[Incubator] MobilityDB

Fri Aug 14 15:08:52 PDT 2020

Let me check it out, looks like it was published already.

   - project type: OSGeo Community Project
   Not an OSGeo Community Project yet, we will need to that review next.
   - logo: thanks for putting it on the correct sized background
   - website: does the project have a website?
   - photo: do you have a photo of your team?
   - content / images: looks good, usually we put a border on the images
   (like a laptop or browser window)
   - project type / topic / level 1 / level 2: this information is needed
   if your project is to be found on the website choose a project
   <https://www.osgeo.org/choose-a-project/> guide
   - standards / development : please fill in
   - core features: good
   - core contributors: are their any service providers in place for your
   project?
   - communication:  any twitter, stack exachange tag, anything?
   - end user / developer resources: looks good
   - footer: Since "PostgreSQL" has a trademark you may wish to make a note
   of it here

Looks great!
--
Jody Garnett

On Wed, 12 Aug 2020 at 00:17, Mahmoud SAKR <mahmoud.sakr at ulb.ac.be> wrote:

> Dear incubator committee,
> Is there something that we can do to facilitate your review of the project
> page ?
> I hope all is going well at your end.
>
> Best regards,
> Mahmoud
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 12:38 PM Mahmoud SAKR <mahmoud.sakr at ulb.ac.be>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Jody, incubator committee,
>> I have drafted the MobilityDB project page in OSGeo. All relevant content
>> has been added in the template, and I feel that it is already in a good
>> state for your review. Would you please have a look and let us know whether
>> we could improve.
>>
>> Yesterday was the very first PSC meeting with myself, Esteban, Anita,
>> Darafei, Krishna, and Mohamed. During the meeting we looked together at the
>> page, and made a quick review. In addition, Esteban has reviewed it more
>> thoroughly.
>>
>> It is a bitty that we missed your meeting yesterday.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Mahmoud SAKR
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 9:04 AM Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Even if you have setup an an OSGeo User ID, unless you login to the
>>> website once ... I do not have a website profile to assign you author
>>> permission.
>>>
>>> (So it shows no website profile found for ezimanyi at ulb.ac.be)
>>> --
>>> Jody Garnett
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, 23 Jul 2020 at 23:11, Esteban Zimanyi <estebanzimanyi at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear Jody
>>>>
>>>> Many thanks for your work.
>>>>
>>>> According to my understanding I have registered to OSGeo with my
>>>> professional email address ezimanyi at ulb.ac.be.
>>>>
>>>> Could you please verify ?
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>>
>>>> Esteban
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jul 24, 2020, 01:54 Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>
>>>>> The discussion with vicky, and these emails, one one the key things we
>>>>> try and offer on the incubation committee. A chance to think about how you
>>>>> are doing open source.
>>>>>
>>>>> For website access, looking at
>>>>> https://github.com/MobilityDB/MobilityDB
>>>>>
>>>>> <https://github.com/MobilityDB/MobilityDB>1. Be geospatial
>>>>> README.md
>>>>> <https://github.com/MobilityDB/MobilityDB/blob/master/README.md> -
>>>>> nice clear description
>>>>>
>>>>> 2. Have a free license or open source license
>>>>> LICENSE.txt
>>>>> <https://github.com/MobilityDB/MobilityDB/blob/master/LICENSE.txt>
>>>>>  is cool, I was not really aware PostgreSQL had their open OSI approved
>>>>> license: https://opensource.org/licenses/PostgreSQL
>>>>>
>>>>> 3. Welcome participation and new contributors.
>>>>> CONTRIBUTING.md
>>>>> <https://github.com/MobilityDB/MobilityDB/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md> is
>>>>> great, I like that the docs are creative commons.
>>>>>
>>>>> Mahmoud I was able to add you as project author (please share page
>>>>> when ready fo review), but it looks like Esteban has not yet logged into
>>>>> the website (so I cannot grant the role yet).
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Jody Garnett
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, 23 Jul 2020 at 06:57, Mahmoud SAKR <mahmoud.sakr at ulb.ac.be>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Dear Incubation Committee,
>>>>>> We would like to introduce our Open Source project "MobilityDB",
>>>>>> hoping to identify the next steps that we can take to include it as an
>>>>>> OSGeo community project.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> MobilityDB is a database management system for moving object
