The 2025 edition of geOcom brought together over 100 participants for three days in Rennes: users, developers, local authorities, design offices, researchers, public officials, and more. All gathered around geOrchestra, the open-source, modular, and interoperable platform dedicated to the management and dissemination of territorial data. Thank you all for your presence, your feedback, your contributions, and your ideas!

🤝 A friendly and unifying gathering

geOcom 2025 wasn’t just a packed program: it was also a warm and collaborative atmosphere, conducive to informal exchanges and the emergence of new collaborations. Some highlights:

  • A fun icebreaker to get to know each other in a different way,
  • A wide variety of profiles, including geomaticians, developers, IT managers, field agents, and data scientists, in a variety of fields: planning, environment, research, cooperation, and health,
  • A good geographical representation: Brittany, Grand Est, Hauts-de-France, Aura, ĂŽle-de-France, Overseas Territories, and also feedback from Africa, Asia, and Latin America,
  • More than 20 new people participating in their first geOcom—proof of an open and growing community.
  • Energizing feedback such as “I really enjoyed all the presentations and definitely want to participate in future events!” or “I was amazed by the platform’s maturity and the many accessible components.”

🔧 Major technical developments

Version geOrchestra 25.0 marks a turning point with:

  • 6 updates to core components (GeoServer, GeoNetwork, Gateway, MapStore, etc.),
  • The arrival of new tools: Maelstro, Superset, GAIA, Metadata Editor…
  • A documentation overhaul, new customization options, non-regression testing, and more refined management of roles and organizations.

📡 Concrete uses, for all regions

Testimonials illustrated the rich uses of geOrchestra:

  • Rennes MĂ©tropole: interconnection with business GIS, 3D production, model maps.
  • Lille MĂ©tropole: shared open data portal with 370 datasets and 280 user accounts. * Biotope: migration to an IDG approach, harvesting, Superset dashboards.
  • Les Libres GĂ©ographes: international OpenStreetMap integration.
  • Geo2France, GeoBretagne, DataGrandEst: visualizations, dashboards, nocode, AI, and LLM.

đź’¬ An active and structured community

geOcom 2025 confirmed the collective’s strength:

  • Co-development and sharing (Metadata Editor, Maelstro, Superset, etc.),
  • Open discussions on governance, design systems, and interoperability,
  • Forward-looking work on the uses of AI for data discoverability,
  • Shared desire to continue beyond geospatial research, towards a territorial data platform.

🚀 Outlook for 2025–2026

Priorities discussed include:

  • Strengthening scalability with Kubernetes/Helm,
  • Facilitating contributions with tools like Maelstro, and likely a new data ingestion module,
  • Rolling out chatbots and semantic search,
  • Working toward a participatory roadmap for geOrchestra 26.0,
  • Gradual structuring of the developer community.

đź’ˇ In summary

The geOcom 2025 was:

  • 3 days of intense meetings,
  • Around thirty thematic sessions,
  • More than 100 engaged participants,
  • A community workshop hosted by Open, which allowed for in-depth exploration of topics chosen by participants,
  • A community more vibrant than ever, united around the principles of free software, cooperation, digital sovereignty and sobriety.

Thank you all for helping to make this edition a success. Thank you to Rennes MĂ©tropole for its extraordinary welcome. Thank you to Open for the community sprint and the goodies. Thank you to JDEV and Camptocamp for the pastries. See you soon for more!

Note: This text was generated by an algorithm and then amended by humans, translated by an algorithm