[OSGeo-Board] questions about OGC membership

[Michael P. Gerlek]

Arnulf and I are at the OGC mtg here in Sandy Eggo this week and this
subject has already come up a couple times.

Yesterday Raj Singh started a "Mass Market" Working Group within OGC
that is just right for us.  Ghastly name, but the charter is to be the
arm of OGC dealing with technologies like GeoRSS, WMS-Tile/Cache, KML,
WFS-Simple, etc.  OGC seems to be recognizing that they currently cater
to the "enterprise-class" world (ebRIM, BPEL, etc), but that there is
also a whole 'nother world that they could play in too.  Indeed, working
with OSGeo is called out specifically in this group's charter.

(I will not enter into the debate about whether the dichotomy between
"enterprise" and "mass market" geo technologies is a false one or not.
I suspect it might be to many of us, but I'm willing to go with OGC's
view of the world on this one for now.  One battle at a time.)

Couple other OSGeo faces here, too -- Josh Lieberman, Ian Turton.  Maybe
more I don't recognize.

Arnulf, I believe, has the logistical angles well covered on this as to
what sort of membership level we could have.

Up the revolution,
-mpg

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jo Walsh [mailto:jo at frot.org] 
> Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 12:21 PM
> To: board at board.osgeo.org
> Subject: [OSGeo-Board] questions about OGC membership
> 
> dear all,
> 
> When I talked with Emmanuel Mondon from IONIC yesterday he quite
> pressingly suggested that OSGeo should join the OGC, that would be a
> better position than a selection of members being OGC members. 
> Though CCGIS are rhodium sponsors, or what have you...
> 
> OGC membership - is it appropriate for OSGeo? One would not want to
> pay, being a nonprofit - do they have provisions for nonprofit /
> institutional members? What would involvement practically mean over
> and above the existing high level of involvement from many members
> of the OSGeo activity?
> 
> It could be of benefit to be in a position to influence the OGC, and
> thus the ISO, more; the recent trend wherein the OGC metadata spec now
> links directly to the "add to your shopping basket" page on the ISO
> website is disconcerting. ebRIM sounds like it is basically a scandal,
> though i need to read the spec before i have any right to say things
> like that. If OSGeo has a voice of reason, can it be more effective?
> 
> cheers,
> 
> 
> jo
> 
> 
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