[Incubator] osgeo innovator (was labs)

[Jody Garnett]

I hear you, and you are correct that innovation can happen anywhere. I look
forward to alternate name suggestions. "Experiment" would do a disservice
to a completed project that does not yet have a large/diverse enough
community to meet our graduation requirements.

My fellow board members were a bit startled that our incubation policies do
inhibit the support smaller projects, and would like an avenue to support
innovation. It may be that both these objectives cannot be met with the
same initiative, but I would like to try.

--
Jody Garnett

On 3 February 2016 at 23:47, Jeroen Ticheler <jeroen.ticheler at geocat.net>
wrote:

> Hi Jody,
> I understand the naming confusion. The Innovator name however has IMO a
> negative reflection on the established projects. Are new projects
> necessarily more innovative than established ones? Often they are still so
> small they don't have established communities/structures etc in place.
> That's indeed why the Labs were created.
> I will think about another potential name and I hope others feel the same
> and will also think of an alternative naming for the Labs. I remember you
> saying something like Hatching (synonym of incubating, so maybe to co
> fusing).
> Maybe OSGeo Experiments.
> Cheers,
> Jeroen
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> > Op 4 feb. 2016 om 03:25 heeft Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> het
> volgende geschreven:
> >
> > A couple of results for the incubation team out of the weekend's board
> meeting.
> >
> > We have the "GeoForAll Labs" and our OSGeo labs projects - and the two
> names trip on each other.
> >
> > Board members were also a bit taken aback that our incubation process is
> not really "welcome" to innovation (indeed our graduation requirements tend
> to favour established projects).
> >
> > With that in mind - I would like to kick off:
> >
> > 1) Renaming OSGeo Labs as OSGeo Innovator
> >
> > The branding for this is way better for projects! Having an "OSGeo
> Innovator" badge on your home page is way more "positive" an impression.
> >
> > 2) Revise the procedures around this activity
> >
> > My first take is:
> > - provide a home for small project teams / single organization projects
> > - focus on new projects (so provide README, CONTRIBUTING, PSC files for
> a project to copy into github)
> > - stick to our "open source" and "open development" guns!
> > - "save the sticker" until on-boarding is complete
> > --
> > Jody Garnett
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