[Incubator] Re: [Board] Codesprint guidelines posted

[Seven (aka Arnulf)]

Chris,
how do you propose we make sure that we have an (attentive) project
representative on the board list? Ideas?

Best regards,
Arnulf

On 09/20/2011 04:38 PM, christopher.schmidt at nokia.com wrote:
> The incubation list is almost certainly not the best way :-) Each
> project is supposed to have a representative to the board as part of
> coming out of incubation, right? Have we kept that up? If not, we
> probably should...
> 
> "ext Seven (aka Arnulf)" <seven at arnulf.us> wrote:
> 
> Tim,
> I suggest you go to the Wiki directly [1] and change what you think
> needs to be changed. It is a Wiki do-ocracy and I actually sort of
> expect you to propose changes directly.
> 
> Maybe we should also include the incubation list - or what is the best
> way of getting a hold of all projects? Ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> Arnulf.
> 
> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Code_Sprint_Guidelines
> 
> On 09/20/2011 01:02 PM, Tim Schaub wrote:
>> Thanks for putting these up Michael.
>>
>> I think a number of us have issues with the "bigger is better" notion
>> with regard to code sprints.  I have certainly seen cases where size
>> contributes diminishing returns.
>>
>> My preference would be to leave the last sentence off entirely (the
>> num days x num projects x num participants metric), as I don't think
>> it is an accurate way to measure "sprint value."
>>
>> Would other object if we took out this sentence?
>>
>> "OSGeo will provide financial support proportional to the "size" of
>> the event, as measured by(the number of projects) times (the number
>> attendees) times (the number of days)."
>>
>> If we need some sort of heuristic for determining how much OSGeo
>> should contribute toward a particular sprint, I think it would come
>> from answering questions like these:
>>
>> 1) Are there clear objectives for the projects/people involved?
>> 2) Is there a demonstrated need for what participants plan to accomplish?
>> 3) Are the people involved the right ones to accomplish the objectives?
>>
>>
>> Tim
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 10:02 PM, Michael P. Gerlek <mpg at flaxen.com> wrote:
>>> At the board meeting yesterday, I presented a set of guidelines that the
>>> board should consider when being requested to provide support for a
>>> codesprint.  I've captured the content here:
>>>
>>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Code_Sprint_Guidelines
>>>
>>> Comments welcome.  (Jeroen, your thoughts would be particularly
> appreciated,
>>> as you're the representative of the Bolsena sprint.)
>>>
>>> -mpg
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
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