<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">One suggestion - since there is a lot of concern about the idea of "rating" projects, maybe the PSCs of each of the projects should be consulted before going ahead with this? After all -- it's for each of these projects' benefits that this is being considered, and if the various PSC consensus is this is not a good idea .. it should probably carry a lot of weight.<div><br></div><div>Dave</div><div><br><div>
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<br><div><div>On 2010-06-10, at 4:44 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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On 11/06/10 01:59, Michael P. Gerlek wrote:
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<pre wrap="">(Along those lines, I'd also ask precisely what "ready to start" incubation means...)</pre>
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"Ready to start incubation" implies that projects that have applied
for, or are mature enough to apply, can be ranked at the same level as
projects in incubation.<br>
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I propose we use OSGeo's criteria for selecting incubation candidates
here:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/evaluation.html">http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/evaluation.html</a><br>
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(At some point we should revisit OSGeo's checklists, but lets leave
that for another email thread and for the moment we use what we have).<br>
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Cameron Shorter
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<h2>Criteria</h2>
<ol>
<li> The code is under an OSI approved license (data & doc
projects need to specify their choice for a type of license).
</li>
<li> The project is willing to keep code clear of encumbrances
</li>
<li> The project is "geospatial", or directly in support of
geospatial applications. </li>
</ol>
<h2>Desirable</h2>
The following are desirable traits of projects entering into the
community:
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<ol>
<li> Open source software is already reasonably mature (working
quality code).
</li>
<li> Project already has a substantial user community.
</li>
<li> Project already has a substantial and diverse developer
community.
</li>
<li> Project members are aware of, and implements support for,
relevant standards (ie. OGC, etc).
</li>
<li> Project has linkages with existing foundation projects.
</li>
<li> Project fills a gap related to software that the foundation
supports.
</li>
<li> Project is prepared to develop in an open and collaborative
fashion.
</li>
<li> Project has contributions and interest from more than just one
company/organization.
</li>
<li> Project is willing to migrate some or all of its infrastructure
(code repository, web site, wiki, mailing list, etc) to foundation
support infrastructure, and to adopt a website style consistent with
the foundation. </li>
</ol>
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