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<div style="font-family: 'verdana'; font-size: 12px; color: #000;">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.</div>
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<div style="font-family: 'verdana'; font-size: 12px; color: #000;">The current draft budget is set to 0 USD for 2026. Use this opportunity to crank it up and get things going in 2026!</div>
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<div style="font-family: 'verdana'; font-size: 12px; color: #000;">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Open_Geoscience_Committee/budget_2026</div>
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<div style="font-family: 'verdana'; font-size: 12px; color: #000;">Best,</div>
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<div><strong>Gesendet: </strong>Donnerstag, 1. Januar 2026 um 16:48</div>
<div><strong>Von: </strong>"Peter Löwe" <peter.loewe@gmx.de></div>
<div><strong>An: </strong>opengeoscience@lists.osgeo.org</div>
<div><strong>Betreff: </strong>Open Geoscience Budget Proposal 2026</div>
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<div style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12.0px; color: #000000;">a happy new 2026 to you all !</div>
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<div style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12.0px; color: #000000;">I am reaching out because this is the time to prepare a budget for 2026.</div>
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<div style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12.0px; color: #000000;">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:</div>
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<div style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12.0px; color: #000000;"><a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Open_Geoscience_Committee/budget_2025" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Open_Geoscience_Committee/budget_2025</a></div>
<div style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12.0px; color: #000000;"><a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Open_Geoscience_Committee/budget_2024" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Open_Geoscience_Committee/budget_2024</a></div>
<div style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12.0px; color: #000000;"><a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Open_Geoscience_Committee/budget_2023" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Open_Geoscience_Committee/budget_2023</a></div>
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<div style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12.0px; color: #000000;">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.</div>
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<div style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12.0px; color: #000000;">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, </div>
<div style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12.0px; color: #000000;">so OSGeo doesn't have to earmark budget which can be put to use elsewhere.</div>
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<div style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12.0px; color: #000000;">Let's discusss ! Any thoughts are welcome.</div>
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<div style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12.0px; color: #000000;">All the best,</div>
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