[gdal-dev] GEOS Maintenance Grant

[Kurt Schwehr]

+1 KurtS - GDAL PSC member

On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 7:38 AM Howard Butler <howard at hobu.co> wrote:

> 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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