[OSGeo-Discuss] Supporting new projects

[Landon Blake]

I like the idea of an OSGeo Labs wiki page.

I really don't think a company or organization wanting to "open source"
a geospatial program would really need a lot of "infrastructure" from
the OSGeo. A hosting site like SourceForge provides all of the
infrastructure a project needs to get up and running. They have support
for a project website, wiki, mailing lists and CVS or SVN source code
repositories. Why would OSGeo put a lot of time and effort into
providing similar infrastructure when it is already available?

It seems a better use of resources at the OSGeo would be in providing
advice and assistance for tasks like choosing an appropriate license,
tips on managing a source code repository, and managing a new user
and/or developer community. It seems these areas would be more "unknown"
to a typical company or organization than something like setting up a
mailing list.

Landon

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[mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Frank Warmerdam
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 8:30 AM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Supporting new projects

On 10/2/07, Julien-Samuel Lacroix <jlacroix at mapgears.com> wrote:
> I agree with you that the front page recommandations should remain for
> incubated or in-incubation projects, but does a "OSGeo Labs" page
could
> be an option for project wanting to join OSGeo? A page with a list of
> project that are not part of the OSGeo yet and are not hosted by
OSGeo,
> but are known by OSGeo as "friends". Or at least a "How to join" page
> for new projects could help a lot.

Julien,

Could you launch an "OSGeo Labs" page in the wiki?  If it
shapes up well, we can look at linking it from somewhere
reasonably prominent.

Best regards,
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