer enters incubation
• Prompt initial code review
• Nov 2012 - foss4g.au sprint
• issues resolved two weeks later
• March 2013
• graduation
GeoServer Feedback
• Initial interest driven by marketing, no follow up for the work
• Hard to justify participation to employer
• Workparty of foss4g-au volunteers,issues resolved two weeks later
• Fixed a number of issues from license conflicts to sample data
OSGeo Incubation Update!• istSOS (2015)
• rasdaman (2013-present)
• OTB (2013-present)
• gvSIG (2007-present)
• MetaCRS (2008-present)
• Opticks (2012-present)
• ZOO-Project (2012-present)
• PyWPS (2009)
• Geo-meteo(2009)
• OSM Distributed Tile Update System (2010)
• MapProxy (2012)
• GisClient (2012)
OSGeo Applicants
OSGeo "Labs"• Geoinformatica
• pgRouting
• PAGC
• MapProxy
• pycsw
• The SurveyOS KML Toolkit
• SlitherGrid
So what is the planWorking together for better for the good of all
Looking Ahead
• OSGeo and LocationTech share a similar mandateto promote open source spatial technologies
• The organizations complement each other(and are attracting different participants)
• Projects can happily belong to both
• There is lots of work to do ... lets go!
Contact OSGeo
Help welcomenew projects!volunteer today
http://www.osgeo.org/incubator http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/incubator
Contact [email protected] @locationtech
We are growing fast & need your ideas & participation
http://locationtech.org and click LEARN MORE
Contact Loca%onTech
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Question and Answer
Q & A
• Q: How long does it take to submit a dependency for review?A: 5 mins if everything is straightforward or 15 mins for the worst case.
