[Incubator] MobilityDB

Thu Jul 23 23:10:51 PDT 2020

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
>>>>>>
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