[OSGeo-UK] GoFundGeo Announced!

[Nick Bearman]

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
>>>
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nick at nickbearman.com

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