From nick at nickbearman.com Mon Dec 1 01:04:26 2025 From: nick at nickbearman.com (Nick Bearman) Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2025 09:04:26 +0000 Subject: [OSGeo-UK] Fwd: [Board] The future of OSGeo - discussion paper In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <8508d231-5475-49aa-b7a4-77b2bf88fcee@nickbearman.com> Hi All, Some interesting thoughts on the future of OSGeo that you might be interested in. Comments and thoughts welcome. I have given it a quick read, but not gone through it in detail yet. I don't think it particularly impacts our plan to bid for FOSS4G 2027 but it is something we should bear in mind. Dennis/Paul - please can you also forward this to those interested in helping with the 2027 Bid? Best wishes, Nick. -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [Board] The future of OSGeo - discussion paper Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2025 18:54:51 +1300 From: Jeroen Ticheler via Board Reply-To: Jeroen Ticheler To: OSGEO discuss CC: Board Dear all, We had a great FOSS4G 2025 in Auckland. Big thanks and compliments to the organizers, volunteers, Auckland University of Technology, sponsors, participants and all presenters and workshop organizers! I'm sure many of us left inspired and in good spirit. The conference also made clear why we put time into this community of like minded people, in organizing FOSS4G conferences and in the OSGeo foundation. One of the things that I've put time in over the last two years is talking with people in the community and on the OSGeo Board about the future of OSGeo. This has resulted in a discussion paper that I would like to put out for comments in this forum, and preferably on the document itself. I would therefore like to invite you to read it and provide your valuable insights and suggestions so we can move forward and strengthen OSGeo and our mission. The document can be found here . It can not be edited, but it can be commented on. I'll then take the time to review those comments to come up with an improved version, out of which I hope we can formulate a number of actions and proposals that can be moved to the OSGeo Board for further action. Looking forward to hear from you! For a future proof OSGeo! Jeroen Member of the Board of Directors of OSGeo -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ Board mailing list Board at lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board From nick at nickbearman.com Tue Dec 2 02:54:29 2025 From: nick at nickbearman.com (Nick Bearman) Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2025 10:54:29 +0000 Subject: [OSGeo-UK] GoFundGeo Closed - Have Your Say! In-Reply-To: <4c667cae-4b33-4534-b1c3-19c2128781ca@nickbearman.com> References: <1f8725bd-4d80-417b-9f2d-d7ce03dba792@nickbearman.com> <4c667cae-4b33-4534-b1c3-19c2128781ca@nickbearman.com> Message-ID: <32213fad-979d-4c4c-80e7-321e1b6feb41@nickbearman.com> Hi Folks, Just a quick message to let you know that GoFundGeo has now closed for applications. We have nine projects applying for funding, for a total of ?7,255. We will discuss which projects we fund at the meeting on Wed 10th Dec 12pm - 1pm, on Google Meet https://meet.google.com/mow-pbyj-wah. The projects are listed in Google Docs at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UUl6NmGmUUowluU8L6dNfF6mUO9kZCOU7W1TvmPQM4I/edit?usp=sharing. We value your comments, please do have a read of the nine projects and let us know your comments. You can do this either via this list, or by adding comments to the Google Docs document. If you have any problems, please do email me (nick at nickbearman.com) or osgeouk at gmail.com. We would love to see you at the meeting, to hear your views on the funding. We would also love to get your comments before the meeting as well, via this list or the Google Doc. Best wishes, Nick. On 30/10/2025 15:19, Nick Bearman via UK wrote: > Every year around November we use surplus funds from FOSS4G:UK > conferences (and other funds) to support Open Source Geospatial > software projects that will have an impact in the UK. We usually have > around ?5000 to support a variety of projects, and have done > previously each year since 2022. For more details of the projects we > have supported, please see https://uk.osgeo.org/gofundgeo.html. > > This year we have a budget of ?6,000 and will be making the decision > about which projects we support in early December. Come along and have > your say! > > We are looking to use this money to fund relevant projects in the > range of ?500 - ?1000 each that will benefit UK users. > > We would like to hear from you - what project(s) do you think we > should fund? > > We