deegree budget 2024 - deegree/deegree3 GitHub Wiki

Budget and sponsoring opportunities 2024

OSGeo deegree is a full featured implementation of OGC and ISO standards with an emphasis on stability and interoperability, licensed under the permissive LGPL v2.1 license. deegree is a recognized OSGeo project, managed by a steering committee with contributors worldwide, and a strong user community in Europe.

You can sponsor us directly through GitHub Sponsors, FOSSGIS e.V./OSGeo local chapter D-A-CH or through the OSGeo Foundation which we can request an annual budget from. Please read our detailed guide how to sponsor the OSGeo foundation and the OSGeo project deegree for further information.

The deegree project is asking for your financial assistance for the following tasks:

Support for FlatGeobuf response format

With the acceptance of FlatGeobuf as a new community standard, the OGC standards stack provides a fast interoperable serialization format for efficient communication between systems. FlatGeobuf is a performant binary encoding for geographic data that can hold a collection of Simple Features. Because of its simple core design and efficient I/O handling, FlatGeobuf can work well as a “cloud native” lossless format for vector data. For deegree WFS and deegree OGC API - Features implementation, this new feature will definitely improve performance when transferring big datasets.

This is one of more than 20 open issues which is seeking financial sponsoring.

Your financial contribution supports developers to get compensated for the work they do to implement the requested features.

Documentation and examples

The deegree website provides several learning and reference resources, including quick-start guides, API documentation and example configurations (so-called workspaces). The documentation and reference examples need an update. Keeping these up-to-date and improving them ensures that beginners and developers can work with deegree and know how to configure even complex data sets in an efficient way and provides help to a wide user community. An example for this kind of user documentation is the INSPIRE soil cookbook for deegree which was created by a volunteer in 2023.

Your financial contribution supports users and technical writers to get compensated for the work they do to keep the documentation comprehensive and up-to-date.

Code maintenance

deegree is a community project with a significant amount of code written by occasional contributors. Reviewing pull requests, increasing test coverage, fixing bugs and modernising build tools and language features are time consuming tasks that are usually not backed by companies.

Your financial contribution supports developers to get compensated for at least some of the day-to-day work that keeps the wheels of deegree spinning.

Releases

Releases are published on a regular basis. Curated release and upgrade notes help users to decide if they want to update or upgrade an installation and which changes are required in the configuration.

Your financial contribution supports developers to get compensated for at least some of the day-to-day work that maintain change logs, release history, and build infrastructure used for releasing the software.

Code sprints

For major changes, developers gather in-person during code sprints. In addition to travel and accommodation costs, your contribution ensures that individual contributors who are not backed by a company get financial compensation for their work during code sprints. Furthermore, your contribution ensures that the participants don't have to pay for other costs like room rent, catering and accommodation.

Outreach

deegree committers present workshops and talks at relevant conferences, like FOSS4G and their local events. Your financial contribution is used to cover preparation time, travel and accommodation costs that are not backed by an employer or institution.

OSGeo budget 2024

For 2024, the deegree project requests a total budget of 2,000 USD from OSGeo.

This is intended to cover:

Operational budget to assist community events like code sprints, user meetings, workshops: 1,500 USD
Travel and accommodation budget for presenting deegree at conferences: 500 USD

For more information about the OSGeo founding request see https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2024.