[Qgis-psc] [Projects] OSGeo Budget 2020

Paolo Cavallini cavallini at faunalia.it
Fri Jan 3 02:46:03 PST 2020


Thanks Anita for dealing with this.
Cheers.

Il 03/01/20 11:29, Anita Graser ha scritto:
> Hi Tim,
> 
> I think these 10k should be mainly for QGIS bugfixing etc. 
> OSGeo4W is listed under Community Projects:
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2020#Community_Projects.
> There are a few Community Projects that had a budget of 4k last year. I
> assume we could propose a budget for OSGeo4W. I'll put 4k as a first
> number. The 2019 numbers read "need specific requests to board and
> incubation committee" whatever that means exactly. 
> 
> Regards,
> Anita
> 
> 
> 
>  
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 11:54 PM Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com
> <mailto:tim at kartoza.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Anita
> 
>     Do you want to pitch them for OSGEO4W sustaining budget too? Or did
>     you think to allocate the 10k towards that anyway?
> 
>     Regards
> 
>     Tim
> 
>>     On 2 Jan 2020, at 18:03, Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at
>>     <mailto:anitagraser at gmx.at>> wrote:
>>
>>     Thank you for your feedback!
>>
>>     I've added a request for $10k / €9k to the
>>     budget https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2020#OSGeo_Projects
>>
>>     I'm not aware of any particular formal requirements for this
>>     request. I assume OSGeo will get back to us if there are questions. 
>>
>>     Regards,
>>     Anita
>>
>>
>>     On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 6:10 PM Marco Bernasocchi <marco at qgis.org
>>     <mailto:marco at qgis.org>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>         On 02.01.20 17:23, Andreas Neumann wrote:
>>>
>>>         Hi Anita,
>>>
>>>         How about asking for 9k €, which would be equal to a large
>>>         sustaining membership? It would be equal to amounts of
>>>         individual QGIS user groups, like Germany, Denmark, Sweden
>>>         and Switzerland.
>>>
>>         sounds quite fair to me.
>>>
>>>         Does OSGeo require more specific contents / projects in the
>>>         bugdet, or would a general "sustaining membership", that
>>>         allows for flexibility, work fine?
>>>
>>>         Greetings,
>>>
>>         Cheers
>>
>>         Marco
>>
>>>         Andreas
>>>
>>>         Am 30.12.19 um 22:16 schrieb Anita Graser:
>>>>         Hi,
>>>>
>>>>         I hope you're enjoying the holidays!
>>>>
>>>>         OSGeo is asking project to put in requests for funding next
>>>>         year. Since our PSC meeting is after the deadline, I was
>>>>         thinking of filling in the same numbers as last year.
>>>>         However, we had asked for potential contributions of $8k in
>>>>         2019 and I found an invoice over $11k in our finance folder.
>>>>         Therefore, should we increase the forecast?
>>>>
>>>>         Regards,
>>>>         Anita 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>>>>         From: *Angelos Tzotsos* <gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com
>>>>         <mailto:gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com>>
>>>>         Date: Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 8:38 PM
>>>>         Subject: [Projects] OSGeo Budget 2020
>>>>         To: <projects at lists.osgeo.org <mailto:projects at lists.osgeo.org>>
>>>>         Cc: OSGeo Discussions <discuss at lists.osgeo.org
>>>>         <mailto:discuss at lists.osgeo.org>>, OSGeo Board
>>>>         <board at lists.osgeo.org <mailto:board at lists.osgeo.org>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         Dear OSGeo project members and committees,
>>>>
>>>>         Over the previous years, OSGeo has been proud to support a
>>>>         growing
>>>>         number of project events, such as code sprints, developer
>>>>         meetings, and
>>>>         user conferences.
>>>>
>>>>         OSGeo is reaching out to all committees, including project
>>>>         steering
>>>>         committees, to help plan our budget for 2020.
>>>>
>>>>         As in last year, the board is discussing about assigning a
>>>>         starting
>>>>         budget of 2000$ to all graduated projects who have reported
>>>>         to the board
>>>>         the last 12 months (e.g. during the AGM or directly to a
>>>>         board meeting).
>>>>
>>>>         For projects with more of a plan (to pursue a specific goal)
>>>>         projects
>>>>         are welcome to send a more detailed request for approval
>>>>         (see detailed
>>>>         budget requests from 2019 e.g.
>>>>         https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GvSIG_Budget_2019)
>>>>
>>>>         A good idea is to focus on OSGeo participation, for example
>>>>         attending
>>>>         the AGM or OSGeo code sprint. Also keep in mind OSGeo goals
>>>>         as an
>>>>         organization, (e.g. interoperability goal: CITE compliance or
>>>>         participation developing new standards)
>>>>
>>>>         We would like to ask you to help us with budget proposals to
>>>>         assist your
>>>>         project. This will help us set aside a realistic amount of
>>>>         funding.
>>>>
>>>>         Please add your project info to the budget draft at:
>>>>
>>>>         https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2020
>>>>
>>>>         ideally by Dec 30 ahead of our next board meeting.
>>>>
>>>>         When making a budget request please keep in mind the vision
>>>>         and goals of
>>>>         our foundation, along with any obligations you wish to meet.
>>>>
>>>>         Thank you.
>>>>
>>>>         On behalf of the OSGeo Board,
>>>>
>>>>         Angelos
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         -- 
>>>>         Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
>>>>         Charter Member
>>>>         Open Source Geospatial Foundation
>>>>         http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos
>>>>
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>>         -- 
>>         Marco Bernasocchi
>>
>>         QGIS.org <http://QGIS.org> Co-chair
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>     *Tim Sutton*
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