[geos-devel] GEOS Maintenance Grant

[Paul Ramsey]

+1, sounds wonderful. I'm willing to be the liason to the GDAL / NumFocus administrators for this work.

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> On Feb 15, 2022, at 10:11 AM, 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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