That's a bummer about funding, but I have to say that the list of work going on with the GDAL is really exciting!
On Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 11:06 AM Howard Butler <how...@hobu.co> wrote: > Howard Butler, Even Rouault, and Dan Baston held the monthly GDAL > Maintainers Meeting on 08/24/2023. Alessandro was unavailable due to > vacation conflicts. > > Fundraising update > ---------------------------- > > Obtaining sponsorship renewals continues to be challenging. Another gold > sponsor has dropped supporting GDAL. This brings us to two gold and two > bronze level sponsors who have declined to renew their sponsorship for > 2023-2024 [1]. This will take away $120,000 of sponsorship funding for the > next year. If your corporate organization values the efforts of the GDAL > sponsorship program and are willing to step forward to continue support of > these activities, please contact me privately and I will be happy to route > you through NumFOCUS to help us backfill the hole. If you are a customer of > the companies who have dropped supporting GDAL, you might mention your > frustration with that fact through your sales or other communication > channels. > > Maintenance activities update > ------------------------------------------ > > * Dan reports that NASA will be continuing to fund his maintenance efforts > and activity level with the project for the next year. Thanks Dan and > thanks NASA! > > * Dan continued GDAL test refactoring and enhancement to allow tests to be > run without ordering dependencies. The ultimate goal of this effort is to > enable parallel execution of the test suite to shorten our CI execution > times. Specific updates here include providing temppath fixtures for many > tests and cleaning up collisions of /vsimem calls. > > * Even reports slightly reduced bug and maintenance activity due to > vacation season with about 10 tickets addressed. > > * Even continued enhancement of parquet/arrow and GeoParquet. This > included providing RowGroups and group statistics when writing content, > nested parquet datatype support and parquet attribute filtering. > > * Even added more epoch handling improvements in PROJ > > * Alessandro worked to add a unified subdataset name APIs and align the > driver-dependent versions of the same for GDAL. This is to make it easier > to present and consume them in applications like QGIS. > > * Howard, Dan, and Even had a discussion about GDAL's plugin system. This > was continuation of discussion started at [2]. > > * A short discussion about incrementing GDAL's base C++ level to C++17 was > ticketed https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/issues/8270 please provide > feedback if you have opinions about such an increment > > * Dan discussed the potential of merging the capabilities of exactextract > https://github.com/isciences/exactextract/ into GDAL's base algorithms > for providing fast and accurate raster partial pixel polygon overlay > statistics. > > * Even discussed the potential of aliasing GIntBig into standard ctypes > int64_t. > > The next GDAL Maintainers Meeting is 09/28/2023 at 9:00 EDT. Any PSC > members are welcome to join by reaching out to me for an invite. > > Howard > > [1] > https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/commits/master/doc/source/sponsors/index.rst > [2] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2023-May/057290.html > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev >
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