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    <p>I've just reviewed the Oskari application to join OSGeo, and I
      agree that the project looks to be an excellent candidate for
      OSGeo incubation, and look to have done so many things right
      already.</p>
    <p>A few points:</p>
    <p>* Arnulf, it seems you have added comments as a mentor? Have you
      already stepped up to mentor this project?</p>
    <p>* The only glitch I can see with the project is that it only
      seems to be attracting community from government bodies from one
      nation. Is that by design? Is it due to the particular needs of
      Finish rules and regulations? I think the project would be much
      more robust if it were attracting deployments and contributions
      from multiple nations. I'd like to see some discussion on this
      topic. What are future goals? What are plans to achieve these
      goals?</p>
    <p>* With regards to moving forward, there is nothing stopping
      projects from starting to move through the incubation process
      yourself. (We have been doing this for the OSGeo-Live project).</p>
    <p>* In particular, if you wish to join the OSGeo-Live project, then
      you can approach OSGeo-Live team as per:</p>
    <p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc#How_to_add_a_project_to_OSGeoLive">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc#How_to_add_a_project_to_OSGeoLive</a></p>
    <p>Warm regards,</p>
    <p>Cameron Shorter<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 16/3/17 6:33 am, Jody Garnett wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">I am going to try and updating my mail filters so I
        can get these applications routed into the same folder as the
        incubation email. Trac sends too many notifications so I only
        tend to catch these new applications when we have a meeting (or
        someone sends me a personal email).<br>
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        <div>It does look like a neat project, a java stack sdi app, <span
            style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">that looks to be well
            under way.</span></div>
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        <div>I am happy to have a hangout or similar, but we have issues
          getting enough people to run a meeting (given the timezone
          differences). Currently we are in a holding pattern, the
          limiting factor for incubation is volunteer mentors (not
          projects applying).<br>
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                  <div>--</div>
                  <div>Jody Garnett</div>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On 15 March 2017 at 12:01, Arnulf
          Christl <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="mailto:arnulf.christl@metaspatial.net"
              target="_blank">arnulf.christl@metaspatial.net</a>></span>
          wrote:<br>
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            .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Folks,<br>
            <br>
            somehow this has slipped our attention. Oskari has filled
            out the<br>
            incubation application form here:<br>
            <br>
            <a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Oskari_Incubation_Application"
              rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/<wbr>Oskari_Incubation_Application</a><br>
            <br>
            They also submitted a ticket:<br>
            <br>
            <a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1838"
              rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/<wbr>ticket/1838</a><br>
            <br>
            We never seem to have followed up?! They basically already
            went through<br>
            the hard stuff (find all contributors, get license texts
            sorted out,<br>
            CLAs, decision taking, voting, etc.) and are waiting for us
            to attend to<br>
            the process.<br>
            <br>
            They still have an interesting questions regarding
            communication which I<br>
            suggest should be discussed on this list because it is of
            common<br>
            interest. Specifically: Mailing lists.<br>
            <br>
            To me it appear that this may be becoming a larger issue
            anyway and the<br>
            Incubator is a good place to talk about this. Lately I am
            hearing more<br>
            and more comments like "Ugh, mailing lists are so 90s" and
            similar when<br>
            giving workshops or talking about how to get involved with
            an Open<br>
            Source project in general. Mailing lists are often seen as
            this "old<br>
            Unix and hacker stuff". Not relevant anymore.<br>
            <br>
            Thoughts?<br>
            <br>
            Best regards,<br>
            Arnulf<br>
            <span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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                Spatially enabling your business.<br>
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