From Code to Collaboration Making Geospatial Open Source Software a Viable Option for

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Ten years of work on TerriaJS starts from a 2014 National Map prototype and evolves into 2018 experiments with digital twins and an early‑adopter program now scaling into a new program next year; the concrete asks are a community manager hire, a public go‑to page and a provider map, and clearer governance, pen‑test results and support contracts. Organizations repeatedly flag scalability, security and support: plan for pen tests, SLA paths, custodianship and commercial models that reinvest in projects after events like Cesium’s Bentley acquisition or Mapbox license changes.

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1. 0:00Introduction and background
2. 2:57About Terria and its mission
3. 6:07Five-year vision for open source adoption
4. 8:16Lessons from early open source efforts
5. 13:53Convincing organizations to adopt open source
6. 19:56Key challenges in open source adoption
7. 23:09Steps for organizations to grow open source use
8. 26:46Open source community and sustainability
9. 27:51Call to action for the community

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