[Incubator] discussion on osgeo projects, osgeo community and incubation

[Jody Garnett]

The last group to contact is of course us, the volunteers on the incubation
committee. Do any committee members or mentors have a perspective on this
they would like to share?

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Jody Garnett

On 2 August 2017 at 14:06, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have contacted the developer list of each incubating project to ask. It
> is also a good chance to share the new branding in time for foss4g.
>
> The only odd one was the Team ENGINE project, which has not mentioned
> incubation in any of their emails since joining in 2013.
>
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
> On 1 August 2017 at 08:47, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> A discussion has started up on the marketing and board email lists - that
>> may require a meeting of the incubation committee.
>>
>> Can I ask how many projects want an special incubation logo? I understand
>> being proud of the commitment made to enter incubation :)
>>
>> Here is the email I sent to the board:
>>
>> *I am staring a new thread so the marketing committee can focus on the
>> printing deadline for boston.*
>>
>> *Projects are starting to update to the new branding which is great - we
>> have two branding available:*
>>
>> *- https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/tree/master/incubation/project
>> <https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/tree/master/incubation/project>*
>> *- https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/tree/master/incubation/community
>> <https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/tree/master/incubation/community>*
>>
>> *Projects that are part of our incubation process fall under community
>> projects, they have met our standards for being open source, spatial and
>> participatory and are being promoted as part of our foundation along side
>> their fellow community projects pgrouting and geowebcache.*
>>
>> *For reference the prior branding is
>> here https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Community_Projects#Comparison_with_Incubation
>> <https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Community_Projects#Comparison_with_Incubation>*
>>
>> *The larger story is the focus not on our foundation, but on the software
>> projects and outreach.*
>>
>> ** As such the incubation process is no longer called out on our website
>> (or in our branding) because it does not have any significance to website
>> visitors. Incubation is an internal process of our software foundation - it
>> does not earn its keep introducing a "third branding" if we cannot explain
>> succinctly what it actually means for potential users of the software.*
>>
>> ** The board introduced the idea of community projects in response to a
>> call to be more inclusive and allow innovation*
>>
>> ** Including more projects in our community does not detract from the
>> projects that were already in our community. We are doing more for software
>> projects at OSGeo to help everyone.*
>>
>> *We have been avoiding a difficult conversation on osgeo project quality
>> on and off since January. At our most recent F2F meeting we took some
>> action items to hear a report from Maxi and Jeff McKenna (in Boston?
>> details still be arranged). The question of what we have to offer community
>> projects and osgeo projects, and what we expect in return, should be
>> considered in one go to be fair to everyone.*
>>
>> --
>> Jody Garnett
>>
>>
>
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