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The Life of Open Source Spatial with QGIS - From Hobby to Grown Up, with Bonus Growing Pains
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- 1 Intro
- 2 Geographic Informatio n System
- 3 Sits on top of other major open source projects
- 4 GDAL Proj Python
- 5 Let's go back to the start
- 6 2002 Gary Sherman creates the start of Quantum GIS
- 7 Started only as a Post GIS** viewer
- 8 Started as a hobby project
- 9 One of the biggest open source cross platform GIS software applications
- 10 Part of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation
- 11 No longer just a PostGIS viewer
- 12 Large friendly community of users and developers
- 13 More frequent and stable release cycles
- 14 1,712,306 total lines of code 908,668 lines of C++ 152,298 lines of Python 480,429 lines of XML??!
- 15 Documentation doesn't write itself
- 16 Growing pain: Installers
- 17 You can't just do source dumps
- 18 We have had communication breakdowns around installers
- 19 Growing pain: Breaking changes
- 20 It was for the better but hurt
- 21 Growing pain: Documentation
- 22 Keeping up with rate of change is hard
- 23 Focus on stabilizing
- 24 Lots of people use and rely on QGIS for daily work
- 25 Stability is important to everyone
- 26 Forming governance
- 27 Established PSC
- 28 Rebanding and trademarks
- 29 Have a way to take money
- 30 Projects need money to sustain long term
- 31 Drawing the line between volunteering and getting paid
- 32 Grant projects
- 33 Growing the community
- 34 Be welcoming to new members
- 35 Diversity in location Diversity in gender Diversity in skills etc etc
- 36 Be aware of other cultures
- 37 Mentor and promote into core members of the community
- 38 Developer vs User expectations will differ
- 39 The community can fragment
- 40 Community matters a lot
- 41 Support your favourite project
