OSGeo Budget 2023

Draft budget for 2023, see OSGeo Budget 2022 and Finance Committee for prior years.

Total Approved Budget for 2022: $146,550 USD

Total spending for 2022: $83,395 USD

Total Approved Budget for 2023: $171,650 USD

OSGeo Board
OSGeo board operates according to our bylaws providing vision and direction for our foundation. The board has also taken on responsibility setting for an annual budget, building partner relationships, sponsorship program and code sprints.

Total Board Budget for 2022: $21,000 USD

Total Board spending for 2022: $13,601 USD

Total Board Budget for 2023: $20,000 USD

OSGeo Committees
The following committees have been formed to fulfill out goals as an organization, each committee is provided a mandate, with the chair of the committee represented as an officer of our organization.


 * Code of Conduct Committee
 * Conference Committee
 * GeoForAll - committee acting as advisory board for the GeoForAll Initiative
 * Incubation Committee - committee providing hands-on support for project teams adopting open source principles and practice.
 * Marketing Committee - outreach and advocacy support
 * Open GeoScience Committee
 * System Administration Committee - foundation infrastructure
 * UN Committee - committee responsible for our participation in the UN Open GIS program

Total Committees Budget for 2022: $52,550 USD

Total Committees spending for 2022: $32,363 USD

Total Committees Budget for 2023: $48,550 USD

OSGeo Initiatives
OSGeo initiatives have formed to pursue a specific short term, or long term goal. Initiatives maybe formed by a committee or the board as required. Initiatives are a great way to collaborate with projects, committees and partners.


 * FOSS4G - event series produced in collaboration with the conference committee and local chapters
 * GeoForAll - education and research program produced in collaboration with our partners
 * Incubation - mentor program for open source projects to be recognized as OSGeo project
 * Local Chapters - board outreach initiative establishing regional OSGeo groups for direct grassroots advoacacy
 * GSoC - coordinate participation in google-summer-of-code and code-in activities
 * Travel Grant Program - provides assistance for attending OSGeo events

Proposed initiatives:


 * security - proposed emergency funding for osgeo projects confronted with disruptive security issue. Application similar to code-sprint requires both a solid budget and a formal CVE report to work against.
 * opengis harmonization - proposed response to #142 coordinating required activities across projects (rather than as individual budget requests listed below).

Total Initiatives Budget for 2022: $40,000 USD

Total Initiatives spending for 2022: $15,067 USD

Total Initiatives Budget for 2023: $55,000 USD

= Projects =

OSGeo Projects
OSGeo Projects each have a project steering committee, the chair of which is acknowledged as a foundation officer with spending authority on behalf of their committee.

Notes:


 * We have reached out (2023) to the projects mailing list.
 * Board decided to assign a default budget of $1000 for any project that has reported to the board within the year.
 * Projects with a plan may of course ask for increased funding
 * This is a budget, representing planned spending in 2023 - actual balance available to each PSC (from fundraising, donations and sponsorship) may be considered when planning.
 * If a project did not respond (or runs into an unforeseen expense) please contact the board throughout the year as budgets can be amended

Total Projects Budget for 2022: $33,000 USD

Total Projects spending for 2022: $22,365 USD

Total Projects Budget for 2023: $48,100 USD

Community Projects
Community projects act through the board as they do not have a project officer. Board approved $300 for each project (see Community Projects Initiative above)

Some guidance is offered by individual projects below.

Please note that this table records budget requests, not approved budgets.


 * Community Projects can ask the Board for spending approval (since they do not have a Project Officer) from the approved Community Projects budget.
 * Projects that have been accepted into the incubation program can ask the Incubation Committee for assistance to work on incubation (such requests are included in the incubation committee budget not here).

= Events =

Community Events
We have set aside a budget for community events in 2023:


 * Supporting community building events is distinct from the development focused code-sprints below
 * We are inviting community members to contact us about events (rather than try and adjust their event to fit into our code sprint guidelines)
 * OSGeo is is focused on our outreach goals as an organization as such our primary contribution to events is free software and enthusiasm rather than finical, we use funding to enable our members rather than for sponsorship and visibility.
 * Please note our financial guidance document

Code Sprints
We have asked project teams for guidance to help set our code sprint budget:


 * Please note our financial guidance document ask for event details, budget and fundraising on your part.
 * Out priority is to share the risk with organizers allowing access to funds early to book facilities as required
 * Code sprint budget is structured carry funds from one event to the next allowing us to hold more code-sprints with a smaller annual budget.

= Approval and Amendments =


 * Budget Meeting: Board_Meeting_2023-01-30
 * Loomio Motion: TBD
 * Amendments: TBD