+1, sounds wonderful. I'm willing to be the liason to the GDAL / NumFocus administrators for this work.
P > On Feb 15, 2022, at 10:11 AM, Regina Obe <[email protected]> wrote: > > GEOS PSC +1 > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: geos-devel [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >> Howard Butler >> Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2022 10:38 AM >> To: gdal dev <[email protected]> >> Cc: GEOS Development List <[email protected]> >> Subject: [geos-devel] GEOS Maintenance Grant >> >> GDAL PSC, >> >> When we wrote the GDAL RFCs on sponsorship, we provided an escape >> clause to allow us to direct resources to other projects upon which GDAL >> depends. Our sponsorship numbers are still increasing, which provides us > an >> opportunity to directly support some of those projects, and one of them is >> obviously GEOS. GEOS provides all of the geometry algebra support for >> GDAL/OGR and many other open source geospatial softwares including >> Shapely, PostGIS, GeoPandas, MapServer, and more. >> >> Dan Baston of the GEOS PSC has been identified as the developer with >> capacity and interest in the next year to take on GEOS development on APIs >> and performance, which he has a long history of doing for the project. > This >> support should allow him to work longer, multi-release upgrades that will >> provide strong performance and convenience benefits for the project. >> >> I motion to provide the GEOS PSC with a $50,000 USD grant to address >> performance, API, and other work that does not attract directed funding in >> GEOS. The GEOS PSC will be responsible for coordinating work tasks, rates, >> and development timelines. Howard Butler or Even Rouault of the GDAL >> NumFocus liaison team will coordinate dispersement as directed by the >> GEOS PSC and NumFocus rules. >> >> Thank you again to the GDAL Sponsors https://gdal.org/sponsors/index.html >> who have made this kind of grant possible. A better GEOS makes for a > better >> GDAL. >> >> Howard >> >> _______________________________________________ >> geos-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geos-devel > > _______________________________________________ > geos-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geos-devel _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
