[OSGeo-Discuss] Supporting new projects

[Cameron Shorter]

I'm +1 for OSGeo Labs. It would be a good holding place for projects 
waiting to go into incubation and for new projects to meet and 
collaborate with each other.

The key elements of OSGeo Labs are:
1. Labs draws minimal overhead from the OSGeo community. Ie, provide 
hosting, but not mentoring.
2. There is an entrance criteria list for OSGeo Labs which ensures that 
the project has a goal of becoming an incubation OSGeo project and 
therefore should be Open Source, Geospatial, etc.
3. The decision for accepting a project into Labs should be delegated to 
a committee (which should be one person but could be more). Aim is to 
keep the management overhead low.
4. OSGeo Board reserves the right to remove projects from Labs if the 
project dies or is not following OSGeo values.

I suggest that OSGeo Incubation Committee hold a meeting to vote on this.
Do we have a volunteer to draft the first version of "Entrance Criteria 
and Guidelines for OSGeo Labs"? You should be able to draw a lot from 
the Incubation process.

Julien-Samuel Lacroix wrote:
> Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>> 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,
>
> Thanks for the backup. My comment was more to get an idea of what 
> people  think about it and I think most people agree.
>
> I'll try to get something up along with guidelines to make sure we 
> keep a little bit of control on what we advertise.
>
> Julien
>


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