Invitation for projects and mentors at OGC-ASF-OSGeo code sprint

[Martin Desruisseaux <de...@apache.org>]

Hello all

There is about two weeks left before the joint OGC-ASF-OSGeo code sprint 
in Switzerland [1]. The main sprint goals are to support the development 
of open standards for geospatial information and to support the 
development of free and open source software which implements those 
standards. Registration is free and still possible until April 18th. 
Developers who are new to OGC standards, OSGeo or ASF projects are 
welcome as well.

OGC is still looking for mentors for providing guidance to developers 
that are new to OGC standards or to your project. A mentor can provide 
tutorial about how to get some practical results with a project using 
OGC standards. A mentor can also help new developers to contribute to 
your project, for example with tests or documentation. More details with 
mentoring examples are available at [2]. The mentor does not need to be 
physically present at the code sprint.

The section about Apache projects is currently a bit short [3]. It 
currently contains:

  * Apache SIS
  * Apache Baremaps
  * Apache Superset

If a project would like to be added to this list, please edit the 
above-cited page (it is a wiki). In previous years (this is the third 
code sprint edition), I think that we had Apache Jena among other 
projects. Mentoring can be done remotely via "Discord" channels. 
Sections of [3] where a project could be added are:

  * Which Apache projects are going to participate?
  * Project and Working Group Pitches
  * Mentor streams

Thanks in advance to anyone who may volunteer!

     Martin Desruisseaux

P.S.: this email has been sent to Apache projects listed in the 
Geospatial category [4]. I noticed that Sedona are Baremaps are not 
listed there. If you would like to be listed, you can add a <category> 
tag in your DOAP.RDF file, for example like [5].

[1]https://developer.ogc.org/sprints/20/
[2]https://dev.to/doublebyte/3rd-open-software-and-open-standards-code-sprint-call-for-mentors-ofp
[3]https://github.com/opengeospatial/developer-events/wiki/Open-Standards-and-Open-Source-Software-Code-Sprint#which-apache-projects-are-going-to-participate
[4]https://projects.apache.org/projects.html?category#geospatial
[5]https://sis.apache.org/DOAP.rdf