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Line 18: * [http://www.qgis.org/ Quantum GIS] The foundation is pursuing goals beyond [[software]] development, such as promoting more [[open access]] to [[government]] produced [[geospatial]] [[data]], ~~which~~andcompletely free geodata such as is acreated ~~major~~and ~~problem~~maintained ~~outside~~by ofthe ~~North~~[[OpenStreetMap]] ~~America~~project. Also [[education]] and training are addressed. Various committees within the foundation work on implementing ~~the strategy~~strategies. == Governance == The OSGeo is thoroughly community driven and has a lightweight organizational overhead consisting of 45 initial members, 9 directors and the president [[Frank Warmerdam]]. It is organized in more than 20 projects. ~~Eight~~Twelve of these (March 2007) focus on software development projects (see above) or organizational matters like board issues, web site, visibility, education, public geodata and promotion. The OSGeo community [[Collaboration\|collaborates]] via a [[Wiki]], [[Mailing List]]s and [[IRC]]. ==GeoNetwork opensource== ''Please also see [[Talk:Open_Source_Geospatial_Foundation \| discussion page]]'' This project is a [[free software\|free and open source]] cataloging application, released under [[GNU General Public License]], to manage spatially referenced resources. It is a standardized and decentralized spatial information management environment designed to enable access to geo-referenced databases, [[cartography\|cartographic]] products and related [[metadata]] from a variety of sources, enhancing the spatial information exchange and sharing between organizations and their audience, using the capacities of the internet. Line 31 ⟶ 33: The software has been deployed to various organizations, the first being FAO-GeoNetwork and VAM-SIE-GeoNetwork, both at their headquarters in [[Rome]], [[Italy]]. Furthermore, the WHO, UNEP, CGIAR and the Global Change Information and Research Centre (GCIRC) of China are working on GeoNetwork opensource implementations as their spatial information management capacity. == See also == * [[Free Software]] * [[Open Source]] * [[Open Geospatial Consortium]] – a standards organization

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