[technology-pmc] march 23rd tech-pmc meeting

[Jody Garnett <jody.garnett@xxxxxxxxx>]

Attending: Jody, David, Rob

1. Spatial4J is done!
1. Congrats! everything is done ... Spatial4J 0.6
2. TODO: Send out a blog post!
3. More excited about the next "perfect" Spatial4J version 1.0
2. JTS what is next?
1. Got initial check-in - waiting on time :)
2. Rob: headers updated in DC code-sprints
3. Next we move to LocationTech GitHub
1. Ask Jim how to do this, expect Martin will need to pass off the ownership
3. GeoTrellis
1. Release 0.10 coming out shortly
1. two years since last release
2. sparc rewrite since last time
2. Going for a 1.0 under LocationTech late summer 
3. Getting testers for the RC which is great
4. DC code sprint: Rob and Dwins got to work on the smallest hackathon
4. ApacheCon
1. Rob is talking in the "big data" track
2. http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apache-big-data-north-america 
3. good discussion on lucene and spatial4j (expected for 5.5 and official 6.0)
5. FOSS4G-NA
1. ApacheCon ... ApacheSIS (got taken over by GeoAPI)
2. Looking for volunteers to setup code-sprint
1. looking for venue / catering
2. need to sort this out for travel plans
6. FOSS4G
1. Thanks for submitting
2. jody/rob submitted a "community talk"
3. rob submitted "reprojection of digital tile sets" for a heavy technical talk on distributed processing
7. GeoGig
1. Release schedule 1.0 --> 2.0 (vs 1.1 --> 1.2)
2. team seems happy and looking forward foss4g-na
8. uDig
1. Frank submitting something to foss4g bonn
2. Need to coordinate reduced scope / CQs
9. Nomination for Committer SC reps
1. We get two this year!
2. Nominate on email list
10. Paris code sprint
1. Was really great! A lot of people
2. Rob got to hack on GDAL the whole time
3. Great chat with Paul and Hobu