<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="">I would like to thank Henrique, Greg, Jonathon, Rob and Rajat for having the courage to speak out in a public forum about their thoughts.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We have a proposed Memorandum of Understanding that will enable the OSGeo Community to better participate in the standards facilitation process. This will in turn help the us to get what we need as open source developers, users and proponents embedded within the standards to better meet out needs.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">However, we need more input from our community.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It is important to us as a community that we have a clear understanding of why we want to work with and progress open spatial standards.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Therefore, I’ll leave this thread open for a bit longer.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please contribute your thoughts.</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=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 26 Aug 2021, at 10:55, Bruce Bannerman <<a href="mailto:bruce.bannerman.osgeo@gmail.com" class="">bruce.bannerman.osgeo@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div 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 class=""><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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