[OSGeo-Standards] Re: [Board] OSGeo-OGC MOU

[Raj Singh]

I can add light to some of these comments...

On Sep 11, at 11:37 AM, jo at frot.org wrote:
> "OGC provides OSGeo with six one year Individual Memberships in the  
> OGC at no charge"
> - Is this six one-year memberships in total or six per year that the  
> MOU runs? If the former, can the years be used in serial (by the  
> same people)?

These are six one-year memberships per year. Assuming the MOU is  
renewed each year, then OSGeo can choose to nominate some of the same  
people each year.

> "OSGeo will collaborate with OGC to identify open source  
> technologies that can
> be used as reference implementations"
> - This places a burden of expectation on OSGeo-as-organisation. The  
> OGC liaisons cited are both full-time staffers; is it expected that  
> the OSGeo liaison will be a volunteer role?
> - Have you or others already identified Foundation projects that are  
> ready or willing to take up the generous OGC offer of waived license  
> fees on acceptance as a reference implementation? Is there a sense  
> of how much new interest this will create in projects not already  
> part of the "OGC loop"? How do you see this aiding collaboration  
> between projects already doing bits of OGC work? (deegree,  
> Geoserver, GeoNetwork - others?)

Current reference implementations are listed at <http://cite.opengeospatial.org/reference 
 >, except for the new SOS and SPS reference implementations developed  
by 52 North. My feeling is that this is simply formalizing a process  
that has already been working well, but I'm interested in hearing  
other thoughts.

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Raj Singh
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