[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: ZOO-Project graduates OSGeo Incubation

[Tom Kralidis]

Published at
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/zoo-project-graduates-osgeo-incubation

Date: 2023-06-22


OSGeo is pleased to announce that ZOO-Project has graduated from incubation
and is now a full-fledged OSGeo project. Gérald Fenoy, founder and chair of
the ZOO-Project Steering Committee (PSC), has been appointed as project
officer.

ZOO-Project is an open-source platform for implementing and developing
efficient tools for processing geospatial and non-geospatial data based on
the OGC standards.

Graduating incubation <https://www.osgeo.org/about/committees/incubation>
includes fulfilling requirements for open community operation, a
responsible project governance model, code provenance, and general good
project operation. Graduation is the OSGeo seal of approval for a project
and gives potential users and the community at large an added confidence in
the viability and safety of the project.

The ZOO-Project Steering Committee collectively recognizes this as a big
progressive step for the project. ZOO-Project has been an active
contributor to various open source initiatives inside and outside OSGeo
such as FOSS4G, OSGeo Code Sprints, OGC Code Sprints, Joint OSGeo-OGC-ASF
(Apache Software Foundation) Code Sprints, Google Summer of Code. The
ZOO-Project PSC says, “*We are excited about the future of the project and
have been working towards the incubation approval for a long time. It is
our honor to be an OSGeo incubated project”.*

OSGeo and ZOO-Project would like to thank Tom Kralidis, Dimitris Kotzinos,
Frank Warmerdam, and the OSGeo Incubation Committee for their assistance
during this Incubation process.

Congratulations to the ZOO-Project community!



About ZOO-Project

ZOO-Project is a Web Processing Service (WPS) implementation written in C,
Python and JavaScript. It is an open source platform which implements the
WPS 1.0.0, WPS 2.0.0, and OGC API – Processes – Part 1: Core standards
edited by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). It provides a
developer-friendly framework for creating and chaining WPS compliant Web
Services. Additionally, it offers efficient tools for creating new
innovative web services and applications.

ZOO-Project is able to process geospatial or non geospatial data online.
Its core processing engine (aka ZOO-Kernel) lets you execute a number of
existing ZOO-Services based on reliable software and libraries. It also
gives you the ability to create your own WPS Services from new or existing
source code, which can be written in seven different programming languages.
That allows you to compose or turn code as WPS Services simply, with
straightforward configuration and standard coding methods.

ZOO-Project is very flexible with data input and output so you can process
almost any kind of data stored locally or accessed from remote servers and
databases. ZOO-Project excels in data processing and integrates new or
existing spatial data infrastructures, as it is able to communicate with
map servers and can integrate webmapping clients.



About OSGeo

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) is a not-for-profit
organization whose mission is to foster global adoption of open geospatial
technology by being an inclusive software foundation devoted to an open
philosophy and participatory community driven development.

The Foundation provides financial, organizational and legal support to the
broader open source geospatial community. It also serves as an independent
legal entity to which community members can contribute code, funding and
other resources, secure in the knowledge that their contributions will be
maintained for public benefit. OSGeo also serves as an outreach and
advocacy organization for the open source geospatial community, and
provides a common forum and shared infrastructure for improving
cross-project collaboration.

Visit osgeo.org for more information.
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