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Re: [technology-pmc] LocationTech-Labs GitHub orginization

For Eclipse Labs, we created an EclipseLabs repository and used its README for disclaimers and such. It also ends up being a good place for issue reports against the Labs itself. To make it easy to find, it's pinned to the organization so it always appears at the top of the page.

Just a thought.

https://github.com/eclipselabs


Wayne


On 20/12/16 05:03 PM, Rob Emanuele wrote:
Great, thanks Wayne + co! I just set it up: https://github.com/locationtech-labs

I put a disclaimer in the description. There's not really a good place on a github org to place a longer disclaimer.

I put the LocationTech gear as the org image. Let me know if that's ok, I can change it out if not.

I invited eclipsewebmaster, once the invite is accepted I'll make that account an owner.

Cheers,
Rob

On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 3:51 PM, Wayne Beaton <wayne@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I understand the value of keeping history. Unfortunately, our IP Policy right now doesn't permit this. But I'd like to see if we change that in 2017.

The next steps are for you and Rob to create the organization. Please be sure to follow the trademark usage guidelines. It needs to be clear that the organization is at "arms length" from LocationTech.

If an example will help, take a look at what Nedecho did with Dirigible Labs

https://github.com/dirigiblelabs/dirigiblelabs

Note that I'm going to ask him to include a trademark statement in the readme.

Note also that this is still a new enough concept for us that we may ask for some tweaks (e.g. make the Eclipse Webmaster an owner).

HTH,

Wayne

On 20/12/16 01:05 PM, Jim Hughes wrote:
Hi Wayne,

That all sounds great.  I think Rob's suggestion would almost involve having a GitHub organization where we could spin up a new project, contribute code, and see how things go.

If the project works out, it'd be great to move the project between organizations and keep the history (assuming we had a handle on the IP chain the entire time).

Is that kind of thing possible here?  Also, what are the next steps?  Are Rob and I permitted to create a locationtech-labs organization on GitHub?

Cheers,

Jim

On 12/20/2016 12:37 PM, Wayne Beaton wrote:

My apologies for the delay.

There is precedent.

My further apologies, this hasn't made it into the LocationTech version of the handbook yet, but the section on "Community Portals" [1] mentions "Labs" sites as a specific example. As long as the trademark usage guidelines for LocationTech and other EF trademarks are observed, the EMO will approve a request to create a "LocationTech Labs" organization on GitHub.

Note that if you make the people who participate sign the ECA, then moving their contributions into an official LocationTech project later will be much easier.

HTH,

Wayne

[1] https://www.eclipse.org/projects/handbook/#trademark-external-community


On 19/12/16 11:19 AM, Jim Hughes wrote:
Hi all,

I just wanted to give this a post-weekend bump; I think having a way to test out shared code would be awesome!

Thoughts?

Jim

On 12/16/2016 10:28 AM, Rob Emanuele wrote:
Hey PMC,

I'm proposing this idea: creating a GitHub organization called "LocationTech-Labs", or some similar name, which could house repositories for projects that are not quite LocationTech-proposal-ready, but are being hacked on by cross-organization locationtech committers. These projects would follow the IP Due Diligence in the hopes that the projects would get to a point that a proposal and incubation makes sense.

This arises from the fact that the GeoTrellis team and the GeoMesa team are combining forces for hacking out python bindings for our frameworks. It's both a feature we are currently working on for our separate projects, and we figured it would be best, and most in the spirit of LocationTech's mission of collaboration, to work on them together. We have some code from each side that we want to put into a single place. There's other places we could host it (e.g. the GeoTrellis GitHub organization); however the idea  is that these python bindings would eventually be a separate collaborative incubating LocationTech project, and it would be great to start in a repository that isn't "owned" by any one of the contributors and is LocationTech branded.

If this is a good idea, and if it's ok to call the thing "LocationTech-Labs" or something similar what has LocationTech in the name, I'd like to create one today. I would give admin rights to eclipsewebmaster, and invite PMC members (who's github handles I know) onto a team that has write access and the ability to create new repositories.

/ccing Wayne and Paul, who specifically I would like to weigh in on the idea of creating an org with "LocationTech" in the name, and if that's copacetic for a PMC member to do.

Thoughts?

Cheers,
Rob




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