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

Tue Oct 17 02:11:00 PDT 2017

Thank you Gérald for this update.
I scincerely hope you can get a new free OGC slot ASAP and continue to
actively contribute to the WPS standard definition on behalf of OSGeo and
ZOO-Project.

Best,

Nick

2017-10-17 9:49 GMT+02:00 Fenoy Gerald <gerald.fenoy at geolabs.fr>:

> 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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