Re: [Incubator] budget 2020 and incubation activity planning

[Massimiliano Cannata]

Hello Jody and all,

Istsos Just run a code sprint in December and reached a great milestone porting the all code to py3 and refactoring a

This solve some issues with dependency also and make a good move toward incubation.

In January I'll meet users in Mexico and will discuss it. Would be great if we could have travel coverage for devs so that we could make an incubation sprint in Mexico with locals helps.

For this and for a second sprint week to complete the incubation process in 2020 I'm asking in the name of istsos 4k (2+2).

We are also asking active contribution by our mentor and incubation list in guiding us...

Best wishes

Maxi

Il gio 26 dic 2019, 08:08 Jody Garnett <jody.g...@gmail.com> ha scritto:

I saw on the board list that pgrouting is wishing to apply for incubation (looking forward to the application) and wished to apply for 4k to support incubation activities.

Are their any other projects waiting in the wings considering applying for incubation this year?

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Jody Garnett

On Mon, 9 Dec 2019 at 18:44, Jody Garnett <jody.g...@gmail.com> wrote:

I am also concerned with projects that are established, but are not treating incubation as a priority. I know it is hard to put forward these kind of QA activities as a priority --> the benefit being respect, independence as an osgeo committee, and associated access to osgeo budget.

We are quite clear that incubation teams need to do the work themselves (to learn first hand expectations as a community). However I would be open teams directing one of their members to work on this activity and using fund raising (and incubation budget) towards getting time put towards completing incubation.

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Jody Garnett

On Mon, 9 Dec 2019 at 17:43, Jody Garnett <jody.g...@gmail.com> wrote:

For the last couple of years we have requested a budget to support out projects in incubation, last year a budget of 10k was approved.

The ZOO-Project has been the only one to request any kind of assistance in this time period. With this in mind I think we should request less budget for 2020 (to give the board a more realistic expectation of our needs).

With recent graduation our list is down to five projects:

• IstSOS/Jeff - some activity, interested in hearing how nov sprint went.
  
• Opticks?Mark - any updates?
  
• Oskari/Arnulf this project has expressed some interest / activity in 2020 but could still use some help if time is available.
  
• TEAM Engine/Jody - some contact with Lugi, graduation checklist started button shared
  
• ZOO-Project/Dimitris - worked with Gerald at foss4g sprint, results shared to this list but I have not followed up.

Mentors / incubation teams we are here to support you, what are your plans for 2020?

As for the incubation committee itself, I would be very supportive of financially folks traveling to an event or code sprint to work on our committee documents and processes.  I also think we could put some effort into promoting the incubation program (both to attract projects and mentors).

How about this for a rough budget:

a) 5k to support incubation team / mentor activities

And we can make use of the osgeo code-sprint budget request if we wish to run an incubation sprint at some point during the year?

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Jody Garnett

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[Jody Garnett]

Gotcha, and great to hear from you. 

I am just asking for incubation committee so I am happy to include your request in our ask.  

Aside: In addition, gor code sprint stuff the board as a distinct budget, and for community projects also. 

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Jody Garnett