[Incubator] status of rasdaman OSGeo incubation?

[Peter Baumann]

Dear Christopher,

thanks for your detailed explanation of the plot. But, as mentioned in 
my posting, we do have a mentor (Bruce Bannerman), he already has 
started looking into the licence issues etc.

So all the issues you mention are set, we are just awaiting the signal.

Regards,
Peter



On 09/16/2010 12:45 PM, christopher.schmidt at nokia.com wrote:
> On Sep 16, 2010, at 4:39 AM, ext Peter Baumann wrote:
>
>    
>> Hi list,
>>
>> like with Geomajas (see recent mail) we experienced FOSS4G as an
>> exciting exchange of ideas. As a consequence, let me raise again the
>> issue of rasdaman incubation.
>>
>> Our application was confirmed in May 2009, the resp. ticket is
>> http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/553. We like to think that we have
>> everything ready for checking, in particular all licence stuff is well
>> documented.
>> Bruce Bannerman has agreed to be our mentor.
>>
>> Hence, what is missing from your perspective for entering incubation?
>>
>> INTERGEO fair is ante portas (3 weeks) where we will present rasdaman,
>> and it would be great to be able to mention at least that we are in
>> incubation.
>>      
> OSGeo incubation is a process that is time consuming, and largely limited
> by volunteer time in the form of incubation mentors. At this time, the
> OSGeo incubation process depends on someone who is confident to spend
> possibly dozens of hours reviewing a project to take that project on and
> make that offer.
>
> Incubation mentors are self-selecting; they will tend to gravitate towards
> projects that they are personally interested in. Often, these are larger
> projects, or projects that are seen as more strategically valuable in the
> mind of the volunteer.
>
> At this time, I do not believe it is intended that the incubation committee
> is looking to change this tactic for selecting projects, which means that
> projects are not allowed into incubation based on when they applied, but
> instead based on some combination of volunteer interest and expressed
> community interest.
>
> As a result, there is likely no estimated timeline for when the project
> will enter incubation, and I do not think that anyone would be able to give
> you a reasonable estimate of such a timeline -- though I will say that
> the faster other projects finish, the more incubation volunteer time
> there is available.
>
> Best Regards,
> Christopher Schmidt
>
>    

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