[Incubator] Meeting Reminder

[Cameron Shorter]

Sorry Frank,
Now that daylight saving has switched, this timeslot is 04:00 in Sydney.
In the meeting, could you please see if this timeslot works for 
participants:
http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2006&month=4&day=9&hour=10&min=0&sec=0
Sydney: 9pm
Berlin: 1pm
New York: 7am
Vancouver: 4am
http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingtime.html?day=9&month=4&year=2006&p1=240&p2=179&p3=37&p4=256
(I'm not sure if there are any participants from Vancouver).

Comments on agenda:
* There seems to be a lot of work for a Project Mentor if that mentor is 
not already involved in the project.  I suspect that OSGeo will have 
problems finding enough mentor volunteers.  Consequently, I think that 
the biggest obstacle a project will face in joining OSGeo will be to 
find themselves a mentor.  So I suggest one of three things:

1. The mentor's role becomes more of an auditor.  Ie, to verify the 
project has completed OSGeo's criteria.  The onus is on the project 
participants to get the project in order.
2. The mentor's role is sponsored.
3. The mentor can also be a project member.

* Regarding Project Infrastructure Migration:
I still feel that the cost of Migration in and out of Colabnet is larger 
than any benefits it may bring.  I'm particularly concerned about the 
loss of history in bug trackers and email lists.
Daniel has said that "I won't say that we are best in breed in all the 
components (except svn), but we are best in breed as an integrated 
multi-host platform."
For me, I don't want to move from my "best of breed" tools to a lesser 
tool.  Little things like not having a theaded email archieve are 
annoying if you know you used to have it.
So for Mapbuilder, I'm advising our PSC not to migrate to Collabnet yet.


Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> 
> Folks,
> 
> A reminder that we have a meeting scheduled for 2:00pm EST tomorrow 
> (Monday)
> April 10th on IRC.  We have a substantial amount on the Agenda, so please
> plan to attend.  If you can't please try and feedback on the Agenda 
> items by
> email to the list.  Keep in mind that if we pass requirements for 
> incubation
> it can affect your project!
> 
> The agenda is at:
>   http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/IncCom_Meeting4
> 
> The final item is a fairly opened ended discussion of what the "incubation
> transformation" should mean, and whether there are additional requirements
> we wish to institute as part of incubation.  One example being a 
> requirement
> to provide new user documentation to provide them with a path into the
> project.
> 
> Best regards,


-- 
Cameron Shorter
http://cameron.shorter.net