From friebe at lat-lon.de Wed Dec 10 12:21:01 2025 From: friebe at lat-lon.de (Torsten Friebe) Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2025 21:21:01 +0100 Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] New bugfix version of deegree webservices v3.6.4 released Message-ID: The deegree team announces the release of a new bugfix version of ** deegree webservices version 3.6.4 ** We are happy to announce that bug fix version 3.6.4 is general available now. Download from https://deegree.org/download/ Full change log: https://github.com/deegree/deegree3/releases/tag/deegree-3.6.4 Most important changes: - enhanced CQL2 filter support "IN list",? "NOT IN list" and "OR" - upgraded libraries for which CVE's have been reported ** Important note about end of community support for deegree webservices 3.5 line ** With the release of version 3.6 the end of life (EOL) for deegree webservices version 3.5, which was set for 20th of November 2025 [1], has been reached! After EOL you should only expect releases for critical bugs or security issues for 3.5. Users are advised to upgrade to version 3.6 as soon as possible. Please read further in our upgrade guide [2] when upgrading an existing installation. Thanks to all contributors and supporters! ??? deegree Development Team & TMC members _ [1] https://github.com/deegree/deegree3/wiki/End-of-Life-and-Support-Matrix [2] https://github.com/deegree/deegree3/wiki/Upgrading-deegree-webservices#from-35x-to-360 From gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com Fri Dec 12 12:12:47 2025 From: gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com (Angelos Tzotsos) Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2025 22:12:47 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Budget 2026 Message-ID: <69face67-754b-44e7-ade7-49e6e33ed31d@gmail.com> Dear OSGeo Members, Projects and Committees, OSGeo is proud to support our committees, initiatives, and growing number of projects. We have been pleased to see funding applied to day to day operations, improvements and a wide range of community building activities including events, code sprints, developer meetings and user conferences. Our continued ability to offer financial support is due a successful FOSS4G 2025 and the generosity of our ongoing sponsors. OSGeo Committees To plan our 2026 budget, we are reaching out to all OSGeo committees to help plan for the year ahead. As our budget forecasting includes communicating with sponsors we ask you to list any sponsorship opportunities you are aware of for 2026. We realize that asking for funding can be difficult.? Please be clear with each sponsorship opportunity, and the visibility benefit you are able to offer sponsors. Examples: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/SAC:Budget#2023 OSGeo Projects Each year we are pleased to welcome new graduated projects to OSGeo. The Board starts planning by providing a set amount to all graduated projects who have: 1.Reported to the Board their activities of the last 12 months (e.g. during the AGM or directly to a Board meeting); and 2. Have sent a budget request. Funding allows each project committee to plan ahead, and support their team activities without hesitation. Keep in mind that if any unforeseen event occurs during the year we are here to support you. Project teams have approached the board during the course of a year to respond to security vulnerabilities, or request legal advice, that was not anticipated during budget planning. Projects with a more specific plan (to pursue a clear goal) are welcome to send a more detailed budget. Larger goals should be presented as clear sponsorship opportunities to your community, and OSGeo will do our best to help out as well. Tip: Keep in mind OSGeo goals as an organization. We love to support community participation, or a cross-project code sprint. Examples: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoServer_Budget_2023 https://github.com/geotools/geotools/wiki/GeoTools-2024-Sponsorship-Opportunities https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_GIS_Budget_2023 OSGeo Community Projects Projects working on incubation are asked to contact incubator at lists.osgeo.org to be included in the 2026 incubation budget request. Budget Meeting To help navigate the uncertainties ahead in 2026, the Board will have a budget meeting in January 2026 to review 2025 expenditures, sponsorship and make financial decisions for the 2026 budget. Please add your project info to the budget draft at: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2026 Budget requests should be submitted ideally by 15 January 2026 in advance of our next Board meeting. On behalf of the OSGeo Board, Angelos -- Angelos Tzotsos, PhD President, Board of Directors Open Source Geospatial Foundation https://www.osgeo.org/member/angelos-tzotsos/ From jeroen.ticheler at geocat.net Fri Dec 12 20:43:35 2025 From: jeroen.ticheler at geocat.net (Jeroen Ticheler) Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2025 17:43:35 +1300 Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board elections - my candidacy Message-ID: Dear all, and especially those of you that are registered as Charter Members of OSGeo, The board of directors elections voting process will start tomorrow. And therefor it is timely for me to write some words about my reasons for accepting the nomination for a second term on the board. Over the last two years I have taken time to talk to a range of community members during online of face to face meetings about the things they would like to see happening with OSGeo. This has resulted in a vision document that I posted here , and to which I have invited the community for comments. So far the document received a good response and a number of great contributions. I hope to receive enough support during these elections to proceed with implementing the ideas put forward. You can read more about my goals on the board here . And find some more generic information about me as a person here . Thanks for taking the time to read this. And Charter members: Don't forget to vote once you received the invitation! 