[Incubator] osgeo innovator (was labs)
Landon Blake
sunburned.surveyor at gmail.com
Fri Feb 5 09:22:58 PST 2016
Bob is making me laugh.:]
Stephen wrote: "pgrouting is a good example of a project that has been
around for 10+ years and has made an effort in the past to get ready for
incubation but we gave up when we realized we would not meet the community
requirements or having enough developers supporting it. But in every other
way we are OSGeo, we have mentored something like 7-8 years of GSoC
projects and about 12 students under OSGeo, the code is OpenSource, we
collaborate with PostGIS team, etc.
So I think providing support and shelter for projects like these is
important to OSGeo."
Agreed. Good comments.
Jody wrote: "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."
Agreed. Good comments.
I really like "OSGeo Garage" as a name. It is a bit snarky, but also fun,
and could make for a cool logo. I'm ready to lead this effort and reach out
to our current "lab" projects so we can get things moving. Does someone
else want to volunteer for the lead role?
What do we need to do to get closure on a name? A quick vote using Google
Forms?
Landon
On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 7:48 AM, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) <
bob.basques at ci.stpaul.mn.us> wrote:
> Oh no, now I’m going . . .
>
> OSGeo Alley (as in Diagon . . .)
> OSGeo Side Street.
> OSGeo Trail
> OSGeo Path (Paths, Pathways . . .)
> OSGeo Yard (Back yard)
> OSGeo Basement (Cellar, Dungeon)
> OSGeo Patio (Deck)
> OSGeo Landing (Dock)
>
> hey this is kinda fun . . .
>
>
>
> bobb
>
>
>
> On Feb 4, 2016, at 9:06 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 <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
> <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
> <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 <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
> <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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