OSGeo is an active and vibrant community, with many ways to connect!
OSGeo offers an inclusive safe space for everyone. Please review our code of conduct.
Discourse Forum
The primary communication channel is OSGeo Discourse Forum:
- OSGeo Discourse Forum
- The forum provides categories for a wide range of projects, committees and initiatives.
- Sign-in with OSGeo UserID, GitHub, or a Discourse Account
Please sign in and introduce yourself, we look forward to meeting you.
Mailing lists
Discussion List
To get involved in the Open Source Geospatial Foundation, we invite you to Subscribe and participate in the discussion e-mail list.
Using the Discuss List
- Only subscribers can send email to the discuss@osgeo.org
- Email questions, ideas and suggestions for discussion.
- Everyone can review the archive.
- Please avoid emailing others in the list directly, so that everyone can benefit from the discussion.
- Before you post a question to the list, please search the mailing list archive to see if answers can be found. Newcomers may find this to be a valuable resource, and should feel free to ask questions if they cannot find satisfactory answers in the archive.
Announcements List
If you want to know about what is going on in the Open Source Geospatial Foundation, you are encouraged to:
Other Mailing Lists
OSGeo also hosts a wide variety of other mailing lists for projects, committees and initiatives.
A comprehensive list of all OSGeo mailing lists can be found on the OSGeo Lists Server.
Social Networks and Forums
- fosstodon
- Twitter – inactive
- GIS Stack Exchange #osgeo
Chat
Join the conversation! OSGeo uses Matrix as a decentralized, real-time chat protocol, that is bridged to different chat systems.
- [matrix]: #osgeo:matrix.org
- Libera.chat web client: #osgeo, or use your own IRC client.
- Slack: osgeo.slack.com
Chat is an opportunity for the OSGeo Community hang out and conduct the occasional interactive meeting. Drop in to informally get to know people and what they’re working on.
OSGeo website
For community news and updates:
- Foundation news – blog posts
- Events / History – gatherings big an small from international conferences to local coffee or geobeers gatherings
- Resources – white papers, manuals, presentations, videos and research papers
- Newsletter – GeoForAll publishes a monthly newsletter.
- Community news / Planet OSGeo – blog aggregator from individuals, organizations and project teams in our community