[Board] Fwd: [Marketing] Sanity check from the incubation list

[Jody Garnett]

The bottom line is this, we should provide a clear no to projects rather than leave them in limbo. While we risk losing projects to other foundations, we have a mandate to encourage the use of open source spatial and need to see these projects supported.

As an side: the significant amount of work is not on the shoulders of the volunteer mentor, each project is stalling out going through their code / docs / data review. 

Frank also added some interesting points to the discussion in the incubation meeting yesterday, and I have an action item to take this proposal back to the incubation mailing list.
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Jody Garnett


On Tuesday, 25 September 2012 at 6:31 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote:

> > This sounds like something we need to address -- prospective projects
> > need to be welcomed expeditiously, not stalled out. Who on the board 
> > is most knowledgeable about the incubation world, and could he/she 
> > please give us a short update on things over there?
> 
> 
> The bottom line is that there is a significant amount of work involved 
> in taking a project through graduation, and a shortage of volunteer time.
> 
> 
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