[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO & OGC spec development

[Michael P. Gerlek]

Not all of us are interested in standards development, just as not all of us are interested in FundRaising or Metadata or...  I'd much prefer to keep the main list for announcements and general topics, not specific threads.

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> [mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Landon Blake
> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 8:28 AM
> To: punkish at eidesis.org; OSGeo Discussions
> Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO & OGC spec development
> 
> What if we kept the standards discussion on this general 
> mailing list, but set up a little page on the wiki where we 
> could keep some more permanent notes.
> 
> The Sunburned Surveyor
> 
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> [mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of P Kishor
> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 7:18 AM
> To: OSGeo Discussions
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO & OGC spec development
> 
> Lorenzo,
> 
> Might I ask, what will a separate list accomplish that posting on just
> the main OSGeo list won't? Standards are a sufficiently important
> subject that all should be concerned with it, and definitely
> knowledgeable about.
> 
> Managing all these separate lists is becoming a pain in the derrière
> for me. I would rather see and participate in the standards discussion
> right here on the OSGeo discussion list.
> 
> On 7/19/07, Lorenzo Becchi <lorenzo at ominiverdi.com> wrote:
> > I agree on standards at osgeo.org (this list will be spammed 
> even before
> > starting... )
> >
> > should we proceed creating the list?
> > does anyone disagree?
> >
> > ciao
> > Lorenzo
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> > > Michael P. Gerlek wrote:
> > >> I'd not go so far as to create a list yet -- I'm not 
> sure we know what
> > >> we're all looking for at this point.
> > >>
> > >> For example: do we really want "OGC at osgo.org", or 
> perhaps more generally
> > >> "STANDARDS at osgeo.org"?  To my mind, these are two 
> related-but-different,
> > >> and equally-interesting, ideas to explore...
> > >
> > > Michael,
> > >
> > > I think it should be a "standards" list, not an OGC list, 
> even though
> > > for practical purposes it will be mostly OGC standards.
> > >
> > > Best regards,
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