[Incubator] Application to host Open Source Project "GeoStyler" as OSGeo Community Project
Marc Jansen
jansen at terrestris.de
Thu May 7 12:59:46 PDT 2020
Hi everybody,
the license PR is here. A comment there includes a hacky bash script that was used. I am sure this can be improbed, but it might help other doin the same chores.
Best regards,
Marc
Am 7. Mai 2020 17:45:56 MESZ schrieb Jan Suleiman <suleiman at terrestris.de>:
>Thanks Marc,
>
>that's great! I will take care of the contributing guide and the code
>of
>conduct.
>
>Kind Regards
>Jan
>
>On 5/7/20 1:25 PM, Marc Jansen wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I can tackle the header / license work if you wan't
>>
>> Am 7. Mai 2020 12:46:35 MESZ schrieb Jo Cook
>> <jocook at astuntechnology.com>:
>>
>> Hi Jan,
>>
>> Looking through the checklist- I can see a developer guide but
>not an
>> obvious contributing guide. I would consider contributions to
>> encompass small bug fixes (even documentation) so I think it
>would be
>> good to include something that explains how people can and should
>get
>> involved. Similarly I don't see a code of conduct.
>>
>> I don't see license headers on many pages- and while that may not
>be a
>> requirement of the BSD it helps for code transparency,
>particularly if
>> people end up on a GitHub page when searching.
>>
>> Hope that helps
>>
>> Jo
>>
>> On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 10:09 AM Jan Suleiman
><suleiman at terrestris.de> wrote:
>> >
>>
>> 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)
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>>
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> Email: suleiman at terrestris.de
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