[Incubator] Any 2026 budget request?
Nick Bearman
nick at nickbearman.com
Mon Jan 12 07:50:52 PST 2026
Thanks Jody.
I may be able to make that time, but it is unlikely. I will have to see
how things go.
Re mantra, if QGIS is generating (much) of the traffic, perhaps we
should reach out to them and ask for help with this?
That is useful to know we can tell other people. I will bear this in mind.
Best wishes,
Nick.
On 12/01/2026 10:17, Dennis Bauszus via Incubator wrote:
> 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.
>
> Are you planning to put out another doodle? I clicked on the
> below and see only one date now and its only Jan 12^th .
>
> FWIW I can make the Wednesday 14 Jan: 16:00 UTC date.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> *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?
>
> I understand Nick, the doodle pool timezones did not work out
> very well despite my best attempt.
>
> With that in mind I am going go for the second proposed time:
>
> * Wednesday 14 Jan: 16:00 UTC
>
> If you not in a position to attend please reply to this email
> thread in order to add to the discussion.
>
> - -
>
> Jody Garnett
>
> On Jan 8, 2026 at 6:38:20 AM, Nick Bearman via Incubator
> <incubator at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>
> 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
>
> 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:
>
> Let's learn from the experience and give folks a bit
> more notice 🙂
>
> Let me propose two days:
>
> * Monday 12 Jan: 14:00 UTC
> * Wednesday 14 Jan: 16:00 UTC
>
> Topics:
>
> * 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
>
> * 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
>
> - -
>
> Jody Garnett
>
> On Jan 7, 2026 at 9:57:35 AM, Angelos Tzotsos
> <gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> No worries, it was too short notice anyways.
> Let's try another day.
> I am available on Thursday
>
> On 1/7/26 19:23, Jody Garnett wrote:
>
> Sorry Angelos,
>
> Due to time zone differences your proposal
> came in at 2am so did not see it
>
> until now.
>
> But perhaps you mean Thursday 5pm UTC…
>
> I have sent a meeting invite for that time,
> and we can adjust based on
>
> availability.
>
> - -
>
> Jody Garnett
>
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2026 at 2:16 AM Angelos Tzotsos
> via Incubator <
>
> incubator at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>
> > Is tomorrow at 5pm UTC working for everyone?
>
> >
>
> > On 1/6/26 12:08, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
>
> >> Hi Jody,
>
> >>
>
> >> Let's organize a committee meeting to
> tackle the issues mentioned.
>
> >>
>
> >> Best,
>
> >> Angelos
>
> >>
>
> >> On 1/5/26 20:37, Jody Garnett via Incubator
> wrote:
>
> >>> The osgeo budget for 2026 is taking shape:
>
> >>>
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2026#OSGeo_Committees
>
> >>>
>
> >>> Do we have any ideas in mind for the year
> ahead?
>
> >>>
>
> >>> I have not had much opportunity to
> volunteer on this committee in
>
> >>> 2025, and
>
> >>> am a bit disappointed to see requests
> piling up. Perhaps we could
>
> >>> setup a
>
> >>> work party or something to both catch up
> and invite new participants.
>
> >>>
>
> >>> I strongly believe in the work the
> incubation committee is doing is
>
> >>> central
>
> >>> to OSGeo role as a software foundation. I
> think we will also get a
>
> >>> lot of
>
> >>> discussion from our existing projects as
> they look at how to handle CRA
>
> >>> 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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> >>>
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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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> Open Source Geospatial Foundation
> https://www.osgeo.org/member/angelos-tzotsos/
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