STAC Sprint Update & Reminder: Sign up for Software Sprint Next Week!
Just wanted to give a quick update on STAC Sprint #6, starting next week! Our first major focus is on ‘software’ — upgrading and building out the tooling that creates and makes use of the SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC) specification. So far we’ve got over 50 people signed up, with people interested in working on SNAP, Intake-stac, Open Data Cube, Microsoft’s Planetary Computer, Franklin, GeoTools, GeoServer, pygeoapi, trying STAC out with point clouds, radio occultation data, TileDB Arrays, zarr, and of course working on core tools.
Please sign up if you’re interested in joining. I plan to send out the schedule in the next few days. We’ll be getting started at 13:00 UTC (click for the time in your timezone). That’s obviously early for some people (like me at 6am in San Francisco) and late for others, so we’ll also have some form of virtual introduction and aim to open up collaboration space before the kickoff.
I also wanted to thank our sponsors!
We’ve had incredible support from a wide variety of sponsors. Planet and AI for Earth at Microsoft are ‘convening sponsors’, coming together to make the event happen, enabling t-shirts for all contributing participants and some great prizes. It’s really exciting to see Microsoft join the community as they embark on their Planetary Computer work, and of course great to see Planet’s sustained support of events, in addition to my time on STAC. We’ve got Gold sponsorships from long time STAC supports like Maxar, SparkGeo and Element84. And it’s really encouraging to me to see Digital Earth Africa and the World Bank join in as sponsors, bringing us more global reach as they put up STAC catalogs in support of their missions. All our sponsors have really great stories, and we’ll hopefully hear from all of them on our Outreach Day.
We’ve also decided to expand the scope for the second half of the sprint, pivoting from just STAC to ‘Cloud Native Geospatial’. This means we’ll aim to make the content more accessible for people new to this world, and also incorporate some talks and sessions focused on STAC’s good friend Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF.
We’re also working on some prizes aimed at people who aren’t yet experienced with Cloud Native Geospatial, and are aiming to have some good sessions for beginners. We’ll do a full post on the event soon, and our hope is to spread it widely to be able to welcome many more people to our community.
And that link to sign up is at https://forms.gle/2jKVvKpEkypLsPaK9. Please join soon, as all the details will be emailed out to everyone who has signed up.
