[Incubator] GeoMoose Application

[Blammo]

All (sorry this is so long, I probably took too long to think about it),

I've been thinking about the GeoMoose application some after talking to 
some local OSGEO participants.  These local folks believe it might be 
better to pull GeoMoose out of the Incubation process at this time.  I'm 
on the fence about it actually.

The original reason(s) for trying:

The intent was to promote GeoMoose via OSGEO, not necessarily get into a 
OSGEO stamp of approval, at least not immediately.  Unfortunately, other 
than Incubation, there's no way to really get the word out about a new 
project via OSGEO.  I know about the wiki.labs thing, but that seems to 
convey the notion that the listed project(s) are in an unfinished state 
and not ready for real use.  GeoMoose is a fully production ready, 
browser framework.   I also may have (unrealistically) read more between 
the lines of the incubation application than was really there.  Since 
most of the application asks fairly vague questions, I figured some of 
the areas of compliance might be forgiven if they were just as vague :c)

If GeoMoose is pulled from consideration, I have some thoughts related 
to GeoMoose and future applicants:

Since GeoMoose is built upon MapServer and there will be a OpenLayers 
component to it in the near future, I was wondering about OSGEO listing 
things out in a different category, something along the lines of a OSGEO 
application component.  Maybe a "Tested Components" list, that is linked 
to from the front page next to each OSGEO code base.  GeoMoose could 
conceivably be included in MapServers and OpenLayers component lists for 
example.  There could also be a user rating system to go along with 
something like this, which would help things along in other ways on the 
promotional front.

The biggest plus I see from this type of setup, is that you can have 
newer rarely seen components or business specific packages (like Geomose 
currently is) right alongside the tried and true applications that are 
already out there.  The list could be user generated too, because you 
simply set up a system for the component owners to register their own 
code with their own descriptions, if a validation process needs to be 
setup, make them show a screenshot or something else to show it 
working.  It does require a web presence of some sort for the 
registration process though.  It also shouldn't dilute the OSGEO 
"official" offereings in any way, I think it would actually be a good 
thing for OSGEO promotion.

Anyway, I'm still mulling things over in this regard, any thoughts from 
anyone here?  Thanks for getting this far.

bobb