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

Jérôme St-Louis jerome at ecere.com
Mon Jun 26 03:09:45 PDT 2023


Félicitations Gérald & ZOO Project team!!

On 6/26/23 05:17, Vicky Vergara via Discuss wrote:
> 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.
>
>     Graduatingincubation
>     <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 <http://osgeo.org> for more information.
>
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