Hi,
I'll try to get something done. We could then start from there and add
information to it. I hesitant to add a "provide hosting" part for now.
I'm thinking of simply pointing to Sourceforge (or others) for now since
we didn't get a consensus on that part. I'm also thinking that it will
be easier to start small without providing anything, but a way to get
advertised and grow the service later if it's a success.
Best regards,
Julien
Cameron Shorter wrote:
I'm +1 for OSGeo Labs. It would be a good holding place for projects
waiting to go into incubation and for new projects to meet and
collaborate with each other.
The key elements of OSGeo Labs are:
1. Labs draws minimal overhead from the OSGeo community. Ie, provide
hosting, but not mentoring.
2. There is an entrance criteria list for OSGeo Labs which ensures that
the project has a goal of becoming an incubation OSGeo project and
therefore should be Open Source, Geospatial, etc.
3. The decision for accepting a project into Labs should be delegated to
a committee (which should be one person but could be more). Aim is to
keep the management overhead low.
4. OSGeo Board reserves the right to remove projects from Labs if the
project dies or is not following OSGeo values.
I suggest that OSGeo Incubation Committee hold a meeting to vote on this.
Do we have a volunteer to draft the first version of "Entrance Criteria
and Guidelines for OSGeo Labs"? You should be able to draw a lot from
the Incubation process.
Julien-Samuel Lacroix wrote:
Frank Warmerdam wrote:
Julien,
Could you launch an "OSGeo Labs" page in the wiki? If it
shapes up well, we can look at linking it from somewhere
reasonably prominent.
Best regards,
Thanks for the backup. My comment was more to get an idea of what
people think about it and I think most people agree.
I'll try to get something up along with guidelines to make sure we
keep a little bit of control on what we advertise.
Julien
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http://www.mapgears.com/
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