[Liblas-devel] libLAS/libPC -- looking for funding, sponsorship

[Eli Adam]

Any chance of being able to support libLAS/libPC through OSGeo?  

There are a handful of projects that can be supported through OSGeo here, http://www.osgeo.org/sponsorship/opportunities 

Eli



>>> On 4/7/2011 at 8:24 AM, in message
<00a401cbf537$ec99cd20$c5cd6760$@flaxen.com>, "Michael P. Gerlek"
<mpg at flaxen.com> wrote:
> Do you use libLAS in your products, or would you if it had some additional
> features you need?  If so, please read on.
> 
> 
> libLAS has been a success, but the world of point cloud support for
> geospatial applications goes well beyond just reading and writing the LAS
> format -- we want support for other formats, spatial index integration, a
> suite of core command line tools, database integration, and so on.  To that
> end, as some of you may have already heard, the lasLAS team has begun work
> on "version 2" of libLAS, known as libPC.  The project goals are:
> 
> 1. libPC is a library which provides APIs for reading, writing, and 
>    processing point cloud data of various formats.  Additionally, some 
>    command line tools are provided.  As GDAL is to 2D pixels, libPC is to 
>    multidimensional points.
>     
> 2. From a market perspective, libPC is "version 2" of libLAS.  The actual 
>    code base will be different, however, and the APIs will not be
>    compatible.
> 
> 3. The libPC implementation has high performance, yet the API remains 
>    flexible.  We recognize that these two goals will conflict at times and 
>    will weigh the tradeoffs pragmatically.
>   
> 4. The architecture of a libPC-based workflow will be a pipeline of 
>    connected stages, each stage being either a data source (such as a file
>    reader), a filter (such as a point thinner), or data sink (such as a
>    file writer).
> 
> 5. The libPC library will be in C++, but will also include a C API and will
>    have SWIG bindings for languages like Python and C#. libPC will support 
>    multiple platforms, specifically Windows, Linux, and Mac.
> 
> 6. libPC is open source and is released under a BSD license.
> 
> 
> In part with funding from a generous US govt sponsor (not sure if I should
> name them, sorry), libPC development is already well underway.
> 
> However, more development needs to happen before it can reach parity with
> libLAS and start to go into production mode.  To do this, of course, your
> material support is needed.
> 
> If you use libLAS today in your world -- or if you would like to, if only it
> had some missing feature -- please consider helping to fund the libLAS team.
> This can be done in a variety of ways:
> 
>   - "buy" open development time to further the core libPC work
>   - "sponsor" the team to implement a particular feature you need
>   - loan a member of your own development staff to the team for a specific
> task
> 
> Please contact me (mpg at flaxen.com) if you're interested in supporting open
> source software.
> 
> -mpg
> 
> 
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