[Incubator] What is outreach
Cameron Shorter
cameron.shorter at gmail.com
Fri Jul 7 12:39:57 PDT 2017
Thanks Jody for your offer to mentor. After our next release, I expect
we will reach out to you about this.
I like your diagram. Are you in a position to accept review comments? (I
reckon I can help make the words more concise).
On 8/7/17 5:25 am, Jody Garnett wrote:
> I understand cameron, if I can invite you to view the following diagram:
>
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B022m344wU7hMVdqYWppc1d3QVE/view?usp=sharing
>
>
> This diagram groupsincubation checklist into three priorities:
> technical, social and fair. I would be happy to include this diagram,
> customized for each project, to illustrate level of maturity of
> community projects.
>
> I am a prior contributor to osgeo-live but am not currently active; I
> would be happy to volunteer as mentor (it would be about the easiest
> project to mentor ever - being well used to our culture and expectations).
>
>
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
> On 7 July 2017 at 11:53, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com
> <mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi Vicky,
>
> I've put together the OSGeo-Live incubation checklist [1]. which
> shows OSGeo-Live as being very close to being ready for
> incubation. A concerted short burst of energy should get it across
> the line. I suggest we discuss it when we have more time after our
> 11.0 release.
>
> We don't have an incubation mentor at the moment, but am confident
> we should be able to find one when needed. (I've been an
> incubation mentor, but there would be a conflict of interest
> having me on the OSGeo-Live PSC and also being a mentor).
>
> Jody, I'm uncomfortable advertising OSGeo-Live as an "OSGeo
> Community" project. I feel it implies a level of immaturity, while
> OSGeo-Live is very mature.
>
> Cheers, Cameron
>
>
> On 6/7/17 3:54 am, Vicky Vergara wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Ok, ignoring "odd" website I looked around, and found this:
>>
>> https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/query?status=assigned&status=closed&status=new&status=reopened&component=Incubator&order=priority
>> <https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/query?status=assigned&status=closed&status=new&status=reopened&component=Incubator&order=priority>
>>
>> I don't see OSGeolive there. So it might not be incubating.
>> so, it might not have a mentor.
>> Not ignoring the "odd" website, and also because of your comment,
>> it is not in community project.
>> I had to look for definition of "advocacy": public support for or
>> recommendation of a particular cause or policy.
>> My guess is that you say that Its advocacy tool because the
>> projects it includes are implicitly recommended.
>>
>> So, for me it looks like it is in the limbo.
>>
>> I thank you for your response, I will mention about the community
>> project application.
>>
>> Vicky
>> PS
>> I could not find a page about community projects, or how to
>> apply, but the website is being redone. Every one is in a rush
>> because the FOSS4G Boston, So, I'll postpone asking the question
>> of "where is the page about the application for community
>> project?" for after Boston.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 2:18 AM, Jody Garnett
>> <jody.garnett at gmail.com <mailto:jody.garnett at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Hey Vicky:
>>
>> Thanks for stepping up to the OSGeo Live PSC - congrats!
>>
>> OSGeo Live is a perfectly normal project and totally able to
>> go through incubation.
>>
>> What you are seeing on the website is "odd" - it is odd
>> because the website is grouping software together by category
>> (like web mapping or desktop software). The OSGeo Live
>> project is not one of those things, instead it is a advocacy
>> tool - used by OSGeo as an organization to introduce people
>> to all that is great about open source .... so "out reach".
>>
>> The categories on the website have nothing to do with
>> incubation; and since the website is being replaced we will
>> have new categories shortly.
>>
>> I cannot remember if OSGeo Live has applied for the
>> incubation process; who is your mentor? Normally a mentor
>> joins your team as a guest to answer any questions (like this
>> one) that comes up. The reason we join your team is so we can
>> answer questions on your email list where all your committers
>> can see the discussion and understand what they are getting
>> into as part of OSGeo.
>>
>>
>> *aside: *Although I am not sure if OSGeo Live is in
>> incubation - I would really like it if you could apply to be
>> a "Community Project" (you have to open source, open to
>> contributions and geospatial).
>>
>> --
>> Jody Garnett
>>
>> On 4 July 2017 at 09:37, Vicky Vergara <vicky at georepublic.de
>> <mailto:vicky at georepublic.de>> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Incubating list,
>>
>> I am a new as PSC member of a OSGeoLive that is in the
>> outreach category project.
>> I must confess that its the first time as PSC and I am
>> also new in the project.
>> I don't understand the "outreach" category.
>> I want to know if an "outreach "project can eventually be
>> incubated.
>> I ask because I am reading this questionnaire [1], but
>> the project is not on the incubation list.
>>
>> [1]
>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Incubation_Graduation_Checklist
>> <https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Incubation_Graduation_Checklist>
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>> Vicky
>>
>> --
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