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<div style="font-family: Noteworthy-Light; font-size: 15px; ">Thank you for these updates. It is important that the wider geo community is kept fully updated on the developments in OGC's Point Cloud DWG (esp. all those who supported the Open Letter need to
be kept updated) . So i request you to kindly keep sending any updates on Point Cloud DWG activities to the OSGeo Discuss list . I have put my complete trust and faith in the OGC's process and i am hopeful there will be consensus build. I am requesting everyone
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<div style="font-family: Noteworthy-Light; font-size: 15px; ">Also i humbly request everyone to please follow the OSGeo and OGC code of conduct . Even personal blogposts (including your personal opinions) should respect the OSGeo code of conduct. Please only
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<div style="font-family: Noteworthy-Light; font-size: 15px; ">Wishing everyone Merry Christmas and Happy New Year wishes.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Noteworthy-Light; font-size: 15px; ">Best wishes,</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, December 23, 2015 4:03 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Suchith Anand<br>
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<div class=""><font size="3" face="Times New Roman" class="">I fully agree that everyone should respect the OSGeo code of conduct and be respectful in the way the facts are presented.</font></div>
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<div class=""><font size="3" face="Times New Roman" class="">I think OSGeo have done our job of highlighting the importance of standards in <span class="" style="line-height:22px">LiDAR data formats through our open letter in May 2015. OGC have set up a process
and it is ongoing, so i request everyone to be patient. You are right, </span>OSGeo Board is only a few volunteers, representing a large body of volunteers, so we should not overburden them with additional loads. </font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" class="">It is now for OGC colleagues to continue to guide the process forward and i request everyone to work together step by step for this. It is important to be patient , listen to all viewpoints and slowly
build consensus. I hope all stakeholders will work together in the common objective of Open Standards in LiDAR for the benefit of the wider geo community.</font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" class="">Best wishes,</font></div>
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<b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Tuesday, December 22, 2015 8:27 PM<br class="">
<b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Carl Reed; Suchith Anand<br class="">
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<div class="">Hi Suchith, Sergio, Micha,<br class="">
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Thanks Carl for highlighting the importance of mutual respect. OSGeo also has a Code-Of-Conduct [1] with similar sentiment to OGC:<br class="">
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</i><i class="">Be careful in the words that we choose.</i><i class=""><br class="">
</i><i class="">Whether we are participating as professionals or volunteers, we value professionalism in all interactions, and take responsibility for our own speech. Be kind to others. Do not insult or put down other participants.</i><i class=""><br class="">
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The content of the text being referenced is pushing the boundaries of our Code of Conduct [1] by making fun of another organisation.<br class="">
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I suggest that we wish to raise this point with the OGC, then reword, focusing just on the facts, and ideally be respectful in the way the facts are presented.<br class="">
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I suggest being careful to not over-promise what OSGeo will do (in this case responding to a letter), unless you are volunteering to do it yourself on behalf of OSGeo. The OSGeo Board is only a few volunteers, representing a large body of volunteers. We can
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[1]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.osgeo.org/code_of_conduct" target="_blank">http://www.osgeo.org/code_of_conduct</a><br class="">
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<div class=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" class="">Thank you for bringing this to our attention. </font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" class="">The OSGeo Foundation will respond formally to this in due course as we had initiated this open letter for <span class="" style="line-height:22px">the need for standards in LiDAR data formats [1],
[2]</span>. I request OSGeo Board to add this in the agenda of the next Board meeting and also for the F2F meeting, so we can discuss and plan next steps.</font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" class="">But first we will wait for response from the Open Geospatial Consortium - who as per their website is <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(246,246,246); line-height:22px">committed to making
quality open standards for the global geospatial community and have been working on this by setting up a Point Cloud DWG. We have put our trust in OGC in this process , so let us first get the response from OGC. I am ccing Scott Simmons of OGC to get their
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<div class="">[2] <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2015-May/014222.html" class="" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2015-May/014222.html</a></div>
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<p class="">I remember discussing this in April: "Open Letter for the need for Open Standards in LiDAR"; now I found this interesting post: <a href="http://rapidlasso.com/2015/12/19/the-darc-force-awakens-esri-escalates-lidar-format-war/" class="" target="_blank"></a><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rapidlasso.com/2015/12/19/the-darc-force-awakens-esri-escalates-lidar-format-war/" target="_blank">http://rapidlasso.com/2015/12/19/the-darc-force-awakens-esri-escalates-lidar-format-war/</a><br class="">
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