<div dir="ltr">+1<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 8:26 PM, Cameron Shorter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com" target="_blank">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
  
    
  
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    Thank you Bala and Patrick,<br>
    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. <br>
    <br>
    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.<br>
    <br>
    +1 from me.<div><div class="h5"><br>
    <br>
    <div>On 20/12/2014 6:59 pm, Balasubramaniam
      Natarajan wrote:<br>
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          <div>Hi Team,<br>
            <br>
          </div>
          We would like to add the project Cesium to the OSGeoLive
          Disk.  We have answered all the questions which are needed as
          per the <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Apply" target="_blank">link</a>. 
          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.<br>
          <br>
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        Let me and Patrick know if we are missing something.<br>
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          <div>
            <ul>
              <li> Please describe your application.
                <ul>
                  <li> What is its name?
                  </li>
                  <li><span style="color:rgb(153,0,255)">Cesium</span><br>
                  </li>
                  <li> What is the home page URL?
                  </li>
                  <li><span style="color:rgb(153,0,255)"><a href="http://cesiumjs.org/" target="_blank">http://cesiumjs.org/</a></span><br>
                  </li>
                  <li> Which OSI approved Open Source Licence is used?
                  </li>
                  <li><span style="color:rgb(153,0,255)">Apache 2.0
                      license</span></li>
                  <li> What does the application do and how does it add
                    value to the GeoSpatial stack of software?
                  </li>
                  <li><span style="color:rgb(153,0,255)">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. </span></li>
                  <li> 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.
                  </li>
                  <li><span style="color:rgb(153,0,255)">WMS and WMTS.
                      KML is expected in early 2015.</span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"><br>
                    </span></li>
                  <li> What language is it written in?
                  </li>
                  <li><span style="color:rgb(153,0,255)">JavaScript</span><br>
                  </li>
                  <li> Which version of the application should be
                    included in the next OSGeo-Live release?
                  </li>
                  <li><span style="color:rgb(153,0,255)">Version 1.4  <a href="http://cesiumjs.org/downloads.html" target="_blank">http://cesiumjs.org/downloads.html</a></span><br>
                  </li>
                </ul>
              </li>
            </ul>
            <ul>
              <li> 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):
                <ul>
                  <li> 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?</li>
                  <li><span style="color:rgb(153,0,255)">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.</span></li>
                  <li> <a href="https://www.openhub.net/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Open HUB</a> provides metrics to
                    help assess the health of a project. Eg: <a href="http://adhoc.osgeo.osuosl.org/livedvd/docs/en/metrics.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://adhoc.osgeo.osuosl.org/livedvd/docs/en/metrics.html</a>
                    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?
                  </li>
                  <li><span><span style="color:rgb(153,0,255)"> <span style="color:rgb(153,0,255)"><a href="https://www.openhub.net/p/cesiumjs" target="_blank">https://www.openhub.net/p/cesiumjs</a></span>
                      </span></span></li>
                  <li> What is the size of the user community? You can
                    often answer this by mentioning downloads, or
                    describing a healthy, busy email list?
                  </li>
                  <li><span style="color:rgb(153,0,255)">The forum
                      receives 250-300 posts per month, and rising.</span></li>
                  <li> What is the size of your developer community?
                  </li>
                </ul>
                <div>
                  <div>
                    <ul>
                      <li><span style="color:rgb(153,0,255)">There have
                          been 40 total contributors with about five
                          currently very active.  See <a href="https://github.com/AnalyticalGraphicsInc/cesium/blob/master/CONTRIBUTORS.md" target="_blank">https://github.com/AnalyticalGraphicsInc/cesium/blob/master/CONTRIBUTORS.md</a></span></li>
                    </ul>
                  </div>
                </div>
                <ul>
                  <li> Do you have a bug free, stable release?
                  </li>
                  <li><span style="color:rgb(153,0,255)">The latest
                      version 1.4</span><br>
                  </li>
                  <li> Please discuss the level of testing that your
                    project has gone through.
