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The use of AI in OSGeo projects
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2026-07-01 –, AM

The use of (Agentic) AI in software development has a big impact on OSGeo community projects. The purpose of this BoF is to talk about the challenges and opportunities this brings to contributors, core contributors and the larger project communities. You are welcome to briefly bring your experiences forward and suggest possible ways forward. We also want to discuss how people with different opinions or ethical principles can find a way forward together, avoiding disrupted communities.

Assign a number between 1 and 4 indicating the level of technical complexity of your contribution.: 1: no technical/ thematic skill required Select at least one general theme that best defines your proposal: — Under which license do you make your contribution available? The conference contribution comprises the abstract, the text contribution for the conference proceedings, the presentation materials as well as the video recording and live transmission of the presentation: CC BY
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Jeroen Ticheler

CEO/Owner of GeoCat BV, GeoCat Geospatial S.L. and GeoCat Canada Ltd. – Chair and founder of the GeoNetwork opensource – OSGeo President of the Board of Directors.

GeoCat was founded by Jeroen in 2007. Jeroen studied Tropical Forestry at Wageningen University specialising in GIS and Remote Sensing. Following graduation in 1997, he worked for the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) in Rome for nine years. Jeroen held various positions for the FAO in GIS/remote sensing and established the GeoNetwork opensource project. The FAO GeoNetwork is the first implementation based on this software, releasing a large quantity of geospatial data to the public.

Today GeoNetwork opensource is widely used as geospatial catalogue application with implementations from smaller projects to national and international level catalogs including National Geospatial & Open Data Registries and the INSPIRE GeoPortal in the EU.

Jeroen has been promoting the use of international standards and Free and Open Source Software for geographic data and information for over twenty years now. Jeroen is Project Officer for the GeoNetwork opensource project. He currently serves on the OSGeo Board, and did so in 2007 & 2008. He is a Charter member since the early days of OSGeo.

Besides everything geospatial Jeroen loves travel, carpentry, working on his overland truck, study Carl Jung’s Analytical Psychology, and walk, work and live outside.

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