[Incubator] Re: Motion: MapBuilder To Graduate Incubation

[Chris Holmes]

Hrm, I'm not sure I agree that the process 'will grow and improve over 
time' if we just let people pass if we know there's a problem. 
Incubation committee is low on most people's priority list so the only 
time things get done for it are when a project is close to graduation.

I'm still ok with MapBuilder passing, but it'd be nice if we at least 
assigned someone the task of liaising with viscomm and getting a sense 
of the marketing materials needed.

I feel somewhat similarly about waiting for OSGeo to 'come up with 
branding' - mapbuilder _is_ OSGeo, and to pass on that requirement for 
graduation because an all volunteer organization only has a few logos 
instead of a unified design and look and feel sounds less than ideal to 
me.  I can't access the mapbuilder site right now, it appears to be down 
for me, so maybe you already have it, but it'd be nice to have the OSGeo 
logo featured in some way, and perhaps try to use some of the same 
colors.  Or better yet get moving on the confluence license, set it up 
on an OSGeo box, and fully style that to match the logo, and let others 
also use the confluence wiki - I know GeoTools would probably jump at 
the chance.

To work I feel OSGeo needs people to realize that they have the power to 
change things, that they don't need to wait for other 'committees'.

Chris

Cameron Shorter wrote:
> One of the outstanding issues for Mapbuilder was to identify a 
> Mapbuilder/OSGeo liason. The Mapbuilder PSC has kindly voted that I 
> should take this role.
> 
> With regards to addressing marketing material. As yet, marketing 
> material requirements have not flowed into the Graduation Template.
> Until the Graduation Template contains marketing requirements, projects 
> should not need to address these issues during graduation.
> 
> So the question is:
> Do we hold up Mapbuilder graduation until we have a perfect set of 
> Graduation critera?
> 
> I think we should be pragmatic and accept that we cannot have a perfect 
> set of processes straight away. The processes will grow and improve over 
> time.
> 
> Hence I stick with my vote of +1 for Mapbuilder graduation now.
> 
> Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>> Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>>
>>> Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>>>
>>>> Motion:
>>>>
>>>>   I move that the Incubation Committee recommend MapBuilder to the
>>>>   OSGeo board for graduation from incubation.
>>
>>
>> Folks,
>>
>> This above motion closes tonight.  This is your reminder to speak now
>> or remain forever silent.  So far Arnulf Christl, Steve Lime, Cameron
>> Shorter, Paul Spencer, and Frank Warmerdam have supported the motion.
>> Jody has shown an interest but hasn't reached any final conclusion.
>>
>> I would add it is acceptable to vote -1 to indicate that you need more
>> time to evaluate the project, or if you feel we need to resolve all
>> the question about producing marketting/promotional material before we
>> complete the graduation process.
>>
>> Best regards,
> 
> 

-- 
Chris Holmes
The Open Planning Project
http://topp.openplans.org
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