<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear Standards List Members,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We have approximately 160 members subscribed to this mailing list. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I assume that you have subscribed to the Standards list as you have some interest in Open Spatial Standards.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We have an excellent opportunity to help shape the future of open spatial standards with the proposed new Memorandum of Understanding between OSGeo and OGC.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">To date, I have been disappointed at the very limited community input into this process.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is your opportunity to drive what we do with open spatial standards. Don’t wait for others to do the work for you.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I call on all list members to provide some feedback to this list on:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><ul class="MailOutline"><li class="">what inspired you to subscribe to this list;</li><li class="">what you want from being a member of this list; and</li><li class="">your review of the proposed new OSGeo/OGC MOU (see context below).</li></ul><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="">Please don’t be shy, there are no right or wrong responses!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Kind regards,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Bruce</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 10 Aug 2021, at 00:55, Tom Kralidis <<a href="mailto:tomkralidis@gmail.com" class="">tomkralidis@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Hi everyone: hope you are all doing well. Per subject and [1][2], we have been working</div><div class="">with OGC to renew our Memorandum of Understanding, and now have a draft (Exhibit A) of</div><div class="">the MOU for your review and comment.<br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="">Please see [3] for your review, comment and input. Anyone with the link should be able to</div><div class="">comment in the document.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is an important time for the updated MOU. Open Source and Open Standards are</div><div class="">natural, healthy and evolving, and this MOU will grow the collaboration between our</div><div class="">organizations especially given OGC's increasing focus on developers. Note that the MOU</div><div class="">provides OSGeo an Associate Membership as well as the opportunity for input into the next</div><div class="">generation of compliance testing (CITE).<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Input and feedback is requested by Friday, 03 September 2021 at 12h UTC.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If there are no major issues, we will put the MOU for approval at the F2F Board meeting following</div><div class="">FOSS4G 2021.<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you have any questions or comments, feel free to contact me.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks in advance.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">On behalf of those involved in updating the MOU (OGC, OSGeo MOU Review Team).<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">..Tom</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">[1] <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MoU_OGC/Review_2020" target="_blank" class="">https://wiki.<span class="">osgeo</span>.org/wiki/MoU_OGC/Review_2020</a></div><div class="">[2] <a href="https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/80" target="_blank" class="">https://git.<span class="">osgeo</span>.org/gitea/<span class="">osgeo</span>/todo/issues/80</a></div><div class="">[3] <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LNbDCkmjqfOtrUjOLkYNNhKhtPzXI_uCAC4R-l8drbY" target="_blank" class="">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LNbDCkmjqfOtrUjOLkYNNhKhtPzXI_uCAC4R-l8drbY</a></div></div>
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