Incubation Committee

The project incubation committee is responsible for overseeing the incubation process for new projects entering the foundation. The incubation committee provides resources to assist new projects to reach full membership, and makes recommendations to the board when they feel projects have completed incubation.

Documents

 * Official incubator public web page is at: http://osgeo.org/incubator/index.html (with members list).
 * Incubation FAQ
 * Official_IncCom_Documents
 * Incubation process docs: http://osgeo.org/incubator/process/index.html (original wiki draft documents)
 * Incubation Badges

Draft or Example Documents
 * Draft Commiter Responsibilities Guidelines
 * OSGeo Distribution and Committer [licenses which can be used as is, or as an example for projects starting off with participatory open source.
 * Geotools Copyright Assignment (pdf, odt) - previous example
 * Project Copyright Assignment - previous example
 * Contributor Agreement and FAQ
 * Incubation Phases proposal

Document Refresh 2014
 * Project Graduation Checklist

Projects:
 * OSGeo Labs - for OSGeo related projects that haven't reached incubation status
 * List of Project Steering Committees

Reference:
 * Project Infrastructure Migration
 * Producing OSS - by Karl Fogel - an excellent primer on running an FOSS project.

Reports:
 * Incubation Committee Report 2012
 * Incubation Committee Report 2011

Trac:
 * Open Incubator Trac Issues
 * Pending Incubation Applications

Discussion: Reference:
 * 5-star-rating - discussion about more fine incubation procedure

Meetings and Reports
Meetings are scheduled via Mailing List and take place via IRC at the times specified in the Foundation Calendar.
 * First Meeting - March 13th 2006
 * Second Meeting - March 20th 2006
 * Third Meeting - March 27th 2006
 * Fourth Meeting - April 10th 2006
 * Fifth Meeting - April 24th 2006
 * Sixth Meeting - June 19th 2006
 * Seventh Meeting - August 7th 2006
 * Eighth Meeting - October 30th 2006
 * Nineth Meeting - February 12th 2007
 * Tenth Meeting - June 11th 2007
 * Eleventh Meeting - October 29th 2007
 * Twelfth Meeting - September 8th 2008
 * Thirteenth Meeting - October 29th 2009
 * Fourteenth Meeting - March 1th 2010
 * IncCom Meeting15 - Nov 21 2011
 * IncCom Meeting16 - Jan 17 2012
 * IncCom Meeting17 - March 19 2012
 * IncCom Meeting18 - May 21 2012
 * IncCom Meeting19 - July 23 2012
 * IncCom Meeting20 - Sep 24 2012
 * IncCom Meeting21 - Feb 18 2013
 * IncCom Report22 - 2013 Q2
 * IncCom Report23 - 2013 Q3
 * IncCom Report24 - 2014 Q1
 * Fall 2014 Committee Report for OSGeo Journal

Incubator
The OSGeo incubation process takes place in three stages:


 * 1) Initial Application
 * 2) Incubation
 * 3) Project Status: project details, and a few resourcing questions for the system admin committee (see Project Status Template).
 * 4) Provenance Review: quick check to ensure the project is open source and has permission to distribute its source code.
 * 5) Final Checklist: review the project procedures and gather requested information for OSGeo participation
 * 6) Graduation

The following projects are currently in OSGeo incubation. The links provided are used to track the progress of incubation projects and are used by the developer team (and OSGeo mentor). In many cases the links will take you to a project specific wiki or website in order to be closer to their target community.

When projects have completed the incubation checklist their mentor will recommend them to the Incubation committee for graduation.

IstSOS
IstSOS: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/IstSOS
 * 1) IstSOS Provenance Review
 * 2) IstSOS Incubation Status
 * 3) Mentor: Jeff McKenna

MetaCRS
MetaCRS: http://trac.osgeo.org/metacrs/
 * 1) MetaCRS Incubation Status
 * 2) no provenance review provided
 * 3) no check list provided
 * 4) Mentor: Daniel Morissette

Opticks
Opticks: http://opticks.org
 * 1) Opticks Incubation Status
 * 2) no provenance review provided
 * 3) Opticks Incubation Checklist
 * 4) Mentor: Mark Lucas

Orfeo ToolBox (OTB)
Orfeo ToolBox (OTB): http://www.orfeo-toolbox.org/
 * 1) OTB Incubation Application
 * 2) OTB Project Incubation Status
 * 3) Mentor: Landon Blake

PyWPS
PyWPS: http://pywps.org
 * 1) PyWPS Application
 * 2) Incubation Status
 * 3) Mentor: Tom Kralidis

rasdaman
rasdaman: http://www.rasdaman.org
 * 1)  rasdaman Incubation Status
 * 2) http://rasdaman.org/wiki/OSGeoCodeProvenance
 * 3) http://www.rasdaman.org/wiki/OSGeoIncubationChecklist
 * 4) Mentor: Bruce Bannerman

TEAM Engine
TEAM Engine: http://teamengine.sourceforge.net
 * 1) status template not filled out
 * 2) no provenance review provided
 * 3) no check list provided
 * 4) Mentor: Justin Deoliveira

ZOO-Project
ZOO-Project: http://www.zoo-project.org
 * 1) ZOO-Project_Incubation_Status
 * 2) Provenance Review
 * 3) ZOO-Project Incubation Checklist
 * 4) Mentor: Frank Warmerdam

Graduated
The following status and provenance documents are for historical purposes, and are no longer actively maintained.


