[Incubator] Request GPlates to join OSGeo Incubation process...

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Jody,

Actually Peter Loewe (http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Peter_Loewe) and I 
had been speaking with John offline, and in fact Peter has already been 
doing a great job in helping John/GPlates along this process.  Peter of 
course would be an excellent mentor for GPlates (he's the current OSGeo 
OpenGeoscience committee chair, but I don't think that would affect things).

Peter: are you interested in filling the mentor role for the GPlates 
incubation process?  Jody and the incubation team will guide you through 
the requirements, and your role would be to then help John & the GPlates 
team make sure that each requirement is made (you aren't actually doing 
any work, just guiding GPlates through the process).

Thanks,

-jeff




On 2015-10-27 9:20 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:
> Welcome John, and thanks for introducing yourself and your project on
> the incubation list - it sounds like a really interesting application
> (and a great example of open source being used for collaboration).
>
> We have our incubation process online, so your "official" application
> will be a bug ticket - rather than your email. If you have any questions
> as you fill in these questions please ask - also note that we are an
> open source organization used to collaboration - so if the questions
> (such as number of users) do not quite line up with your application
> domain / business model it should be considered as an invitation for
> dialog rather than a down check.
>
> The difficult part (for both of us) is finding a volunteer to act as a
> mentor for your project - do you have any contacts in the open source
> community who would be willing to act in this capacity?
>
>
>
>
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
> On 22 October 2015 at 01:21, John Cannon <john.cannon at sydney.edu.au
> <mailto:john.cannon at sydney.edu.au>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Incubation Committee,____
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>     __ __
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>     We would like to officially state our intentions for GPlates to join
>     the OSGeo Incubation process.____
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>     __ __
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>     ____
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>     To summarise GPlates, it is desktop software for the interactive
>     visualisation of plate tectonics - http://www.gplates.org – and is a
>     collaboration between the University of Sydney, Caltech and the
>     Geological Survey of Norway.____
>
>     ____
>
>     I’m a GPlates software developer and will be handling the
>     application on behalf of Prof. Dietmar Müller (who leads the
>     Earthbyte group http://www.earthbyte.org/ here at the University of
>     Sydney) and our other GPlates collaborators.____
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>     __ __
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>     __ __
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>     Some background on GPlates...____
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>     __ __
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>     GPlates started as an application for researchers at the University
>     of Sydney and has since been released bi-annually to the public for
>     almost a decade. With over 50,000 downloads in total it is widely
>     used in industry, academic institutions and government departments.
>     It is open-source, uses open standards (such as OGC) and accesses
>     OSGeo libraries (GDAL and PROJ4). It runs as a graphical application
>     on Windows, MacOS X and Linux platforms. And we are also developing
>     a non-graphical Python GPlates library (first public beta release
>     end of this year).____
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>     __ __
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>     __ __
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>     Regards,____
>
>     John____
>
>
>     --
>     John Cannon, Lead GPlates Developer - http://www.gplates.org____
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>