<div dir="auto">Thank you,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I had a chance to read your reply … and everything is indeed clear. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It is also clear how old that application form was .. when the foundation had concerned mostly about ability to host projects and download size.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I think what is needed next is an appropriate mentor, and then we are in position to make a motion for the project to join the incubation process.<br clear="all"><div dir="auto"><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></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Mar 2, 2024 at 1:26 PM Adam Stewart <<a href="mailto:ajstewart426@gmail.com">ajstewart426@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;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div style="line-break:after-white-space">Hi Jody,<div><br></div><div>Attached is our incubator application. Let me know if there's anything we can clarify.</div></div><div style="line-break:after-white-space"><div><br></div><div></div></div><div style="line-break:after-white-space"><div></div><div><br id="m_7121877658963574499lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div>
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That is correct, some of the questions are a bit "dated", so do not get hung up too much on detail (it is expected to have things to work on with a mentor).</div><div dir="ltr">Actually the one road lock that usually happens is just that - finding a mentor. I understand you already have a volunteer :)<br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div 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>
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<div><div></div><div style="line-break:after-white-space">Thanks,<div><br></div><div>We added a link to our OSGeo project page and a badge to our README that will encourage users to join OSGeo: <a href="https://github.com/microsoft/torchgeo/pull/1880" target="_blank">https://github.com/microsoft/torchgeo/pull/1880</a>. We'll also include the OSGeo logo when we give presentations/tutorials.</div><div><br></div><div>We're planning to make a news post for each new TorchGeo release. We expect a patch release in the next week or two and a minor release in late March or early April.</div><div><div><br></div><div>If I'm understanding correctly, I just need to fill out <a href="https://www.osgeo.org/resources/incubator-application-1-0/" target="_blank">https://www.osgeo.org/resources/incubator-application-1-0/</a> and send it back to you to apply for incubation? Will try to do so soon.</div><div><br id="m_7121877658963574499lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Feb 14, 2024, at 17:21, Jody Garnett <<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" target="_blank">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="auto">Congrats!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">You should be able to out the “osgeo community” branding in your website:</div><div dir="auto"><div><a href="https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/tree/master/incubation/community" target="_blank">https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/tree/master/incubation/community</a></div></div><div dir="auto"><div><a href="https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/tree/master/marketing/branding/subbrands/community" target="_blank">https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/tree/master/marketing/branding/subbrands/community</a></div><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">You may also wish to make a news post here:<div><a href="https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/" target="_blank">https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div>If your project has a blog you can also register it with community news.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">You are very welcome to start an application for incubation; we had a call to update some of our procedures around this (so if the docs are confusing please ask). <br clear="all"><br clear="all"><div dir="auto"><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></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 1:54 AM Adam Stewart <<a href="mailto:ajstewart426@gmail.com" target="_blank">ajstewart426@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;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div style="line-break:after-white-space">Hi Jody,<div><br></div><div>It looks like the motion passed! We're excited to join OSGeo, and will make the announcement to our users today. We'll also encourage our users to join OSGeo itself.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm not sure how the process usually looks, but I believe we also satisfy all requirements for the second tier of membership. Should we get started on that process, or is there a certain amount of time that projects usually wait in the first tier before moving to the second tier?