(we are approaching 2 full years that this "labs" naming has been an
issue and discussed[1])
Today, knowing how ingrained the term 'lab' is in the GeoForAll
education network, maybe Jachym is correct that it is a good time to
modify the Incubation's "labs" term, to something like "Community
Projects".
[1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/ica-osgeo-labs/2013-June/000134.html
-jeff
On 2015-03-03 3:42 AM, Suchith Anand wrote:
Vaclav,
Please accept my sincere apologies as it was my mistake that i did not think on
this when we started the ICA-OSGeo Labs initiative (so many things were going
on at that time!).
In universities, we generally use the "Labs" term to refer to
infrastructure/people/facilities for a particular subject. For example Botany Lab, Robotics Lab
etc. And we wanted to make sure there is a dedicated Open Source Geospatial Lab in universities
worldwide (which includes bringing together people from various disciplines, infrastructure (the
physical space) and facilities to make this happen. Also it is easier to make use of the same
terminology/structure of "Labs" which is widely used in the university environment to get
academics start the initiative in their respective universities (also it is easier for them to
convince their higher management on a structure that is known to them than reinvent a new term for
this) .
So it will very helpful for us if you can make use of new "OSGeo-projects" and
metioned star (or similar) rating system for the incubation as then there is no confusion
in the future. Many thanks for your consideration.
Best wishes,
Suchith
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Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2015 7:27 AM
To: Vaclav Petras
Cc: OSGeo Discussions; incuba...@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New incubation procedure
Vašku,
just side note: yes, whith the new "Labs" initiative "OSGeo-Labs" have to
change their name.
My idea would rather be to get rid of current OSGeo- "labs" and "projects" and start with
new "OSGeo-projects" and metioned star (or similar) rating system.
Than for current OSGeo-Labs "OSGeo-project level 1" would make it (or similar)
Jachym
po 2. 3. 2015 v 18:33 odesílatel Vaclav Petras
<wenzesl...@gmail.com<mailto:wenzesl...@gmail.com>> napsal:
On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 6:44 AM, Jachym Cepicky
<jachym.cepi...@gmail.com<mailto:jachym.cepi...@gmail.com>> wrote:
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)
Hi Jachym,
do you think that with the renewal you can replace the name "OSGeo Labs" by something
else? Now we have also ISPRS-ICA-OSGeo Research and Educational laboratories which might be often
shortened to OSGeo Labs, although I prefer OSGeoRELs for writing. The mainling list is
ica-osgeo-labs. Put perhaps it is not such an issue since the term "Geo for All"
(http://www.geoforall.org/) is now used more and more (well, the linked website as OSGeo Labs in
the title element).
Thanks for taking this into consideration,
Vaclav
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