<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Kristian,<div><br></div><div>I think the next step is that I make a formal request to the incubation committee and we start on a wiki page that documents how PROJ meets the project guidelines (<a href="https://www.osgeo.org/wp-content/uploads/graduation_checklist.pdf">https://www.osgeo.org/wp-content/uploads/graduation_checklist.pdf</a>). Most of these will go quite fast, I suspect, as most, if not all of this is already done for PROJ. </div><div>The only thing I see that could take some time is the provenance check and making sure all files files have the copyright notices and contribution agreements on all the contributions.</div><div><br><div dir="ltr">Mike</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Mar 3, 2019, at 6:32 AM, Kristian Evers <<a href="mailto:kreve@sdfe.dk">kreve@sdfe.dk</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>Just for fun I did a Twitter poll on the subject of PROJ going through</span><br><span>OSGeo incubation. I think the results are quite conclusive:</span><br><span></span><br><span>Yes: 84%</span><br><span>No: 3%</span><br><span>Don’t care: 13%</span><br><span></span><br><span>There were 58 respondents.</span><br><span></span><br><span>As there have been no negative feedback on the mailing list either, I</span><br><span>think that we should just get the process started.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Mike, how should be proceed from here?</span><br><span></span><br><span>/Kristian</span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>On 27 Feb 2019, at 22:15, Kristian Evers <<a href="mailto:kreve@sdfe.dk">kreve@sdfe.dk</a>> wrote:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>It was indeed my intention to get the incubation process started</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>last year but I never really found the time to do so. It was my</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>intention to pick it up after the 6.0 release, so I am glad that</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Mike and Howard has taken this up again. I am of course in</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>favour of PROJ becoming a proper OSGeo project.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>/Kristian</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>On 27 Feb 2019, at 20:36, Michael Smith <<a href="mailto:michael.smith.erdc@gmail.com">michael.smith.erdc@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>That was the stated intention, I was just working to move the process along.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Mike</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>--</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Michael Smith</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>OSGeo Foundation Treasurer</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="mailto:treasurer@osgeo.org">treasurer@osgeo.org</a></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>-----Original Message-----</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>From: PROJ <<a href="mailto:proj-bounces@lists.osgeo.org">proj-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a>> on behalf of Sebastiaan Couwenberg <<a href="mailto:sebastic@xs4all.nl">sebastic@xs4all.nl</a>></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Date: Wednesday, February 27, 2019 at 2:32 PM</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>To: "<a href="mailto:proj@lists.osgeo.org">proj@lists.osgeo.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:proj@lists.osgeo.org">proj@lists.osgeo.org</a>></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Subject: [Non-DoD Source] Re: [PROJ] Incubate PROJ as an OSGeo Project?</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Resent-From: Michael Smith <<a href="mailto:michael.smith@usace.army.mil">michael.smith@usace.army.mil</a>></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Resent-Date: Wednesday, February 27, 2019 at 2:31 PM</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span> On 2/27/19 5:37 PM, Howard Butler wrote:</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>At this point, I think incubation into OSGeo is a fairly innocuous and reasonable thing for the PROJ project to undertake, but I would like to gauge the community's enthusiasm for such a thing.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span> Wasn't that already the plan, as mentioned by Kristian 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