The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), the Open Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) are pleased to announce the fifth annual Joint OGC OSGeo ASF Code Sprint. The Code Sprint will be held 27th to 29th January 2026 as a hybrid event. The in-person component will take place at the USGS Science Center in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA, and the virtual component on the OGC-Events Discord Server.
Registration is now live at https://events.ogc.org/5JointOGC-OSGeo-ASFCodeSprint
The Code Sprint will be a collaborative and inclusive event to support the development of Open Standards and applications implementing those standards. The event will include software implementations of various OGC Standards, including software implementations from OSGeo and the ASF. Other organizations and/or individual developers are also welcome to bring their implementations to the Code Sprint.
Several geospatial standards will be featured in this Code Sprint. Everyone is welcome to participate and work on their preferred standard during the code sprint. The Code Sprint is supported by the OGC Testbed-21 initiative, which is sponsored by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA).
Code Sprints experiment with emerging ideas in the context of geospatial standards and help improve interoperability of existing standards by experimenting with new extensions or profiles. They are also used for building proofs of concept to support standards development activities and enhancement of software products. Non-coding activities such as testing, working on documentation or reporting issues are welcome and encouraged during the Code Sprint. Code Sprints also provide an opportunity to onboard developers that are new to the standards, through the sprint’s mentor stream.
There will be a pre-event webinar on January 22nd at 2pm UTC to set the context for the code sprint. Prospective participants are encouraged to attend to learn more about the planned activities for the sprint; the contents of this session will not be repeated during the welcome session of the code sprint. Prospective participants can apply for funding to offset their travel costs.
About OGC
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is a collective problem-solving community of experts from more than 360 businesses, government agencies, research organizations, and universities driven to make geospatial (location) information and services FAIR – Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable. The global OGC Community engages in a mix of activities related to location-based technologies: developing consensus-based open standards and best-practice; collaborating on agile innovation initiatives; engaging in community meetings, events, and workshops; and more. Learn more at https://www.ogc.org.
About OSGeo
OSGeo is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to foster global adoption of open geospatial technology by being an inclusive software foundation devoted to an open philosophy and participatory community driven development. The foundation’s projects, are all freely available and useable under an Open Source Initiative certified open source license. Learn more at https://www.osgeo.org.
About the Apache Software Foundation
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is the global home for open source software, powering some of the world’s most ubiquitous software projects, including Apache Airflow, Apache Camel, Apache Cassandra, Apache Groovy, Apache HTTP Server, and Apache Kafka. Established in 1999, The ASF is at the forefront of open source innovation, setting industry standards to advance software for the public good. Learn more at https://apache.org.