GSIP 38 - Join Open Source Geospatial Foundation
Overview
Join the Open Source Geospatial Foundation.
Proposed By
Jody Garnett (and Andrea Aime via email)
Assigned to Release
2.0.x
State
Discussion is complete, incubation process started with the submission of the:
- OSGEO incubation questionnaire
- OSGEO Trac ticket 423.
Motivation
Quick: The community has asked us to join; apparently this would make a difference to GeoServer adoption.
Long: We discussed joining the OSGeo foundation when it was established (collaboration is after all a great deal of fun). The prospect of limited development resources being spread across both the GeoTools and GeoServer incubation process was a bit much.
Proposal
From email:
Hi,
looking at the OSGEO thread it would seem all of the current PSC members have voted positively:
...
The PSC has thus showed full will to go on with the OSGEO incubation. Congratulations!
Now, time to more on. This wiki page: http://www.osgeo.org/incubator
describes the steps one needs to take in order to incubate.
I looked at the principles here:
http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/principles.html
it seems to me we already satisfy most if not all of them, pending for example a more careful review of our IP situation.
I guess the first step is to compile the questionnaire and find a project mentor.
What about compiling the questionnaire as a page on the wiki?
Cheers
Andrea
Get direction from PSC- Review incubation process:
- Apply for the incubation process
- Fill in the OSGEO incubation questionnaire
- Create a TRAC issue: ticket 423
- Wait for the incbation committee to accept us and assign a mentor
- Go over graduation requirements with mentor and ask any questions we have
- Go through code providence review
- Tell the mentor we are ready; and be on hand to answer questions from the incubation committee
- Select a PSC member represent the project to the OSGeo board
Feedback
- http://www.nabble.com/GeoServer-and-OSGEO-td24259163.html#a24259163
- http://www.nabble.com/OSGEO-request-for-incubation-is-a-go-td24273081.html
Voting
Andrea Aime: +1
Alessio Fabiani: +1
Justin Deoliveira: +1
Jody Garnett: +1
Simone Giannecchini: +1
[~roba]: +1
Links
[JIRA Task|]
[Email Discussion|]
[Wiki Page|]