'''This report is far from complete and contains some left overs from 2007 still.'''

= GDAL/OGR Annual Report 2008 =
 * Period covered by report: Jan-Dec 2008
 * Contact name: Frank Warmerdam

== Key Accomplishments ==
 * GDAL/OGR 1.6.0 Release
  * 9 new drivers added.
  * 5 new feature RFCs implemented
  * Major increase in autotest suite : from 21,000 LoC of Python scripts in GDAL 1.5.0 to 38,000 LoC in GDAL 1.6.0
 * GDAL/OGR 1.5.1, 1.5.2, and 1.5.3 stable branch releases were produced.
  * Those three maintenance releases included 173 bug fixes
 * $XXX USD in funds collected from XXX sponsors - thanks to ...
 * Mateusz Loskot was contracted using project sponsorship funds, and performed [wiki:MaintenanceReportsByMateusz2008 extensive maintenance].
 * Added XXX new Commiters 
 * XXX Google Summer of Code student projects.

== Areas for Improvement ==

== Opportunities to Help ==
 * Contribute to documentation - especially FAQ, special build notes, language specific examples and suggestions and general how-to topics - add these in the Trac wiki!
 * Seek additional sponsorships, to provide more stable maintainer funding.
 * Testing and quality bug reports are always valuable. 

== Outlook for 2008 ==

The growth of the base of project developers is very encouraging, and will hopefully continue.  The coming year is an opportunity to continue to professionalize and community-ize project maintenance reducing the reliance on any one contributor.  I also see this as a year when we need to work to make the projects technical strengths accessible to more projects through continued improvements to language bindings and documentation, and to more end users via easy to use standard binaries (eg. OSGeo4W).  

I also look forward to more funded maintainer hours available to deal with our bug report backlog, and to ensure timely response to new bug reports.  This will hopefully provide a payback to sponsors, and ensure a continued positive technical reputation for the project.  

== Sponsorship Funds Report ==

=== Sponsors ===

|| Item || Amount ||
|| i-cubed || 5000.00 ||
|| Subtotal || 32500.00 ||
|| OSGeo 25% || 8125.00 ||
|| Net Total || 24375.00 ||


=== Expenditures ===

|| Item || Amount ||
|| Mateusz - Jan to Aug. || 4395.00 ||
|| Total || 13147.00 ||

Sponsorship Balance: $11228.00 USD