[Incubator] next Incubator Committee meeting: request for rasdaman incubation decision

[Jody Garnett]

Hi Peter; I think we will need to wait a bit for people to recover from foss4g; many people are currently on holiday.

I also offered to help Bruce if he has any questions; it sounds like an interesting project.

Jody

On 22/09/2010, at 7:14 AM, Peter Baumann wrote:

> Dear incubation folks,
> 
> as I couldn't notice any response on my mail below let me come back on it: when is the next incubation committee meeting going to take place? I know you guys have tons of obligations, but can you confirm that the request to promote rasdaman to "incubation" will be on the agenda?
> 
> thanks a lot,
> Peter
> 
> 
> 
> On 09/16/2010 06:12 PM, Peter Baumann wrote:
>> Dear incubation committee,
>> 
>> may I kindly ask you to put formal decision on incubation status for the
>> rasdaman project on the next committee meeting agenda. Resp. ticket is
>> http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/553, Bruce Bannerman kindly
>> volunteers as mentor, website is www.rasdaman.org .
>> 
>> When will the next meeting take place?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Peter
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 09/16/2010 04:51 PM, Pieter De Graef wrote:
>>   
>>> 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
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>         
>>>> 
>>>>       
>>> 
>>>     
>>   
> 
> -- 
> Dr. Peter Baumann
> - Professor of Computer Science, Jacobs University Bremen
>   www.faculty.jacobs-university.de/pbaumann
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>   tel: +49-421-200-3178, fax: +49-421-200-493178
> - Executive Director, rasdaman GmbH Bremen (HRB 147737)
>   www.rasdaman.com, mail: baumann at rasdaman.com
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