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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.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 20/12/2014 6:59 pm, Balasubramaniam
Natarajan wrote:<br>
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<div>Hi Team,<br>
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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 moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Apply">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>
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Let me and Patrick know if we are missing something.<br>
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<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
moz-do-not-send="true"
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
moz-do-not-send="true"
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 moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.openhub.net/" rel="nofollow"
target="_blank">Open HUB</a> provides metrics to
help assess the health of a project. Eg: <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
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 class="im"><span
style="color:rgb(153,0,255)"> <span
style="color:rgb(153,0,255)"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
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>
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<ul>
<li><span style="color:rgb(153,0,255)">There have
been 40 total contributors with about five
currently very active. See <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
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>
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<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
moz-do-not-send="true" 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>
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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
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://cesiumjs.org/publications.html"
target="_blank">http://cesiumjs.org/publications.html</a></span></li>
</ul>
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<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 moz-do-not-send="true"
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 moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"
rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CC By</a> and a
Quickstart available under a <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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>
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<div dir="ltr">Regards,<br>
Balasubramaniam Natarajan<br>
(Address me as Bala)<br>
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