>>>>>> geospatial trajectories, such as GPS traces. It extends PostgreSQL and
>>>>>> PostGIS by temporal and spatiotemporal types and operations. The goal of
>>>>>> MobilityDB is to provide users with the database support to seamlessly
>>>>>> store mobility tracks, and query them in SQL.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> MobilityDB provides two main geospatial trajectory types: tgeompoint
>>>>>> for a temporal geometry point, and tgeogpoint for a temporal geography
>>>>>> point. Both can represent a geospatial point that moves over time, where
>>>>>> the coordinates are respectively expressed as PostGIS geometry or
>>>>>> geography. It also provides spatiotemporal indexes and a rich set of
>>>>>> functions to manage these types; including: input/output, topological
>>>>>> relationships, speed, direction, distance, etc. Note that the return values
>>>>>> of many of these functions are temporal. For example, the speed of a car is
>>>>>> a value that changes over time. Therefore the type system of MobilityDB
>>>>>> includes types for temporal floats, temporal Booleans, temporal text, and
>>>>>> temporal integers.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The work in MobilityDB has been presented in multiple scientific
>>>>>> publications and in multiple community conferences including PGConf.Russia
>>>>>> 2019 and 2020, FOSDEM PGDay 2020, FOSDEM GeoSpatial Devroom 2020, and
>>>>>> FOSS4G Belgium 2019. Some of these presentation can be found here:
>>>>>> https://pgconf.ru/en/2020/264545
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://www.postgresql.eu/events/fosdem2020/schedule/session/2864-managing-mobility-data-in-postgresql/
>>>>>> https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/mobilitydb/
>>>>>> https://docs.mobilitydb.com/pub/MobilityDB_FOSS4G_Brussels_2019.pdf
>>>>>>
>>>>>> To prepare this request, we went through Jody's presentation, and the
>>>>>> Wiki shared in Vicky's message. Our github repository has been evolved to
>>>>>> meet the checklist (geospatial, opensource, participatory). In particular,
>>>>>> MobilityDB solves a geospatial problem, is distributed under the PostgreSQL
>>>>>> license, and it is open for contributions (with currently 6 contributors
>>>>>> from different organizations). It also has a steering committee with a
>>>>>> focus on achieving good integration with relevant projects in the OSGeo
>>>>>> family:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://github.com/MobilityDB/MobilityDB/wiki/MobilityDB-Project-Steering-Committe
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Besides the main repository, and thanks to all contributors, other
>>>>>> repositories are being actively maintained in our GitHub organisation:
>>>>>> - python connectivity driver (
>>>>>> https://github.com/MobilityDB/MobilityDB-python)
>>>>>> - Data generator of simulated car trajectories (
>>>>>> https://github.com/MobilityDB/MobilityDB-BerlinMOD)
>>>>>> - Multiple workshop tutorials (
>>>>>> https://github.com/MobilityDB/MobilityDB-workshop)
>>>>>> - MobilityDB docker images (
>>>>>> https://github.com/MobilityDB/MobilityDB-docker)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The main github repository ()
>>>>>> https://github.com/MobilityDB/MobilityDB
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The github organization
>>>>>> https://github.com/MobilityDB
>>>>>>
>>>>>> User manual for the last release (now beta1):
>>>>>> https://docs.mobilitydb.com/MobilityDB/master/
>>>>>> The manual in develop branch is continuously updated with the most
>>>>>> recent development. Developers can then build
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We are happy to receive your support, and to respond to your
>>>>>> questions and comments.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>>> Mahmoud SAKR, PhD
>>>>>> Research Associate
>>>>>>
>>>>>> T : +32 (0)2 6503750
>>>>>> mahmoud.sakr at ulb.ac.be
>>>>>> [image: Université libre de Bruxelles] <http://www.ulb.ac.be>
>>>>>> *Department of Computer & Decision Engineering (CoDE) CP 165/15 *
>>>>>> Avenue F. D. Roosevelt 50 - 1050 Brussels, Belgium.
>>>>>> cs.ulb.ac.be/members/mahmoud/
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 5:40 PM Mahmoud SAKR <mahmoud.sakr at ulb.ac.be>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks Jody for explaining.
>>>>>>> Clearly I misunderstood your previous message when it mentioned "can
>>>>>>> you ask the project to be listed on the website first please?".
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> With respect to the checklist (geospatial, opensource,
>>>>>>> participatory), we have already been working on it, and following the wiki
