[gdal-dev] [geos-devel] GEOS Maintenance Grant

Even Rouault even.rouault at spatialys.com
Thu Feb 17 12:21:06 PST 2022


Gerald,

Part of my funded maintenance activities on GDAL also benefit to some of 
its dependencies with which I'm familiar/a committer, and PROJ is the 
first one among those (15% of my time to date if my stats are right).

Even

Le 17/02/2022 à 18:53, Gerald Nelson a écrit :
>
> I’m mainly a lurker on these exchanges. But from afar it seems like 
> there are three key underlying efforts in the whole spatial data and 
> analysis world – gdal, geos, and proj. It’s really good to see 
> cooperation (and funding!) for the gdal and geos part of the 
> triumvirate. Would it make sense to see about adding proj to it?
>
> Gerald C. Nelson
>
> Professor Emeritus, UIUC
>
> +1 217-390-7888 (cell)
>
> +1 970-639-2079 (land line)
>
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>
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>
> *From: *gdal-dev <gdal-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of 
> Daniel Baston <dbaston at gmail.com>
> *Date: *Thursday, February 17, 2022 at 10:47 AM
> *To: *GEOS Development List <geos-devel at lists.osgeo.org>
> *Cc: *gdal dev <gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org>
> *Subject: *Re: [gdal-dev] [geos-devel] GEOS Maintenance Grant
>
> Thank you, all. I'm honored by your support.
>
> Please don't hesitate to open issues on the GEOS GitHub page to share 
> any ideas you have about how GEOS can better support GDAL and friends.
>
> Dan
>
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 11:13 AM Howard Butler <howard at hobu.co> wrote:
>
>     Declaring this motion passed with +1's from
>
>     DanielM, EvenR, NormanB, TamasS, HowardB, MateuszL, FrankW, KurtS,
>     and SeanG
>
>     The GDAL PSC is fully delegating these resources to the GEOS PSC
>     to use as it sees fit. Paul Ramsey has agreed to be the
>     administrative contact for the GEOS PSC, and will coordinate the
>     effort in regards to payment sign-off, work task development, rate
>     negotiation, and reporting to the GDAL PSC.
>
>     Howard
>
>     PS: As a member of both PSCs, I will abstain from any funding or
>     resource direction votes in the GEOS PSC to avoid any potential
>     conflict.
>
>     > On Feb 15, 2022, at 9:37 AM, Howard Butler <howard at hobu.co> wrote:
>     >
>     > GDAL PSC,
>     >
>     > When we wrote the GDAL RFCs on sponsorship, we provided an
>     escape clause to allow us to direct resources to other projects
>     upon which GDAL depends. Our sponsorship numbers are still
>     increasing, which provides us an opportunity to directly support
>     some of those projects, and one of them is obviously GEOS. GEOS
>     provides all of the geometry algebra support for GDAL/OGR and many
>     other open source geospatial softwares including Shapely, PostGIS,
>     GeoPandas, MapServer, and more.
>     >
>     > Dan Baston of the GEOS PSC has been identified as the developer
>     with capacity and interest in the next year to take on GEOS
>     development on APIs and performance, which he has a long history
>     of doing for the project. This support should allow him to work
>     longer, multi-release upgrades that will provide strong
>     performance and convenience benefits for the project.
>     >
>     > I motion to provide the GEOS PSC with a $50,000 USD grant to
>     address performance, API, and other work that does not attract
>     directed funding in GEOS. The GEOS PSC will be responsible for
>     coordinating work tasks, rates, and development timelines. Howard
>     Butler or Even Rouault of the GDAL NumFocus liaison team will
>     coordinate dispersement as directed by the GEOS PSC and NumFocus
>     rules.
>     >
>     > Thank you again to the GDAL Sponsors
>     https://gdal.org/sponsors/index.html who have made this kind of
>     grant possible. A better GEOS makes for a better GDAL.
>     >
>     > Howard
>     >
>
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