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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DA">All,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The OSGeo board is asking projects to submit their budgets for 2020 [0]. This is the<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">first time PROJ is able to receive funding directly from OSGeo. Since we been able<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">to run without a budget for 30+ years I don’t expect that we need much this year<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">but I would encourage you all to suggest ways we can improve the project by means<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">of OSGeo funding. Initially 2000 USD is allotted all projects but projects are allowed<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">to request more or less than that. I expect that we will fall in the “less” part of that<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">statement. Especially since our main expenses are continuous integration and git-lfs<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">support on GitHub, both of which are planned to be covered directly by OSGeo as
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">they are cross-project costs.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I have a few suggestions myself:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Payment for proj.org - as far as I know this is done on a charity basis by either Howard Butler or Paul Ramsey<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Maintenance of project infrastructure such as continuous integration, GitHub bots, etc. Things break from time to time and fixing them is often times very tedious. A candidate for this category would be establishing a new backporting
bot since the old one stopped supporting our use cases.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Travel expenses for code sprints or FOSS4G<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Merchandise – we’ve got a new logo, I think that it is only fitting that it get put on stickers!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The budget has to be submitted by January 13<sup>th</sup> [1] so please don’t hold your suggestions back to long.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Best regards<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Kristian<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[0] <span lang="DA"><a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2020"><span lang="EN-US">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2020</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DA">[1] <a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2020-January/012507.html">
https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2020-January/012507.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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