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Hi Regina,</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">The Wednesday 14 Jan 16:00 UTC is the timeslot available (prior to board budget deadline of the 15th).</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Here is meeting planner link: <a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2026&month=1&day=14&hour=16&min=0&sec=0&p1=256&p2=16&p3=179">https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2026&month=1&day=14&hour=16&min=0&sec=0&p1=256&p2=16&p3=179</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">And here is video chat: <font color="#419cff"><a href="https://meet.osgeo.org/IncubationMeeting">https://meet.osgeo.org/IncubationMeeting</a></font></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Agenda:</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><ul dir="ltr" style="margin:0px"><li>Make a useful budget request for 2026</li><li>Discuss renaming to "Projects" and update responsibilities / mandate for this committee<br></li><li>Change from mailing list to discourse (to make access easier)</li></ul><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>- -<br></div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div><br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Jan 11, 2026 at 11:27:08 PM, Regina Obe <<a href="mailto:lr@pcorp.us">lr@pcorp.us</a>> wrote:<br></div>
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<div><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"></div><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Jody,</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Sorry was side tracked with other things so hadn’t noticed this discussion.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Are you planning to put out another doodle? I clicked on the below and see only one date now and its only Jan 12<sup>th</sup>.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">FWIW I can make the Wednesday 14 Jan: 16:00 UTC date.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Regarding the mantra, yes it would be nice to come up with something more efficient. But even things like registering on discourse we don’t allow people to post immediately cause we had gotten spammed with porn etc even though discourse had captcha and all that good stuff. Trust is becoming more of an issue with AI bots.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">So I’d hesitate to be too lax on allowing people to get osgeo ids to anything. Part of the reason mantra takes so long is that there are only 3 of us it seems handling those requests and most of them are for QGIS plugin upload access or people who for some reason think they need a OSGeo id to download a QGIS plugin. Interestingly it seems no one on the QGIS team is handling these requests at all.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Any user who knows the mantra can give it to someone else. It seems a lot of people don’t understand that and tell people to email mantra-request for the mantra when if they know it and know the person well that is asking for it, they can just whisper it to the user asking and not bother us.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div style="border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt"><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Incubator <<a href="mailto:incubator-bounces@lists.osgeo.org">incubator-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jody Garnett via Incubator<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, January 11, 2026 11:25 PM<br><b>To:</b> Nick Bearman <<a href="mailto:nick@nickbearman.com">nick@nickbearman.com</a>><br><b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:incubator@lists.osgeo.org">incubator@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Incubator] Any 2026 budget request?</span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div><p class="MsoNormal">I understand Nick, the doodle pool timezones did not work out very well despite my best attempt.</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">With that in mind I am going go for the second proposed time: </p></div><div><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Wednesday 14 Jan: 16:00 UTC<br><br></li></ul><div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">If you not in a position to attend please reply to this email thread in order to add to the discussion.</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">- -</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Jody Garnett</p></div></div></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Jan 8, 2026 at 6:38:20<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span>AM, Nick Bearman via Incubator <<a href="mailto:incubator@lists.osgeo.org">incubator@lists.osgeo.org</a>> wrote:</p></div><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><div><p>Hi Jody, Angelos,</p><p>Thanks for the Doodle Poll - unfortunately I can't make either of those times. </p><p>My 2p for the discussion:</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·</span> Discuss renaming to "Projects" and update responsibilities / mandate for this committee </p><p>Yes I think renaming from Incubator to something else is a good idea. It seems to me that incubating projects is a relatively small part of this committee's work. Mostly we seem to be helping projects register as OSGeo Community Projects, which is really great. I am sorry I have not been able to contribute to this more. </p><p>From what I have heard, one blocker is people registering for a OSGeoID - it takes time to request and receive the mantra and is a stumbling block. I think? (Scott?) is looking at this whole process and I think we should raise this as an important point. Registering should be easy and ideally immediate. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·</span> Change from mailing list to discourse (to make access easier) </p><p>Yes - happy to change from mailing list to discourse. Hopefully this might make monitoring requests to register as Community projects easier to track, as everything will be located under one thread? </p><p>Thanks very much Jody for taking the initiative. </p><p>Let me know if you'd like input on anything else specific!</p><p>Best wishes,<br>Nick.</p><div><p class="MsoNormal">On 07/01/2026 22:45, Jody Garnett via Incubator wrote:</p></div><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><div><p class="MsoNormal">Let's learn from the experience and give folks a bit more notice <span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif">🙂</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Let me propose two days:</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">Monday 12 Jan: 14:00 UTC</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">Wednesday 14 Jan: 16:00 UTC</li></ul><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Topics:</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3">Make a useful budget request for 2026</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3">Discuss renaming to "Projects" and update responsibilities / mandate for this committee</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3">Change from mailing list to discourse (to make access easier)</li></ul><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Committee members please respond with your availability: <a href="https://doodle.com/group-poll/participate/egXBJk3a">https://doodle.com/group-poll/participate/egXBJk3a</a></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><div><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4">Angelos Tzotsos</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4">Arnulf Christl</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4">Bob (CI-StPaul) Basques</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4">Brian M Hamlin</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4">Daniel Morissette</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4">Dimitris Kotzinos</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4">Frank Warmerdam</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4">Jody Garnett</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4">Michael Smith</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4">Nick Bearman</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4">Regina Obe</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4">Steve Lime</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4">Tom Kralidis</li></ul></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">- -</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Jody Garnett</p></div></div></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Jan 7, 2026 at 9:57:35<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span>AM, Angelos Tzotsos <<a href="mailto:gcpp.kalxas@gmail.com">gcpp.kalxas@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</p></div><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">No worries, it was too short notice anyways.