<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I missed out on a chance to comment on the "retirement" thread on the incubation list; I passed along what the <a href="http://eclipse.org">eclipse.org</a> foundation does with a a progression of project stages from "labs" to "incubation" to "core" to "archived" - I feel we should look at the spectrum here rather then set up our categories one at a time.<div>- <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/projects/dev_process/development_process.php">http://www.eclipse.org/projects/dev_process/development_process.php</a></div><div><br></div><div>Indeed their cartoon breakdown for IP process is amusing:</div><div>- <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/projects/dev_process/ip-process-in-cartoons.php">http://www.eclipse.org/projects/dev_process/ip-process-in-cartoons.php</a></div><div><br></div><div>Jody</div><div><br><div><div><div>On 25/03/2010, at 12:41 PM, Alex Mandel wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>I've tossed together some thoughts on what we might want OSGeo Labs to<br>be. I'd like to use it to start a discussion about using Labs as a<br>marketing tool and foundation builder. If people like the ideas I'll be<br>happy to move it over to a wiki page or series of pages.<br><a href="http://tinyurl.com/ydzensq">http://tinyurl.com/ydzensq</a><br><br>Thanks,<br>Alex<br>_______________________________________________<br>Marketing mailing list<br>Marketing@lists.osgeo.org<br>http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>