[Projects] OGC products list

[Jeff McKenna]

On 2014-10-14 4:48 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
> 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.

Of course I forgot to mention that in the case of GeoServer, the records 
are currently being maintained by Boundless, and a transfer of sorts 
would have to occur.

Anyway I'm interested to hear yours and all project officer's opinions. 
  I can then bring this to the OSGeo Board on Thursday.


>
> 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
>
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> 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
>>
>>