[Live-demo] Request for - Live GIS Add Project (Cesium)
Johan Van de Wauw
johan.vandewauw at gmail.com
Sat Dec 20 11:29:12 PST 2014
+1
On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 8:26 PM, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Thank you Bala and Patrick,
> I'm delighted to see Cesium applying to join OSGeo-Live. I've been hearing
> great things about Cesium, and with regards to your project description
> below, you have addressed all the requirements that are important for
> OSGeo-Live applications. I have discussed including Cesium with others in
> prior OSGeo-Live meetings and have had positive responses from other
> members of the OSGeo-Live team as well.
>
> OSGeo-Live community, I raise the motion that OSGeo-Live should be
> included on our next OSGeoLive 8.5 release (assuming docs and install
> work). If there are no -1 within 48 hours, then consider this a formal
> acceptance of the project into OSGeo-Live.
>
> +1 from me.
>
>
> On 20/12/2014 6:59 pm, Balasubramaniam Natarajan wrote:
>
> Hi Team,
>
> We would like to add the project Cesium to the OSGeoLive Disk. We have
> answered all the questions which are needed as per the link
> <http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Apply>. I am in the process of
> writing a script to get Cesium installed on a debian machine which I will
> share once it is done. I will also put together a project overview and a
> quick start guide.
>
> Let me and Patrick know if we are missing something.
>
> - Please describe your application.
> - What is its name?
> - Cesium
> - What is the home page URL?
> - http://cesiumjs.org/
> - Which OSI approved Open Source Licence is used?
> - Apache 2.0 license
> - What does the application do and how does it add value to the
> GeoSpatial stack of software?
> - Cesium is a JavaScript library for creating 3D globes and 2D maps
> in a web browser without a plugin. It uses WebGL for hardware-accelerated
> graphics, and is cross-platform, cross-browser, and tuned for dynamic-data
> visualization. Cesium is open source under the Apache 2.0 license. It is
> free for commercial and non-commercial use.
> - Does the application make use of OGC standards? Which versions of
> the standards? Client or server? You may wish to add comments about how
> standards are used.
> - WMS and WMTS. KML is expected in early 2015.
> - What language is it written in?
> - JavaScript
> - Which version of the application should be included in the next
> OSGeo-Live release?
> - Version 1.4 http://cesiumjs.org/downloads.html
>
>
> - Stability is very important to us on OSGeo-Live. If a new user finds
> a bug in one application, it will tarnish the reputation of all other
> OSGeo-Live applications as well. (We pay most attention to the following
> answers):
> - If risk adverse organisations have deployed your application into
> production, it would imply that these organisations have verified the
> stability of your software. Has the application been rolled out to
> production into risk (ideally risk adverse) organisations? Please mention
> some of these organisations?
> - Cesium is widely used in government agencies and has been used in
> NORAD Tracks Santa since 2012, which receives about 20 million unique
> visitors each December.
> - Open HUB <https://www.openhub.net/> provides metrics to help
> assess the health of a project. Eg:
> http://adhoc.osgeo.osuosl.org/livedvd/docs/en/metrics.html Could
> you please ensure that your project is registered with Open HUB, and Open
> HUB has been updated to reference the correct code repository(s) for your
> project. What is the Open HUB URL for your project?
> - https://www.openhub.net/p/cesiumjs
> - What is the size of the user community? You can often answer this
> by mentioning downloads, or describing a healthy, busy email list?
> - The forum receives 250-300 posts per month, and rising.
> - What is the size of your developer community?
> - There have been 40 total contributors with about five currently
> very active. See
> https://github.com/AnalyticalGraphicsInc/cesium/blob/master/CONTRIBUTORS.md
> - Do you have a bug free, stable release?
> - The latest version 1.4
> - Please discuss the level of testing that your project has gone
> through.
> - Cesium has 82K lines of runtime code and 78K lines of unit tests
> with 93% code coverage.
> - How long has the project has had mature code.
> - Cesium 1.0 was released on August 1, 2014.
>
>
> - OSGeo-Live is targeted at applications that people can use rather
> than libraries. Does the application have a user interface (possibly a
> command line interface) that a user can interact with? (We do make an
> exception for Incubated OSGeo Libraries, and will include Project Overviews
> for these libraries, even if they don't have a user interface.)
> - Here we write JavaScript to be rendered on the browser.
>
>
> - We give preference to OSGeo Incubated Projects, or Projects which
> are presented at FOSS4G <http://foss4g.org> conferences. If your
> project is involved in OSGeo Incubation, or has been selected to be
> presented at FOSS4G, then please mention it.
>
>
> - We presented at FOSS4G 2014 and FOSS4G NA 2013. We were also
> selected to present at FOSS4G NA 2015.
> - See http://cesiumjs.org/publications.html
>
>
> - With around 50 applications installed on OSGeo-Live, us core
> packagers do not have the time to liaise with every single project email
> list for each OSGeo-Live release. So we require a volunteer (or two) to
> take responsibility for liaising between OSGeo-Live and the project's
> communities. This volunteer will be responsible for ensuring the install
> scripts and English documentation are updated by someone for each
> OSGeo-Live release. Also test that the installed application and Quickstart
> documentation works as expected on release candidate releases of
> OSGeo-Live. Who will act as the project's liaison person.
> - Balasubramaniam Natarajan and Patrick Cozzi.
>
>
> - OSGeo-Live is Ubuntu Linux based. Our installation preference is:
> 1. Install from UbuntuGIS or DebianGIS
> 2. Install .deb files from a PPA
> 3. Write a custom install script
>
> Can you please discuss how your application will be installed.
> We plan to do it with custom install script.
>
> - OSGeo-Live is memory and disk constrained. Can the application run
> in 512 Meg of RAM?
> - (We will get back on this point). In my test I ran Cesium on a
> gui less virtualbox guest and accessed it from another computer via browser
> which had capability for rendering WebGL on browser and it worked fine.
>
>
> - How much disk space will be required to install the application and
> a suitable example application?
> - Less than a 100 MB, I am really overstating this it could be even
> under 50MB.
>
>
> - We aim to reduce disk space by having all applications make use of a
> common dataset. We encourage applications to make use of the example
> datasets already installed:
>
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project#Example_Datasets If
> another dataset would be more appropriate, please discuss here. Is it
> appropriate, to remove existing demo datasets which may already be included
> in the standard release.
>
> - Each OSGeo-Live application requires a Project Overview available
> under a CC By <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/> and a
> Quickstart available under a CC By-SA
> <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/> license. (You may
> release under a second license as well). Will you produce this?
> - We will produce a project overview and a quick start guide.
>
>
> - In past releases, we have included Windows and Mac installers for
> some applications. It is likely we won't have space for these in future
> releases. However, if there is room, would you be wishing to include
> Windows and/or Mac installers?
> - Not applicable for our project as it runs on the browser.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Balasubramaniam Natarajan
> (Address me as Bala)
> http://blog.etutorshop.com
>
>
> --
> Cameron Shorter,
> Software and Data Solutions Manager
> LISAsoft
> Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf,
> 26 - 32 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont NSW 2009
>
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>
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