\title{GDAL/OGR}
\maketitle

\begin{description}
		\item [Period covered by report:] Jan-Dec 2007 
		\item [Contact name:] Frank Warmerdam 
\end{description}

\section*{Key Accomplishments}
\subsection{Software Releases:}
\begin{enumerate}
	\item GDAL/OGR 1.5.0 Release 
	\begin{itemize}
		\item Over 20 new drivers added. 
		\item Five new feature RFCs implemented 
	\end{itemize}
%	\item GDAL/OGR 1.4.0 Release  % duplicate from below?
	\item GDAL/OGR 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.4.3, and 1.4.4 stable branch releases 
	\begin{itemize}
		\item The 1.4.x series represents the first time the project maintained a stable branch from which bug fix releases could be issued. 
		\item The 1.4.x series included nearly 200 bug fixes 
	\end{itemize}
	\item GDAL/OGR 1.4.0 Release 
	\begin{itemize}
		\item Six new drivers 
		\item Many bug fixes and new features 
	\end{itemize}
\end{enumerate}

\subsection{Sponsors \& Project Management}
\begin{itemize}
	\item \$32500 USD in funds collected from nine sponsors - thanks to Analytical Graphics/AGI (Gold), i-cubed, Cadcorp, Safe Software, SRC, ACT, Waypoint and INGRES. 
	\item Mateusz Loskot was contracted using project sponsorship funds 
	\item Added Tamas Szekeres and Even Rouault to the project steering committee 
	\item Added 12 new Commiters 
	\item Migrated the mailing lists, web site and bug tracking to OSGeo 
	\item Utilization of Trac wiki for user contributed documentation. 
	\item Partial translation of the web pages to Portuguese. 
	\item A one day sprint/hack-a-thon at FOSS4G, including distribution of ``Team GDAL'' t-shirts. 
	\item Three Google Summer of Code student projects. 
\end{itemize}

\section*{Areas for Improvement}
\begin{itemize}
	\item The 1.4.3 release included ABI (application binary interface) breakage and had to be retracted. Better review and testing mechanisms are needed to avoid breaking our ABI stability guarantees. 
	\item While substantial progress was made over the year, the project still struggles with many old bug reports that have not been addressed. 
	\item Additional outreach to projects and products using GDAL is required to ensure their needs are being met. 
	\item Improve our provision of ``standard binaries'' for at least Win32, Linux and MacOS X. The OSGeo4W effort may be helpful in this regard for Win32. 
	\item Broaden the coverage of the test suite (more formats, more special cases) 
	\item Seek, and incorporate feedback from sponsors and the community via the Survey going out with this annual report. 
\end{itemize}

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

\section*{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. 

\section*{Sponsorship Funds Report}

\subsection*{Sponsors\footnote{Includes sponsorships received in late 2006}}

\begin{center}

\begin{tabular}{@{}cr@{}} \toprule
 Item  & Amount  \\ \midrule
 i-cubed  & 5000.00  \\
 AGI  & 9000.00  \\
 Cadcorp  & 3000.00  \\
 Safe Software  & 3000.00  \\
 SRC  & 3000.00  \\
 ACT  & 3000.00  \\
 Waypoint  & 3000.00  \\
 Microimages  & 500.00  \\
 INGRES  & 3000.00  \\
 Subtotal  & 32500.00  \\
 OSGeo 25\%  & -8125.00  \\ \midrule
 Net Total  & 24375.00 \\ \bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\end{center}

\subsection*{Expenditures}

\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{@{}cr@{}} \toprule
 Item  & Amount  \\ \midrule
 Mateusz - Jan to Aug.  & 4395.00  \\
 Mateusz - Sept to Dec  & 6426.00  \\
 Mateusz - FOSS4G  & 1700.00  \\
 T-shirts  & 626.00  \\ \midrule
 Total  & 13147.00  \\ \bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\end{center}


Sponsorship Balance: \$11228.00 USD 



