GEOS PSC +1 > -----Original Message----- > From: geos-devel [mailto:geos-devel-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of > Howard Butler > Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2022 10:38 AM > To: gdal dev <gdal-...@lists.osgeo.org> > Cc: GEOS Development List <geos-devel@lists.osgeo.org> > 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 > geos-devel@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geos-devel
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