<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div>Mark, Luis,</div><div><br></div><div>Please see my question to Carl below.</div><div><br></div><div>As per below, is there anything that OGC can do to assist OSGeo Projects with the certification process?</div><div><br></div><div>Bruce</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:12pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> Carl Reed <<a href="mailto:creed@opengeospatial.org">creed@opengeospatial.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Organization: </span> OGC<br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Thursday, 31 October 2013 9:26 AM<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> Bruce Bannerman <<a href="mailto:B.Bannerman@bom.gov.au">B.Bannerman@bom.gov.au</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span> "<a href="mailto:standards@lists.osgeo.org">standards@lists.osgeo.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:standards@lists.osgeo.org">standards@lists.osgeo.org</a>>, George Percivall <<a href="mailto:gpercivall@opengeospatial.org">gpercivall@opengeospatial.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> Re: OGC Certification of OSGeo Projects [was Re: [OSGeo-Standards] Follow up from OSGeo board meeting] [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]<br></div><div><br></div><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="WORD-WRAP: break-word; FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri, sans-serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space" dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; COLOR: #000000"><div>Bruce -</div><div> </div><div>Thanks for the email. I know that the CITE fee structure is being discussed. However, I do not know the details as I am not part of that discussion. Luis Bermudez and Mark Reichardt can provide more up to date information on CITE fees. Sorry that I cannot
be more helpful.</div><div> </div><div>Cheers</div><div><br>
Carl</div><div> </div><div style="FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #000000; FONT-STYLE: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none; DISPLAY: inline"><div style="FONT: 10pt tahoma"><div> </div><div style="BACKGROUND: #f5f5f5"><div style="font-color: black"><b>From:</b> <a title="B.Bannerman@bom.gov.au" href="mailto:B.Bannerman@bom.gov.au">
Bruce Bannerman</a> </div><div><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, October 30, 2013 4:09 PM</div><div><b>To:</b> <a title="creed@opengeospatial.org" href="mailto:creed@opengeospatial.org">
Carl Reed</a> </div><div><b>Cc:</b> <a title="standards@lists.osgeo.org" href="mailto:standards@lists.osgeo.org">
standards@lists.osgeo.org</a> ; <a title="gpercivall@opengeospatial.org" href="mailto:gpercivall@opengeospatial.org">
George Percivall</a> </div><div><b>Subject:</b> OGC Certification of OSGeo Projects [was Re: [OSGeo-Standards] Follow up from OSGeo board meeting] [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]</div></div></div><div> </div></div><div style="FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #000000; FONT-STYLE: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none; DISPLAY: inline"><div>Carl,</div><div> </div><div>Wearing both my OSGeo and OGC TC hats, is there anything that OGC can do to assist open source projects get certified, e.g. waive certification fees?</div><div> </div><div>Most projects do not have much in the way of funds behind them. They mainly have just volunteer time and effort.</div><div> </div><div>It is in OGC's interests to have a range of open source implementations that are certified to act as reference implementations and to guide others on what is possible.</div><div> </div><div>As an OGC implementing organisation that utilises open source software, we'd like to see the projects that we use certified, however we are not in a position to fund the certification process for them.</div><div> </div><div>Bruce</div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: calibri; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; COLOR: black; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; TEXT-ALIGN: left; PADDING-TOP: 3pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From: </span>Jody Garnett <<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>><br><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Date: </span>Wednesday, 30 October 2013 10:50 PM<br><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To: </span>Even Rouault <<a href="mailto:even.rouault@mines-paris.org">even.rouault@mines-paris.org</a>><br><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Cc: </span>"<a href="mailto:standards@lists.osgeo.org">standards@lists.osgeo.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:standards@lists.osgeo.org">standards@lists.osgeo.org</a>><br><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject: </span>Re: [OSGeo-Standards] Follow up from OSGeo board meeting<br></div><div> </div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div> </div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">
Regarding certification, I went to read a bit on OGC site and found that :<br><a href="http://www.opengeospatial.org/compliance#trademark" target="_blank">http://www.opengeospatial.org/compliance#trademark</a><br><br>
So the fee is not a one time thing, but a yearly one, and depends on the<br>
"organization" revenue. This makes me wonder on how it could translate for our<br>
community projects, let's take MapServer as an example. What is the<br>
organization behind MapServer : OSGeo, any company offering services around<br>
MapServer... ?<br></blockquote><div> </div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">
OGC licencing fee scheme seems to be designed for companies that have a<br>
distribution monopoly on the product being certified.<br>
If certification fees would be waived for the OSGeo project iself, what would<br>
it mean for companies offering services around it : could they reuse the<br>
sticker on their web site, or should they pay the fee ?<br></blockquote><div> </div><div>Just so, so we should probably take down our GeoServer sticker - since it does not represent testing of the bundle we currently distribute.</div><div> </div><div>As for your actual question - you may have to consider the difference between project and product.</div><div> </div><div>The GeoServer community offers a download (i.e. a product) which could be certified by OSGeo (perhaps at a reduced rate depending on how well the board negotiates).</div><div> </div><div>The same component is actually included in several other products:</div><div>- Boundless OpenGeo Suite</div><div>- GeoSolutions GeoServer Enterprise</div><div>- OSGeo GeoNetwork Open Source</div><div> </div><div>As long as it is not the community doing the packaging, the above products would not get the sticker. If they are using the component as published by the community (say out of a maven repository) a downstream project (i.e. GeoNetwork) or distribution (OSGeo
Live) should be able to indicate an GeoServer as an OGC certified component (i.e. it has passed testing).</div><div> </div><div>Still we are down in the weeds here - the goal is to provide a motivation for projects to join OSGeo, being in position to have their releases certified would be a good win. Even just being able to mark projects that have done some testing is a decent
win. Can you think of any others?</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><div class="im">> 2) Recognise testing beyond that the OGC is in position to offer, for<br>
> example Client certification is not available.<br>
><br>
> This testing can probably only be offered against OSGeo projects such as<br>
> GeoServer and MapServer, and can be used to promote that "cross project<br>
> interoperability" we are supposed to be focusing on.<br><br></div>
Client certification is indeed a difficult topic. You can have a WFS client that<br>
works fine when being used with a WFS server that delivers simple features<br>
("flat" organization of attributes), but that won't be able to understand<br>
complex features ( e.g. Inspire schemas ). This is not just a theoretical<br>
example ;-)<br></blockquote><div> </div><div>Hence the sticker indicating what the client was tested with. I am not aware of any general purpose open source clients for complex features, simply nobody has been willing to pay for them :D</div><div> </div><div>Jody</div><div> </div></div></div></div></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></span></body></html>