[OSGeo-Discuss] New incubation procedure

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

On 2015/03/05 7:25, Vaclav Petras wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Suchith Anand <
> Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> Though we had lots of discussions afterwards and continuing on this , we
>> couldnt find any solution till now. So this might be a good opportunity  to
>> modify the Incubation's "labs" term, to something like "Community Projects"
>> to avoid confusion if that is acceptable to Vaclav, Jachym and others. Many
>> thanks.
>>
>> Well, I'm not particularly fond of "Community Projects" as a name. Even
> mature FOSS projects are community projects in one way or the other.
> Unfortunately, I don't have other suggestion.

How about "Nascent Projects"?

Venka
>
> Vaclav
>
>
>> Suchith
>>
>> ________________________________________
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>> On Behalf Of Jeff McKenna [jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2015 2:26 PM
>> To: discuss at lists.osgeo.org
>> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New incubation procedure
>>
>> (we are approaching 2 full years that this "labs" naming has been an
>> issue and discussed[1])
>>
>> Today, knowing how ingrained the term 'lab' is in the GeoForAll
>> education network, maybe Jachym is correct that it is a good time to
>> modify the Incubation's "labs" term, to something like "Community
>> Projects".
>>
>> [1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/ica-osgeo-labs/2013-June/000134.html
>>
>> -jeff
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2015-03-03 3:42 AM, Suchith Anand wrote:
>>> Vaclav,
>>>
>>> Please accept my sincere apologies as it was my mistake that i did not
>> think on this  when we started the ICA-OSGeo Labs initiative (so many
>> things were going on at that time!).
>>> In universities, we generally use the "Labs" term to refer to
>> infrastructure/people/facilities for a particular subject. For example
>> Botany Lab, Robotics Lab etc. And we wanted to make sure there is a
>> dedicated Open Source Geospatial Lab in universities worldwide  (which
>> includes bringing together people from various disciplines, infrastructure
>> (the physical space) and facilities to make this happen. Also it is easier
>> to make use of the same terminology/structure of "Labs" which is widely
>> used in the university environment to get academics start the initiative in
>> their respective universities (also it is easier for them to convince their
>> higher management on a structure that is known to them than reinvent a new
>> term for this) .
>>> So it will very helpful for us if you can make use of new
>> "OSGeo-projects" and metioned star (or similar) rating system for the
>> incubation as then there is no confusion in the future. Many thanks for
>> your consideration.
>>> Best wishes,
>>>
>>> Suchith
>>>
>>> ________________________________________
>>> From: discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org]
>> On Behalf Of Jachym Cepicky [jachym.cepicky at gmail.com]
>>> Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2015 7:27 AM
>>> To: Vaclav Petras
>>> Cc: OSGeo Discussions; incubator at lists.osgeo.org
>>> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New incubation procedure
>>>
>>> Vašku,
>>>
>>> just side note: yes, whith the new "Labs" initiative "OSGeo-Labs" have
>> to change their name.
>>> My idea would rather be to get rid of current OSGeo- "labs" and
>> "projects" and start with new "OSGeo-projects" and metioned star (or
>> similar) rating system.
>>> Than for current OSGeo-Labs "OSGeo-project level 1" would make it (or
>> similar)
>>> Jachym
>>>
>>> po 2. 3. 2015 v 18:33 odesílatel Vaclav Petras <wenzeslaus at gmail.com
>> <mailto:wenzeslaus at gmail.com>> napsal:
>>> On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 6:44 AM, Jachym Cepicky <
>> jachym.cepicky at gmail.com<mailto:jachym.cepicky at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> former "OSGeo Labs" (now it has no name is slowly forgotten in past, but
>> you can find more at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Labs)
>>> Hi Jachym,
>>>
>>> do you think that with the renewal you can replace the name "OSGeo Labs"
>> by something else? Now we have also ISPRS-ICA-OSGeo Research and
>> Educational laboratories which might be often shortened to OSGeo Labs,
>> although I prefer OSGeoRELs for writing. The mainling list is
>> ica-osgeo-labs. Put perhaps it is not such an issue since the term "Geo for
>> All" (http://www.geoforall.org/) is now used more and more (well, the
>> linked website as OSGeo Labs in the title element).
>>> Thanks for taking this into consideration,
>>> Vaclav
>>>
>>>
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