[OSGeo-Standards] Re: [Board] OGC compliance certificates for OSGeo projects?

[Jens Fitzke]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

That sounds exactly like what we've been looking for. We'd just need to know if
this is the official version...

Jo Walsh wrote:
> I think it's worth bumping this discussion to the dedicated standards list.
> 
> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/standards/2008-September/000269.html
> links to the OGC-OSGeo MOU.
> 
> " For those reference implementations pass OGC Compliance test procedures, and
> 2) are selected for use by OGC as a reference implementation (or are among the
> two additional tests used by OGC to validate the Compliance test for
> public use),
> the OGC will waive the Trademark License fee associated with Compliance
> certification"
> 
> Was that signed as-is? Does this help at all? There are likely grounds
> for friendly negotiation.
> 
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Daniel
> Morissette<dmorissette at mapgears.com> wrote:
>> I had the same questions for MapServer, we have run it through some of the
>> CITE tests in the last releases and would be ready to get certificates from
>> OGC, but I would like the certificates to be assigned to OSGeo and not
>> Mapgears. Mapgears could "sponsor" the certificate fees, at least for the
>> first year or two, since we had a client funding the certification work, but
>> how to proceed is not clear to me either.
>>
>> It would be great to come up with a standard procedure for all OSGeo
>> projects that are getting OGC certification.
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>> Jens Fitzke wrote:
> 
>>> All,
>>>
>>> deegree (OSGeo project in incubation) is certified to be compliant
>>> against some Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) specifications. It is
>>> planned to apply for certification for a couple of interfaces (e.g.
>>> Web Feature Service). Unfortunately the OGC charges certification with
>>> a yearly fee depending on the total gross annual revenue of a company.
>>> Since deegree is a project rather than the product of a company, I
>>> wonder if OSGeo maintains some kind of Memorandum of Understanding
>>> with the OGC to receive discount on certification fees. Alternatively,
>>> is there funding available to sponsor OGC certification for OSGeo
>>> projects? The amount to be considered is about 200US$ per certificate.
>>>
>>> There is no problem for lat/lon to "sponsor" the certificate fee, but for
>>> transparency reasons I'd rather like an Open Source-aware solution. From
>>> Raj we
>>> already got the information that in general there is no special procedure
>>> for
>>> Open Source projects. But perhaps for OSGeo projects?
>>>
>>> Details can be found on http://www.opengeospatial.org/compliance#products.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Jens
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iEYEARECAAYFAkpeUwEACgkQIaYc4TLqzo8pKwCdH1e/jFvfamBxqVbKOE0eapv3
7TMAniaFsOoN2k9rODedfzZYrtDy8IG+
=yd14
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----