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

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi Jody,

This was moved to the top of the agenda and a board motion is now open:
https://www.loomio.com/p/va4hL6xb/motion-to-accept-torchgeo-for-incubation-with-brian-hamlin-as-mentor

Best,
Angelos

On 3/27/24 11:33, Jody Garnett via Board wrote:
> 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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Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
President
Open Source Geospatial Foundation
https://www.osgeo.org/member/angelos-tzotsos/