OSRS Open
OSRS Open – Open-Source Software for Science, Engineering & Defense
OSRS Open is a non-profit, open-source software organization with the primary goal of providing advanced computing capabilities principally for the analytics, big data, cybersecurity, defense, engineering and scientific communities.
Join federal, utility and climate teams co-developing open-source software, and collaborating through gated forums and working groups.
Who We Are
We are organizations conducting collaborative research and development, with the primary goal of providing advanced computing capabilities via OSI open-source licenses.
We are creators, innovators and stewards of open-source software, open specifications and open methodologies.
What We Work On
We do collaborative R&D principally in:
- Software:
- Analytics and Algorithm Design
- Big Data and Distributed Computing at Scale
- Cybersecurity and Information Assurance
- Geospatial and Location Based Technology
- Temporal, BiTemporal, TimeSeries and Space-Time Processes
- Processes and Systems Engineering:
- Organizational Change Management and Planning
- Operational / Business Process Modeling
- Software Engineering and Needs Planning and Management
- System of Systems Engineering
Who Participates
Principally across government, defense, utilities, engineering and scientific communities. Technologies are released under open-source OSI licenses.
Our Affiliates
OSRS Network, OSRS Group, OSRS Systems, Jumpspaces, Utility.Live, Enviro.Site, S3curely, and all of our OSRS customers
Supporting Open R&D
We actively support the development of new software technologies geared toward defining the future of computing in an open and platform agnostic manner.
Bridging the Gap
We are working through our members and community to help bridge the gap between new and emerging technologies and the mainstream approaches in use today. We focus on actionable approaches to help organizations incrementally adapt to and adopt emerging technologies.
Meetings / Meetup Sponsor
Host a meeting of the minds to discuss open questions or what the latest "hot thing" might mean to the industry as a whole or just to your organization. Meet with folks to talk about and learn the bleeding edge ideas and how they can shape our industries.
Join the community
Reach out and contact our members, or find the best mechanism for your organization to get involved.
Community
We bring people and organizations together in the spirit of sharing to collaborate on building the next-generation of computing. We're all in this together and together we can do anything.
Specifications
Open specifications form the central mass of what makes OSRS Open different. We believe in more than code, we believe that open specifications that describe the purpose and a minimal viable capability are the critical enablers to ensure interoperable implementations. We hope others will create implementations of our specifications in new languages and platforms they will then share back as open source code.
Source Code
Just plain open source. Liberal licensing, freedom of use, freedom to share, freedom to commercialize, no limits or boundaries. Published to well known communities like github.
Interoperability. Bring your own language or platform.
Our focus on open specifications in addition to open source enables us to provide interoperable implementations in any language and for any platform. We understand that systems are becoming an integral part of organizations and that reusability and cross-organizational integration is becoming a real need.
Scalability. Cloud, Containers, Desktop, Mobile - same deployment, dynamically.
We enable our technologies to scale without changing the implementation from small to large scale. We believe in dynamic injection of capabilities at the service or process level for new levels of continuous deployment.
Simplicity. Easy, compact, done.
Write code once in well thought out libraries and reuse them. Make the code simple to write and dependencies easy to use with minimal "dependency hell" concerns. It should always be simple to write and manage.
About OSRS
OSRS Open is an independent organization to foster open development and collaboration focused on the transition of new technologies to the enterprise as well as to emphasize research and development of new technologies. We serve as a forum for developers to enhance their understanding of the possibilities available in technology, while always pushing toward the horizon. As the OSRS name implies, we focus initially on engineering and the sciences with the intent to bridge the gap between technical and enterprise computing.
What is OSRS Open
OSRS Open is a non-profit group that operates at a Net Zero Income to provide an established framework for intellectual property that limits potential legal exposure for our project committers and ensures indefinite availability of all contributions to the broader community. Through our meritocratic process, all members are able to collaborate to develop and transition high quality software from R&D stages to enterprise production.
What we provide
We host and steward open source code, open data specifications and bring agencies together to share data, practices and of course code. More specifically, we focus on advanced capabilities aimed at shaping the future of computing, not just the "cool stuff", but foundational capabilities and techniques. The OSRS Open board takes input from the community to shape priorities for future development efforts and champions the adoption of other software into the OSRS Open community.
How does OSRS Open Operate
All members of the OSRS Open organization have a say in operations via voting for members of the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors is made of members from various organizations and individuals from our community. A large part of our operational model is adapted from the Apache ASF, with differences primarily related to our focus on R&D and computing futures.
Philosophy
We have a simple guiding principle: work with great people to do great things with no ego, while expecting that failure is the first step to learning. We believe:
- Shared ideas, technology and open communication are a key way to inspire innovation.
