[Incubator] MobilityDB

Thu Jul 23 16:53:24 PDT 2020

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
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>>>> Avenue F. D. Roosevelt
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>>>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>> Commercial register: Amtsgericht München, HRB 181428
>>>>> CEO: Daniel Kastl
>>>>>
>>>>>
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