[Incubator] Mapbuilder name

[Cameron Shorter]

Looks like we should requiest a name from the OSGeo group.

Should we call ourselves "mapbuilder" or "communitymapbuilder"?
Note: our website is currently http://communitymapbuilder.org

Daniel Brookshier wrote:
> Hi Jody,
> 
> Looking at your page, one thing you need to do since you are still  
> working with geotools is go ahead and request a project by that name.  
> That goes for all projects about to enter incubation.
> 
> Note that the project name 'should' reflect the project's name, but  not 
> necessarily exactly. We are limited to alphanumeric and the dash  
> character.
> 
> When a project is fist created, it is private. Only the domain admin  
> can see them. The domain admin approves this first stage. At this  time 
> I will mark the project as being in incubation.
> 
> At any point, the requester can edit the project. Before approval, no  
> one can be added to the project. After it is approved, the project is  
> available for joining.
> 
> Right now, the only projects we have open are mapguide and mapbender.
> 
> 
> 
> Daniel Brookshier
> Community Manager
> Office: 972-422-5261
> Cell: 214-207-6614
> 
> 
> On Mar 12, 2006, at 11:47 AM, Jody Garnett wrote:
> 
>> Hi Team,
>>
>> So we are one of the first projects to try the incubation ride, and  I 
>> am taking notes here:
>> - http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/GeoTools_Incubation_Progress
>>
>> We have not gotten a great deal of direction yet, and the hope is  by 
>> record the process we followed later projects
>> can have a helping hand.
>>
>> On the above page you will see the beginnings of a plan for an IP  
>> check. The first step is to arrive at a list of
>> names. This will be handled module by module and will be the  
>> responsibility of the current module maintainer.
>>
>> We have a couple of train wrecks (like module/main) where  
>> responsibility will be handled by package according
>> to who is babysitting the bugs currently.
>>
>> We can talk about this on Monday's meeting.
>>
>> I am going to single out a couple people who have not been at a  
>> meeting for a while, and who we will need help from
>> to get through this.
>> - James can you review the page, we need some tales from the early  days
>> - Ruben we needs some checks on the user documentation
>>
>> I have not yet marked down who does each and every module, so  please 
>> feel free to help out and edit that page. If this is a trouble
>> we can set aside a page on confluence.
>>
>> I don't believe the thing they need us to sign is sorted quite yet,  
>> getting a list together will take some time and I would rather  start 
>> in on this early.
>> Jody
>>
>>
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