From gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com Mon Jan 5 00:29:37 2026 From: gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com (Angelos Tzotsos) Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2026 10:29:37 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Budget 2026 In-Reply-To: <69face67-754b-44e7-ade7-49e6e33ed31d@gmail.com> References: <69face67-754b-44e7-ade7-49e6e33ed31d@gmail.com> Message-ID: <377bdcc3-5015-49f9-b379-1a7e5bf8925e@gmail.com> Happy New Year! The board is expecting your budget requests by Jan 15th. Please add your request directly to the wiki page: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2026 Best regards, Angelos On 12/12/25 22:12, Angelos Tzotsos wrote: > 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 sahilsha635 at gmail.com Sat Jan 17 03:03:20 2026 From: sahilsha635 at gmail.com (SAHIL SHA) Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2026 16:33:20 +0530 Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Introduction Message-ID: Hello GeoServer community, My name is Sahil, I?m a CS student with a Java background. I?m exploring GeoServer and planning to contribute with the goal of applying to GSoC. Could you please suggest beginner-friendly issues or areas where new contributors can start? Thanks! Sahil -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pibinko at gmail.com Wed Jan 21 06:40:10 2026 From: pibinko at gmail.com (Andrea Giacomelli) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2026 15:40:10 +0100 Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] creating 3D prints of DEMs Message-ID: Hello, Over the last weekend I had an event in a co-working space where a 3D printing team was at work while I was showcasing some maps to another group...so they asked me "hey...can you print that stuff in 3D?"... I said... yes...because years ago I attended one of the GFOSS.it national meetings, and as a souvenir for the conference we were given a "small" (like 10x5 cm ) 3D print of some mountain area DEM. Since in the meantime I have not worked a lot (i.e. not at all) on 3D printing of DEMs, I would like to ask if anybody has leads that I can relay to my 3D printing acquaintances. TIA for any feedback, and best regards! Andrea Giacomelli http://www.pibinko.org Cultura, ambiente, innovazione libera... https://www.unirural.org ...educazione... http://www.jugbandcm.it ...e musica +39 3791680739 - voce +39 3317539228 - whatsapp PIVA 01582480537 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pibinko at gmail.com Fri Jan 23 12:25:13 2026 From: pibinko at gmail.com (Andrea Giacomelli) Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2026 21:25:13 +0100 Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Thanks] - Re: creating 3D prints of DEMs Message-ID: Thanks to Tanya and Paul for providing interesting hints for my new friend in the 3D printing world.. I have relayed the links and next time I see him (in a couple of weeks) I will give him a little more context on OSGEO etc to go with the suggestions. Best regards Andrea Giacomelli http://www.pibinko.org Cultura, ambiente, innovazione libera... https://www.unirural.org ...educazione... http://www.jugbandcm.it ...e musica +39 3791680739 - voce +39 3317539228 - whatsapp PIVA 01582480537 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ashishkr23438 at gmail.com Sat Jan 24 00:42:38 2026 From: ashishkr23438 at gmail.com (Ashish Kumar) Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2026 14:12:38 +0530 Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo in GSoC 2026] Call for Project Ideas - GSoC 2026 | Deadline - Feb 2, 2026 Message-ID: Dear All, Greetings! Wishing you all a very happy new year. It is the time of the year to start preparing for OSGeo's participation in the Google Summer of Code 2026 [1]. With the great success of GSoC 2025 projects [2], we are highly excited and motivated to invite the OSGeo projects (Projects, Incubation projects, Guest Projects) to begin compiling the project ideas for GSoC 2026. In order to participate in proposing ideas as a project under the OSGeo umbrella organization, you need to send us (admins: ) the URL for your project's GSoC ideas Wiki page, or just reply to this email. If you are participating for the first time, then you may visit [3] for reference. Please remember that every idea should indicate: 1. A title 2. Brief descriptions of projects that can be completed in ~175 hours or ~350 hours of your GSoC contributor?s time (and labeled appropriately) 3. 3 Mentors' Details - Name, Email (Primary and Supporting mentors) 4. For each project, a list of prerequisites, a description of programming skills needed, and an estimation of the difficulty level 5. A test for the students to submit to your evaluation. The test aims at evaluating if the student is capable of the project, so please design the test having in mind the basic skills required to complete the project. The organization application period will be open till Feb 3, 2026. So, we expect all the URLs by Feb 2, 2026 (~9 days from now). Here is the complete GSoC 2026 timeline [4]. We have already received the ideas submission from the pgRouting project: https://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting/wiki/GSoC-Ideas%3A-2026 Note: If you floated ideas in the past iterations of GSoC but couldn't progress ahead, then it is a great time to start working on those ideas again. Thanks, and please forward the information to your respective project's mailing list! Always waiting for further queries. :) (PS- A call for contributors to the OSGeo project ideas with instructions on interacting with projects will be sent soon, so please be ready to welcome new members to the community.) 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URL: From gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com Wed Jan 28 14:33:25 2026 From: gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com (Angelos Tzotsos) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:33:25 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Budget 2026 In-Reply-To: <377bdcc3-5015-49f9-b379-1a7e5bf8925e@gmail.com> References: <69face67-754b-44e7-ade7-49e6e33ed31d@gmail.com> <377bdcc3-5015-49f9-b379-1a7e5bf8925e@gmail.com> Message-ID: <08a34d1f-b642-4e3a-b51f-289f4ec97e57@gmail.com> Motion to approve the 2026 budget is now on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/p/Lm4qrO2V/motion-to-approve-the-osgeo-budget-for-2026 On 1/5/26 10:29, Angelos Tzotsos wrote: > Happy New Year! > > The board is expecting your budget requests by Jan 15th. > Please add your request directly to the wiki page: > https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2026 > > Best regards, > Angelos > > > On 12/12/25 22:12, Angelos Tzotsos wrote: >> 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/