Incubator Application Questionnaire

= Document Status =

IncCom Document Number: X

Version: 1.0

Status: development

= Purpose =

The purpose of this questionnaire is to gather information about projects wishing to be hosted at OSGeo shall answer. This information is used by the IncCom to determine whether or not a project should be recommended to the Board of Directors for incubation.

Prospective projects are encouraged to provide as much detailed information as possible.

= Terms and Definitions =


 * term : definition

= Questions =


 * 1) Please provide the name and email address of the principal Project Owner.
 * 2) Please provide the names and emails of co-project owners (if any).
 * 3) Please provide the names, emails and entity affiliation of all official committers
 * 4) Please describe your Project.
 * 5) Why is hosting at OSGeo good for your project?
 * 6) Type of application does this project represent(client, server, standalone, library, etc.):
 * 7) Please describe any relationships to other open source projects.
 * 8) Please describe any relationships with commercial companies or products.
 * 9) Which open source license(s) will the source code be released under?
 * 10) Is there already a beta or official release?
 * 11) What is the origin of your project (commercial, experimental, thesis or other higher education, government, or some other source)?
 * 12) Does the project support open standards?  Which ones and to what extent? (OGC, w3c, ect.) Has the software been certified to any standard ([http://www.opengeospatial.org/resources/?page=testing