[Incubator] TorchGeo interested in joining OSGeo
Jody Garnett
jody.garnett at gmail.com
Mon Jan 22 14:52:04 PST 2024
Hi Adam,
Let me catch up:
1. It looks like you were able to sort things out with
https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/3087
2. I just chair the incubation committee here, so I am not held up by
the board elections. Indeed I should not be holding up the review of your
page as there are other volunteers subscribed to this list also!
3. You did not provide a link to your project page, let me see if I can
find it: https://www.osgeo.org/?post_type=project&p=23464&preview=true
(requires
login for reviewers)
Your page looks good!
- Your banner image looks good, but if you had a picture of your project
team we would prefer it (the theme of the website is showing people -
because like Soylent Green our free and open source software is made of
people (time rather than raw materials I admit).
- Nice touch having CITE test results - there some standards you wish to
add to that page?
- I changed the project type to "None" as you are not yet joined the
OSGeo foundation
Published
- Workflow testing: I was able to find your project by navigating *Choose
a project <https://www.osgeo.org/choose-a-project/> > *Analysis and
Process <https://www.osgeo.org/choose-a-project/analysis-and-processing/>
> Raster Processing
<https://www.osgeo.org/choose-a-project/analysis-and-processing/raster-processing/>
--
Jody Garnett
On Jan 22, 2024 at 3:59:12 AM, Adam Stewart <ajstewart426 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jody,
>
> Any updates on our request to join OSGeo? I'm told that there may be a
> Board Election going on right now, so no rush if you're busy with that at
> the moment.
>
> Adam
>
> On Jan 11, 2024, at 14:40, Adam Stewart <ajstewart426 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Jody,
>
> We've finished our draft of the project page and submitted it for review.
> In addition, all bullet points from both checklists have been satisfied.
> Once the project page is public, we'll link to it from our GitHub page. Let
> me know if there's anything else we need to do.
>
> Adam
>
> On Jan 5, 2024, at 01:08, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> You are correct SVG is not supported.
>
> I also volunteer with the marketing committee and will add your request to
> the collection of improvements requested for the OSGeo website.
>
> The osgeo system admin committee runs the wordpress server. I have
> reported the error for you here: https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/3087
>
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
>
> On Jan 4, 2024 at 9:38:35 AM, Adam Stewart <ajstewart426 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Jody,
>>
>> Working on this now. I'm trying to add a logo. It looks like SVG files
>> are not supported, is it possible to install a Wordpress plugin for SVG
>> support? I converted to a 720 x 412 PNG file like the documentation says,
>> but I get the following error when I try to upload the file:
>>
>> "The server cannot process the image. This can happen if the server is
>> busy or does not have enough resources to complete the task. Uploading a
>> smaller image may help. Suggested maximum size is 2560 pixels."
>>
>> Any idea what's wrong with the server?
>>
>> Adam
>>
>> On Dec 23, 2023, at 08:57, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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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>>>
>>>
>>
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