are making this as simple a process as possible, so please submit > your ideas to osgeouk at gmail.com by Sun 30th Nov 2025. We will need a > short paragraph that covers what is being funded, why it is useful, > who will do it and how much you are applying for. We will share these > to the email list around Tue 2nd Dec, for discussion at our meeting in > early December. > > We have funding guidelines > (https://uk.osgeo.org/fundingguidelines.html) and briefly we only fund > open source projects, our preference is to support discrete pieces of > work, or to meet specific sponsorship levels, and we are focused on > items that will benefit the UK community. > > We will discuss the submissions at our meeting in early December, and > decide which ones to fund. > > We are hopeful again to get support from the RGS-IBG GIScience > Research Group who have previously provided funding of ?250 to support > GoFundGeo projects. > > If your organisation is interested in supporting GoFundGeo with a > donation, please email osgeouk at gmail.com. > > If you have any questions, or need any more information please see the > website https://uk.osgeo.org/gofundgeo.html or email osgeouk at gmail.com. > > Best wishes, > Nick. > > Nick Bearman > OSGeo:UK Chair > -- Nick Bearman +44 (0) 7717745715 nick at nickbearman.com Please let me know if I can make any adjustments related to disability or neurodivergence to improve how we interact. 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Message-ID: Hi Matt and others interested in funding GDAL, GDAL is certainly a vital piece of software and I am very happy that we support it's fundraising approach. However given the size of GDAL, and their previous fund raising efforts, I do wonder whether our (relatively) small budget is best spent on $1000 (~?750) sponsorship. GDAL's budget is open (https://opencollective.com/gdal#category-BUDGET) and well worth a look if you are interested. I approached the gdal-sponsors email address and received this reply from Howard Butler: > Indeed GDAL's funding situation is secure at this time, although our recent loss of two Gold sponsors is likely to change the program's approach significantly in the future if we are unable to backfill them. Our current fundraising strategy is to focus on large corporate institutional organizations that derive market benefit from their customers using GDAL (ie, the clouds) or organizations who have strategic economic interest in GDAL. The former has been lacking in the last year, however. Our operation strategy has been to build up a comfortable pool of resources relative to our expenditures to help us weather business and fundraising cycles. Now that we're in a downturn, we are consuming some of that rainy day fund. > The most significant benefit of OSGeo:UK donating to GDAL would be visibility of the organization on the GDAL Sponsors page ? an arguably minimal one. I think it is more efficient for OSGeo:UK to continue to put resources toward the smaller projects it is currently supporting (this is great!). GDAL can't redirect its resources as easily, and to do so requires building relationships with those entities, which your organization already has. The GDAL Sponsorship Program has redirected some of its resources in the past, but only to direct project or code dependencies. The breadth of your sponsorship program is much wider and able to be more speculative. IMO, you should keep doing more of that rather than providing resources to GDAL. So I will take that as a recommendation that we don't sponsor GDAL this year and use the money for some of our smaller projects. Evan Rouault also came in on the email thread, and said that they would really like us to use our influence and contacts to highlight GDAL's sponsorship program to large UK based organisations who are GDAL users. He suggested Met Office, Ordnance Survey and private owned business in the GIS industry, etc. He also said "Underline that this is a large project (2+ million lines of code),? dealing with low-level, yet crucial, details that are both essential to all building blocks based on it, but too far from end-users to attract enough spontaneous contributions sufficient for its daily maintenance. GDAL isn't using an open-core model with a free tier and a commercial tier. The free product is the enterprise one, integrating capabilities like direct access to commercial cloud storage. The revenue stream to improve it without the sponsorship program is thus relatively modest. Improvements done in it have a huge leverage on the industry that depends on it. We have more details in https://gdal.org/en/stable/development/rfc/rfc83_use_of_project_sponsorship.html