- Innovation isn't just incremental improvement, its the combination of evolution and revolution.
- Always aim for the horizon, always remember you can never reach it, so always adapt to the new horizon ahead of you.
- Just because something is popular doesn't mean its good, but it may also not be too bad. You have to look at it to know the difference.
- Many things are popular because they are new and hype is about the financial possibilities, not the intrinsic value.
- Don't focus on financial aspects of technology, but expect it will be important to others, that is neither good nor bad, just a reality.
- Even though communities overlap, they often will not communicate or understand the synergies they can achieve. Above all, we want to help bridge that gap.
- Great technology is useless if it isn't used.
- Let others use the tools and techniques they prefer, bring your own process (BYOP).
Services
We primarily steward the intellectual property of the technologies and source code artifacts produced by our community members. We also however...
- Facilitate Rapid Innovation Teams (RITs) lifecycles to investigate and quickly research and prototype new technologies.
- Find and manage hosting for data services on behalf of our members.
- Facilitate meetings for business process improvement, technology assessments, requirements and data modeling sessions.
- Help our members connect to each other to find capable staff to build new things.
- Help our members identify and connect to initiate cost-sharing for common development.
- Connect communities to each other by facilitating meeting and discussion opportunities.
Meet Our Team
Michael Corsello
Founding Member, OSRS Group
Mr. Corsello has 20+ years of experience in software engineering, geoinformatics and data analytics. He has a masters degree in Computer Science from George Washington University, a graduate certificate in Information Assurance and Computer Security also from GWU, a bachelor degree in Biology from the University of Central Florida and has a nearly completed doctoral degree in Earth Systems Science and Geoinformatics from George Mason University. He has worked for many organizations including Booz Allen Hamilton, Raytheon, NASA and Earthtech (now AECOM).
Tim Seiple
Founding Member, PNNL
Mr. Seiple has 10+ years of experience working as a Geologist and Geographic Information Scientist. He specializes in data modeling and processing, developing desktop and web GIS applications and tools, integrating GIS with environmental models, and performing advanced GIS analyses. He also has extensive field experience including monitoring water quality (TDG, CTD), conducting environmental site investigations, and performing site surveys (GPS, vegetation, and bathymetry). Aside from GIS work, Mr. Seiple uses his database and programming experience to develop software used to perform advanced risk modeling in support of Programmatic Risk Assessment for the U.S. Department of Energy. Mr. Seiple has a Bachelor’s degree in Geology and a Master’s degree in GIS and Remote Sensing. His primary research interests include developing models and applications to enhance decision support in the areas of environmental protection and risk management.
Christina McDonald
Founding Member, USNPS
Ms. McDonald is the Digital Asset Management Program Manager and a Software Engineer for the Resource Information Services Division at the US National Park Service.
Patrick Royer
Founding Member, PNNL
Mr. Royer is a geospatial scientist at PNNL.
Grant Fujimoto
Founding Member, PNNL
Mr. Fujimoto is a Analytics scientist at PNNL.
YOU
Member
You too can become a member of our team.
Membership
Membership in OSRS Open comes in two general flavors, contributors and board membership. Contributors are any organization or individual that provides content to OSRS Open projects under our contribution terms. Contributors provide content in the form of code, documentation, bug or feature analyses. Contributors that provide code directly are considered "committers" and are provided access to our source code repositories.
Become a Committer
We welcome all potential committers that want to give back to our projects. OSRS Open is a meritocracy and not profit/commercially driven. That is to say that all of our works are driven by the people and organizations that commit to our code and our code is evolving to solve real world problems better. The more anyone contributes, the more access and responsibility they are given. Start off by using our code base and providing feedback on our content on github. If you find areas where you or your organization can contribute, start the discussion with us to determine how to both implement code that fits with our architectures and how to ensure any code contributions will be compatible with our liberal licensing requirements. If this is a good fit, you'll be a key contributor in no time. But even if you just want to use our code, you can still contribute by donating time to our open issues, or you can still sponsor us. Sponsor our work at Patreon:OSRS Open on Patreon
Contact Us
We have no single physical brick-and-mortar location, but our members are distributed across the US from Virginia, Maryland and DC in the east to the mountains of Colorado and in Washington state in the west.
On Github
Our home on github is the OSRS organization. Our projects are listed here. Please feel free to engage with us through github by participating in development, or by using our libraries. If you use our libraries, please acknowledge us as "Built using OSRS Open"
Other Mechanisms
While we have no primary facilty to visit, we are growing our visible presence online. We've been working together and in client datacenters for over a decade, and now we're starting to emerge to work with you. Contact the "usual way" at: info@osrsopen.com. Or just look online for us....
Find us on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/company/osrs-open/