Supporting FOSS4GComparison of OSGeo and LocationTech

Comparison ofOSGeo and LocationTech

SupportingFOSS4G

Welcome

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Jody Garnett Technical Lead jgarnett@boundlessgeo.com @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

Preflight(Focused on the Comparison)

Motivation for Talk• A "lively" discussion on

discuss@osgeo.org:

• Why is FOSS4G NA co-hosted?

• Who is LocationTech?

• What is plan?

• Eclipse members wondering who we are:

• What is FOSS4G

• Who is OSGeo?

• What is the plan?

FOSS4G• Free and Open Source

Software for Geomatics!

• Banner/Brand for a series of world wide conferences

• FOSS4G-NA is the regional conference for North America

• Co-hosted this year toreduce effort

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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

Spatial4juDig

(SFCurve)

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

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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

• 244 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... )

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

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

pycsw review

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,  oXen  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  

• JAI  • EPSG  -­‐  open  data  license  from  1974  

• Wai%ng  while  other  (smaller) projects  go  through  dependencies

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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 plan

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 info@locationtech.org @locationtech

We are growing fast & need your ideas & participation

http://locationtech.org and click LEARN MORE

Contact  Loca%onTech

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Upcoming Events

• http://2015.foss4g.org

• https://2015.foss4g-na.org (done!)

• http://europe.foss4g.org/2015/

• http://tour.locationtech.org/2015/

http://2015.foss4g.org

http://europe.foss4g.org/2015/

http://tour.locationtech.org/2015/

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Question and Answer

Q & A

• Q: How long does it take to submit a dependency for review?A: (Tyler) 5 mins if everything is straightforward or 15 mins for the worst case.

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