[gdal-dev] GDAL Maintainers Meeting Minutes

[Howard Butler]

Howard Butler, Dan Baston, Alessandro Pasotti, Even Rouault, Chris Toney, and Javier Jimenez Shaw held the monthly GDAL Maintainers Meeting on 07/23/2026. The following items were discussed and reported upon:

# Project News

* A project called 'OxiGDAL' rebranded itself to 'OxiGeo' after being asked by the PSC. Thanks!
* Vacation season is upon us, and activity and reporting is likely to be light for this month and next month

## Releases

* GDAL 3.13.2 is now available https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/releases/tag/v3.13.2  Release notes are available at https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.13.2/NEWS.md 

## Conferences

* FOSS4GEU 2025 Mostar videos are now available https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqa06jy1NEM0Ss-CMTP4LrOw0f5aeVHdk 
* Howard will present "Building the GDAL Sponsorship Program" at FOSS4G Hiroshima on September 1st, 2026 https://talks.osgeo.org/foss4g-2026/talk/8YFSA8/ 
* Howard will present "Code is a liability – contributing to GDAL in the LLM era" to FOSS4GNA November 2-4, 2026 in Sacramento, CA USA https://talks.osgeo.org/foss4g-na-2026/talk/review/ZFXERNW3CGUFRTZEKYD7YZ3RLKZKEMPM 
* Dan will present "GDAL in 2026: your script's a one-liner now" to FOSS4GNA November 2-4, 2026 in Sacramento, CA USA https://talks.osgeo.org/foss4g-na-2026/talk/review/E7TQEBZ9ZTM77JPJPMBHQEGMXQACJRV7 
* FOSS4GNA will be November 2-4, 2026, in Sacramento, California. There's still time to submit a poster or lightning talk https://www.foss4gna.org/

# Maintenance activities update


## Alessandro

* limited activity


## Seth 

* FOSS4GE GDAL workshop development and presentation
* Integration of GDAL workshop into mainline docs / website

## Dan

* GEOS curve activity
* GEOS progress reporting API
* performance regression in ogr organize
* NetCDF activity

## Even

* GDAL 3.13.2 release
* libtiff 4.7.2 release https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/tags/v4.7.2
* PROJ 2 EPSG releases in two days, ETRS89 deprecation fallout, testing, etc
* FOSS4GEU attendance and subsequent vacation 
* GDAL CLI Workshop. https://gdal-cli-workshop.github.io/ Seth is currently integrating it into GDAL mainline docs / website

## Chris Toney

* FOSS4GNA talk submission
* gdalraster CLI bindings

# Next Meeting

The next GDAL Maintainers Meeting is 08/27/2026 at 13:00 UTC. Project contributors should contact Howard Butler for an invite.

# Online Version

https://gist.github.com/hobu/6e6c86321b118bff02554b18daf59798


# Financial Support

* Support GDAL with a new t-shirt! Visit https://gdal.org/tshirt/ to purchase. Change your country preference on the bottom of the page. Profits from swag sales go directly to the GDAL Sponsorship Program via NumFOCUS! 
* Make an individual or corporate donation online https://numfocus.org/donate-to-gdal 
* Organize a contribution to the GDAL Sponsorship Program https://gdal.org/en/latest/sponsors/index.html#sponsorship-program