Incubation Entrance Criteria

[Frank Warmerdam]

Folks,

I meant to include this in the motions to admit to incubation email,
but forgot.  The criteria we have listed for deciding if a project should
be allowed into incubation can be found at:

   https://incubator.osgeo.org/process/evaluation.html

Purpose

The purpose of this document is to outline the criteria to be used for 
prioritizing projects for acceptance into the incubation process. The project 
must fully meet, or be capable of meeting by graduation, the Required 
Criteria. Projects should meet some or all of the Desirable Criteria. The 
intention is that the more criteria a project meets, the more likely it will 
be accepted for incubation.

Criteria

    1. The code is under an OSI approved license (data & doc projects need
       to specify their choice for a type of license).
    2. The project is willing to keep code clear of encumbrances
    3. The project is "geospatial", or directly in support of geospatial
       applications.

Desirable

The following are desirable traits of projects entering into the community:

    1. Open source software is already reasonably mature (working quality
       code).
    2. Project already has a substantial user community.
    3. Project already has a substantial and diverse developer community.
    4. Project members are aware of, and implements support for, relevant
       standards (ie. OGC, etc).
    5. Project has linkages with existing foundation projects.
    6. Project fills a gap related to software that the foundation supports.
    7. Project is prepared to develop in an open and collaborative fashion.
    8. Project has contributions and interest from more than just one
       company/organization.
    9. 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.

Best regards,
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I set the clouds in motion - turn up   | Frank Warmerdam, warmerdam at pobox.com
light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam
and watch the world go round - Rush    | President OSGeo, http://osgeo.org