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<p>Thank you for the details Tom.</p>
<p>I have added this to our list (to be circulated shortly). </p>
<p>Any more comments are welcome. </p>
<p>Best wishes,<br>
Nick.</p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 17/11/2025 15:48, Tom Chadwin via UK
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<div class="gmail_default">Hello all</div>
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<div class="gmail_default">OSGeo:UK contributed to the recent
GeoServer v3 crowdfunding campaign. GeoNetwork has a similar
call to GeoServer's recent campaign, for funding for v5, to
update underlying components such as Java and some of its
frameworks (<a
href="https://www.geocat.net/blog/news-1/geonetwork-5-crowdfunding-12"
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class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.geocat.net/blog/news-1/geonetwork-5-crowdfunding-12</a>).
It's worth discussing if GeoNetwork would be a worthy
recipient of a GoFundGeo grant from OSGeo:UK.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default">GeoNetwork is a spatial metadata
catalogue, and is used by various UK open-source geospatial
projects. It's a core component of the open-source
geospatial stack.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default">As with the GeoServer updates, this
is difficult work to fund commercially. Customers pay for
functionality or bugfixes, but wholesale updates like this
cost too much for one paying customer to fund. As a result,
if this is something OSGeo:UK might consider funding, I
think it would be worth investigating.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default">Many thanks</div>
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