[Incubator] Any 2026 budget request?

Mon Jan 12 01:58:15 PST 2026

Thanks for your explanation on the mantra Regina! Honestly!

I find the whole mantra thing confusing. OSGeo is the first and only place
I ever ran into such a thing... There should be easier ways to do this and
still be able to have a manual verification step if we feel that is needed.
And even with the current setup, I, for one, have no clue what the mantra
is or where to find it :)

On the budget, I understand that Wednesday 14 is the day of the meeting.

Cheers,
Jeroen

On Mon, 12 Jan 2026 at 08:27, Regina Obe via Incubator <
incubator at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> Jody,
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> Sorry was side tracked with other things so hadn’t noticed this discussion.
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> Are you planning to put out another doodle?  I clicked on the below and
> see only one date now and its only Jan 12th.
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> FWIW I can make the Wednesday 14 Jan: 16:00 UTC date.
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> Regarding the mantra, yes it would be nice to come up with something more
> efficient.  But even things like registering on discourse we don’t allow
> people to post immediately cause we had gotten spammed with porn etc even
> though discourse had captcha and all that good stuff.  Trust is becoming
> more of an issue with AI bots.
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> So I’d hesitate to be too lax on allowing people to get osgeo ids to
> anything.  Part of the reason mantra takes so long is that there are only 3
> of us it seems handling those requests and most of them are for QGIS plugin
> upload access or people who for some reason think they need a OSGeo id to
> download a QGIS plugin.  Interestingly it seems no one on the QGIS team is
> handling these requests at all.
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> Any user who knows the mantra can give it to someone else.  It seems a lot
> of people don’t understand that and tell people to email mantra-request for
> the mantra when if they know it and know the person well that is asking for
> it, they can just whisper it to the user asking and not bother us.
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> *From:* Incubator <incubator-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> *On Behalf Of *Jody
> Garnett via Incubator
> *Sent:* Sunday, January 11, 2026 11:25 PM
> *To:* Nick Bearman <nick at nickbearman.com>
> *Cc:* incubator at lists.osgeo.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Incubator] Any 2026 budget request?
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> I understand Nick, the doodle pool timezones did not work out very well
> despite my best attempt.
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> With that in mind I am going go for the second proposed time:
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>    - Wednesday 14 Jan: 16:00 UTC
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> If you not in a position to attend please reply to this email thread in
> order to add to the discussion.
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> - -
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> Jody Garnett
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> On Jan 8, 2026 at 6:38:20 AM, Nick Bearman via Incubator <
> incubator at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
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> Hi Jody, Angelos,
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> Thanks for the Doodle Poll - unfortunately I can't make either of those
> times.
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> My 2p for the discussion:
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> ·  Discuss renaming to "Projects" and update responsibilities / mandate
> for this committee
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> Yes I think renaming from Incubator to something else is a good idea. It
> seems to me that incubating projects is a relatively small part of this
> committee's work. Mostly we seem to be helping projects register as OSGeo
> Community Projects, which is really great. I am sorry I have not been able
> to contribute to this more.
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> From what I have heard, one blocker is people registering for a OSGeoID -
> it takes time to request and receive the mantra and is a stumbling block. I
> think? (Scott?) is looking at this whole process and I think we should
> raise this as an important point. Registering should be easy and ideally
> immediate.
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> ·  Change from mailing list to discourse (to make access easier)
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> Yes - happy to change from mailing list to discourse. Hopefully this might
> make monitoring requests to register as Community projects easier to track,
> as everything will be located under one thread?
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> Thanks very much Jody for taking the initiative.
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> Let me know if you'd like input on anything else specific!
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> Best wishes,
> Nick.
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> On 07/01/2026 22:45, Jody Garnett via Incubator wrote:
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> Let's learn from the experience and give folks a bit more notice 🙂
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> Let me propose two days:
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>    - Monday 12 Jan: 14:00 UTC
>    - Wednesday 14 Jan: 16:00 UTC
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> Topics:
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>    - Make a useful budget request for 2026
>    - Discuss renaming to "Projects" and update responsibilities / mandate
>    for this committee
>    - Change from mailing list to discourse (to make access easier)
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> Committee members please respond with your availability:
> https://doodle.com/group-poll/participate/egXBJk3a
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>    - Angelos Tzotsos
>    - Arnulf Christl
>    - Bob (CI-StPaul) Basques
>    - Brian M Hamlin
>    - Daniel Morissette
>    - Dimitris Kotzinos
>    - Frank Warmerdam
>    - Jody Garnett
>    - Michael Smith
>    - Nick Bearman
>    - Regina Obe
>    - Steve Lime
>    - Tom Kralidis
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> - -
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> Jody Garnett
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> On Jan 7, 2026 at 9:57:35 AM, Angelos Tzotsos <gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> No worries, it was too short notice anyways.
> Let's try another day.
> I am available on Thursday
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> On 1/7/26 19:23, Jody Garnett wrote:
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> Sorry Angelos,
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> Due to time zone differences your proposal came in at 2am so did not see it
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> until now.
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> But perhaps you mean Thursday 5pm UTC…
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> I have sent a meeting invite for that time, and we can adjust based on
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> availability.
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> - -
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> Jody Garnett
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> On Tue, Jan 6, 2026 at 2:16 AM Angelos Tzotsos via Incubator <
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> incubator at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
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> > Is tomorrow at 5pm UTC working for everyone?
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> > On 1/6/26 12:08, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
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> >> Hi Jody,
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> >> Let's organize a committee meeting to tackle the issues mentioned.
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> >> Best,
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> >> Angelos
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> >> On 1/5/26 20:37, Jody Garnett via Incubator wrote:
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> >>> The osgeo budget for 2026 is taking shape:
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> >>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2026#OSGeo_Committees
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> >>>
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> >>> Do we have any ideas in mind for the year ahead?
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> >>> I have not had much opportunity to volunteer on this committee in
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> >>> 2025, and
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> >>> am a bit disappointed to see requests piling up. Perhaps we could
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> >>> setup a
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> >>> work party or something to both catch up and invite new participants.
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> >>>
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> >>> I strongly believe in the work the incubation committee is doing is
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> >>> central
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> >>> to OSGeo role as a software foundation.  I think we will also get a
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> >>> lot of
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> >>> discussion from our existing projects as they look at how to handle CRA
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> >>> reporting requirements in September of this year.  Perhaps we need to
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> >>> rename the committee to "Projects" as we are presently doing more than
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> >>> incubation eh?
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> >>> - -
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> >>> Jody Garnett
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> >>>
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> >>
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> > --
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> > Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
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> > President, Board of Directors
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> > Open Source Geospatial Foundation
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> > https://www.osgeo.org/member/angelos-tzotsos/
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> Open Source Geospatial Foundation
> https://www.osgeo.org/member/angelos-tzotsos/
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