[Incubator] incubation committee budget

Landon Blake sunburned.surveyor at gmail.com
Sat Nov 4 14:33:12 PDT 2017


I had a couple of quick questions:

1) Have we ever had a budget?
2) Do we need funding for this committee? If so, why?

Thanks!

Landon

On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 11:42 AM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Actually we better draft up a wiki page and ask our committee to vote.
> Thanks for questions / encouragement Maxi.
> On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 11:39 AM Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Ask here and we will roll it into tomorrow’s request.
>>
>> When a project is graduated there is a project officer (VP of istSOS)
>> that can take care of foundation interactions directly.
>> On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 11:09 AM Massimiliano Cannata <
>> massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>> Last year I've seen budget allocated for project either incubated or
>>> incubating. Is it correct? As incubating project istSOS can ask money for a
>>> incubation/code sprint? To whom it should be directed the request? If it is
>>> on early 2018 is it for 2018, or 2017?
>>>
>>> Thanks for your indications.
>>>
>>> Maxi
>>>
>>> Il 01 nov 2017 6:56 PM, "Jody Garnett" <jody.garnett at gmail.com> ha
>>> scritto:
>>>
>>>> Just want to bump this thread as the initial board meeting about budget
>>>> happens tomorrow.
>>>>
>>>> Note this also applies to any incubating projects, until you have
>>>> graduated with your own project officer any budget requests come via the
>>>> incubation committee. OSGeo is happy to help financially where we can, but
>>>> priority should be given to .. incubating :)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Jody Garnett
>>>>
>>>> On 29 November 2016 at 10:15, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The second request from the board ... is for a 2017 budget.
>>>>>
>>>>> To my knowledge the incubation committee has never established a
>>>>> budget?
>>>>>
>>>>> However individual project steering committees can establish a budget;
>>>>> more often they have contacted the board as needed for specific activities
>>>>> (sprints, legal guidance, infrastructure changes) or fallen back on their
>>>>> own fund raising efforts...
>>>>>
>>>>> Are we interested in establishing a budget for 2017?
>>>>> - we could establish a budget, planning for an incubation sprint or
>>>>> similar
>>>>> - we should ask the "OSGeo Community" projects and if they require any
>>>>> resources
>>>>> - we could hire a party to perform code providence review (not sure if
>>>>> that is a great idea there are pros/cons)
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there any interest in establishing a budget for 2017?
>>>>> --
>>>>> Jody Garnett
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>> --
>> --
>> Jody Garnett
>>
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