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I think I've mentioned it earlier, but can can't find it on this thread. As has been mentioned on this thread, it would be desirable to expand the scope of the incubation committee, but we have been short of volunteers, which I suggest is probably due to weak business drivers for involvement.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Agreed; and even for the projects already in incubation there is on business driver to finish.</div><div><br></div><div>Implicit in the change of scope is that it would be an increased mandate for a different team of folk - namely project officers. As for the expected work load for project officers it would be set by their availability as volunteers. Even if several good ideas come in; it would be up in the interest and volunteer time of the project officers to make the ideas happen.</div>
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I think that part of the solution can be provided by the OSGeo-Live project. With OSGeo-Live:<br>
1. We have a 6 month periodic review of all projects.<br>
2. We have a set of criteria for partaking in OSGeo-Live, which could be adjusted to also check incubation criteria.<br>
3. We have commitment from people from 50 odd projects, primarily because OSGeo-Live provides strong business value, by providing a marketing channel.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The commitment is actually really weak Cameron; the live dvd is not on the radar or schedule of the two project steering committtees I am on. And basically gets zero interest at a business level leaving it only in the hands of volunteers. Perhaps if you increased the documentation to list commercial providers and support information?</div>
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