[Incubator] motion: qfield recommendation for osgeo community project initiative

[Angelos Tzotsos]

+1

Angelos

On 4/21/23 20:34, Jody Garnett wrote:
> I would like to make a motion:
>     Recommending QField for the osgeo community project program.
>
> The motion is held open for two weeks, until May 5th 2023.
>
>     - Bob (CI-StPaul) Basques
>     - Arnulf Christl
>     - Jo Cook
>     - Jody Garnett +1 (initial motion)
>     - Dimitris Kotzinos
>     - Tom Kralidis
>     - Michael Smith
>     - Steve Lime
>     - Daniel Morissette
>     - Frank Warmerdam
>     - Angelos Tzotsos
>
>
> Checking the project against our requirements
> <https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Incubation_Committee#Step_2:_Join_Community_Projects_Program>
> :
>
> 1. Be geospatial
> - Confirm by checking README or project description
> - project page on the osgeo website
> - We ask projects have some user documentation, for example an OSGeo Live
> quickstart
>
> Most of this was checked for website requirements. There is nice user
> documentation (https://docs.qfield.org/get-started/).
>
>
> 2. Have a free license or an open source license.
> - The license must be OSI approved
> - We ask that the project team check the file headers and double check the
> license has been appropriately applied
>
> GPL2 is provided in docs (https://docs.qfield.org/get-started/license/) and
> source code (https://github.com/opengisch/QField/blob/master/LICENSE).
>
> The team has automated check that license is applied (
> https://github.com/opengisch/QField/blob/master/scripts/licensecheck.pl)
> which is really cool.
>
> 3. Welcome participation and new contributors.
> - We look for a clear contribution policy
> - We ask that the project demonstrate collaboration, perhaps with a history
> of bug report or pull requests
> - Projects are required to have a code of conduct
>
> Contribution policy (
> https://github.com/opengisch/QField/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md),
> collaboration (https://github.com/opengisch/QField/pulls?q=is%3Apr), and
> code of conduct (
> https://github.com/opengisch/QField/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md) all
> seem in order.
>
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
>
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Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
President
Open Source Geospatial Foundation
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