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 2023: TBD
Total Board Budget for 2024: 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
- System Administration Committee - foundation infrastructure
- UN Committee - committee responsible for our participation in the UN Open GIS program
| OSGeo Committees | 2023 Approved [Requested] | 2023 Actual | 2024 Final [Requested] | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SAC | 32,550 [32,550] |
19,550 | 21,500 [53,450] |
SAC:Budget 2024 Board note: We initially approve half the contract hours, hardware, domain and subscription expenses. Donations to be approved if budget permits at the second half of the year. |
| OpenGeoScience | 1,500 [3,000] |
0 | 1,000 [3,000] |
https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2023-December/013429.html Board note: Materials to be handled by Marketing committee. Catering costs cannot be approved at the moment. Workshop budget approved. |
| Conference | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Marketing | 4,500 [7,000] |
1,320 | 5,000 [22,000] |
Marketing Committee Budget 2024 Board note: We cannot spend on graphics designer and collateral at the moment. If there a need for web site design hours, those can be approved later. |
| GeoForAll | 4,000 [4,000] |
0 | 0 | |
| UN Committee | 0 | 0 | 2,500 [4,000] |
Board note: We should investigate if UN can sponsor travel. |
| Incubation Committee | 6,000 [8,000] |
1,864 | 0 |
Total Committees Budget for 2023: $48,550 USD
Total Committees spending for 2023: $22,734 USD
Total Committees Budget for 2024: $30,000 USD
OSGeo Initiatives
OSGeo initiatives have formed to pursue a specific short term, or long term goal. Initiatives maybe formed by a committee or the board as required. Initiatives are a great way to collaborate with projects, committees and partners.
- FOSS4G - event series produced in collaboration with the conference committee and local chapters
- GeoForAll - education and research program produced in collaboration with our partners
- Incubation - mentor program for open source projects to be recognized as OSGeo project
- Local Chapters - board outreach initiative establishing regional OSGeo groups for direct grassroots advoacacy
- GSoC - coordinate participation in google-summer-of-code and code-in activities
- Travel Grant Program - provides assistance for attending OSGeo events
Proposed initiatives:
- no new initiatives proposed for 2024
| OSGeo Initiatives | 2023 Approved | 2023 Actual | 2024 Final [Requested] | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FOSS4G | (56,478) | - | (48,000) | Seed money for 2024. |
| Local Chapters | 0 | 749 | 0 | Managed by board, considering putting aside money to help establish local chapters (for logistics, legal advise, kickoff meetings rather than any sponsorship or direct funding) |
| GSoC | 0 | (741) | 0 | Managed by board. |
| Travel Grant Program | 15,000 | 12,317 | 10,000 | Managed by Conference Committee. Recommendation: 7k for FOSS4G 2024, 3k for local events |
| Events and Code Sprints | 20,000 | 10,162 | 15,000 | Managed by the board. Funding to help organize OSGeo Code Sprint and other events. |
| Community Projects | 5,000 | 0 | 3,000 | Managed by the board since community projects do not have an assigned officer to handle their budget. Board note: Budgeted 300$ for the first 10 projects to ask. |
| opengis.org namespace fix | 15,000 [20,000] |
4,216 | N/A | Activity completed |
Total Initiatives Budget for 2023: $55,000 USD
Total Initiatives spending for 2023: $26,704 USD
Total Initiatives Budget for 2024: $76,000 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 (2024) 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 $2,500 USD.
- This is a budget, representing planned spending in 2024 - 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 | 2023 Approved [Requested] | 2023 Actual | 2024 Final [Requested] | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| deegree | 2,000 [2,000] |
1,871 | 2,000 [2,000] |
deegree 2024 Sponsorship Opportunities and Budget |
| GDAL/OGR | 1,000 | 3,765 | 0 | |
| GeoMOOSE | 2,500 [2,500] |
2,500 | 2,500 [4,000] |
PSC budget meeting |
| GeoNetwork | 1,000 | 0 | 2,000 [2,000] |
GeoNetwork 2024 Sponsorship Opportunities |
| GeoNode | 1,000 | 0 | 0 | |
| GEOS | 1,000 | 0 | 0 | |
| GeoServer | 4,700 [5,500] |
0 | 2,000 [2,000] |
GeoServer 2024 Sponsorship Opportunities |
| GeoTools | 2,000 [10,500] |
0 | 2,000 [2,000] |
GeoTools 2024 Sponsorship Opportunities |
| GRASS GIS | 5,400 [5,000] |
9,890 | 2,500 [5,000] |
GRASS GIS Budget 2024 |
| gvSIG | 5,000 [5,000] |
5,185 | 2,500 [5,000] |
gvSIG Budget 2024 |
| Mapbender | 1,000 | 0 | 0 | |
| MapServer | 3,500 | 828 | 2,500 [4,500] |
https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/wiki/MapServer-2024-Budget |
| Marble | 0 | 0 | 0 | Need to report to the board to get a budget |
| OpenLayers | 3,000 [3,000] |
0 | 2,500 [3,000] |
https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/wiki/OpenLayers-2024-Sponsorship-Opportunities |
| OTB | 1,000 | 0 | 0 | |
| OSGeoLive | 1,000 | 0 | 0 | |
| PostGIS | 3,500 [3,500] |
0 | 0 | |
| PROJ | 1,000 | 550 | 0 | |
| pycsw | 2,500 [2,500] |
2,379 | 2,500 [3,000] |
https://github.com/geopython/pycsw/wiki/OSGeo-Budget-2024 |
| pygeoapi | 4,000 [4,000] |
631 | 2,500 [4,000] |
https://github.com/geopython/pygeoapi/wiki/OSGeo-Budget-2024 |
| PyWPS | 1,000 | 0 | 0 | |
| QGIS | 1,000 | 5,497 | 2,500 [5,000] |
|
| ZOO-Project | 300 | 3,305 | 0 | 2023 budget as community project |
Total Projects Budget for 2023: $48,100 USD
Total Projects spending for 2023: $33,096 USD
Total Projects Budget for 2024: $28,000 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).
| Community Project | 2023 Approved [Requested] | 2023 Actual | 2024 Final [Requested] | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GeoWebCache | 300 [5000] |
0 | 300 [250] |
2023 Activity covered by opengis initiative |
| mappyfile | 300 [300] |
https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2024-January/013451.html | ||
| GeoHealthCheck | 300 [250] |
https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2023-December/013434.html | ||
| pgrouting | 1,864 |
Events
Community Events
We have set aside a budget for community events in 2024:
- 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 | 2023 Approved | 2023 Actual | 2024 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 | 2023 Approved | 2023 Actual | 2024 Final [Requested] | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OSGeo Code Sprint | 15,000 | 0 | 0 | 4,395 surplus from Vienna. Not included in the budget. |
| Bolsena Code Sprint | 3,000 | 0 | 0 | |
| GRASS GIS Community Meeting | 0 [5,500] |
GRASS GIS Community Meeting 2024: Budget Board note: Can this be handled by the existing US sponsorship? 2500 to be approved from the Code Sprints budget. GRASS Community Meeting report |