on what kind of activities the funds are used for." So I hope this helps explain our position. Any comments or feedback, please do post here, comment in the Google Docs https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UUl6NmGmUUowluU8L6dNfF6mUO9kZCOU7W1TvmPQM4I/edit?usp=sharing or come to the meeting on 10th Dec, 12pm https://meet.google.com/mow-pbyj-wah. Best wishes, Nick. On 24/11/2025 17:06, Nick Bearman via UK wrote: > > Thanks very much Matt - I will add this to the list when I can. > > Best wishes, > Nick. > > On 20/11/2025 19:51, Matt Walker via UK wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'd like to propose we sponsor GDAL as part of OSGeo:UK GoFundGeo. >> GDAL underpins so much geospatial software. Further details here: >> https://gdal.org/en/stable/sponsors/. >> >> Given the levels I'd suggest we look at the Supporter level at $1000. >> >> Kind regards, >> >> Matt Walker >> https://mastodon.social/@walkermatt >> >> On Thu, 20 Nov 2025, 14:43 Nick Bearman via UK, >> wrote: >> >> Hi Everyone, >> >> Do remember to suggest projects for GoFundGeo. >> >> Currently we have two projects who have applied (qgis2web and >> GeoServer) >> and we are also looking to continue our regular funding of >> pgRouting, >> QGIS and GISRUK & OSGeo:UK GoFundGeo Award. >> >> These are listed in Google Docs linked below and we value your >> comments. >> >> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UUl6NmGmUUowluU8L6dNfF6mUO9kZCOU7W1TvmPQM4I/edit?usp=sharing >> >> Feel free to add comments to the document, or share comments on the >> email list. >> >> This will be a live document, updated with more information and >> submissions as we receive them until the deadline, Sun 30th Nov. >> >> If you have any questions, please do ask. >> >> Best wishes, >> Nick. >> >> On 13/11/2025 16:13, Nick Bearman via UK wrote: >> > A quick reminder about GoFundGeo. >> > >> > Deadline for Submissions is Sun 30th Nov. >> > >> > So far we have had 1! Please do submit your project and if you >> know >> > anyone doing interesting work, please encourage them to submit >> their >> > project. If anyone has any questions, please do ask, either >> here or >> > via osgeouk at gmail.com or nick at nickbearman.com. >> > >> > We have decided on the meeting where we decide which projects to >> > fund:?10th December 2025 12pm - 1pm on Google Meet, >> > https://meet.google.com/mow-pbyj-wah. >> > >> > Best wishes, >> > Nick. >> > >> > On 30/10/2025 3:19 pm, Nick Bearman wrote: >> >> Every year around November we use surplus funds from FOSS4G:UK >> >> conferences (and other funds) to support Open Source Geospatial >> >> software projects that will have an impact in the UK. We >> usually have >> >> around ?5000 to support a variety of projects, and have done >> >> previously each year since 2022. For more details of the >> projects we >> >> have supported, please see https://uk.osgeo.org/gofundgeo.html. >> >> >> >> This year we have a budget of ?6,000 and will be making the >> decision >> >> about which projects we support in early December. Come along and >> >> have your say! >> >> >> >> We are looking to use this money to fund relevant projects in the >> >> range of ?500 - ?1000 each that will benefit UK users. >> >> >> >> We would like to hear from you - what project(s) do you think we >> >> should fund? >> >> >> >> We are making this as simple a process as possible, so please >> submit >> >> your ideas to osgeouk at gmail.com by Sun 30th Nov 2025. We will >> need a >> >> short paragraph that covers what is being funded, why it is >> useful, >> >> who will do it and how much you are applying for. We will >> share these >> >> to the email list around Tue 2nd Dec, for discussion at our >> meeting >> >> in early December. >> >> >> >> We have funding guidelines >> >> (https://uk.osgeo.org/fundingguidelines.html) and briefly we only >> >> fund open source projects, our preference is to support discrete >> >> pieces of work, or to meet specific sponsorship levels, and we >> are >> >> focused on items that will benefit the UK community. >> >> >> >> We will discuss the submissions at our meeting in early >> December, and >> >> decide which ones to fund. >> >> >> >> We are hopeful again to get support from the RGS-IBG GIScience >> >> Research Group who have previously provided funding of ?250 to >> >> support GoFundGeo projects. >> >> >> >> If your organisation is interested in supporting GoFundGeo with a >> >> donation, please email osgeouk at gmail.com. >> >> >> >> If you have any questions, or need any more information please >> see >> >> the website https://uk.osgeo.org/gofundgeo.html or email >> >> osgeouk at gmail.com. >> >> >> >> Best wishes, >> >> Nick. >> >> >> >> Nick Bearman >> >> OSGeo:UK Chair >> >> >> -- >> Nick Bearman >> +44 (0) 7717745715 >> nick at nickbearman.com >> >> Please let me know if I can make any adjustments related to >> disability or neurodivergence to improve how we interact. >> >> Due to my own life/work balance, you may get emails from me >> outside of normal working hours. Please do not feel any pressure >> to respond outside of your own working pattern. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> UK mailing list >> UK at lists.osgeo.org >> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/uk >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> UK mailing list >> UK at lists.osgeo.org >> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/uk > -- > Nick Bearman > +44 (0) 7717745715 > nick at nickbearman.com > > Please let me know if I can make any adjustments related to disability or neurodivergence to improve how we interact. > > Due to my own life/work balance, you may get emails from me outside of normal working hours. Please do not feel any pressure to respond outside of your own working pattern. > > _______________________________________________ > UK mailing list > UK at lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/uk -- Nick Bearman +44 (0) 7717745715 nick at nickbearman.com Please let me know if I can make any adjustments related to disability or neurodivergence to improve how we interact. Due to my own life/work balance, you may get emails from me outside of normal working hours. Please do not feel any pressure to respond outside of your own working pattern. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nick at nickbearman.com Mon Dec 8 07:48:06 2025 From: nick at nickbearman.com (Nick Bearman) Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2025 15:48:06 +0000 Subject: [OSGeo-UK] GoFundGeo Closed - Have Your Say! In-Reply-To: <32213fad-979d-4c4c-80e7-321e1b6feb41@nickbearman.com> References: <1f8725bd-4d80-417b-9f2d-d7ce03dba792@nickbearman.com> <4c667cae-4b33-4534-b1c3-19c2128781ca@nickbearman.com> <32213fad-979d-4c4c-80e7-321e1b6feb41@nickbearman.com> Message-ID: <222e1068-1b2c-44f4-8430-e44dc7feaf1d@nickbearman.com> Hi Folks, Do remember to come along and have your say on Wednesday about which GoFundGeo projects we fund, or add your comments here or in the Google Doc. The eagle eyed of you may have spotted that we have more requests for funding (?7,225) than funding available (~?6,000). We have a couple of approaches we can take including not funding GDAL, reducing funding of the big projects, or reducing funding over all, or not funding one or two of the applications. Do share your opinions and we will have a chat on Wed. We will discuss which projects we fund at the meeting on Wed 10th Dec 12pm - 1pm, on Google Meet https://meet.google.com/mow-pbyj-wah. The projects are listed in Google Docs at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UUl6NmGmUUowluU8L6dNfF6mUO9kZCOU7W1TvmPQM4I/edit?usp=sharing. Best wishes, Nick. On 02/12/2025 10:54, Nick Bearman via UK wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Just a quick message to let you know that GoFundGeo has now closed for > applications. > > We have nine projects applying for funding, for a total of ?7,255. > > We will discuss which projects we fund at the meeting on Wed 10th Dec > 12pm - 1pm, on Google Meet > https://meet.google.com/mow-pbyj-wah. > > The projects are listed in Google Docs at > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UUl6NmGmUUowluU8L6dNfF6mUO9kZCOU7W1TvmPQM4I/edit?usp=sharing. > > > We value your comments, please do have a read of the nine projects and > let us know your comments. You can do this either via this list, or by > adding comments to the Google Docs document. > > If you have any problems, please do email me (nick at nickbearman.com) or > osgeouk at gmail.com. > > We would love to see you at the meeting, to hear your views on the > funding. We would also love to get your comments before the meeting as > well, via this list or the Google Doc. > > Best wishes, > Nick. > > On 30/10/2025 15:19, Nick Bearman via UK wrote: >> Every year around November we use surplus funds from FOSS4G:UK >> conferences (and other funds) to support Open Source Geospatial >> software projects that will have an impact in the UK. We usually have >> around ?5000 to support a variety of projects, and have done >> previously each year since 2022. For more details of the projects we >> have supported, please see https://uk.osgeo.org/gofundgeo.html. >> >> This year we have a budget of ?6,000 and will be making the decision >> about which projects we support in early December. Come along and >> have your say! >> >> We are looking to use this money to fund relevant projects in the >> range of ?500 - ?1000 each that will benefit UK users. >> >> We would like to hear from you - what project(s) do you think we >> should fund? >> >> We are making this as simple a process as possible, so please submit >> your ideas to osgeouk at gmail.com by Sun 30th Nov 2025. We will need a >> short paragraph that covers what is being funded, why it is useful, >> who will do it and how much you are applying for. We will share these >> to the email list around Tue 2nd Dec, for discussion at our meeting >> in early December. >> >> We have funding guidelines >> (https://uk.osgeo.org/fundingguidelines.html) and briefly we only >> fund open source projects, our preference is to support discrete >> pieces of work, or to meet specific sponsorship levels, and we are >> focused on items that will benefit the UK community. >> >> We will discuss the submissions at our meeting in early December, and >> decide which ones to fund. >> >> We are hopeful again to get support from the RGS-IBG GIScience >> Research Group who have previously provided funding of ?250 to >> support GoFundGeo projects. >> >> If your organisation is interested in supporting GoFundGeo with a >> donation, please email osgeouk at gmail.com. >> >> If you have any questions, or need any more information please see >> the website https://uk.osgeo.org/gofundgeo.html or email >> osgeouk at gmail.com. >> >> Best wishes, >> Nick. >> >> Nick Bearman >> OSGeo:UK Chair >> -- Nick Bearman +44 (0) 7717745715 nick at nickbearman.com Please let me know if I can make any adjustments related to disability or neurodivergence to improve how we interact. Due to my own life/work balance, you may get emails from me outside of normal working hours. Please do not feel any pressure to respond outside of your own working pattern. From walkermatt at longwayaround.org.uk Mon Dec 8 09:52:27 2025 From: walkermatt at longwayaround.org.uk (Matt Walker) Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2025 17:52:27 +0000 Subject: [OSGeo-UK] GoFundGeo Launched! In-Reply-To: References: <1f8725bd-4d80-417b-9f2d-d7ce03dba792@nickbearman.com> <4c667cae-4b33-4534-b1c3-19c2128781ca@nickbearman.com> <8b9ab088-9eee-4535-9a57-ef5d7b5ea503@nickbearman.com> <9b6762d6-9431-424f-ac41-3ec2d9e85732@nickbearman.com>

Message-ID: Thanks Nick, That's a very sensible and considered position. I agree with knocking GDAL off the list, especially as we have had applications for more funding than is available. Kind regards, Matt. On Mon, 8 Dec 2025 at 15:17, Nick Bearman via UK wrote: > Hi Matt and others interested in funding GDAL, > > GDAL is certainly a vital piece of software and I am very happy that we > support it's fundraising approach. > > However given the size of GDAL, and their previous fund raising efforts, I > do wonder whether our (relatively) small budget is best spent on $1000 > (~?750) sponsorship. > > GDAL's budget is open (https://opencollective.com/gdal#category-BUDGET) > and well worth a look if you are interested. I approached the gdal-sponsors > email address and received this reply from Howard Butler: > > > Indeed GDAL's funding situation is secure at this time, although our > recent loss of two Gold sponsors is likely to change the program's approach > significantly in the future if we are unable to backfill them. Our current > fundraising strategy is to focus on large corporate institutional > organizations that derive market benefit from their customers using GDAL > (ie, the clouds) or organizations who have strategic economic interest in > GDAL. The former has been lacking in the last year, however. Our operation > strategy has been to build up a comfortable pool of resources relative to > our expenditures to help us weather business and fundraising cycles. Now > that we're in a downturn, we are consuming some of that rainy day fund. > > > The most significant benefit of OSGeo:UK donating to GDAL would be > visibility of the organization on the GDAL Sponsors page ? an arguably > minimal one. I think it is more efficient for OSGeo:UK to continue to put > resources toward the smaller projects it is currently supporting (this is > great!). GDAL can't redirect its resources as easily, and to do so requires > building relationships with those entities, which your organization already > has. The GDAL Sponsorship Program has redirected some of its resources in > the past, but only to direct project or code dependencies. The breadth of > your sponsorship program is much wider and able to be more speculative. > IMO, you should keep doing more of