At the FOSS4G code sprint we had a talk over lunch with a number of project leaders about marketing and incubation.
I think we should wait 3 to 4 weeks for people to return home and clear their backlog of work, and then address these issues. Sometime around the 16 November.
Key take home points for me from the meeting:
* The OSGeo Incubation "badge" provides a quality stamp that we need to keep at a high standard if we want it to remain valuable.
* Hence, if we wish to keep up with industry, the requirements for incubation should gradually increase over time, and old incubated projects should be expected to continue to be updating and improving.
* There was debate as to whether we should remove previously incubated projects if they don't keep updating, although a more palatable suggestion may be to add extra stars next to projects which pass the extra sign off criteria. The extra criteria suggested included:
** Project descriptions to be included into marketing material. Tyler took an action to provide a template which projects can follow.
The marketing committee and live dvd mailing list will need to contact the projects directly. It seems our role is to introduce new projects to the foundation. As the foundation needs change (based on marketing requirements for example) we can have a meeting and update our incubation document to match.
Regards,
Jody
On 27/10/2009, at 6:56 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
At the FOSS4G code sprint we had a talk over lunch with a number of project leaders about marketing and incubation.
I think we should wait 3 to 4 weeks for people to return home and clear their backlog of work, and then address these issues. Sometime around the 16 November.
Key take home points for me from the meeting:
* The OSGeo Incubation "badge" provides a quality stamp that we need to keep at a high standard if we want it to remain valuable.
* Hence, if we wish to keep up with industry, the requirements for incubation should gradually increase over time, and old incubated projects should be expected to continue to be updating and improving.
* There was debate as to whether we should remove previously incubated projects if they don't keep updating, although a more palatable suggestion may be to add extra stars next to projects which pass the extra sign off criteria. The extra criteria suggested included:
** Project descriptions to be included into marketing material. Tyler took an action to provide a template which projects can follow.