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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>The following motion has been made by Michael Smith, mentor to the pygeoapi project:</span><span style='color:black'><br></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'> Motion to graduate pygeoapi as an OSGeo Project</span><span style='color:black'><br><br></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>The Incubation Status for pygeoapi is here: </span><a href="https://github.com/geopython/pygeoapi/wiki/OSGeoIncubation" target="_blank" title="https://github.com/geopython/pygeoapi/wiki/OSGeoIncubation">https://github.com/geopython/pygeoapi/wiki/OSGeoIncubation</a><span style='color:black'><br></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>With the Graduation Checklist here:<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><a href="https://github.com/geopython/pygeoapi/wiki/ProjectGraduationChecklist" target="_blank" title="https://github.com/geopython/pygeoapi/wiki/ProjectGraduationChecklist">https://github.com/geopython/pygeoapi/wiki/ProjectGraduationChecklist</a><span style='color:black'><br><br></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>Project Officer for pygeoapi will be Tom Kralidis</span><span style='color:black'><br><br></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>pygeoapi is a Python server implementation of the OGC API suite of standards. The project emerged as part of the next generation OGC API efforts in 2018 and provides the capability for organizations to deploy a RESTful OGC API endpoint using OpenAPI, GeoJSON, and HTML. pygeoapi is open source and released under an MIT license.</span><span style='color:black'><br></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>pygeoapi is certified OGC Compliant and an OGC Reference Implementation</span><span style='color:black'><br><br></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>The project emerged as part of the next generation OGC API efforts in 2018 and provides the capability for organizations to deploy an RESTful OGC API endpoint using OpenAPI, GeoJSON, and HTML. </span><span style='color:black'><br><br></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>-----</span><span style='color:black'><br><br></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>This motion is held open for two weeks closing August 19th, requiring 50% quorum,</span><span style='color:black'><br></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>from the following incubation committee members:</span><span style='color:black'><br></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>- Bruce Bannerman</span><span style='color:black'><br></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>- Bob (CI-StPaul) Basques</span><span style='color:black'><br></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>- Howard Butler</span><span style='color:black'><br></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>- Arnulf Christl</span><span style='color:black'><br></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>- Jo Cook</span><span style='color:black'><br></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>- Jody Garnett</span><span style='color:black'><br></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>- Dimitris Kotzinos</span><span style='color:black'><br></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>- Tom Kralidis</span><span style='color:black'><br></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>- Julien-Samuel Lacroix</span><span style='color:black'><br></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>- Mark Lucas</span><span style='color:black'><br></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>- Michael Smith</span><span style='color:black'><br></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>- Steve Lime</span><span style='color:black'><br></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>- Daniel Morissette</span><span style='color:black'><br></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>- Markus Schneider</span><span style='color:black'><br></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>- Norman Vine</span><span style='color:black'><br></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>- Frank Warmerdam</span><span style='color:black'><br></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'> </span><span style='color:black'><br></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>----- </span><span style='color:black'><br></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>Michael Smith</span><span style='color:black'><br></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>OSGeo Mentor to pygeoapi</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>