[Incubator] Re: [Board] Codesprint guidelines posted

[Eli Adam]

Official project representatives came up for the journal recently.  Here is the thread, 

http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2011-June/008969.html

It leads to a wiki page http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Project_Steering_Committees which appears to be updated as needed.  

Eli

>>> On 9/20/2011 at 3:42 PM, in message <4E7916C3.4020802 at arnulf.us>, "Seven (aka
Arnulf)" <seven at arnulf.us> wrote:
> 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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