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

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Comments below;

On 8/2/2017 12:09 AM, Helena Mitasova wrote:
>
>> On Aug 1, 2017, at 10:27 AM, Venkatesh Raghavan <venka.osgeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Comments below;
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>> On 8/1/2017 11:17 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:
>>> 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,
>
> who and when made a decision about this?

And, I also see the "Project Incubation" logo at
https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/blob/master/incubation/OSGeo_incubation.svg

Let us continue to use it to provide visibility to projects
being incubated.

Venka


>
>>> 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
>>
>> I propose the continued use of the same branding shown in the URL
>> above with projects categorized as "OSGeo Project", "OSGeo Incubation Project" and "OSGeo Community Project”.
>
> this is exactly what I asked for at the meeting at GetInteractive
>>
>> Any change from previous categorization would require the approval
>> of the board. I do not recall when such a change was decided and
>> how it was approved.
>
> I totally agree - see my note above,
>
> Helena
>
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Venka
>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>> --
>>> Jody Garnett
>>>
>>>
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