<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">All,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The OSGeo Community Sprint saw a fury of activity by new and experienced developers alike to PDAL. I would like to thank everyone for attending and contributing activity to the PDAL codebase, and I thought I would highlight that activity here.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">James McClain (new contributor!) added TIN'ing features to filters.hag <a href="https://github.com/PDAL/PDAL/pull/2520" class="">https://github.com/PDAL/PDAL/pull/2520</a> to make it more accurate </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">Kirk McKelvey (reactivated contributor!) worked to eliminate PDAL's PCL dependency by starting development of native PCD read/write support <a href="https://github.com/PDAL/PDAL/pull/2526" class="">https://github.com/PDAL/PDAL/pull/2526</a></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Jim Klassen worked a number of E57 issues related to normal information and omitted/hidden points. <a href="https://github.com/PDAL/PDAL/pull/2530" class="">https://github.com/PDAL/PDAL/pull/2530</a> <a href="https://github.com/PDAL/PDAL/issues/2529" class="">https://github.com/PDAL/PDAL/issues/2529</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Andrew Bell worked on GDAL 3.0 / PROJ 6 SRS issues that have surfaced due to PDAL's usage of coordinate system handling in those tools. He also closed a number of bugs and and pull requests.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Vaclav Petras enhanced GRASS's PDAL ingestion routines to support stream ingestion and investigated supporting pipeline operations. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Grigory Pomadachin investigated emitting Apache Arrow data structures via the Java bindings from PDAL for use in those environments.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Brad Chambers documented the new covariancefeatures filter, removed the deprecated filters.mongus filter, and enhanced eigen operations for PDAL filters that use them.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Peter Limkilde Svendsen worked on PDAL's delaunay filter.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you again for these wonderful contributions to the PDAL codebase. We had fun in Minneapolis sprinting with you. Till next time!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Howard</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/jodygarnett/sets/72157708583937584/" class="">https://www.flickr.com/photos/jodygarnett/sets/72157708583937584/</a></div></body></html>