[Board] osgeo labs

[Jachym Cepicky]

Landon,

I personally think, "incubation labs" are one of the key parts of
OSGeo, which could attract more project to OSGeo. I do have feeling
(please, do not take it personally, and correct me if I'm wrong), that
our "incubation labs" are sleeping a bit - I would like to wake them
up.

I've talked to Jody at FOSS4G a bit, we agreed on 3 attributes,
project should have, in order to be part of our "labs" (disclamer: I
did not check our rules for labs long time ago):

1 - Name (project should have name
2 - OSI license (it's about open source and free software)
3 - Headers in files are OK, license is clear

Done

For some projects, the skeleton of other information can be taken from
OSGeo-live, so no overhead is generated.

I volunteer to warm up things. I hope, someone else will pick the
topic (at least later) and continue during years :)

Any comments from your side? Why are there so few projects in our labs

"labs Name":

Yeah, those academic people - they never care :-) Jeff pointed out, he
told them, but they were already far ahead. That is life. We should
change the name then. I do not like the word "incubator" (it seems to
me, OSGeo would like to raise some projects, but some might be already
mature, they just e.g. lack on community, etc..).

We should find a name. "OSGeo recognized project"?

thanks

J

2014-09-18 15:54 GMT+02:00 Landon Blake <sunburned.surveyor at gmail.com>:
> Yes...I'm still working on labs. Wasn't very nice of the academic folks to
> claim the name without talking to me. I've been using "Incubation Labs"
> lately to avoid confusion. Are you offering help? Or did you just want to
> tell me about the theft of the name? :)
>
> On Sep 16, 2014 12:38 PM, "Jachym Cepicky" <jachym.cepicky at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Landon,
>>
>> are you still working on osgeo labs? I assume, you would need some
>> help. We shall rename it to something else, since there is now "osgeo
>> labs" trademark used by education (they were just too fast).
>>
>> Any future plans? I would like to atract more small projects to OSGeo,
>> since this is one of the points, we are failing in IMHO
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> Jachym
>>
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