[mapserver-dev] FW: [Projects] REMINDER: OSGeo projects can use a budget of 2.000 US Dollar in 2019

Steve Lime sdlime at gmail.com
Tue Nov 5 18:32:47 PST 2019


I’ll check w/Astrid on the budget question. I think we need to enumerate
some options and then prioritize within the PSC.  We’re definitely overdue
for a meeting. —Steve

On Sunday, November 3, 2019, Seth G <sethg at geographika.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi Tom,
>
> Support for the new OGC APIs I'd assume is a must-have feature for
> MapServer.
> +1 for using the budget to kick-start funding its development / funding a
> developer to attend the Hackathon. How does the budget work - is it a use
> it or lose it by the end of the year budget, or can it be rolled-over if
> development on the OGC API isn't possible this year?
>
> Seth
>
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>
> On Sun, Nov 3, 2019, at 11:26 PM, Tom Kralidis wrote:
>
> Good ideas Seth. We may also want to consider participating at the
> relevant OGC API Hackathon events given MapServer’s support of Features,
> Coverages and Maps.
>
> ..Tom
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Nov 3, 2019, at 12:23, Seth G <sethg at geographika.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi Steve,
>
> One use of budget that might be worth considering would be to fund
> features or fixes in MapServer's many dependent open source projects, that
> would improve MapServer or make development easier.
>
> For example the MapScript API docs would be improved by being able to link
> to Mapfile keywords which are all indexed but have URLs that can change
> each time the docs are generated - see the issue at
> https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/issues/1671
>
> I contacted the maintaners of the Sphinx documentation project to see if
> there were options to fund feature development, but in this case I'll need
> to better detail the requirements, and possibly prototype it myself, so
> likely not relevant to this issue, but I'm sure there are others in SWIG,
> CMake, GDAL, Cairo, GEOS, libpng etc.
>
> Alternatively some MapServer t-shirts :-)
>
> Regards,
>
> Seth
>
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> twitter: @geographika
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>
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2019, at 2:02 PM, Steve Lime wrote:
>
>  We actually have an approved budget of $2,500 and it would be a pity not
> to use it. Question is how to provision it...  I made a guess just for
> bootstrapping a budget but we are not bound by that. Thoughts? --Steve
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Projects [mailto:projects-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of
> Astrid Emde (OSGeo)
> Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 1:24 AM
> To: OSGeo Projects <projects at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: [Projects] REMINDER: OSGeo projects can use a budget of 2.000 US
> Dollar in 2019
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>
>
>
> Hello OSGeo projects,
>
>
>
> this is a quick reminder to have a look at the OSGeo budget 2019.
>
>
>
> This year every OSGeo project has a budget of 2.000 $.
>
>
>
> So you are welcome to spend this money for your project.
>
>
>
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2019#OSGeo_Projects
>
>
>
> If there are any questions let us know.
>
>
>
> Greetings from OSGeo board
>
>
>
> --
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>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Astrid Emde
>
> OSGeo Board Member and OSGeo Secretary
>
> Open Source Geospatial Foundation
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> https://www.osgeo.org/member/astrid-emde/
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