[Incubator] TorchGeo interested in joining OSGeo
Jody Garnett
jody.garnett at gmail.com
Wed Feb 14 13:11:25 PST 2024
Adam,
That is correct, some of the questions are a bit "dated", so do not get
hung up too much on detail (it is expected to have things to work on with a
mentor).
Actually the one road lock that usually happens is just that - finding a
mentor. I understand you already have a volunteer :)
--
Jody Garnett
On Feb 14, 2024 at 8:53:41 AM, Adam Stewart <ajstewart426 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks,
>
> We added a link to our OSGeo project page and a badge to our README that
> will encourage users to join OSGeo:
> https://github.com/microsoft/torchgeo/pull/1880. We'll also include the
> OSGeo logo when we give presentations/tutorials.
>
> We're planning to make a news post for each new TorchGeo release. We
> expect a patch release in the next week or two and a minor release in late
> March or early April.
>
> If I'm understanding correctly, I just need to fill out
> https://www.osgeo.org/resources/incubator-application-1-0/ and send it
> back to you to apply for incubation? Will try to do so soon.
>
> Adam
>
> On Feb 14, 2024, at 17:21, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Congrats!
>
> You should be able to out the “osgeo community” branding in your website:
> https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/tree/master/incubation/community
>
> https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/tree/master/marketing/branding/subbrands/community
>
>
> You may also wish to make a news post here:
> https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/
>
> If your project has a blog you can also register it with community news.
>
> You are very welcome to start an application for incubation; we had a call
> to update some of our procedures around this (so if the docs are confusing
> please ask).
>
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 1:54 AM Adam Stewart <ajstewart426 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Jody,
>>
>> It looks like the motion passed! We're excited to join OSGeo, and will
>> make the announcement to our users today. We'll also encourage our users to
>> join OSGeo itself.
>>
>> I'm not sure how the process usually looks, but I believe we also satisfy
>> all requirements for the second tier of membership. Should we get started
>> on that process, or is there a certain amount of time that projects usually
>> wait in the first tier before moving to the second tier?
>>
>> Adam
>>
>> On Jan 22, 2024, at 23:56, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Adam:
>>
>> I with the osgeo page available:
>> 1 Be geospatial:
>> 2 done: Project page on osgeo website:
>> https://www.osgeo.org/projects/torchgeo
>> 2 Have a free license or an open source license
>> 2 done: "I added a CONTRIBUTING.md and fixed a few files that were
>> missing the license header. Everything should be in compliance now."
>>
>> I think that covers it I will make a motion for the group here to double
>> check and ask questions.
>> --
>> Jody Garnett
>>
>>
>> On Dec 11, 2023 at 9:41:23 AM, 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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>>>
>>
>
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