[Incubator] osgeo innovator (was labs)

[Landon Blake]

I like "Innovator". What about "Community Builder Project"?

Landon

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 12:22 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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