OSGeo Budget 2017

The board is taking a different approach to the 2017 budget, dividing up by committee. We have reached out to each committee for guidance on their 2017 requirements.

The following DRAFT placeholder is based on the 2016 budget; broken down by committee to get an idea of proposed spending.

Planning

For OSGeo Budget 2016 the board budgeted 70000 split across several goals:

Activity	Budget	Spent	Notes
Admin	8000	n/a	administration overhead
Insurance	3000	3000	officer liability insurance
SAC	13000	6000	infrastructure and online presence
Outreach	15000	4000	starter kits, LiveDVD/USB, Marketing, OSGeo Student Awards
Travel	15000	7000	director & president travel - facilitate interaction with external parties (UN, OGC,...)
Events	20000	20000	OSGeo internal (townhall, codesprint, ) and external (e.g.. ISPRS, EGU, GWF...) events

This represents a total budget of 75000, of which the community managed to spend 41000.

If we directly migrate 2016 budget into a breakdown by committee we can have a baseline for our 2017 budget:

Committee	2016 Budget	Notes
Board: Admin	10000
Board: travel	10000	director & president travel (outreach)
Board: internal events	15000	codesprints, meetings, community building, sponsoring students
Board: outreach events	5000
SAC	13000
Marketing	12000
GeoForAll Budget	3000	education
UNCommittee	10000

The UNCommittee expectation of 10000 is based on its costs in 2016 (when it was only in operation for half the year). The UN represents one of the largest bodies of GIS users in the world making this an important strategic relationship for OSGeo.

Committee Contact List

In the Board_Meeting_2016-11-25 we agreed to reach out to each committee for budget requests / requirements: Thus far we have:

• Board of Directors - contact venka :)
• Code of Conduct Committee -
• (done) Conference Committee - Angelos contacted committee avout operations and budget
• Finance Committee -
• (done) Geo for All - Maria contacted Suchith
• (done) Incubation Committee - jody contacted list about operations and budget
• (done) Marketing Committee - jody contacted the list operations and budget
• (done) Open GeoScience Committee - maria contacted maxi ($6000 request for downhill at EGU and open monitoring hackatons)
• Project Steering Committees:
  • GeoNode - jody to contact jeff
  • (done) GRASS GIS - Helena to contact Markus ($1500 budget request for a code sprint)
  • gvSIG
  • Marble
  • QGIS - Anita contacted PSC
  • FDO
  • GDAL/OGR
  • GEOS
  • GeoTools - jody to contact geotools-devel
  • OSSIM
  • PostGIS
  • GeoNetwork
  • pycsw
  • deegree
  • geomajas
  • GeoMOOSE
  • GeoServer - jody to contact simone
  • Mapbender
  • MapFish
  • MapGuide Open Source
  • MapServer
  • OpenLayers
• Public Geospatial Data Committee -
• (done) System Administration Committee - Angelos contacted committee about both operations and budget
• (done) UN Committee - Maria contacted Suchith and Maxi

Draft 2017 Budget

The following draft budget is updated as we hear back from each community.

OSGeo Board	2016 Baseline	2017 Draft	Notes
Administration	10000	10000
Travel	10000	10000	director & president travel (outreach)
Internal events	15000	12000	codesprints, meetings, community building, sponsoring students (reduced to due to lack of face 2 face meeting)
Outreach events	5000	n/a	(responsibility moved to marketing committee)
OSGeo Committee	2016 Baseline	2017 Draft	Notes
SAC	13000	15000	(assume additional costs for website reboot)
Marketing	12000	12000
Marketing: Website RFQ		50000
GeoForAll Budget	3000	3000	education
UNCommittee	10000	10000
Project Steering Committee		2017 Draft	Notes
GRASS		1500	code sprint	QGIS		3000	1x developer meeting & 1x user conference