[OSGeo-Jobs] STAC Tools call for contractors

[Brian M Hamlin]

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Get funded to code software for STAC!
Announcing three open requests for proposals for SpatioTemporal Asset 
Catalog (STAC) projects

Chris Holmes
   Product Architect @ Planet
   Board Member @ Open Geospatial Consortium
   Technical Fellow @ Radiant.Earth

https://medium.com/radiant-earth-insights/get-funded-to-code-software-for-stac-8af742749ec8

In my previous post, I shared that we’ll be funding a number of 
different STAC initiatives. One of our goals with the STAC ecosystem 
funding is to grow the number of contributors working on STAC. To that 
end, we have three completely open requests for proposals that are 
designed to help fund developers to have some paid time on a few key 
projects. We encourage everyone to apply and are especially interested 
in proposals from traditionally underrepresented groups.

This will be the second open call for proposals we’ve done, and this 
time we’re trying to evolve the process a bit, by being fully 
transparent with the total budget. We are flexible with the exact 
deliverables, so each RFP has a number of ideas and proposals can choose 
which issues they want to tackle. With the STAC Browser and stactools 
projects, our main goal is to bring in more contributors. So we’ll look 
at the proposed work as well as people’s backgrounds to decide. 
Individuals and companies are both encouraged to apply — our hope is at 
the end of the work to have another go-to option who can take funded 
work to develop fixes and new features, and ideally help out with some 
of the day-to-day maintenance.

The RFP’s are available online:

     STAC Browser RFP 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XOn1bg0loBCDVob6kSflrtiudfUbFvGRFSG8jP1C1JY/edit
     STAC API Validation RFP 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-JePnOJ6tJtDiX8gDsqSChNKUK0s3xR_UhEbjCMd8IE/edit#
     stactools RFP 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QXfjgZycppgiiMhXzrV5xW0tZZe11D02Zv0rq2TIHvg/edit

We are open to proposals from individuals and companies, and all 
proposals are due April 1st. Read the above links for all the details, 
and read on for an overview of each.

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STAC Browser is one of the foundational projects of the STAC Ecosystem, 
and it’s been going in exciting new directions as Matthias Mohr has been 
iterating on version 3.0. This is a ground-up rewrite, resulting in a 
faster and more maintainable codebase. He’s been working alone on it for 
a while, with 7 alpha releases, and he should get to a first beta 
release in the next couple of months. But his time is limited, as he’s 
got a full-time job on OpenEO and squeezes this in when he has spare 
hours. With that schedule he’s actually unable to take on more paid 
work, so we’re hoping to use this funding to help a new contributor get 
up to speed, ideally a person or company who would be interested in 
future funded projects.

So we’ve got a set budget of $8000 USD, and are open to a variety of 
work items. Matthias has done a great job organizing the issue tracker 
with good tasks to take on, so we’re looking for proposals that tackle a 
few of those issues. But we’re also more than open to new ideas as well, 
if there are things you’ve wanted to work on in STAC Browser and some 
funded time would help you prioritize it. To respond to the RFP see the 
STAC Browser RFP and follow its directions.


     https://github.com/radiantearth/stac-browser
https://medium.com/radiant-earth-insights/the-exciting-future-of-the-stac-browser-2351143aa24b
     https://openeo.org/
     https://github.com/radiantearth/stac-browser/issues
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XOn1bg0loBCDVob6kSflrtiudfUbFvGRFSG8jP1C1JY/edit


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STAC API Validation RFP

After 5 beta releases, we should see the first 1.0.0 Release Candidate 
of STAC API in the next week or two. This means there is no more planned 
functionality before 1.0.0, and we’re mostly looking for feedback from 
implementations as they upgrade to be compliant with the spec. One of 
the most important tools to help implementors is a validation tool, so 
they can just use automated tooling to tell them where they aren’t 
spec-compliant, instead of trying to check and interpret every single 
line of text.

There is a great start to this with the stac-api-validator tool, and 
that is potentially a great codebase to expand upon. But the RFP is not 
assuming that is the answer — we are open to other codebases that fully 
test the specification. We’ve got a budget of $15,000 USD for this, and 
are hoping that is enough to cover all the basics of spec compliance, 
and potentially even go a bit beyond. To respond to the RFP see the STAC 
API Validation RFP document and follow the directions there.

     https://github.com/radiantearth/stac-api-spec
     https://github.com/stac-utils/stac-api-validator
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-JePnOJ6tJtDiX8gDsqSChNKUK0s3xR_UhEbjCMd8IE/edit#


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stactools RFP

The final RFP is for stactools, another foundational project in the 
ecosystem. It has grown to be a number of related packages that provide 
a ton of interesting functionality on the type of the core pystac 
project. As with the other projects we have a set budget of $5000 USD. 
The primary goal is to help maintain and improve the project, and like 
STAC Browser we hope to bring in new contributors to help the core 
developers. The RFP and the issue tracker have a number of great ideas 
of how to help out, and we are open to a variety of work plans in the 
proposals. To respond to the RFP see the stactools RFP document and 
follow the directions there.

https://medium.com/radiant-earth-insights/a-belated-introduction-to-stactools-712f20e43fbc
     https://stactools-packages.github.io/
     https://github.com/stac-utils/stactools/issues
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QXfjgZycppgiiMhXzrV5xW0tZZe11D02Zv0rq2TIHvg/edit


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Thanks to our Sponsors

And of course, none of this would be possible without the generous 
support of our sponsors for the STAC Ecosystem initiative. You can read 
more about it in our STAC updates from February and October.

  Microsoft,  Planet,  Geosciences Australia / Digital Earth Africa,  
Element 84,  *GEO,  Arturo
  Development Seed,  Development Seed,  HydroSAT,  RadiantEarth
  Toitu Te Whenua / Land Information New Zealand


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