[Geo4All] [geoforall-ab] Ideas invited from "Geo for All" community for Global Week to help demonstrate and raise awareness of "geo" in education at UNESCO

[massimiliano cannata]

Dear patrik
Thanks for the clear and precise clarification wich tell how open is cesium
(and even if it would have a deluxe version still you have an osi licensed
software for the community to work on and make it better then this deluxe
version).

For curiosity... may i ask you if you have ever considered to incubate in
osgeo? And if not, why?

Best
Maxi
Il 15/Ago/2016 18:57, "Cozzi, Patrick" <pcozzi at agi.com> ha scritto:

> Hi all,
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> As an educator and open-source geospatial developer, I admire the
> principles of Geo4All.
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> At the University of Pennsylvania, all of my course projects are
> open-source; I mentor projects and speak in Penn's open-source software
> development course; and I advise independent study projects that produce
> useful open-source software [1].  I also serve on conference committees
> such as FOSS4G NA and FedGeoDay.
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> At AGI, I started Cesium and open-source development in general, and
> continue to lead these efforts.  There's some misinformation about Cesium
> in this thread that I would like to clear up.
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> 1. Cesium is truly open-source as defined by the Open Source Initiative
> [2].  Cesium uses the Apache 2.0 license (an OSI approved license [3]),
> follows the Contributor Covenant's Code of Conduct [4], has dozens of
> contributors not employed by AGI [5], has public roadmap discussions where
> everyone is encouraged to participate [6], strictly follows Contributor
> License Agreements [7], has tons of documentation to create an inclusive
> community for new users and contributors [8, 9], and is considered by many
> to be an open-source community success story [10].
>
>
>
> 2. In addition to creating a genuinely useful software project that has,
> for example, proved to be a successful successor to Google Earth [11] and
> widely used at NASA (search for "NASA" in [12]), the Cesium team is now
> creating an ecosystem including open formats to move the 3D geospatial
> field forward without vendor lock-in.  These formats include glTF for
> efficient 3D models [13], an open standard that we created as part of The
> Khronos Group (who also maintain WebGL, OpenGL, COLLADA, etc), and 3D Tiles
> for streaming massive heterogeneous 3D geospatial datasets [14].  We've
> fostered these formats in openness by having spec development, editing, and
> discussion in GitHub repos.
>
>
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> 3. The existence of a Cesium Pro version does not imply that open-source
> Cesium is a distant second.  Cesium Pro could more literally be named
> "Cesium with niche aerospace features."  It serves a narrow market that
> creates funding for the sustainability and rapid development of the broad
> open-source Cesium.  AGI is passionately supporting open-source Cesium for
> the long-haul as all our new initiatives are built on it.  We would, for
> example, never make the core terrain and imagery engine faster in Cesium
> Pro, but not open-source Cesium.  The tangled fork alone would be too much
> work to maintain.  Open-source Cesium will remain first rate and use only
> open formats so, for example, data sources can come from any vendor, with
> open- or closed-source software.
>
>
>
> Please let me know if you have specific questions about Cesium.  I'm happy
> to provide info and respect that ultimately the decision to use Cesium for
> Geo4All, MapStory, etc. is up to you.
>
>
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> Also, one thought for criteria for Geo4All's endorsement: consider a
> minimal first requirement of only using projects with OSI approved licenses
> as this comes with many guarantees about the open use of the project [3].
>
>
>
> Finally, I suggest avoiding terms like "license free" since if a project
> does not have a license, it is technically "all rights reserved."  I would
> also try to avoid "commercial" in some contexts since, at least in the US
> government's eyes, open-source software is commercial software [15].
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Patrick
>
> http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~pcozzi/
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> [1] http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~pcozzi/projects.html
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> [2] https://opensource.org/osd-annotated
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> [3] https://opensource.org/licenses
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> [4] https://github.com/AnalyticalGraphicsInc/cesium/
> blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#code-of-conduct
>
> [5] https://github.com/AnalyticalGraphicsInc/cesium/
> blob/master/CONTRIBUTORS.md
>
> [6] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/cesium-dev/jGgNInY2Fqo
>
> [7] https://github.com/AnalyticalGraphicsInc/cesium/
> blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#contributor-license-agreement-cla
>
> [8] http://cesiumjs.org/tutorials.html
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> [9] https://github.com/AnalyticalGraphicsInc/cesium/
> blob/master/Documentation/Contributors/README.md
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> [10] http://cesiumjs.org/publications.html#growing-an-
> open-source-community-lessons
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> [11] http://cesiumjs.org/for-google-earth-developers.html
>
> [12] http://cesiumjs.org/demos.html
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> [13] https://www.khronos.org/gltf
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> [14] https://github.com/AnalyticalGraphicsInc/3d-tiles
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> [15] http://dodcio.defense.gov/Open-Source-Software-FAQ/#Q:_
> Is_open_source_software_commercial_software.3F_Is_it_COTS.3F
>
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