[Incubator] Fwd: Proposing a new OSGeo Community project: Blink Raster
Cameron Shorter
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Tue Jan 16 02:03:54 PST 2018
+0 Cameron, based on recommendation from Landon and Jody, and
application just being a community project and not a full OSGeo
Incubation project.
On 16/1/18 3:18 pm, Jody Garnett wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
> On 15 January 2018 at 19:51, Landon Blake
> <sunburned.surveyor at gmail.com <mailto: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 <mailto: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
> <mailto: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
> <mailto: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
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>
>
> 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/pipermail/incubator/2018-January/003475.html
> <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/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 <http://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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