<commit_before>Title: Assignment6: Governance structure in Geonode community, Decision making process and Résolution solving in GeoNode
Date: 2013-12-14 13:30
Category: assignment6
Slug: pmatta-assign6
Author: Prabha
Tags: assignment6, GeoNode, open source, peer collaboration

ASSIGNMENT 6: Where does the funding for you community come from? Is there corporate sponsorship? A foundation that backs it? Do users donate? How does this affect the community's cooperative dynamics? Are there competing projects? How would you describe your project's role in the greater technical ecosystem?

# Funding of Geonode 
To understanding the present funding mechanism in Geonode opensource software, one has to understand the origins of Geonode. OpenGeo is a leader in open source geospatial software development and support. It is a social enterprise working to build the best web-based geospatial technology and developed GeoNode, a new platform designed to promote the development of spatial data infrastructures (SDIs) worldwide. Initially, it was purely an open source project. 

As Geonode expanded from simple mapping application to a comprehensive robust system involving cartography, web design, and graphic design—especially in Django, Pinax, GeoServer, and OpenLayers; in March 2010, Geonode called out for partners to further develop their growing project [in their blogpost](http://geonode.org/2010/03/looking-for-partners/index.html). The company seeks to bring the best practices of open source software to geospatial organizations around the world by providing enterprises with supported, tested, and integrated open source solutions to build the Geospatial Web.<commit_msg>added geonode's role in technical ecosystem<commit_after>Title: Assignment6: Governance structure in Geonode community, Decision making process and Résolution solving in GeoNode
Date: 2013-12-14 13:30
Category: assignment6
Slug: pmatta-assign6
Author: Prabha
Tags: assignment6, GeoNode, open source, peer collaboration

ASSIGNMENT 6: Where does the funding for you community come from? Is there corporate sponsorship? A foundation that backs it? Do users donate? How does this affect the community's cooperative dynamics? Are there competing projects? How would you describe your project's role in the greater technical ecosystem?

# Funding of Geonode 
To understanding the present funding mechanism in Geonode opensource software, one has to understand the origins of Geonode. OpenGeo is a leader in open source geospatial software development and support. It is a social enterprise working to build the best web-based geospatial technology and developed GeoNode, a new platform designed to promote the development of spatial data infrastructures (SDIs) worldwide. Initially, it was purely an open source project. 

As Geonode expanded from simple mapping application to a comprehensive robust system involving cartography, web design, and graphic design—especially in Django, Pinax, GeoServer, and OpenLayers; in March 2010, Geonode called out for partners to further develop their growing project [in their blogpost](http://geonode.org/2010/03/looking-for-partners/index.html). The company seeks to bring the best practices of open source software to geospatial organizations around the world by providing enterprises with supported, tested, and integrated open source solutions to build the Geospatial Web.

World Bank's quest to compute disaster risk modelling for developing countries in its international disaster reduction efforts matched OpenGeo's ambitions and they have partnered to build and release Geonode 1.0. 



# Geonode's role in the greater technical ecosystem
Geonode is contibuted as well as contribute to the greater technical ecosystem. Major contributions from a number of organizations were essential to the developement and release of GeoNode. These include OpenGeo, the World Bank, the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, and Global Earthquake Model.  The project has also greatly benefitted from volunteer efforts from the open source community. 

The group of GeoNode partners and collaborators is growing rapidly.  Developers and global organizations have responded enthusiastically to the project thus far, and OpenGeo is excited to meet the demand for a free, open source SDI with this new offering. Geonode is now being released for general public  under GPL (General Public Lincence) which can be used for free in software and other kinds of works. Further, users can distribute copies of Geonode software or its source code is available on [Geonode Github](https://github.com/GeoNode/geonode) for public use thus contributing to the greater good of the society.


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