>>>>>>> given by Vicky:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Community_Projects#About_OSGeo_Community_Projects
>>>>>>> Our github repository has been changed accordingly. We will do an
>>>>>>> internal round of review in 1-2 days then send here again asking for your
>>>>>>> review and advice, in order to add to the Website.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>>>> Mahmoud
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 2:31 PM Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I cannot give you the website roles ... yet!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> We need the project to ask to be listed in the website, and to
>>>>>>>> perform a check as outlined on the pages you have been reading.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> OSGeo wants to be sure to only have pages for open source projects
>>>>>>>> yes, but also ones that are geospatial, and open to participation :)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 1:27 AM Mahmoud SAKR <
>>>>>>>> mahmoud.sakr at ulb.ac.be> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hi Jody,
>>>>>>>>> Thanks for sharing the slides.
>>>>>>>>> Could you please give a project author role to:
>>>>>>>>> myself, mahmsakr (mahmoud.sakr at ulb.ac.be)
>>>>>>>>> Esteban, ezimanyi (estebanzimanyi at gmail.com)
>>>>>>>>> <https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/query?status=!closed&reporter=ezimanyi>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> We have the content of the page almost ready. Once the author role
>>>>>>>>> is granted, we will start immediately filling in the project page.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>>>>>> Mahmoud SAKR, PhD
>>>>>>>>> Research Associate
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> T : +32 (0)2 6503750
>>>>>>>>> mahmoud.sakr at ulb.ac.be
>>>>>>>>> [image: Université libre de Bruxelles] <http://www.ulb.ac.be>
>>>>>>>>> *Department of Computer & Decision Engineering (CoDE) CP 165/15
>>>>>>>>> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/15++++Avenue+F.+D.+Roosevelt?entry=gmail&source=g>*
>>>>>>>>> Avenue F. D. Roosevelt
>>>>>>>>> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/15++++Avenue+F.+D.+Roosevelt?entry=gmail&source=g>
>>>>>>>>> 50 - 1050 Brussels, Belgium.
>>>>>>>>> cs.ulb.ac.be/members/mahmoud/
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>>>>>>>>>> From: *Jody Garnett* <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
>>>>>>>>>> Date: Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 8:41 AM
>>>>>>>>>> Subject: Re: [Incubator] MobilityDB
>>>>>>>>>> To: Vicky Vergara <vicky at georepublic.de>
>>>>>>>>>> Cc: OSGeo-incubator <incubator at lists.osgeo.org>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> That sounds great, can you ask the project to be listed on the
>>>>>>>>>> website first please?
>>>>>>>>>> I also have a presentation here with examples
>>>>>>>>>> https://www.slideshare.net/jgarnett/open-source-practice-and-passion-at-osgeo-170697413
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Sat, Jul 18, 2020 at 7:19 AM Vicky Vergara <
>>>>>>>>>> vicky at georepublic.de> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Hello committee members
>>>>>>>>>> There is this new project MobilityDB [1] that soon will start an
>>>>>>>>>> application to become an OSGeo Community Project.
>>>>>>>>>> I am guiding them on some basic steps, like setting up mailing
>>>>>>>>>> lists for the project [2] and some other tasks. They also participated on
>>>>>>>>>> the Bolsena 2020 Code Sprint
>>>>>>>>>> Here is my question:
>>>>>>>>>> From the incubation [3] information on the website I navigated
>>>>>>>>>> using the links, and I only found [4] as the requirements to be considered
>>>>>>>>>> for community projects.
>>>>>>>>>> Is that correct?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Regards
>>>>>>>>>> Vicky
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> [1] https://github.com/MobilityDB/MobilityDB
>>>>>>>>>> [2] https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/2482
>>>>>>>>>> [3] https://www.osgeo.org/about/committees/incubation/
>>>>>>>>>> [4]
>>>>>>>>>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Community_Projects#About_OSGeo_Community_Projects
>>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Vicky Vergara
>>>>>>>>>> Operations Research
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> eMail: vicky at georepublic.de
>>>>>>>>>> Web: https://georepublic.info
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Tel: +49 (089) 4161 7698-1
>>>>>>>>>> Fax: +49 (089) 4161 7698-9
>>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>>>> CEO: Daniel Kastl
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
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