[Incubator] MapFish Incubation application - reactivation

[Jody Garnett]

Hi Claude; we are a bit short on man power; once the deegree vote  
happens I hope to be available.

The committee is supportive of new volunteers; we really just need a  
point of contact with each community; and we try not to spread  
ourselves too thin. OSGeo now has a stable of projects that have been  
through incubation (and thus have experience that would be valuable to  
you in incubation). Do you have contacts with any of these projects?  
You could encourage them to volunteer and mentor you.

Cheers,
Jody

On 22/10/2009, at 3:21 PM, Claude Philipona wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I'd like to point to the ticket 293 (MapFish Incubation application
> http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/293), more than a year old, for
> which the incubation committee hasn't given any answer yet.
>
> The experiences and discussions at the FOSS4G conference clearly shows
> the large interest and the need for such a framework in the FOSS4G
> ecosystem. Since last year, the number of users, organizations,
> companies implementing or contributing to MapFish has continuously
> increased. MapFish fills some holes as a high end webmapping
> framework, now that some projects using previous generation technology
> are stalling or slowly dying. A PSC is being set-up with a large
> representation from different organizations, countries, background.
>
> All the criteria for Incubation are fully met and it is now really a
> good time, as I've discussed with several members of the incubation
> committee, to start incubation as the MapFish just went through one
> lifecycle and is just starting the next one with important strategic
> decision.
>
> We will discuss the project organization during the BoF 2 hours from
> now and I hope we can take the chance to discuss afterwards with
> members of the Incubation Committee to quickly go on the further steps
> leading to incubation start.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Claude
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