Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] UN-GGIM The Future Trends in geospatial information management: the five to ten year vision

[Nathan D]

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Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] UN-GGIM The Future Trends in geospatial information 
management: the five to ten year vision



The United Nations initiative on Global Geospatial Information Management 
(UN-GGIM) aims at playing a leading role in setting the agenda for the 
development of global geospatial information and to promote its use to address 
key global challenges. It provides a forum to liaise and coordinate among 
Member States, and between Member States and international organizations. 
Details at https://ggim.un.org


'The Future Trends in geospatial information management: the five to ten year 
vision – Third Edition, August 2020’  by the United Nations Committee of 
Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management is now published at


https://ggim.un.org/meetings/GGIM-committee/10th-Session/documents/Future_Trends_Report_THIRD_EDITION_digital_accessible.pdf




The section on Open Science might be of interest. I wish to thank all 
colleagues who contribute to open education and open geospatial science [1] for 
bridging the geospatial digital divide. [2],[3],[4]



I am grateful to everyone working to make geoeducation and digital economy 
opportunities available for everyone.



Best wishes,



Suchith



Dr. Suchith Anand

Chief Scientist

Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition

https://www.godan.info




[1] https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/open-geospatial-science/



[2] 
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/applying-open-principles-in-geospatial-education-to-enable-the-right-to-benefit-from-scientific-progress/



[3] 
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/sharing-the-digital-economy-with-everyone/



[4] 
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/please-share-geoforall-teaching-research-resources-colleagues-students/








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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OGC certification fees - Is there a common agreement with OSGeo

[Jody Garnett]

I think there is a MOU between OSGeo and OGC to handle this sort of thing,
see website (https://www.osgeo.org/partners/ogc/), OSGeo also has
interoperability as one of the groups goals (so it is a good activity to
request funding for).
--
Jody Garnett


On Fri, 23 Oct 2020 at 09:05, Régis Haubourg 
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> During the last two years, I have been in running the official
> certification process for QGIS.org and QGIS server.
>
> We have certified [0] QGIS server for WMS 1.3 and more recently the OGC
> APIF 1.0.
>
> Up to now, the OGC team has been very helpful by kindly giving us the
> reference implementation status, which implies no fees to pay.
>
> But this changed just now with a more strict policy - see the response
> below [4] - which ends up in having to pay 300 euros for each
> certification process and yearly renewal process.
>
> QGIS.org could eventually afford this budget, but I'm not sure smaller
> OSGeo project can.
>
> Furthermore, this manual process is already time consuming, a bit
> bureaucratic,  and given that we run continuous integration with OGC
> compliance tests [1], we will probably not struggle to get certified so
> often under these new conditions. That is a bit sad since open source
> really go together with public standards.
>
> Do we have any agreement at the OSGeo level that would ease this part ?
> (I checked the wiki [2] first of course)
>
>
> Thanks for your inputs,
>
> Best regards
>
> Régis
>
> ---
>
> President of the french local Chapter / QGIS contributor
>
>
> [0]
>
> https://www.ogc.org/resource/products?display_opt=1_match=QGIS.org%20(OSGEO%20project)
>
> [1] https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/38644
>
> [2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OGC_Certification_Services
>
>
> [4]
>
> On 22/10/2020 11:25, Gobe Hobona wrote:
> > We appreciate the work done by the QGIS and OSGeo community in
> > supporting OGC standards. Please note however that we are guided by
> > our policies, agreed on by the OGC Membership.
> >
> > Please see Sections 5.5 and 6.3 of the Compliance Testing Policy
> > [https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=55234].
> >
> > The fee is only waived for:
> >
> > * The first three implementations to pass 100% of the compliance
> > procedure, while the test is in beta. We refer to these as Early
> > Implementers.
> > * The first two Reference Implementations that pass the test related
> > to a conformance class within a version of an Implementation Standard.
> >
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