Congratulations to the zoo-project team. On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 12:44 PM Tom Kralidis via Discuss < discuss@lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
> Published at > https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/zoo-project-graduates-osgeo-incubation > > Date: 2023-06-22 > > > OSGeo is pleased to announce that ZOO-Project has graduated from > incubation and is now a full-fledged OSGeo project. Gérald Fenoy, founder > and chair of the ZOO-Project Steering Committee (PSC), has been appointed > as project officer. > > ZOO-Project is an open-source platform for implementing and developing > efficient tools for processing geospatial and non-geospatial data based on > the OGC standards. > > Graduating incubation <https://www.osgeo.org/about/committees/incubation> > includes fulfilling requirements for open community operation, a > responsible project governance model, code provenance, and general good > project operation. Graduation is the OSGeo seal of approval for a project > and gives potential users and the community at large an added confidence in > the viability and safety of the project. > > The ZOO-Project Steering Committee collectively recognizes this as a big > progressive step for the project. ZOO-Project has been an active > contributor to various open source initiatives inside and outside OSGeo > such as FOSS4G, OSGeo Code Sprints, OGC Code Sprints, Joint OSGeo-OGC-ASF > (Apache Software Foundation) Code Sprints, Google Summer of Code. The > ZOO-Project PSC says, “*We are excited about the future of the project > and have been working towards the incubation approval for a long time. It > is our honor to be an OSGeo incubated project”.* > > OSGeo and ZOO-Project would like to thank Tom Kralidis, Dimitris Kotzinos, > Frank Warmerdam, and the OSGeo Incubation Committee for their assistance > during this Incubation process. > > Congratulations to the ZOO-Project community! > > > > About ZOO-Project > > ZOO-Project is a Web Processing Service (WPS) implementation written in C, > Python and JavaScript. It is an open source platform which implements the > WPS 1.0.0, WPS 2.0.0, and OGC API – Processes – Part 1: Core standards > edited by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). It provides a > developer-friendly framework for creating and chaining WPS compliant Web > Services. Additionally, it offers efficient tools for creating new > innovative web services and applications. > > ZOO-Project is able to process geospatial or non geospatial data online. > Its core processing engine (aka ZOO-Kernel) lets you execute a number of > existing ZOO-Services based on reliable software and libraries. It also > gives you the ability to create your own WPS Services from new or existing > source code, which can be written in seven different programming languages. > That allows you to compose or turn code as WPS Services simply, with > straightforward configuration and standard coding methods. > > ZOO-Project is very flexible with data input and output so you can process > almost any kind of data stored locally or accessed from remote servers and > databases. ZOO-Project excels in data processing and integrates new or > existing spatial data infrastructures, as it is able to communicate with > map servers and can integrate webmapping clients. > > > > About OSGeo > > The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) is a not-for-profit > organization whose mission is to foster global adoption of open geospatial > technology by being an inclusive software foundation devoted to an open > philosophy and participatory community driven development. > > The Foundation provides financial, organizational and legal support to the > broader open source geospatial community. It also serves as an independent > legal entity to which community members can contribute code, funding and > other resources, secure in the knowledge that their contributions will be > maintained for public benefit. OSGeo also serves as an outreach and > advocacy organization for the open source geospatial community, and > provides a common forum and shared infrastructure for improving > cross-project collaboration. > > Visit osgeo.org for more information. > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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