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Message-ID: As asked on the fediverse : https://mapstodon.space/@strk/115722688383821389 Will repeat here for those how don't have a Fediverse account: which services do you think OSGeo should provide to its members, if any ? --strk; From adam.d.steer at gmail.com Tue Dec 16 16:09:40 2025 From: adam.d.steer at gmail.com (Adam Steer) Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2025 10:09:40 +1000 Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] The future of OSGeo - discussion paper In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Jeroen, all Thanks for writing up a proposal, it's not easy to make that step. My primary issue with the document is around paid individual memberships. I can see this leading to: - committing the current, and every future, board to supporting a membership infrastructure - a culture step from 'we do things as a community' to 'OSGeo does things for us because we paid' - a setting of expectation around what being an OSGeo supported means About committing money to OSGeo in general: >From my perspective when I was able to sponsor OSGeo it wasn't because I expected a marketing gain or return (there was exactly 0). It was because it was necessary. I use OSGeo projects all the time, I see that OSGeo provides dis-enshittified infrastructure, I want to and am able to support that to the level of my means. It's more a "hey thanks keep going" than anything. Other people have different expectations, and that's fine - we're not a uniform community. It's fine for a company to expect ROI, the task of whoever is organising sponsorship is to find that message. It isn't easy and my experience is that there is no boilerplate. Each prospective sponsor needs a nuanced approach! I think streamlining sponsorship is a great idea. A while ago I helped sponsors of a regional event navigate their OSGeo sponsorship levels as well. I can see how people doing a lot of event sponsorship get an admin load that might be harder to track. While I have a strong dislike of paid individual memberships, the rationale for organisational memberships makes undeniable sense. I've experienced that barrier as a sponsorship organiser. However, organisational membership must come with caveats and strict ruling around real *or perceived* conflict of interest and the perception of pay for influence around board and committee members who are employed by the organisational sponsors. This relationship must be declared in election materials and nominations, and it must come with no additional influence on voting. Again, I say this with caution. We can't know how the board in N years time will be burdened (or not), it'll take resilience and some strength (and a lot of good faith) to ensure that organisations avoid seeing this as buying influence. I like the idea of local chapters returning some funds when possible, funding levels need to be negotiated case by case. A slightly more formal MoU held in OSGeo-operated infrastructure might make life easier, for example it wasn't immediately straightforward to find where OSGeo Oceania's foundational agreements were. And that is only from 6 years ago! My view is also that conferences are better smaller. Having attended EGU and some other larger events, it is much better value (IMO) to stay smaller, more community oriented. In this way the regional, local, global events can be like a network which is able to capture the larger audience without everyone needing to be in the same place at the same time (a logistics nightmare!). So I like the proposal of making a strong calendar separation between (generally) a timeframe for local /regional events and (generally) a time frame to hold the global FOSS4G. Broadly I see OSGeo as some kind of safety net. It doesn't need to fully own or control what happens in various local chapters which might come and go and evolve. It doesn't need to put brakes on or touch other OSGeo project efforts (eg GDAL, QGIS). Maybe OSGeo can do less also? (But what less? good question, which I don't have an answer to) The core of the organisation (to me) is to provide support to FOSS4G projects that need it, mentoring and support to a wider community. It does that (IMO) by providing dis-enshittified infrastructure we can use, either to do software or talk to each other and connect. Which costs money! And needs people to support, who can't always be volunteers! Conferences are like an icing on that cake. And also essential fundraisers... It is still a real shame that OSGeo isn't incredibly well funded by governments and business and academia that absolutely relies on the work of OSGeo. So it's great to try and address that, from all kinds of different angles. And we roll with the consensus that the community has. As long as there's been a good opportunity for everyone to speak. Maybe my view is completely wrong, and that's OK. I can only see as far as I can see and I'm not deep into business in Europe or the US or actually anywhere! I hope my points made some sense. Thanks, Adam -- Dr Adam Steer https://iamadamsteer.