[Board] [OSGeo-Standards] Status of the 10 OGC slots for OSGeo members

Wed Sep 12 15:05:50 PDT 2012

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Cameron,
thanks for reminding me. Basically everything has been said on the
lists and is documented in the Wiki [1]. Michael has drafted a more
refined process which maybe is a little too formal for what we need
right now but works fine for me. I would be happy to stay one of the
liaisons to the OGC and also added him to our small "selection
committee". Maybe we can get board approval for this at the meeting
tomorrow?

I will have to check my schedule but I should be able to standby
during the board meeting to answer any questions.

My concern is more along the linies of what Carl summarized when he
said thet the whole idea behind this was to get some more *active*
engagement from the Open Source Community in the standards processes
of the OGC. So far there has been extremely little to no visible
participation from within OSGeo through this channel. The only
exception is Volker Mische who made good use of the donated
membership. He gave regular reports about what he did and when he was
hired by his company gracefully stepped down to make way for somebody
who does not have the option to join through a regular business
membership. This was how we originally thought this would work.

And we should remind ourselves that the OGC has no obligation
whatsoever to give us this option and that they can terminate it at
any time. So it does not really suit us well to demand anything from
them, some mails sounded a bit as if that were the case.

But with the renewed interest we have been seen in the past week maybe
we can get something useful done.

Another minor question: Currently on the sponsor pages it says to
contact me for further information (and that I am president, so we
need to change that anyway). I edited all language pages in a hurry
when Tyler left. Now to do it right, what should I change it to?

Cheers,
Arnulf

[1]
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_signs_Memorandum_of_Understanding_with_OGC#Designated_OSGeo_Members

On 09/12/2012 09:25 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
> Arnulf, This question is back up for discussion at the OSGeo Board
> meeting [1] in half a day.(13th of September 2012 at 12:00 UTC 
> <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2012&month=09&day=13&hour=12&min=0&sec=0>
>
> 
)
> Last time we left the conversation we wanted to find out from
> yourself what has been agreed to be the process for handing out OGC
> membership tokens, and have such guidelines encoded into a wiki.
> 
> Could you please weigh in on this conversation.
> 
> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2012-09-13
> 
> On 15/08/2012 8:55 AM, Michael P. Gerlek wrote:
>> If I recall from my original thoughts on this…
>> 
>> * A Token Oversight and Allocation Committee (TOAC) would act on 
>> behalf of the OSGeo Board to track allocation, usage, and
>> revocation of the tokens. The TOAC would consist of 2-3 folks,
>> including at least one OSGeo board member and one OGC staff
>> person. TOAC members to volunteer, and should have both OSGeo and
>> OGC experience. OSGeo Board to appoint initial TOAC chair, etc,
>> just like other osgeo committees operate.
>> 
>> * TOAC should rarely require any actual meetings; emails should
>> suffice.
>> 
>> * Requests for tokens would be made by email, with an explanation
>> of what the token would be used for and why OSGeo should care.
>> TOAC should respond promptly to requests.
>> 
>> * Tokens would be allocated allocated for a fixed period of time
>> (6-12 months?). After that period, the token holder would be
>> required to report on his or her use of the token -- nothing
>> onerous, just an email to the TOAC explaining what he is doing in
>> OGC-land and why OSGeo should care.
>> 
>> * Renewals for tokens should be simple -- as long as no one else
>> is waiting for a token, and as long as the token holder is
>> reporting that he is doing Good and Useful Stuff, then another
>> 6-12 months should be granted.
>> 
>> * Token requestors may be any OSGeo community member (need not be
>> a Charter member or whatever).
>> 
>> * TOAC should report regularly (6-12 months) to OSGeo board and
>> OGC mgmt on use of the tokens. Again, just a decent email would
>> suffice.
>> 
>> * In the event of token demand exceeding token supply, the TOAC
>> should arbitrate based on both (1) how long each token has been
>> in use by one person and (2) hope valuable the usage of that
>> token has been. TOAC to use a consensus-based approach, based on
>> token usage supporting the goals of the foundation.
>> 
>> -mpg
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Aug 14, 2012, at 3:38 PM, Cameron Shorter 
>> <cameron.shorter at gmail.com <mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com>>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> I suggest that it would be a good idea to document a process
>>> for allocating the OGC membership token.
>>> 
>>> Andrea, as you are probably the person with the most pressing
>>> need, would you be interested in putting together a first draft
>>> for what such a process might look like?
>>> 
>>> I'd suggest starting the Draft process here somewhere: 
>>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Standards
>>> 
>>> If the process is suitably complete, we can discuss and sign
>>> off on it it at the next board meeting.
>>> 
>>> Items which I think should be considered in the process: * Why
>>> would we give the membership to one person over another? * Who
>>> would approve the allocation of OGC membership to someone? The 
>>> board? Other OGC members? * What expectations would we have
>>> OSGeo/OGC members? * How long would OSGeo/OGC membership last?
>>> What would be the process for retiring/replacing a member? *
>>> Where would we list the current OSGeo/OGC members? (I'd like
>>> to know who is on this list now)
>>> 
>>> On 15/08/2012 1:28 AM, Michael P. Gerlek wrote:
>>>> Hey, fellow Boarders, do we have anyone who owns this topic?
>>>> 
>>>> -mpg
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Aug 14, 2012, at 5:29 AM, Andrea Aime 
>>>> <andrea.aime at geo-solutions.it
>>>> <mailto:andrea.aime at geo-solutions.it>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi all, I'm wondering what is the status of the 10 OGC
>>>>> personal membership slots that were given to OSGeo.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Are they all taken? If not, is there a particular procedure
>>>>> to follow in order to get one of those?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Cheers Andrea
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>>>>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/standards
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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>>> 
>>> On 15/08/2012 3:14 AM, Michael P. Gerlek wrote:
>>>> I know I posted some ideas for managing this many months ago,
>>>> perhaps before I was on the board…
>>>> 
>>>> I'll add two things to the next mtg agenda: - formalize
>>>> process for allocating and reviewing OGC memberships - give
>>>> one to Andrea Aime (assuming we have an extra one available)
>>>> 
>>>> -mpg
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Aug 14, 2012, at 8:58 AM, Jeff McKenna
>>>> <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi mpg and fellow Board members,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm one of the ones using a slot (I thought it was 6 not
>>>>> 10, but maybe a few years ago it was 6 available).  My
>>>>> process was that I responded on discuss or wherever when I
>>>>> heard of this, and then Arnulf put me in touch with an OGC
>>>>> membership person.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I am not aware of a formal process.
>>>>> 
>>>>> -jeff
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 12-08-14 12:28 PM, Michael P. Gerlek wrote:
>>>>>> Hey, fellow Boarders, do we have anyone who owns this
>>>>>> topic?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> -mpg
>>>>>> 
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>>> 
>>> 
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> 
> 
> -- Cameron Shorter Geospatial Solutions Manager Tel: +61 (0)2 8570
> 5050 Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254
> 
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