Hi all, A wiki page sounds a good start. Increased test coverage and OGC Maps support would be two items I'd like to propose. We could also maybe use a GitHub Discussions poll to allow users to vote on some open issues to look at fixing?
I think any unused funds for the year remain with OSGeo and can't be used for future years. Is it an option to get a 2023 budget approved to avoid losing these funds for this year? There is the OSGeo Codesprint in Vienna next week, and 5 of the PSC members will be there so we could arrange a PSC meeting and sign things off quite quickly. Seth -- web:https://geographika.net & https://mapserverstudio.net twitter: @geographika On Wed, Nov 1, 2023, at 10:44 PM, Lime, Steve D (MNIT) via MapServer-dev wrote: > This is a good idea and something that we haven't done in some time. > There was a 2020 budget outline > (https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/wiki/OSGeo-2020-Budget) that > was put together as an ask from the board. If I recall correctly, they > basically only allocated the normal per project amount to the project. > That's funding we've not taken explicit advantage of most years > although I don't know what happens to those $'s if they go unclaimed. > There is also a donation balance that could/should be tapped to fund > activities. > > --Steve > > -----Original Message----- > From: MapServer-dev <mapserver-dev-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> On Behalf > Of Jeff McKenna via MapServer-dev > Sent: Wednesday, November 1, 2023 1:00 PM > To: 'MapServer Dev Mailing List' <mapserver-dev@lists.osgeo.org> > Subject: [MapServer-dev] 2024 budget planning > > Hi MapServer community (devs, users, packagers, promoters, all), > > I see other projects beginning early discussions on planning for 2024 > budget spending. I would like to start a wiki page for the 2024 budget > for MapServer. I am planning on including those items > never-funded-yet-heavily-relied-upon-by-users such as releases, > packaging, testing/CI infrastructure maintenance, and documentation, as > well as source code contributions (in other words, including the full > dev community of MapServer in the budget). > > I think 2024 is a good time to create a realistic budget for MapServer, > and then share that publicly with the FOSS4G community. I think we'd > be happily surprised that organizations are willing to support the > sustainability of MapServer. Worst-case scenario is that we have a > publicly available realistic view of the cost of keeping MapServer > reliable, secure, and fast, that we can expand upon in future years. > > Happy to read other thoughts here, from everyone passionate about MapServer. > > thanks! > > -jeff > > -- > Jeff McKenna > GatewayGeo: Developers of MS4W, & offering MapServer Consulting/Dev > co-founder of FOSS4G > > _______________________________________________ > MapServer-dev mailing list > MapServer-dev@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-dev _______________________________________________ MapServer-dev mailing list MapServer-dev@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-dev
