Incubation Phases

This is a working proposal coming out of conversations on the incubation@osgeo.org email list.

Motivation:

• We have a number of projects with great proposals waiting for a mentor

• Recommendations coming out of GeoMoose incubation experience

• Accept projects into the OSGeo Foundation faster then incubation committee volunteer levels allow

• Motivate projects to finish incubation

• What is OSGeo Labs?

Communication:

• Reach out to other committees and ask for help

• SAC: good relationship, initial questionnaire covers SAC requirements

• Marketting: good relationship, initial question covers some requirements, checklist covers remaining requirements

Proposal:

Break the incubation process into phases allow projects that to start these activities (prior to a mentor being found). No additional work is added to the incubation process.

= Incubation: Approved

• List the projects with a proposal that has been approved … and are just waiting for a mentor

• I view this as an essential outreach effort in fostering new projects, and do not like the incubation committee acting as a bottleneck

REWARD:

• Recognition the project is associated with OSGeo Foundation

• Text link from OSgeo Website along the lines of "Volunteer for the incubation committee. These projects are waiting to enter OSGeo ..."

Incubation: Incubation

• Projects that have completed their Status information .. and may still be looking for a mentor

• The status page gathers details for SAC, and a minimal amount of information for the Marketting committee

• OSGeo Incubation logo on their homepage, linking to http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/index.html to explain what incubation means

REWARD: text *link* from the website to the marketing committee project details page (or OSGeo live page which is often better)

Incubation: Complete

- Projects that have finished their Provence Review, and have adopted an open development model for public participation - Can still be working through the rest of the checklist as they make contact with the different OSGeo committees - Project has a mentor going through the checklist with the goal of recommending the project for "graduation" - Frankly this is the first point where OSGeo as a Foundation can actually recommend a project meets our expectations - OSGeo Project logo on their homepage (with the subtext "incubation")

REWARD:

• Recognition Incubation requirements are completed

• project logo on the website under an incubation category, perhaps grated out?

=== OSGeo: Project ==-

• completed the incubation checklist, recommended to the board for graduation, etc...

• approved by the board, project officer, etc..

REWARD:

• Recognition as an OSGeo Project
• Colour logo on the webpage, sorted into the appropriate software category