</div><div></div></div><div style="line-break:after-white-space"><div><br id="m_7121877658963574499m_-8773008441412685734lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jan 22, 2024, at 23:56, Jody Garnett <<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" target="_blank">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div><div dir="ltr">Hello Adam:</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I with the osgeo page available:</div><div dir="ltr">1 Be geospatial:</div><div dir="ltr"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>2 done: Project page on osgeo website: <font style="color:rgb(65,156,255)"><font style="color:rgb(65,156,255)"><font style="color:rgb(65,156,255)"><a href="https://www.osgeo.org/projects/torchgeo" target="_blank">https://www.osgeo.org/projects/torchgeo</a></font> </font></font></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">2 Have a free license or an open source license</div><div dir="ltr"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>2 done: "I added a CONTRIBUTING.md and fixed a few files that were missing the license header. Everything should be in compliance now."</div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">I think that covers it I will make a motion for the group here to double check and ask questions.</div><div>--</div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div><br>
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Hello Adam,</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Thanks for contacting the incubation committee it is good to hear from you, I really appreciate how organized you have been in your application. You appear very well informed on our requirements (which is much appreciated).</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Looking at our first checklist to be added to the website:</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><ol start="1" dir="ltr" style="margin:0px"><li>Done: Be Geospatial: <font style="color:rgb(65,156,255)"><a href="https://github.com/microsoft/torchgeo/blob/main/README.md" target="_blank">https://github.com/microsoft/torchgeo/blob/main/README.md</a></font></li><li>Done: Have a free license or open source license: <font style="color:rgb(65,156,255)"><a href="https://github.com/microsoft/torchgeo/blob/main/LICENSE" target="_blank">https://github.com/microsoft/torchgeo/blob/main/LICENSE</a></font> (MIT)</li><li>Done: Welcome participation and new contributors. <font style="color:rgb(65,156,255)"><font style="color:rgb(65,156,255)"><a href="https://torchgeo.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user/contributing.html" target="_blank">https://torchgeo.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user/contributing.html</a></font><br></font></li><ol><li>You may still wish to add a CONTRIBUTING.md linking to this page; as GitHub will show the contents of this file to potential contributors.</li></ol></ol><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr">With that in mind can I ask you to <a href="https://id.osgeo.org/ldap/create" target="_blank">setup an OSGeo UserID</a> (if you have not done so already) and login to the website creating a<a href="https://www.osgeo.org/community/members/" target="_blank"> members profile</a>. Reply to this message with your userID and I can give you permission to make a project page.</div></div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr">While we wait we can look at the second checklist:</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><ol start="1" style="margin:0px" dir="ltr"><li>Be gospatial</li><ol dir="ltr"><li>Done: README</li><li>Pending: Project page on osgeo website</li><li>Done: User documentation: <font style="color:rgb(65,156,255)"><a href="https://torchgeo.readthedocs.io/en/stable/tutorials/getting_started.html" target="_blank">https://torchgeo.readthedocs.io/en/stable/tutorials/getting_started.html</a></font></li><ol dir="ltr"><li>The user docs heading covered installation and contributing (not so much use, the tutorials are more what we are looking for - showing how a normal GIS Professional (or GIS Developer in this case) can use your project</li></ol></ol><li>Have a free license or an open source license.<br></li><ol dir="ltr"><li>Done: License</li><li>Pending: We ask that the project team check the file headers and double check the license has been appropriately applied</li><ol dir="ltr"><li>You may feel comfortable making this statement already? Although I did not see any files with out a header, it is more about asking you to check and confirm on behalf of your team</li><li>I note your use of a CLA and a contirbution bot - cool 🙂</li></ol></ol><li>Welcome participation and new contributors.<br></li><ol dir="ltr"><li>Done: Clean contribution policy</li><li>Done: I can see a large number of closed pull requests, and collaborators page shows a number of actors<br></li><li>Done: Code of conduct: <font style="color:rgb(65,156,255)"><font style="color:rgb(65,156,255)"><a href="https://github.com/microsoft/torchgeo/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md" target="_blank">https://github.com/microsoft/torchgeo/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md</a></font></font></li></ol></ol><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">As a volunteer run committee we are struggling with a lack of engagement (especially difficult over the seasonal holidays). Thank you for making this as easy as possible thus far.<br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div 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>
