[OSGeo-Discuss] "Geo for All - Open Education Award 2015" - Nominations till 28th Feb 2015

2015-02-16 Thread Suchith Anand
Colleagues, Open Education Week (9-13 March 2015) is an annual opportunity to raise awareness about open education and its impact on teaching and learning worldwide. Open education encompasses resources, tools and practices that employ a framework of open sharing to improve educational access a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New incubation procedure

2015-02-16 Thread Cameron Shorter
Hi Jachym, I think this is a good idea. Also to include in this discussion is streamlining our existing incubation docs. In particular, retire "General Principles of Incubation" [1], update our Project Graduation Checklist [2], and update our Incubator Application Questionnaire [3]. The links

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Incubator] New incubation procedure

2015-02-16 Thread Jody Garnett
I concur, this subject came up at the osgeo code-sprint last week - it is very difficult project projects like MetaCRS and JTS to consider graduating from OSGeo due to our incubation requirements. I would like to point out that projects should feel comfortable negotiating a with the incubation com

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] New incubation procedure

2015-02-16 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
On 2/16/2015 6:44 AM, Jachym Cepicky wrote: Hi, I would like to dig a bit more into the topic "more fine incubation" procedure and 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) I would like to start talk abou

[OSGeo-Discuss] New incubation procedure

2015-02-16 Thread Jachym Cepicky
Hi, I would like to dig a bit more into the topic "more fine incubation" procedure and 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) I would like to start talk about it a bit (I suggest incubator mailing list),