OSGeo - Open Source Geospatial Foundation

• Main Authors: Margherita Di Leo, Anne Ghisla, Massimo Di Stefano
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: mediaGEO soc. coop. 2012-09-01
• Series: GEOmedia
• Subjects: osgeo, open source, gis
• Online Access: https://www.mediageo.it/ojs/index.php/GEOmedia/article/view/136
• ISSN: 1128-8132; 2283-5687

L'esigenza nata verso la fine del 2005 di selezionare ed organizzare più di 200 progetti FOSS4G porta alla nascita nel Febbraio2006 di OSGeo (the Open Source Geospatial Foundation), organizzazione internazionale la cui mission è promuovere lo sviluppo collaborativo di software libero focalizzato sull'informazione geografica (FOSS4G). Open   Source   Geospatial   Foundation (OSGeo) The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo)  is  a  not-for-profit  organization, created  in  early  2006  to  the  aim  at  sup-porting   the   collaborative   development of  geospatial  open  source  software,  and promote its widespread use. The founda-tion provides financial, organizational and legal support to the broader open source geospatial community. It also serves as an independent  legal  entity  to  which  com-munity  members  can  contribute  code, funding  and  other  resources,  secure  in the knowledge that their contributions will be maintained for public benefit. OSGeo also  serves  as  an  outreach  and  advocacy organization for the open source geospa-tial  community,  and  provides  a  common forum  and  shared  infrastructure  for  im-proving  cross-project  collaboration.  The foundation's projects are all freely available and  useable  under  an  OSI-certified  open source license. The Italian OSGeo local chapter is named GFOSS.it     (Associazione     Italiana     per l'informazione Geografica Libera).