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

[Fenoy Gerald]

Dear PSC,
I have answered Arnulf that has done a great job.

I will need to reapply for the position as quoted by Jeff.

Maria, thanks for your concern, the OGC slots are handled by Bruce, Arnulf and Jeff.

Best regards,

Gérald Fenoy
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Djay

> Le 16 oct. 2017 à 19:07, Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> a écrit :
> 
> 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
>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>> Zoo-psc mailing list
>>>>> Zoo-psc at lists.osgeo.org
>>>>> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/zoo-psc
>>>> 
>>>> -- 
>>>> Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
>>>> Charter Member, Board of Directors
>>>> Open Source Geospatial Foundation
>>>> http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos
>>>> 
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