OSGeo Budget 2025

Draft budget for 2025, see OSGeo Budget 2024 and Finance Committee#Documents for prior years.

Total Approved Budget for 2024: $149,000 USD

Total spending for 2024: TBD

Total Approved Budget for 2025: TBD

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.

Board	2024 Approved	2025 Actual	2026 Draft	Notes
Admin	4,000	TBD	TBD	Operational expenses including liability insurance, tax filing fees, quickbooks, mail, IRS, bank fees.
Travel	10,000	TBD	TBD	Travel to main FOSS4G, F2F meeting and regional/representative events
Partners and Sponsors	1,000	TBD	TBD	Relationship building, attending b2b functions, foss4g/foss4ge/foss4gna/foss4g-asia breakfast meetings. Meetings with sponsors during events

Total Board Budget for 2024: $15,000 USD

Total Board spending for 2024: TBD

Total Board Budget for 2025: TBD

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
• Public Geospatial Data Committee
• System Administration Committee - foundation infrastructure
• UN Committee - committee responsible for our participation in the UN Open GIS program
• Standards Committee

OSGeo Committees	2024 Approved [Requested]	2024 Actual	2025 Draft [Requested]	Notes
SAC	21,500 [53,450]	TBD	TBD
OpenGeoScience	1,000 [3,000]	TBD	TBD
Conference	0	TBD	TBD
Marketing	5,000 [22,000]	TBD	TBD
GeoForAll	0	TBD	TBD
UN Committee	2,500 [4,000]	TBD	TBD
Incubation Committee	0	TBD	TBD

Total Committees Budget for 2024: $30,000 USD

Total Committees spending for 2024: TBD

Total Committees Budget for 2025: TBD

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:

• no new initiatives proposed for 2025

OSGeo Initiatives	2024 Approved	2024 Actual	2025 Draft [Requested]	Notes
FOSS4G	(48,000)	-	TBD	Seed money for 2025.
Local Chapters	0	TBD	TBD	Managed by board, considering putting aside money to help establish local chapters (for logistics, legal advise, kickoff meetings rather than any sponsorship or direct funding)
GSoC	0	TBD	TBD	Managed by board.
Travel Grant Program	10,000	TBD	TBD	Managed by Conference Committee. Recommendation: 7k for FOSS4G 2024, 3k for local events
Events and Code Sprints	15,000	TBD	TBD	Managed by the board. Funding to help organize OSGeo Code Sprint and other events.
Community Projects	3,000	TBD	TBD	Managed by the board since community projects do not have an assigned officer to handle their budget. Board note: Budgeted TBD$ for the first TBD projects to ask.

Total Initiatives Budget for 2024: $76,000 USD

Total Initiatives spending for 2024: TBD

Total Initiatives Budget for 2025: TBD

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 (2025) to the projects mailing list.
• Board decided to not assign a default budget this year.
• Board decided that the maximum amount per project this year cannot be more than $TBD USD.
• This is a budget, representing planned spending in 2025 - 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

OSGeo Project	2024 Approved [Requested]	2024 Actual	2025 Draft [Requested]	Notes
deegree	2,000 [2,000]	TBD	TBD
GDAL/OGR	0	TBD	TBD
GeoMOOSE	2,500 [4,000]	TBD	TBD
GeoNetwork	2,000 [2,000]	TBD	TBD
GeoNode	0	TBD	TBD
GEOS	0	TBD	TBD
GeoServer	2,000 [2,000]	TBD	[$2000]	GeoServer 2025 sponsorship opportunities
GeoTools	2,000 [2,000]	TBD	TBD
GRASS GIS	2,500 [5,000]	TBD	TBD
gvSIG	2,500 [5,000]	TBD	TBD
Mapbender	0	TBD	TBD
MapServer	2,500 [4,500]	TBD	TBD
Marble	0	TBD	TBD	Need to report to the board to get a budget
OpenLayers	2,500 [3,000]	TBD	TBD
OTB	0	TBD	TBD
OSGeoLive	0	TBD	TBD
PostGIS	0	TBD	TBD
PROJ	0	TBD	TBD
pycsw	2,500 [3,000]	0	[3,000]	https://github.com/geopython/pycsw/wiki/OSGeo-Budget-2025
pygeoapi	2,500 [4,000]	2,074	[4,000]	https://github.com/geopython/pygeoapi/wiki/OSGeo-Budget-2025
PyWPS	0	TBD	TBD
QGIS	2,500 [5,000]	TBD	TBD
ZOO-Project	0	TBD	TBD

Total Projects Budget for 2024: $28,000 USD

Total Projects spending for 2024: TBD

Total Projects Budget for 2025: TBD

Community Projects

Community projects act through the board as they do not have a project officer. Board approved $TBD 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).

Community Project	2024 Approved [Requested]	2024 Actual	2025 Draft [Requested]	Notes
GeoWebCache	300 [250]	TBD	TBD
mappyfile	300 [300]	TBD	TBD
GeoHealthCheck	300 [250]	TBD	TBD

Events

Community Events

We have set aside a budget for community events in 2025:

• 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

Event Request	2024 Approved	2024 Actual	2025 Draft [Requested]	Notes
List your event here	0	0	0

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.
• Our 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.

Sprint Request	2024 Approved	2024 Actual	2025 Draft [Requested]	Notes
OSGeo Code Sprint	0	TBD	TBD	4,395 surplus from Vienna. Not included in the budget.

Approval and Amendments

• Budget Meeting:
• Loomio Motion:
• Amendments: