[Live-demo] Request for - Live GIS Add Project (Cesium)

Johan Van de Wauw johan.vandewauw at gmail.com
Sat Dec 20 11:29:12 PST 2014


+1

On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 8:26 PM, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
wrote:

>  Thank you Bala and Patrick,
> I'm delighted to see Cesium applying to join OSGeo-Live. I've been hearing
> great things about Cesium, and with regards to your project description
> below, you have addressed all the requirements that are important for
> OSGeo-Live applications. I have discussed including Cesium with others in
> prior OSGeo-Live meetings and have had positive responses from other
> members of the OSGeo-Live team as well.
>
> OSGeo-Live community, I raise the motion that OSGeo-Live should be
> included on our next OSGeoLive 8.5 release (assuming docs and install
> work). If there are no -1 within 48 hours, then consider this a formal
> acceptance of the project into OSGeo-Live.
>
> +1 from me.
>
>
> On 20/12/2014 6:59 pm, Balasubramaniam Natarajan wrote:
>
>  Hi Team,
>
>  We would like to add the project Cesium to the OSGeoLive Disk.  We have
> answered all the questions which are needed as per the link
> <http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Apply>.  I am in the process of
> writing a script to get Cesium installed on a debian machine which I will
> share once it is done.  I will also put together a project overview and a
> quick start guide.
>
>  Let me and Patrick know if we are missing something.
>
>    - Please describe your application.
>       - What is its name?
>       - Cesium
>        - What is the home page URL?
>       - http://cesiumjs.org/
>        - Which OSI approved Open Source Licence is used?
>       - Apache 2.0 license
>       - What does the application do and how does it add value to the
>       GeoSpatial stack of software?
>       - Cesium is a JavaScript library for creating 3D globes and 2D maps
>       in a web browser without a plugin. It uses WebGL for hardware-accelerated
>       graphics, and is cross-platform, cross-browser, and tuned for dynamic-data
>       visualization. Cesium is open source under the Apache 2.0 license. It is
>       free for commercial and non-commercial use.
>       - Does the application make use of OGC standards? Which versions of
>       the standards? Client or server? You may wish to add comments about how
>       standards are used.
>       - WMS and WMTS. KML is expected in early 2015.
>        - What language is it written in?
>       - JavaScript
>        - Which version of the application should be included in the next
>       OSGeo-Live release?
>       - Version 1.4  http://cesiumjs.org/downloads.html
>
>
>    - Stability is very important to us on OSGeo-Live. If a new user finds
>    a bug in one application, it will tarnish the reputation of all other
>    OSGeo-Live applications as well. (We pay most attention to the following
>    answers):
>       - If risk adverse organisations have deployed your application into
>       production, it would imply that these organisations have verified the
>       stability of your software. Has the application been rolled out to
>       production into risk (ideally risk adverse) organisations? Please mention
>       some of these organisations?
>       - Cesium is widely used in government agencies and has been used in
>       NORAD Tracks Santa since 2012, which receives about 20 million unique
>       visitors each December.
>       - Open HUB <https://www.openhub.net/> provides metrics to help
>       assess the health of a project. Eg:
>       http://adhoc.osgeo.osuosl.org/livedvd/docs/en/metrics.html Could
>       you please ensure that your project is registered with Open HUB, and Open
>       HUB has been updated to reference the correct code repository(s) for your
>       project. What is the Open HUB URL for your project?
>       - https://www.openhub.net/p/cesiumjs
>       - What is the size of the user community? You can often answer this
>       by mentioning downloads, or describing a healthy, busy email list?
>       - The forum receives 250-300 posts per month, and rising.
>       - What is the size of your developer community?
>      - There have been 40 total contributors with about five currently
>       very active.  See
>       https://github.com/AnalyticalGraphicsInc/cesium/blob/master/CONTRIBUTORS.md
>      - Do you have a bug free, stable release?
>       - The latest version 1.4
>        - Please discuss the level of testing that your project has gone
>       through.
>       - Cesium has 82K lines of runtime code and 78K lines of unit tests
>       with 93% code coverage.
>       - How long has the project has had mature code.
>       - Cesium 1.0 was released on August 1, 2014.
>
>
>    - OSGeo-Live is targeted at applications that people can use rather
>    than libraries. Does the application have a user interface (possibly a
>    command line interface) that a user can interact with? (We do make an
>    exception for Incubated OSGeo Libraries, and will include Project Overviews
>    for these libraries, even if they don't have a user interface.)
>       - Here we write JavaScript to be rendered on the browser.
>
>
>    - We give preference to OSGeo Incubated Projects, or Projects which
>    are presented at FOSS4G <http://foss4g.org> conferences. If your
>    project is involved in OSGeo Incubation, or has been selected to be
>    presented at FOSS4G, then please mention it.
>
>
>    - We presented at FOSS4G 2014 and FOSS4G NA 2013.  We were also
>    selected to present at FOSS4G NA 2015.
>    - See http://cesiumjs.org/publications.html
>
>
>    - With around 50 applications installed on OSGeo-Live, us core
>    packagers do not have the time to liaise with every single project email
>    list for each OSGeo-Live release. So we require a volunteer (or two) to
>    take responsibility for liaising between OSGeo-Live and the project's
>    communities. This volunteer will be responsible for ensuring the install
>    scripts and English documentation are updated by someone for each
>    OSGeo-Live release. Also test that the installed application and Quickstart
>    documentation works as expected on release candidate releases of
>    OSGeo-Live. Who will act as the project's liaison person.
>       - Balasubramaniam Natarajan and Patrick Cozzi.
>
>
>    - OSGeo-Live is Ubuntu Linux based. Our installation preference is:
>       1. Install from UbuntuGIS or DebianGIS
>       2. Install .deb files from a PPA
>       3. Write a custom install script
>
>  Can you please discuss how your application will be installed.
> We plan to do it with custom install script.
>
>    - OSGeo-Live is memory and disk constrained. Can the application run
>    in 512 Meg of RAM?
>       - (We will get back on this point).  In my test I ran Cesium on a
>       gui less virtualbox guest and accessed it from another computer via browser
>       which had capability for rendering WebGL on browser and it worked fine.
>
>
>    - How much disk space will be required to install the application and
>    a suitable example application?
>       - Less than a 100 MB, I am really overstating this it could be even
>       under 50MB.
>
>
>    - We aim to reduce disk space by having all applications make use of a
>    common dataset. We encourage applications to make use of the example
>    datasets already installed:
>
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project#Example_Datasets If
> another dataset would be more appropriate, please discuss here. Is it
> appropriate, to remove existing demo datasets which may already be included
> in the standard release.
>
>    - Each OSGeo-Live application requires a Project Overview available
>    under a CC By <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/> and a
>    Quickstart available under a CC By-SA
>    <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/> license. (You may
>    release under a second license as well). Will you produce this?
>       - We will produce a project overview and a quick start guide.
>
>
>    - In past releases, we have included Windows and Mac installers for
>    some applications. It is likely we won't have space for these in future
>    releases. However, if there is room, would you be wishing to include
>    Windows and/or Mac installers?
>       - Not applicable for our project as it runs on the browser.
>
>   --
>  Regards,
> Balasubramaniam Natarajan
> (Address me as Bala)
> http://blog.etutorshop.com
>
>
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> Cameron Shorter,
> Software and Data Solutions Manager
> LISAsoft
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