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• 2013 Q4 Report withdrawn due to holidays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