[Board] Giswater incubation program

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi all,

The motion has just passed:
https://www.loomio.com/p/GM9Xe4xn/motion-to-accept-giswater-to-osgeo-community-program

Welcome Giswater to Community Program!

Best,
Angelos

On 11/23/22 11:26, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
> Thank you Jody,
>
> It has been added in the next board meeting agenda.
>
> On 11/21/22 23:17, Jody Garnett via Board wrote:
>> Board members:
>>
>> Jody Garnett reporting in from the incubation committee, where we were
>> pleased to review / mention / and get to know the Giswater team as they
>> successfully applied to join the OSGeo community program.
>>
>> The following motion was passed (on Nov 10th):
>>
>>> Motion: Recommend Giswater for OSGeo community project initiative
>> Can I ask that the GIswater be considered for the osgeo community 
>> program
>> at the next board meeting.
>>
>> Some links and background:
>>
>>     - OSGeo Project page: https://www.osgeo.org/projects/giswater/
>>     - The Giswater project actually already has a association (
>>     https://www.giswater.org/asociacion/), so it would behoove OSGeo 
>> to make
>>     a MOU with the Giswater Association (much like we do with the 
>> QGIS.org and
>>     gvSig associations).
>>     - This is a really neat sustainability story from an open source
>>     adoption perspective - an industry specific vertical application 
>> (water
>>     management) rather than more general purpose tools OSGeo has a 
>> history of
>>     success with.  This would be a great example of how open source 
>> geospatial
>>     software (and OSGeo) can grow and add value.
>>
>> If you are really interested, here is what the incubation committee 
>> asked
>> the project to assemble for review.
>>
>>
>> *1. Be geospatial:*
>> *-
>> readme: 
>> https://github.com/Giswater/giswater_water_models/blob/master/README.md
>> <https://github.com/Giswater/giswater_water_models/blob/master/README.md>* 
>>
>> *- product page: https://www.osgeo.org/projects/giswater/
>> <https://www.osgeo.org/projects/giswater/> *
>> *- docs: https://www.giswater.org/giswater-manual/
>> <https://www.giswater.org/giswater-manual/>*
>>
>> *2. free license or open source license*
>> *- GPL: https://github.com/Giswater/docs/blob/master/LICENSE
>> <https://github.com/Giswater/docs/blob/master/LICENSE>*
>> *- check headers: team confirmed*
>>
>> *3. welcome participation*
>> *- https://github.com/Giswater/docs/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
>> <https://github.com/Giswater/docs/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md>,
>> https://github.com/Giswater/docs/blob/master/github/pdf/code_of_conduct.pdf 
>>
>> <https://github.com/Giswater/docs/blob/master/github/pdf/code_of_conduct.pdf>* 
>>
>> *- https://github.com/Giswater/giswater_qgis_plugin
>> <https://github.com/Giswater/giswater_qgis_plugin> has lots of issues 
>> and
>> prs *
>> *- 
>> https://github.com/Giswater/docs/tree/master/association/code_of_conduct
>> <https://github.com/Giswater/docs/tree/master/association/code_of_conduct>* 
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Jody Garnett
>>
>>
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>

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Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
President
Open Source Geospatial Foundation
http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos