[Incubator] osgeo innovator (was labs)

[Stephen Woodbridge]

For names, how about:

OSGeo Shed
OSGeo Project Shed
OSGeo Project Barn
OSGeo Garage

the place where projects live until they are ready for the main street.

Names are hard!

-Steve

On 2/4/2016 8:22 PM, Landon Blake wrote:
> Agreed. We should just get the shed painted.
>
> Landon
>
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 2:21 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com
> <mailto:jody.garnett at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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
>             <mailto: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 <mailto: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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