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Project Support at OSGeo
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2026-06-30 –, A13

Learn how project support works at the Open Source Geospatial Foundation, the initial vision of the “incubation committee”, and what is being setup as as a replacement.

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) plays a vital role in our community, providing common ground for all of the activity that built up around our free and open source software technologies.

However OSGeo also is a software foundation, directly support our projects, and with programs designed to nurture and mature new technologies and project teams.

We will check in on the work of the OSGeo “incubation committee”, and how we are adapting to better support project teams.

Give indication of resources (video, web pages, papers, etc.) to read in advance, that will help get up to speed on advanced topics.:

https://www.osgeo.org/choose-a-project/

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: Community & governance in FOSS4G 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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Jody Garnett

Jody Garnett is an open source developer and advocate working with GeoCat Canada. He has over 20 years experience consulting, training, building solutions, and guiding technology development. Jody is on the steering committee for the GeoServer, GeoTools, and JTS Topology Suite projects, and volunteers as chair of the OSGeo Incubation Committee.

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