<div dir="auto">Woohoo!!!</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Dec 12, 2019, 6:24 AM Kristian Evers <<a href="mailto:kreve@sdfe.dk">kreve@sdfe.dk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DA">All,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DA"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am happy to announce that as of a few weeks ago PROJ is now recognized as a full OSGeo project.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The project has been through the incubation process established by OSGeo and has proven that it<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">lives up to the high standards of project organization that is expected of OSGeo projects. The OSGeo<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">board approved the graduation the 25<sup>th</sup> of November [0].<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">OSGeo graduation is a big milestone for the project. While graduation is nice in itself as recognition<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">of the PROJ community, it also comes with access to other OSGeo benefits, such as an annual budget,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">marketing and support from the system administration group. We have already benefitted immensely<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">from the latter for years. Of cause all this OSGeo goodness comes with a responsibility, so from now<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">on PROJ will have to report to the OSGeo board on a regular basis. For now I will serve as the<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“project officer”.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks to Michael Smith and Jody Garnet for guiding PROJ through the incubation process. Also<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">thanks to everyone from the PROJ community who has pitched in along the way.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Best regards,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Kristian<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">[0] <span lang="DA"><a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2019-11-25" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><span lang="EN-US">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2019-11-25</span></a></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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