that rather than providing resources to > GDAL. > > So I will take that as a recommendation that we don't sponsor GDAL this > year and use the money for some of our smaller projects. > > Evan Rouault also came in on the email thread, and said that they would > really like us to use our influence and contacts to highlight GDAL's > sponsorship program to large UK based organisations who are GDAL users. He > suggested Met Office, Ordnance Survey and private owned business in the GIS > industry, etc. He also said > > "Underline that this is a large project (2+ million lines of code), > dealing with low-level, yet crucial, details that are both essential to all > building blocks based on it, but too far from end-users to attract enough > spontaneous contributions sufficient for its daily maintenance. GDAL isn't > using an open-core model with a free tier and a commercial tier. The free > product is the enterprise one, integrating capabilities like direct access > to commercial cloud storage. The revenue stream to improve it without the > sponsorship program is thus relatively modest. Improvements done in it have > a huge leverage on the industry that depends on it. We have more details in > https://gdal.org/en/stable/development/rfc/rfc83_use_of_project_sponsorship.html > on what kind of activities the funds are used for." > > So I hope this helps explain our position. > > Any comments or feedback, please do post here, comment in the Google Docs > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UUl6NmGmUUowluU8L6dNfF6mUO9kZCOU7W1TvmPQM4I/edit?usp=sharing > or come to the meeting on 10th Dec, 12pm > https://meet.google.com/mow-pbyj-wah. > > Best wishes, > Nick. > On 24/11/2025 17:06, Nick Bearman via UK wrote: > > Thanks very much Matt - I will add this to the list when I can. > > Best wishes, > Nick. > On 20/11/2025 19:51, Matt Walker via UK wrote: > > Hi, > > I'd like to propose we sponsor GDAL as part of OSGeo:UK GoFundGeo. GDAL > underpins so much geospatial software. Further details here: > https://gdal.org/en/stable/sponsors/. > > Given the levels I'd suggest we look at the Supporter level at $1000. > > Kind regards, > > Matt Walker > https://mastodon.social/@walkermatt > > On Thu, 20 Nov 2025, 14:43 Nick Bearman via UK, > wrote: > >> Hi Everyone, >> >> Do remember to suggest projects for GoFundGeo. >> >> Currently we have two projects who have applied (qgis2web and GeoServer) >> and we are also looking to continue our regular funding of pgRouting, >> QGIS and GISRUK & OSGeo:UK GoFundGeo Award. >> >> These are listed in Google Docs linked below and we value your comments. >> >> >> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UUl6NmGmUUowluU8L6dNfF6mUO9kZCOU7W1TvmPQM4I/edit?usp=sharing >> >> Feel free to add comments to the document, or share comments on the >> email list. >> >> This will be a live document, updated with more information and >> submissions as we receive them until the deadline, Sun 30th Nov. >> >> If you have any questions, please do ask. >> >> Best wishes, >> Nick. >> >> On 13/11/2025 16:13, Nick Bearman via UK wrote: >> > A quick reminder about GoFundGeo. >> > >> > Deadline for Submissions is Sun 30th Nov. >> > >> > So far we have had 1! Please do submit your project and if you know >> > anyone doing interesting work, please encourage them to submit their >> > project. If anyone has any questions, please do ask, either here or >> > via osgeouk at gmail.com or nick at nickbearman.com. >> > >> > We have decided on the meeting where we decide which projects to >> > fund: 10th December 2025 12pm - 1pm on Google Meet, >> > https://meet.google.com/mow-pbyj-wah. >> > >> > Best wishes, >> > Nick. >> > >> > On 30/10/2025 3:19 pm, Nick Bearman wrote: >> >> Every year around November we use surplus funds from FOSS4G:UK >> >> conferences (and other funds) to support Open Source Geospatial >> >> software projects that will have an impact in the UK. We usually have >> >> around ?5000 to support a variety of projects, and have done >> >> previously each year since 2022. For more details of the projects we >> >> have supported, please see https://uk.osgeo.org/gofundgeo.html. >> >> >> >> This year we have a budget of ?6,000 and will be making the decision >> >> about which projects we support in early December. Come along and >> >> have your say! >> >> >> >> We are looking to use this money to fund relevant projects in the >> >> range of ?500 - ?1000 each that will benefit UK users. >> >> >> >> We would like to hear from you - what project(s) do you think we >> >> should fund? >> >> >> >> We are making this as simple a process as possible, so please submit >> >> your ideas to osgeouk at