[Incubator] osgeo innovator (was labs)
Massimiliano Cannata
massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch
Fri Feb 5 01:30:53 PST 2016
If I can add something,
I believe the question is that a small project could be the best on the
earth but specific enough / complicated enough not to meet the interest of
a large community.
Does it means the project is not good and applicable or ready to the main
street?
I don't believe this is true.
Maybe not correct example could be the electric cars:
- do they work good? can they be recommended? are they ready for the
market? can they circulate? Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes
- are they so widley used? No
It would be a pity not to promote what is working perfectly but not yet
diffused because of marketing / economic value.
Maxi
2016-02-05 9:45 GMT+01:00 Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>:
> I think the point was this could be a place for projects that are open
> source ... but too small for main street. Projects will stay here, and may
> never meet our risk based graduation requirements.
>
> We do want these projects to be open source, correctly license and
> spatial. But that is about it for constraints.
>
> Heh - we could borrow the foss4g name it is nice and inclusive.
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 7:06 PM Stephen Woodbridge <woodbri at swoodbridge.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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