[Incubator] istSOS incubation

[Jody Garnett]

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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