[OSGeo-Discuss] Supporting new projects

[Julien-Samuel Lacroix]

Hi,

I'll try to get something done. We could then start from there and add 
information to it. I hesitant to add a "provide hosting" part for now. 
I'm thinking of simply pointing to Sourceforge (or others) for now since 
we didn't get a consensus on that part. I'm also thinking that it will 
be easier to start small without providing anything, but a way to get 
advertised and grow the service later if it's a success.

Best regards,
Julien

Cameron Shorter wrote:
> 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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Julien-Samuel Lacroix
Mapgears
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