[Incubator] status of rasdaman OSGeo incubation?

[Pieter De Graef]

Make sure the incubation application is on the agenda for the next OSGeo 
incubation meeting on IRC.


Peter Baumann schreef:
> 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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Pieter De Graef

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