<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="">Dear ZOO-Project community,<div class="">I would like to inform you that the ZOO-Project has been accepted by the Microsoft <span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Open Source Team</span> for a 6 months grant of 10k$US <span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Azure credits as part of the Azure credits for open source projects program.</span></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">As a first test, I have tried to setup an Azure WebApp instance using the docker-compose.yaml we already got. It is available from here; [1].</span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class="">The great news is that it works using a slightly modified docker-compose.yaml file which use specific binary Docker images that was build in the same way we build it using docker-composer or docker command line.</font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class="">The WPS demonstrations seem to be functional. Regarding the OGC API - Processes demonstration it is </font>functional at the exception of the service execution. Actually, I have faced issue when trying to use the websocketd container we have in the original docker-compose.yml file. Looking in the Azure documentation, FAQ and forums I came to the conclusion that we need another container that would be Azure specific for handling the web socket properly.</div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class="">This is the actual state where I decided not to go deeper and implement a new container specific for Azure. If we have any volunteer in the community or anyone getting something already available that we may slightly modify to use the redis backend traditionally used. </font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="">So, currently the web socket is not functional making the use of the HTML UI for executing service almost unusable, except in case you invoke execution of service synchronously. In case anyone can give a hand on this, it would be very helpful.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">On the other hand, as discussed during the last PSC meeting, we would like to hear from you about what you would like us / you to experiment using the ZOO-Project on the Microsoft Azure platform.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The first idea that emerged during the PSC meting was that, in addition to the initial demonstrations that we put on Azure already, we may add a demonstration MapMint instance on Azure.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We would be very please to have proposal from you for using the Azure credits for further development and experimentations.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I hope to hear from you.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best regards,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">[1] <a href="http://zooprojectdemo.azurewebsites.net" class="">http://zooprojectdemo.azurewebsites.net</a></span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><br class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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