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

Projects:

• OSGeo Labs - for young, 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

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 Report 22 - Jul 15 2013

Progress in the incubator

The OSGeo incubation process takes place in three stages:

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

The following projects are currently in OSGeo incubation:

• gvSIG: http://www.osgeo.org/gvsig
  1. gvSIG Incubation Status
  2. gvSIG Provenance Review
  3. no check list provided

• Marble: http://marble.kde.org
  1. Marble Incubation Status
  2. no provenance review provided
  3. no check list provided

• MetaCRS: http://trac.osgeo.org/metacrs/
  1. MetaCRS Incubation Status
  2. no provenance review provided
  3. no check list provided

• Opticks: http://opticks.org
  1. Opticks Incubation Status
  2. no provenance review provided
  3. no check list provided

• rasdaman: http://www.rasdaman.org
  1. rasdaman Incubation Status
  2. no provenance review provided
  3. http://www.rasdaman.org/wiki/OSGeoIncubationChecklist

• Zoo-Project: http://www.zoo-project.org
  1. status template not filled out
  2. no provenance review provided
  3. no check list provided

• pycsw: http://pycsw.org
  1. status template not filled out
  2. no provenance review provided
  3. no check list provided

• TEAM Engine: http://teamengine.sourceforge.net
  1. status template not filled out
  2. no provenance review provided
  3. no check list provided

The above pages 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.

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
• deegree: deegree Incubation Status | deegree Provenance Review
• FDO: FDO Incubation Status | FDO Provenance Review
• GEOS: GEOS Incubation Status | GEOS Provenance Review
• GDAL/OGR: GDAL Incubation Progress | GDAL Provenance Review
• Geomajas: GeoMajas Incubation Status | GeoMajas Provenance Review
• GeoNetwork: GeoNetwork Incubation Status | GeoNetwork Provenance Review
• GeoMoose: GeoMoose Incubation Status | GeoMoose Provenance Review | GeoMoose Incubation Checklist
• GeoTools: GeoTools Incubation Progress | GeoTools Provenance Review
• GeoServer: [Incubation Questionnaire] | [Incubation Status] | [Provenance Review] | [Incubation Checklist] | Geoserver Mentor Notes
• GRASS: GRASS Incubation Progress | GRASS Provenance Review
• Mapbender: Mapbender Incubation Progress | Mapbender Provenance Review
• MapFish: MapFish Incubation Status | MapFish Provenance Review (Graduated: August 2011)
• MapGuide: MapGuide Incubation Status | MapGuide Provenance Review
• MapServer: MapServer incubation status | MapServer Provenance Review
• OpenLayers: OpenLayers Incubation Status | OpenLayers Provenance Review
• PostGIS: PostGIS Incubation Status | PostGIS Provenance Review
• OSSIM: OSSIM incubation status | OSSIM Provenance Review
• QGIS: QGIS Incubation Status | QGIS Provenance Review

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.