[Incubator] Application to host Open Source Project "GeoStyler" as OSGeo Community Project

[Jan Suleiman]

Dear Incubation Committee,

we would like to introduce our Open Source project "GeoStyler".

GeoStyler is an Open Source JavaScript library that enables users to 
style maps with the help of a Graphical User Interface.
The goal of GeoStyler is a universally applicable GUI that works with 
any given style format; may it be SLD, QML, OpenLayers, etc.

In order to achieve that goal, we follow a plugin-approach where so 
called "style-parsers" can be plugged into the UI. These style parsers 
work as a conversion tool to bidirectionally convert between any 
external style and our internal style format.
As a positive side effect, we are able to convert from one external 
format to another one (e.g. from QML to SLD, etc.).

The GUI library is written in react but also provides browser builds to 
enable its usage outside of any react application.

With thanks to currently 16 different contributors, we successfully 
maintain 15 repositories in our GitHub organisation, including the UI 
library and documentation, different style-parsers, data-parsers, type 
definitions, a demo application and a tutorial. The majority of these 
was also already published on NPM. On the OSGeo Bolsena Code Sprint 
2019, a GeoServer Community Extension was written that integrates 
GeoStyler and allows the creation of styles within GeoServer by using 
our GUI.

The GitHub organisation can be found here: 
https://github.com/geostyler/geostyler
The Demo Application including links to Docs, GitHub and NPM can be 
found here: https://geostyler.org
The GeoServer Plugin here: 
https://docs.geoserver.org/master/en/user/community/geostyler/index.html
FOSS4G 2019 Talk: 
https://media.ccc.de/v/bucharest-204-geostyler-a-generic-graphical-style-editor-for-geodata
FOSSGIS 2019 Talk (German): 
https://media.ccc.de/v/fossgis2019-478-geostyler-ein-generischer-grafischer-stileditor-fr-geodaten
AGIT 2019 Talk (German): https://av.tib.eu/media/43048
FOSSGIS 2020 Talk (German): 
https://media.ccc.de/v/fossgis2020-3027-neues-vom-geostyler

The licenses are BSD-2-Clause and we are very happy and eager to extend 
the list of contributors. Our first goal would be to be listed on the 
OSGeo webpage and in the long run to release GeoStyler as an OSGeo 
Community Project.

In the future, we would like to provide additional style-parsers (e.g. 
for mapserver) and extend the UI library with additional components to 
further simplify styling maps.


We are happy to receive your support, if there are any questions, we are 
happy to help!

Kind regards

Jan Suleiman

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