[Incubator] OSGeo incubation

[Landon Blake]

Jody:

Thanks for mentioning the banner. I can work something up for labs
projects to use.

I think the concept of a holding area is a good one. I also imagined
Labs as a place where projects could cultivate the communities they
need to qualify for incubation. Sort of a "community and open source
infrastructure building zone".

I imagine a programmer or company with a project they would like to
start under an open source model, or an existing project they would
like to convert to an open source model. Labs would provide them with
the help they need to do that, with a focus on the tools and policies
that build an independent community around the project.

I suppose I need to think about updating the labs wiki page with some
of this info. If there are no objections, I'd like to have the Labs
discussions take place on this mailing list instead of a separate
list. I think that makes sense. We want Labs projects to move into
incubation at some point in the process anyways.

Landon

On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:
> As an endevour I can see a couple things needed for the OSGeo labs.
> - need to sort out a banner (pgRouting is happily using the normal OSGeo
> banner)
>
> And yeah I think this could be our holding area while a project waits for an
> incubation mentor?
>
>
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
> On Saturday, 10 November 2012 at 10:11 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>
> Landon,
> All information about OSGeo-Labs (that I'm aware of) has been summarised
> into:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Labs
>
> I'm +1 for having Landon take on the role of OSGeo-Labs mentor (or
> however you'd like to define the role)
>
> On 10/11/2012 10:05 AM, Landon Blake wrote:
>
> Jody:
>
> Have you gotten any more information on OSGeo Labs?
>
> If not, I'd like to post a couple of questions to the discuss list. If
> there isn't currently someone in charge of labs, I'd like to
> volunteer. I can see my role as:
>
> 1) Identifying which projects in Labs are still active and still
> interested in incubation.
> 2) Helping projects in Labs move into incubation.
> 3) Working to build the support system and infrastructure for projects
> in Labs, including upkeep of the Labs wiki page and maybe a more
> formal web presence for labs.
>
> I think all of the above tasks should be coordinated with the
> incubation committee, of course.
>
> One of the main reasons for my interest is because I have a couple
> little projects I would like to get into OSGeo Labs.
>
> Any comments?
>
> Landon
>
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Landon Blake
> <sunburned.surveyor at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Glad I'm not the only one that is confused.
>
> I note there isn't a mailing list link here:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Labs
>
> I also didn't see one listed on the mailing list server.
>
> Landon
>
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> I am not sure - which is why I asked the list :-)
>
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
> On Thursday, 1 November 2012 at 1:55 AM, Landon Blake wrote:
>
> Can anyone comment on the relationship between OSGeo Incubation and
> OSGeo Labs? Who administers the OSGeo Labs? Where should a new project
> looking to participate in OSGeo go first?
>
> Landon
>
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Excellent question:
>
> You open a ticket, there is also a questionnaire (which is where the content
> of that ticket comes from).
>
> Before a project leaves graduation we try and make sure it has a diverse
> committer list (i.e. more then one developer / organisation). We have just
> seen too many cool projects be hung up on a shelf :( So having only one
> developer now, makes it hard to attract a mentor.
>
> We also have an OSGeo Lab thing for smaller / starting projects but I do not
> know much about it. I will CC the incubation list and we can ask for more
> information on that one.
>
> All the best and bald you enjoyed the slides.
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
> On Wednesday, 31 October 2012 at 5:57 AM, Peter Karich wrote:
>
> Hi Jody,
>
> what is the normal process to request incubation of a project?
> I read your slides yesterday and have the feeling that OSGeo could be a nice
> fit for my project at http://graphhopper.com which needs some more
> developers/community :)
> What other benefits would you see or wouldn't you say that it fits? And is
> one developer sufficient?
> Do I just need to open a ticket ala http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/147
> and hope :) ?
>
> Kind Regards,
> Peter.
>
> Attachments:
> - smime.p7s
>
>
>
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