Incubation Phases
This is a working proposal coming out of conversations on the incubation@osgeo.org email list.
Motivation:
- We have a number of projects with great proposals waiting for a mentor
- Recommendations coming out of GeoMoose incubation experience
- Accept projects into the OSGeo Foundation faster then incubation committee volunteer levels allow
- Motivate projects to finish incubation
- What is OSGeo Labs?
Communication:
- Reach out to other committees and ask for help
- SAC: good relationship, initial questionnaire covers SAC requirements
- Marketting: good relationship, initial question covers some requirements, checklist covers remaining requirements
Proposal:
Break the incubation process into phases allow projects that to start these activities (prior to a mentor being found). No additional work is added to the incubation process.
Incubation: Approved
- List the projects with a proposal that has been approved … and are just waiting for a mentor
- outreach effort in fostering new projects, and do not like the incubation committee acting as a bottleneck
Communication:
- Incubation Committee: incubation email list, IRC meeting
Recognition:
- project is associated with OSGeo Foundation
- Text link from OSgeo Website along the lines of "OSGeo would like to welcome ..."
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
Communication:
- Incubation Committee: incubation email list, IRC meeting
- Marketting Committee: email list, IRC meeting
- SAC: email, trac
Recognition:
- Text **link** from OSGeo website to the marketing committee project details page (or OSGeo live page which is often better)
- Access to SAC resources
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")
Communication:
- Incubation Committee: incubation email list, IRC meeting
- Marketting Committee: email list, IRC meeting
- SAC: email, trac
Recognition:
- recognition Incubation requirements are completed
- 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..
Recognition:
- Full recognition as an OSGeo Project
- Project officer for direct communication with the OSGeo Board (and other committees)
- Colour logo on the webpage, sorted into the appropriate software category