[Incubator] OSGeo Community Project XYZ/Mapp

[Dennis Bauszus]

Dear All,

I am hoping to pick up the process again of making XYZ/MAPP an OSGeo
community project.

A couple of years have passed since the last email on this thread and a lot
of development, documentation, and testing work has been provided to the
project in the meantime.

I am currently sitting in on the OSGeo:UK code sprint with Nick and getting
advice on the steps of adding a project to the website.

Following the notes on the incubation committee website I read that I need
permission for my OSGeo userid [dbauszus] to create a project page.

I hope you can help with this.

Best,
Dennis Bauszus




On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 10:07 PM Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Greg, you are very much welcome to take part, and thanks for helping with
> community outreach :)
>
> The "osgeo community" which xyz/Mapp is appling for is a bit more
> light-weight than full "incubation" so it is enough to establish how
> contributions are made rather than have a full track record.
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
>
> On Sat, 27 Aug 2022 at 14:34, Greg Troxel <gdt at lexort.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Dennis Bauszus <dennis.bauszus at geolytix.co.uk> writes:
>>
>> > Thank you for your response Greg,
>>
>> Note that I am just a random person, not a board member, not a formal
>> incubator committee member, and not even an osgeo charter member.
>>
>> > I will review the contribution rules and make the necessary changes to
>> the
>> > repository in the next couple of weeks.
>> >
>> > I will let you know when these changes have been made.
>> >
>> > Is there any project that started as private and made a move towards the
>> > community later on which you can recommend me?
>>
>> I do not have any examples at hand.  Basically an open source project
>> should operate more or less without regard to contributor's
>> affiliations.  As usual, my opinion, unclear the extent to which the
>> larger osgeo community agrees.
>>
>> However, I would suggest that if you have in place processes about how
>> contributions are accepted, and a clear policy on true open source vs
>> open-core or proprietary relicensing, and it's just not written down,
>> then describing reality should be easy.
>>
>> If there is no track record of contributions from people outside your
>> company, then I would say you are not ready for incubation.  Again just
>> my opinion.
>>
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