[Board] TorchGeo enters incubation program with Brian Hamlin as mentor

[Jody Garnett]

The agenda was longer than the time slot yesterday, as outlined below we
proceed on this activity.  There was already a chance for the board to
discuss the project when it entered the community program earlier.

This is an important an interesting project. For OSGeo this one of the
first projects connected to the large data players. Technology neutral
ground has been established in the form of
https://pytorch.org/foundation (with a governing board outlined if you
follow that link).

PyTorch is popular with research making the addition of TorchGeo a great
fit with our GeoForAll community.
--
Jody Garnett


On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 9:20 PM Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Board,
>
> I have a notice to share from the incubation committee:
>
> Motion: "Begin the application for OSGeo Community Project TorchGeo to
>> graduate to full OSGeo project status" (with Brian Hamlin as mentor)
>>
>> Response:
>>
>> Angelos Tzotsos +1
>> Arnulf Christl +1
>> Bob (CI-StPaul) Basques +1
>> Brian M Hamlin +1 initial motion
>> Daniel Morissette +1
>> Dimitris Kotzinos +1
>> Frank Warmerdam +1
>> Jo Cook +1
>> Jody Garnett +1
>> Michael Smith +1
>> Regina Obe +1
>> Steve Lime +1
>> Tom Kralidis +1
>>
>> Community feedback:
>>
>> Ian Turton:  more documentation, especially of the quickstart/beginners
>> tutorial type
>>
>
> And also a conversation:
>
> The incubation committee has a habit of communicating projects entering
> incubation to the board as it used to be the "first contact" between the
> foundation and a new project team. An indication that a new party wishes to
> partner with OSGeo in some capacity.
>
> With the advent of the community project initiative the application to
> incubation is no longer a "first contact" case - indeed asking projects
> first to be recognized as a community projects has already taken care of
> the the "meet and greet" questions.
>
> So I have added the topic to the board meeting - but I do not think the
> incubation committee requires a response from the board. Please consider if
> you would like these kind of topics to be shared in the future.
>
> As for TorchGeo - congratulations and I trust we will hear from this
> project again soon when they have fulfilled incubation requirements.
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
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