[Incubator] TorchGeo interested in joining OSGeo

Fri Dec 22 23:57:41 PST 2023

Interesting that your profile and osgeo userid are different.

I have granted that member project author permission so you should be able
to create a new project entry.

The Wordpress uses forms, rather than posts for these things (filling in a
small database I guess).

(The page on adding a service provider
<https://www.osgeo.org/community/getting-started-osgeo/add-service-provider/>
has instructions on how to use these forms)

Tips:

   - I recommend looking at GeoNode as it was the example provided by the
   graphic designer: http://osgeo.org/projects/geonode/

   - It is good to have a photo of your team, as the theme of the website
   is that these projects are made by people
   - Your logo needs to be on a white background to show up correctly in a
   list
   - There are some assets including a laptop frame for screen shots here:
   https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/tree/master/marketing/photos
   -

--
Jody Garnett

On Dec 22, 2023 at 5:41:17 AM, Adam Stewart <ajstewart426 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Jody,
>
> Thanks for the suggestions! I added a CONTRIBUTING.md and fixed a few
> files that were missing the license header. Everything should be in
> compliance now.
>
> My OSGeo UserID is "ajstewart": https://www.osgeo.org/member/stewart-4/.
> Let me know what I need to do to create a project page.
>
> Adam
>
> On Dec 11, 2023, at 18:41, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Adam,
>
> Thanks for contacting the incubation committee it is good to hear from
> you, I really appreciate how organized you have been in your application.
> You appear very well informed on our requirements (which is much
> appreciated).
>
> Looking at our first checklist to be added to the website:
>
>
>    1. Done: Be Geospatial:
>    https://github.com/microsoft/torchgeo/blob/main/README.md
>    2. Done: Have a free license or open source license:
>    https://github.com/microsoft/torchgeo/blob/main/LICENSE (MIT)
>    3. Done: Welcome participation and new contributors.
>    https://torchgeo.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user/contributing.html
>    1. You may still wish to add a CONTRIBUTING.md linking to this page;
>       as GitHub will show the contents of this file to potential contributors.
>
>
> With that in mind can I ask you to setup an OSGeo UserID
> <https://id.osgeo.org/ldap/create> (if you have not done so already) and
> login to the website creating a members profile
> <https://www.osgeo.org/community/members/>. Reply to this message with
> your userID and I can give you permission to make a project page.
>
> While we wait we can look at the second checklist:
>
>
>    1. Be gospatial
>       1. Done: README
>       2. Pending: Project page on osgeo website
>       3. Done: User documentation:
>       https://torchgeo.readthedocs.io/en/stable/tutorials/getting_started.html
>          1. The user docs heading covered installation and contributing
>          (not so much use, the tutorials are more what we are looking for - showing
>          how a normal GIS Professional (or GIS Developer in this case) can use your
>          project
>       2. Have a free license or an open source license.
>    1. Done: License
>       2. Pending: We ask that the project team check the file headers and
>       double check the license has been appropriately applied
>          1. You may feel comfortable making this statement already?
>          Although I did not see any files with out a header, it is more about asking
>          you to check and confirm on behalf of your team
>          2. I note your use of a CLA and a contirbution bot - cool 🙂
>       3. Welcome participation and new contributors.
>    1. Done: Clean contribution policy
>       2. Done: I can see a large number of closed pull requests, and
>       collaborators page shows a number of actors
>       3. Done: Code of conduct:
>       https://github.com/microsoft/torchgeo/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
>
>
> As a volunteer run committee we are struggling with a lack of engagement
> (especially difficult over the seasonal holidays).  Thank you for making
> this as easy as possible thus far.
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
>
> On Dec 1, 2023 at 3:52:12 AM, Adam Stewart via Incubator <
> incubator at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> My name is Adam Stewart. I'm a geospatial ML researcher
>> <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=IQ19q4AAAAAJ> and passionate open-source
>> developer <https://github.com/adamjstewart>. I earned my B.S. in Science
