Difference between revisions of "Incubation Committee"

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Draft or Example Documents
 
Draft or Example Documents
 
* Draft [[Commiter Responsibilities Guidelines]]
 
* Draft [[Commiter Responsibilities Guidelines]]
* Geotools Copyright Assignment ([http://download.osgeo.org/osgeo/legal/GeotoolsAssignmentToOSGeo.pdf pdf], [http://download.osgeo.org/osgeo/legal/GeotoolsAssignmentToOSGeo.odt odt]) -suitable for use as a template by other projects
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* OSGeo Distribution and Committer [[http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/legal/licenses.html licenses] which can be used as is, or as an example for projects starting off with participatory open source.
* [[Project Copyright Assignment]] (older copyright assignment - GeoTools template now preferred)
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** Geotools Copyright Assignment ([http://download.osgeo.org/osgeo/legal/GeotoolsAssignmentToOSGeo.pdf pdf], [http://download.osgeo.org/osgeo/legal/GeotoolsAssignmentToOSGeo.odt odt]) - previous example
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** [[Project Copyright Assignment]] - previous example
 
* [[Contributor Agreement]] and FAQ  
 
* [[Contributor Agreement]] and FAQ  
 
* [[Incubation Phases]] proposal
 
* [[Incubation Phases]] proposal

Revision as of 07:31, 20 April 2013

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

Draft or Example Documents

Projects:

Reference:

Reports:

Trac:

Meetings

Meetings are scheduled via Mailing List and take place via IRC at the times specified in the Foundation Calendar.

Progress in the incubator

The following projects are currently in OSGeo incubation:

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The following status and provenance documents are for historical purposes, and are no longer actively maintained.


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.