[Incubator] Oskari Incubation Application

[Jody Garnett]

To double back to this - I am totally cool if a project has an alternative
to mailing lists for their developer or user communicaiton ... so long as
it is publicly available.

So if a project wants to use slack for development, and gisstrack exchange
with a tag for user support that is perfectly okay.

Just like with all of our checklist, it is the intent/practice that matters
(not the specifics of how it is done). We do have some things we are strong
about (governance should show a balanced and be open to outside parties
joining), open source license (OSI approved so we do not have to review the
license ourselves). But in general we are relaxed about how it is done.



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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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