>> of Earth Systems at Cornell and my Ph.D. in Computer Science at UIUC, and
>> currently work as a postdoc at TUM with a focus on machine learning for
>> Earth observation. I created TorchGeo
>> <https://github.com/microsoft/torchgeo>, and also help maintain the
>> R-tree <https://github.com/Toblerity/rtree> library and Spack
>> <https://github.com/spack/spack> package manager. I've contributed to
>> most geospatial libraries, including GDAL
>> <https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/issues?q=author:adamjstewart>, rasterio
>> <https://github.com/rasterio/rasterio/issues?q=author:adamjstewart>, and
>> R-tree <https://github.com/Toblerity/rtree/issues?q=author:adamjstewart>,
>> and maintain all geospatial build recipes in the Spack package manager.
>>
>> I'm reaching out to you today to express interest in having TorchGeo
>> <https://github.com/microsoft/torchgeo> join the OSGeo Foundation.
>> TorchGeo is a PyTorch domain library for machine learning with geospatial
>> data, especially remote sensing data. TorchGeo started as an internship
>> project at the Microsoft AI for Good Research Lab and developed into my
>> thesis dissertation with an active community of contributors from around
>> the world. It builds on top of GDAL (via rasterio and fiona) and PyTorch to
>> make it easy to work with any kind of geospatial data in a machine learning
>> workflow. Data can be automatically reprojected and resampled to a common
>> CRS and resolution, making it easy for machine learning researchers without
>> geospatial skills to work with satellite imagery.
>>
>> Some statistics:
>>
>>
>>    - Stars: 2K
>>    - Forks: 240
>>    - Contributors: 55
>>    - Maintainers: 5 with merge privileges (CC'ed)
>>    - PyPI downloads:
>>       - Last week: 4.4K
>>       - Last month: 22K
>>       - All time: 150K
>>    - GitHub topics (ranked by number of stars):
>>       - Earth observation: #4
>>       - Satellite imagery: #4
>>       - Remote sensing: #7
>>       - Geospatial: #21
>>
>>
>> I believe we already meet most of the criteria for the highest level of
>> membership in OSGeo:
>>
>>
>>    - Geospatial: yes
>>    - License: MIT
>>    <https://github.com/microsoft/torchgeo/blob/main/LICENSE>, including
>>    file headers
>>    - Contributions: 55 contributors and counting, contribution guide
>>    <https://torchgeo.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user/contributing.html>
>>    - Code of conduct: yes
>>    <https://github.com/microsoft/torchgeo/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md>
>>    - Community: active Slack workspace
>>    <https://join.slack.com/t/torchgeo/shared_invite/zt-22rse667m-eqtCeNW0yI000Tl4B~2PIw>
>>    - Users and contributors from both industry (Microsoft, Intel, Meta,
>>    IBM, Amazon) and academia (TUM, EPFL, ETH Zurich, Cambridge, Oxford,
>>    Stanford, Berkeley, CMU, MIT, U Washington)
>>    - GitHub: issue tracker <https://github.com/microsoft/torchgeo/issues>
>>    - Documentation: readthedocs
>>    <https://torchgeo.readthedocs.io/en/stable/>
>>    - Release procedure: wiki
>>    <https://github.com/microsoft/torchgeo/wiki/Releasing-Instructions>
>>    - CI: GitHub Actions
>>    <https://github.com/microsoft/torchgeo/tree/main/.github/workflows>
>>     with 100% test coverage <https://codecov.io/gh/microsoft/torchgeo>
>>
>>
>> We already have 10 stable releases and it's easy to install TorchGeo
>> using pip, conda, or spack.
>>
>> We think membership in the OSGeo Foundation would be beneficial to us in
>> a number of ways. OSGeo represents the gold standard of open source
>> software development in the geospatial community, and we would love your
>> expertise to suggest ways we can grow our community of contributors. We
>> would love to have tighter integration with other OSGeo projects like GDAL,
>> working together to improve data loading performance. OSGeo provides a
>> great opportunity to advertise our project on your website (and your
>> foundation on our GitHub). We also have aspirations to present TorchGeo
>> tutorials at as many remote sensing and machine learning conferences as
>> possible, and could use funding to support travel for presenters.
>>
>> Please let us know if TorchGeo fits your requirements for joining the
>> OSGeo Foundation and how we can join. We would be interested in the highest
>> level of membership possible, but are also happy to start off as a member
>> of the OSGeo community and work our way up to OSGeo project or incubation.
>>
>> *Dr. Adam J. Stewart*
>> Technical University of Munich
>> School of Engineering and Design
>> Data Science in Earth Observation
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