[Incubator] Motion: relaunch as project-support committee

[Nick Bearman]

+1 Nick.

In terms of the General Committee Reset, will this remove inactive 
members of the committee? I think this is a good idea.

On 26/07/2026 21:41, Regina Obe via Incubator wrote:
> +1
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Incubator <incubator-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> On Behalf Of Tom
>> Kralidis via Incubator
>> Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2026 8:02 AM
>> To: Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
>> Cc: OSGeo Incubator Committee <Incubator at lists.osgeo.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Incubator] Motion: relaunch as project-support committee
>>
>> +1
>>
>> ..Tom
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 25, 2026 at 4:24 PM Jody Garnett via Incubator
>> <incubator at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>>> I had a lovely time at foss4g-eu, and really enjoy being back with osgeo
>> (after some time away).
>>> I invite everyone to review:
>>>
>>> #16: Seek new mandate as Project Support committee Project Support
>>> Presentation capturing ou new issue tracker and ideas for relaunch
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> With that in mind I would like to relaunch this committee as Project
>>> Support
>>>
>>> New name matching the project-support repo General committee reset
>>> Reflect our expanded responsibilities of incubation process, community
>>> project, and website foss4g check
>>>
>>>
>>> Here is the proposed mandate:
>>>
>>> Project Support Committee
>>>
>>> Provide software foundation support to project teams in keeping with Open
>> Source Geospatial Foundation principles and values:
>>> A - Ongoing software foundation support for "OSGeo Projects":
>>>
>>> A.1 - Assist project teams over course of project lifecycle: incubation, policy
>> updates, license change, end-of-life.
>>> A.2 - Update OSGeo software foundation policies under direction from
>>> the OSGeo Board
>>> A.3 - Establish and maintain OSGeo incubation process.
>>> A.4 - Connect project teams with a mentor for one-on-one support during
>> incubation process.
>>> B - Establish and support inclusive "OSGeo Community" projects initiative
>> providing space for new and innovative projects.
>>> C - Establish and support "FOSS4G Project" directory for OSGeo.
>>>
>>>
>>> Motion is held open for two weeks closing Friday 7 September:
>>>
>>> Angelos Tzotsos
>>> Arnulf Christl
>>> Bob (CI-StPaul) Basques
>>> Brian M Hamlin
>>> Daniel Morissette
>>> Deepak Kumar
>>> Dimitris Kotzinos
>>> Frank Warmerdam
>>> Jody Garnett +1 initial motion
>>> Michael Smith
>>> Nick Bearman
>>> Regina Obe
>>> Steve Lime
>>> Tom Kralidis
>>>
>>> - -
>>> Jody Garnett
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