<div dir="ltr"><div>I'd like to ask all of the project contacts for the projects in OSGeo Labs to please subscribe to the OSGeo Incubation Committee mailing list. You can subscribe from this page:</div><div><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/incubator">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/incubator</a></div>
<div> </div><div>This list is low traffic. Once you all are subscribed, I'll have an easy way to communicate about your projects in labs.</div><div> </div><div>Please ping the list and introduce yourself once subscribed.</div>
<div> </div><div>After everyone has done that (hopefully in the next few days) I'll ask for some help from you guys to complete the Incubation Labs Inventory that is attached to this e-mail. Once the inventory is complete I'll start working on some plans to help each project in labs build its community.</div>
<div> </div><div>Thanks for your help.</div><div> </div><div>Landon<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Landon Blake</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sunburned.surveyor@gmail.com">sunburned.surveyor@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 4:16 PM<br>Subject: Preliminary OSGeo Incubation Labs Inventory<br>To: "<a href="mailto:incubator@lists.osgeo.org">incubator@lists.osgeo.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:incubator@lists.osgeo.org">incubator@lists.osgeo.org</a>><br>
<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div>I completed a preliminary inventory of projects in OSGeo Incubation Labs today. The inventory looked at 4 aspects of each of the projects that self-identified as a member of labs. These 4 aspects were:</div>
<div> </div><div>1) Community Resources</div><div>2) Programmer Resources</div><div>3) Project Governance</div><div>4) Project Marketing</div><div> </div><div>Next week I will work with the project points-of-contact on eliminating the "unknown" data values. (There are currently quite a few of these.)</div>
<div> </div><div>Then I'd like to put together a standard community building and marketing plan that can be tweaked according to the specific status of each project in Labs. In this plan I'd like to focus on community building and project marketing. I included programmer resources and project governance in my inventory, but I sort of thought those aspects should be cheifly addressed in the actual incubation process. I thought Labs would focus on helping projects gain users and contributors.</div>
<div> </div><div>I'll see if I can help (or recruit help) for projects in Labs on things like logo design, web site maintenance, and user/programmer documentation.</div><div> </div><div>Then we can work on some joint marketing efforts, like an OSGeo Incubations Labs distribution or some articles highlighting projects in the Labs in the pages of the OSGeo Journal.</div>
<div> </div><div>At any rate, my inventory is attached and I'll be trying to do a bit more work before the end of this month.</div><span><font color="#888888"><div> </div><div>Landon</div></font></span></div>
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