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Incubation Status report for Q2 2013.

= Incubation Committee =

TLDR: Waiting on the board for GeoMoose announcement, and listing project officers for GeoMoose and GeoServer. Rasdaman is getting close to completing incubation requirements. gvSig has a new mentor, remaining incubation projects show no progress, with dropping TEAM Engine discussed. Landon has some ideas for promoting OSGeo Labs projects.

Activities:
* All: GeoMoose graduation (motion passed)
* Jody: Update projects list http://www.osgeo.org/incubator (done)
* Jody: [[Incubation_Committee_Report_2012]] (done)
* jmckenna: fix ZOO-Project link on osgeo.org (done)
* Arnulf to Mentor Marble, we will need to make a motion on the email list (done)
* Jody: ask GeoMoose for clarification on contribution, and results of code/doc/data review (done)

Pending actions from [[IncCom Meeting21]]
* Jody to contact OSM project and see if it is still ticking
* Jody: take "Incubation Phases" proposal back to email for discussion
* Jody: kalxas: filling in pycsw questionnaire

= Recent Graduates =

We are tracking recent graduates for a few months to ensure that the correct OSGeo Project logo is rolled out onto the project website, the community is informed, and the OSGeo board has a chance to make a news announcement and appoint a project officer.

[[File:OSGeo project.png]]

==GeoMoose==

* Recommendation accepted by board, with Bob Basque as ''GeoMoose Project Officer''
* Board Actions
** no formal press release yet? Press Release Draft: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Press_Release_GeoMoose_Graduates_Incubation
** Project officer? Not yet - http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/board_and_officers.html
* GeoMoose actions
** Project announced graduation: http://www.geomoose.org/#geomoose-has-graduated-osgeo-project-incubation
** Home Page updated with OSGeo Project log? No: http://www.geomoose.org

== GeoServer==

* Recommendation accepted by board, with Andrea Andrea as ''GeoServer Project Officer''
* Board actions
** Presse Release: http://www.osgeo.org/news/geoserver-graduation
** Project officer? Not yet - http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/board_and_officers.html
* GeoServer Actions
** Project Announcement: http://blog.geoserver.org/2013/03/18/geoserver-2-3-0-released-first-official-osgeo-release/
** Home Page updated with OSGeo Project logo? Yes: http://geoserver.org/

= 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'' (to confirm they are open source) and ''Incubation Checklist'' (to meet graduation requirements).
* Incubation Committee mailing list is always questions and discussion

[[File:OSGeo incubation.png]]

==gvSIG==

* mentor: Dimitris Kotzinos (taking over from Jeroen Ticheler)
* contact: Manuel Madrid 

We have a new project rep, status last updated in 2011, no provenance review.

==Marble==

* mentor:
* no progress to report

Status updated Nov 2012, no provenance review.

==MetaCRS==

* mentor:
* no progress to report

Status updated in 2009, no provenance review (unclear if that is applicable for the project?)

==Opticks==

* mentor: Mark Lucas
* no progress to report

Status updated Nov 2012, no provenance review.

==pycsw==

* mentor: [[Jeff McKenna]]
* Status updated July 2013
* Plans to form a Project Steering Committee by the end of 2013
** Question for IncCom: Can Jeff McKenna (current mentor) also be a pycsw PSC member?

==rasdaman==

The Rasdaman community seems to be past the technical hurdles of the code review and license checks, and is now working on open governance procedures.

* mentor: Bruce Bannerman
** [[Rasdaman Code Provenance Review http://rasdaman.eecs.jacobs-university.de/trac/rasdaman/wiki/OSGeoCodeProvenance]] (done?)
** [[Rasdaman Incubation Checklist http://www.rasdaman.org/wiki/OSGeoIncubationChecklist]]. (80%)

(Bruce) My general observations on the project for the last period are:

* Overall, the project appears to be in good shape, with 26 new user registrations this month alone.
* Project activity has increased with a marked increase in email traffic on the developer and user lists.
* Considerable activity is occuring related to documenting and fine tuning of software release processes, including tying these to processes relating to the use of git.
* Work is underway to support git branching with a view towards maintained releases.
* Work is under way to support regression testing for OGC compliance e.g. WCPS and WCS. 
* Work is underway to improve the testing framework.
* Rasdaman's CRS name resolver has been deployed as OGC's official CRS name resolver.
* I'm starting to see future planning activities being presented to the Rasdaman Community for comment. This is good to see.
* We still don't have documented processes describing a range of factors, however I anticipate that these will come in time. Some examples are:
** Project Governance and processes
** Who is on the Project Steering Committee? How are PSC members (s)elected, replaced etc? What are the responsibilities of the PSC?
** What Code review is expected for new contributions? Who does this review?
* How are Commiters selected? What are their responsibilities? How is commit status reviewed?
** The project has a reasonably well defined roadmap [2]. What I'm not clear on yet is e.g.:
** How was this roadmap has been defined?
** What community review process is used to arrive at the roadmap?
** How were relative priorities determined?
** How are new priorities balanced against existing priorities?

==TEAM Engine==

* mentor: Justin Deolivera
* no progress to report
* logo not listed on project website (http://teamengine.sourceforge.net)
* Some contact on email, no status or provenance review.

Incubation committee has discussed dropping this project due to lack of progress / lack of plan to progress.

==ZOO-Project==

* mentor: Frank Warmerdam
* no progress to report

no status or provenance review.

= Labs =

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

* We have extended an invitation to OSGeo Labs projects to participate in the incubation list, as for many routine questions we can help without a dedicated mentor.
* Landon has the idea of setting up resources for community building / project marketing / project governance

===Geoinformatica===

* Website: http://geoinformatics.aalto.fi/software.shtml
* User Mailing List: no
* User Documentation: unknown
* Number of Users: no estimate

OSGeo Participation:

* OSgeo Wiki: [[OSGeo_Labs:_Geoinformatica]]
* OSGeo Live: http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/pgrouting_overview.html


===pgRouting===

* Website: http://pgrouting.org
* User Mailing List: yes
* User Documentation: unknown
* Number of users: no estimate

OSGeo Participation:

* OSGeo wiki: [[OSGeo_Labs:_pgRouting]]
* OSGeo Live:

===PAGC===

* Website: http://www.pagcgeo.org
* User Mailing List: no
* User Documentation: unknown
* Number of Users: no estimate

OSGeo Participation:

* OSGeo Wiki: [[OSGeo_Labs:_PAGC] (page empty)]
* OSGeo Live:

===MapProxy===

* Website: http://mapproxy.org/
* User Mailing List: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pagc-users
* User Documentation: unknown / OSGeo-Live Quickstart
* Number of Users: no estimate

OSGeo Participation:

* OSGeo Wiki: [[OSGeo_Labs:_MapProxy]]
* OSGeo Live: http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/mapproxy_overview.html

===The SurveyOS KML Toolkit===
* Website:
* User Mailing List: no
* User Documentation: unknown
* Number of Users: no estimate

OSGeo Participation:

* OSGeo Wiki: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Labs:_The_SurveyOS_KML_Toolkit
* OSGeo Live:

===SlitherGrid===

* Website:
* User Mailing List: no
* User Documentation: unknown
* Number of Users: no estimate

OSGeo Participation:

* OSgeo Wiki: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Labs:_SlitherGrid (page empty)
* OSGeo Live:

===Virtual Terrain Project===

* Website: http://vterrain.org/
* User Mailing List: no
* User Documentation: unknown
* Number of Users: no estimate

OSGeo Participation:

* OSgeo Wiki: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Labs:_Virtual_Terrain_Project
* OSGeo Live:

==PyWPS==

* Website: http://pywps.wald.intevation.org/
* User Mailing List: no
* User Documentation: unknown
* Number of Users: no estimate

OSGeo Participation:

* OSGeo Wiki: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Labs:_PyWPS
* OSGeo Live: