[Board] community project contact draft email thread

[Jody Garnett]

It come down to the intention for community projects, what we are trying to
accomplish with the program. When the program was created it was to foster
innovation (something incubation does not address with its focus on
stability).

I am happy to move some of this discussion to the incubation list, however
this thread was focused on relaying the result of our recent board meeting
and composing an email to send out.




On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 3:03 PM Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Jody, board,
>
> I question the wisdom of managing community project budgets through the
> OSGeo board instead of through one of OSGeo's sub-committees (probably the
> incubation committee in this case).
>
> Centralising important decisions (such as budget management) disempowers
> the volunteers within that committee, increases the workload on the board,
> and is contrary to the bottom up coordination which typifies successful
> open source projects.
>
> How would you feel about board members subscribing to the incubation
> committee email list, and then making community project related decisions
> within the framework of the incubation committee? (Same workload, different
> forum). It would provide a more targeted discussion for community projects
> to engage in, will empower a broader community to participate, and has
> potential to attract more people into the committee.
>
> Cheers, Cameron
> On 22/12/18 11:46 am, Jody Garnett wrote:
>
> So with that in mind,
>
> Here is a draft email for feedback before we send it out:
>
> *Subject: 2019 Community project budget*
> *Good afternoon:*
>
> *We are reaching out to the osgeo community as part of setting our
> foundation's budget for 2019. As a community project we would like to know
> how we can help you in the year ahead.*
> *The board is managing a budget for the community project program this
> year and we invite your input, either to the board email email list, or by
> participating in the January board meeting.*
> *--*
> *Jody Garnett, Board of Directors*
>
>
> And a second draft for those in incubation:
>
> *Subject: 2019 Community project budget*
> *Good afternoon:*
>
> *The OSGeo board is reaching out to our community as part of setting the
> foundation's 2019 budget. The **board is managing a budget for the
> community project program this year and invites your input, either on the
> board email list, or by participating in the January board meeting.*
>
> *As incubation chair I am also putting together a budget request for 2019
> and will be attending the board January board meeting. If your project has
> plans to work towards graduation this year let's discuss on the incubation
> list any ways we can help out financially. While the incubation committee
> cannot hire someone to perform the code providence review (your team
> gaining experience is part of incubation), we would be more than happy to
> help your team members attend the OSGeo code sprint, or help setup a
> face-to-face meeting with your incubation mentor.*
> *--*
>
> *Jody Garnett, Incubation Chair*
>
>
> Feedback welcome
>
> On Fri, 21 Dec 2018 at 16:32, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Action item out of yesterday's board meeting to reach out to community
>> projects
>> .
>> - looking at managing community projects as a group as a board
>> initiative, so a group budget
>> - for those in incubation we are going to try and bump up the incubation
>> budget to support incubation sprints
>> - want to reach out to community projects asking for their input (assume
>> input is sent to board email list?)
>> -  I would like to mention a date for the January meeting if we can
>> establish one :)
>> - did I miss anything above?
>> --
>> Jody Garnett
>>
>
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