<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div>Hi Steve,<br></div><div><br></div><div>One use of budget that might be worth considering would be to fund features or fixes in MapServer's many dependent open source projects, that would improve MapServer or make development easier. <br></div><div><br></div><div>For example the MapScript API docs would be improved by being able to link to Mapfile keywords which are all indexed but have URLs that can change each time the docs are generated - see the issue at <br></div><div><div><a href="https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/issues/1671">https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/issues/1671</a><br></div><div><div><br></div><div>I contacted the maintaners of the Sphinx documentation project to see if there were options to fund feature development, but in this case I'll need to better detail the requirements, and possibly prototype it myself, so likely not relevant to this issue, but I'm sure there are others in SWIG, CMake, GDAL, Cairo, GEOS, libpng etc. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Alternatively some MapServer t-shirts :-)<br></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,<br></div><div><br></div><div>Seth<br></div></div><div><br></div></div><div id="sig62266145"><div class="signature">--<br></div><div class="signature">web:http://geographika.co.uk<br></div><div class="signature">twitter: @geographika<br></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Wed, Oct 30, 2019, at 2:02 PM, Steve Lime wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="qt-gmail-MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:11pt" class="size"> We actually have an approved budget of $2,500 and it would be a pity not to use it. Question is how to provision it... I made a guess just for bootstrapping a budget but we are not bound by that.
Thoughts?
--Steve</span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="qt-gmail-MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:11pt" class="size"> </span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="qt-gmail-MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:11pt" class="size"><a name="_MailOriginal">-----Original Message-----<br> From: Projects [mailto:projects-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Astrid
Emde (OSGeo)<br> Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 1:24 AM<br> To: OSGeo Projects <projects@lists.osgeo.org><br> Subject: [Projects] REMINDER: OSGeo projects can use a budget of 2.000 US
Dollar in 2019</a></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="qt-gmail-MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:11pt" class="size"> </span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="qt-gmail-MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:11pt" class="size">________________________________</span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="qt-gmail-MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:11pt" class="size"> </span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="qt-gmail-MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:11pt" class="size">Hello OSGeo
projects,</span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="qt-gmail-MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:11pt" class="size"> </span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="qt-gmail-MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:11pt" class="size">this is a quick
reminder to have a look at the OSGeo budget 2019.</span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="qt-gmail-MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:11pt" class="size"> </span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="qt-gmail-MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:11pt" class="size">This year every
OSGeo project has a budget of 2.000 $.</span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="qt-gmail-MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:11pt" class="size"> </span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="qt-gmail-MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:11pt" class="size">So you are
welcome to spend this money for your project.</span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="qt-gmail-MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:11pt" class="size"> </span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="qt-gmail-MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:11pt" class="size"><span style="color:black" class="colour"><a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2019#OSGeo_Projects">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2019#OSGeo_Projects</a></span></span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="qt-gmail-MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:11pt" class="size"> </span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="qt-gmail-MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:11pt" class="size">If there are any
questions let us know.</span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="qt-gmail-MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:11pt" class="size"> </span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="qt-gmail-MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:11pt" class="size">Greetings from
OSGeo board</span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="qt-gmail-MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:11pt" class="size"> </span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="qt-gmail-MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:11pt" class="size">--</span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="qt-gmail-MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:11pt" class="size"> </span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="qt-gmail-MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:11pt" class="size">-------------------------------------------------------------</span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="qt-gmail-MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:11pt" class="size">Astrid Emde</span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="qt-gmail-MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:11pt" class="size">OSGeo Board
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