[Incubator] Mentor Guidelines (was: Re: [EXTERN] Re: Masterportal - OS Geo Incubator Application Questionnaire)

[Arnulf Christl]

Just seeing that my last edit of the Mentor Guidelines [1] is almost 10 
years old. Won't hurt to revisit... :-)

Also, some stable documents are gone [2], [3] we should look into fixing 
this.

When we started out with OSGeo we had the hen and egg problem of coders 
also wanting to promote their "own" project and we even had some 
competing projects (pun intended). We were therefore especially careful 
to craft the rules so as to avoid bias within the committee and also to 
be as transparent as possible. This is still perfectly valid.

 From my experience the mentor does not really have much of a say in 
accepting a project, they can only help the project do their homework 
and then recommend it for graduation. The vote happens publicly by 
committee members and then needs to be promoted to the board of 
directors who have the last say. In case we get there I would be happy 
to abstain from the vote - hoping that we still have enough active 
members to get a representative vote at all.

Which brings me to another aspect of the incubation committee: How can 
new members join, so far we have mostly only lost old  members? Should 
we maybe actively reach out to generate some interest in the process? I 
do think that the whole incubation thingy may become more interesting 
again seeing some projects stray from real Open Source to "mixed" models 
and even plainly locked-up proprietary licenses and governance. This 
topic may morph into a new thread if there are others interested in 
following up.

Cheers,
Seven


[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Incubation_Mentor_Guidelines
[2] https://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/statustemplate.html
[3] 
http://old.www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/project_graduation_checklist.html 
referenced from https://www.osgeo.org/about/committees/incubation/mentor/

Am 25.07.23 um 20:03 schrieb Jody Garnett:
> Greg:
>
> Really we just need someone with a few moments of time to check if 
> your project meets the join the osgeo community program 
> <https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Incubation_Committee#Step_2:_Join_Community_Projects_Program>. 
>
> You are not seeking a mentor presently.
>
> OSGeo asked us to write down how we operate here: 
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Incubation_Committee#Committee_Operation
>
> Some folks have chosen to vote +0 or -0 if they feel they are too 
> close to a project. There is no requirement to do this however - the 
> important part is that we have clear communication.
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
>
> On Jul 25, 2023 at 9:51:40 AM, Greg Troxel <gdt at lexort.com> wrote:
>> I am not really clear on the details here, but I would think that the
>> osgeo person doing mentorship should not have *any* conflict of interest
>> about the project.  Or perhaps it is strictly 'mentor' and has nothing
>> to do with the approval process.
>> _______________________________________________
>> Incubator mailing list
>> Incubator at lists.osgeo.org
>> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/incubator

-- 
http://metaspatial.net
Digitally Enabling your Business.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/incubator/attachments/20230725/aee03462/attachment.htm>