I've offered my services as an OSGeo mentor to Adrain, Jody, Frank and 
Chris. Here restated for others to read and participate in:

As a mentor, I'd be looking to see:
* A goal to be graduated within 6 months. Less would be better.
* A plan showing what needs to be done and who will be doing it. The 
plan doesn't need to be to the smallest detail, or have a name against 
every task, but it would be good to scope the work. The email from Adian 
below is a good start.
* A plan for addressing legal review. It seems that accessing Lawyers is 
a problem. The obvious solution is to source Lawyers through OSGeo, and 
I'll volunteer to lobby for this. But it would be good to see a backup 
plan as well.
* I'm expecting my involvement to be ~ 1 hour / week reviewing OSGeo 
related documentation. I'm not planning to get involved technically or 
to monitor geotools email lists - but will answer emails directed to me.

I hope the above fits with your ideas of what you want from a mentor. 
Please discuss amongst yourselves and get back to me with your decision.
Feel free to forward my email onto whomever you feel is appropriate.

Disclosures:
To be completely open, I should note all vested interests.
1. I was one of the early Geotools developers but have not committed any 
code of significance for ~ 5 years.
2. I have previously been on the Geotools PSC.
3. I am currently project managing a project for the Canadian Geographic 
Data Infrastructure Interoperability Pilot which uses Geotools. One of 
my team members, Stefan Hansen hopes to commit some his updates back 
into the Geotools repository.
4. My employer, Lisasoft offers Geoserver support - primarily for 
Australia.


-- 
Cameron Shorter
Systems Architect, http://lisasoft.com.au
Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050
Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254


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