                  </li>
                  <li><span style="color:rgb(153,0,255)">Cesium has 82K
                      lines of runtime code and 78K lines of unit tests
                      with 93% code coverage.</span></li>
                  <li> How long has the project has had mature code.
                  </li>
                  <li><span style="color:rgb(153,0,255)">Cesium 1.0 was
                      released on August 1, 2014.</span></li>
                </ul>
              </li>
            </ul>
            <ul>
              <li> 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.)
              </li>
              <ul>
                <li><span style="color:rgb(153,0,255)">Here we write
                    JavaScript to be rendered on the browser.</span><br>
                </li>
              </ul>
            </ul>
            <ul>
              <li> We give preference to OSGeo Incubated Projects, or
                Projects which are presented at <a href="http://foss4g.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">FOSS4G</a> conferences.
                If your project is involved in OSGeo Incubation, or has
                been selected to be presented at FOSS4G, then please
                mention it.
              </li>
            </ul>
            <blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px">
              <ul>
                <li><span style="color:rgb(153,0,255)">We presented at
                    FOSS4G 2014 and FOSS4G NA 2013.  We were also
                    selected to present at FOSS4G NA 2015.</span></li>
                <li><span style="color:rgb(153,0,255)">See <a href="http://cesiumjs.org/publications.html" target="_blank">http://cesiumjs.org/publications.html</a></span></li>
              </ul>
            </blockquote>
            <ul>
              <li> 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.
              </li>
              <ul>
                <li><span style="color:rgb(153,0,255)">Balasubramaniam
                    Natarajan and Patrick Cozzi.</span><br>
                </li>
              </ul>
            </ul>
            <ul>
              <li> OSGeo-Live is Ubuntu Linux based. Our installation
                preference is:
                <ol>
                  <li> Install from UbuntuGIS or DebianGIS
                  </li>
                  <li> Install .deb files from a PPA
                  </li>
                  <li> Write a custom install script
                  </li>
                </ol>
              </li>
            </ul>
            <dl>
              <dd>Can you please discuss how your application will be
                installed.
              </dd>
            </dl>
            <div style="margin-left:80px"><dt><span style="color:rgb(153,0,255)">We plan to do it with
                  custom install script.</span><br>
              </dt>
            </div>
            <ul>
              <li> OSGeo-Live is memory and disk constrained. Can the
                application run in 512 Meg of RAM?
              </li>
              <ul>
                <li><span style="color:rgb(153,0,255)">(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.<br>
                  </span></li>
              </ul>
            </ul>
            <ul>
              <li> How much disk space will be required to install the
                application and a suitable example application?
              </li>
              <ul>
                <li><span style="color:rgb(153,0,255)">Less than a 100
                    MB, I am really overstating this it could be even
                    under 50MB.</span><br>
                </li>
              </ul>
            </ul>
            <ul>
              <li> 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:
              </li>
            </ul>
            <p><a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project#Example_Datasets" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project#Example_Datasets</a>
              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.
            </p>
            <ul>
              <li> Each OSGeo-Live application requires a Project
                Overview available under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CC By</a> and a
                Quickstart available under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CC By-SA</a> license.
                (You may release under a second license as well). Will
                you produce this?
              </li>
              <ul>
                <li><span style="color:rgb(153,0,255)">We will produce a
                    project overview and a quick start guide.</span><br>
                </li>
              </ul>
            </ul>
            <ul>
              <li> 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?
              </li>
              <ul>
                <li><font color="#9900ff">Not applicable for our project
                    as it runs on the browser.</font><br>
                </li>
              </ul>
            </ul>
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                <div dir="ltr">Regards,<br>
                  Balasubramaniam Natarajan<br>
                  (Address me as Bala)<br>
                  <a href="http://blog.etutorshop.com" target="_blank">http://blog.etutorshop.com</a><br>
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LISAsoft
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