OSGeo: UK

Save the date! FOSS4G:UK 2025 will be in Leeds on Wed 1st and Thu 2nd October 2025

Our next FOSS4G:UK will be an in-person event in Leeds on 1st and 2nd October 2025 - the website is now live, and details will be added over the coming weeks - follow us on social media: LinkedIn, Mastodon, Twitter/X, join the mailing list and/or subscribe to the newsletter to hear when we have more details. Start thinking about your submission for the Call for Talks - we want to hear what you have been up to with Free & Open Source 4 Geospatial!

FOSS4G:UK South West 2024 - a big success!

Thanks for filling out our Feedback form for FOSS4G:UK South West 2024. Ciaran Sweet of Development Seed won an e-book copy of Using R as a GIS in our randomiser. Congratulations!

We had a fantastic one day FOSS4G:UK SW meetup in Bristol in November 2024 at our now customary venue The Engine Shed at Bristol Temple Meads station. The programme got to hear presentations on great topics, discussions, and took part in networking. Of course, there was Geodrinks afterwards.

A complete write up is included in the December newsletter, so make sure you are signed up: Sign Up Link

GoFundGeo has funded £5,003 across 6 different projects! Congratulations to all the award recipients.

OSGeo:UK AGM Mon 18th Nov 2024 1pm, Minutes now online

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 .

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 2024

OSGeo:UK AGM took place on 18 Nov 2024 and the minutes are now available.We agreed to fund a total of £5,003 across 6 projects through GoFundGeo - see the minutes for full details.

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

See under Funding below for more details.

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.

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.

Legal

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.

Officers

Chair: Nick Bearman
Secretary: Antony Scott
Treasurer: Matt Travis

Committee

Dave Barter
Alastair Graham
Tom Armitage
Catherine Clissold-Jones
Jonny Huck (co-opted non-voting member)

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.

Donate

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