[Board] discussion on osgeo projects, osgeo community and incubation

[Jody Garnett]

I am staring a new thread so the marketing committee can focus on the
printing deadline for boston.

Projects are starting to update to the new branding which is great - we
have two branding available:

- https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/tree/master/incubation/project
- https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/tree/master/incubation/community

Projects that are part of our incubation process fall under community
projects, they have met our standards for being open source, spatial and
participatory and are being promoted as part of our foundation along side
their fellow community projects pgrouting and geowebcache.

For reference the prior branding is here
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Community_Projects#Comparison_with_Incubation

The larger story is the focus not on our foundation, but on the software
projects and outreach.

* As such the incubation process is no longer called out on our website (or
in our branding) because it does not have any significance to website
visitors. Incubation is an internal process of our software foundation - it
does not earn its keep introducing a "third branding" if we cannot explain
succinctly what it actually means for potential users of the software.

* The board introduced the idea of community projects in response to a call
to be more inclusive and allow innovation

* Including more projects in our community does not detract from the
projects that were already in our community. We are doing more for software
projects at OSGeo to help everyone.

We have been avoiding a difficult conversation on osgeo project quality on
and off since January. At our most recent F2F meeting we took some action
items to hear a report from Maxi and Jeff McKenna (in Boston? details still
be arranged). The question of what we have to offer community projects and
osgeo projects, and what we expect in return, should be considered in one
go to be fair to everyone.
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Jody Garnett
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