[Incubator] Application to add PROJ-JNI as an OSGeo Community Project

[Jody Garnett]

Will:

Thanks for contacting osgeo, and the clear presentation of your project.

Let's see if we can work on the website page - what is your osgeo userid?
And do you have a logo :)

Aside: Are you aware of proj4j ?
--
Jody Garnett


On Thu, 27 May 2021 at 06:12, Will Cohen <wwcohen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm writing to request that the incubation committee consider PROJ-JNI (
> https://github.com/Kortforsyningen/PROJ-JNI) for inclusion as an OSGeo
> Community Project. This project's goal is to provide a JVM ecosystem set of
> native bindings to upstream PROJ, an increasingly important task given the
> increased development speed of PROJ in recent years, starting with the
> changes post PROJ 6. In particular, PROJ's shift to SQLite requires that
> JVM users of PROJ eventually interoperate with native libraries, making
> native bindings to PROJ itself a logical next step.
>
> One very tangible benefit of inclusion, in addition to helping build
> community support for the project, would be the potential use of the
> org.osgeo/proj or org.proj/proj Maven coordinates as a home for project
> releases. The project has an initial 1.0 functional release tagged on
> GitHub, but artifacts haven’t yet been released to Maven Central given the
> placeholder group ID so far.
>
> Please let me know if you have any questions!
>
> Will
>
> - [X] Be geospatial
>    - [X] Confirm by checking README or project description (
> https://github.com/Kortforsyningen/PROJ-JNI/blob/master/README.md)
>    - [ ] project page on the osgeo website (this we do not yet have)
>    - [x] We ask projects have some user documentation, for example an
> OSGeo Live quickstart (linked from the README)
> - [X] Have a free license or an open source license. (MIT,
> https://github.com/Kortforsyningen/PROJ-JNI/blob/master/LICENSE)
>    - [X] The license must be OSI approved (MIT)
>    - [X] We ask that the project team check the file headers and double
> check the license has been appropriately applied (it appears on all code
> files)
> - [X] Welcome participation and new contributors (certainly looking for
> contributors and participation, which is part of why we seek to be a
> community project!)
>    - [X] We look for a clear contribution policy (see README, we will work
> through github)
>    - [X] We ask that the project demonstrate collaboration, perhaps with a
> history of bug report or pull requests (github)
>    - [X] Projects are required to have a code of conduct (contributor
> covenant,
> https://github.com/Kortforsyningen/PROJ-JNI/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
> )
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