GeoNetwork 2026 Sponsorship Opportunities
The GeoNetwork project recognizes the importance of a sustainable financial story to support the efforts of our developers, project-steering-committee, and meet the operational costs associated with running a successful open source project.
Occasionally a much larger sponsorship callout will be made when the team is faced with significant roadmap challenges that are beyond the reach of a single developer or organization.
The team has identified the following goals:
A common theme is updating the application from Spring Framework 5 which has reached end-of-life. With the Cyber Resiliency Act coming into effect over the course of 2026 and 2027 we can no longer expect to publish releases without addressing security vulnerabilities first, including updating components with known security vulnerabilities.
The GeoNetwork 5 project is tackling our top five core-geonetwork roadmap items. The update to spring-framework-6 is handled with a new spring-boot application.
- Milestone 1: Read-Only Catalog Services
- Milestone 2: Configuration & Security
- Milestone 3: Automated Catalog Population
- Milestone 4: Public Search
- Milestone 5: Record Management
- Milestone 6: Record Editing
sponsors: no present sponsors
in-kind:
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GeoCat has committed to GeoNetwork 5 challenge, arranging a series of milestones.
This activity is not fully funded by any means, the idea is to start on this high priority activity now (with distinct fundraising / in-kind targets for each milestone).
For more information see GeoNetwork 5 Crowdfunding outlining how to support this activity.
To grant the GeoNework 5 activity more time there is a proposal to update GeoNetwork 4 in place using "Open Rewrite" following the positive experience of the GeoServer 3 project.
An initial assessment has been performed, community interest and support is required to proceed to planning.
sponsors: no present sponsors
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GeoCat has performed an initial assessment of this activity
The user-interface framework used by GeoNetwork has reached end-of-life in 2021.
This is a technical debt item.
Why this is important: This is an important activity our geonetwork community is presently running on an unsupported user interface framework and we cannot ensure that compatibility and security issues are resolved at all, let alone in a timely fashion.
sponsors: no present sponsors
in-kind:
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No in-kind activities at present time
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Camptocamp has been working working on geonetwork-ui providing a set of components that can be used for this activity.
Support for DCAT was identified in 2023 user meeting as a roadmap priority for the project.
This is a roadmap planning item.
Why this is important: There is considerable interest an opportunity in the DCAT format which open ups future opportunities for the project and our user community.
sponsors: no present sponsors
in-kind: no in-kind participants
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GeoCat has attended ogcapi-records sprint on this topic
The transition to OGCAPI Services is presently underway, with the OGCAPI Records standard taking shape gradually as it works through the standardization process.
This is a roadmap planning item.
Why this is important: There is considerable interest in moving on from XML based standards and adopting modern OpenAPI and JSON standards.
sponsors: no present sponsors
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GeoCat has attended ogcapi-records sprint on this topic
This work has been combined with the GeoNetwork 5 milestones above and is the topic of Milestone 1.
GeoNetwork has continued to use an old version of Saxon XSLT with custom patches for newer Java. This activity is to use Saxon HE. This is a longstanding technical debt item.
Why this is important: The Saxon XSLT engine is used for almost everything GeoNetwork does, from processing records into different output formats, staging information for display by the user interface, or expanding records into all the information required to run the record editor. Updating this important component must be done with care and will require funding, developers and testing to be successful.
Open Source Geospatial Foundation manages financial contributions to the GeoNetwork project:
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Direct OSGeo Sponsorship - email treasurer@osgeo.org to request an invoice and be recognized on the OSGeo sponsors page.
Subject: GeoNetwork sponsorship
Treasurer:
We recognize the value in supporting free software, and have set aside operational budget for a Silver sponsorship.
Please send us an invoice for $3000 USD. We have attached a logo for the sponsorship page.
attachement: organisation_logo.svg
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Donate via PayPal - easy for one time donations, but does use a small overhead charge. The link directly donates to the GeoNetwork project.
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Donate via GitHub Sponsors - great for ongoing donations, provides some some sponsorship matching, a github sticker, and avoids PayPal overhead. Email treasurer@osgeo.org making a note of your donation so that it may be directed to the GeoNetwork project.
Subject: Sponsorship for GeoNetwork
Treasurer:
I have used GitHub Sponsors page to setup a monthly donation of $50 to the GeoNework project. Please observe the attached logo for OSGeo Bronze sponsorship.
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For details see how to become a sponsor which includes example emails.
