[Board] TorchGeo enters incubation program with Brian Hamlin as mentor

[Jody Garnett]

Angelos I do not think a motion is needed, as incubation process of now
requires board to accept project into community project program.

What do you think?

--
Jody Garnett


On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 10:18 PM Angelos Tzotsos via Board <
board at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> Hi Jody,
>
> This was moved to the top of the agenda and a board motion is now open:
>
> https://www.loomio.com/p/va4hL6xb/motion-to-accept-torchgeo-for-incubation-with-brian-hamlin-as-mentor
>
> Best,
> Angelos
>
> On 3/27/24 11:33, Jody Garnett via Board wrote:
> > The agenda was longer than the time slot yesterday, as outlined below we
> > proceed on this activity.  There was already a chance for the board to
> > discuss the project when it entered the community program earlier.
> >
> > This is an important an interesting project. For OSGeo this one of the
> > first projects connected to the large data players. Technology neutral
> > ground has been established in the form of
> > https://pytorch.org/foundation (with a governing board outlined if you
> > follow that link).
> >
> > PyTorch is popular with research making the addition of TorchGeo a great
> > fit with our GeoForAll community.
> > --
> > Jody Garnett
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 9:20 PM Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Dear Board,
> >>
> >> I have a notice to share from the incubation committee:
> >>
> >> Motion: "Begin the application for OSGeo Community Project TorchGeo to
> >>> graduate to full OSGeo project status" (with Brian Hamlin as mentor)
> >>>
> >>> Response:
> >>>
> >>> Angelos Tzotsos +1
> >>> Arnulf Christl +1
> >>> Bob (CI-StPaul) Basques +1
> >>> Brian M Hamlin +1 initial motion
> >>> Daniel Morissette +1
> >>> Dimitris Kotzinos +1
> >>> Frank Warmerdam +1
> >>> Jo Cook +1
> >>> Jody Garnett +1
> >>> Michael Smith +1
> >>> Regina Obe +1
> >>> Steve Lime +1
> >>> Tom Kralidis +1
> >>>
> >>> Community feedback:
> >>>
> >>> Ian Turton:  more documentation, especially of the quickstart/beginners
> >>> tutorial type
> >>>
> >> And also a conversation:
> >>
> >> The incubation committee has a habit of communicating projects entering
> >> incubation to the board as it used to be the "first contact" between the
> >> foundation and a new project team. An indication that a new party
> wishes to
> >> partner with OSGeo in some capacity.
> >>
> >> With the advent of the community project initiative the application to
> >> incubation is no longer a "first contact" case - indeed asking projects
> >> first to be recognized as a community projects has already taken care of
> >> the the "meet and greet" questions.
> >>
> >> So I have added the topic to the board meeting - but I do not think the
> >> incubation committee requires a response from the board. Please
> consider if
> >> you would like these kind of topics to be shared in the future.
> >>
> >> As for TorchGeo - congratulations and I trust we will hear from this
> >> project again soon when they have fulfilled incubation requirements.
> >> --
> >> Jody Garnett
> >>
> >
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> Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
> President
> Open Source Geospatial Foundation
> https://www.osgeo.org/member/angelos-tzotsos/
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