[Incubator] Application to host Open Source Project "actinia" under the umbrella of OSGeo

[Markus Neteler]

Hi Jody,

we shall address your suggestions over the next days!

Adding missing headers is obviously a no-brainer as well as writing up
an initial CONTRIBUTING.md file.

Thanks,

Markus Neteler &  Till Adams


On 11/1/18 3:16 AM, Jody Garnett wrote:
> That sounds great Till, and the project looks to be really nicely put
> together.
>
> Having a look at the repository we got one thing on our checklist to
> fix before placing on the website, and if you are interested in
> joining osgeo community I will ask you to check over your headers again.
>
>  https://github.com/mundialis/actinia_core
>
> 1. geospatial
>
> - readme check:
> https://github.com/mundialis/actinia_core/blob/master/README.rst
>
> 2. open source license
>
> - open source
> license: https://github.com/mundialis/actinia_core/blob/master/LICENSE.txt
>
> I had a look and the first couple python files I looked at did not
> have a header.
> - https://github.com/mundialis/actinia_core/blob/master/src/actinia_core/__init__.py
> - https://github.com/mundialis/actinia_core/blob/master/src/actinia_core/endpoints.py
> - I did not really look any more than that :)
>
> 3. accepts contributions
>
> One thing we check for (at least for those projects using GitHub) is
> the use of a CONTRIBUTING.md file or similar.  As part of their
> "forge" infrastructure GitHub provides a link to the contributing
> policies (the CONTRIBUTING.md file). 
>
> Can we ask you to add one of these CONTRIBUTING.md files, even if all
> it says that that you are happy to accept pull requests and that they
> should be provided to the project via GPL 3 etc...
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
>
> On Wed, 31 Oct 2018 at 07:38, Till Adams <adams at terrestris.de
> <mailto:adams at terrestris.de>> wrote:
>
>     Dear Incubation Committee,
>
>     we would like to introduce you to our cloud based geoprocessing
>     platform
>     "actinia".
>     Actinia is an Open Source REST API for scalable, distributed, high
>     performance processing of geographical data that uses GRASS GIS for
>     computational tasks. Actinia orchestrates it's own workers and
>     parallelizes processes optimized on cloud-environments.
>
>     Actinia provides a REST API to e.g. process satellite images, time
>     series of satellite images, arbitrary raster data with geographical
>     relations and vector data.
>
>     The REST interface allows to access, manage and manipulate the
>     GRASS GIS
>     database via HTTP GET,PUT,POST and DELETE requests and to process
>     raster, vector and time series data located in a persistent GRASS GIS
>     database.
>
>     You can find the code on github:
>     https://github.com/mundialis/actinia_core
>     The ithub page already delivers some examples on how t use it.
>
>     There are already several plugins available:
>     https://github.com/mundialis/actinia_satellite_plugin
>     https://github.com/mundialis/actinia_statistic_plugin
>
>     Further there is a swagger based API-documentation and also a
>     testing-installation on a mundialis-server:
>     https://actinia.mundialis.de/
>
>     The license is GPL 3 and yes, we are happy and very open for external
>     contributors. For the first step, we would like to get actinia
>     listed on
>     the OSGeo webpage and later would like to release it as an OSGeo
>     community project.
>
>     There are no further plans on how to proceed then, everything is
>     possible (e.g. official incubation).
>
>     Our plans with the software are as follows: There is already a
>     GDI-connector, we call it actiniaGDI, which is not yet on github and
>     that needs some more time, because it's a project-related solution in
>     the moment. But releasing actiniaGDI on github (and as Open Source) is
>     on our list. Also, we think about having a QGIS-PlugIn, that allows to
>     access actinia-server(s).
>
>
>     We are happy to receive your support, if there are any questions,
>     we are
>     happy to help!
>
>     Till Adams & Markus Neteler
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