[Board] Upcoming Open Letter to the OGC - with attachment!

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Cameron,

Ok today I'll draft an Open Office cover letter and send back to this
list.  It will contain my signature and a note similar to discussed in
the Board meeting.

More shortly.

-jeff



On 2013-05-17 3:07 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
> Jeff,
> The Open Letter to the OGC is now complete. Can you please deliver to
> Carl as OSGeo President.
> I'll send you a copy of the email separately to send separately.
> 
> On 16/05/2013 4:06 AM, Carl Reed wrote:
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message----- From: Carl Reed
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 9:10 AM
>> To: Cameron Shorter ; OSGeo-Board List
>> Subject: Re: [Board] Upcoming Open Letter to the OGC
>>
>> Cameron -
>>
>> A few editorial edits and some comments as to OGC process and current
>> status
>> of the voting process.
>>
>> Thank you to the OSGeo community and the Board for providing this well
>> considered, non-emotional technical and methodology input. This is
>> very much
>> appreciated.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Carl
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message----- From: Cameron Shorter
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 4:04 AM
>> To: Carl Reed ; OSGeo-Board List
>> Subject: Re: Upcoming Open Letter to the OGC
>>
>> Carl,
>> Thanks for your offer of review.
>>
>> Here is a snapshot of the Geoservices REST API, copied from the webpage:
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geoservices_REST_API
>>
>> I'm planning to tweak this document tomorrow, after comments from the
>> community have closed. However, most of the document should be quite
>> stable.
>>
>> I'll welcome comments which pick up any technical inaccuracies, but
>> suspect that we should be reasonably close to completion by now.
>>
>> On 15/05/2013 7:58 AM, Carl Reed wrote:
>>> Cameron -
>>>
>>> Please send as a word document and I will use track changes. Took
>>> yesterday off . . . took one of my son's kayaking.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Carl
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message----- From: Cameron Shorter
>>> Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2013 7:36 PM
>>> To: Carl Reed
>>> Cc: OSGeo-Board List
>>> Subject: Re: Upcoming Open Letter to the OGC
>>>
>>> Carl,
>>>
>>> As per schedule below, the Open Letter from the OSGeo community is now
>>> draft complete.
>>> The OGC is welcome to review and provide feedback.
>>> My preference would be by email for a small tweak or two, or by copying
>>> into MS word or Open Office, and providing suggestions using "track
>>> changes".
>>>
>>> On 11/05/2013 7:16 AM, Carl Reed wrote:
>>>> Sounds like a plan!
>>>>
>>>> Carl
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Cameron Shorter" <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
>>>> To: "Carl Reed" <creed at opengeospatial.org>
>>>> Cc: "OSGeo-Board List" <board at lists.osgeo.org>, "Jeff McKenna"
>>>> <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>
>>>> Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 3:15:37 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: Upcoming Open Letter to the OGC
>>>>
>>>> Thank you Carl.
>>>> Here is my suggested timeline (using US timezone).
>>>>
>>>> COB Sunday 12 May: Core document is draft ready, "Further Comments"
>>>> section will remain community editable. OSGeo and OGC invited to
>>>> review,
>>>> OSGeo community invited to sign.
>>>>
>>>> COB Wednesday 15 May: Document draft complete. OSGeo/OGC final
>>>> editorial
>>>> pass.
>>>>
>>>> COB Thursday 16 May: Jeff McKenna emails the document to Carl Reed, CC
>>>> OSGeo Discussions <discuss at lists.osgeo.org>, OSGeo-Board
>>>> <board at lists.osgeo.org>
>>>>
>>>> Friday 17 May: Carl Reed forwards email onto OGC community as
>>>> suggested.
>>>>
>>>> ----
>>>>
>>>> Carl, you are welcome to read and comment on the document earlier.
>>>> It is
>>>> being collaboratively edited here:
>>>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geoservices_REST_API
>>>>
>>>> On 11/05/13 00:57, Carl Reed wrote:
>>>>> Cameron -
>>>>>
>>>>> The SWG has discussed and processed the latest technical comments
>>>>> provided with 2 NO votes. They are in the process of discussing
>>>>> changing the name of the candidate standard. The OAB will be
>>>>> discussing the SWG responses to the NO votes as well as some
>>>>> electronic voting ambiguities next Thursday. So, the vote will not
>>>>> reopen until next Friday at the earliest.
>>>>>
>>>>> Does this work fir the OSGeo timeline?
>>>>>
>>>>> If you want some review prior to posting, OGC staff as well as the
>>>>> OAB would be proper OGC fora for such reviews.
>>>>>
>>>>> In terms of submitting the formal letter, please email to me and I
>>>>> will post to the Discuss list and TC Voter list. This would be in my
>>>>> role as TC Chair as well as one of the official OGC staff liaison
>>>>> with OSGeo.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>
>>>>> Carl
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: "Cameron Shorter" <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
>>>>> To: "Carl Reed" <creed at opengeospatial.org>
>>>>> Cc: "OSGeo-Board List" <board at lists.osgeo.org>, "Jeff McKenna"
>>>>> <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>
>>>>> Sent: Thursday, May 9, 2013 8:27:07 PM
>>>>> Subject: Upcoming Open Letter to the OGC
>>>>>
>>>>> Carl,
>>>>> The OSGeo Community is currently writing an open letter the the OGC
>>>>> and
>>>>> OGC voters, which covers OSGeo community sentiment toward the proposed
>>>>> GeoServices REST API standard.
>>>>>
>>>>> We would like to ensure that OGC voters have had the opportunity to
>>>>> read
>>>>> this letter before voting, and would like your advice on what you
>>>>> suggest would be the best way to make this happen.
>>>>>
>>>>> In order to ensure that we have sufficient time to complete and review
>>>>> our letter, I'd prefer to deliver our letter no sooner than Tuesday 14
>>>>> May 2013, and hence delay starting voting until Wednesday 15 May 2013.
>>>>> Is that achievable? If not, can you please tell us at what time voting
>>>>> will be open again.
>>>>>
>>>>> Can you please also suggest the most appropriate forum for delivering
>>>>> our letter.
>>>>> Jeff McKenna, the president of the OSGeo Board, plans to deliver this
>>>>> letter on behalf of the OSGeo Board and the rest of the OSGeo
>>>>> Community.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
> 
> 


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