[OSGeo-Board] OSGeo status regarding implementation of standards

[Chris Holmes]

Jo Walsh wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 04:15:34PM -0800, Michael P. Gerlek wrote:
>>> "OSGeo serves as a testbed and safe space for standards prototype
>>> development... in the hope that these community driven standards
>>> may grow into full-fledged OGC or W3C specifications..."
>> I might have added a "where needed or appropriate" clause to the end,
>> and might tweaked to read "safe space for *open* standards", but that's
>> just me being a fuss-budget...  Looks just fine really.
> 
> I would humbly suggest that if we make any kind of announcement / PR
> statement then can we wait a little while until more WMS-T
> implementations are on the stack, some nice demos set up and it can 
> be more, "look at all this great stuff the community is pulling together"
> and not so much "here we are winsomely trying to defuse any angst
> maybe experienced by people in more fearful/competitive cultures".
Cool. I wasn't so much looking to 'announce' this, just to have wording 
in place if/when people ask.

But it should definitely be in place by the time we do some sort of PR 
thing on WMT/Tiling WMS profile.

> 
> I like the *open* emphasis.
Me to.  And I'm fine with where needed or appropriate.

Chris

> 
> cheers,
> 
> 
> jo 
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