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DIPAS Community
The DIPAS Community brings together municipalities and institutions from all over Germany to jointly continue developing the open source software. Anyone who uses DIPAS can become part of this community and help shape the future of DIPAS.
Members of the Community
Become a member now!
Do you want to become a member of the german-wide DIPAS Community? Then please fill out the membership application (form in German) and send it to the address specified in the form.
Change the membership
If you wish to reassign your delegate mandates for the Strategic or Technical Commission, please send us a change request (form in German).
Your contact person
Daniel Bockelmann (Dataport)
Initial Consultation, Support, Community Management
Email: DataportDipasProduktmanagement@dataport.de
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dipasanwendercommunity
Telephone: +49 431 3295-8832
Benefits of a membership
✅Support for technical and specialist questions about DIPAS
- Regular DIPAS consultation hours provided by Dataport
- Support in the developer area and direct communication with the DIPAS team
✅ Involvement in software development
- Seat and vote on the Strategic and Technical Commission, thereby influencing the further development of DIPAS
- Joint prioritization and decision-making on further development
- Opportunity to contribute your own developments to the DIPAS core via pull requests
- Participation in regular strategic and technical workshops
- Early access to new DIPAS features
✅ Exchange of knowledge and experience
- Access to the internal member area
- Exchange with other municipalities and specialist departments
- Insight into best practices, experience reports, and use cases
✅ Public relations and further training
- Collaboration on information and training offerings
- Participation in exchange formats, trade fair appearances, and community events
The membership fees are used to manage and coordinate the user community. The contributions are only used to cover expenses. There is no profit motive.
Annual fee (net):
- Public administration organisations at federal and state level, except city states: €10,000
- 1 million inhabitants or more: € 5,000
- 500,000 inhabitants to less than 1,000,000 inhabitants: € 3,000
- 100,000 inhabitants to less than 500,000 inhabitants: € 2,000
- Less than 100,000 inhabitants: € 1,000
- NGOs, research organisations or equivalent: € 2,500
- Internal member area and SharePoint in the Dataport customer portal
- Digital meetings of community members
- Announcements and communication via email
Roles
- Dataport: Community management (initial consultation, support, organization, administration)
- Hamburg Department of Urban Development and Housing: Member management (new members, changes, cancellations) + specialist-strategic lead
- Hamburg State Office for Geoinformation and Surveying: Technical lead
Further details can be found in the DIPAS User Community Principles (in German).
The Strategic Commission is an association of all community members, each represented by one delegate per member.
Tasks:
- Issues relating to the strategic and functional orientation and further development of DIPAS.
- Issues relating to community governance and cost allocation regulations.
- Technical assessment of proposals for further development of the DIPAS-Core.
The Hamburg Department of Urban Development and Housing chairs the commission.
The Technical Commission is an association of all community members, each represented by one delegate per member.
Tasks:
- Technical assessment of further development requirements relating to the DIPAS-Core, e.g., with regard to feasibility and type of implementation.
- Based on this, the TechComm management formulates requirements for technical implementation as a prerequisite for implementation in the DIPAS-Core.
The Hamburg Agency for Geoinformation and Surveying chairs the committee.
Downloads
"Foundation of Open Source Communities" (YouTube)
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