[OSGeo-Board] Potential for an Incubation Sprint / OSGeo meetup

[Frank Warmerdam]

Jo Walsh wrote:
> dear Board,
> 
> I wanted to add an item to the agenda for this week; the possibility of 
> an OSGeo meetup for protagonists of the projects in Incubation in June.
> Nothing is as momentum-building as getting people together face to face.

Jo,

I love the idea of an incubation sprint.  My concern would be that June
is quite late for it.  My hope is that as many as half the projects might
be out of incubation by then.  At one point you refer to a Incubation/Stack
sprint.  What other ideas did you have that might be accomplished?

If we were to have an incubation sprint, I think it would be important
to lock everyone (all project reps) in a room for a couple days, with
Rich, Daniel and perhaps some input from other interested parties to
hammer out what it means to be a foundation project, and what degree
of "foundationness" we want to try and attain in common.

> But if this is an idea the rest of the Board would be interested in
> supporting, then the main question I have would become more pragmatic: 
> Is there potential financial resource within OSGeo to support travel 
> expenses to more meetings this year? Would this be a balancing act at best?

I think the foundation could bring forward modest resources to facilitate
a face to face meeting if needed.

> (I was interested to hear of 3 board members on the same panel today
> at http://www.locationintelligence.net/agenda/ , I hope the advocacy
> went well and that LI was a good thing for the Cause, I'd love to hear
> more feedback about the crowd's reaction there, between the 3 of you
> there must be a very convincing case for "Why Should the CXO Care
> About Open Source Geospatial Products?")

I too would be interested to hear one or more reports on how this went!

Best regards,
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