[gdal-dev] GEOS Maintenance Grant

[Frank Warmerdam]

+1 FrankW

I'm very pleased as a GDAL PSC member and a sponsor who depends on the full
stack.

On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 2:46 PM Kurt Schwehr <schwehr at gmail.com> wrote:

> +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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