On 2/16/2015 6:44 AM, Jachym Cepicky wrote:
Hi,
I would like to dig a bit more into the topic "more fine incubation"
procedure and former "OSGeo Labs" (now it has no name is slowly
forgotten in past, but you can find more at
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Labs)
I would like to start talk about it a bit (I suggest incubator mailing
list), prepared wiki page (with confusing name):
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/5-star-rating
Scope: to re-new OSGeo Labs, make the incubation process easier for all
of us, with more little steps (except for one big). Projects could flow
between the steps "up" and "down", related to their current living phase.
I hope, this would help to the community to get oriented, would allow
more projects to join in. Work for incubation committee and mentors
could be even less (some projects will remain in beta). It's also
related to the "certification" topic (even not people, but software).
Jachym
This makes a lot of sense to me. I am involved with a lot of smaller
projects that are valuable but unlikely to be able to stand on their own
because the community is weak.
pagc (geocoding) - this is all but dead as a project but out of it came
a core piece of technology the has been moved into postGIS Geocoder
pgRouting - driving directions and vehicle routing problems, we have
contributed 8+ GSoC mentors to OSGeo over the past years, but it has
been hard to get funding and volunteers to support ongoing development
and project releases. We have looked at incubation, but we do not have a
strong enough community to be able to graduate.
It would be good to have a way to foster projects like this and to look
for opportunities to merge smaller projects into larger ones that where
their might be a good fit. I think that we need to better recognize that
there will be projects that might not be able to stand on their own but
that they may also be fertile ground for development of good technology
and that mentoring and redirecting these projects could be a good way to
harvest this.
Anyway, something to think about ...
Best,
-Steve
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