[Incubator] Any 2026 budget request?

Mon Jan 12 02:17:36 PST 2026

I am currently busy planning FOSS4G 2027 but would love to be involved with
the incubator committee in the future. If possible I'd like to sit in on
the budget meeting to get a better understanding of how this works.

Thanks,
Dennis

On Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 9:58 AM Jeroen Ticheler via Incubator <
incubator at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> 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,
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> - -
>>
>> 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,
>>
>> Thanks for the Doodle Poll - unfortunately I can't make either of those
>> times.
>>
>> My 2p for the discussion:
>>
>> ·  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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> ·  Change from mailing list to discourse (to make access easier)
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> Thanks very much Jody for taking the initiative.
>>
>> Let me know if you'd like input on anything else specific!
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Nick.
>>
>> 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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>>
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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)
>>
>>
>>
>> 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,
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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>>
>> - -
>>
>> 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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>> >
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>> > On 1/6/26 12:08, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
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>> >> Hi Jody,
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>> >>
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>> >> Let's organize a committee meeting to tackle the issues mentioned.
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>> >>
>>
>> >> Best,
>>
>> >> Angelos
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>> >>
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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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>> >>>
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>> >>> I have not had much opportunity to volunteer on this committee in
>>
>> >>> 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
>>
>> >>> 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
>>
>> >>> rename the committee to "Projects" as we are presently doing more than
>>
>> >>> incubation eh?
>>
>> >>> - -
>>
>> >>> Jody Garnett
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>> >>>
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>> >>>
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>> > --
>>
>> > Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
>>
>> > President, Board of Directors
>>
>> > Open Source Geospatial Foundation
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>> > https://www.osgeo.org/member/angelos-tzotsos/
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>> >
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>> --
>> Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
>> President, Board of Directors
>> Open Source Geospatial Foundation
>> https://www.osgeo.org/member/angelos-tzotsos/
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