[Board] OSGeo / OGC collaboration update

[Tom Kralidis]

Adding a subject (sorry!)

On Thu, 16 Jan 2020, Tom Kralidis wrote:

> Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 14:45:46 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Tom Kralidis <tomkralidis at gmail.com>
> To: ssimmons at ogc.org
> Cc: board at lists.osgeo.org
> 
> Hi Scott: hope all is well.  Happy New Year and all the best for 2020!
>
> Following up from our OSGeo / OGC discussion in August 2019 (see
> notes/minutes in [1], some areas of interest we can move forward on 
> collaboratively:
>
> 1. OSGeo code sprint in Athens [2]
>
> As discussed in a separate thread it would be great to have OGC at the event.
> We have communicated the event to the OGC API - Records SWG which could be a
> suitable sprint during that time.  Angelos, Stephan (Meissl), myself and 
> others
> will continue to work with you/OGC to realize OGC presence in Athens in May.
> We are also discussing having an OGC API presentation at the sprint by 
> someone
> from OGC.
>
> Cross pollination between OGC and OSGeo sprints would IMO result in
> significant advances to both OGC standards development as well as OSGeo
> adoption of same.
>
> 2. CITE teamengine OSGeo project incubation
>
> CITE is a very important part of many OSGeo projects.  It would be valuable 
> to
> have someone from the CITE / teamengine project in support of completing
> incubation to become an official OSGeo project, as well as potentially 
> working
> with OSGeo projects on sprinting OGC Compliance as required.
>
> 3. OSGeo voting status
>
> We briefly discussed OSGeo having a vote as part of our membership.  Any 
> thoughts
> on this possibility?
>
> 4. OSGeo / OGC MOU
>
> Bruce Bannerman has offered to review the MOU and gather/provide some input
> on evolving the MOU over time.  I am following up with Bruce shortly and we
> hope to provide feedback/input in the near future.
>
> Looking forward to your thoughts and continued collaboration.
>
> Thanks
>
> ..Tom
>
> [1] 
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/14rjAaJJwi4nfJWmhs-JE_nQu26SwTkYxmWS1OSNWt00/edit#heading=h.73mkgfqvce1t
> [2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2020
>