[Incubator] istSOS incubation

[Jody Garnett]

Any progress on a revised checklist page?
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Jody Garnett


On Tue, 28 May 2019 at 12:53, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am taking this into a separate thread, thanks everyone for communicating
> across all the delays.
>
> For the specific topic on open community and communication, it is my hope
> you already meet this requirement but to answer I would need ask how the
> project functions. My personal request is you write down how the
> communication works now, and do not set a goal as it may not be needed.
>
> You can take inspiration from other projects that completed gradation
> <https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Incubation_Committee#Graduated> and how they
> filled in this section.
>
> *open communication*: The key is "public" communication, but can be a
> shared chat channel, or active stack exchange (email was common when open
> source started but is less common now). There are reasons to have private
> communication channels (GeoServer has a private security email list but we
> do document that it exists and committers can be included if they are in a
> position to help fix vulnerabilities). For a quick check I look at the repo
> README.
>
> *open community:* Another aspect is that people can join the project and
> join the project leadership.We want to avoid the "single dictator" model as
> that is brittle. For a quick check I look at a repo CONTRIBTING.md.
>
> The checklist should be in a place where your team collaborates (a place
> they all have permission to edit):
> - If you use GitHub there is a markdown copy here
> <https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/tree/master/incubation/documents> to take
> into your wiki
> - If you use OSGeo wiki copy one of the other examples
> - If you use your own wiki or something that is also fine
>
> When you and your mentor are happy the mentor will nominate the project
> and share the checklist. You are also welcome to share as you write and ask
> questions about difficult sections.
>
> And I do not want the incubation sprint planning to get lost in this
> discussion, when you have a date Maxi there are several options for funding.
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
> Dear Jody and Incubator-list,
>>
>> Indeed, we’re still very interested in graduating as full members. Last
>> time we had communications (On 24/8/18 12:46 am ) left us a bit waiting for
>> answers to our questions, the most important probably being:
>>
>> “What kind of concrete indicators would you like to see [that we have ‘an
>> open community and communication’]? What could be a good goal?”
>>
>> I.e. what could we do as a community in order for it to be more open? One
>> thing contributing to that comes to mind (from the top of my head): We’ve
>> since changed from Slack to the open-for-everyone-without-invitations
>> Gitter (https://gitter.im/oskariorg/chat). AFAIK Gitter stores chat
>> history indefinitely, which is a good thing. The PSC-memos are on GitHub
>> and some of the discussion is on the mailing list.
>>
>> As for the graduation checklist, unfortunately I can’t find information
>> where it should be filled. The website
>> https://www.osgeo.org/resources/project-graduation-checklist/has a
>> downloadable PDF which is probably the one that should be filled?
>>
>> Most of the information required is probably already here
>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Oskari_Incubation_Status but we’d be happy
>> to fill the new one.
>>
>> So, can you please point us to a list we can fill? Do we send it back to
>> this list then?
>>
>> Many thanks in advance!
>>
>>
>> - Timo
>
>
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