[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)
>>                     419 142 254 
>>
>>                 -- M.Sc. Geoinformatik Jan Suleiman -
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>   M.Sc. Geoinformatik Jan Suleiman
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>   Tel: +49 (0)228 / 96 28 99 -51
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>   Email: suleiman at terrestris.de
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