[Incubator] budget 2020 and incubation activity planning

[Jody Garnett]

I am also concerned with projects that are established, but are not
treating incubation as a priority. I know it is hard to put forward these
kind of QA activities as a priority --> the benefit being respect,
independence as an osgeo committee, and associated access to osgeo budget.

We are quite clear that incubation teams need to do the work themselves (to
learn first hand expectations as a community). However I would be open
teams directing one of their members to work on this activity and using
fund raising (and incubation budget) towards getting time put towards
completing incubation.
--
Jody Garnett


On Mon, 9 Dec 2019 at 17:43, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:

> For the last couple of years we have requested a budget to support out
> projects in incubation, last year a budget of 10k was approved.
>
> The ZOO-Project has been the only one to request any kind of assistance in
> this time period. With this in mind I think we should request less budget
> for 2020 (to give the board a more realistic expectation of our needs).
>
> With recent graduation our list is down to five projects:
>
>    - IstSOS/Jeff - some activity, interested in hearing how nov sprint
>    went.
>    - Opticks?Mark - any updates?
>    - Oskari/Arnulf this project has expressed some interest / activity in
>    2020 but could still use some help if time is available.
>    - TEAM Engine/Jody - some contact with Lugi, graduation checklist
>    started button shared
>    - ZOO-Project/Dimitris - worked with Gerald at foss4g sprint, results
>    shared to this list but I have not followed up.
>
> Mentors / incubation teams we are here to support you, what are your plans
> for 2020?
>
> As for the incubation committee itself, I would be very supportive of
> financially folks traveling to an event or code sprint to work on our
> committee documents and processes.  I also think we could put some effort
> into promoting the incubation program (both to attract projects and
> mentors).
>
> How about this for a rough budget:
>
> a) 5k to support incubation team / mentor activities
>
> And we can make use of the osgeo code-sprint budget request if we wish to
> run an incubation sprint at some point during the year?
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
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