[gdal-dev] GDAL Maintainers Meeting Minutes

[Howard Butler]

Howard Butler, Dan Baston, Alessandro Pasotti, Even Rouault, Michael Sumner, Andrew Bell, Seth Girvin, and Javier Jimenez Shaw held the monthly GDAL Maintainers Meeting on 10/22/2026. The following items were discussed and reported upon:

# Project News

* Google renewed its Silver Sponsorship for 2027. Thanks again to Google for their continued support!
* Safe Software renewed its Silver Sponsorship for 2027. Thanks again to Safe for their continued support!

* WebODM has renewed its Supporter Sponsorship for 2027 (previously under UAV4Geo). Thanks again to WebODM for its continued support!
* Equator Studios has signed on as a new Supporter Sponsor for 2027. Thanks for singing up Equator!

## Conferences

* 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 
* FOSS4GNA will be November 2-4, 2026, in Sacramento, California. 

# Maintenance activities update


## Alessandro

* limited activity due to QGIS Contributors Meeting in Laax
*  Path traversal /vsicurl remediation  https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/15360 https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/15372 https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/15386


## Seth 

* Putting a lot of time in getting GitHub Actions and Continuous Integration tests healthy by running updates and reacting to configuration changes.

## Dan

* Pull request reviews and merges

## Michael Sumner

* HDF5 Byte Reference Extraction

## Javier Jimenez Shaw

* Latest EPSG database now beginning to include batches of NSRS static reference systems. 

# 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