[Incubator] Committee Launch and Initial Meeting

[Markus Neteler]

On 3/8/06, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> We need to hold an initial meeting to take care of some housekeeping,
> orient ourselves, and consider the initial feedback from the review of
> the contributor agreements.
>
> I've watched about 45 emails go back and forth on the WebCom mailing list
> about when to hold their first meeting, so to cut to the chase I would
> like to declare the meeting will be Monday March 13th at 12:00noon EST.
> This should roughly be in the regular business day for western europe to
> the west coast.  I'm not quite sure how many hours Jody is out, but I
> imagine it sucks for him a bit.  I think it likely sucks badly for Cameron.

Frank,

  http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/IncCom1_Agenda#Time

I have added the link to the Fixed time calendar page, please verify.

...
> As I see it our key action item is to have collected feedback from the
> developers of our respective projects on the draft contributor agreements.
>
>    http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Contributor_Agreement
>
> Markus already has some substantial feedback from the GRASS community.  Markus
> could you distribute a copy of your feedback to the Incubator mailing list?

will do.

> Some projects have also started on the process of IP review.  I know Jody
> has been looking into trademark issues for GeoTools, and Steve has done a
> detailed assessment of who has contributed to MapServer.  I am hoping we
> can come out of the meeting with a good idea what actions the rest of us
> need to be doing in this vein.

... for GRASS a few thousand hits, how to figure out?

...

> This lists our initial members.  We have also solicited an official
> representative of each prospective project.  Currently GRASS hasn't decided
> on a rep, so I have forcable added Markus to the mailing list in the meantime.

I can act as rep, for the time being (I am not officially nominated as
the structures aren't completely established yet).

Markus


> I am chairing the committee and as such am responsible for reporting back to
> the board on our activities.
>
> Anyone is welcome to subscribe to the incubator list and participate in
> irc meetings as long a we can maintain some degree of order.  However, only
> official committee members may propose or vote on motions.   All members of
> the committee should also find they have SVN commit access on the Incubation
> Committee web site (http://incubator.osgeo.org) though I have put a fair
> amount of our "work in progress" documents in the wiki for now.
>
> I think we face a lot of work and excitement as we try to process our
> eight projects through incubation at the same time as we try to figure out
> what that means.
>
> Best regards,
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> light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam
> and watch the world go round - Rush    | President OSGF, http://osgeo.org
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