[Incubator] Fwd: Proposing a new OSGeo Community project: Blink Raster
Julien-Samuel Lacroix
jlacroix at mapgears.com
Mon Jan 29 06:33:08 PST 2018
Hi,
+1
Julien
On 2018-01-15 10:51 PM, Landon Blake 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 <mailto: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/pipermail/incubator/2018-January/003475.html
> <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/incubator/2018-January/003475.html>),
> but apparently not to all email inboxes. ____
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> __ __
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> 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.____
>
> __ __
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> 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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