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
• Geotools Copyright Assignment (pdf, odt) -suitable for use as a template by other projects
• Project Copyright Assignment (older copyright assignment - GeoTools template now preferred)
• 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 2011

Trac:

• Open Incubator Trac Issues
• Pending Incubation Applications

Meetings

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

Progress in the incubator

We are watching the initial projects go through the incubation process as a method of defining what is required. The following pages track the progress (and experience) of these projects.

• Project Status Template

• gvSIG: gvSIG Incubation Status | gvSIG Provenance Review
• GeoServer: [Incubation Questionnaire] | [Incubation Status] | [Provenance Review] | [Incubation Checklist]
• GeoMoose: GeoMoose Incubation Status | GeoMoose Provenance Review | GeoMoose Incubation Checklist
• Marble Marble Incubation Status
• MetaCRS: MetaCRS Incubation Status | MetaCRS Provenance Review
• Opticks
• rasdaman: rasdaman Incubation Status
• Zoo-Project

Each project may also have a page describing the Incubation process on their own community website. Please make sure to you link to the above pages and update the OSGeo Wiki page regularly so that IncCom can keep up to date.

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
• Geotools: GeoTools Incubation Progress | GeoTools Provenance Review
• 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