[Board] Budget request for mappyfile

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Dear Seth,

The request has been approved.

Best regards,
Angelos

On 7/13/25 14:54, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
> Dear Seth,
>
> I am going to add this budget requests to the next board meeting 
> agenda since Community Projects budget is handled directly by the board.
>
> I will do the same for OWSLib request.
>
> Best regards,
> Angelos
>
> On 1/12/25 15:50, Seth G via Board wrote:
>> Hi board members,
>>
>> Last year, mappyfile received $300 USD in funding from OSGeo as an 
>> OSGeo Community Project - many thanks for this support. It helped 
>> with the costs of some of the following:
>>
>> - Travel costs associated with presenting a mappyfile talk at FOSS4G 
>> Europe 2024 - https://talks.osgeo.org/foss4g-europe-2024/talk/GRKMVR/
>> - Creation of a new mappyfile presentation - 
>> https://geographika.github.io/mappyfile-foss4geurope-2024/
>> - 2 new releases of mappyfile - 
>> https://github.com/geographika/mappyfile/releases/tag/v1.0.1 and 
>> https://github.com/geographika/mappyfile/releases/tag/v1.0.2
>>
>> I'd like to make the same request for $300 USD in 2025. This will 
>> help fund the developer of Lark [1], on which mappyfile depends, to 
>> resolve an issue documented at [2] (this was the plan for the 2024 
>> budget request, but the developer was unavailable). I also plan to 
>> create a quickstart page on OSGeo Live for the mappyfile project, 
>> along with continued releases and updates.
>>
>> I've created a wiki page to document the 2025 road map and budget 
>> request [3]. If there are any questions, please let me know.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Seth
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/lark-parser/lark
>> [2] https://github.com/geographika/mappyfile/issues/199
>> [3] https://github.com/geographika/mappyfile/wiki/2025-Mappyfile-Roadmap
>>
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Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
President, Board of Directors
Open Source Geospatial Foundation
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