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

Jody Garnett jody.garnett at gmail.com
Wed Apr 5 09:19:08 PDT 2017


Sorry Arnulf, I usually start emailing individuals directly a couple days
before the motion closes. I was traveling and did not chase people up :(

--
Jody Garnett

On 4 April 2017 at 03:26, Arnulf Christl <arnulf.christl at metaspatial.net>
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>
> 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
>> > 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
>>>
>>> They also submitted a ticket:
>>>
>>> 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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