<html><body><div dir="ltr">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.<div><br></div><div dir="ltr">We are now at almost 60% towards our <a href="https://geoserver.org/sponsor/gs3-crowdfunding">GeoServer 3 crowdfunding activity</a>. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I would really like to meet this funding target - and ask members of the OSGeo community to share the link (<font color="#419cff"><a href="https://geoserver.org/sponsor/gs3-crowdfunding">https://geoserver.org/sponsor/gs3-crowdfunding</a></font>) with your employer and/or customers who use GeoServer. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><b>Support: </b>To support GeoServer 3 there is an <a href="https://forms.gle/EFML8NSJSCtzjWUY6">online form</a>, or you can contact <a href="mailto:gs3-funding@googlegroups.com">gs3-funding@googlegroups.com</a> to express interests.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Thank you to all the organizations that have pledged their support thus far. <br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><img src="cid:CC1DEF9D-38A4-43C8-AF38-90DF0EF1AF00" style="width: 480px; max-width: 100%;"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Also thanks to those making individual donations: Abhijit Gujar, Laurent Bourgès.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><b>About GeoServer 3: </b>A lot of folks had questions about GeoServer 3 at foss4g...</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">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.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">This results in a number of changes needing to be made .. at the same time!</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><img src="cid:9B8C50AA-AA11-40B1-9416-247C2295B631" style="width: 480px; max-width: 100%;"></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Each on of these activities takes a lot of work, having so many at the same time (across several projects) a considerable challenge!</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Faced with this amount of work the GeoServer PSC changed roadmap approach to identifying goals as <font color="#419cff"><a href="https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/wiki/GeoServer-2024-Sponsorship-Opportunities">sponsorship opportunities</a> </font>in 2024. I am proud to be part of the crowdfunding consortium of Camptocamp, GeoCat and GeoSolutions answering this challenge responsibly. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><b>About Crowdfunding:</b> 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. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>- -<br></div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>