[Projects] OGC products list

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Jody,

Thanks for picking up the ball on this.  Actually I had added this topic 
to this Thursday's Board meeting agenda, a few weeks ago, but this new 
Projects list is indeed the best place to discuss this.  Thanks.

At FOSS4G Portland we discussed many issues with the OGC's Luis 
Bermudez. Here is an attempt of a summary, so hopefully we can all work 
together to get things set up here now:

- a new 'Open Source Geospatial Foundation' organization/account was 
created (visible at http://www.opengeospatial.org/resource/products/)

- therefore we now have a generic 'osgeo' account with password.  The 
contact name is listed as myself and the contact email is 
info(at)osgeo.org.  My plan is/was to motion to the Board this Thursday 
to pass the account details to the OSGeo Secretary, so he/she can help 
manage/distribute these connection details to OSGeo Project officers 
whenever necessary.  (we can login at 
http://www.opengeospatial.org/resource/products/registration)

- goal is to have all OSGeo 'products' (our projects) listed under the 
one OSGeo organization.

- the OGC was very clear that only OSGeo officers (legal representatives 
of the foundation, and therefore legal authority over the 
'product'/project) can submit implementations etc.

- we therefore made a push with the OSGeo Secretary recently to make 
sure our OSGeo Officers records are accurate (i.e. who exactly is an 
officer of OSGeo: 
http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/board_and_officers.html)

- MapServer and GDAL 'products'/projects were transferred from Daniel 
Morissette's account into OSGeo's organization account, with the help of 
Luis and Daniel at FOSS4G Portland.

- to answer your questions, this is the process we must all figure out 
what is best and makes the most sense, but personally I believe to get 
other projects like GeoServer added to the list, the project's officer 
should contact the OSGeo Secretary (info@) initially, and then the 
secretary will provide account access for submissions etc.

Some unresolved issues:

- there are costs involved in submissions, who covers these costs?

- how do we handle projects/products that are in Incubation?  (such as 
Rasdaman)  Are Incubation projects, and their lead contact, considered 
as legal authority /officer of the OSGeo foundation?

Thoughts?

Let's all work through this together :)

-jeff






On 2014-10-14 3:21 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:
> OSGeo is now listed as an organisation by the OGC (see
> http://www.opengeospatial.org/resource/products).
>
> Questions:
> - Anyone know how we get GeoServer added to that list?
> - Are we in position to run CITE tests and get implementations certified?
>
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
>
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