[Incubator] Motion to accept Oskari into Incubation (2nd serve)

Wed Apr 5 05:33:50 PDT 2017

+1

Julien

On 2017-04-04 06:26 AM, Arnulf Christl wrote:
> Dear Incubation Committee,
>
> the bottle neck to Incubation for Oskari is not a lack of mentors but
> appears to be a lack of responses from the committee members to the
> motion. We have the following members listed at [1], can you please
> check whether you voted:
>
>   * Bruce Bannerman   +1
>   * Bob (CI-StPaul) Basques
>   * Landon Blake
>   * Howard Butler
>   * Arnulf Christl    +1
>   * Jody Garnett (chair)    +1
>   * Dimitris Kotzinos
>   * Tom Kralidis    +1
>   * Julien-Samuel Lacroix
>   * Mark Lucas
>   * Steve Lime
>   * Daniel Morissette
>   * Markus Schneider
>   * Cameron Shorter   +1
>   * Norman Vine
>   * Frank Warmerdam
>
>
> The motion was open until March 23 - so maybe I have to reiterate my
> motion. Here goes:
>
> *Motion* to accept Oskari into Incubation based on the application at
> [2] with myself (Arnulf Christl) as mentor.
>
> +1
>
> This motion will be open for two weeks until April 18. Please do not
> hesitate to vote -1 in case there is something amiss with the
> application, this is by no means trying to push anything. Hint: There
> are some interesting aspects: This project is "owned" by an informal
> network (Oskari Network), they do not have mailing lists but afaict
> function properly. Should we recommend to start using ML or ask them to
> find another means that would satisfy our requirements?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Arnulf
>
> [1] http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/index.html
> [2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Oskari_Incubation_Application
>
>
> Am 16.03.2017 um 21:13 schrieb Jody Garnett:
>> +1 thanks arnulf for helping growing our community
>>
>> Expecting 50% response rate on this motion, motion held open until
>> March 23rd (one week giving out weekend volunteers a chance to respond).
>>
>> --
>> Jody Garnett
>>
>> On 16 March 2017 at 02:32, Arnulf Christl
>> <arnulf.christl at metaspatial.net
>> <mailto:arnulf.christl at metaspatial.net>> wrote:
>>
>>     Motion to accept Oskari into Incubation with myself (Arnulf
>>     Christl) as mentor.
>>
>>     +1
>>
>>
>>     Thanks,
>>
>>     Arnulf
>>
>>
>>
>>     Am 16.03.2017 um 05:46 schrieb Jody Garnett:
>>>     Arnulf I really like the application.
>>>
>>>     Two thoughts:
>>>     - can we ask that they join as an OSGeo Community project
>>>     - would you like to make a motion that the project be accepted
>>>     into incubation with yourself as mentor
>>>
>>>     Looks like an amazing project and team.
>>>     --
>>>     Jody Garnett
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     --
>>>     Jody Garnett
>>>
>>>     On 15 March 2017 at 12:01, Arnulf Christl
>>>     <arnulf.christl at metaspatial.net
>>>     <mailto:arnulf.christl at metaspatial.net>> wrote:
>>>
>>>         Folks,
>>>
>>>         somehow this has slipped our attention. Oskari has filled out the
>>>         incubation application form here:
>>>
>>>         https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Oskari_Incubation_Application
>>>         <https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Oskari_Incubation_Application>
>>>
>>>         They also submitted a ticket:
>>>
>>>         https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1838
>>>         <https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1838>
>>>
>>>         We never seem to have followed up?! They basically already
>>>         went through
>>>         the hard stuff (find all contributors, get license texts
>>>         sorted out,
>>>         CLAs, decision taking, voting, etc.) and are waiting for us
>>>         to attend to
>>>         the process.
>>>
>>>         They still have an interesting questions regarding
>>>         communication which I
>>>         suggest should be discussed on this list because it is of common
>>>         interest. Specifically: Mailing lists.
>>>
>>>         To me it appear that this may be becoming a larger issue
>>>         anyway and the
>>>         Incubator is a good place to talk about this. Lately I am
>>>         hearing more
>>>         and more comments like "Ugh, mailing lists are so 90s" and
>>>         similar when
>>>         giving workshops or talking about how to get involved with an
>>>         Open
>>>         Source project in general. Mailing lists are often seen as
>>>         this "old
>>>         Unix and hacker stuff". Not relevant anymore.
>>>
>>>         Thoughts?
>>>
>>>         Best regards,
>>>         Arnulf
>>>
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>>>
>>
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>>
>>
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