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

[Cameron Shorter]

Hi Till and Markus,

Actina sounds like a good candidate for an OSGeo community project. Has 
the server side been deployed in more than one location? (Multiple 
deployments provides a strong indication of sustainability and quality 
of documentation, as it means others have been able to get it up and 
running).

Also, on the surface, it sounds like it is playing in the same area as 
the DataCube project, 
http://nci.org.au/services/virtual-laboratories/australian-geoscience-data-cube/ 
.  It would be interesting to see if there are opportunities for 
collaboration. I'm looping in Alex Leith who is involved in the project 
and might want to discuss further.

Warm regards, Cameron


On 31/10/18 11:30 pm, Till Adams 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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