[Incubator] Website Jan 15th relaunch - Incubation

[Jody Garnett]

Landon having a go at rescuing documents off Drupal website ... and
anywhere I look on the wiki is a mess to clean up :)

I found a list of formal documents on the wiki here:

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Official_IncCom_Documents

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Jody Garnett

On 10 January 2018 at 12:04, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:

> Let see:
>
> 1) Please rescue the existing content to the wiki, especially how we run
> our committee.
> 2) And then start editing that page to be focused why we care about open
> source :)
>
> Here is some draft content:
>
> *As a Software Foundation OSGeo is responsible for supporting our great
> collection of projects, and fostering new talent and innovation. OSGeo
> helps projects technically, supporting developers with a community of their
> peers, socially with community building and outreach, and professionally
> ensuring that each project is governed in a fair and sustainable manner.*
>
>
> *OSGeo Community** projects are lightweight, innovative, and **in the
> process of building their community. OSGeo provides community projects
> friendly environment for collaboration and innovation.*
>
> *OSGeo Projects are established, trusted and have shown themselves to be
> sustainable. In addition being open source, participatory and geospatial
> these projects have met our stringent “incubation” requirements.*
>
> *The Incubator committee is responsible for welcoming community projects
> into our foundation, and running the incubation process to **recognize**
> new OSGeo projects.*
>
>
> There are a couple of diagrams to go with above (we have original vector
> as well).
>
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
> On 10 January 2018 at 11:42, Landon Blake <sunburned.surveyor at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Sounds good. Let me know the next step for me to help with this.
>>
>> Landon
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 7:39 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Yeah I agree with you, checking the wiki we are known as the Incubator
>>> Committee, perhaps we should revert to that since we cover community
>>> projects and the incubation process now so the more general description is
>>> apt.
>>>
>>> The OSGeo handout has some text around the benefits of our OSGeo
>>> approach (spatial/social/fair) that we could leverage.
>>> On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 5:24 PM Landon Blake <
>>> sunburned.surveyor at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Jody:
>>>>
>>>> I think it makes more sense to keep most of our stuff on the wiki. IF
>>>> the website is mostly for outreach, our information on incubation on the
>>>> official web site should be about communicating the benefits of incubation
>>>> and inviting projects to join.
>>>>
>>>> Just my 2 cents.
>>>>
>>>> If I can help whip the content on incubation for the web site into
>>>> shape, let me know.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> Landon
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 11:20 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Great news coming out of last weeks system admin meeting - the OSGeo
>>>>> website is scheduled to go live Jan 15th.
>>>>>
>>>>> - https://staging.www.osgeo.org
>>>>> - login with your OSGeo id
>>>>> <https://staging.www.osgeo.org/osgeo_userid> and fill in your profile
>>>>> information
>>>>>
>>>>> For the incubation committee:
>>>>> - https://staging.www.osgeo.org/about/committees/
>>>>> - https://staging.www.osgeo.org/about/committees/incubation/
>>>>>
>>>>> We have a tough call to make, while the above content has been
>>>>> faithfully migrated - I am not sure if it is appropriate for the new
>>>>> website. If the website is for outreach, and the wiki for committee
>>>>> operation - we may be able to move some material to the wiki and have less
>>>>> duplication. Thoughts?
>>>>>
>>>>> For mentors - please share the news with your project team so they can
>>>>> check their page. And ask members to sign in and update their profile to be
>>>>> listed as contributors:
>>>>>
>>>>> - https://staging.www.osgeo.org/projects/ - photos are important: of
>>>>> your team, and a screen shot of your technology
>>>>> - https://staging.www.osgeo.org/choose-a-project/ - edit the "topic"
>>>>> to control where the project is discoverable by new users
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks to everyone who worked so hard on this in 2017.
>>>>> --
>>>>> Jody Garnett
>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>> Jody Garnett
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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