[Incubator] Proj4php community project

Cameron Shorter cameron.shorter at gmail.com
Tue Jul 19 13:28:31 PDT 2016


Hi Julian,

It sounds like proj4php has good foundations, and would be a candidate 
for being an OSGeo project in a few years, but is still a bit young to 
be ready for OSGeo Incubation.

I suggest a better checklist to look at is the OSGeo Graduation 
Checklist. This is what you would be aiming for if you wished to 
complete graduation.

http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/project_graduation_checklist.html

Cheers, Cameron


On 19/07/2016 6:40 AM, Julien Moquet wrote:
> Hi Jody,
>
> I really appreciate your help !
>
> However, it depends on what a mentor should be ! Does an osgeo member 
> can be a mentor ?
> I eventually know Thomas Bonfort by the past. He is a committer and 
> PSC member of MapServer. I am going to ask him.
>
> By the way, I am starting to make proj4php as a community project !
>
> Regards,
> Julien.
>
>
> 2016-07-18 3:21 GMT+02:00 Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jody.garnett at gmail.com>>:
>
>     Thanks Julien - have been collecting some applications on the
>     osgeo issue tracker for incubation. Curently it can be tricky to
>     find a mentor for new projects (or in this case new to OSGeo
>     proejcts) - did you have a mentor in mind?
>
>     I would encourage you to apply as an OSGeo "community project
>     <https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Community_Projects>" - it is a
>     faster way to be included in OSGeo (as it does not require finding
>     a suitable mentor
>
>     Aside: We really should revise this list of application questions
>     - thinks like the question on "infrastructure" was from the time
>     when OSGeo svn was considered more cool then source forge CVS for
>     version control.
>
>     --
>     Jody Garnett
>
>     On 16 July 2016 at 05:33, Julien Moquet <moquet.julien at gmail.com
>     <mailto:moquet.julien at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         Dear OSGeo members, Mr Garnett,
>
>         As you may know, proj4php is an open source project, started
>         in 2009, and recently hosted on github :
>         https://github.com/proj4php/proj4php
>         This is not a huge project, but we got a tiny community to be
>         grown.
>
>         In order to describe our project, here is answers for
>         questions from this page :
>         http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/application.html
>
>
>
>
>         > Please describe your Project.
>
>         Proj4php is a php library for geographic coordinates
>         transformation using proj4 definitions
>
>         > Why is hosting at OSGeo good for your project?
>
>         Most of library using proj4 definitions are hosted at OSGeo.
>         It gives the project more sens for the users, and more visibility.
>
>         > Type of application does this project represent(client,
>         server, standalone, library, etc.):
>
>         library
>
>         > Please describe any relationships to other open source
>         projects.
>
>         spatialreference.org <http://spatialreference.org> as a source
>         of defs
>
>         > Please describe any relationships with commercial companies
>         or products.
>
>         nop
>
>         > Which open source license(s) will the source code be
>         released under?
>
>         LGPL 2
>
>         > Is there already a beta or official release?
>
>         The 1.0 stands for old releases (php under 5.2), and the 2.0
>         releases are the latests.
>
>         > What is the origin of your project (commercial,
>         experimental, thesis or other higher education, government, or
>         some other source)?
>
>         Proj4php gets its origin as I was stuck on delay on a php
>         project with strong hosting constraints. I translated proj4js
>         in php, and set its source code open the same night.
>         Then a little community started to grow. Winne27, nickolanack,
>         judgej made real good work on proj4php to develop it and help
>         others to use it.
>
>         > Does the project support open standards? Which ones and to
>         what extent? (OGC, w3c, ect.)
>
>         nop
>
>         > 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?
>
>         nop
>
>         > Is the code free of patents, trademarks, and do you control
>         the copyright?
>
>         yes
>
>         > How many people actively contribute (code, documentation,
>         other?) to the project at this time?
>
>         We are 3 people to help others to fix their problems or
>         answering questions on proj4php.
>
>         > How many people have commit access to the source code
>         respository?
>
>         4
>
>         > Approximately how many users are currently using this project?
>
>         Github tells there is 48 unique cloners the last 14 days, and
>         we got about 1800 downloads the last 30 days on packagist.
>
>         > What type of users does your project attract (government,
>         commercial, hobby, academic research, etc. )?
>
>         I don't know
>
>         > 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?
>
>         I don't understand the question !
>
>         > Does the project include an automated build and test?
>
>         Yes, we use Travis
>
>         > What language(s) are used in this project? (C/Java/perl/etc)
>
>         PHP
>
>         > What is the dominant written language (i.e. English, French,
>         Spanish, German, etc) of the core developers?
>
>         English, but I am personally French
>
>         > 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?
>
>         about 200 ko ?
>
>         Regards,
>         Julien Moquet
>
>
>
>
>
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