<div dir="ltr">Dear Bruce, All,<div><br></div><div>Greetings.</div><div>I consider myself an absolute beginner so please ignore my inexperience. Please find my responses inline below:</div><div><ul><li>Inspiration for subscribing to this list;</li></ul><div>I am interested in learning more about open geospatial standards and subsequently, contribute to its development as I learn. My PhD thesis and research interests aligns with lidar data processing using deep learning and currently I am exploring options for doing this in a standardised format. But as I mentioned earlier, I am just starting in this domain and hence subscribed to this list to be aware of the latest developments in geospatial interoperability and standardisation (in the sub-domains of processing, sharing, compression and visualization).<br></div><ul><li style="margin-left:15px">What I want from being a member of this list;</li></ul><div>Any opportunity to learn and contribute to this domain. </div><ul><li style="margin-left:15px">My review of the proposed new OSGeo/OGC MOU;</li></ul><div>Thanks to the team for their efforts in drafting the MoU. Out of my sheer excitement, I volunteered to be a reviewer of the MoU but later I realised that my inexperience restricts me to contribute much (although it's a great start for me :)). But from what I understand, I feel the Associate Membership for the OSGeo will be very much helpful for folks like me. I was fortunate to be a part of the OSGeo-OGC-ASF Code Sprint and then also attend the OGC Point Cloud DWG webinar in the past and I believe if this works out, more such opportunities would open up in the research and development of new standards and updation of the existing ones.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><div>Kind regards,</div><div>Rajat</div><div><br></div><div>--</div><div>Rajat Shinde</div><div>Ph.D. Candidate</div><div>Prime Minister's Research Fellow</div><div>Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India.</div><div>Charter Member - OSGeo</div><div><a href="http://home.iitb.ac.in/~rajatshinde">Home</a> | <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajat-shinde/">LinkedIn</a></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 10:31 AM Rob Atkinson <<a href="mailto:ratkinson@ogc.org">ratkinson@ogc.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Bruce, et al<div><br></div><div>Just a heads up that there are a couple of threads of activity which may be able to support this work.</div><div><br></div><div>first, I am participating on behalf of OGC with OsGEO and ISO reps on project to explore interoperability of Glossary content between organisations. This is not generally a "first class concern" - but I encourage community input to influence OGC to publish machine readable versions of terminology (and improve consistency and cross-referencing between various uses of the same or similar terminology).</div><div><br></div><div>A key part of this is publication of technical specifications such as data models and schemas in a consistent canonical Web-friendly manner (not expecting OsGEO community to have the right version of a proprietary UML tool to find machine-readable documentation on schema elements for example). </div><div><br></div><div>A second thread I have been discussing with Codrina Ilie is around better describing the OGC (and ISO and potentially wider) ecosystem of standards and how they relate. OGC has me actively designing improved ways of achieving this. For example </div><div><a href="http://defs-dev.opengis.net/vocprez/object?uri=http%3A//www.opengis.net/def/docs/10-140r2" target="_blank">http://defs-dev.opengis.net/vocprez/object?uri=http%3A//www.opengis.net/def/docs/10-140r2</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>shows a range of cross references between standards, We're also looking at deconstructing key standards so the implementable "conformance classes" are directly visible and citable, allowing specifications of standards conformance to be done at a level that can be used to drive testing (citing the containing specification document is not explicit, and citations without specifying versions cant be tested)</div><div><br></div><div>e.g.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://defs-dev.opengis.net/vocprez/object?uri=http://www.opengis.net/def/docs/15-111r1" target="_blank">http://defs-dev.opengis.net/vocprez/object?uri=http://www.opengis.net/def/docs/15-111r1</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>General principles (e.g. FAIR) are expressed here:</div><div><a href="https://www.ogc.org/def-server" target="_blank">https://www.ogc.org/def-server</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Happy to hear feedback about potential uses of this information, or other things the OGC can do to publish its standards in more accessible ways. For OsGEO related matters please cc Codrina</div><div><br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font color="#888888"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,51,102)">Rob Atkinson</span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14.2667px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br><span style="color:rgb(47,85,151)">Senior Research Engineer | Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)</span></span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14.2667px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br>Mobile: 61-419-202-973<br></span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:JFath@ogc.org" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14.2667px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(47,85,151)">ratkinson@ogc.org</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14.2667px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(47,85,151)"> | <a href="http://ogc.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">ogc.org</a><br><br></span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://ogc.us4.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=704e02f81107a6caab1568067&id=4e4528fd9d" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14.2667px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Sign up for OGC News<br></span></b></a></span><br></div></div></font></div><font color="#888888"><br></font><a href="https://www.ogc.org/webinars" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><img src="https://portal.ogc.org/files/93313"></a><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><br></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 10:56 AM Bruce Bannerman <<a href="mailto:bruce.bannerman.osgeo@gmail.com" target="_blank">bruce.bannerman.osgeo@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>Dear Standards List Members,<div><br></div><div>We have approximately 160 members subscribed to this mailing list. </div><div><br></div><div>I assume that you have subscribed to the Standards list as you have some interest in Open Spatial Standards.</div><div><br></div><div>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><br></div><div>To date, I have been disappointed at the very limited community input into this process.</div><div><br></div><div>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><br></div><div><br></div><div>I call on all list members to provide some feedback to this list on:</div><div><br></div><div><ul><li>what inspired you to subscribe to this list;</li><li>what you want from being a member of this list; and</li><li>your review of the proposed new OSGeo/OGC MOU (see context below).</li></ul><div><br></div></div><div>Please don’t be shy, there are no right or wrong responses!</div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Bruce</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 10 Aug 2021, at 00:55, Tom Kralidis <<a href="mailto:tomkralidis@gmail.com" target="_blank">tomkralidis@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi everyone: hope you are all doing well. Per subject and [1][2], we have been working</div><div>with OGC to renew our Memorandum of Understanding, and now have a draft (Exhibit A) of</div><div>the MOU for your review and comment.<br></div><br><div>Please see [3] for your review, comment and input. Anyone with the link should be able to</div><div>comment in the document.</div><div><br></div><div>This is an important time for the updated MOU. Open Source and Open Standards are</div><div>natural, healthy and evolving, and this MOU will grow the collaboration between our</div><div>organizations especially given OGC's increasing focus on developers. Note that the MOU</div><div>provides OSGeo an Associate Membership as well as the opportunity for input into the next</div><div>generation of compliance testing (CITE).<br></div><div><br></div><div>Input and feedback is requested by Friday, 03 September 2021 at 12h UTC.</div><div><br></div><div>If there are no major issues, we will put the MOU for approval at the F2F Board meeting following</div><div>FOSS4G 2021.<br></div><div><br></div><div>If you have any questions or comments, feel free to contact me.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks in advance.</div><div><br></div><div>On behalf of those involved in updating the MOU (OGC, OSGeo MOU Review Team).<br></div><div><br></div><div>..Tom</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MoU_OGC/Review_2020" target="_blank">https://wiki.<span>osgeo</span>.org/wiki/MoU_OGC/Review_2020</a></div><div>[2] <a href="https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/80" target="_blank">https://git.<span>osgeo</span>.org/gitea/<span>osgeo</span>/todo/issues/80</a></div><div>[3] <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LNbDCkmjqfOtrUjOLkYNNhKhtPzXI_uCAC4R-l8drbY" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LNbDCkmjqfOtrUjOLkYNNhKhtPzXI_uCAC4R-l8drbY</a></div></div>
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