[Incubator] osgeo innovator (was labs)

[Jody Garnett]

I will point out that naming is a classic bike shed problem. I think we
should ask the projects in "labs" and get their take on this.

--
Jody Garnett

On 4 February 2016 at 13:12, Landon Blake <sunburned.surveyor at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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