[Incubator] Official FDO Application for Incubation

[Frank Warmerdam]

Folks,

Bob has prepared the following official application for incubation for FDO.

Best regards,
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1.  Please provide the name and email address of the principal Project Owner.

     Copyright in the FDO project is held by Autodesk, Inc.


2. Please provide the names and emails of co-project owners (if any).

     None at the moment.


3. Please provide the names, emails and entity affiliation of all official 
committers

   Autodesk
     Greg Boone              greg.boone at autodesk.com
     Badreddine Karoui    badreddine.karoui at autodesk.com
     Barbara Zoladek      barbara.zoladek at autodesk.com
     Brent Robinson       brent.robinson at autodesk.com
     Dan Stoica           dan.stoica at autodesk.com
     Gavin Cramer         gavin.cramer at autodesk.com
     Orest Halustchak     orest.halustchak at autodesk.com
     Pierre Dalcourt      pierre.dalcourt at autodesk.com
     Robert Fortin        robert.fortin at autodesk.com
     Romica Dascalescu    romica.dascalescu at autodesk.com
     Thomas Knoell        thomas.knoell at autodesk.com
     Christine Bao        christine.bao at autodesk.com
     Klain Qin            klain.qin at autodesk.com
     Vincent Wei          vincent.wei at autodesk.com
     Wesley Miao          wesley.miao at autodesk.com
     Bruce Jia            bruce.jia at autodesk.com
     Jack Lee             jack.lee at autodesk.com
     Don Cameron          donald.cameron at autodesk.com
     Michael Ross         michael.ross at autodesk.com
     Bruce Dechant        bruce.dechant at autodesk.com
     Robert Bray          rbray at robertbray.net
     Tom Fukushima        tom.fukushima at autodesk.com
     Tim Strang           tim.strang at autodesk.com
     Trevor Wekel         trevor.wekel at autodesk.com
     Walt Welton-Lair     walt.welton-lair at autodesk.com
     Traian Stanev        traian.stanev at autodesk.com

   Independent
     Frank Warmerdam     warmerdam at pobox.com
     Mateusz Loskot     mateusz at loskot.net

   SL-King
     Haris Kurtagic     haris at sl-king.com


4. Please describe your Project.

     Feature Data Objects (FDO) is an API for manipulating, defining, and
     analyzing geospatial information regardless of where it is stored.
     FDO uses a provider-based model for supporting a variety of
     geospatial data sources, where each provider typically supports a
     particular data format or data store. For more information see
     http://fdo.osgeo.org.


5. Why is hosting at OSGeo good for your project?

     As with MapGuide we believe OSGeo membership will provide a much
     more impartial open source home for FDO than hosting it directly
     from Autodesk. It is our sincere hope that it will become a key
     component in the geospatial open source software stack.


6. Type of application does this project represent(client, server, standalone, 
library, etc.):

    Library


7. Please describe any relationships to other open source projects.

    FDO is heavily used by MapGuide Open Source.


8. Please describe any relationships with commercial companies or products.

    Originally developed by Autodesk, FDO is used in commercial products
    from Autodesk and Safe Software.


9. Which open source license(s) will the source code be released under?

    LGPL


10. Is there already a beta or official release?

    Yes


11. What is the origin of your project (commercial, experimental, thesis or 
other higher education, government, or some other source)?

    Commercial with an eye toward open source.


12. Does the project support open standards? Which ones and to what extent? 
(OGC, w3c, ect.) Has the software been certified to any standard (CITE for 
example)? If not, is it the intention of the project owners to seek 
certification at some point?

    OGC, WKT, WMS, WFS


13. Is the code free of patents, trademarks, and do you control the copyright?

    Yes


14. How many people actively contribute (code, documentation, other?) to the 
project at this time?

    ~20


15. How many people have commit access to the source code respository?

    29


16. Approximately how many users are currently using this project?

    3) MGOS, Autodesk, Safe


17. What type of users does your project attract (government, commercial, 
hobby, academic research, etc. )?

    Geospatial application developers


18. If you do not intend to host any portion of this project using the OSGeo 
infrastructure, why should you be considered a member project of the OSGeo 
Foundation?

    N/A


19. Does the project include an automated build and test?

    Built in unit tests. Automated build TBD.


20. What language(s) are used in this project? (C/Java/perl/etc)

    C++


21. What is the dominant written language (i.e. English, French, Spanish, 
German, etc) of the core developers?

    English


22. What is the (estimated) size of a full release of this project? How many 
users do you expect to download the project when it is released?

    ~150 MB. Currently ~500 downloads / year.