[Incubator] motion: qfield recommendation for osgeo community project initiative

[Jody Garnett]

This motion did not pass in the allocated time. I  would like to ask
another volunteer to review.

We had one question come up during voting on license compatibility that is
interesting but may not be suitable for public discussion.

Jody

On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 10:34 AM Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I would like to make a motion:
>    Recommending QField for the osgeo community project program.
>
> The motion is held open for two weeks, until May 5th 2023.
>
>    - Bob (CI-StPaul) Basques
>    - Arnulf Christl
>    - Jo Cook
>    - Jody Garnett +1 (initial motion)
>    - Dimitris Kotzinos
>    - Tom Kralidis
>    - Michael Smith
>    - Steve Lime
>    - Daniel Morissette
>    - Frank Warmerdam
>    - Angelos Tzotsos
>
>
> Checking the project against our requirements
> <https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Incubation_Committee#Step_2:_Join_Community_Projects_Program>
> :
>
> 1. Be geospatial
> - Confirm by checking README or project description
> - project page on the osgeo website
> - We ask projects have some user documentation, for example an OSGeo Live
> quickstart
>
> Most of this was checked for website requirements. There is nice user
> documentation (https://docs.qfield.org/get-started/).
>
>
> 2. Have a free license or an open source license.
> - The license must be OSI approved
> - We ask that the project team check the file headers and double check
> the license has been appropriately applied
>
> GPL2 is provided in docs (https://docs.qfield.org/get-started/license/)
> and source code (https://github.com/opengisch/QField/blob/master/LICENSE).
>
> The team has automated check that license is applied (
> https://github.com/opengisch/QField/blob/master/scripts/licensecheck.pl)
> which is really cool.
>
> 3. Welcome participation and new contributors.
> - We look for a clear contribution policy
> - We ask that the project demonstrate collaboration, perhaps with a
> history of bug report or pull requests
> - Projects are required to have a code of conduct
>
> Contribution policy (
> https://github.com/opengisch/QField/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md),
> collaboration (https://github.com/opengisch/QField/pulls?q=is%3Apr), and
> code of conduct (
> https://github.com/opengisch/QField/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md) all
> seem in order.
>
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
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Jody Garnett
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