[Incubator] Fwd: Proposing a new OSGeo Community project: Blink Raster

[Jody Garnett]

Thanks landon, made an email chain for your motion. Motions take a while
... so for today we can help Alex set up a project page.

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Jody Garnett

On 15 January 2018 at 19:51, Landon Blake <sunburned.surveyor at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'd like to make a motion that we accept Blink Raster as an OSGeo
> Community Project. I'm willing to help Alex, the project lead, work through
> some of the first steps to getting set-up, and will also try to help him
> market the project to potential users/contributors a bit. This shouldn't be
> too bad...as I'm not actively mentoring any projects right now. :]
>
> Landon
>
> On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 7:46 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Sounds good, I checked the repo when Alex first asked on discuss - so I
>> would feel comfortable giving him the go ahead to make an OSGeo project
>> page right away.
>>
>> Indeed I would be okay with any incubation committee member performing
>> that spot check and giving projects the go ahead to make a project page.
>>
>> As for being an OSGeo project, see other email thread for some additional
>> ideas (devs require no-dumping, No API key required). I also think we could
>> ask osgeo projects to check their file headers, in addition to having a
>> license file. Finally we should make a motion since being an OSGeo
>> community project has some standing in or organization (including the
>> ability to ask this committee for budget requests).
>> On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 7:36 PM Landon Blake <
>> sunburned.surveyor at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey guys. I think the project submitted by Alex meets our criteria for
>>> an OSGeo Community Project. (See the message from Alex below.) It has an
>>> open source license, is geospatial, and accepts contributions.
>>>
>>> Are there any objections to accepting it as a Community Project?
>>>
>>> If there are no discussions, I'll give some thought to a simple process
>>> to get Community Projects set-up. (Add a wiki page, get a mailing list, do
>>> a little marketing...) Then I'll ask Alex some more questions about his
>>> project.
>>>
>>> Let me know if you have comments or questions.
>>>
>>> Landon
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: <a.hagen-zanker at surrey.ac.uk>
>>> Date: Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 2:56 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Incubator] Proposing a new OSGeo Community project: Blink
>>> Raster
>>> To: incubator at lists.osgeo.org
>>>
>>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Apologies if you received this message already. I sent a message last
>>> week that made it to the list archive (http://lists.osgeo.org/piperm
>>> ail/incubator/2018-January/003475.html), but apparently not to all
>>> email inboxes.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I would like to propose my open source library as an OSGeo Community
>>> project. The library is called Blink Raster and it is a C++ library aimed
>>> at efficient raster processing using basic and modern C++ idioms.  The
>>> library is based on my experience of developing Cellular Automata land use
>>> models, map comparison methods, neutral models and geostatistics for raster
>>> data. I would think that the primary users will be researchers in the field
>>> of environmental modelling, who require more flexibility than offered by
>>> GIS packages and more efficiency than offered by script based libraries.
>>> However, the functionality is quite fundamental, so who knows where it may
>>> be useful.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I think I meet all the requirements for a Community project. I still
>>> lack a community though J. I will introduce the library at FOSDEM 2018
>>> and submitted an abstract for the FOSS4G UK 2018. in March.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The project is hosted on Github: www.github.com/ahhz/raster
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I am quite open as to whether this should formally be an OSGeo Community
>>> project or just a project listed  on the website. I believe the library is
>>> at a stage now where it can be useful to people and can be used within
>>> other projects. The reason for reaching out to the OSGeo community is to
>>> find users, get feedback and potentially find collaborators.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you for taking this into consideration, I’ll be happy to hear from
>>> you.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> With kind regards, Alex
>>>
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