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Open source inspired workflows 
for open (and c...

Ben Balter
October 15, 2015

Open source inspired workflows 
for open (and closed) geospatial data

Open source software is produced by distributed teams rarely in the same place at the same time, rarely working on the same thing at the same time, yet they consistently produce better results than their closed source and proprietary counterparts. A big part of their continued success is open source's unique workflow and tools. What would it look like to treat geospatial data with the same respect that open source developers treat their code? What if we took the tools and workflows of open source and used them to create collaborative geospatial tools and datasets, even if that data was ultimately never public?

Ben Balter

October 15, 2015
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  1. ! Open source inspired workflows 
 for open (and closed)

    geospatial data @benbalter [email protected] government.github.com
  2. ! 1. How open source got here 2. Where geodata

    is today 3. What data publishers can learn
  3. ! Open Source (software)
 software that can be freely used,

    modified, and shared 
 (in both modified and unmodified form) by anyone
  4. ! Open Source
 a philosophy of collaboration in which working

    materials are made available online for anyone to fork, modify, discuss, and contribute to.
  5. ! 1. Had to be there 2. Had to know

    them 3. Had to be perfect
  6. Version Control * 2d96cfe - (HEAD, tag: v3.1.1, origin/master, origin/HEAD,

    master) :gem: bump (43 minutes ago) <Ben Balter> * f4b446b - remove stray backtick (44 minutes ago) <Ben Balter> * 83599e3 - Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/benbalter/g-man (46 minutes ago) <Ben Balter> |\ | * 42514ea - Merge pull request #61 from devscott/laxco (50 minutes ago) <Ben Balter> | |\ | | * 072d9b5 - Adding in additional entry for La Crosse County, WI (54 minutes ago) <Scott Sloan> | |/ * | 1e95d95 - remove unresolvable domains (46 minutes ago) <Ben Balter> * | 1a8645a - remove uwyo.edu/CES (86 minutes ago) <Ben Balter> |/ * 70410ba - Merge pull request #60 from jpmckinney/canada (2 hours ago) <Ben Balter> |\ | * a77ad43 - Use consistent comments for Canada hosts (2 hours ago) <James McKinney> | * 1776e45 - Add more Canadian hosts (2 hours ago) <James McKinney> * | 05211a0 - Merge pull request #58 from mitio/bulgarian-government-domains (3 hours ago) <Ben Balter> |\ \ | * | fe8f862 - Add Bulgaria's government main domain (3 hours ago) <Dimitar Dimitrov> | |/ * | 85d0c7b - Merge pull request #59 from mitio/fix-readme-typos (3 hours ago) <Ben Balter> |\ \ | |/ |/| | * f558a90 - Add missing word in the readme (3 hours ago) <Dimitar Dimitrov>
  7. ! Is this a bug? Has anyone else experienced this?

    Is this the best solution?
 Can someone help test this? Can you release a new version with the fix? Email all the things!
  8. ! Is this a bug? Has anyone else experienced this?

    Is this the best solution?
 Can someone help test this? Can you release a new version with the fix? (Google and then) post all the things!
  9. ! "Anyone is encouraged to contribute to the project by

    forking and submitting a pull request. (If you are new to GitHub, you might start with a basic tutorial.)" Contributing to whitehouse/petitions
  10. ! Open source inspired workflows 
 for open (and closed)

    geospatial data @benbalter [email protected] government.github.com