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<div><div></div><div style="line-break:after-white-space"><div style="line-break:after-white-space"><div>Hello,</div><div><br></div><div>My name is Adam Stewart. I'm a <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=IQ19q4AAAAAJ" target="_blank">geospatial ML researcher</a> and passionate <a href="https://github.com/adamjstewart" target="_blank">open-source developer</a>. I earned my B.S. in Science of Earth Systems at Cornell and my Ph.D. in Computer Science at UIUC, and currently work as a postdoc at TUM with a focus on machine learning for Earth observation. I created <a href="https://github.com/microsoft/torchgeo" target="_blank">TorchGeo</a>, and also help maintain the <a href="https://github.com/Toblerity/rtree" target="_blank">R-tree</a> library and <a href="https://github.com/spack/spack" target="_blank">Spack</a> package manager. I've contributed to most geospatial libraries, including <a href="https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/issues?q=author:adamjstewart" target="_blank">GDAL</a>, <a href="https://github.com/rasterio/rasterio/issues?q=author:adamjstewart" target="_blank">rasterio</a>, and <a href="https://github.com/Toblerity/rtree/issues?q=author:adamjstewart" target="_blank">R-tree</a>, and maintain all geospatial build recipes in the Spack package manager.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm reaching out to you today to express interest in having <a href="https://github.com/microsoft/torchgeo" target="_blank">TorchGeo</a> join the OSGeo Foundation. TorchGeo is a PyTorch domain library for machine learning with geospatial data, especially remote sensing data. TorchGeo started as an internship project at the Microsoft AI for Good Research Lab and developed into my thesis dissertation with an active community of contributors from around the world. It builds on top of GDAL (via rasterio and fiona) and PyTorch to make it easy to work with any kind of geospatial data in a machine learning workflow. Data can be automatically reprojected and resampled to a common CRS and resolution, making it easy for machine learning researchers without geospatial skills to work with satellite imagery. </div><div><br></div><div>Some statistics:</div><div><br></div><div><ul><li>Stars: 2K</li><li>Forks: 240</li><li>Contributors: 55</li><li>Maintainers: 5 with merge privileges (CC'ed)</li><li>PyPI downloads:</li><ul><li>Last week: 4.4K</li><li>Last month: 22K</li><li>All time: 150K</li></ul><li>GitHub topics (ranked by number of stars):</li><ul><li>Earth observation: #4</li><li>Satellite imagery: #4</li><li>Remote sensing: #7</li><li>Geospatial: #21</li></ul></ul></div><div><br></div><div>I believe we already meet most of the criteria for the highest level of membership in OSGeo:</div><div><br></div><div><ul><li>Geospatial: yes</li><li>License: <a href="https://github.com/microsoft/torchgeo/blob/main/LICENSE" target="_blank">MIT</a>, including file headers</li><li>Contributions: 55 contributors and counting, <a href="https://torchgeo.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user/contributing.html" target="_blank">contribution guide</a></li><li>Code of conduct: <a href="https://github.com/microsoft/torchgeo/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md" target="_blank">yes</a></li><li>Community: active <a href="https://join.slack.com/t/torchgeo/shared_invite/zt-22rse667m-eqtCeNW0yI000Tl4B~2PIw" target="_blank">Slack workspace</a></li><li>Users and contributors from both industry (Microsoft, Intel, Meta, IBM, Amazon) and academia (TUM, EPFL, ETH Zurich, Cambridge, Oxford, Stanford, Berkeley, CMU, MIT, U Washington)</li><li>GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/microsoft/torchgeo/issues" target="_blank">issue tracker</a></li><li>Documentation: <a href="https://torchgeo.readthedocs.io/en/stable/" target="_blank">readthedocs</a></li><li>Release procedure: <a href="https://github.com/microsoft/torchgeo/wiki/Releasing-Instructions" target="_blank">wiki</a></li><li>CI: <a href="https://github.com/microsoft/torchgeo/tree/main/.github/workflows" target="_blank">GitHub Actions</a> with <a href="https://codecov.io/gh/microsoft/torchgeo" target="_blank">100% test coverage</a></li></ul><div><br></div></div><div>We already have 10 stable releases and it's easy to install TorchGeo using pip, conda, or spack.</div><div><br></div><div>We think membership in the OSGeo Foundation would be beneficial to us in a number of ways. OSGeo represents the gold standard of open source software development in the geospatial community, and we would love your expertise to suggest ways we can grow our community of contributors. We would love to have tighter integration with other OSGeo projects like GDAL, working together to improve data loading performance. OSGeo provides a great opportunity to advertise our project on your website (and your foundation on our GitHub). We also have aspirations to present TorchGeo tutorials at as many remote sensing and machine learning conferences as possible, and could use funding to support travel for presenters.</div><div><br></div><div>Please let us know if TorchGeo fits your requirements for joining the OSGeo Foundation and how we can join. We would be interested in the highest level of membership possible, but are also happy to start off as a member of the OSGeo community and work our way up to OSGeo project or incubation.</div><br><div>
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