<div dir="ltr">If we could add to your list:<div><br></div><div>4. Attract more volunteers to incubation</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 11 March 2015 at 06:05, Jachym Cepicky <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jachym.cepicky@gmail.com" target="_blank">jachym.cepicky@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Whatever,<br><br>I would like to achieve:<div><br></div><div>1 - attract more projects to osgeo umbrella</div><div>2 - attract little projects to osgeo umbrella</div><div>3 - define, what should happen after successful incubation, because I do not believe in "and lived happily ever after" - to become the project, certain level (checklist) has to be reached. But what if the project looses it's community?</div><div><br></div><div>The "still-callled-star" system I started to work on, was inspired by Cameron notes (just FYI)</div><div><br></div><div>J</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">st 11. 3. 2015 v 1:12 odesÃlatel Jody Garnett <<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" target="_blank">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>> napsal:<div><div class="h5"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I will volunteer after foss4gna to look at this.<div><br></div><div>I am still interested in keeping our current procedure (as I think it is producing good results) and relaxing the requirement for a mentor (which is an embarrassing bottleneck).<div><br></div><div>Rather than a "star" system I think we can highlight how far along in the checklist each project is.</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 10 March 2015 at 16:12, Bruce Bannerman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bruce.bannerman.osgeo@gmail.com" target="_blank">bruce.bannerman.osgeo@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>We need to be careful when playing around with our 'Incubation Procedure'.<br><br></div>It causes considerable angst and disruption to both mentors and to the relevant communities going through incubation when we keep trying to change to rules.<br><br></div>From my opinion as a mentor, the current process while subjective in some cases is still valid and effective in guiding a project to the ideals that we as a community aspire to.<br><br></div><div>When a project graduates from incubation, it gains considerable credibility as a viable open source spatial project. It is a badge of honour for the project and something to aspire too. So why are we trying to dilute this?<br><br></div><div>While there are aspects that could improve, what is the rationale for wanting to change the process (together with the inevitable disruption that follows)?<br><br></div><div>If we are serious about changing the incubation rules, then a more formal methodology such as those referred to by Cameron at [1] may be more appropriate.<br><br></div><div>Now, who has the spare time to investigate and drive this forward, **if we deem it appropriate**.....?<br><br></div><div>Are there any volunteers?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Bruce<br></div><div><div><div><div><br>[1] <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/incubator/2015-March/002644.html" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/incubator/2015-March/002644.html</a> <br><br><br>===============<span><br><pre>I recently came across a number of "Open Source Maturity Methodologies",
which is worth being aware of, and possibly incorporating and/or
referencing from OSGeo Incubation processes:
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software_assessment_methodologies" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software_assessment_methodologies</a>
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