Introduction to OSGeo and QGIS

Transcription

1 Introduction to OSGeo and QGIS Arnulf Christl OSGeo President Emeritus ESTGIS Pühajärve, Estonia

2 Arnulf Christl Geospatial Systems Architect OSGeo President Emeritus Director of the metaspatial Institute CTO of SplashMaps Co-founder and President Emeritus of OSGeo Member of the OGC Architecture Board Founder of several companies and initiatives, provides consulting for SDI and travels a lot. OSGeo - Professional Open Source OSGeo Professional Open Source

3 Agenda Using QGIS Developing QGIS Open Source Ecosystems OSGeo's role and Structure What are you missing? User Group 3/25

4 What is QGIS? QGIS is a full featured Desktop GIS Raster and Vector data capabilities OGC standard support Database support Postgres/PostGIS, etc. Editing, Analysis, Processing Standard Pug-In API Most everything you will ever need! 4/25

5 What is Open Source? Development model (Think Crowd Sourcing) Licensing model (also Free Software) Licensed and Copyrighted Business Model Community Software 5/25

6 What is Open Source... Not? Unfriendly to Business Not true Low Quality Not true Lacking Features Not true Without Support Not true Unlicensed Not true Free of Cost Not true Cheap Replacement Not true. Well, maybe... Disruptive Probably Yes 6/25

7 What is Open Source... Not? Unfriendly to Business Low Quality Lacking Features Without Support Unlicensed F U D Free of Cost Fear, Uncertainty & Doubt Cheap Replacement Disruptive 7/25

8 Software Development Proprietary motivation: Make Money Market analysis Development team develops software beta version release for beta tester beta tester reports errors to development team development team reproduces the error development team reports to the product management development team solves problem after OK from pm Goal: Sell license Next Version Software Life Cycle? Software does not rust, break, deteriorate, rot, get sick, suffer from old age or die! Software is time- & ageless. 8/25

9 Closed Development Proprietary motivation: Make Money Market analysis Development team develops software beta version release for beta tester Black Box beta tester reports errors to development team development team reproduces the error development team reports to the product management development team solves problem after OK from pm Goal: Sell license Next Version Ask questions: When is the software released? When is new functionality implemented? Who cares if something breaks? How many people develop software? What do the other employees do? 9/25

10 Open Source Software Problem is identified Software development team Solves the problem Publish Software (& Code) Software Development Cycle Software users have new requirements, find bugs Code is improved new version is released 10/25

11 FOSS Licenses Clear BSD License GNU General Public License (GPL), Version 3 GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), Version 3 Apache License, Version 2.0 Modified BSD license FreeBSD license Mozilla Public License (MPL) version 2.0 XFree License etc. 11/25

12 What about Quality? Can you trust Open Source Software? Who will give Help? Who can answer questions? Who owns the License? What does it cost? Where do you find the best COTS Open Source Software? 12/25

13 Who do you ask? Your Open Source Compass! 13/25

14 OSGeo Foundation OSGeo is a global not-for-profit organization founded in February 2006 Leading voice for Geospatial Open Source Structure similar to the Apache Foundation Provides infrastructure and legal body Quality assurance for Software Projects Hosts user meetings and conferences 14/25

15 OSGeo's Mission Support and Promote Highest Quality Open Source Geospatial Software! 15/25

16 Enterprise ready * web mapping MapServer MapNik deegree GeoMajas OSSIM GRASS GIS udig Geopublisher gvsig KOSMO gvsig CE ZOO Project MapGuide OS OpenLayers desktop GIS OpenStreetMap GMT MapFish GeoServer Mapbender Viking QGIS Quantum GIS MapServer GeoNetwork metadata FDO GDAL/OGR GeoKettle GeoTools GEOS PostGIS MetaCRS SpatialLite libraries FOSS4G Nottingham 16/25

17 OSGeo's Objectives Provide resources for Open Source projects: Infrastructure Legal Financial Quality Assurance for Open Source projects Promote free and open geospatial data Create and maintain a quality brand Support Local Chapters 17/25

18 Charter Members vote OSGeo's Structure Board of 9 Directors and President Officers Officers 25 Officers represent Committees Committees Committees Committees Committees Committees Local Local Chapters Local Chapters Chapters 280 Charter Members elected by Membership Local Local Chapters Foundation Chapters Projects Sponsors 18/25

19 Publish Software (& Code) Support Open Source Ecosystem Plug-In Development Maintain specific distribution Training Interaction with Users New Features Iterate improving the Software Release often (iterate) Maintenance Consulting bug fixing Service Level Agreement 19/25

20 Kohvipaus? 20/25

21 No quite yet! 21/25

22 Conclusion Open Source has come to stay! Open Source is not about being cheap. Open Source is about being better! Open Source Geospatial has a home: The OSGeo Foundation! Try it out, it is freely & openly accessible! 22/25

23 Invitation 23/25

24 Thank you for your Attention! FOSS4G: The OSGeo Conference on Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial, August 24th to 26th 2016 in Bonn, Germany With friendly support by: Copyright: Arnulf Christl, metaspatial. This slide set is copyrighted to the commons 24/25

25 References OSGeo Foundation website: OSGeo Wiki: Open Source: by Karl Fogel A note on Copyright: QGIS Website: Supported by Metaspatial: This presentation is available for download at 25/25