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PyWPS finished the OSGeo incubation process

On April 11th 2018, OSGeo Board of Directors recognized [1] PyWPS project as an official OSGeo project, thanks to the efforts of the PyWPS Project Steering committee and Tom Kralidis, our incubation mentor. The incubation process started 9 years ago [2] and was one of the longest processes within the OSGeo ecosystem. Over this time, PyWPS demonstrated [3] a stable community, evolving into version 4 with completely new code base and license change, took part on several Google Summer of Code events, formed a Project Steering Committee [4] and many more.

About PyWPS

PyWPS (http://pywps.org) is an implementation of the Web Processing Service standard from the Open Geospatial Consortium. PyWPS is written in Python. It enables integration, publishing and execution of Python processes via the OGC WPS standard.

PyWPS is Open Source and released under an MIT license.

About OSGeo

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo http://osgeo.org) 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.

[1] https://www.loomio.org/d/vcAgpzQl/recognize-pywps-as-a-new-osgeo-project-with-jachym-as-vp-of-pywps-within-our-organization-and-an-initial-committee-budget-of-2000-usd-for-2018 [2] https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/337 [3] https://github.com/geopython/pywps/wiki/ProjectGraduationChecklist [4] http://pywps.org/development/psc.html