
<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 1, 2017, at 10:27 AM, Venkatesh Raghavan <<a href="mailto:venka.osgeo@gmail.com" class="">venka.osgeo@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">Comments below;<br class=""><br class="">On 8/1/2017 11:17 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">I am staring a new thread so the marketing committee can focus on the<br class="">printing deadline for boston.<br class=""><br class="">Projects are starting to update to the new branding which is great - we<br class="">have two branding available:<br class=""><br class="">- <a href="https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/tree/master/incubation/project" class="">https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/tree/master/incubation/project</a><br class="">- <a href="https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/tree/master/incubation/community" class="">https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/tree/master/incubation/community</a><br class=""><br class="">Projects that are part of our incubation process fall under community<br class="">projects, </blockquote></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>who and when made a decision about this? </div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">they have met our standards for being open source, spatial and<br class="">participatory and are being promoted as part of our foundation along side<br class="">their fellow community projects pgrouting and geowebcache.<br class="">.<br class="">For reference the prior branding is here<br class=""><a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Community_Projects#Comparison_with_Incubation" class="">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Community_Projects#Comparison_with_Incubation</a><br class=""></blockquote><br class="">I propose the continued use of the same branding shown in the URL<br class="">above with projects categorized as "OSGeo Project", "OSGeo Incubation Project" and "OSGeo Community Project”.<br class=""></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>this is exactly what I asked for at the meeting at GetInteractive<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><br class="">Any change from previous categorization would require the approval<br class="">of the board. I do not recall when such a change was decided and<br class="">how it was approved.<br class=""></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>I totally agree - see my note above,</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Helena</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><br class="">Best<br class=""><br class="">Venka<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">The larger story is the focus not on our foundation, but on the software<br class="">projects and outreach.<br class=""><br class="">* As such the incubation process is no longer called out on our website (or<br class="">in our branding) because it does not have any significance to website<br class="">visitors. Incubation is an internal process of our software foundation - it<br class="">does not earn its keep introducing a "third branding" if we cannot explain<br class="">succinctly what it actually means for potential users of the software.<br class=""><br class="">* The board introduced the idea of community projects in response to a call<br class="">to be more inclusive and allow innovation<br class=""><br class="">* Including more projects in our community does not detract from the<br class="">projects that were already in our community. We are doing more for software<br class="">projects at OSGeo to help everyone.<br class=""><br class="">We have been avoiding a difficult conversation on osgeo project quality on<br class="">and off since January. At our most recent F2F meeting we took some action<br class="">items to hear a report from Maxi and Jeff McKenna (in Boston? details still<br class="">be arranged). The question of what we have to offer community projects and<br class="">osgeo projects, and what we expect in return, should be considered in one<br class="">go to be fair to everyone.<br class="">--<br class="">Jody Garnett<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Board mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Board@lists.osgeo.org" class="">Board@lists.osgeo.org</a><br class="">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Board mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Board@lists.osgeo.org" class="">Board@lists.osgeo.org</a><br class="">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board</div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">

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