[Incubator] motion: wradlib application / community module

[Kai Muehlbauer]

Thanks for the pointers, Jody! I totally agree, that this osgeo
community program would be an easier way to start with.

I just flicked through your presentation and I really like to start with
the creation of the project page. Since we already conform with osgeo in
terms of LICENSE/CONTRIBUTING I should ask for the "project author"
role. Just tested the login, works. My user name is "kmuehlbauer".

Thanks!

- Kai

Am 14.02.19 um 08:01 schrieb Jody Garnett:
> Thanks Kai, as indicated this osgeo community program does not require a
> mentor and may be an easier way to get started at osgeo. 
> 
> There is some details on the website
> <https://www.osgeo.org/about/committees/incubation/> and in
> presentations
> <https://www.slideshare.net/jgarnett/open-source-practice-and-passion-at-osgeo>,
> and we are happy to answer any questions.
> 
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 2:05 AM Kai Muehlbauer
> <kai.muehlbauer at uni-bonn.de <mailto:kai.muehlbauer at uni-bonn.de>> wrote:
> 
>     Dear colleagues,
> 
>     I'm Kai one of the wradlib developers and I'm referring to the recent
>     update on ticket:
>     https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1644
> 
>     and the reference on this list here:
>     https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/incubator/2019-February/003773.html
> 
>     Much has happened in the recent 3 years. For sure, you'll notice that we
>     made the step over release wradlib 1.0.
>     https://wradlib.org/2018/04/wradlib_release_1_0_0/ to the current
>     wradlib is at version 1.2.
> 
>     The user base is growing as the questions on the wradlib-users list
>     indicate.
> 
>     So, yes we are happy to discuss osgeo community program as proposed in
>     the ticket comment.
> 
>     Best regards,
>     Kai
> 
>     Am 30.08.16 um 12:40 schrieb Maik Heistermann:
>     > Dear colleagues,
>     >
>     > I am Maik, one of the wradlib developers. I certainly do not want to
>     > interfer with your internal discussion. I just noticed Bruce
>     Bannerman's
>     > message, and I would like to briefly respond in order to maybe clarify
>     > one or two issues.
>     >
>     > First of all, thank you very much for considering this request,
>     and also
>     > for sharing your concerns.
>     >
>     > However, the ideas outlined in the mentioned GRASS wiki article [1]
>     > relate to the analysis of SAR images (airborne or spaceborn) which are
>     > concerned with the radar-based exploration of the earth surface.
>     > wradlib, in contrast, is concerned with the analysis of weather radar
>     > observations for exploring atmosperic properties (mostly rainfall)
>     in 2
>     > or 3 dimensions. The underlying analytical framework differs in wide
>     > parts as we need to understand the propagation of the radar beam
>     and its
>     > interaction with the atmosphere. The target variables (e.g.
>     > precipitation intensity, wind speed, state of matter)
>     fundamentally differ.
>     >
>     > I fully agree to avoid re-inventing the wheel. wradlib was in fact
>     > motivated by that very ambition. To my knowledge, it was the first
>     > published Open Source effort to this end. Meanwhile, other Open Source
>     > packages ([2], [3]) have been published, and we are closely
>     cooperating
>     > with these projects in order to enhance inter-operability and
>     > harmonisation [4].
>     >
>     > Still, wradlib tries to build on existing packages as good as
>     possible,
>     > so we make in fact heavy usage of gdal for georeferencing and raster
>     > processing, but also of e.g. numpy, scipy, netcdf4 and h5py.
>     >
>     > I hope this response helps to better understand the rationale behind
>     > wradlib. Again, I would like to thank you for taking the time to
>     > scrutinize our request to become an OSGeo community project. I am
>     > looking forward to your decision.
>     >
>     > Kind regards,
>     > Maik
>     >
>     > [1] https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Radar_data_processing
>     > [2] http://arm-doe.github.io/pyart/
>     > [3] http://git.baltrad.eu/
>     > [4] http://openradar.github.io/
>     >
>     >
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