 * Community Mapbuilder: Community Mapbuilder Incubation Progress | Community Mapbuilder Provenance Review (Entered 2006-02-04, Graduated 2006-07-14, Mentor: Steve Lime)
 * deegree: deegree Incubation Status | deegree Provenance Review (Entered: 2008-06-09, Graduated 2010-02-04, Mentor: Jody Garnett)
 * FDO: FDO Incubation Status | FDO Provenance Review (Entered 2007-03-06, Graduated 2008-02-08, Mentor: Daniel Morissette)
 * GEOS: GEOS Incubation Status | GEOS Provenance Review (Entered 2007-11-02, Graduated 2012-04-28, Mentor: Frank Warmerdam)
 * GDAL/OGR: GDAL Incubation Progress | GDAL Provenance Review (Entered 2006-02-04, Graduated 2008-02-08, Mentor: Paul Spencer)
 * Geomajas: GeoMajas Incubation Status | GeoMajas Provenance Review (Entered 2010-03-04, Graduated 2010-11-22, Mentor: Paul Spencer)
 * GeoNetwork: GeoNetwork Incubation Status | GeoNetwork Provenance Review (Entered 2006-11-10, Graduated 2008-06-21, Mentor: Jody Garnett)
 * GeoNode: GeoNode Incubation Status GeoNode Provenance Review GeoNode Incubation Checklist (Entered 2015-08-13, Graduated 2016-11-09, Mentor: David Bitner)
 * GeoMOOSE: GeoMoose Incubation Status | GeoMoose Provenance Review | GeoMoose Incubation Checklist (Entered 2011-12-08, Graduated 2013-04-19, Mentor: Jody Garnett)
 * GeoTools: GeoTools Incubation Progress | GeoTools Provenance Review (Entered 2006-02-27, Graduated 2008-07-18, Mentor: Cameron Shorter)
 * GeoServer: Incubation Questionnaire | Incubation Status | Provenance Review | Incubation Checklist | Geoserver Mentor Notes (Entered 2009-11-05, Graduated 2013-03-15, Mentor: Landon Blake)
 * gvSIG: gvSIG Incubation Status | gvSIG Provenance Review | gvSIG Incubation Checklist (Entered 2007-09-07, Graduated 2015-11-26, Mentor: Dimitris Kotzinos)
 * GRASS: GRASS Incubation Progress | GRASS Provenance Review (Entered 2006-02-27, Graduated 2008-02-08, Mentor: Norman Vine and Arnulf Christl)
 * Mapbender: Mapbender Incubation Progress | Mapbender Provenance Review (Entered 2006-02-04, Graduated 2006-07-15, Mentor: Paul Spencer)
 * MapFish: MapFish Incubation Status | MapFish Provenance Review (Entered 2009-11-09, Graduated 2011-09-01, Mentor: Gary Sherman)
 * MapGuide Open: MapGuide Incubation Status | MapGuide Provenance Review (Entered 2006-02-04, Graduated 2007-03-02, Mentor: Daniel Morissette)
 * MapServer: MapServer incubation status | MapServer Provenance Review (Entered 2006-02-04, Graduated 2008-12-16, Mentor: Chris Holmes)
 * Marble: Marble Incubation Status | Marble Code Provenance Review | Marble Graduation Checklist (Entered 2012-10-12, Graduated 2013-10-17, Mentor: Arnulf Christl)
 * OpenLayers: OpenLayers Incubation Status | OpenLayers Provenance Review (Entered 2006-11-10, Graduated 2007-11-16, Mentor: Howard Butler)
 * PostGIS: PostGIS Incubation Status | PostGIS Provenance Review (Entered 2009-08-06, Graduated 2012-06-07, Mentor: Arnulf Christl)
 * pycsw: Incubation Status | Graduation Checklist | Provenance Review (Entered 2013-03-30, Graduated 2015-03-05, Mentor: Jeff McKenna)
 * OSSIM: OSSIM incubation status | OSSIM Provenance Review (Entered 2006-02-27, Graduated 2009-06-02, Mentor: Richard Gould)
 * QGIS: QGIS Incubation Status | QGIS Provenance Review (Entered 2007-03-02, Graduated 2008-03-14, Mentor: Bob Bray)

The initial projects to go through the incubation process helped define what is required. The above pages tracked the progress (and capture the experience) of these projects.