Incubation Phases

This is a working proposal coming out of conversations on the incubation@osgeo.org email list. 
Motivation:
* We have a number of projects with great proposals waiting for a mentor 
* Recommendations coming out of GeoMoose incubation experience
* Accept projects into the OSGeo Foundation faster then incubation committee volunteer levels allow
* Motivate projects to finish incubation
* What is OSGeo Labs?
Communication:
* Reach out to other committees and ask for help
* SAC: good relationship, initial questionnaire covers SAC requirements
* Marketting: good relationship, initial question covers some requirements, checklist covers remaining requirements
== Proposal: ==
Break the incubation process into phases allow projects that to start these activities (prior to a mentor being found).
No additional work is added to the incubation process.
=== Incubation: Approved ===
* List the projects with a proposal that has been approved … and are just waiting for a mentor
* outreach effort in fostering new projects, and do not like the incubation committee acting as a bottleneck
Communication:
* Incubation Committee: incubation email list, IRC meeting
Recognition:
* project is associated with OSGeo Foundation
* Text link from OSgeo Website along the lines of "OSGeo would like to welcome ..."
=== Incubation: Incubation ===
* Projects that have completed their Status information .. and may still be looking for a mentor
* The status page gathers details for SAC, and a minimal amount of information for the Marketting committee
* OSGeo Incubation logo on their homepage, linking to http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/index.html to explain what incubation means
Communication:
* Incubation Committee: incubation email list, IRC meeting
* Marketting Committee: email list, IRC meeting
* SAC: email, trac
Recognition:
* Text **link** from OSGeo website to the marketing committee project details page (or OSGeo live page which is often better)
* Access to SAC resources
=== Incubation: Complete ===
- Projects that have finished their Provence Review, and have adopted an open development model for public participation
- Can still be working through the rest of the checklist as they make contact with the different OSGeo committees 
- Project has a mentor going through the checklist with the goal of recommending the project for "graduation"
- Frankly this is the first point where OSGeo as a Foundation can actually recommend a project meets our expectations
- OSGeo Project logo on their homepage (with the subtext "incubation")
Communication:
* Incubation Committee: incubation email list, IRC meeting
* Marketting Committee: email list, IRC meeting
* SAC: email, trac
Recognition:
* recognition Incubation requirements are completed
* project logo on the website under an incubation category, perhaps grated out?
=== OSGeo: Project ===
* completed the incubation checklist, recommended to the board for graduation, etc...
* approved by the board, project officer, etc..
Recognition:
* Full recognition as an OSGeo Project
* Project officer for direct communication with the OSGeo Board (and other committees)
* Colour logo on the webpage, sorted into the appropriate software category