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WISE Project Timeline Prior to Public Release

  • Project Timeline:
    • 1999 Promethues Fire Growth Model was born
    • 2007 Franco Attends the prometheus course and formally Meets Cordy Neal & Rob - Initial discusions about automation ideas
    • 2010 Franco does a poster display of an Automated Prometheus Concept at kitchener Wildfire Canada Conference and meets Brett Moore and Dan Thompson
    • 2012 Franco, Kris and Neal present the REDApp Concept at Kananaskis Wildfire Canada Conference
    • 2014
      • Franco and Rob Talk out the idea of Automated Prometheus into a viable project Idea
      • Franco and Neal Secure the required legal permissions to proceed
      • GNWT (Franco) Contracted HSS to build a Prometheus SaaS Prototype aka Prometheus SaaS V.0
      • Prototype deployed operationally at Government of the Northwest Teritorries (GNWT)
      • Integrated into the SPARCS decision support system.
      • Comprehensive review with GNWT
      • GNWT goes all in, and commits to build 1.0
      • GNWT agrees to provides annual funding to the project
      • The Project is born
      • Franco, Neal et al. go on tour drumming up support for the idea of moving all projects to SaaS
    • 2015 began syncronizing codebases of Prometheus, REDApp, Burn-P3 and Prometheus SaaS
    • 2016 Began preparing REDApp to be open source
    • 2017
      • Setup redmine, PSaaS and REDApp Websites
      • NZ comes on board,
      • Franco and Neal try and establish the CIFFC Toolbox ,
      • develop project workplan
      • Franco Creates a national modelling system using DIP and PSaaS
      • PSaaS Models BC Wildfires. PSaaS has modelled > 10,000 fires in 2017 (NWT and BC combined).
      • PRototype Web GUIs Developed using the PHP API
      • First Official Collaborative Development Teleconference
        • NWT (Partner)
        • Alberta (Partner)
        • New Zealand (Partner)
        • Heartland Software Solutions (Contractor)
        • Ember Research Services (Contractor)
      • Franco went to Ontario for Meetings and Discussed PSaaS with teh Director
      • Ontario Aproached the TEam about Partnership and Jordan Evans Came on board
      • PSaaS GOA/NT Contribution Agreement Established
    • 2018
      • MQTT Adopted as communication protocol
      • PSaaS 6 and 7 diverge as we move to cross platform
      • Javascript API is developed
      • Code begins to move to online repositories at bitbucket
      • CIFFC Toolbox initiative stalls out again - no help for the project
      • Redmine is upgraded and new workflows are developed
      • Documentation (JS API Etc) Goes online
      • Government of Canada (CFS/NRCAN) makes verbal commitment to come on board.
      • PSaaS now encompases – Prometheus - EOL – REDapp – BurnP3 – Pandora
      • Project forges ahead with PSaaS 7 (Linux)
      • NWT Javascript PSaaS GUI Models its first fire
      • AB (Brett Moore) Ran its first model using the Javascript API
      • PSaaS 6.2.3.7 is released to developers and NWT has it growing fires in SPARCS
      • PSaaS 6 and 7 start to diverge in perimiter comparison due to rounding issues
      • PSaaS 6.2.4.3 is released to developers and NWT has it growing fires in SPARCS
    • 2019
      • REDapp and Prometheus 6.2.4 released
      • DEB and RPM installers for PSaaS version 7.2.4.9 released to developers
      • PSaaS Begins to evolve towards multithreading and distributed computing.
      • Adoption of GDAL as input oputput middleware - ensures standards
      • Further development of the FGMJ File Format.
      • PSaaS 6.2.5.2 Passes Smoke tests - Released to Developers
      • PSaaS 7.2.5.3 Passes Smoke Tests on primary distros (Some distros fail)
      • Franco Succesfully Integrates PSaaS into Node Red - Node Red Runs a PSaaS Model.
