<div dir="auto">The agenda was longer than the time slot yesterday, as outlined below we proceed on this activity. There was already a chance for the board to discuss the project when it entered the community program earlier. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This is an important an interesting project. For OSGeo this one of the first projects connected to the large data players. Technology neutral ground has been established in the form of <div dir="auto"><a href="https://pytorch.org/foundation">https://pytorch.org/foundation</a> (with a governing board outlined if you follow that link). </div><div dir="auto"><br></div>PyTorch is popular with research making the addition of TorchGeo a great fit with our GeoForAll community.</div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 9:20 PM Jody Garnett <<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><u></u><div><div dir="ltr">Dear Board,<div><br></div><div dir="ltr">I have a notice to share from the incubation committee:</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)" class="gmail_quote" type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Motion: "Begin the application for OSGeo Community Project TorchGeo to graduate to full OSGeo project status" (with Brian Hamlin as mentor)</div></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Response:</div></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Angelos Tzotsos +1</div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Arnulf Christl +1</div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Bob (CI-StPaul) Basques +1</div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Brian M Hamlin +1 initial motion</div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Daniel Morissette +1</div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Dimitris Kotzinos +1</div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Frank Warmerdam +1</div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Jo Cook +1</div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Jody Garnett +1</div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Michael Smith +1</div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Regina Obe +1</div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Steve Lime +1</div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Tom Kralidis +1</div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Community feedback:</div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Ian Turton: more documentation, especially of the quickstart/beginners tutorial type</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">And also a conversation:</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">The incubation committee has a habit of communicating projects entering incubation to the board as it used to be the "first contact" between the foundation and a new project team. An indication that a new party wishes to partner with OSGeo in some capacity.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">With the advent of the community project initiative the application to incubation is no longer a "first contact" case - indeed asking projects first to be recognized as a community projects has already taken care of the the "meet and greet" questions.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">So I have added the topic to the board meeting - but I do not think the incubation committee requires a response from the board. Please consider if you would like these kind of topics to be shared in the future.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">As for TorchGeo - congratulations and I trust we will hear from this project again soon when they have fulfilled incubation requirements. </div><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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