Roles of Oskari Community

Oskari Network

Oskari Network is a open source development network open for all parties who have signed the Network contract (in finnish). Members of the Oskari Network are listed [here] (http://verkosto.oskari.org/oskari-verkosto/jasenet/).

Responsibilities and possibilites of Oskari Network

• The Network owns Oskari software
• Network discusses and disseminates information about Oskari software development and goals
• The members receive information about the development through Network email list and social media channels
• The members are invited to Oskari related events by the Oskari Network Steering group (e.g. Network day)

Oskari Network meetings

• One annual meeting
• 3-4 developer meetings

Oskari Network Steering Group

Owners of the development projects (clients). Current [Steering group] (http://verkosto.oskari.org/oskari-verkosto/ohjausryhma/). The Steering Group meets at least 4 times a year and when ever necessary or requested by the Project owners. All the members have a right to vote.

Network Steering Group members

• Coordinator (is chosen annually by the Steering group)
• 1-2 Oskari Network members who are elected annually in the Oskari Network day to represent the Network one year at a time.
• Project owners

Network Steering Group tasks

• Decide about the activities of the Network
• Take care of the development of the collaboration
• Choose the Coordinator annually and decide on the Integration fees
• Set up the aims for the software development
• Take care that the roadmap and architecture of the software are being properly developed
• Responsibility to maintain the Networks communication plan and see to its implementation
• Organise and authorize the product management

Network Steering group meetings agenda

• Member status
• Communication
• Ongoing projects
• Planned projects
• Roadmap related to the reference architecture
• Updated documents
• Steering group can invite project owners to present their projects.

Project owners

Project owners are members of the Oskari Network who have also signed an [Integration contract] (http://verkosto.oskari.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Oskari_Integraatiosopimus_20140129.pdf) with the Coordinator.

Coordinator (Product manager)

Coordinator is the guardian of the interests of both Project owners and Network. Coordinator is chosen annually by the Oskari Network Steering Group and acts also as the secretary of the Group. Coordinator strives to ensure a stable software development with the current resources and guards the openness of the processes. Coordinator is responsible for the procurement processes involving the integration work. Procurement is done under authorization of the Oskari Network Steering Group. Coordinator and Integrator manages together the development line. Coordinator updates the backlog of the software integration. Coordinator for Oskari in 2016: National Land Survey of Finaland, GI Centre: Jani Kylmäaho, Inkeri Lantta, oskari@nls.fi

###Tasks of the Coordinator

Software development task:

• Oskari functionalities
• Oskari roadmap
• Oskari project descriptions
• Oskari architecture
• Oskari framework design and parameters
• Oskari integration backlog
• Versioning, documentation and licenses, Oskari practices

Taking care of the Integration work

• Procurement processes, ordering, guidance and supervision
• Supervision of Integration work and prioritizing tasks
• Following the development on the field
• Standardization and open source software development
• Public sector architecture processes and framework, Public Sector recommendations
• Spatial data infrastructure development

Supporting the Network

• Communication
• Development and fulfilling the procedures
• Acting as a secretary for the Oskari Network Steering Committee
• Planning and preparing meetings
• Other tasks decided by the Oskari Network Steering Group
• Reuse followup and reporting
• Collecting potential member fees

Integrator (Technical administrator)

Integrator makes sure the openness is properly fulfilled. The chosen Integrator is responsible for the programming, testing, version management, documentation and support needed for the integration. Integrator completes and divides the tasks if needed and schedules the tasks and decides in which version the new feature will be released.

Tasks of the Integrator

Support for the developers

• Producing and developing guidance together with the Coordinator
• Maintaining Oskari.org webpages together with the Coordinator
• Support via chat, emails, FAQ
• Communication with the community

Maintaining testing and demo environments

• Software maintenance
• User management

Integration backlog

• Fleshing out tasks
• Assessment of work amounts

Checking and integration of new or replacing code

• Checking if the code is based on decided architecture and principles
• Functionalities of the user interface
• Documentation, clarity and functionalities of the code
• Integration of the code into the development version (GitHub: Oskari-develop)
• Integration of new code to the master software (GitHub: Oskari-master)
• Other tasks assigned by the Coordinator

##Project Steering Committee (former Architectual group) Technical group for Oskari developers and users instructs and guides Oskari development from architectural point of view. It also makes sure that Oskari core is properly maintained. The Committee meets 3-4 times a year. Comments for the development of Oskari are collected in the meetings.

Tailoring and deployment service partners

Development projects can organize and acquire tailoring and deployment freely. Tasks may include modifications, deployment projects or maintanence etc.) Architectural principles should be taken into account in development. The source code should be released as open source accompanied by necessary documentation.