<html><body><div dir="ltr"><font face=".SF NS">Just a quick note, </font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face=".SF NS"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face=".SF NS">You seem to have found the incubation checklist which is far more extensive than what is required to join the osgeo community project initiative.</font></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">We try and make it easy to first be 1) <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Incubation_Committee#Step_1:_Add_OSGeo_Website_Project_Page">listed on our website</a>, and then 2) <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Incubation_Committee#Step_2:_Join_OSGeo_Community_Projects_Initiative">join the community project initiative</a>.</div><div dir="ltr">Indeed there is a new page on how to <a href="https://www.osgeo.org/community/getting-started-osgeo/add-a-project/">add a project</a> with step by step instructions.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">While we firmly believe in the principles outlined in the <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Incubation_Committee#Step_3:_Incubation_process_and_Graduation">incubation process</a> they are intended for established projects and focus on sustainability targets.</div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr">Can I ask how you found the full incubation checklist? I would like to ensure others are not lead astray.</div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>- -<br></div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Incubation committee:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I am writing on behalf of the team behind CoastalME (Coastal Modelling Environment Software) project to list my project</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">on the OSGeo website to be able to join the OSGeo incubation program and ultimately create a global community of developers.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> CoastalME is a software framework to simulate how the 3D coastal landscape evolves</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">over time scales of decades to centuries under different climate and human intervention conditions.
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> The main code is built on C++ and uses GDAL/OGR library to read and write the geospatial input/outputs.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> This modelling framework is described in detail in the Geoscientific Model Development Journal,
<a href="https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-2715-2017">https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-2715-2017</a> 
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Change in coastal morphology is represented by means of dynamically linked raster and geometrical objects.
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> A grid of raster cells provides the data structure for representing quasi-3-D spatial heterogeneity and sediment conservation.
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Other geometrical objects (lines, areas and volumes) that are consistent with, and derived from, the raster structure represent a
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> library of coastal elements (e.g. shoreline, beach profiles and estuary volumes) as required by different landform-specific models.
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Since the first proof of concept v1.0 (2017,
<a href="https://github.com/coastalme/coastalme">https://github.com/coastalme/coastalme</a> ), CoastalME has been developed significantly (<a href="https://github.com/davefavismortlock/coastalme_TESTING">https://github.com/davefavismortlock/coastalme_TESTING</a>),</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">reaching several releases, with the latest version being 1.1.22. The team of core users and developers of CoastalME has grown significantly over time, and is currently used for both</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">research applications and decision making applications in England and Spain. The most recent interest has been from the European Space Agency, as part of the Destination Earth program (DestinE,
<a href="https://destination-earth.eu/">https://destination-earth.eu/</a>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> that is a flagship initiative of the European Commission to develop a highly-accurate digital model of the Earth (a digital twin of the Earth) to model, monitor and simulate natural phenomena,
 hazards and </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> the related human activities. These groundbreaking features assist users in designing accurate and actionable adaptation strategies and mitigation measures. This has the potential of expanding
 the CoastalME user and developer</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">over the next two years. In this context, our goal is to enable the co-development of a coastal simulation model suitable for geospatial decision making and planning.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Historically, CoastalME was a project initiated by Oxford University responding to the demand of holistic simulation models for decision making.
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> The research done on Integrated COASTal sediment systems (iCOAST) (2012-2016) (NERC Reference : NE/J005584/1) with EA as an embedded stakeholder produced a
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> positive change to UK public services and is enabling the change needed to transition to a better adapted UK coastline to the risk of coastal flooding and erosion.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Out of iCOAST research, the EA produced a report on coastal morphological modelling for decision makers:
<a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/603793e0e90e07055b44b743/Coastal_morphological_modelling_for_decision-makers_-_report.pdf">
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/603793e0e90e07055b44b743/Coastal_morphological_modelling_for_decision-makers_-_report.pdf</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Since its inception as part of the iCOAST project, CoastalME has always been an open-source project, and now has been adopted by the British Geological Survey as the main modelling framework
 of coastal change.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">With the support of OSGeo, CoastalME aims to expand its community,
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> enhance its governance, and promote its features to a wider audience.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Community Project Application Checklist:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">- 1. Geospatial:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">     - 1.1. README or project description:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">         -  README: [CoastalME README](<a href="https://github.com/coastalme/coastalme/README.md">https://github.com/coastalme/coastalme/README.md</a> or
<a href="https://github.com/davefavismortlock/coastalme_TESTING/README.md">https://github.com/davefavismortlock/coastalme_TESTING/README.md</a>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">         - Project website: [CoastalME Website](<a href="https://earthwise.bgs.ac.uk/index.php/Category:Coastal_Modeling_Environment">https://earthwise.bgs.ac.uk/index.php/Category:Coastal_Modeling_Environment</a>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">     - 1.2. User guide or quickstart:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">         - CoastalME Documentation available:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">             - [CoastalME Documentation](see website and README)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">             - [Development Documentation](to be developed with support of OSGeo as part of the incubation program)
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">                                     - [C++ API Documentation](<a href="https://github.com/davefavismortlock/coastalme_TESTING/tree/master/Doxygen">https://github.com/davefavismortlock/coastalme_TESTING/tree/master/Doxygen</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">- 2. Free or Open Source License:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">     - 2.1. License file:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">         - CoastalME is provided under the following license: GPL version
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> 3 or later. You can find the license here: [CoastalME License](
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> <a href="https://github.com/davefavismortlock/coastalme_TESTING?tab=GPL-3.0-1-ov-file">https://github.com/davefavismortlock/coastalme_TESTING?tab=GPL-3.0-1-ov-file</a>).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">         -  Note that the main dependency for CoastalME is the GDAL/OGR library, and CoastalME uses the also open source code CSHORE
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> modules which are licensed as GPLv3+. Whenever you compile and
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> distribute CoastalME with the GPL-licensed, the full packaged result
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> is automatically considered as GPL version 3 or later, due to GPL's "viral"</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">property. If you link and distribute CoastalME with another software
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> package, be sure to fully understand the implications and check any
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> legal and technical requirements implied by the license.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">     - 2.2. Check headers:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">         - All files have a licence identifier, [for example](<a href="https://github.com/davefavismortlock/coastalme_TESTING/blob/master/src/2di_point.cpp">https://github.com/davefavismortlock/coastalme_TESTING/blob/master/src/2di_point.cpp</a>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">- 3. Participatory:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">     - 3.1 All required and relevant files are located in the CoastalME</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">repository:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">         - [Contribution Policy](to be developed with support of OSGeo as part of the incubation program)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">         - [Code of Conduct](to be developed with support of OSGeo as part of the incubation program)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">         - [History of Contributions](
<a href="https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-2715-2017">https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-2715-2017</a>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">         - [Closed Merge Requests](to be developed with support of OSGeo as part of the incubation program)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">- 4. Open Community:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">     - 4.1 communication channel: (to be developed with support of OSGeo as part of the incubation program)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">- 5. Development Process</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">     - version control: We use git. Code is located at [Github](<a href="https://github.com/davefavismortlock/coastalme_TESTING">https://github.com/davefavismortlock/coastalme_TESTING</a>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">     - issue tracker: (to be developed with support of OSGeo as part of the incubation program)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">     - leadership open to new members: (to be developed with support of OSGeo as part of the incubation program)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">     - transparent decision-making: (to be developed with support of OSGeo as part of the incubation program)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">- 6. Documentation</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">     - see 1.2. User guide or quickstart</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">- 7. Release Procedure</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">     - Release procedure to be developed with support of OSGeo as part of the incubation program</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">If you have any questions about the project or our application, please
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> let me know and I'll be more than happy to help.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> My OSGeo userid is "coastalme" and I will need permission to create a project page.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Best Regards,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#002d3d">Andres Payo 
</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#1a171c">PhD, MSc</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"></span></p>
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