[Board] OGC compliance certificates for OSGeo projects?

[Daniel Morissette]

I had the same questions for MapServer, we have run it through some of 
the CITE tests in the last releases and would be ready to get 
certificates from OGC, but I would like the certificates to be assigned 
to OSGeo and not Mapgears. Mapgears could "sponsor" the certificate 
fees, at least for the first year or two, since we had a client funding 
the certification work, but how to proceed is not clear to me either.

It would be great to come up with a standard procedure for all OSGeo 
projects that are getting OGC certification.

Daniel

Jens Fitzke wrote:
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> All,
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> 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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Daniel Morissette
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