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Dave,<br>
I'm hoping most projects are represented on this discuss list.<br>
<br>
However, I'll also be contacting all our OSGeo Live project contact
people in the next couple of days as we kick off the OSGeo Live build
process. I'll make sure that each project can comment on the "Project
Overview" which includes the project rating criteria.<br>
<br>
On 11/06/10 06:52, Dave McIlhagga wrote:
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type="cite">One suggestion - since there is a lot of concern about the
idea of "rating" projects, maybe the PSCs of each of the projects
should be consulted before going ahead with this? After all -- it's for
each of these projects' benefits that this is being considered, and if
the various PSC consensus is this is not a good idea .. it should
probably carry a lot of weight.
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<div>On 2010-06-10, at 4:44 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:</div>
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<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">On 11/06/10 01:59, Michael P.
Gerlek wrote:
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<pre wrap="">(Along those lines, I'd also ask precisely what "ready to start" incubation means...)</pre>
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<br>
"Ready to start incubation" implies that projects that have applied
for, or are mature enough to apply, can be ranked at the same level as
projects in incubation.<br>
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I propose we use OSGeo's criteria for selecting incubation candidates
here:<br>
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href="http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/evaluation.html">http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/evaluation.html</a><br>
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(At some point we should revisit OSGeo's checklists, but lets leave
that for another email thread and for the moment we use what we have).<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Cameron Shorter
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<h2>Criteria</h2>
<ol>
<li> The code is under an OSI approved license (data & doc
projects need to specify their choice for a type of license). </li>
<li> The project is willing to keep code clear of encumbrances </li>
<li> The project is "geospatial", or directly in support of
geospatial applications. </li>
</ol>
<h2>Desirable</h2>
The following are desirable traits of projects entering into the
community:
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<li> Open source software is already reasonably mature (working
quality code). </li>
<li> Project already has a substantial user community. </li>
<li> Project already has a substantial and diverse developer
community. </li>
<li> Project members are aware of, and implements support for,
relevant standards (ie. OGC, etc). </li>
<li> Project has linkages with existing foundation projects. </li>
<li> Project fills a gap related to software that the foundation
supports. </li>
<li> Project is prepared to develop in an open and collaborative
fashion. </li>
<li> Project has contributions and interest from more than just
one
company/organization. </li>
<li> Project is willing to migrate some or all of its
infrastructure
(code repository, web site, wiki, mailing list, etc) to foundation
support infrastructure, and to adopt a website style consistent with
the foundation. </li>
</ol>
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Cameron Shorter
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Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254
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