[Ica-osgeo-labs] FW: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo's spending budget for 2015

Jason Sadler jds at geodata.soton.ac.uk
Mon Jan 19 04:32:03 PST 2015


Hi Suchith, all,

The GeoforAll website was set up using our own CMS and associated
tools for news/events, etc and customised from an existing template.
We probably spent 4-5 days on the development, including the
incorporation of the live lab list and map functionality.

New copies of the site could be created based on the same structure
with a day or so's work maximum.  We typically spend a day or two per
year on the hosting and maintenance of a website depending of course
on how demanding the users are!

I'm sure there are also a range of additional developments we could
carry out with some budget to take the website forward, or provide
something for other labs to take on.

Best regards,
Jason

-- 
Jason Sadler
GeoData Institute
University of Southampton



On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 10:26:34AM +0000, Suchith Anand wrote:
> Thanks Jason. That is very important point.
> 
> One of things we should plan is to have a web based template for all labs from the main geoforall website to report activities (new courses, events, training programs etc)
> 
> As the webmaster of GeoforAll it will be good if you give us an idea of the development costs for the same as it will benifit all our labs. 
> 
> All - If any of you have further ideas on what functionalities we need for the website which will benifit all the labs , please let us know and this is a great opportunity for this. 
> 
> Suchith
> 
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: Jason Sadler [jds at geodata.soton.ac.uk]
> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2015 9:21 AM
> To: Suchith Anand
> Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] FW: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo's spending budget for 2015
> 
> Hi Suchith,
> 
> I wasn't aware of a budget previously!  Could some of this money be
> used for further development of the geoforall website?
> 
> Best regards,
> Jason
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 01:09:47AM +0000, Suchith Anand wrote:
> > Thanks Jeff for this info.
> >
> > Colleagues - please put in any ideas you have for the ICA-OSGeo labs activities in OSGeo budget for 2015. We had 5000 USD allocated last year which was not even used!  We did discuss awarding Open Geospatial Science award for the best student competitions at FOSS4G events and we did setup a Advisory team also, so i suggest that we dont lose the momentum for this and plan this.  For example NASA World Wind Europa challenge is a good one that is already in place.  I suggest that Maria and Patrick take the lead for this and we allocate 1000 USD for the best student team of this competition.
> >
> > Also i remember Jeroen Ticheler (GeoCat) kindly agreed for supporting a student award at FOSS4G main conference.
> >
> > Jereon - if you are happy with us going ahead on this, we can contact the LOC chair  and inform award for the best student paper for FOSS4G 2015 in Seoul
> >
> > I request your suggestions/ideas for any ideas you have on education activities promotion.So please send us your ideas asap.
> >
> > Suchith
> >
> >
> > ________________________________________
> > From: discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jeff McKenna [jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com]
> > Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2015 7:02 PM
> > To: osgeo
> > Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo's spending budget for 2015
> >
> > Hello community!
> >
> > It's important that we now come up with a budget for the OSGeo
> > organization for 2015.  This is a great opportunity for committees such
> > as our Systems Architecture committee, or the Marketing committee, to
> > request funding to be put aside for spending for specific needs.
> >
> > Thanks to a nice brief financial report from our Treasurer Mike Smith at
> > the last Board meeting[1], we know that we have approximately 250,000
> > USD cash on hand, plus another 100,000 USD to come from Portland FOSS4G
> > profits shortly.
> >
> > I have started a template to record our 2015 budget in the wiki[2] and
> > the OSGeo Board will work with committees to update it;
> > please if you have a specific need for funding (servers, marketing
> > materials, anything) speak up here and we would like to put aside the
> > funds for your needs for 2015.
> >
> > Thanks everyone,
> >
> >
> > [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2015-01-15#Minutes
> > [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2015
> >
> >
> > -jeff
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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