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* Discussed Incubation Committee taking responsibility for OSGeo Labs. It was decided to keep things relatively informal but to designate Julien-Samuel Lacroix to be responsible for OSGeo Labs with the understanding that he will take a proposal to the board within a few months. Julien was also added as a member of the incubator. | * Discussed Incubation Committee taking responsibility for OSGeo Labs. It was decided to keep things relatively informal but to designate Julien-Samuel Lacroix to be responsible for OSGeo Labs with the understanding that he will take a proposal to the board within a few months. Julien was also added as a member of the incubator. | ||
* Requirements for legal support - particularly a required legal review by a laywer for each project before graduation - was discussed. It was decided to have CameronS prepare a proposal for how this would work, and to have the proposal reviewed and commented on by an appropriate lawyer as to usefulness, and likely cost. | * Requirements for legal support - particularly a required legal review by a laywer for each project before graduation - was discussed. It was decided to have CameronS prepare a proposal for how this would work, and to have the proposal reviewed and commented on by an appropriate lawyer as to usefulness, and likely cost. | ||
| + | * An email motion on January 18th for GDAL to be recommended for graduation was adopted January 25th with support from JodyG, CameronS, MarkusN, HowardB, ArnulfC, Julien-SamuelL, DanielM, and PaulS. | ||
See [http://logs.qgis.org/osgeo/%23osgeo.2007-10-29.log full IRC logs] for detailed meeting discussions. | See [http://logs.qgis.org/osgeo/%23osgeo.2007-10-29.log full IRC logs] for detailed meeting discussions. | ||
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Revision as of 13:14, 25 January 2008
Time
Proposed date: Monday October 29th
Proposed time: 18:00 UTC - Fixed time around the world (2:00pm EST, 11:00am PST)
Proposed location: IRC channel #osgeo (alternative Web client).
Agenda
- Approve minutes from IncCom Meeting10.
- Approve Cameron Shorter as GeoTools Mentor.
- Discuss the four pending applications, and by poll identify one to propose for incubation.
- Discuss, and possible approve the Project Graduation Checklist.
- Discuss readiness of other projects to graduate.
- Discuss with intent of taking responsibility for and publishing OSGeo Labs process.
- Discuss need for legal support, and whether we ought to have a laywer review every project before graduation.
Minutes
In attendance: DanielM, FrankW, PaulS, SchuylerE, SteveL, BobB, CameronS, MateuszL, JorgeS, HowardB, ChrisS, PaulR, JodyG, and JulienSamuelL.
- Minutes of IncCom Meeting10 approved.
- Motion to remove Daniel Brooksheir, and Rich Steele from the committed approved.
- Motion to add Jeroen Ticheler approved.
- Agreed to contact ADSK staff IP lawyer to join the committee or at least join the list (Jennifer I think). Action: FrankW, noted that she will be on leave for another month or two.
- Motion to name Cameron Shorter as GeoTools mentor approved.
- It was agreed that we need some help from Jose educating us on ORCHESTRA before we will be comfortable recommending it for incubation.
- It was agreed that GEOS is our preferred project for the empty incubation slot. Action: FrankW will make a motion on the mailing list in this regard.
- The Project Graduation Checklist was approved after some editing. Action: FrankW to migrate to public website as an official document.
- Project status of various projects discussed.
- Discussed Incubation Committee taking responsibility for OSGeo Labs. It was decided to keep things relatively informal but to designate Julien-Samuel Lacroix to be responsible for OSGeo Labs with the understanding that he will take a proposal to the board within a few months. Julien was also added as a member of the incubator.
- Requirements for legal support - particularly a required legal review by a laywer for each project before graduation - was discussed. It was decided to have CameronS prepare a proposal for how this would work, and to have the proposal reviewed and commented on by an appropriate lawyer as to usefulness, and likely cost.
- An email motion on January 18th for GDAL to be recommended for graduation was adopted January 25th with support from JodyG, CameronS, MarkusN, HowardB, ArnulfC, Julien-SamuelL, DanielM, and PaulS.
See full IRC logs for detailed meeting discussions.