[Board] Invitation to OSGeo to participate in LocationTech

[Cameron Shorter]

Andrew,
I'm wanting to get down to the details of what is and is not expected 
and acceptable, because I'm sure we will need to answer community 
questions about this in the future. (My questions are deliberately 
baiting in order to try to flush out what might be obvious to yourself).

Q1: What types of working groups are you expecting LocationTech to host 
which people will wish to be involved in? Why would such groups be set 
up to be exclusive, rather than "everyone's welcome" which is current 
OSGeo default?

Q2: If a person wants to be involved in a LocationTech working group, 
what process should they follow? Should they lobby the OSGeo board 
asking to be assigned as an official OSGeo delegate?
Should OSGeo board allow anyone who asks to be given delegate status?
If not, what are the criteria for being allocated delegate status? More 
importantly, under what circumstances does the board reject the request?
Is there a limit to the number of OSGeo representatives LocationTech 
will accept?

Q3: What value does LocationTech hope to gain by including OSGeo as a 
member organisation?

Q4: What value does OSGeo gain?

Q5: What level of effort is required, by whom, within OSGeo? Eg: A 
requirement for a high level of involvement from the OSGeo board might 
not be sustainable.

On 4/10/2012 7:01 AM, Andrew Ross wrote:
> Hi Cameron,
>
> In practice, a formal representative from OSGeo would participate in 
> the working group sessions and discussions.
>
> The links I provided provide a short summary of membership rights and 
> privileges. The Eclipse Foundation bylaws 
> <http://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/Eclipse%20BYLAWS%202011_08_15%20Final.pdf> 
> (PDF) and LocationTech charter 
> <http://www.eclipse.org/org/industry-workgroups/locationtech_charter.php> 
> are the canonical pages with much detail.
>
> Any individual designated by OSGeo can be the representative. The 
> representative can be changed as needed. What you wrote sounds like 
> any number of people and that's not right.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Andrew
>
> On 10/03/2012 04:17 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>> Andrew,
>> Can you please expand on what such membership would mean in practice. 
>> Is there a web page explaining what such membership entails?
>>
>> Does this membership provide an avenue for any individual to 
>> participate in Locationtech by noting they are part of OSGeo (as 
>> OSGeo accepts anyone offering to help OSGeo)?
>>
>> On 04/10/12 04:40, Andrew Ross wrote:
>>> Thank you Frank.
>>>
>>> That's right regarding formal representation for OSGeo at LocationTech.
>>>
>>> And confirmed re: OSGeo wouldn't be a Steering Committee member for $0.
>>>
>>> For what it's worth, OSGeo could be a Steering Committee member for 
>>> $15K/year at any point.
>>>
>>> Andrew
>>>
>>> On 10/03/2012 02:13 PM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>>>> Andrew,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks - I have added this to our agenda for the next board meeting 
>>>> at:
>>>>
>>>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2012-10-11
>>>>
>>>> I gather to make this useful we would want to have one or more
>>>> OSGeo representatives to join various LocationTech mailing lists
>>>> to participate in discussions and act as a liason?  I gather we would
>>>> be general members of the locationtech working group, but not
>>>> voting members of the steering committee, right?
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Frank
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Andrew Ross 
>>>> <andrew.ross at eclipse.org> wrote:
>>>>> Hi Everyone,
>>>>>
>>>>> On behalf of the LocationTech Steering Committee, I would like to 
>>>>> formally
>>>>> invite OSGeo to participate in LocationTech. LocationTech's Steering
>>>>> Committee unanimously agreed to invite OSGeo to participate without
>>>>> membership dues. To do so, OSGeo would sign up as an Associate 
>>>>> member of the
>>>>> Eclipse Foundation ($0 for OSGeo) and Participating member of 
>>>>> LocationTech
>>>>> (also $0 due to the invitation).
>>>>>
>>>>> OSGeo's involvement in this working group:
>>>>>
>>>>> helps influence the working group's direction
>>>>> provides a useful forum for OSGeo to engage companies
>>>>> maintains close ties to help identify opportunities of mutual 
>>>>> benefit &
>>>>> collaboration
>>>>>
>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Andrew
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
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>>
>


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