IncCom Report24

Incubation Status report for Q3 2013.

= Incubation Committee =

Low activity, projects waiting due to lack of OSGeo volunteers to act as mentor.

Activities:
 * 2013 Q4 Report withdrawn due to holidays
 * Board request to tone down emphasis of SAC resources in status document and initial questionair
 * Initial attempt at combining Status Document and evaluation criteria at Project_Status_Draft.
 * Resulting document clearly marks SAC resources as optional and available on request.

= Incubation =

The following projects are following the OSGeo Incubation process.

Relationship with OSGeo:
 * Project are expected to display the OSGeo Project in Incubation logo on their website.
 * OSGeo lists these project on the main OSGeo http://www.osgeo.org website.

Relationship with Incubation Committee:
 * Each project has a mentor to help answer any questions (very helpful for sensitive subjects that cannot be discussed on an open mailing list).
 * Project are expected to link from the Incubation_Committee wiki to:
 * A Provenance Review document (to confirm they are open source)
 * A Incubation Checklist document (to meet graduation requirements)
 * Incubation Committee mailing list is always available for questions and discussion



gvSIG

 * mentor: Dimitris Kotzinos (taking over from Jeroen Ticheler)
 * contact: Manuel Madrid (taking over from Jorge Sanz)
 * gvSIG Incubation Status
 * gvSIG Provenance Review

MetaCRS

 * mentor: Daniel Morissette
 * provenance review not provided
 * checklist not provided

Opticks

 * mentor: Mark Lucas
 * provenance review not provided
 * checlist is at 70%

OTB Project

 * mentor: Landon Blake
 * OTB Project Incubation Status

Update from Landon: The OTB Project continues to work through the incubation process. They should be forming a project steering committee in the next couple of months. I think we will also be doing the code review within the next few weeks.

pycsw

 * mentor: Jeff McKenna
 * pycsw project status

Update from Jeff: The developers are very keen to advance through the OSGeo Incubation process.

rasdaman

 * mentor: Bruce Bannerman
 * Rasdaman Code Provenance Review
 * Rasdaman Incubation Checklist

TEAM Engine

 * mentor: Justin Deolivera

ZOO-Project

 * mentor: Frank Warmerdam
 * ongoing provenance review.
 * ongoing status document.

= Labs =

Thanks to Landon Blake for his excellent leadership in reaching out to OSGeo Incubation Lab projects.

Labs status update:


 * TBD