Open Source Research Software for Geospatial (OSGeo)
Tue, 29 Apr, 19:00–20:00 (CEST) Room N1
Tue, 19:00
This townhall provides an open forum to discuss how Open Source Research Software, Open Data and FAIR credit tie into and support current data-driven scientific research, but also the challenges (elefants in the room) which need to be addressed and the different kinds of emerging opportunities for researchers, research organisations, journals, publishers and infrastructure providers.
In the last years, significant progress was made regarding making FAIR and Open Science the emerging new gold standard for sustainable and trusted scientific practice, publications and means to obtain project funding. While this is based on and requires the establishment of reliable technical cross-domain infrastructures, like the integration of software code repositiories, Open Access repositories and persistent identifiers (PID) for research products, individuals and organisations, organisational change has to be embraced and practiced by researchers, organisations and founding agencies. For this outreach and educations programmes are a key factor, especially to reach early career scientists.
The townhall is hosted by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo).
OSGeo is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to foster global adoption of open geospatial technology by being an inclusive software foundation devoted to an open philosophy and participatory community-driven development. The foundation provides financial, organizational and legal support to the broader open-source geospatial community.
It also serves as an independent legal entity to which community 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 geospatial community and provides a common forum and shared infrastructure for improving cross-project collaboration.
The foundation’s projects are all freely available and useable under an Open Source Initiative certified open source license.
The oral presentations are given in a hybrid format supported by a Zoom meeting featuring on-site and virtual presentations. The button to access the Zoom meeting appears just before the time block starts.