IncCom Report23

Incubation Status report for Q3 2013.

Incubation Committee

No summary

Activities:

• none

Recent Graduates

We are tracking recent graduates for a few months to ensure that the correct OSGeo Project logo is rolled out onto the project website, the community is informed, and the OSGeo board has a chance to make a news announcement and appoint a project officer.

GeoMoose

• Recommendation accepted by board, with Bob Basque as GeoMoose Project Officer
• Board Actions
  • no formal press release yet? Press Release Draft: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Press_Release_GeoMoose_Graduates_Incubation
  • Project officer? Not yet - http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/board_and_officers.html
• GeoMoose actions
  • (done) Project announced graduation: http://www.geomoose.org/#geomoose-has-graduated-osgeo-project-incubation
  • Home Page updated with OSGeo Project log? No: http://www.geomoose.org

GeoServer

• Recommendation accepted by board, with Andrea Andrea as GeoServer Project Officer
• Board actions
  • (done) Presse Release: http://www.osgeo.org/news/geoserver-graduation
  • Project officer? Not yet - http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/board_and_officers.html
• GeoServer Actions
  • (done) Project Announcement: http://blog.geoserver.org/2013/03/18/geoserver-2-3-0-released-first-official-osgeo-release/
  • (done) Home Page updated with OSGeo Project logo? Yes: http://geoserver.org/

Incubation

The following projects are following the OSGeo Incubation process.

Relationship with OSGeo:

• Project are expected to display the OSGeo Project in Incubation logo on their website.
• OSGeo lists these project on the main OSGeo http://www.osgeo.org website.

Relationship with Incubation Committee:

• Each project has a mentor to help answer any questions (very helpful for sensitive subjects that cannot be discussed on an open mailing list).
• Project are expected to link from the Incubation_Committee wiki to:
  • A Provenance Review document (to confirm they are open source)
  • A Incubation Checklist document (to meet graduation requirements)
• Incubation Committee mailing list is always questions and discussion

gvSIG

• mentor: Dimitris Kotzinos (taking over from Jeroen Ticheler)
• contact: Manuel Madrid

We have a new project rep, status last updated in 2011, no provenance review.

Marble

• Mentor: Arnulf Christl
• Website at http://www.osgeo.org/marble has been populated.

Status updated July 2013, provenance review started at: Marble Code Provenance Review

MetaCRS

• mentor: Daniel Morissette
• no progress to report

Status updated in 2009, no provenance review (unclear if that is applicable for the project?)

Opticks

• mentor: Mark Lucas
• checlist is at 70%

Updated July 2013, not sure how to start provenance review.

pycsw

• mentor: Jeff McKenna
• Status updated July 2013
• Team discussed Incubation plan in late June 2013
• Team created a wiki area to hold future Incubation-status documents (https://github.com/geopython/pycsw/wiki/OSGeo-Incubation)
• Team held first hands-on workshop in June (very successful, ~40 attendees). All documents contributed back to community.
• Project momentum/activity is strong
• Team plans to form a Project Steering Committee by the end of 2013
  • Question for IncCom: Can Jeff McKenna (current mentor) also be a pycsw PSC member?

rasdaman

The Rasdaman community seems to be past the technical hurdles of the code review and license checks, and is now working on open governance procedures.

• mentor: Bruce Bannerman
  • Rasdaman Code Provenance Review (done?)
  • Rasdaman Incubation Checklist. (80%)

Progress:

• The project recently appointed a Benevolent Dictatorship, which is not compatible with OSGeo direction for open development. While we can negotiate on the form, a project steering committee is only one example, we do want to ensure that OSGeo projects are open to all willing participants on equal footing.
• Bruce is going to report back in a couple of months.

TEAM Engine

• mentor: Justin Deolivera
• no progress to report
• logo not listed on project website (http://teamengine.sourceforge.net)
• Some contact on email, no status or provenance review.

Incubation committee has discussed dropping this project due to lack of progress / lack of plan to progress.

ZOO-Project

• mentor: Frank Warmerdam
• ongoing provenance review.
• ongoing status document.

No progress reported this quarter.

Labs

Thanks to Landon Blake for his excellent leadership in reaching out to OSGeo Incubation Lab projects.

• We have extended an invitation to OSGeo Labs projects to participate in the incubation list, as for many routine questions we can help without a dedicated mentor.
• Landon has the idea of setting up resources for community building / project marketing / project governance

Geoinformatica

• Website: http://geoinformatics.aalto.fi/software.shtml
• User Mailing List: no
• User Documentation: unknown
• Number of Users: no estimate

OSGeo Participation:

• OSgeo Wiki: OSGeo_Labs:_Geoinformatica
• OSGeo Live: http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/pgrouting_overview.html

pgRouting

• Website: http://pgrouting.org
• User Mailing List: yes
• User Documentation: unknown
• Number of users: no estimate

OSGeo Participation:

• OSGeo wiki: OSGeo_Labs:_pgRouting
• OSGeo Live:

PAGC

• Website: http://www.pagcgeo.org
• User Mailing List: no
• User Documentation: unknown
• Number of Users: no estimate

OSGeo Participation:

• OSGeo Wiki: [[OSGeo_Labs:_PAGC] (page empty)]
• OSGeo Live:

MapProxy

• Website: http://mapproxy.org/
• User Mailing List: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pagc-users
• User Documentation: unknown / OSGeo-Live Quickstart
• Number of Users: no estimate

OSGeo Participation:

• OSGeo Wiki: OSGeo_Labs:_MapProxy
• OSGeo Live: http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/mapproxy_overview.html

The SurveyOS KML Toolkit

• Website:
• User Mailing List: no
• User Documentation: unknown
• Number of Users: no estimate

OSGeo Participation:

• OSGeo Wiki: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Labs:_The_SurveyOS_KML_Toolkit
• OSGeo Live:

SlitherGrid

• Website:
• User Mailing List: no
• User Documentation: unknown
• Number of Users: no estimate

OSGeo Participation:

• OSgeo Wiki: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Labs:_SlitherGrid (page empty)
• OSGeo Live:

Virtual Terrain Project

• Website: http://vterrain.org/
• User Mailing List: no
• User Documentation: unknown
• Number of Users: no estimate

OSGeo Participation:

• OSgeo Wiki: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Labs:_Virtual_Terrain_Project
• OSGeo Live:

PyWPS

• Website: http://pywps.wald.intevation.org/
• User Mailing List: no
• User Documentation: unknown
• Number of Users: no estimate

OSGeo Participation:

• OSGeo Wiki: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Labs:_PyWPS
• OSGeo Live: