Thank you Bala and Patrick,
I'm delighted to see Cesium applying to join OSGeo-Live. I've been
hearing great things about Cesium, and with regards to your project
description below, you have addressed all the requirements that are
important for OSGeo-Live applications. I have discussed including Cesium
with others in prior OSGeo-Live meetings and have had positive responses
from other members of the OSGeo-Live team as well.
OSGeo-Live community, I raise the motion that OSGeo-Live should be
included on our next OSGeoLive 8.5 release (assuming docs and install
work). If there are no -1 within 48 hours, then consider this a formal
acceptance of the project into OSGeo-Live.
+1 from me.
On 20/12/2014 6:59 pm, Balasubramaniam Natarajan wrote:
Hi Team,
We would like to add the project Cesium to the OSGeoLive Disk. We
have answered all the questions which are needed as per the link
<http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Apply>. I am in the process
of writing a script to get Cesium installed on a debian machine which
I will share once it is done. I will also put together a project
overview and a quick start guide.
Let me and Patrick know if we are missing something.
* Please describe your application.
o What is its name?
o Cesium
o What is the home page URL?
o http://cesiumjs.org/
o Which OSI approved Open Source Licence is used?
o Apache 2.0 license
o What does the application do and how does it add value to the
GeoSpatial stack of software?
o Cesium is a JavaScript library for creating 3D globes and 2D
maps in a web browser without a plugin. It uses WebGL for
hardware-accelerated graphics, and is cross-platform,
cross-browser, and tuned for dynamic-data visualization.
Cesium is open source under the Apache 2.0 license. It is free
for commercial and non-commercial use.
o Does the application make use of OGC standards? Which versions
of the standards? Client or server? You may wish to add
comments about how standards are used.
o WMS and WMTS. KML is expected in early 2015.
o What language is it written in?
o JavaScript
o Which version of the application should be included in the
next OSGeo-Live release?
o Version 1.4 http://cesiumjs.org/downloads.html
* Stability is very important to us on OSGeo-Live. If a new user
finds a bug in one application, it will tarnish the reputation of
all other OSGeo-Live applications as well. (We pay most attention
to the following answers):
o If risk adverse organisations have deployed your application
into production, it would imply that these organisations have
verified the stability of your software. Has the application
been rolled out to production into risk (ideally risk adverse)
organisations? Please mention some of these organisations?
o Cesium is widely used in government agencies and has been used
in NORAD Tracks Santa since 2012, which receives about 20
million unique visitors each December.
o Open HUB <https://www.openhub.net/> provides metrics to help
assess the health of a project. Eg:
http://adhoc.osgeo.osuosl.org/livedvd/docs/en/metrics.html
Could you please ensure that your project is registered with
Open HUB, and Open HUB has been updated to reference the
correct code repository(s) for your project. What is the Open
HUB URL for your project?
o https://www.openhub.net/p/cesiumjs
o What is the size of the user community? You can often answer
this by mentioning downloads, or describing a healthy, busy
email list?
o The forum receives 250-300 posts per month, and rising.
o What is the size of your developer community?
o There have been 40 total contributors with about five
currently very active. See
https://github.com/AnalyticalGraphicsInc/cesium/blob/master/CONTRIBUTORS.md
o Do you have a bug free, stable release?
o The latest version 1.4
o Please discuss the level of testing that your project has gone
through.
o Cesium has 82K lines of runtime code and 78K lines of unit
tests with 93% code coverage.
o How long has the project has had mature code.
o Cesium 1.0 was released on August 1, 2014.
* OSGeo-Live is targeted at applications that people can use rather
than libraries. Does the application have a user interface
(possibly a command line interface) that a user can interact with?
(We do make an exception for Incubated OSGeo Libraries, and will
include Project Overviews for these libraries, even if they don't
have a user interface.)
o Here we write JavaScript to be rendered on the browser.
* We give preference to OSGeo Incubated Projects, or Projects which
are presented at FOSS4G <http://foss4g.org> conferences. If your
project is involved in OSGeo Incubation, or has been selected to
be presented at FOSS4G, then please mention it.
* We presented at FOSS4G 2014 and FOSS4G NA 2013. We were also
selected to present at FOSS4G NA 2015.
* See http://cesiumjs.org/publications.html
* With around 50 applications installed on OSGeo-Live, us core
packagers do not have the time to liaise with every single project
email list for each OSGeo-Live release. So we require a volunteer
(or two) to take responsibility for liaising between OSGeo-Live
and the project's communities. This volunteer will be responsible
for ensuring the install scripts and English documentation are
updated by someone for each OSGeo-Live release. Also test that the
installed application and Quickstart documentation works as
expected on release candidate releases of OSGeo-Live. Who will act
as the project's liaison person.
o Balasubramaniam Natarajan and Patrick Cozzi.
* OSGeo-Live is Ubuntu Linux based. Our installation preference is:
1. Install from UbuntuGIS or DebianGIS
2. Install .deb files from a PPA
3. Write a custom install script
Can you please discuss how your application will be installed.
We plan to do it with custom install script.
* OSGeo-Live is memory and disk constrained. Can the application run
in 512 Meg of RAM?
o (We will get back on this point). In my test I ran Cesium on
a gui less virtualbox guest and accessed it from another
computer via browser which had capability for rendering WebGL
on browser and it worked fine.
* How much disk space will be required to install the application
and a suitable example application?
o Less than a 100 MB, I am really overstating this it could be
even under 50MB.
* We aim to reduce disk space by having all applications make use of
a common dataset. We encourage applications to make use of the
example datasets already installed:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project#Example_Datasets If
another dataset would be more appropriate, please discuss here. Is it
appropriate, to remove existing demo datasets which may already be
included in the standard release.
* Each OSGeo-Live application requires a Project Overview available
under a CC By <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/> and a
Quickstart available under a CC By-SA
<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/> license. (You may
release under a second license as well). Will you produce this?
o We will produce a project overview and a quick start guide.
* In past releases, we have included Windows and Mac installers for
some applications. It is likely we won't have space for these in
future releases. However, if there is room, would you be wishing
to include Windows and/or Mac installers?
o Not applicable for our project as it runs on the browser.
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Balasubramaniam Natarajan
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