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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Good Morning,</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I am writing on behalf of the team behind the EOEPCA (<a href="https://eoepca.org/" id="OWAf9c7a620-fb49-7a02-bad2-0b60f762a6a3" class="OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="margin: 0px;">EO
Platform Interoperable Building Block Evolution</a>) project to apply for OSGeo Community Project status.<br>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The ever-increasing influx of Earth Observation (EO) data, often distributed across multiple independent platforms,
poses a significant challenge for end-users to efficiently access and collaborate on geospatial tasks. EOEPCA+'s vision is to define a common architecture that integrates disparate data platforms into an open network of resources. This integration is enabled
by standardised open interfaces, and a software abstraction layer that allows end users to access resources without having to worry about the operational intricacies of unique platforms.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">In February of this year the project reached its eleventh major release -
<a href="https://github.com/EOEPCA/eoepca/releases/tag/v1.4" id="OWA48735319-dbcc-60a5-937e-06eddeca2a3d" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://github.com/EOEPCA/eoepca/releases/tag/v1.4" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="margin: 0px;">
v1.4</a>. Development has been ongoing since 2019 thanks to the work of 19 contributors, with 9 operators currently deploying the system using the provided documentation. Of critical importance however is the partnership with OSGeo's official
<a href="https://zoo-project.org/" id="OWA58795470-f0ad-09b7-4c74-55dda352c674" class="OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="margin: 0px;">
ZOO-Project</a>, which has now reached a state of near-complete integration, and whose own successes are due in large part to the collaborative work with the EOEPCA team.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We recognise OSGeo's global leadership in the open-source software and geospatial realms, and would be delighted
to have the opportunity to engage with your extensive expertise to help the project grow its developer and user base. Building on its strong foundations, the EOEPCA project will gradually evolve into EOEPCA+, so OSGeo's support in the areas of project governance,
promotion and community building would be invaluable as the team works to define its future identity.</span></p>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">EOEPCA <a href="https://github.com/EOEPCA/eoepca/blob/develop/README.md" id="LPlnk881771" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://github.com/EOEPCA/eoepca/blob/develop/README.md" data-loopstyle="linkonly">
README</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Project website outlining the geospatial goals of the project:
<a href="https://eoepca.org/" id="OWAae062aa0-0c01-5b98-8324-cd4f816d2e95" class="OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">
https://eoepca.org/</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">OSGeo website <a href="https://www.osgeo.org/member/taposeea/" id="OWAd51684b9-8ea5-cd0e-492a-85f7e9378ab5" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://www.osgeo.org/member/taposeea/" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
member page</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Documentation available in several place:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://system-description.docs.eoepca.org/current/" id="OWAeca98d28-ccbf-851e-ead2-cdcfd17488f9" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://system-description.docs.eoepca.org/current/" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="margin: 0px;">System
Docs</a></span></div>
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<a href="https://deployment-guide.docs.eoepca.org/v1.4/" id="OWA76b6c8e4-2ca0-c201-b258-4630ec143a2e" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://deployment-guide.docs.eoepca.org/v1.4/" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="margin: 0px;">Deployment
Guide</a></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://github.com/EOEPCA/eoepca" id="OWAcbf68cab-740b-b3d1-fdc7-d95ad9f54971" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://github.com/EOEPCA/eoepca" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">All
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Have a free license or open-source licence:</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Uses the OSI-approved <a href="https://github.com/EOEPCA/eoepca/blob/develop/LICENSE" id="OWA7f49848a-6e6f-c207-344a-bf9ba1502aa3" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://github.com/EOEPCA/eoepca/blob/develop/LICENSE" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">
Apache-2.0 license</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Software building blocks and their sub-components are individually licensed. Full list of source repos can be found in the
<i><u><a href="https://github.com/EOEPCA/eoepca/blob/develop/README.md#technical-domains" id="OWAcce1e2de-ee1c-203a-56c4-ef8a75239372" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://github.com/EOEPCA/eoepca/blob/develop/README.md#technical-domains" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="margin: 0px;">Technical
Domains</a></u></i> section of the README however two examples are provided here:</span></div>
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<a href="https://github.com/EOEPCA/rm-data-access" id="OWA3d379f0a-70f6-8619-38b7-44a695f9d1ec" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://github.com/EOEPCA/rm-data-access" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="margin: 0px;">EOEPCA Data Access</a></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://github.com/EOEPCA/rm-registration-api" id="OWAa065b8ab-3201-a06f-f3d7-885b75a7248b" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://github.com/EOEPCA/rm-registration-api" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">EOEPCA
Registration API</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Welcome participation and new contributors</b><br>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">All required and relevant files are located in the
<a href="https://github.com/EOEPCA/eoepca" id="OWAaf63d6a7-725e-168d-68dc-135dcd7ab119" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://github.com/EOEPCA/eoepca" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
EOEPCA dev. repo</a></span></div>
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<a href="https://github.com/EOEPCA/eoepca/blob/develop/CONTRIBUTING.md" id="LPlnk742667" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://github.com/EOEPCA/eoepca/blob/develop/CONTRIBUTING.md" data-loopstyle="linkonly">Contribution Policy</a></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://github.com/EOEPCA/eoepca/blob/develop/code-of-conduct.md" id="LPlnk133550" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://github.com/EOEPCA/eoepca/blob/develop/code-of-conduct.md" data-loopstyle="linkonly">Code
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://github.com/EOEPCA/eoepca/graphs/contributors" id="LPlnk" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://github.com/EOEPCA/eoepca/graphs/contributors" data-loopstyle="linkonly">History of Contributions</a> /
<a href="https://github.com/EOEPCA/eoepca/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed" id="LPlnk802448" title="https://github.com/EOEPCA/eoepca/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed">
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