Incubator Application Form

Document Status

IncCom Document Number: X

Version: 1.0

Status: development

Purpose

The purpose of this questionnaire is to gather information about projects wishing to be hosted at OSGeo shall answer. This information is used by the IncCom to determine whether or not a project should be recommended to the Board of Directors for incubation.

Prospective projects are encouraged to provide as much detailed information as possible.

Terms and Definitions

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Questions

1. Project owner name and email:
2. co-project owner names and emails:
3. Project description:
4. Why is hosting at OSGeo good for your project?
5. Type of application (client, server, standalone, library, etc.):
6. Relationships to other open source projects:
7. Relationships with commercial companies:
8. Open source license that the code is to use:
9. Is there already a beta or official release?
10. Origin of project (commercial, experimental, thesis or other higher education, government):
11. Open standards supported? (OGC, w3c, ect.) Tested compliant? (CITE for example)
12. Is the code free of patents, trademarks, and do you control the copyright?
13. Number of current developers:
14. Number of estimated current users:
15. Numbers of committers
16. Type of users (government, commercial, hobby, academic research, etc. ):
17. If you are not hosting at OSGeo, why should you be considered a member project of the OSGeo Foundation?
18. Do you have an automated build and test?
19. What language(s) do you use? (C/Java/perl/etc).
20. What is the dominant written language of the developers
21. Estimated bandwidth usage