<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Thanks!</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">The discussion with vicky, and these emails, one one the key things we try and offer on the incubation committee. A chance to think about how you are doing open source.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">For website access, looking at <a href="https://github.com/MobilityDB/MobilityDB">https://github.com/MobilityDB/MobilityDB</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://github.com/MobilityDB/MobilityDB"></a>1. Be geospatial<br><div><a href="https://github.com/MobilityDB/MobilityDB/blob/master/README.md">README.md</a> - nice clear description<br></div><div><div><br></div><div>2. Have a free license or open source license</div><div><a href="https://github.com/MobilityDB/MobilityDB/blob/master/LICENSE.txt">LICENSE.txt</a> is cool, I was not really aware PostgreSQL had their open OSI approved license: <a href="https://opensource.org/licenses/PostgreSQL">https://opensource.org/licenses/PostgreSQL</a></div><div><br></div><div>3. Welcome participation and new contributors.</div><div><a href="https://github.com/MobilityDB/MobilityDB/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md">CONTRIBUTING.md</a> is great, I like that the docs are creative commons.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Mahmoud I was able to add you as project author (please share page when ready fo review), but it looks like Esteban has not yet logged into the website (so I cannot grant the role yet).<br></div><div><div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 23 Jul 2020 at 06:57, Mahmoud SAKR <<a href="mailto:mahmoud.sakr@ulb.ac.be">mahmoud.sakr@ulb.ac.be</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear Incubation Committee,<br>We would like to introduce our Open Source project "MobilityDB", hoping to identify the next steps that we can take to include it as an OSGeo community project.<br><div><br></div><div>MobilityDB is a database management system for moving object geospatial trajectories, such as GPS traces. It extends PostgreSQL and PostGIS by temporal and spatiotemporal types and operations. The goal of MobilityDB is to provide users with the database support to seamlessly store mobility tracks, and query them in SQL. </div><br>MobilityDB provides two main geospatial trajectory types: tgeompoint for a temporal geometry point, and tgeogpoint for a temporal geography point. Both can represent a geospatial point that moves over time, where the coordinates are respectively expressed as PostGIS geometry or geography. It also provides spatiotemporal indexes and a rich set of functions to manage these types; including: input/output, topological relationships, speed, direction, distance, etc. Note that the return values of many of these functions are temporal. For example, the speed of a car is a value that changes over time. Therefore the type system of MobilityDB includes types for temporal floats, temporal Booleans, temporal text, and temporal integers. <br><br>The work in MobilityDB has been presented in multiple scientific publications and in multiple community conferences including PGConf.Russia 2019 and 2020, FOSDEM PGDay 2020, FOSDEM GeoSpatial Devroom 2020, and FOSS4G Belgium 2019. Some of these presentation can be found here: <br><a href="https://pgconf.ru/en/2020/264545" target="_blank">https://pgconf.ru/en/2020/264545</a><br><a href="https://www.postgresql.eu/events/fosdem2020/schedule/session/2864-managing-mobility-data-in-postgresql/" target="_blank">https://www.postgresql.eu/events/fosdem2020/schedule/session/2864-managing-mobility-data-in-postgresql/</a><br><a href="https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/mobilitydb/" target="_blank">https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/mobilitydb/</a><br><a href="https://docs.mobilitydb.com/pub/MobilityDB_FOSS4G_Brussels_2019.pdf" target="_blank">https://docs.mobilitydb.com/pub/MobilityDB_FOSS4G_Brussels_2019.pdf</a><br><br>To prepare this request, we went through Jody's presentation, and the Wiki shared in Vicky's message. Our github repository has been evolved to meet the checklist (geospatial, opensource, participatory). In particular, MobilityDB solves a geospatial problem, is distributed under the PostgreSQL license, and it is open for contributions (with currently 6 contributors from different organizations). It also has a steering committee with a focus on achieving good integration with relevant projects in the OSGeo family:<br><a href="https://github.com/MobilityDB/MobilityDB/wiki/MobilityDB-Project-Steering-Committe" target="_blank">https://github.com/MobilityDB/MobilityDB/wiki/MobilityDB-Project-Steering-Committe</a><br> <br>Besides the main repository, and thanks to all contributors, other repositories are being actively maintained in our GitHub organisation:<br>- python connectivity driver (<a href="https://github.com/MobilityDB/MobilityDB-python" target="_blank">https://github.com/MobilityDB/MobilityDB-python</a>)<br>- Data generator of simulated car trajectories (<a href="https://github.com/MobilityDB/MobilityDB-BerlinMOD" target="_blank">https://github.com/MobilityDB/MobilityDB-BerlinMOD</a>)<br>- Multiple workshop tutorials (<a href="https://github.com/MobilityDB/MobilityDB-workshop" target="_blank">https://github.com/MobilityDB/MobilityDB-workshop</a>)<br>- MobilityDB docker images (<a href="https://github.com/MobilityDB/MobilityDB-docker" target="_blank">https://github.com/MobilityDB/MobilityDB-docker</a>)<br><br>The main github repository ()<br><a href="https://github.com/MobilityDB/MobilityDB" target="_blank">https://github.com/MobilityDB/MobilityDB</a><br><br>The github organization<br><a href="https://github.com/MobilityDB" target="_blank">https://github.com/MobilityDB</a><br><br>User manual for the last release (now beta1):<br><a href="https://docs.mobilitydb.com/MobilityDB/master/" target="_blank">https://docs.mobilitydb.com/MobilityDB/master/</a><br>The manual in develop branch is continuously updated with the most recent development. Developers can then build <br><br><div>We are happy to receive your support, and to respond to your questions and comments. <br></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Best regards,<span style="font-weight:bold"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-weight:bold">Mahmoud SAKR,</span> PhD</div><div>Research Associate</div><div><br></div>T : +32 (0)2 6503750<br><a href="mailto:mahmoud.sakr@ulb.ac.be" title="Contacter mahmoud.sakr@ulb.ac.be" target="_blank">mahmoud.sakr@ulb.ac.be</a><br><a href="http://www.ulb.ac.be" title="École polytechnique de Bruxelles" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0px none; margin-bottom: 6px;" src="http://web2.ulb.ac.be/signature_mail/images/facs/polytech.jpg" alt="Université libre de Bruxelles"></a><br><b>Department of Computer & Decision Engineering (CoDE) CP 165/15 </b><br>Avenue F. D. Roosevelt 50 - 1050 Brussels, Belgium. <br><a href="http://cs.ulb.ac.be/members/mahmoud/" title="http://cs.ulb.ac.be/members/mahmoud/" target="_blank">cs.ulb.ac.be/members/mahmoud/</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 5:40 PM Mahmoud SAKR <<a href="mailto:mahmoud.sakr@ulb.ac.be" target="_blank">mahmoud.sakr@ulb.ac.be</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Thanks Jody for explaining. <br><div>Clearly I misunderstood your previous message when it mentioned "can you ask the project to be listed on the website first please?". <br></div><div><br></div><div>With respect to the checklist (geospatial, opensource, participatory), we have already been working on it, and following the wiki given by Vicky:</div><div><a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Community_Projects#About_OSGeo_Community_Projects" target="_blank">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Community_Projects#About_OSGeo_Community_Projects</a></div><div>Our github repository has been changed accordingly. We will do an internal round of review in 1-2 days then send here again asking for your review and advice, in order to add to the Website.</div><br>Best regards,<br>Mahmoud <br clear="all"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 2:31 PM Jody Garnett <<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" target="_blank">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;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div dir="auto">I cannot give you the website roles ... yet!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">We need the project to ask to be listed in the website, and to perform a check as outlined on the pages you have been reading.</div><div dir="auto"> </div><div dir="auto">OSGeo wants to be sure to only have pages for open source projects yes, but also ones that are geospatial, and open to participation :)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 1:27 AM Mahmoud SAKR <<a href="mailto:mahmoud.sakr@ulb.ac.be" target="_blank">mahmoud.sakr@ulb.ac.be</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Jody,</div><div>Thanks for sharing the slides. <br></div><div>Could you please give a project author role to:</div><div>myself, mahmsakr (<a href="mailto:mahmoud.sakr@ulb.ac.be" target="_blank">mahmoud.sakr@ulb.ac.be</a>)<br></div><div>Esteban, ezimanyi (<a href="mailto:estebanzimanyi@gmail.com" target="_blank">estebanzimanyi@gmail.com</a>)<a href="https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/query?status=!closed&reporter=ezimanyi" target="_blank"></a></div><div> </div><div><br></div><div>We have the content of the page almost ready. Once the author role is granted, we will start immediately filling in the project page. <br></div><div><br clear="all"></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Best regards,<span style="font-weight:bold"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-weight:bold">Mahmoud SAKR,</span> PhD</div><div>Research Associate</div><div><br></div>T : +32 (0)2 6503750<br><a href="mailto:mahmoud.sakr@ulb.ac.be" title="Contacter mahmoud.sakr@ulb.ac.be" target="_blank">mahmoud.sakr@ulb.ac.be</a><br><a href="http://www.ulb.ac.be" title="École polytechnique de Bruxelles" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0px none; margin-bottom: 6px;" src="http://web2.ulb.ac.be/signature_mail/images/facs/polytech.jpg" alt="Université libre de Bruxelles"></a><br><b>Department of Computer & Decision Engineering (CoDE) CP 165/<a href="https://www.google.com/maps/search/15++++Avenue+F.