+1 On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 8:26 PM, Cameron Shorter <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > - What is its name? > - Cesium > - What is the home page URL? > - http://cesiumjs.org/ > - Which OSI approved Open Source Licence is used? > - Apache 2.0 license > - What does the application do and how does it add value to the > GeoSpatial stack of software? > - 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. > - 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. > - WMS and WMTS. KML is expected in early 2015. > - What language is it written in? > - JavaScript > - Which version of the application should be included in the next > OSGeo-Live release? > - 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): > - 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? > - 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. > - 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? > - https://www.openhub.net/p/cesiumjs > - What is the size of the user community? You can often answer this > by mentioning downloads, or describing a healthy, busy email list? > - The forum receives 250-300 posts per month, and rising. > - What is the size of your developer community? > - There have been 40 total contributors with about five currently > very active. See > > https://github.com/AnalyticalGraphicsInc/cesium/blob/master/CONTRIBUTORS.md > - Do you have a bug free, stable release? > - The latest version 1.4 > - Please discuss the level of testing that your project has gone > through. > - Cesium has 82K lines of runtime code and 78K lines of unit tests > with 93% code coverage. > - How long has the project has had mature code. > - 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.) > - 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. > - 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? > - (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? > - 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? > - 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? > - Not applicable for our project as it runs on the browser. > > -- > Regards, > Balasubramaniam Natarajan > (Address me as Bala) > http://blog.etutorshop.com > > > -- > Cameron Shorter, > Software and Data Solutions Manager > LISAsoft > Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf, > 26 - 32 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont NSW 2009 > > P +61 2 9009 5000, W www.lisasoft.com, F +61 2 9009 5099 > > > _______________________________________________ > Live-demo mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo > http://live.osgeo.org > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc >
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