OSGeo UK Local Chapter

Announcing FOSS4G:UK South West 2024, Bristol 12th November!

Everything is in place for a fantastic one day Bristol OSGeo:UK meetup in November at our now customary venue The Engine Shed at Bristol Temple Meads station. The programme is out and registration is live - expect great topics, discussions, networking, and of course Geodrinks afterwards. We look forward to seeing everyone with an interest in Free and Open Source for GIS, whether from Bristol or anywhere else in the world!

UK Code Sprint - Code by the Coast

On Tue 30th July 2024, we had a great day at Code by the Coast, at The Heights, Portland, Dorset. OSGeo:UK’s latest code sprint brought 18 people together to work on a number of FOSS4G projects, including Terra Draw and GIFramework Maps. Along with the great coding and networking, we also had some lovey views in an excellent venue.

Many thanks to both OSGeo:UK GoFundGeo and Addresscloud for sponsoring the event, and for those participants who paid for their own tickets - we couldn’t have done it without you!

Check out the page for more details, and if you have any questions, please email us .

OSGeo:UK Newsletter

We now send a newsletter to the open source geo community in the UK and Ireland on a 2-3 monthly cycle. This includes general news from OSGeo and information about events including upcoming FOSS4GUK meetups. The newsletter will not replace the UK mailing list which will continue to be the place for ongoing discussions. Click here to see an example of the newsletter or sign up using this dedicated Sign Up Link 

GoFundGeo & AGM 2023

OSGeo:UK AGM took place on Mon 20th Nov 2023 and the minutes are now available.

We agreed to fund a total of £5,633 across 7 projects through GoFundGeo:

With thanks to the RGS-IBG GIScience Research Group who have provided funding of £250 to support the above projects.

We have around £500-£1000 remaining for allocation at a later date, so if you do have a project that might qualify, please check our funding guidelines rules and let us know, via or the email list.

At the AGM we also agreed to the development of a regular newsletter, and discussion of how we use our existing communications channels.

FOSS4G:UK Local 2023

FOSS4G:UK Local 2023 went really well. It was held on Thurs 7th Sept, and we reached about 250 people across eight venues in two countries. We raised about £5000 for OSGeo:UK which will go towards our funding of Open Source Geospatial software over the coming year. The full programme is available in PDF or Google Sheets. See individual venue pages pages for more details.

We have done a short write up, summarising some of the feedback and highlighting a few of the lessons learned for next time. We’re planning to run a conference in 2024, and will be asking for volunteers early next year - so please sign up to the mailing list or email to find out when we’ll be meeting to discuss this.

Events

Thinking of an Open Source GIS event, and after some support? Contact us on the mailing list below and tell us your idea! See our past events page for details of events we have supported or organised in the past.

FOSS4G:UK Local 2023 FOSS4G:UK Local 2022 FOSS4GUK Online 2020 FOSS4GUK 2019

See also our guidelines page for information on setting up a FOSS4GUK event.

Contact

For updates follow @osgeouk on Mastodon, @osgeouk on Twitter, our mailing list, or our Matrix Chat Room.

Training

See the training page for details of upcoming training courses related to OSGeo projects.

Training providers- see the instructions at the bottom of that page for how to add your own courses to the list.

OSGeo:UK is an unincorporated organisation. Our constitution, adopted in March 2016 and altered by SGM in December 2018, can be found here.

Our previous constitution can be found here.

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Funding

From time to time we may choose to financially support an open source GIS project, or help someone attend an event. See funding guidelines for more details on how to apply.

GoFundGeo annually funds a range of Open Source Geospatial software projects that will have an impact in the UK. Each year we use the surplus from our FOSS4G:UK conferences to fund relevant projects in the range of £500 - £1000 each. We also occasionally make ad-hoc donations to revelant projects, see past donations for yearly breakdowns on the projects we have supported to date.

Help us support and promote the use of open source geospatial software within the UK by donating via PayPal.