Incubation Committee Report 2012

Incubation Committee

• Contact name: Jody Garnett (Incubation Chair)

Key Accomplishments

Graduated:

• GEOS graduates OSGeo incubation with Sandro Santilli as project officer
• PostGIS graduated with Paul Ramsey as project officer

Incubation:

• CITE Team engine entered incubation with Justin DeOlivera as mentor
• Zoo-Project entered incubation with Frank Warmerdam as mentor
• Opticks entered incubation with Mark Lucas as mentor
• Marble Virtual Globe entered incubation with Arnulf Christl as mentor

Other:

• Project Graduation Checklist updated
• Incubation FAQ updated to reflect current incubation questions, simplifying the incubation checklist
• The committee has transitioned from IRC meetings to email for day-to-day activities

Areas for Improvement

• Ability to accept projects into incubation is limited by available mentors
• Projects are spending years in incubation with no visible progress
• Several excellent projects have been waiting in the wings as a result

Opportunities to Help

Volunteer as a mentor in the incubation committee:

• The incubation committee is an amazing *front-line* opportunity to assist new open source projects
• A great supportive use of your volunteer time, with relaxed schedule of email communication
• Try out new technologies before they are cool
• Make new friends, learn new projects, and help open source and open development take on the world
• You are the friendly face of OSGeo

Outlook for 2013

• A couple big projects are almost ready!
• Looking forward to seeing on the incubation mailing list