We appreciate all levels of support, the following recommend donation levels provide the team an opportunity to acknowledge your support:
Please note that sponsorship at these levels helps the project steering committee support developers in small ways. Examples include covering travel expenses and code-sprint attendance.
- $5/monthly Enthusiast: Recommended for fans of OSGeo, badge your repository as supporting OSGeo with a small donation.
- $10/monthly Supporter: Recommended for GIS Professionals, Name listed as 2024 Donations on GeoNetwork website.
- $50/monthly Supporter: Recommended for Consultants, Logo listed as 2024 Donations on GeoNetwork website, cross-listed to OSGeo website as a bronze sponsors, bronze sponsor logo, be sure to setup your service provider page.
| Amount | GeoNetwork | OSGeo |
|---|---|---|
| $5/monthly Enthusiast |
Name listed 2025 Donations | GitHub supporter badge |
| $10/monthly Supporter |
Name listed 2025 Donations | GitHub supporter badge |
| $50/month Bronze Sponsor |
Logo listed 2025 sponsors | Logo listed on sponsors page Use of Bronze logo |
For more information on OSGeo perks described above see How to become a sponsor.
Please note that sponsorship contributes to the operational expenses, allowing the project steering committee to address care-and-feeding activities.
- $500/annually OSGeo Bronze Sponsorship: Recommended for individual consultants
- $3000/annually OSGeo Silver Sponsorship: Recommended support level for Small Organizations using GeoNetwork internally to support their employees.
- $10,00/annually OSGeo Gold Sponsorship: Recommended support level for Small Organizations using GeoNetwork to meet communication needs with the public or meet regulatory requirements.
- $20,00/annually OSGeo Platinum Sponsorship: Recommended support level for Large Organizations using GeoNetwork internally to support their employees
- $30,00/annually OSGeo Diamond Sponsorship: Recommended support level for Large Organizations using GeoNetwork to meet communication needs with the public or meet regulatory requirements.
Organizations should sponsorship GeoNetwork because they appreciate or depend on its availability, sponsorship is not a replacement for commercial support!
| Amount | GeoNetwork. | OSGeo |
|---|---|---|
| $500/annually Bronze Sponsor |
Logo listed 2025 sponsors | Logo listed on sponsors page Use of OSGeo Bronze logo |
| $3000/annually Silver Sponsor |
Logo listed 2025 sponsors GeoNetwork blog post |
Logo listed on sponsors page Logo displayed in page footer Sponsorship blog post Networking event Use of OSGeo Silver logo |
| $10,000/annually Gold Sponsor |
Logo listed 2025 sponsors GeoNetwork blog post |
Logo listed on sponsors page Logo displayed in page footer Sponsorship blog post Networking event Use of OSGeo Gold logo |
| $20,000/annually Platinum Sponsor |
Logo listed 2025 sponsors GeoNetwork blog post |
Logo listed on sponsors page Logo displayed in page footer Logo added to OSGeo booth Logo added to OSGeo marketing collateral Logo added to About OSGeo in all press releases Sponsorship blog post Networking event Use of Platinum logo |
| $30,000/annually Diamond Sponsor |
Logo listed 2025 sponsors GeoNetwork blog post |
Logo listed on sponsors page Logo displayed in page footer Logo added to OSGeo booth Logo added to OSGeo marketing collateral Logo added to About OSGeo in all press releases Sponsorship blog post Networking event Use of Diamond logo |
For more information on OSGeo perks described above see How to become a sponsor.
As a member of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation the project team receives some financial assistance. The following is the GeoNetwork budget request, usually devoted to operational or planning costs. This guidance is provided to the OSGeo Board for budget planning.
Guidance for OSGeo Budget 2026 planning:
| request | activity |
|---|---|
| $1000 | User meeting: contribution to location, rent, food |
| $1000 | Security procedure: Respond to CRA communication expectations taking effect in September |
In previous years we made budget request to revise security procedures around vulnerability reporting. In September of 2026 the EU Cyber Resilience Act comes into effect placing communication responsibilities on organizations using GeoNetwork. It is unclear how much of a burden this will be on the community and the budget request is made to provide some space to respond, review and revise as this regulation comes into effect.
The following code-sprints are of interest to our community:
- GN5 Code Sprint
- OGC Code Sprints on standards development
- OSGeo Code sprint
With the amount of work ahead for the project, we expect to make a code-sprint request during 2026.
We do not expect to need for assistance to attend the 2026 AGM. Especially as the 2025 AGM did not require a reporting element.