<div dir="ltr">That would be great, please try now (your permissions were adjusted for "author" and "project author" <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Website#Roles">website roles</a>).<br clear="all"><div><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><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 at 22:30, Peter Petrik <<a href="mailto:peter.petrik@lutraconsulting.co.uk">peter.petrik@lutraconsulting.co.uk</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 dir="ltr">Hi Jody,<div><br></div><div>I saw yesterday's OSGeo meeting and remember that we ended up halfway with MDAL (<a href="http://mdal.xyz" target="_blank">mdal.xyz</a>) for submission as a Community project.</div><div>I would like to finish the osgeo page to be ready to review, but it looks like i do not have permissions to edit the page?</div><div><br></div><div>my osgeo id is: zilolv</div><div><br></div><div>I am confident I can finish the items required for review <a href="https://www.osgeo.org/projects/mdal/" target="_blank">https://www.osgeo.org/projects/mdal/</a>, we have a brand new logo for MDAL and documentation pages :)</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for helping me with this,</div><div>Peter</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 10:39 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 dir="ltr">Thanks, reviewing now.<div><br></div><div>project: changed to "none" (not an osgeo project - that happens after going through incubation)</div><div>logo: missing (please use the template)</div><div>website: missing</div><div>source: missing</div><div>documentation: missing</div><div>header: missing (if you project has a once sentence summary or tagline this is the place)</div><div>yeah all the rest of the content is missing </div><div><br></div><div>Let me know when this page is ready for review.</div><div><br></div><div>This web page *is* the key visibility you are looking working with OSGeo - please make a good impression and remember to keep focused on what your project offers users :)<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 6 Sep 2019 at 04:52, Saber Razmjooei <<a href="mailto:saber.razmjooei@lutraconsulting.co.uk" target="_blank">saber.razmjooei@lutraconsulting.co.uk</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 dir="ltr">Hi Jody,<div><br></div><div>Thanks for the information. I have OSGeo id and got edit right for creating the page:</div><div><a href="https://www.osgeo.org/projects/mdal/" target="_blank">https://www.osgeo.org/projects/mdal/</a><br></div><div><a href="https://www.osgeo.org/wp-admin/post.php?post=11614&action=edit" target="_blank">https://www.osgeo.org/wp-admin/post.php?post=11614&action=edit</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>But the content has not been published publicly, which I guess it goes through your review.</div><div><br></div><div>Let me know if you need any information or have comments regarding the content.</div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards</div><div>Saber</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 6 Sep 2019 at 12:07, 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">You need to set up an osgeo user id, login to the website and report back with the username also we can give you the project author role (sigh website security). </div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 2:25 AM Saber Razmjooei <<a href="mailto:saber.razmjooei@lutraconsulting.co.uk" target="_blank">saber.razmjooei@lutraconsulting.co.uk</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">Hi Jody,<div><br></div><div>Many thanks for your email.</div><div><br></div><div>I have checked the criteria for joining the OSGeo Community programme and I think, MDAL meets all the requirements. I couldn't find how I can add a project page. I presume this can be done after you do your checks.</div><div><br></div><div>Looking at the list here:</div><div><a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Incubation_Committee#Committee_Members" target="_blank">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Incubation_Committee#Committee_Members</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>but not sure who we should approach. From the wiki page, it says, OSGeo assigns the project a mentor.</div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards</div></div><div dir="ltr"><div>Saber</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 4 Sep 2019 at 14:26, 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 dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Good morning Saber, what an interesting project - I love it when projects emerge out of community discussions.<div><div><br></div><div>To start with we ask projects create a project page on our website (which requires us to check a few things) and then join the OSGeo community program. These are things you can do today.</div><div><br></div><div>For more information: <a href="https://www.osgeo.org/about/committees/incubation/" target="_blank">https://www.osgeo.org/about/committees/incubation/</a> </div><div><br></div><div>To be accepted into the incubation program osgeo community projects need to be paired up with a mentor, and finding a mentor can be a challenge.</div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 2 Sep 2019 at 03:50, Saber Razmjooei <<a href="mailto:saber.razmjooei@lutraconsulting.co.uk" target="_blank">saber.razmjooei@lutraconsulting.co.uk</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 OSGeo,<div><br></div><div>I am pleased to submit this application on behalf of MDAL developers to join OSGeo incubator program.<br clear="all"><div><br></div><div>MDAL is a data abstraction library to handle structured/unstructured mesh data. It was initiated after a comprehensive discussion with QGIS and other OSGeo community. For more information, please see:</div><div><a href="https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/119" target="_blank">https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/119</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>The library is now shipped as a part of QGIS to handle meteorological / hydrological / oceanographic data.</div><div><br></div><div>Please see below, our application. If you have any questions or need more information, please do not hesitate to contact us.</div><div><br></div><div>Looking forward to hearing from you.</div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards</div><div>Saber</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span id="gmail-m_2684172517317238474gmail-m_1451161715928511676gmail-m_3286195754038970920gmail-m_-6036685715108378833m_-3618299995029216336gmail-m_-4688818061900263475gmail-m_1751652640405682828gmail-m_-9088789914855719471gmail-docs-internal-guid-08140b8f-7fff-4fa9-966f-ddcde7dc296f"><ol style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,58,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please provide the name and email address of the principal Project Owner.</span></p></li><ol style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:lower-alpha;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,58,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Peter Petrik (</span><a href="mailto:peter.petrik@lutraconsulting.co.uk" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">peter.petrik@lutraconsulting.co.uk</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">)</span></p></li></ol><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,58,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please provide the names and emails of co-project owners (if any).</span></p></li><ol style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:lower-alpha;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,58,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Martin Dobias (<a href="mailto:martin.dobias@lutraconsulting.co.uk" target="_blank">martin.dobias@lutraconsulting.co.uk</a>)</span></p></li></ol><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,58,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please provide the names, emails and entity affiliation of all official committers</span></p></li><ol style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:lower-alpha;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,58,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Peter Petrik (</span><a href="mailto:peter.petrik@lutraconsulting.co.uk" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">peter.petrik@lutraconsulting.co.uk</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">) - Lutra Consulting</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:lower-alpha;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,58,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Martin Dobias (<a href="mailto:martin.dobias@lutraconsulting.co.uk" target="_blank">martin.dobias@lutraconsulting.co.uk</a>) - Lutra Consulting</span></p></li></ol><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,58,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please describe your Project.</span></p></li><ol style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:lower-alpha;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,58,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Mesh Data Abstraction Library (MDAL) is a C++ library for handling unstructured mesh data released with MIT license. It provides a single data model for multiple supported data formats. MDAL is used by QGIS for data access for mesh layers.</span></p></li></ol><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,58,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Why is hosting at OSGeo good for your project?</span></p></li><ol style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:lower-alpha;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,58,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">It is a generic library which we hope eventually will be incorporated into other OSGeo projects. Hence, having it under the OSGeo umbrella helps with its sustainability and support needed for such a library.</span></p></li></ol><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,58,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Type of application does this project represent(client, server, standalone, library, etc.):</span></p></li><ol style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:lower-alpha;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,58,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Library</span></p></li></ol><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,58,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please describe any relationships to other open source projects.</span></p></li><ol style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:lower-alpha;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,58,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Currently, it is shipped with QGIS to handle mesh data (</span><a href="https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/119" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/119</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">)</span></p></li></ol><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,58,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please describe any relationships with commercial companies or products.</span></p></li><ol style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:lower-alpha;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,58,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The library handles a number of HDF based file formats used by proprietary and open source numerical modelling packages for hydrology, oceanography and meteorology. Development of MDAL has been so far, primarily funded by those companies.</span></p></li></ol><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,58,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Which open source license(s) will the source code be released under?</span></p></li><ol style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:lower-alpha;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,58,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">MIT License (</span><a href="https://github.com/lutraconsulting/MDAL/blob/master/LICENSE" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://github.com/lutraconsulting/MDAL/blob/master/LICENSE</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">)</span></p></li></ol><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,58,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Is there already a beta or official release?</span></p></li><ol style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:lower-alpha;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,58,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Yes: </span><a href="https://github.com/lutraconsulting/MDAL/releases" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://github.com/lutraconsulting/MDAL/releases</span></a></p></li></ol><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,58,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">What is the origin of your project (commercial, experimental, thesis or other higher education, government, or some other source)?</span></p></li><ol style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:lower-alpha;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,58,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Commercial</span></p></li></ol><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,58,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Does the project support open standards? Which ones and to what extent? (OGC, w3c, ect.) Has the software been certified to any standard (CITE for example)? If not, is it the intention of the project owners to seek certification at some point?</span></p></li><ol style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:lower-alpha;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,58,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The project currently supports a number of open standards for HDF and CF conventions.</span></p></li></ol><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,58,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Is the code free of patents, trademarks, and do you control the copyright?</span></p></li><ol style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:lower-alpha;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,58,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Yes. it is free of patents and trademarks and we control the copyright.</span></p></li></ol><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,58,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">How many people actively contribute (code, documentation, other?) to the project at this time?</span></p></li><ol style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:lower-alpha;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,58,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">3</span></p></li></ol><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,58,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">How many people have commit access to the source code respository?</span></p></li><ol style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:lower-alpha;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,58,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">2</span></p></li></ol><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,58,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Approximately how many users are currently using this project?</span></p></li><ol style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:lower-alpha;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,58,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">All QGIS users as it is now a QGIS dependency.</span></p></li></ol><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,58,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">What type of users does your project attract (government, commercial, hobby, academic research, etc. )?</span></p></li><ol style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:lower-alpha;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,58,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Government, commercial, academics and research</span></p></li></ol><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,58,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">If you do not intend to host any portion of this project using the OSGeo infrastructure, why should you be considered a member project of the OSGeo Foundation?</span></p></li><ol style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:lower-alpha;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,58,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Not applicable</span></p></li></ol><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,58,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Does the project include an automated build and test?</span></p></li><ol style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:lower-alpha;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,58,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Yes.</span></p></li></ol><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,58,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">What language(s) are used in this project? (C/Java/perl/etc)</span></p></li><ol style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:lower-alpha;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,58,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">C++</span></p></li></ol><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,58,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">What is the dominant written language (i.e. English, French, Spanish, German, etc) of the core developers?</span></p></li><ol style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:lower-alpha;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,58,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">English</span></p></li></ol><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,58,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">What is the (estimated) size of a full release of this project? How many users do you expect to download the project when it is released?</span></p></li><ol style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:lower-alpha;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,58,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:18pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">It will be difficult to gauge the exact number of users. But currently, it is shipped with QGIS and probably used by 10s of thousands of users.</span></p></li></ol></ol><br></span></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Saber Razmjooei<br></div><div><a href="http://www.lutraconsulting.co.uk" target="_blank">www.lutraconsulting.co.uk</a><br><span>+44 (0)7568 129733</span><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Saber Razmjooei<br></div><div><a href="http://www.lutraconsulting.co.uk" target="_blank">www.lutraconsulting.co.uk</a><br><span>+44 (0)7568 129733</span><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Saber Razmjooei<br></div><div><a href="http://www.lutraconsulting.co.uk" target="_blank">www.lutraconsulting.co.uk</a><br><span>+44 (0)7568 129733</span><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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