      • DND Adopts PSaaS as Fire Modelling Engine for the ER2 Platform
      • Alberta hosts a PSaaS Workshop in Edmonton
      • New Zealand Sucessfully Containerizes PSaaS in Docker
      • Saskatchewan comes on board as a project partner, Rob Kruus joins the team!
      • Proof-of-concept app "Drop a match" Devloped using leaflet, PSaaS and Node-Red
      • JAVA API Planned
      • NWT Develps the .net API to help Burn-P3 move forward.
      • PSaaS 6.2.5.5 Passes Smoke tests - Released to Developers
      • New JS API functions:
        • execute job remotely (API-Client)
        • collect results (API-Client)
        • process results (postprocessing-scripts)
      • Developed new workplan
      • PHP API Deprecated
    • 2020
      • NWT Develops new PSaaS Docker Containers
      • Prometheus and PSaaS 6.2.5.6 released to devs
      • Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) comes on board and begins testing PSaaS
      • Redapp moves to bitbucket
      • Franco and Brett Develop a dataset cutter using NodeJS and R and GDAL
      • PSaaS 7.2.5.6 for Ubuntu 20.04 released to devs
      • Formal validation work of 6 against 7 begins.
      • PSaaS and REDApp Discord Communities came online.
      • redmine content reorganized into projects
      • Brett Moore moves from GOA to CFS
      • The Canadian Fire Growth Modelling Framework Project was born
      • Franco and Brett Propose Radical chages to the project Governance and Management
        • All code to github
        • Repo/Branch structure
        • SOPs
        • Github used for Project management
        • Discord Communities
        • Website Update
    • 2021
      • ER2 Project Spawns FireHawk - Web Based Fire Modelling (Using the engine (PSaaS))
      • CFS discussions on using the engine for the New Burn-P3
      • NWT Builds the DIP Modelling Service and Models all wildfires in the DIP all season long
      • LUX/Aerobot - begins discussions of using the engine.
      • Brett and Franco begin visioning on a new Exective to run the project
      • Neal moves from GOA to BC
      • Log4J causes widespread panic in the fire modellign community.
        • Project puts out a white paper on log4j via CIFFC
      • Heartland Software give birth to FireCast Realime Wilsfire modelling powered by PSaaS
      • Franco and Brett build a new GDAL only cutter service in docker
    • 2022
      • NWT privately contracts HSS to Automate builds of REDAppLib, REDApp, HSS_Java, WTime, HSS_Math.
      • Alberta privately contracts HSS to deliver new log4j safe binaries
      • Project releases Log4j safe versions (2022.03.01) of all our applications.
      • PSaaS Name chosen - Wildfire Intelligence and Simulation Engine (W.I.S.E)
      • Project begins meeting exclusivly in Discord
      • Sub Scenarios added to the Engine
      • Alberta/NWT/Yukon Collaborate on a contract to HSS to run firecast
      • Assets and Critical Paths added to the Engine
      • Add optional compression for MQTT file streaming
      • NWT rewrites its DIP modeller and hosts it for the CFS over the season
      • NWT Models all fires operationally using 2 templates, SGP and 3day
      • NWT Launches Automated pre-Generation of Updated Fire Model Simulation Landscapes for every fire.
      • NWT Integrates FireCast Outputs into its IntelliFire Decision Support System.
      • Forsite - begins discussions of using the engine.
      • CFS deploys its own version of the CFS DIP on Hybrid Solution (Backend at CFS and Front End on AWS)
      • New SOP developed on access to the software before release.
      • AGPLv3 Chosen as the licence
      • Brett begins foundational work on "State of the Project Report"
      • Team declines to present at Wildland Fire Conference 2022 opts for Wildfire Canda Presentation in Nov.
      • Project Adopts ZenHub tools to imporve project management on Github.
    • 2023
      • Jan 19, 2023 Project goes open source and makes a first public release of 1.0.0-beta