Jody,

We are in the process of voting on our new Policies and Procedures for 
development of Standards - the vote ends in about a month and then we will see 
if we offer the Community Standards option.

A quick summary: a Community Standard will allow an externally-developed 
“standard” (e.g., a data encoding developed by a commercial entity, a de facto 
standard, or a legacy encoding that is not managed by any particular 
organization) to enter the OGC process in an expedited fashion for endorsement 
as an OGC Standard. Such a standard may share Intellectual Property rights 
between the OGC and originating party. The most important criterion is that the 
proposed standard be broadly implemented: either many different software 
implementations or a few implementations with many users.

Best Regards,
Scott

> On Oct 19, 2015, at 1:46 AM, Jody Garnett <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> The OGC is trying to be easier to get involved with, you can look up the 
> "community standards" here and see what you think.
> 
> Sigh: I just tried and could not find it ... 
> 
> --
> Jody Garnett
> 
> On 18 October 2015 at 03:53, Munich Orientation Convention 
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>  
> 
> Hi Cameron,
> 
>  
> 
> thank you for the kind support. According to Mahatma Gandhi, the stages for 
> innovations are:
> 
>  
> 
> First they ignore you,
> 
> then they laugh at you,
> 
> then they fight you.
> 
> Then you win.
> 
>  
> 
> OGC didn’t reach the second stage.
> 
> From my side, I’m open for any proposals in favor of the consumer, e. g. 50% 
> of the humankind who think to be unable to read maps 
> www.volksnav.de/YouAreHere <http://www.volksnav.de/YouAreHere>.
> 
>  
> 
> Henrique  
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> Von: Cameron Shorter [mailto:[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>] 
> Gesendet: Sonntag, 18. Oktober 2015 11:29
> An: Munich Orientation Convention; [email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>; [email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>; [email protected] <http://volksnav.bi/>; 
> Scott Simmons
> Betreff: Re: [OSGeo-Standards] sponsoring / relevance / standard
> 
>  
> 
> Hi Henrique,
> I suspect that you would be better served to develop a standard under the 
> umbrella of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).
> The OGC is specifically set up to develop spatial standards, where as OSGeo 
> has a focus on Open Source geospatial software (which typically makes use of 
> OGC standards).
> 
> Have you reached out to the OGC community yet? If not, I suggest getting in 
> touch with them. I've CCed Scott Simmons from the OGC, who is also on this 
> list.
> 
> Warm regards,
> Cameron
> 
> On 18/10/2015 7:30 pm, Munich Orientation Convention wrote:
> 
>  
> 
> Hello Jeff,
> 
>  
> 
> I'm deeply grateful that I've been invited to propose to this discussion 
> forum the possibility to let the Munich Orientation Convention be an OSGeo 
> standard.
> 
>  
> 
> So Burundian authorities could discover and prove the benefits of the system. 
> They have already effectuated the creation of the VolksNav S.a  
> www.volksnav.bi <http://www.volksnav.bi/> which will now be the local 
> provider of better orientation tools. VolksNav S.a will also produce maps 
> with clock based search grids and plans to reproduce all introduced systems 
> in other African countries. Investors are already knocking on the door.
> 
>  
> 
> The dominoes will fall from there, the Convention will be a de-facto standard 
> and OSGeo will have no relevance within this process.
> 
>  
> 
> I'd like to return the favor in 2016 as a sponsor. Would this be possible or 
> are there restrictions on that?
> 
>  
> 
> Henrique
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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