<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">I am also concerned with projects that are established, but are not treating incubation as a priority. I know it is hard to put forward these kind of QA activities as a priority --> the benefit being respect, independence as an osgeo committee, and associated access to osgeo budget.</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">We are quite clear that incubation teams need to do the work themselves (to learn first hand expectations as a community). However I would be open teams directing one of their members to work on this activity and using fund raising (and incubation budget) towards getting time put towards completing incubation.</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 9 Dec 2019 at 17:43, Jody Garnett <<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com">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"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">For the last couple of years we have requested a budget to support out projects in incubation, last year a budget of 10k was approved.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">The ZOO-Project has been the only one to request any kind of assistance in this time period. With this in mind I think we should request less budget for 2020 (to give the board a more realistic expectation of our needs).<br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">With recent graduation our list is down to five projects:<br><div><div><ul><li>IstSOS/Jeff - some activity, interested in hearing how nov sprint went.<br></li><li>Opticks?Mark - any updates?<br></li><li>Oskari/Arnulf this project has expressed some interest / activity in 2020 but could still use some help if time is available.<br></li><li>TEAM Engine/Jody - some contact with Lugi, graduation checklist started button shared<br></li><li>ZOO-Project/Dimitris - worked with Gerald at foss4g sprint, results shared to this list but I have not followed up.</li></ul><div></div></div></div><div>Mentors / incubation teams we are here to support you, what are your plans for 2020?<br></div><div><br></div><div></div><div>As for the incubation committee itself, I would be very supportive of financially folks traveling to an event or code sprint to work on our committee documents and processes. I also think we could put some effort into promoting the incubation program (both to attract projects and mentors).<br></div><div><br></div><div>How about this for a rough budget:</div><div><br></div><div>a) 5k to support incubation team / mentor activities</div><div><br></div><div>And we can make use of the osgeo code-sprint budget request if we wish to run an incubation sprint at some point during the year?</div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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