[OSGeo-Discuss] OGC certification fees - Is there a common agreement with OSGeo

[Régis Haubourg]

Yuk, wrong thread, sorry for the noise, I'll open a dedicated one.

Régis

On 23/10/2020 18:05, Régis Haubourg wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> During the last two years, I have been in running the official
> certification process for QGIS.org and QGIS server.
>
> We have certified [0] QGIS server for WMS 1.3 and more recently the OGC
> APIF 1.0.
>
> Up to now, the OGC team has been very helpful by kindly giving us the
> reference implementation status, which implies no fees to pay.
>
> But this changed just now with a more strict policy - see the response
> below [4] - which ends up in having to pay 300 euros for each
> certification process and yearly renewal process.
>
> QGIS.org could eventually afford this budget, but I'm not sure smaller
> OSGeo project can.
>
> Furthermore, this manual process is already time consuming, a bit
> bureaucratic,  and given that we run continuous integration with OGC
> compliance tests [1], we will probably not struggle to get certified so
> often under these new conditions. That is a bit sad since open source
> really go together with public standards.
>
> Do we have any agreement at the OSGeo level that would ease this part ? 
> (I checked the wiki [2] first of course)
>
>
> Thanks for your inputs,
>
> Best regards
>
> Régis
>
> ---
>
> President of the french local Chapter / QGIS contributor
>
>
> [0]
> https://www.ogc.org/resource/products?display_opt=1&org_match=QGIS.org%20(OSGEO%20project)
>
> [1] https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/38644
>
> [2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OGC_Certification_Services
>
>
> [4]
>
> On 22/10/2020 11:25, Gobe Hobona wrote:
>> We appreciate the work done by the QGIS and OSGeo community in
>> supporting OGC standards. Please note however that we are guided by
>> our policies, agreed on by the OGC Membership.
>>
>> Please see Sections 5.5 and 6.3 of the Compliance Testing Policy
>> [https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=55234].
>>
>> The fee is only waived for:
>>
>> * The first three implementations to pass 100% of the compliance
>> procedure, while the test is in beta. We refer to these as Early
>> Implementers.
>> * The first two Reference Implementations that pass the test related
>> to a conformance class within a version of an Implementation Standard.
>>
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Régis Haubourg
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