[Incubator] budget 2020 and incubation activity planning

[Jody Garnett]

Gotcha, and great to hear from you.

I am just asking for incubation committee so I am happy to include your
request in our ask.

Aside: In addition, gor code sprint stuff the board as a distinct budget,
and for community projects also.

On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 1:20 AM Massimiliano Cannata <
massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch> wrote:

> Hello Jody and all,
> Istsos Just run a code sprint in December and reached a great milestone
> porting the all code to py3 and refactoring a
>
> This solve some issues with dependency also and make a good move toward
> incubation.
>
> In January I'll meet users in Mexico and will discuss it. Would be great
> if we could have travel coverage for devs so that we could make an
> incubation sprint in Mexico with locals helps.
>
> For this and for a second sprint week to complete the incubation process
> in 2020 I'm asking in the name of istsos 4k (2+2).
>
> We are also asking active contribution by our mentor and incubation list
> in guiding us...
>
> Best wishes
> Maxi
>
>
>
>
>
> Il gio 26 dic 2019, 08:08 Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> ha
> scritto:
>
>> I saw on the board list that pgrouting is wishing to apply for incubation
>> (looking forward to the application) and wished to apply for 4k to support
>> incubation activities.
>>
>> Are their any other projects waiting in the wings considering applying
>> for incubation this year?
>> --
>> Jody Garnett
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 9 Dec 2019 at 18:44, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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Jody Garnett
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