Incubation Phases
This is a working proposal coming out of conversations on the incubation@osgeo.org email list.
Motivation:
- Recommendations coming out of GeoMoose incubation experience
- desire to pick up projects into the OSGeo Foundation faster then incubation committee volunteer levels allow
- Desire to motivate projects to finish incubation
Proposal:
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: 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: 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: colour logo on the webpage, sorted into the appropriate software category