[OSGeo-UK] Should we sponsor adding support to GDAL for FileGDB?

[Tom Chadwin]

Morning all

I didn't get any response to my specific enquiry about sponsoring the GDB
raster idea. There has since been a new development, with much discussion
online on the importance of sponsoring GDAL as a whole. In parallel with
this, Even Rouault, the core GDAL developer, has now set up a sponsorship
mechanism.

We're keen to contribute to GDAL development and are thinking about
sponsoring Even directly via GitHub. After discussion among the committee,
we propose to do this if we don't get any negative responses within the
next couple of days. Please therefore drop us a reply on- or off-list if
you have any thoughts.

Thanks

Tom



On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 5:03 PM Tom Chadwin <tom at chadw.in> wrote:

> Hello all
>
> OSGeo:UK seeks to use the money you have kindly given for conference
> tickets and in donations as effectively as possible. A significant use of
> the money is sponsorship of open-source geo software.
>
> The committee started to look for sponsorship opportunities, and the
> possibility of adding support to GDAL for GDB rasters was raised:
>
> https://twitter.com/nyalldawson/status/1324578155026239489
>
> GDAL is the open-source spatial file format library which drives many of
> the spatial software packages (open-source and proprietary) that we use
> every day. GDB is an Esri file format.
>
> The committee are considering pledging £500 towards this work. However, we
> want to find out whether this would be popular with you all. How much are
> GDB rasters used? Would this really help the UK FOSS4G community?
>
> Please let us know what you think.
>
> Thanks
>
> Tom
>
>
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