Community
geOrchestra is a community-driven project.
Anyone can contribute, and each contribution may be reused freely by everyone.
Contributions may take several forms:
- participation to the mailing lists : the main list or the developers list
- writing or improving the documentation,
- helping improve this website,
- creating bug reports and submitting enhancement requests,
- reporting security issues (in that case, please do not fill a bug report and instead send a mail to psc@georchestra.org),
- contributions to the code, either patches or “pull requests”,
- funding for new features.
Yearly meetings
Every year, users and developers from the community meet in a different place to share experiences, sum up good practices and elaborate the roadmap.
Previous geOcom events took place:
- Rennes in 2025, at the invitation of Rennes Métropole
- Lille in 2024, at the invitation of the Métropole européenne de Lille
- Saint-Mandé for the 2023 edition
- Perros-Guirec in 2022, at the invitation of JDEV
- online for the 2021 edition
- at the city and communauté d’agglomération du Puy-en-Velay, Auvergne, France, en 2019,
- at the “Hotel de Région” (location of the Géopicardie partnership), Amiens, France, in 2018,
- at CampToCamp, Chambéry, France, in 2017,
- at the “Maison de l’Agriculture et de la Forêt d’Aquitaine” (location of the PIGMA partnership), Bordeaux, France, in 2016,
- at the “Maison de la Région” (partnership CIGAL - Coopération pour l’information géographique en Alsace), Strasbourg, France, in 2015,
- at “Centre Régional Auvergnat de l’Information Géographique” (CRAIG), Clermont-Ferrand, France for 2014,
- at Agrocampus Ouest, Rennes, France, for 2013.
Who’s using geOrchestra ?
Subnational level
Bretagne (France)
with GeoBretagne partnership
Haut de France (France)
Géo2France project
Grand Est (France)
DataGrandEst project
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (France)
Centre Régional Auvergnat de l'Information Géographique
Santa Maria (Açores)
Prešov Region (Slovakia)
Košice self-governing region (Slovakia)
Alsace
with Datageo project
Département Haute-Loire (France)
GCS SESAN & ARS Île-de-France
with Santégraphie project
Urban area level
Métropole Européenne de Lille (France)
OpenData portal
Rennes Métropole (France)
Communauté d'Agglomération du Puy-en-Velay (France)
Intermunicipal Community of Terras of Trás-os-Montes (Portugal)
Município de Oeiras (Portugal)
Municipality of Nordeste, São Miguel Island (Portugal)
Research and education:
INRAE
GeoData INRAE
IRD
DataSuds-geo
UMR SAS (INRAE - Agrocampus Ouest, Rennes)
GéoSAS
UMR LISAH (INRAE - IRD - Supagro, Montpellier)
UMR Silva (INRAE - Université de Lorraine)
UMR Théma (Besançon - Université de Bourgogne)
UMS BBEES
at the French 'Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle', Paris
ArchiSEINE : Site of archives and historical data on the Seine watershed
ArchiSEINE
UMR Littoral, Environnement, Télédétection, Géomatique (CNRS - Nantes, Brest, Rennes, Caen)
Indigeo
Observatoire des Sciences de l’Univers de Rennes
OSURIS
CDGP
Data Center for Deep Geothermal Energy
Companies
TerraNIS
a French company specialized in the design, development and commercialization of geoinformation services in agriculture and environment domains
International organizations and associations:
FAO representation in Bolivia
Les Libres Géographes
with IFL project
… and many more we don’t know about. Please contact us to register your geOrchestra !
Who develops geOrchestra ?
The commiters list only gives a partial view.
The GitHub ecosystem allows wide contributions via the “Pull Request” principle. These contributions are always intensively reviewed and tested, eventually leading to their acceptance and integration (“merge”).
How to find help ?
We are always pleased to give a hand on the #georchestra channel (osgeo.org Matrix server).
The project runs two mailing lists, which you can freely join to ask for help:
- georchestra@googlegroups.com is the main mailing list for users and data admin as well,
- georchestra-dev@googlegroups.com is the developers and sysadmin mailing list
Use psc@georchestra.org to reach the Project Steering Committee.
No support will be provided at this address.