gmail.com by Sun 30th Nov 2025. We will need a >> >> short paragraph that covers what is being funded, why it is useful, >> >> who will do it and how much you are applying for. We will share these >> >> to the email list around Tue 2nd Dec, for discussion at our meeting >> >> in early December. >> >> >> >> We have funding guidelines >> >> (https://uk.osgeo.org/fundingguidelines.html) and briefly we only >> >> fund open source projects, our preference is to support discrete >> >> pieces of work, or to meet specific sponsorship levels, and we are >> >> focused on items that will benefit the UK community. >> >> >> >> We will discuss the submissions at our meeting in early December, and >> >> decide which ones to fund. >> >> >> >> We are hopeful again to get support from the RGS-IBG GIScience >> >> Research Group who have previously provided funding of ?250 to >> >> support GoFundGeo projects. >> >> >> >> If your organisation is interested in supporting GoFundGeo with a >> >> donation, please email osgeouk at gmail.com. >> >> >> >> If you have any questions, or need any more information please see >> >> the website https://uk.osgeo.org/gofundgeo.html or email >> >> osgeouk at gmail.com. >> >> >> >> Best wishes, >> >> Nick. >> >> >> >> Nick Bearman >> >> OSGeo:UK Chair >> >> >> -- >> Nick Bearman >> +44 (0) 7717745715 >> nick at nickbearman.com >> >> Please let me know if I can make any adjustments related to disability or >> neurodivergence to improve how we interact. >> >> Due to my own life/work balance, you may get emails from me outside of >> normal working hours. 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Please email me and I'm happy to help you choose the right starting point. Looking forward to helping you in your GIS journey. Best wishes, Nick. -- Nick Bearman +44 (0) 7717745715 nick at nickbearman.com Please let me know if I can make any adjustments related to disability or neurodivergence to improve how we interact. Due to my own life/work balance, you may get emails from me outside of normal working hours. Please do not feel any pressure to respond outside of your own working pattern. From nick at nickbearman.com Mon Dec 15 07:34:55 2025 From: nick at nickbearman.com (Nick Bearman) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2025 15:34:55 +0000 Subject: [OSGeo-UK] GoFundGeo Announced! In-Reply-To: <222e1068-1b2c-44f4-8430-e44dc7feaf1d@nickbearman.com> References: <1f8725bd-4d80-417b-9f2d-d7ce03dba792@nickbearman.com> <4c667cae-4b33-4534-b1c3-19c2128781ca@nickbearman.com> <32213fad-979d-4c4c-80e7-321e1b6feb41@nickbearman.com> <222e1068-1b2c-44f4-8430-e44dc7feaf1d@nickbearman.com> Message-ID: GoFundGeo has now awarded ?6,496 across 8 projects. At our meeting on 10th Dec 2025, we agreed to fund a total of ?6,496 across 8 projects. qgis2web: Supporting Andrea Ordonselli to develop gis2web, ?1,000 GeoNetwork, ?1,000 Chiara Gericke, LA tool takeaway outlet exposure schools, ?1,000 James Milner, development of Terra Draw, ?1,000 Nick Bearman, development of gitRmap, ?500 pgRouting Gold Sponsorship, $1200/?916 per year QGIS Sustaining Membership small level, ?1,000/?880 per year GISRUK & OSGeo:UK GoFundGeo Award supporting the award for 2026, last year it was awarded to Utilising Open Data to Enhance Park Safety for Women and Girls in Bradford ?200 As previously discussed on this list, we agreed not to fund GDAL. We discussed and agreed that we would ask for more feedback from funded projects to better track impact and outcomes of GoFundGeo. See our latest newsletter (coming out tomorrow!) for a summary of the projects and our discussions, and see the Google Doc (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UUl6NmGmUUowluU8L6dNfF6mUO9kZCOU7W1TvmPQM4I/edit?usp=sharing) for information on the proposals and the notes tab (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UUl6NmGmUUowluU8L6dNfF6mUO9kZCOU7W1TvmPQM4I/edit?tab=t.vkm28w38iyr9) for our discussions. Best wishes, Nick. On 08/12/2025 15:48, Nick Bearman via UK wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Do remember to come along and have your say on Wednesday about which > GoFundGeo projects we fund, or add your comments here or in the Google > Doc. > > The eagle eyed of you may have spotted that we have more requests for > funding (?7,225) than funding available (~?6,000). > > We have a couple of approaches we can take including not funding GDAL, > reducing funding of the big projects, or reducing funding over all, or > not funding one or two of the applications. > > Do share your opinions and we will have a chat on Wed. > > We will discuss which projects we fund at the meeting on Wed 10th Dec > 12pm - 