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From adam.d.steer at gmail.com Wed Dec 17 11:28:10 2025 From: adam.d.steer at gmail.com (Adam Steer) Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2025 05:28:10 +1000 Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] The future of OSGeo - discussion paper In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: HI all A correction, a clarification, and a postscript. In the first list of things about paid personal memberships, the last point should read: - a setting of expectation around what being an OSGeo member means > When discussing real and / or perceived conflicts of interest in decision making, I wanted to clarify what this might mean. In the event of a COI, the affected persons must leave the room / meeting / discussion - not just avoid voting on a matter. It can be hard to tell someone with standing in a community 'no we cannot discuss this while you are here'. Thinking about this a little overnight, I arrived at a clearer picture about what OSGeo is, for me. Rather than a membership based organisation, it is a collective infrastructure. This is an important difference. In a collective infrastructure, members come along to contribute and nurture a common (well, "aligned enough") goal based on a agreement about what to do. This is what first attracted me to the community.. Membership is just a synonym that works in the necessary legal structures. From my view it is a foundational shift in philosophy if we start the road to being a membership based organisation (paid members, what does OSGeo do for members, and so on). I'm not in a position to do much these days, in order to support others one must be supported enough themselves! So I leave these thoughts and trust that the community will make good choices. And yes, I am also free to come and go, OSGeo is not about me! All the best, Adam -- Dr Adam Steer https://iamadamsteer.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From even.rouault at spatialys.com Wed Dec 17 12:10:03 2025 From: even.rouault at spatialys.com (Even Rouault) Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2025 21:10:03 +0100 Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] The future of OSGeo - discussion paper In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi, We probably don't want paid memberships for individuals (or at a very symbolic level), but paid memberships for organizations could be a convenient way for those that cannot easily "donate" / "sponsor" due to legal constraints (in particular thinking about public / semi-public sector, or even large private sector companies that have complicated buying process) but can more easily pay a membership fee. What does their membership formally bring to them? Well, no more than a vote for elections, and I guess some visibility proportional to their membership tier, so it is unlikely they would be able to take over. OSGeo is struggling on finances: we must be open to new ways. Even Le 17/12/2025 ? 20:28, Adam Steer via Discuss a ?crit?: > HI all > > A correction, a clarification, and a postscript. > > In the first list of things about paid personal memberships, the last > point should read: > > - a setting of expectation around what being an OSGeo member means > > > When discussing real and / or perceived conflicts of interest in > decision making, I wanted to clarify what this might mean. In the > event of a COI, the affected persons must leave the room / meeting / > discussion - not just avoid voting on a matter. It can be hard to tell > someone with standing in a community 'no we cannot discuss this while > you are here'. > > Thinking about this a little overnight, I arrived at a clearer picture > about what OSGeo is, for me. Rather than a membership based > organisation, it is a collective infrastructure. This is an important > difference. In a collective infrastructure, members come along to > contribute and nurture a common (well, "aligned enough") goal based on > a agreement about what to do. This is what first attracted me to the > community.. Membership is just a synonym that works in the necessary > legal structures. From my view it is a foundational shift in > philosophy if we start the road to being a membership based > organisation (paid members, what does OSGeo do for members, and so on). > > I'm not in a position to do much these days, in order to support > others one must be supported enough themselves! So I leave these > thoughts and trust that the community will make good choices. And yes, > I am also free to come and go, OSGeo is not about me! > > All the best, > > Adam > > -- > Dr Adam Steer > https://iamadamsteer.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- http://www.spatialys.com My software is free, but my time generally not. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: