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

[Vicky Vergara]

Congratulations to the zoo-project team.

On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 12:44 PM Tom Kralidis via Discuss <
discuss at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
>
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>
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>
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>
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