[MapServer-dev] Motion: Submit OSGeo Budget Request for 2025

[Seth G]

Hi Jeff,

Thanks for getting the archives working again. It looks like the SAC team have requested budget to update to mailman3 which might help? Other lists have also been moving to https://discourse.osgeo.org/ but I guess that is a discussion for another thread. 

Do you have any idea what the mapserver-dev and mapserver-user list numbers like? Have they been going up or down for the last few years?

Seth

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On Wed, Jan 15, 2025, at 5:31 PM, Jeff McKenna via MapServer-dev wrote:
> Regarding mailing list archives, that was a tough one and I worked on 
> that several days, in the end it was a permissions issue for the mailman 
> folder, and I was successful to get the archives working again (for 
> January).
>
> Just another glimpse at all of the hard work behind the scenes (where 
> the funding never comes).
>
> Wishing everyone a happy 2025.
>
>
> -jeff
>
>
>
> On 2025-01-15 12:24 p.m., Seth G via MapServer-dev wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> The OSGeo Board will be meeting on the 28th of January to discuss the 2025 budget. I propose we submit a request for $5000 to help support the MapServer project.
>> Last year an upper-limit of $2,500 was set for projects, but this has typically been $5,000 in previous years.
>> The development items are to help kick-start implementing OGC Maps API and try to get MapServer 8 OGC certified. Additional funding sources will be sought to try and get these items completed.
>> 
>> In terms of trying to raise additional funding:
>> 
>> - A proposal for a grant application was sent to NLnet Foundation (https://nlnet.nl). We should know if this has been successful or not in early February.
>> - Even also put in application last February to https://nlnet.nl/bluehatsprize/2024/ (unfortunately without a successful response).
>> - I emailed the user's mailing list with a link to the sponsorship page. It looks like there was a problem with the mailing list archives, as December 2024 is missing from https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapserver-users/. The email was sent on December 8th with the title "MapServer Budget and Sponsorship" - so I'm not sure if anyone received it.
>> 
>> I have added the funding request and fund-raising efforts to the 2025 budget page at https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/wiki/MapServer-2025-Budget
>> and propose to submit the budget to a vote, starting with my +1.
>> 
>> If we want to discuss further, we could maybe have a PSC meeting next Thursday (23rd of January), prior to the OSGeo Board meeting the following Tuesday.
>> 
>> Seth
>> 
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