OSGeo Budget 2018

DRAFT - budget subject to approval in december board meet ing, see OSGeo Budget 2017 and Finance Committee for prior years.

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

The board is also responsible for handling code sprint requests, covered in the OSGeo Projects section below.

OSGeo Comittees
The following committees have been formed to fufill 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
 * Open GeoScience Committee
 * System Administration Committee - foundation infrastructure
 * UN Committee - committee responsible for our participation in the UN Open GIS program

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. Iniativies a great way to collaborate with projects, committees and partners.


 * GeoForAll - education and research program produced in collaboration with our partners
 * FOSS4G - event series produced in collaboration with the conference committee and local chapters
 * Local Chapters - outreach initiative establishing regional OSGeo groups for direct grassroots advoacacy
 * Open GeoScience - outreach and advocacy geoscience community
 * GSOC - coordinate participation in google-summer-of-code and code-in activities
 * OSGeo-Live - outreach initiative providing
 * Meta CRS - interoperability initiative promoting data sharing with cross project spatial reference system compatibility
 * Trave Grant Program - provides assistance for attending OSGeo events

OSGeo Projects
OSGeo Projects each have a project steering committee, the chair of which is acknowledged as a foundation officer.

Notes:


 * Note this is a budget, representing planned spending in 2018 - actual balance available to each PSC (from fundraising, donations and sponsorship) should be considered when planning.
 * Anita has organized initial to collect feedback from all PSCs concerning planned event sponsorship requests:

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


 * please note our Code Sprint Guidelines ask for event details, budget and fundraising on your part.
 * Code sprint funding is setup to help carry funds from one event to the next allowing us to hold more code-sprints with a smaller annual budget.
 * Out priority is to share the risk with organizers allowing access to funds early to book facilities as required
 * We had requests to fund sprints that were part of larger events, these escaped our 2017 planning but were still funded to the best of our abilities