+1 FrankW I'm very pleased as a GDAL PSC member and a sponsor who depends on the full stack.
On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 2:46 PM Kurt Schwehr <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 KurtS - GDAL PSC member > > On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 7:38 AM Howard Butler <[email protected]> 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 >> > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev > -- ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, [email protected] light and sound - activate the windows | +1 650-701-7823 and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Software Developer
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