[Incubator] OSGeo incubation

[Jody Garnett]

Instill have an action item to propose a staged incubation process.
Lets put the Labs suggestion in that ( ie use as a holding area ).

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Jody Garnett

On 10/11/2012, at 2:44 PM, Landon Blake <sunburned.surveyor at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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