[Board] Supporting OSGeo4W

[Jody Garnett]

Edit the following page (
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2020-01-27) with your request.

Recommend: Attend the meeting tomorrow on IRC to ask “in person”, and
clarify any question you have with the board.
—
Jody

On Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 2:10 AM Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>
wrote:

> Hi all,
> how could we proceed on this?
> Cheers.
>
> Il 2020-01-16 19:18 Jody Garnett ha scritto:
> > I guess "adoption" is the key word we are not in a position to provide
> > as an organization .. no other project is "adopted".
> >
> > That said OSGeo4W is in an interesting position being a
> > joint-initiative (is their an MOU to this effect?). An initiative
> > gives the board a chance to fund it outside of the "community project"
> > program. I think "MetaGIS" and "OSGeo Live" were also in this position
> > ... and both made the transition to a full OSGeo project (resulting in
> > some autonomy on budgeting and spending).
> >
> > aside: If an MOU is made it would be good to update
> > https://www.osgeo.org/partners/qgis-org-association/ to reflect this
> > as a joint initiative.
> >
> > In terms of treating OSGeo as a stable source of funding (for any
> > project):
> >
> > - OSZGeo is into year 4 of providing projects a budget (as a strategic
> > shift from running as a low or no cost organization). It has taken
> > this long for projects to notice funding is available :)
> > - Many projects position to use funds provided (as shown by the
> > difference between the amount budgeted and the amount spent in any
> > given year)
> > - Foundation budget guidance has always been a reflection of income
> > (primarily from foss4g events). Rule of thumb is to be able to run 2-3
> > foss4g events without profit.
> > - TLDR: I would expect the "stability" to be flexible over time -
> > OSGeo may not always be in a position to provide funds.
> >
> > aside: We have had to drop our geroserver installer (due to lack of
> > resources), it would be great to see this added back into OSGeo4W.
> >
> > --
> > Jody Garnett
> >
> > On Thu, 16 Jan 2020 at 08:10, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Thanks Jody. Our request was in fact about having a stable budget,
> >> as
> >> implied by an adoption, as it is IOHO a fundamental piece of
> >> infrastructure, that deserve a stable commitment.
> >> Cheers.
> >>
> >> Il 16/01/20 17:06, Jody Garnett ha scritto:
> >>> Paolo:
> >>>
> >>> OSGeo4W is already "adopted" by OSGeo as part of the community
> >> project
> >>> program. While the project does not have an independent budget
> >> (until it
> >>> goes through incubation) it does have access to funding through
> >>> attending board meetings.
> >>>
> >>> I think if you look at the draft budget
> >>> <https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2020> a request has
> >> already
> >>> been made on behalf of OSGeo4W, indeed it appears to be funded as
> >> a
> >>> joint initiative with QGIS.org.
> >>> --
> >>> Jody Garnett
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, 16 Jan 2020 at 07:43, Paolo Cavallini
> >> <cavallini at faunalia.it
> >>> <mailto:cavallini at faunalia.it>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Dear OSGEO Board
> >>>
> >>> We are writing to petition your help both financially and for
> >> general
> >>> support with the OSGEO4W project. Over the years, OSGEO4W
> >> (started by
> >>> Frank Warmerdam and Jürgen Fischer) has become the de-facto
> >> delivery
> >>> mechanism to Windows users for many of the projects that make
> >> up OSGEO -
> >>> including GDAL, PROJ, GRASS, QGIS and many more.
> >>>
> >>> Currently, most of the maintenance and improvements to OSGEO4W
> >> are
> >>> carried out through activities of the QGIS packaging process
> >> (our
> >>> windows standalone packages are based on OSGEO4W). This
> >> includes using a
> >>> portion of the income donated to QGIS.org each year to support
> >> the
> >>> OSGEO4W project.
> >>>
> >>> Since OSGEO4W plays such a central role in the OSGEO landscape
> >> we would
> >>> like to ask you to 'adopt' the OSGEO4W project financially and
> >> also help
> >>> with marshalling more contributors to the project so that it
> >> is not a
> >>> 'one man show' - which represents a vulnerability to the long
> >> term
> >>> prospects of this project. You can see these sentiments
> >> reflected in the
> >>> budget request for supporting OSGEO4W in the OSGEO budget
> >> call. This
> >>> budget request represents 50% of the anticipated budget for
> >> funded
> >>> OSGEO4W work for 2020, with the remainder being funded by
> >> QGIS.org for
> >>> the interim.
> >>>
> >>> Regards
> >>>
> >>> The QGIS team.
> >>> --
> >>> Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu [1] <http://www.faunalia.eu>
> >>> QGIS.ORG [2] <http://QGIS.ORG> Chair:
> >>> http://planet.qgis.org/planet/user/28/tag/qgis%20board/
> >>> _______________________________________________
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> >>>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu [1]
> >> QGIS.ORG [2] Chair:
> >> http://planet.qgis.org/planet/user/28/tag/qgis%20board/
> >
> >
> > Links:
> > ------
> > [1] http://www.faunalia.eu
> > [2] http://QGIS.ORG
>
> --
> Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu
> QGIS & PostGIS courses: http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html
>
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Jody Garnett
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