[Incubator] MOTION: GeoNode Graduation from OSGeo Incubation

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi Daniel,

On 09/02/2016 03:46 PM, Daniel Morissette wrote:
> +1 on graduation. Congratulations!
>
> Daniel
>
> P.S.
>
> The project seems to have a quite healthy and open community of users 
> and contributors around it and that's one of the key things that I 
> like to see around OSGeo projects.
>
> Note that in the incubation checklist you only answered "Yes" to the 
> project officer question. Perhaps we should reword the question in the 
> checklist, but I'd expect the project officer to be named there. That 
> name will be required for the motion to the board later on anyway.

Jeff was added as the Project Officer
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoNode_Incubation_Checklist#Board

>
> And a few notes for the upcoming docs sprint: As I was walking through 
> the process docs linked form the checklist, I found several broken 
> links. In most cases I was able to find the info through other means, 
> but I thought I'd point a few of them to make sure they are addressed:
>
> - 
> http://docs.geonode.org/en/master/organizational/comm_bylaws.html#comm-bylaws
>
> The link to the AUTHORS file is broken. It points to a "dev" branch 
> that no longer exist. Perhaps point it to the master branch?

Those dead links are fixed and going to be merged soon. Thanks for the 
heads up.

>
>
> - http://docs.geonode.org/en/latest/organizational/roadmap.html#roadmap
>
> Does the organizational partner list still exist and still lead the 
> roadmap or is this old info? The geonode-org google group has 
> restricted access and I'm unable to read roadmap items and other docs 
> linked from this page.
>
>
>
> On 2016-08-25 11:28 AM, David William Bitner wrote:
>> Dear Incubation Committee,
>>
>> As the mentor for GeoNode Incubation, I would like to make a motion to
>> graduate GeoNode from the OSGeo incubation process with Jeff Johnson to
>> act as the Project Officer.
>>
>> You will find the Incubation Checklist at:
>>
>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoNode_Incubation_Checklist
>>
>> During the incubation process much work has been done to solidify the
>> intellectual property behind GeoNode.
>>
>>   * copyright was transferred from the now dissolved OpenPlans
>>   * a Contributor License Agreement has been adopted and a process
>>     created to collect from all contributors
>>   * all files have been checked for headers
>>   * the release process documentation has been shored up
>>
>> GeoNode has a tremendous "bus quotient" as there are core developers
>> distributed globally. Many of the institutional direct users have
>> developed strong expertise in GeoNode along with many companies that
>> have developed support programs built around GeoNode. There is no single
>> point of failure for this project.
>>
>> The GeoNode has managed to work in the open from inception in a way that
>> has enabled enormous amounts of collaboration both between institutions
>> using GeoNode and companies/individuals providing support for GeoNode.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> David
>>
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>> ************************************
>> David William Bitner
>> dbSpatial LLC
>> 612-424-9932
>>
>>
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>
>


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Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
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