[Incubator] TorchGeo -- Call for Vote to Graduate

[Jody Garnett]

Congrats to team, and thanks for mentoring. I will review this weekend.

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Jody Garnett


On Mon, Feb 2, 2026 at 8:08 AM Brian M Hamlin via Incubator <
incubator at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> Hello All -
>
>   With this email, I am pleased to present to the OSGeo Incubation
> Committee an OSGeo Project Candidate :  TorchGeo [0].  As Project Mentor I
> have worked closely with the TorchGeo PSC and code base.  In my best
> judgement, I find that TorchGeo is not only a suitable candidate, but in
> fact a substantial addition to a large set of consequential and significant
> geospatial software projects of our current era, represented by OSGeo.
>
> The Program Steering Committee (PSC) of TorchGeo is composed of a small
> but diverse group of committers; the PSC has defined clear standards for
> code contributions, bugs, features and additions. Due to the unique
> character of this training and benchmarking environment, many complete
> teams from more than a hundred institutions worldwide are contributing and
> active in the project.  As a Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
> environment itself, new data LICENSE challenges are present as well.
>
> You will find abundant links and details in the project Application [1]
> and Code Review [2].  The TorchGeo project release cycle is integrated with
> OSGeo Planet and news -- *special thanks to* *JSanz*.
>
> Please review and cast your vote at your earliest convenience. Questions
> and other inquiries will be handled on an OSGeo TRAC instance ticket [3].
> The voting period shall begin with the date of this email, and scheduled to
> conclude in 14 days hence.
>
> Special gratitude on this important day goes out to the *OSGeo Systems
> Administration Team* for TRAC, MediaWiki, *email* and support
> infrastructure
>
>   signed --Brian M Hamlin    /  MAPLABS  /  TorchGeo Project Mentor on
> behalf of #osgeo
>
>
> ##-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> [0] https://www.osgeo.org/projects/torchgeo/
>
> [1] https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/wiki/TorchGeo
>
> [2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/TorchGeo_Code_Provenance
>
> [3] https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/3519
>
>
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