+D.+Roosevelt?entry=gmail&source=g" target="_blank">15 </a></b><br><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/search/15++++Avenue+F.+D.+Roosevelt?entry=gmail&source=g" target="_blank">Avenue F. 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Roosevelt</a> 50 - 1050 Brussels, Belgium. <br><a href="http://cs.ulb.ac.be/members/mahmoud/" title="http://cs.ulb.ac.be/members/mahmoud/" target="_blank">cs.ulb.ac.be/members/mahmoud/</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div id="gmail-m_7037586739835408540gmail-m_-79946064490280016gmail-m_-8029786338045522843m_-8685456666666407115gmail-m_5301518004507141262ydpc10b6edfyahoo_quoted_5974717038"><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(38,40,42)"><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><div id="gmail-m_7037586739835408540gmail-m_-79946064490280016gmail-m_-8029786338045522843m_-8685456666666407115gmail-m_5301518004507141262ydpc10b6edfyiv6311363554" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <b style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Jody Garnett</b> <span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif" target="_blank">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 8:41 AM<br>Subject: Re: [Incubator] MobilityDB<br>To: Vicky Vergara <<a href="mailto:vicky@georepublic.de" rel="nofollow" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif" target="_blank">vicky@georepublic.de</a>><br>Cc: OSGeo-incubator <<a href="mailto:incubator@lists.osgeo.org" rel="nofollow" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif" target="_blank">incubator@lists.osgeo.org</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">That sounds great, can you ask the project to be listed on the website first please?</div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">I also have a presentation here with examples <a href="https://www.slideshare.net/jgarnett/open-source-practice-and-passion-at-osgeo-170697413" rel="nofollow" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif" target="_blank">https://www.slideshare.net/jgarnett/open-source-practice-and-passion-at-osgeo-170697413</a> </div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></div></div></div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">On Sat, Jul 18, 2020 at 7:19 AM Vicky Vergara <<a href="mailto:vicky@georepublic.de" rel="nofollow" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif" target="_blank">vicky@georepublic.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hello committee members<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">There is this new project MobilityDB [1] that soon will start an application to become an OSGeo Community Project.<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I am guiding them on some basic steps, like setting up mailing lists for the project [2] and some other tasks. They also participated on the Bolsena 2020 Code Sprint<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Here is my question: <br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From the incubation [3] information on the website I navigated using the links, and I only found [4] as the requirements to be considered for community projects.<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Is that correct?<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Regards<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Vicky<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><br>[<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">1] <a href="https://github.com/MobilityDB/MobilityDB" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/MobilityDB/MobilityDB</a><br>[2] <a href="https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/2482" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/2482</a><br>[3] <a href="https://www.osgeo.org/about/committees/incubation/" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.osgeo.org/about/committees/incubation/</a><br>[4] <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Community_Projects#About_OSGeo_Community_Projects" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Community_Projects#About_OSGeo_Community_Projects</a></span><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><pre style="font-family:monospace">Georepublic UG (haftungsbeschränkt)
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