Open Source for America

13 January 2010 Geoff Zeiss

Another very important initiative that has happened in the last few months is the formation of Open Source for America (OSFA) which is focussed on promoting open source software within the US federal government and which has clearly been motivated by the Open Government Directive and other open initiatives of the Obama administration as well as the prevalence of open source within certain departments such as the Department of Defense.  It is hard to think of a well-known name or organization in the open source world that is not involved with the OSFA.  Supporters include Google, the Linux Foundation, Oracle, AMD, Canonical/Mark Shuttleworth, Red Hat, Tim O’Reilly, Eben Moglen, SugarCRM, and the list goes on.

The OSFA has created a number of working groups including Geospatial, Energy and Transportation, and others.

Geoff Zeiss

Geoff Zeiss

Geoff Zeiss has more than 20 years experience in the geospatial software industry and 15 years experience developing enterprise geospatial solutions for the utilities, communications, and public works industries. His particular interests include the convergence of BIM, CAD, geospatial, and 3D. In recognition of his efforts to evangelize geospatial in vertical industries such as utilities and construction, Geoff received the Geospatial Ambassador Award at Geospatial World Forum 2014. Currently Geoff is Principal at Between the Poles, a thought leadership consulting firm. From 2001 to 2012 Geoff was Director of Utility Industry Program at Autodesk Inc, where he was responsible for thought leadership for the utility industry program. From 1999 to 2001 he was Director of Enterprise Software Development at Autodesk. He received one of ten annual global technology awards in 2004 from Oracle Corporation for technical innovation and leadership in the use of Oracle. Prior to Autodesk Geoff was Director of Product Development at VISION* Solutions. VISION* Solutions is credited with pioneering relational spatial data management, CAD/GIS integration, and long transactions (data versioning) in the utility, communications, and public works industries. Geoff is a frequent speaker at geospatial and utility events around the world including Geospatial World Forum, Where 2.0, MundoGeo Connect (Brazil), Middle East Spatial Geospatial Forum, India Geospatial Forum, Location Intelligence, Asia Geospatial Forum, and GITA events in US, Japan and Australia. Geoff received Speaker Excellence Awards at GITA 2007-2009.

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