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

Jan Suleiman suleiman at terrestris.de
Thu May 7 02:09:38 PDT 2020 

Hi everyone,

is there something we can do at the moment to simplify the decision 
making for you?


I hope you are all safe and well!

Kind regards

Jan

On 3/25/20 5:46 PM, adams at osgeo.org wrote:
> Dear Jan,
>
> just FYI: There is knowledge in our house, as Carmen did some work to
> integrate actinia in OSGeo Live. But this is step after your discussion
> n how ...
>
> Till
>
>
>
>
> Am 25.03.20 um 16:34 schrieb Jan Suleiman:
>> Hi Cameron,
>>
>> thank you very much for your reply. We are happy to hear that you see
>> GeoStyler as a suitable project.
>>
>> Generally, we think including GeoStyler in OSGeoLive would be great.
>> However, we first have to think about how we could include it, so that
>> it actually makes sense (since GeoStyler is a collection of libraries in
>> the first place).
>>
>> We will discuss this with the community, to come up with a proper solution.
>>
>>
>> Kind regards
>>
>> Jan
>>
>> On 3/24/20 11:18 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>>> Hi Jan,
>>>
>>> Sorry for the delayed response. I'm hoping one of the more active
>>> members of the incubation committee would speak up.
>>>
>>> Assuming GeoStyler fits Jody's checklist (which it looks like it
>>> does), I'm strongly in favour of including GeoStyler as an OSGeo
>>> community project.
>>>
>>>  From what I can see, GeoStyler addresses a pain point that many of us
>>> in the OSGeo community have faced at some point, and I'd love to see
>>> it promoted and grow. In particular, I'd love to see GeoStyler
>>> included in OSGeoLive, http://live.osgeo.org
>>>
>>> The application process
>>> here:https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive/wiki/Projects/How_to_apply
>>> <https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive/wiki/Projects/How_to_apply>. Would
>>> you be interested in joining OSGeoLive? (Note the ongoing commitment
>>> required in questions).
>>>
>>> Cheers, Cameron
>>>
>>>
>>> On 19/3/20 3:19 am, Jan Suleiman wrote:
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Cameron Shorter
>>> Technology Demystifier
>>> Open Technologies and Geospatial Consultant
>>>
>>> M +61 (0) 419 142 254
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