[OSGeo-Standards] OGC Meeting in Stresa, Italy and some additional infos

[Jody Garnett]

Arnulf Christl wrote:
> next week the OGC will meet in Stresa, Italy. I know that Jeroen and 
> Jo are coming, I will be there too. Anybody else coming?
I think Martin Desruisseaux is coming, I encourage you visit with him 
and talk. He is currently kick starting GeoAPI into back into life (as I 
understand it free from the shackles of the go-1 specification).
> At the FOSS4G BoF in Victoria Raj presented a new membership type 
> "individual independet developer" and announced that OGC will kindly 
> provide for 10 slots to be used by OGSeo members. As the BoF was not 
> well attended and I never got around tio writing this email followed 
> up we did not make use of this possibility yet. Jo will be the first 
> to opt in to the OGC meeting through this mechanism and I can imagine 
> that over time others will want to join in. I have prepared some 
> information wrt the OGC membership slots in the Wiki. 
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Standards
Thanks; that is great news.

Cheers,
Jody