[OSGeo-Discuss] Using an OSGeo membership to work at the OGC

[Adrian Custer]

Hey all,

In reviewing Arnulf's recent white paper, I was reminded that OSGeo has 
various memberships to the OGC. Since I am in need of re-joining the OGC 
as an individual member, I might be in a position to use such a membership.

Do we have any guidelines on how these memberships are to be used? 
Specifically, if I were to use one of them would I need to 'represent' 
the OSGeo membership in some way (which I would find hard since I have 
always been on the margins of OSGeo) or could I continue to represent 
the 'free software community' as I feel I already do quite a bit at the 
OGC? Are there any other responsiblities that using one of those 
memberships would bring, such as reporting back to OSGeo in some way?

More practically, how would one go about requesting such a membership?

And finally, is anyone actually invested in any of these memberships yet?


Thanks for any information or pointers,
   ~adrian