<html><body><div dir="ltr">I had a lovely time at foss4g-eu, and really enjoy being back with osgeo (after <a href="https://geoserver.org/announcements/vulnerability/2026/06/11/geoserver-3-0-0-released.html">some time away</a>). <div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr">I invite everyone to review:</div><div dir="ltr"><ul style="margin:0px" dir="ltr"><li>#16: <a href="https://gitea.osgeo.org/osgeo/projects-support/issues/16">Seek new mandate as Project Support committee</a></li><li><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1CxofM1Ed4sND_9DZpr_fuiXMmTLce2wdzYOSz0pmwxo/edit?usp=sharing ">Project Support Presentation</a> capturing ou new issue tracker and ideas for relaunch</li></ul><div><br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">With that in mind I would like to relaunch this committee as <b>Project Support</b></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><ul style="margin:0px"><li>New name matching the project-support repo<br></li><li>General committee reset<br></li><li>Reflect our expanded responsibilities of incubation process, community project, and website foss4g check<br></li></ul></div><div style="font-weight:bold"><br></div></div><div dir="ltr">Here is the proposed mandate:</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><b>Project Support Committee</b></div></div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Provide software foundation support to project teams in keeping with Open Source Geospatial Foundation principles and values:</div></div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">A - Ongoing software foundation support for "OSGeo Projects":</div></div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">A.1 - Assist project teams over course of project lifecycle: incubation, policy updates, license change, end-of-life.</div></div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">A.2 - Update OSGeo software foundation policies under direction from the OSGeo Board</div></div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">A.3 - Establish and maintain OSGeo incubation process.</div></div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">A.4 - Connect project teams with a mentor for one-on-one support during incubation process.</div></div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">B - Establish and support inclusive "OSGeo Community" projects initiative providing space for new and innovative projects.</div></div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">C - Establish and support "FOSS4G Project" directory for OSGeo.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Motion is held open for two weeks closing Friday 7 September:</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><ul style="margin:0px"><li>Angelos Tzotsos<br></li><li>Arnulf Christl<br></li><li>Bob (CI-StPaul) Basques<br></li><li>Brian M Hamlin<br></li><li>Daniel Morissette<br></li><li>Deepak Kumar<br></li><li>Dimitris Kotzinos<br></li><li>Frank Warmerdam<br></li><li>Jody Garnett +1 initial motion<br></li><li>Michael Smith<br></li><li>Nick Bearman<br></li><li>Regina Obe<br></li><li>Steve Lime<br></li><li>Tom Kralidis<br></li></ul></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><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></div></div></div></body></html>