[gdal-dev] [geos-devel] GEOS Maintenance Grant

[Mateusz Loskot]

+1 from GDAL PSC member

Mateusz

On Tue, 15 Feb 2022 at 19:11, Regina Obe <lr at pcorp.us> wrote:
>
> GEOS PSC +1
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: geos-devel [mailto:geos-devel-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of
> > Howard Butler
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2022 10:38 AM
> > To: gdal dev <gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org>
> > Cc: GEOS Development List <geos-devel at lists.osgeo.org>
> > Subject: [geos-devel] GEOS Maintenance Grant
> >
> > GDAL PSC,
> >
> > When we wrote the GDAL RFCs on sponsorship, we provided an escape
> > clause to allow us to direct resources to other projects upon which GDAL
> > depends. Our sponsorship numbers are still increasing, which provides us
> an
> > opportunity to directly support some of those projects, and one of them is
> > obviously GEOS. GEOS provides all of the geometry algebra support for
> > GDAL/OGR and many other open source geospatial softwares including
> > Shapely, PostGIS, GeoPandas, MapServer, and more.
> >
> > Dan Baston of the GEOS PSC has been identified as the developer with
> > capacity and interest in the next year to take on GEOS development on APIs
> > and performance, which he has a long history of doing for the project.
> This
> > support should allow him to work longer, multi-release upgrades that will
> > provide strong performance and convenience benefits for the project.
> >
> > I motion to provide the GEOS PSC with a $50,000 USD grant to address
> > performance, API, and other work that does not attract directed funding in
> > GEOS. The GEOS PSC will be responsible for coordinating work tasks, rates,
> > and development timelines. Howard Butler or Even Rouault of the GDAL
> > NumFocus liaison team will coordinate dispersement as directed by the
> > GEOS PSC and NumFocus rules.
> >
> > Thank you again to the GDAL Sponsors https://gdal.org/sponsors/index.html
> > who have made this kind of grant possible. A better GEOS makes for a
> better
> > GDAL.
> >
> > Howard
> >
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