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<p>Date: 2023-06-22</p><p><br></p>
<p>OSGeo is pleased to announce that ZOO-Project has graduated from
incubation and is now a full-fledged OSGeo project. Gérald Fenoy,
founder and chair of the ZOO-Project Steering Committee (PSC), has been
appointed as project officer.</p>
<p>ZOO-Project is an open-source platform for implementing and
developing efficient tools for processing geospatial and non-geospatial
data based on the OGC standards.</p>
<p>Graduating<a href="https://www.osgeo.org/about/committees/incubation" target="_blank"> incubation</a>
includes fulfilling requirements for open community operation, a
responsible project governance model, code provenance, and general good
project operation. Graduation is the OSGeo seal of approval for a
project and gives potential users and the community at large an added
confidence in the viability and safety of the project.</p>
<p>The ZOO-Project Steering Committee collectively recognizes this as a
big progressive step for the project. ZOO-Project has been an active
contributor to various open source initiatives inside and outside OSGeo
such as FOSS4G, OSGeo Code Sprints, OGC Code Sprints, Joint
OSGeo-OGC-ASF (Apache Software Foundation) Code Sprints, Google Summer
of Code. The ZOO-Project PSC says, “<i>We are excited about the future
of the project and have been working towards the incubation approval for
a long time. It is our honor to be an OSGeo incubated project”.</i></p>
<p>OSGeo and ZOO-Project would like to thank Tom Kralidis, Dimitris
Kotzinos, Frank Warmerdam, and the OSGeo Incubation Committee for their
assistance during this Incubation process.</p>
<p>Congratulations to the ZOO-Project community!</p>
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<p>About ZOO-Project</p>
<p>ZOO-Project is a Web Processing Service (WPS) implementation written
in C, Python and JavaScript. It is an open source platform which
implements the WPS 1.0.0, WPS 2.0.0, and OGC API – Processes – Part 1:
Core standards edited by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). It
provides a developer-friendly framework for creating and chaining WPS
compliant Web Services. Additionally, it offers efficient tools for
creating new innovative web services and applications.</p>
<p>ZOO-Project is able to process geospatial or non geospatial data
online. Its core processing engine (aka ZOO-Kernel) lets you execute a
number of existing ZOO-Services based on reliable software and
libraries. It also gives you the ability to create your own WPS Services
from new or existing source code, which can be written in seven
different programming languages. That allows you to compose or turn code
as WPS Services simply, with straightforward configuration and standard
coding methods.</p>
<p>ZOO-Project is very flexible with data input and output so you can
process almost any kind of data stored locally or accessed from remote
servers and databases. ZOO-Project excels in data processing and
integrates new or existing spatial data infrastructures, as it is able
to communicate with map servers and can integrate webmapping clients.</p>
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<p>About OSGeo</p>
<p>The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) is a not-for-profit
organization whose mission is to foster global adoption of open
geospatial technology by being an inclusive software foundation devoted
to an open philosophy and participatory community driven development.</p>
<p>The Foundation provides financial, organizational and legal support
to the broader open source geospatial community. It also serves as an
independent legal entity to which community members can contribute code,
funding and other resources, secure in the knowledge that their
contributions will be maintained for public benefit. OSGeo also serves
as an outreach and advocacy organization for the open source geospatial
community, and provides a common forum and shared infrastructure for
improving cross-project collaboration.</p>
<p>Visit <a href="http://osgeo.org" target="_blank">osgeo.org</a> for more information.</p>
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