On 5/30/13 2:54 PM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
Adrian,
According to http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OGC_membership we have open slots.
It seems that Arnulf and Michael can authorize it. There are some fairly
restrictive conditions on OGC individual memberships which is what this is.
You should confirm you are going to fit.
http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/join/level/individual
Indeed that is my current status: the 'you can do all the work but can't
vote' level of membership.
It isn't clear that these memberships imply you exactly speak for OSGeo
though you can certainly give your affiliation as OSGeo.
Right. I could only 'speak for OSGeo' on any particular topic when,
after discussion, OSGeo has formulated one, or probably several,
positions on any issues. In general I would speak as 'one of the horde
of free software actors'.
It would be wonderful to use this mechanism to give you standing at OGC as
I know you will make good use of it.
Thanks.
Best regards,
Frank
~adrian
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Adrian Custer <[email protected]> wrote:
Hey all,
As I remember it, OSGeo has been granted a number of liaison memberships
(six?) from the OGC. Are they all being used? If not, what would be the
process to obtain one?
In past years, I have been reluctant to officially represent OSGeo and so
have paid for a membership on my own. Nonetheless, I have been pushing the
OGC on openness, the consideration of free software, and issues arising
from the 'OSGeo point of view' ever since I started participating at the
OGC. I have also been acting unofficially as a bridge between the two
organizations (with the good and bad that comes from that such as, in the
last few days, being unable to announce the end of the 'GeoServices REST'
debacle). Now I am considering making this work and my association between
the two organizations more formal.
Therefore, if you all are willing, and if a membership were available, I
would like to take this on as a formal role and represent all of you at the
OGC. It would mean I would show up to meetings and sign my authorship of
whatever documents with the affiliation 'OSGeo'. In the future, I also
would plan to lobby the OGC to grant OSGeo a formal vote in the proceedings
of the technical committee. That will be hard to obtain since we will not
be pitching in the mega-cash that the OGC needs to sustain their way of
operating; however, it might be possible someday, especially if we start
contributing effectively to their work.
Sincerely,
Adrian Custer
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