geOrchestra
geOrchestra is a spatial data infrastructure project whose founding characteristics are: free, modular, interoperable. This project is community driven.
By spatial data infrastructure, we mean a system that receives, transmits, stores and processes data identified in space and time.
By free, we mean a set of software that everyone can copy, use, understand and modify. We also mean that this set benefits from contributions from other free projects, and must reciprocally enrich these projects. Documentation is part of the package.
By modular and interoperable, we mean a system that is primarily designed to exchange data with third-party systems by means of standardized interfaces, and that has the ability to evolve by integrating modules that meet the same standards.
By community, we mean public administrations, research teams, private companies, software publishers, service providers, individuals, with the objective of co-managing a commons for the benefit of the greatest number, and in compliance with principles that guarantee the status of a commons.
geOrchestra is represented by a steering committee which guarantees the project’s compliance with the founding characteristics by setting the rules for contributing to the source code, by enforcing the right to speak within the community, by proposing an open and transparent decision-making process, with the systematic search for consensus.
All these values and rules took shape through a manifest validated in 2022 by the community and the creation of a process allowing the formulation of geOrchestra Improvement Proposal (GIP) which are examined by the steering committee.
