+1 from a GEOS PSC member --strk;
On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 09:37:37AM -0600, 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
