You will find examples, such as an internship or google summer of code, where several months of an individuals time can be devoted towards a project. This is a bit of a different dynamic to a "sprint" which pulls together individuals from all walks of life to focus on a task...
I think you will find, that with a great deal of planning and prep, geosever team met our sprint target in January. - http://blog.geoserver.org/2016/01/25/geoserver-code-sprint-success/ I also took part of a smaller code sprint last year which was successful: - http://geotoolsnews.blogspot.ca/2015/03/foss4gna-code-sprint-replacing-vecmath.html Given the nature of our industry it is hard to fund developers from several different organizations to work together at the same time. The key advantage of a "sprint" is opening up a gap in the work schedule where collaboration (and focus) can occur. Longer sustained efforts across organizations would be amazing - but harder to fund. An example would be the creation of the open layers 3 project. -- Jody Garnett On 21 February 2016 at 23:07, Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) < patrick.ho...@nasa.gov> wrote: > Venka and All, > > For my two-pence, which won't even get you a cup of chai in Mumbai, I am > not a fan of code sprints. Show me any lasting results of those events. As > a former High School science teacher (almost 30 years ago), I sensed that > real character development (and results) came from more serious application > of efforts, the kind of project-based efforts that get accomplished by > small teams over academic quarters or semesters of time. > > This is some of the thinking that went into designing the Europa Challenge > that NASA runs in concert with Politecnico di Milano at Como. We certainly > welcome any support our young champions might benefit from that the OSGEO > Foundation might wish to provide. > > Whatever process there is for making the request, we would like to apply > please. > > -Patrick > (650) 604-5656 (office) > (650) 269-2788 (cell) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of > Venkatesh Raghavan > Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2016 10:25 PM > To: OSGeo Discussions; OSGeo Board > Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Funding code Sprints > > Hi Mike, > > I agree with you. My suggestion to spread out the code sprint was only to > ensure that the community has some idea some idea when the sprint could be > expected and when/how to request OSGeo Foundation for support. > > I would like to see more an more code sprints (also incubation sprints > etc.) being organized in the future being as and when the community finds > it necessary. > > I think, we only need to ensure that the procedure to request for support > and guidelines to be followed are know to everyone in our community. > > Best > > Venka > > On 2/22/2016 3:07 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > > All, > > > > I don't think there is a reason to have code sprints coordinate their > > times to spread them out over the year. They should run when they need > > to run. We don't have a cash flow issue that would require this. > > > > And for the Paris Code Sprint, although a request was made, it does > > not appear at this time that it will be needed with the carryover > > funding and with the sponsorships. > > > > I firmly agree that Code Sprints are one of the more important things > > that the foundation does and if there are worthy candidates for > > funding, then I, for one, would like to see our budget expand to cover > > these. What we have now is just an expectation based on past support, > > but if new ones come along that meet our guidelines, I don't see a > > reason not to support them no matter the time period or if they exceed > our current budget. > > > > Mike > > > > ---- > > Michael Smith > > OSGeo Foundation Treasurer > > treasu...@osgeo.org > > > > From: Board <board-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Venkatesh > > Raghavan <ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp> > > Date: Sunday, February 21, 2016 at 6:35 PM > > To: OSGeo Discussions <discuss@lists.osgeo.org>, OSGeo Board > > <bo...@lists.osgeo.org> > > Subject: Re: [Board] Funding code Sprints > > > >> > >> > >> Dear All, > >> > >> Considering OSGeo budget for 2016, I think, it could be > >> possible to support 3 or 4 Code Sprints at similar > >> sponsorship levels for each sprint as in the past. > >> > >> I would like to propose to have code spread across three or four > >> periods across the year e.g Jan-March, April-June, July-Sept, Oct-Dec > >> and have RFP's for code sprints just like we have for our annual > >> conference. > >> > >> OSGeo Code Sprint in Paris starting from today (22 Feb., 2016), > >> fits very well > >> for the first quarter of 2016. I see a great lineup of projects > >> and participants for the Paris Code Sprint [1]. > >> > >> Code sprints are an integral part of FOSS4G Conferences which is our > >> largest gathering of users and developers. It will be appropriate that > >> OSGeo Foundation supports Code Sprints at FOSS4G conferences as > >> an official event for the July-September period. > >> > >> Best > >> > >> Venka > >> > >> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Paris_Code_Sprint_2016 > >> > >> > >> On 2016/02/20 18:07, Massimiliano Cannata wrote: > >> > >> > >>> > >>> Dear All, > >>> this is to acknowledge that there is a topic on discussion within > >>> the board directors on assigning funds to sprint code requests. > >>> > >>> Up to now a request-voting-fund approach has been followed without > >>> any specific plan. > >>> Since the board f2f meeting (thank you community for supporting that > >>> as i believe it was an enormous opportunity for OSGeo to speed up > >>> advances and was so fruitful) a budget has been draft and resources > has been allocated. > >>> > >>> With this mail I would personally like to ask a few questions the > >>> different > >>> communities: > >>> > >>> - who is intended to present a fund request for sprint code in 2016. > >>> This will give an idea of the number of expected requests. > >>> > >>> - do you have preferences on criteria for assign resources and > >>> eventually what is your choice motivation? > >>> > >>> > >>> Thank you, > >>> > >>> Maxi > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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