[OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Funding code Sprints

Mon Feb 22 00:54:50 PST 2016

You will find examples, such as an internship or google summer of code,
where several months of an individuals time can be devoted towards a
project. This is a bit of a different dynamic to a "sprint" which pulls
together individuals from all walks of life to focus on a task...

I think you will find, that with a great deal of planning and prep,
geosever team met our sprint target in January.
- http://blog.geoserver.org/2016/01/25/geoserver-code-sprint-success/

I also took part of a smaller code sprint last year which was successful:
-
http://geotoolsnews.blogspot.ca/2015/03/foss4gna-code-sprint-replacing-vecmath.html

Given the nature of our industry it is hard to fund developers from several
different organizations to work together at the same time. The key
advantage of a "sprint" is opening up a gap in the work schedule where
collaboration (and focus) can occur.

Longer sustained efforts across organizations would be amazing - but harder
to fund. An example would be the creation of the open layers 3 project.

--
Jody Garnett

On 21 February 2016 at 23:07, Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) <
patrick.hogan at nasa.gov> wrote:

> Venka and All,
>
> For my two-pence, which won't even get you a cup of chai in Mumbai, I am
> not a fan of code sprints. Show me any lasting results of those events. As
> a former High School science teacher (almost 30 years ago), I sensed that
> real character development (and results) came from more serious application
> of efforts, the kind of project-based efforts that get accomplished by
> small teams over academic quarters or semesters of time.
>
> This is some of the thinking that went into designing the Europa Challenge
> that NASA runs in concert with Politecnico di Milano at Como. We certainly
> welcome any support our young champions might benefit from that the OSGEO
> Foundation might wish to provide.
>
> Whatever process there is for making the request, we would like to apply
> please.
>
> -Patrick
>  (650) 604-5656 (office)
>  (650) 269-2788 (cell)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of
> Venkatesh Raghavan
> Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2016 10:25 PM
> To: OSGeo Discussions; OSGeo Board
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Funding code Sprints
>
> Hi Mike,
>
> I agree with you. My suggestion to spread out the code sprint was only to
> ensure that the community has some idea some idea when the sprint could be
> expected and when/how to request OSGeo Foundation for support.
>
> I would like to see more an more code sprints (also incubation sprints
> etc.) being organized in the future being as and when the community finds
> it necessary.
>
> I think, we only need to ensure that the procedure to request for support
> and guidelines to be followed are know to everyone in our community.
>
> Best
>
> Venka
>
> On 2/22/2016 3:07 PM, Michael Smith wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > I don't think there is a reason to have code sprints coordinate their
> > times to spread them out over the year. They should run when they need
> > to run. We don't have a cash flow issue that would require this.
> >
> > And for the Paris Code Sprint, although a request was made, it does
> > not appear at this time that it will be needed with the carryover
> > funding and with the sponsorships.
> >
> > I firmly agree that Code Sprints are one of the more important things
> > that the foundation does and if there are worthy candidates for
> > funding, then I, for one, would like to see our budget expand to cover
> > these. What we have now is just an expectation based on past support,
> > but if new ones come along that meet our guidelines, I don't see a
> > reason not to support them no matter the time period or if they exceed
> our current budget.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > ----
> > Michael Smith
> > OSGeo Foundation Treasurer
> > treasurer at osgeo.org
> >
> > From:  Board <board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Venkatesh
> > Raghavan <raghavan at media.osaka-cu.ac.jp>
> > Date:  Sunday, February 21, 2016 at 6:35 PM
> > To:  OSGeo Discussions <discuss at lists.osgeo.org>, OSGeo Board
> > <board at lists.osgeo.org>
> > Subject:  Re: [Board] Funding code Sprints
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> Dear All,
> >>
> >>   Considering OSGeo budget for 2016, I think, it could be
> >>   possible to support 3 or 4 Code Sprints at similar
> >>   sponsorship levels for each sprint as in the past.
> >>
> >>   I would like to propose to have code spread across three or four
> >>   periods across the year e.g Jan-March, April-June, July-Sept, Oct-Dec
> >>   and have RFP's for code sprints just like we have for our annual
> >>   conference.
> >>
> >>   OSGeo Code Sprint in Paris starting from today (22 Feb., 2016),
> >> fits very well
> >>   for the  first quarter of 2016. I see a great lineup of projects
> >>   and participants for the Paris Code Sprint [1].
> >>
> >>   Code sprints are an integral part of FOSS4G Conferences which is our
> >>   largest gathering of users and developers. It will be appropriate that
> >>   OSGeo Foundation supports Code Sprints at FOSS4G conferences as
> >>   an official event for the July-September period.
> >>
> >>   Best
> >>
> >>   Venka
> >>
> >>   [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Paris_Code_Sprint_2016
> >>
> >>
> >>   On 2016/02/20 18:07, Massimiliano Cannata wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Dear All,
> >>> this is to acknowledge that there is a topic on discussion within
> >>> the board directors on assigning funds to sprint code requests.
> >>>
> >>> Up to now a request-voting-fund approach has been followed without
> >>> any specific plan.
> >>> Since the board f2f meeting (thank you community for supporting that
> >>> as i believe it was an enormous opportunity for OSGeo to speed up
> >>> advances and was so fruitful) a budget has been draft and resources
> has been allocated.
> >>>
> >>> With this mail I would personally like to ask a few questions the
> >>> different
> >>> communities:
> >>>
> >>> - who is intended to present a fund request for sprint code in 2016.
> >>> This will give an idea of the number of expected requests.
> >>>
> >>> - do you have preferences on criteria for assign resources and
> >>> eventually what is your choice motivation?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Thank you,
> >>>
> >>> Maxi
>
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