GeoServer is a web service for publishing your geospatial data using industry standards for vector, raster and mapping. Choose additional extensions to process data (either in batch or on the fly) and catalog records.

GeoServer is widely used by organizations throughout the world to manage, disseminate and analyze data at scale. GeoServer web services power a number of open source projects like GeoNode and geOrchestra.

This presentation provides an update on our community as well as reviews of the new and noteworthy features for the latest releases. In particular, we will showcase new features landed in 2.26 and 2.25.

We will also check-in on the challenges highlighted on the 2024 Development Roadmap and provide a score card

Attend this talk for a cheerful update on what is happening with this popular OSGeo project, whether you are an expert user, a developer, or simply curious what GeoServer can do for you.

The development community is really excited about having modern (REST and JSON) protocols for geospatial data infrastructure. While we love the traditional WMS and WFS protocols, the heavy use of XML is a barrier to today’s developers and tool chains.

GeoServer is enthusiastically pursuing these standards thanks to the efforts of Andrea Aime and other volunteers at the joint OSGeo / OGC code sprints. The GeoNetwork team has also attended these events to work on record management.

• This presentation looks at the approach used by the OGCAPI family of protocols.
• We also look at how OGCAPI Features works in more detail, as one of the first standards to be finalized.
• We check in with OGCAPI Records and the progress made by the GeoNetwork team
• We look at the OGCAPI standardization process, and what features we are looking forward to being finalized
• Looking ahead to what is needed for OGCAPI support in GeoServer to be successful

Jody and Gabe are enthusiastic GeoServer developers really using this presentation as an excuse to work on these new protocols.

Attend this talk to learn about the transition to OGCAPI Protocols and help your organisation plan for the future.

Wow it has been a busy year for security vulnerabilities. While FOSS4G software is unlikely to result in global “blue screen of death” outages - we are getting caught up in the general push to regulate IT and impose “security” on the technology that powers society.

This talk unpacks what this can look like for foss4g projects using real world examples.

• Built around the experience of the GeoServer project, and the resulting security policy and practices that can serve as a template for our foss4g community.
• Public institutions can attend this talk to learn how their security policies interact with and affect foss4g technologies.
• Vendors and service providers can learn how open source supply chains affect their products.
• FOSS4G projects can attend to learn how to approach security reports with compassion, and a bit of boundary setting, to take care of your codebase and community.

This talk explores the tensions, expectations, terrors and triumphs on this hot button topic.

The very first open source geospatial foundation diversity statement … was about representation for the “C Tribe” and the “Java Tribe”!

Attend this presentation to check in with the Java crew with updates from:

• GeoTools - open source Java library that provides tools for geospatial data.
• JTS Topology Suite - Java library for creating and manipulating vector geometry.
• ImageN - image and raster processing

Happy mapping everyone please enjoy FOSS4G.

Working on geospatial software is amazing - a real understand and change the world. Working on free and open source geospatial software is even better - putting that power in the hands of so many people is inspiring and amazing.

Drawing on experience from foss4g conferences, open source projects, multiple software foundations, and some great employers - I would like to share a bit of what I have learned.

This keynote will provide a little bit of amusement, some fun photos, entertaining challenges that have been overcome, and ideas for what is next.