+1 Norman
On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 12:50 PM Daniel Morissette <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 > > Daniel > > > On 2022-02-15 10:37, Howard Butler wrote: > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gdal-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev > > > -- > Daniel Morissette > Mapgears Inc > T: +1 418-696-5056 #201 > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev >
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