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

[michael.smith.erdc at gmail.com]

+1 to qField for Community Program

Mike


> On Apr 22, 2023, at 6:51 AM, Angelos Tzotsos <gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> +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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> 
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> Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
> President
> Open Source Geospatial Foundation
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