<br>Let's try another day.<br>I am available on Thursday<br><br>On 1/7/26 19:23, Jody Garnett wrote:<br><br></p><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">Sorry Angelos,</p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">Due to time zone differences your proposal came in at 2am so did not see it</p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">until now.</p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">But perhaps you mean Thursday 5pm UTC…</p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">I have sent a meeting invite for that time, and we can adjust based on</p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">availability.</p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">- -</p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">Jody Garnett</p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Jan 6, 2026 at 2:16<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span>AM Angelos Tzotsos via Incubator <</p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:incubator@lists.osgeo.org">incubator@lists.osgeo.org</a>> wrote:</p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">> Is tomorrow at 5pm UTC working for everyone?</p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">> </p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">> On 1/6/26 12:08, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:</p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">>> Hi Jody,</p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">>> </p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">>> Let's organize a committee meeting to tackle the issues mentioned.</p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">>> </p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">>> Best,</p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">>> Angelos</p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">>> </p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">>> On 1/5/26 20:37, Jody Garnett via Incubator wrote:</p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">>>> The osgeo budget for 2026 is taking shape:</p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">>>> <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2026#OSGeo_Committees">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2026#OSGeo_Committees</a></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">>>> </p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">>>> Do we have any ideas in mind for the year ahead?</p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">>>> </p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">>>> I have not had much opportunity to volunteer on this committee in</p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">>>> 2025, and</p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">>>> am a bit disappointed to see requests piling up. Perhaps we could</p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">>>> setup a</p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">>>> work party or something to both catch up and invite new participants.</p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">>>> </p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">>>> I strongly believe in the work the incubation committee is doing is</p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">>>> central</p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">>>> to OSGeo role as a software foundation. I think we will also get a</p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">>>> lot of</p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">>>> discussion from our existing projects as they look at how to handle CRA</p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">>>> reporting requirements in September of this year. Perhaps we need to</p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">>>> rename the committee to "Projects" as we are presently doing more than</p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">>>> incubation eh?</p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">>>> - -</p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">>>> Jody Garnett</p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">>>> </p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">>>> </p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">>>> _______________________________________________</p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">>>> Incubator mailing list</p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">>>> <a href="mailto:Incubator@lists.osgeo.org">Incubator@lists.osgeo.org</a></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">>>> <a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/incubator">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/incubator</a></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">>> </p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">> --</p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">> Angelos Tzotsos, PhD</p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">> President, Board of Directors</p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">> Open Source Geospatial Foundation</p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">> <a href="https://www.osgeo.org/member/angelos-tzotsos/">https://www.osgeo.org/member/angelos-tzotsos/</a></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">> </p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">> </p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">> _______________________________________________</p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">> Incubator mailing list</p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">> <a href="mailto:Incubator@lists.osgeo.org">Incubator@lists.osgeo.org</a></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">> <a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/incubator">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/incubator</a></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">> </p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><br><br>-- <br>Angelos Tzotsos, PhD<br>President, Board of Directors<br>Open Source Geospatial Foundation<br><a href="https://www.osgeo.org/member/angelos-tzotsos/">https://www.osgeo.org/member/angelos-tzotsos/</a></p></div></div></blockquote></div><p class="MsoNormal"><br><br></p><pre>_______________________________________________</pre><pre>Incubator mailing list</pre><pre><a href="mailto:Incubator@lists.osgeo.org">Incubator@lists.osgeo.org</a></pre><pre><a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/incubator">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/incubator</a></pre></blockquote><pre>-- </pre><pre>Nick Bearman</pre><pre>+44 (0) 7717745715</pre><pre><a href="mailto:nick@nickbearman.com">nick@nickbearman.com</a></pre><pre> </pre><pre>Please let me know if I can make any adjustments related to disability or neurodivergence to improve how we interact.</pre><pre> </pre><pre>Due to my own life/work balance, you may get emails from me outside of normal working hours. 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