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<div class="">I’ve got a few potential small projects that could go this new route, most all of them have not been announced here for the same reasons Jody has outlined.</div>
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<div class="">While reading Jody’s last entry, I thought about the phrase “OSGeo Extras”, although that somehow didn’t seem to quite get the right description across.</div>
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<div class="">Extras could mean potential Incubation, or just Extras. Maybe dropping the “OSGeo” part makes it more effective as a descriptor.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="font-size:13px" class="">Excellent discussion Bruce, thank you. I agree with the general feel here, that we are on a scale of "Community" (minimal) to "Project" (showcase best practice).
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<div class="">The miss assumption is "starting out" or "immature" - projects like pgRouting, GeoWebCache, proj4js are simply "small". We would like an opportunity as a foundation to support these projects and include them in our organization. </div>
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<div class="">The downside to Hatch and Nurture is that they assume that a project will proceed towards graduation. While we may be able to capture this as a "staged" incubation process (as per Bob's suggestion) it also suffers from this perspective that the
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<div class="">I wonder if we could take this conversation in the other direction, contact projects like pgRouting and asking what would appeal (rather than guessing at this end what would be attractive).</div>
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<div class="">* As a uDig lead I was dissuaded from joining OSGeo by being unable to meet the various incubation viability requirements (the project was too small).</div>
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<div class="">* In prior conversations with Kevin Smith from GeoWebCache there is simply not a business driver to moving from labs to incubation - the project is not attracting enough committers to qualify. Indeed any available time to work on the project is
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<div class="h5">Perhaps this is where we need to start.<br class="">
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What is it that we're trying to establish, together with the rationale. We can sort a name from there, rather than assuming that everyone is familiar with what the old 'Labs' were intended for.<br class="">
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Assumption by me: The 'thing' is intended to support projects and their communities that are small, immature, or just starting out. These projects are not ready to begin graduation, or perhaps do not want to go through the process at this stage.<br class="">
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Therefore, we want to find a way to encourage them into the OSGeo Community, Principles and way of working. Projects may or may not wish to enter graduation as they evolve.<br class="">
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Therefore, I saw that we could have a nurturing role for these projects, to provide them with basic infrastructure for web presence, project governance and code repositories. If projects express an interest we could introduce them to some of the concepts required
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