<div dir="ltr">Thanks David and the GeoNode team!<div><br></div><div>Motion David Bitner: "Motion to graduate GeoNode from the OSGeo incubation process with Jeff Johnson to act as the Project Officer."</div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><span class="gmail-im"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">With the following votes I declare this motion passed:</div></font></span><div><ul style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"></ul><ul style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Bruce Bannerman +1<br></font></li><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Bob (CI-StPaul) Basques +1<br></font></li><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Landon Blake +1<br></font></li><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Howard Butler<br></font></li><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Arnulf Christl +1<br></font></li><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Jody Garnett (chair) +1<br></font></li><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dimitris Kotzinos +1<br></font></li><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Tom Kralidis +1<br></font></li><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Julien-Samuel Lacroix +1<br></font></li><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i>Mark Lucas</i><br></font></li><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Steve Lime +1<br></font></li><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Daniel Morissette +1<br></font></li><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i>Markus Schneider</i><br></font></li><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Cameron Shorter +1<br></font></li><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Jeroen Ticheler +1<br></font></li><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i>Norman Vine</i><br></font></li><li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i>Frank Warmerdam</i></font></li></ul><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I also want to extend my thanks to the GeoNode community (shout out to Angelos) who took part in incubation. I hope you found the experience valuable, and the OSGeo community welcoming. If there is anything we as an Incubation committee can do to entice you to stay and mentor additional OSGeo projects let me know!</font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font color="#000000">I have added this to the <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=Board_Meeting_2016-11-03">board meeting agenda</a> and for 3rd Nov. Jeff if you are available it would be great if you could attend this IRC meeting - to introduce yourself to the board in your new official role.</font></font></div><ul style="font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></ul><ul style="font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></ul><ul style="font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></ul><ul style="font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></ul><ul style="font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></ul><ul style="font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></ul><ul style="font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></ul><ul style="font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></ul><ul style="font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></ul></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 25 August 2016 at 08:28, David William Bitner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bitner@dbspatial.com" target="_blank">bitner@dbspatial.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear Incubation Committee,<div><br></div><div>As the mentor for GeoNode Incubation, I would like to make a motion to graduate GeoNode from the OSGeo incubation process with Jeff Johnson to act as the Project Officer.</div><div><br></div><div>You will find the Incubation Checklist at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoNode_Incubation_Checklist" target="_blank">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/<wbr>GeoNode_Incubation_Checklist</a></div><div><br></div><div>During the incubation process much work has been done to solidify the intellectual property behind GeoNode. </div><div><ul><li>copyright was transferred from the now dissolved OpenPlans</li><li>a Contributor License Agreement has been adopted and a process created to collect from all contributors<br></li><li>all files have been checked for headers</li><li>the release process documentation has been shored up</li></ul>GeoNode has a tremendous "bus quotient" as there are core developers distributed globally. Many of the institutional direct users have developed strong expertise in GeoNode along with many companies that have developed support programs built around GeoNode. There is no single point of failure for this project. </div><div><br></div><div>The GeoNode has managed to work in the open from inception in a way that has enabled enormous amounts of collaboration both between institutions using GeoNode and companies/individuals providing support for GeoNode.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>David</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_-8897644326320275711gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">******************************<wbr>******<br>David William Bitner<div>dbSpatial LLC</div><div><a href="tel:612-424-9932" value="+16124249932" target="_blank">612-424-9932</a></div></div>
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