[Incubator] Request GPlates to join OSGeo Incubation process...

[Jody Garnett]

Welcome John, and thanks for introducing yourself and your project on the
incubation list - it sounds like a really interesting application (and a
great example of open source being used for collaboration).

We have our incubation process online, so your "official" application will
be a bug ticket - rather than your email. If you have any questions as you
fill in these questions please ask - also note that we are an open source
organization used to collaboration - so if the questions (such as number of
users) do not quite line up with your application domain / business model
it should be considered as an invitation for dialog rather than a down
check.

The difficult part (for both of us) is finding a volunteer to act as a
mentor for your project - do you have any contacts in the open source
community who would be willing to act in this capacity?




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Jody Garnett

On 22 October 2015 at 01:21, John Cannon <john.cannon at sydney.edu.au> wrote:

> Hi Incubation Committee,
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> We would like to officially state our intentions for GPlates to join the
> OSGeo Incubation process.
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> To summarise GPlates, it is desktop software for the interactive
> visualisation of plate tectonics - http://www.gplates.org – and is a
> collaboration between the University of Sydney, Caltech and the Geological
> Survey of Norway.
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> I’m a GPlates software developer and will be handling the application on
> behalf of Prof. Dietmar Müller (who leads the Earthbyte group
> http://www.earthbyte.org/ here at the University of Sydney) and our other
> GPlates collaborators.
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> Some background on GPlates...
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> GPlates started as an application for researchers at the University of
> Sydney and has since been released bi-annually to the public for almost a
> decade. With over 50,000 downloads in total it is widely used in industry,
> academic institutions and government departments. It is open-source, uses
> open standards (such as OGC) and accesses OSGeo libraries (GDAL and PROJ4).
> It runs as a graphical application on Windows, MacOS X and Linux platforms.
> And we are also developing a non-graphical Python GPlates library (first
> public beta release end of this year).
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> Regards,
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> John
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> John Cannon, Lead GPlates Developer - http://www.gplates.org
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