[geos-devel] [gdal-dev] GEOS Maintenance Grant

[Regina Obe]

+1 let's just copy it.

Thanks,
Regina

> -----Original Message-----
> From: geos-devel [mailto:geos-devel-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of
> Paul Ramsey
> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2022 11:46 AM
> To: GEOS Development List <geos-devel at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: Re: [geos-devel] [gdal-dev] GEOS Maintenance Grant
> 
> As usual, GDAL has a reasonable template to work from.
> 
> https://gdal.org/community/code_of_conduct.html#code-of-conduct
> 
> I'm happy to have a CoC and happy to just copy someone else's. Other
> thoughts?
> 
> P
> 
> > On Feb 16, 2022, at 7:49 AM, Sean Gillies <sean.gillies at gmail.com>
wrote:
> >
> > Howard,
> >
> > I'm in favor, but first I'd like to see the GEOS project adopt a code of
> conduct. Sponsors look for one these days, right? It's probably a good
move
> for GEOS in the long run.
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 8:37 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
> >
> >
> > --
> > Sean Gillies
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