[Incubator] TorchGeo -- Call for Vote to Graduate

[Regina Obe]

+1

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Incubator <incubator-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> On Behalf Of Tom
> Kralidis via Incubator
> Sent: Monday, February 9, 2026 7:17 PM
> To: Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
> Cc: Brian M Hamlin <maplabs at light42.com>; OSGeo Incubator Committee
> <Incubator at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: Re: [Incubator] TorchGeo -- Call for Vote to Graduate
> 
> +1
> 
> ..Tom
> 
> On Mon, Feb 9, 2026 at 7:04 PM Jody Garnett via Incubator
> <incubator at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > You sent this on Feb 2, so the motion closes Monday 16 February.
> >
> > +1 This is very impressive Brian + project team.
> >
> > Aside: Not sure I have seen a project with a charter before :)
> >
> >
> >
> > - -
> > Jody Garnett
> >
> >
> > On Feb 2, 2026 at 7:40:13 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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