[Incubator] Committee Launch and Initial Meeting

[Daniel Brookshier]

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Daniel Brookshier
Community Manager
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On Mar 8, 2006, at 2:16 PM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:

> Folks,
>
> We need to hold an initial meeting to take care of some housekeeping,
> orient ourselves, and consider the initial feedback from the review of
> the contributor agreements.
>
> I've watched about 45 emails go back and forth on the WebCom  
> mailing list
> about when to hold their first meeting, so to cut to the chase I would
> like to declare the meeting will be Monday March 13th at 12:00noon  
> EST.
> This should roughly be in the regular business day for western  
> europe to
> the west coast.  I'm not quite sure how many hours Jody is out, but I
> imagine it sucks for him a bit.  I think it likely sucks badly for  
> Cameron.
>
> Those who can't attend should try and send their thoughts on the  
> agenda items
> to the mailing list and we will try to take them into account.  My  
> intention
> is to hold the meeting entirely on IRC, as my recent experience with
> conference calls haven't been to thrilling.  And besides that gives  
> fast
> but sloppy typers like me an advantage (just kidding!).
>
> At the meeting we can consider how we want to hold future meetings.
>
> I have setup an agenda page in the wiki:
>
>   http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/IncCom1_Agenda
>
> As I see it our key action item is to have collected feedback from the
> developers of our respective projects on the draft contributor  
> agreements.
>
>   http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Contributor_Agreement
>
> Markus already has some substantial feedback from the GRASS  
> community.  Markus
> could you distribute a copy of your feedback to the Incubator  
> mailing list?
>
> Some projects have also started on the process of IP review.  I  
> know Jody
> has been looking into trademark issues for GeoTools, and Steve has  
> done a
> detailed assessment of who has contributed to MapServer.  I am  
> hoping we
> can come out of the meeting with a good idea what actions the rest  
> of us
> need to be doing in this vein.
>
> Please feel free to add items to the Agenda and summarize findings and
> questions here on this list.
>
> Keep in mind that Rich Steele, the foundation counsel (aka lawyer) is
> on this list, and is available to provide legal feedback on the  
> various
> questions that are coming up.  He has already annotated the  
> contributor
> agreement with an FAQ which we can extend as more questions come up.
>
> For those who are unclear on our mandate, this committee was formed  
> with
> the motion:
>
>   https://incubator.osgeo.org/IncubatorMotion.html
>
> This lists our initial members.  We have also solicited an official
> representative of each prospective project.  Currently GRASS hasn't  
> decided
> on a rep, so I have forcable added Markus to the mailing list in  
> the meantime.
>
> I am chairing the committee and as such am responsible for  
> reporting back to
> the board on our activities.
>
> Anyone is welcome to subscribe to the incubator list and  
> participate in
> irc meetings as long a we can maintain some degree of order.   
> However, only
> official committee members may propose or vote on motions.   All  
> members of
> the committee should also find they have SVN commit access on the  
> Incubation
> Committee web site (http://incubator.osgeo.org) though I have put a  
> fair
> amount of our "work in progress" documents in the wiki for now.
>
> I think we face a lot of work and excitement as we try to process our
> eight projects through incubation at the same time as we try to  
> figure out
> what that means.
>
> Best regards,
> -- 
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> I set the clouds in motion - turn up   | Frank Warmerdam,  
> warmerdam at pobox.com
> light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam
> and watch the world go round - Rush    | President OSGF, http:// 
> osgeo.org
>
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