Dear colleagues, The Open Souce Geospatial Foundation is the world's largest geospatial ecosystem benefiting not just millions of users globally but also hundreds of thousands of organisations globally from big organisations like Google to smaller companies like esri, Envitia etc are all benefiting from this rapidly expanding ecosystem.
Open source software and open data are the backbone that underpins much of the service delivery across the public, private and consumer sectors of the world economy. Governments, industry ,start-ups are leveraging open source software and open data to accelerate innovation in Geospatial. Economic impact of open source software on innovation and the competitiveness of the ICT sector is huge as many studies have shown. Open source is not only a catalyst for business growth, but also a key driver and enabler of future success for many startups today. Google has shared thier annual Open Source Report Card, highlighting thier most popular projects, statistics and detailing some of the projects they have released in 2016. https://opensource.googleblog.com/2016/10/google-open-source-report-card.html I thought it is really good idea and it will be good if more organisations start producing their annual Open Source report cards. So I request volunteers to help us produce a simple webform which can be outputted to a website with search facilities etc for collating information that will help all business and government organisations to produce thier annual open source report card . We will also link this website with GeoForAll website and archive it etc. The main information we need are * Name of Organisation * Name of Contact person * Email of contact person * Website * Country * Year * Which open source projects have your organisation contributed with details/links etc * Which open source codesprints, conferences, events have you supported this year * Plans for next year We will be pleased to collate and publish this as an annual special edition for Geo4All newsletter. Could anyone help us with this. Please let Nikos or myself know if you are interested . Thanks in advance. Best wishes, Suchith Dr. Suchith Anand http://www.geoforall.org/ Geo for All - Building and expanding Open Geospatial Science This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system, you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation.
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