[OSGeo-Discuss] GeoServer 3 Updates

[Jody Garnett]

Jody here from the GeoServer project. We did not get a chance to share our
"status update" in the AGM last week - so I wanted to pass on some good
news.

We are now at almost 60% towards our GeoServer 3 crowdfunding activity
<https://geoserver.org/sponsor/gs3-crowdfunding>.

I would really like to meet this funding target -  and ask members of the
OSGeo community to share the link (
https://geoserver.org/sponsor/gs3-crowdfunding) with your employer and/or
customers who use GeoServer.

*Support: *To support GeoServer 3 there is an online form
<https://forms.gle/EFML8NSJSCtzjWUY6>, or you can contact
gs3-funding at googlegroups.com to express interests.

Thank you to all the organizations that have pledged their support thus
far.



Also thanks to those making individual donations: Abhijit Gujar, Laurent
Bourgès.


*About GeoServer 3: *A lot of folks had questions about GeoServer 3 at
foss4g...

We are at an interesting turning point in the Java ecosystem. Spring 5 is
no longer supported, but Spring 6 requires switching from JavaEE to Jakarta
EE (API break) and updating to Java 17 as the minimum.

This results in a number of changes needing to be made .. at the same time!


Each on of these activities takes a lot of work, having so many at the same
time (across several projects) a considerable challenge!

Faced with this amount of work the GeoServer PSC changed roadmap approach
to identifying goals as sponsorship opportunities
<https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/wiki/GeoServer-2024-Sponsorship-Opportunities>
 in 2024.  I am proud to be part of the crowdfunding consortium of
Camptocamp, GeoCat and GeoSolutions answering this challenge responsibly.

*About Crowdfunding:* Since this amount of work is more than any one
organization has capacity for, and more then we would like to ask a single
customer to pay for, a consortium has been setup as a multi-party
contract.  It is setup in two phases, the first where support is pledged,
and a second when funding target is reached. This avoids asking anyone to
pay for a partial solution.



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Jody Garnett
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