Hello,
we have been chatting with Markus regarding GRASS incubation. One issue is that GRASS developers do not really see much leverage coming out of OSGeo that would bring them any good. Thus their stimulus on getting going it rather low (resulting in a somewhat absurd appearing mountain of hundreds of messages on this topic).
A short intro to GRASS PSC activities (Arnulf's very PPOV[1]):
They are an anarchic flock of nerds in the best sense that you can imagine. They sit on a project that is twenty years old, survived several brutal changes, years floating around aimlessly in the internet and it still ticks. They have MarkusN which is about the best that could happen to them and they are happy with it as it is.
So OSGeo will need to flex some muscles and show that yes we do make sense in order to make GRASS people adhere to some of the changes that might get induced by incubating.
Markus has all the stuff prepared and ready to dump a large amount of geodata into a repository (connects to Geodata committee). He just needs a number cruncher which is available at SAC. Once this is done it might show the nascent/non-existent/virtual GRASS PSC that they can make good use of OSGeo and that it makes sense to consider the formation of a PSC - or come up with a useful alternative.
Action item: SAC to give MarkusN credentials to access one of the blade servers to get going.
Once that is done Geodata has more geodata to add to their repository.
Once that is done the Software Projects have geodata to stick into the Software Stack.
Action Item: SAC to give accounts to the projects leads (or some appointed administrator) to install their projects.
Action Item EduCom: Document what MarkusN, SAC and the projects did and compile it in the FreeGIS Book.
Action Item WebCom: Point to the FreeGIS Book, software stack, geodata repository, make it accessible and look really good.
Action Item All: Kick Seven in her well formed ass and tell her that things aint so easy[2].
Best Regards.
[1] PPOV = Personal Point of View
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink