<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Bruce Bannerman</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bruce.bannerman.osgeo@gmail.com">bruce.bannerman.osgeo@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 9:41 AM<br>Subject: Re: [Incubator] FW: Suggested tweaks to incubator docs [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]<br>To: Cameron Shorter <<a href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>><br>
<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Cameron,<br><br></div>The new wording is fine by me. Thanks.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">Bruce<br></font></span></div>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 6:59 AM, Cameron Shorter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com" target="_blank">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>Bruce,<br>
Thanks for the background. In order to address your points, I
suggest a better wording would be:<br>
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"Please explain how your project currently, or intends to adopt an
open governance policy ensuring decisions are made, documented and
adhered to in a public manner."<br>
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This references back to the graduation checklist, which also adds:<br>
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"
This typically means a Project Management Committee has been
established with a process for adding new members. A robust
Project Management Committee will typically draw upon developers,
users and key stakeholders from multiple organisations as there
will be a greater variety of technical visions and the project is
more resilient to a sponsor leaving.<br>
The project uses public communication channels for decision making
to maintain transparency.<br>
E.g. archived email list(s), archived IRC channel(s), public issue
tracker."<br>
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I've taken the liberty of updating the Incubation Questions with
this revised text, but happy for my updates to be worked on.<div><div><br>
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On 07/01/14 15:51, Peter Baumann wrote:<br>
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<div>Hi all,<br>
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as rasdaman gets addressed specifically, and as OSGeo Charter
Member, let me weigh in:<br>
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On 01/07/2014 12:21 AM, Bruce Bannerman wrote:<br>
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<div>Cameron,<br>
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I’m not wedded to the specific wording that I added.<br>
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I do however feel strongly about the concept.<br>
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My concern stems from my experiences in mentoring the
Rasdaman project over several years.<br>
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Late in the Incubation process, the project has declared
itself to follow a ‘Benevolent Dictatorship’ model, with
control of the project exercised by a small group from
essentially one organisation. I currently cannot see how
community members can be elected on merit into decision
making / management roles within the community. I did raise
this with InCom around five months ago [1].<br>
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While this issue has still to play itself out within the
Rasdaman Community, there are lessons to be learnt for
future projects that go through the Incubation process.<br>
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indeed, this was delayed for the reason communicated: the roll-out
of v9.0 which is a huge step forward = a huge pile of work.
Essentially, the international team has established a next-level
cloud-parallel analytics engine. <br>
Meantime, however, a governance description exists - see <a href="http://rasdaman.org/wiki/Governance" target="_blank">http://rasdaman.org/wiki/Governance</a>
- which we hadn't announced yet due to the recent holidays. So
pending the very welcome comments by our mentor, Bruce, we do have
a statement available now. Thanks again for all your precious time
invested!<br>
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I’d like to see the issue of 'openness', particularly in
project governance brought out into the open and
***addressed*** early in the incubation process. <br>
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I do understand that it helps for a project to have active
support from at least one organisation (commercial,
government, NGO, research etc) for long term viability.
However it is not desirable for a single organisation to
control the directions of the project for the long term. <br>
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IMHO for an organization like OSGeo it is extremely important, for
its public perception, to remain technical and open to different
models.<br>
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I also acknowledge that in the short term that the support
of a single organisation may be critical for the project
to gain sufficient momentum to become self-sustaining.<br>
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Hm, on what empirical facts is this viewpoint based?<br>
Counter example: Linux. One person in the beginning, community
later.<br>
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<div>If we can bring this issue out into the open early, then
we can work through it with the project proposers and decide
jointly on how to address it.<br>
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Very much in line with this - your mentoring, Bruce, has brought
us forward in our project structuring by many miles. However,
hardcoding a specific doctrine should be avoided. <br>
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my 2 cents,<br>
Peter<br>
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This way we can potentially avoid wasting the project
community's and mentor’s time.<br>
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Bruce<br>
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[1] <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/incubator/2013-July/002219.html" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/incubator/2013-July/002219.html</a>
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</span> Cameron Shorter <<a href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com" target="_blank">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>><br>
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Tuesday, 7 January 2014 7:42 am<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>
Bruce Bannerman <<a href="mailto:B.Bannerman@bom.gov.au" target="_blank">B.Bannerman@bom.gov.au</a>>,
Jody Garnett <<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" target="_blank">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span>
Incubator <<a href="mailto:Incubator@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">Incubator@lists.osgeo.org</a>><br>
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Re: [Incubator] Suggested tweaks to incubator
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<div>On 06/01/14 10:06, Bruce Bannerman wrote:<br>
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<div>Cameron,</div>
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<div>I made a couple of minor tweaks </div>
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Thanks.<br>
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<div>and added the following question to the
draft Incubator Application Questionnaire:</div>
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<div>“Please describe any factors that would
stop '''any''' suitable member of your
community from taking a committer,
management or decision making role within
your project community.”</div>
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Hi Bruce, I'm not comfortable with the above
sentence as it stands. In particular, rather
than asking for a specific FACT which can be
backed by a metric, it is asking for an
OPINION requesting arguments against the
project. (A supporter of a project is probably
not the likely person to provide that
OPINION.)<br>
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I think it would help if you expanded on the
reason(s) you think this question should be
added to incubator docs.<span><font color="#888888"><br>
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