[OpenGeoscience] Open Geoscience Budget Proposal 2026

[Peter Löwe]

Dear Board,

this is the annual request for the Open Geoscience Commitee budget for 2026.

A call for budget requests was placed via the open geoscience mailing list on January 1st with a deadline/reminder on January 9th. Until now, no requests for budget have been placed.
Unfortunately, I won't be able to participate in the preparation and execution of the annual OSGeo Open Geoscience Event at EGU 2026,  and therfore will not request funding for the EGU effort. 

Therefore, the budget request from the Open Science Committee is zero USD for 2026:
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Open_Geoscience_Committee/budget_2026

Hopefully we'll see renewed activity in the Committee in 2027.

Kind regards,
Peter



<peter.loewe at gmx.de>


> Gesendet: Freitag, 9. Januar 2026 um 11:57
> Von: "Peter Löwe" <peter.loewe at gmx.de>
> An: opengeoscience at lists.osgeo.org
> Betreff: Gentle reminder: Open Geoscience Budget Proposal 2026
>
> Hello Open-Geoscience list-members,
>  
> this is a gentle reminder to share your ideas and plans to apply for an open-geoscience related OSGeo budget in 2026, preferably today, so we can submit a budget.
>  
> The current draft budget is set to 0 USD for 2026. Use this opportunity to crank it up and get things going in 2026!
>  
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Open_Geoscience_Committee/budget_2026
>  
> Best,
> Peter 
>  
> <peter.loewe at gmx.de>
>  
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 1. Januar 2026 um 16:48
> Von: "Peter Löwe" <peter.loewe at gmx.de>
> An: opengeoscience at lists.osgeo.org
> Betreff: Open Geoscience Budget Proposal 2026
> Hello Open-Geoscience list-members,
>  
> a happy new 2026 to you all !
>  
> I am reaching out because this is the time to prepare a budget for 2026.
>  
> For the last years, we have applied for similar annual budgets (3000 USD), but didn't manage to use up any on the provided funding:
>  
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Open_Geoscience_Committee/budget_2025
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Open_Geoscience_Committee/budget_2024
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Open_Geoscience_Committee/budget_2023
>  
> If anyone of you all has plans for open-geoscience related activities which can be supported by OSGeo funding in 2026, please do speak up before January 9th 2026, so we can submit a budget request matching these activities.
>  
> In case that no actions are in preparation for 2026, I propose to adjust our annual budget plan and apply for a budget of _zero_ USD for 2026, 
> so OSGeo doesn't have to earmark budget which can be put to use elsewhere.
>  
> Let's discusss ! Any thoughts are welcome.
>  
> All the best,
> Peter
>  
> 
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