[ZOO-PSC] PSC Chair is no more an OGC membership

[Jeff McKenna]

Gérald maybe you can now respond to Arnulf about this renewal request 
through the Standards list: 
http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/membership-renewals-td5338598.html#a5338619 
  I also think you should just ask to reapply.  -jeff



On 2017-10-16 12:11 PM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
> Hi Gerald,
> 
> My first question was just about to get general info about the slot e.g. 
> when it started.
> I think that given that you missed the e-mail from Barbara, just go 
> ahead and re-apply.
> 
> Best,
> Angelos
> 
> On 10/16/2017 04:42 PM, Fenoy Gerald wrote:
>> Dear Angelos,
>> my answers to your questions are the following:
>>
>>   1) Yes, I can. The OGC slot was a free OGC slot provided by OSGeo (I 
>> don’t know what to answer to your first question ..)
>>
>>   2) Yes my term ended on September 28
>>
>>   3) I would have say no, but after searching in my mailbox, I 
>> unfortunately have to answer yes. I have just found an email from 
>> Barbara for the renewal received on 22 june this year.
>>
>> I have t admit that I did not notice this email, I was probably busy 
>> on something else at the time…
>>
>> Thanks a lot Angelos for pointing this out, now I know that it is my 
>> mistake that the renewal has not been done.
>>
>> I may try to re-apply for another slot as I can see one free slot 
>> still available or investigate other ways to be an OGC member maybe.
>>
>>
>> Gérald Fenoy
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Djay
>>
>>> Le 16 oct. 2017 à 15:33, Angelos Tzotsos <tzotsos at gmail.com> a écrit :
>>>
>>> Dear Gerald,
>>>
>>> Can you please provide some more info about the OGC slot?
>>> It looks like your membership ended 28 Sept 2017, right?
>>> Were you contacted to renew?
>>>
>>> I see this page:
>>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OGC_Membership
>>>
>>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=OGC_Membership&diff=110253&oldid=108522 
>>>
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Angelos
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10/16/2017 04:07 PM, Fenoy Gerald wrote:
>>>> Dear ZOO-PSC,
>>>> I was informed today about the fact that, despite the fact that I 
>>>> take part to as much as possible TC meeting talking about the WPS 
>>>> standard that we try, for some years now, to implement and promote 
>>>> with our ZOO-Project software, I am not more in position to apply 
>>>> for a free OGC slot.
>>>>
>>>> For the people that have the luck to have access to the archive of 
>>>> the WPS-2.0 SWG [1], you may have noticed that some discussions was 
>>>> initiated by me this year about limitations in the WPS 2.0 
>>>> specification and more precisely the schema provided that is not 
>>>> conform to the standard it defines. It started in december last year 
>>>> and was still in discussion during the last TC meeting of the 
>>>> WPS-2.0 SWG to which I have participated remotely as most of the TC 
>>>> meeting. Even if I don’t talk much during those meeting, I listen 
>>>> carefully and I was able to follow any news about the WPS.
>>>>
>>>> So, thanks to this OGC slot provided by OSGeo we were able to be 
>>>> inline with the standard and to helming making the standard better 
>>>> (not to just say correct) but it sounds this is not enough to 
>>>> deserve an OGC slot. So, I thought I have to inform you that first I 
>>>> am no more an OGC member, I hope that some of the WPS-2.0 SWG are in 
>>>> this list, this way I am sure that no question on the modifications 
>>>> I have asked and discussed on the OGC list, and also would like to 
>>>> let you know that if OSGeo helped the project to be involved in OGC 
>>>> for being able to follow its evolution in the past but it is, 
>>>> unfortunately not the case anymore. So, I guess we have to stop 
>>>> thinking that we can still be the most advanced WPS implementation 
>>>> as we won’t be aware of the new standard before it comes out.
>>>>
>>>> So I publicly thanks OSGeo for helping us in the past and I also 
>>>> complain against OSGeo, which in front of our effort and the obvious 
>>>> success of our implication,  give me this simple email informing me 
>>>> that, if I want to continue to be part of OGC, I have to find a 
>>>> company to pay for the registration fees.
>>>>
>>>> Sincerly,
>>>>
>>>>  From a very very sad PSC-Chair
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> [1] https://lists.opengeospatial.org/mailman/listinfo/wps-2.0.swg I 
>>>> would be very pleased to give you the exact link to the discussion, 
>>>> but I cannot as I am no more an OGC member I cannot even access to 
>>>> the discussion I have initiated to solve the issue I have found in 
>>>> the standard.
>>>>
>>>> Gérald Fenoy
>>>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Djay
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>>>> Zoo-psc at lists.osgeo.org
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>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
>>> Charter Member, Board of Directors
>>> Open Source Geospatial Foundation
>>> http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos
>>>