<div dir="ltr">Reading through email we have a good $3,000 request from IstSOS for an incubation sprint.<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" 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><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, 7 Jan 2019 at 15:01, Jody Garnett <<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" target="_blank">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Wanted to start a thread on ideas leading towards an incubation budget for 2019.<div><br></div><div>The initial question is if we would like to continue to manage the OSGeo community project budget (or ask community projects to attend the monthly board meetings as required). I think we have done a responsive job reviewing applications thus far. The key difference is that community projects are an ongoing relationship where our incubation committee is intended to focus on shorter term capacity building on a team by team basis.</div><div><br></div><div>Beyond that I would like to get very aggressive on supporting our projects in *incubation* doing anything and everything we can to get teams through the incubation process and hand them over to the foundation as full fledged projects :)</div><div><br></div><div>Can I ask mentors to speak to their respective projects and get back to the email list?<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_-8042850856404186160gmail-m_3002326773127006442gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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