[Board] OGC compliance certificates for OSGeo projects?

[Jens Fitzke]

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All,

deegree (OSGeo project in incubation) is certified to be compliant
against some Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) specifications. It is
planned to apply for certification for a couple of interfaces (e.g.
Web Feature Service). Unfortunately the OGC charges certification with
a yearly fee depending on the total gross annual revenue of a company.
Since deegree is a project rather than the product of a company, I
wonder if OSGeo maintains some kind of Memorandum of Understanding
with the OGC to receive discount on certification fees. Alternatively,
is there funding available to sponsor OGC certification for OSGeo
projects? The amount to be considered is about 200US$ per certificate.

There is no problem for lat/lon to "sponsor" the certificate fee, but for
transparency reasons I'd rather like an Open Source-aware solution. From Raj we
already got the information that in general there is no special procedure for
Open Source projects. But perhaps for OSGeo projects?

Details can be found on http://www.opengeospatial.org/compliance#products.

Thanks,
Jens
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