[geos-devel] GEOS Maintenance Grant

[Regina Obe]

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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