1pm, on Google Meet > https://meet.google.com/mow-pbyj-wah. > > The projects are listed in Google Docs at > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UUl6NmGmUUowluU8L6dNfF6mUO9kZCOU7W1TvmPQM4I/edit?usp=sharing. > > > Best wishes, > Nick. > > On 02/12/2025 10:54, Nick Bearman via UK wrote: >> Hi Folks, >> >> Just a quick message to let you know that GoFundGeo has now closed >> for applications. >> >> We have nine projects applying for funding, for a total of ?7,255. >> >> We will discuss which projects we fund at the meeting on Wed 10th Dec >> 12pm - 1pm, on Google Meet >> https://meet.google.com/mow-pbyj-wah. >> >> The projects are listed in Google Docs at >> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UUl6NmGmUUowluU8L6dNfF6mUO9kZCOU7W1TvmPQM4I/edit?usp=sharing. >> >> >> We value your comments, please do have a read of the nine projects >> and let us know your comments. You can do this either via this list, >> or by adding comments to the Google Docs document. >> >> If you have any problems, please do email me (nick at nickbearman.com) >> or osgeouk at gmail.com. >> >> We would love to see you at the meeting, to hear your views on the >> funding. We would also love to get your comments before the meeting >> as well, via this list or the Google Doc. >> >> Best wishes, >> Nick. >> >> On 30/10/2025 15:19, Nick Bearman via UK wrote: >>> Every year around November we use surplus funds from FOSS4G:UK >>> conferences (and other funds) to support Open Source Geospatial >>> software projects that will have an impact in the UK. We usually >>> have around ?5000 to support a variety of projects, and have done >>> previously each year since 2022. For more details of the projects we >>> have supported, please see https://uk.osgeo.org/gofundgeo.html. >>> >>> This year we have a budget of ?6,000 and will be making the decision >>> about which projects we support in early December. Come along and >>> have your say! >>> >>> We are looking to use this money to fund relevant projects in the >>> range of ?500 - ?1000 each that will benefit UK users. >>> >>> We would like to hear from you - what project(s) do you think we >>> should fund? >>> >>> We are making this as simple a process as possible, so please submit >>> your ideas to osgeouk at gmail.com by Sun 30th Nov 2025. We will need a >>> short paragraph that covers what is being funded, why it is useful, >>> who will do it and how much you are applying for. We will share >>> these to the email list around Tue 2nd Dec, for discussion at our >>> meeting in early December. >>> >>> We have funding guidelines >>> (https://uk.osgeo.org/fundingguidelines.html) and briefly we only >>> fund open source projects, our preference is to support discrete >>> pieces of work, or to meet specific sponsorship levels, and we are >>> focused on items that will benefit the UK community. >>> >>> We will discuss the submissions at our meeting in early December, >>> and decide which ones to fund. >>> >>> We are hopeful again to get support from the RGS-IBG GIScience >>> Research Group who have previously provided funding of ?250 to >>> support GoFundGeo projects. >>> >>> If your organisation is interested in supporting GoFundGeo with a >>> donation, please email osgeouk at gmail.com. >>> >>> If you have any questions, or need any more information please see >>> the website https://uk.osgeo.org/gofundgeo.html or email >>> osgeouk at gmail.com. >>> >>> Best wishes, >>> Nick. >>> >>> Nick Bearman >>> OSGeo:UK Chair >>> -- Nick Bearman +44 (0) 7717745715 nick at nickbearman.com Please let me know if I can make any adjustments related to disability or neurodivergence to improve how we interact. Due to my own life/work balance, you may get emails from me outside of normal working hours. Please do not feel any pressure to respond outside of your own working pattern. From joana at doublebyte.net Wed Dec 17 03:10:48 2025 From: joana at doublebyte.net (Joana Simoes) Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2025 11:10:48 +0000 Subject: [OSGeo-UK] Registration open for the Joint OGC OSGeo ASF Code Sprint 2026 Message-ID: <63eb420a-89f4-4d3b-be46-2ca63ff32eb6@doublebyte.net> Good day, The Open Geospatial Consortium ?(OGC),?the Open Geospatial Foundation ?(OSGeo) and the Apache Software Foundation ?(ASF) invite geospatial developers and other contributors for their annual three-day Code Sprint, on January 27-29. The event will be hybrid, with the in-person component?taking?place at the USGS Science Center ?in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA, and the virtual component?on the OGC-Events?Discord?Server . 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