[Incubator] motion: wradlib application / community module

[Jody Garnett]

Perfect adding you as a project author now; let someone on this list know
when your draft is ready and we can publish.
--
Jody Garnett


On Wed, 13 Feb 2019 at 23:33, Kai Muehlbauer <kai.muehlbauer at uni-bonn.de>
wrote:

> 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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>
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> Kai Muehlbauer
> Institute for Geosciences and Meteorology University of Bonn
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