RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO & OGC spec development

2007-07-26 Thread Michael P. Gerlek
gt; [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Allan Doyle > Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 4:25 PM > To: OSGeo Discussions > Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO & OGC spec development > > > On Jul 26, 2007, at 18:08 , Michael P. Gerlek wrote: > > > Sean has a good point: so

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO & OGC spec development

2007-07-26 Thread Allan Doyle
Gillies Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 10:24 AM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO & OGC spec development Michael, Standards bodies are a good thing if they produce good standards. OGC standards tend toward fussy intricacy (compare WFS-T to the Atom Publishing Proto

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO & OGC spec development

2007-07-26 Thread Michael P. Gerlek
rom: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sean Gillies > Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 10:24 AM > To: OSGeo Discussions > Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO & OGC spec development > > Michael, > > Standards bodies are a good thing if they produce

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO & OGC spec development

2007-07-24 Thread Sean Gillies
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeroen Ticheler Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 2:12 PM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO & OGC spec development Hi all, Last week I attended the Open Geospatial Consortium Technical Committee (OG

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO & OGC spec development

2007-07-24 Thread Michael P. Gerlek
rom OGC. (Feel free to send me any comments/positions you'd like me to put forward.) -mpg From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeroen Ticheler Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 2:12 PM To: OSGeo Discussions

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO & OGC spec development

2007-07-19 Thread Lorenzo Becchi
Michael P. Gerlek wrote: Not all of us are interested in standards development, just as not all of us are interested in FundRaising or Metadata or... I'd much prefer to keep the main list for announcements and general topics, not specific threads. P Kishor wrote:, Might I ask, what w

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO & OGC spec development

2007-07-19 Thread Jo Walsh
dear all, On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 10:17:38AM -0400, P Kishor wrote: > Might I ask, what will a separate list accomplish that posting on just > the main OSGeo list won't? Standards are a sufficiently important > subject that all should be concerned with it, and definitely > knowledgeable about. At

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO & OGC spec development

2007-07-19 Thread Michael P. Gerlek
L PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Landon Blake > Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 8:28 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; OSGeo Discussions > Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO & OGC spec development > > What if we kept the standards discussion on this general > maili

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO & OGC spec development

2007-07-19 Thread Landon Blake
, July 19, 2007 7:18 AM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO & OGC spec development Lorenzo, Might I ask, what will a separate list accomplish that posting on just the main OSGeo list won't? Standards are a sufficiently important subject that all should be concerned wit

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO & OGC spec development

2007-07-19 Thread P Kishor
Lorenzo, Might I ask, what will a separate list accomplish that posting on just the main OSGeo list won't? Standards are a sufficiently important subject that all should be concerned with it, and definitely knowledgeable about. Managing all these separate lists is becoming a pain in the derrière

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO & OGC spec development

2007-07-19 Thread Lorenzo Becchi
I agree on [EMAIL PROTECTED] (this list will be spammed even before starting... ) should we proceed creating the list? does anyone disagree? ciao Lorenzo Frank Warmerdam wrote: Michael P. Gerlek wrote: I'd not go so far as to create a list yet -- I'm not sure we know what we're all lookin

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO & OGC spec development

2007-07-18 Thread Frank Warmerdam
Michael P. Gerlek wrote: I'd not go so far as to create a list yet -- I'm not sure we know what we're all looking for at this point. For example: do we really want "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", or perhaps more generally "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"? To my mind, these are two related-but-different, and equally-in

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO & OGC spec development

2007-07-18 Thread Michael P. Gerlek
, and equally-interesting, ideas to explore... -mpg > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lorenzo Becchi > Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 2:15 AM > To: OSGeo Discussions > Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO & OGC spec

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO & OGC spec development

2007-07-18 Thread Lorenzo Becchi
I guess this thread is pretty hot, there are many sub-threads and maybe a good solution could be to set up a mailing list, for the beginning, as: ogc AT osgeo.org Trying to be practical I can offer myself to administer the list as I'm doing with the Spanish Chapter and the Spanish GIS Book. Th

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO & OGC spec development

2007-07-17 Thread Dave Patton
Landon Blake wrote: It appears that some of my concerns about problems with OGC membership remain in place. I'm disappointed to learn that non-members are no longer allowed to join in the discussion. The individual membership option also presents challenges for some open source developers I i

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO & OGC spec development

2007-07-17 Thread Landon Blake
TECTED] On Behalf Of Raj Singh Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 1:28 PM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO & OGC spec development But there is now officially an individual membership category. Info isn't up on the web site yet, but I think its $400/year. You can qualify

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO & OGC spec development

2007-07-17 Thread Raj Singh
But there is now officially an individual membership category. Info isn't up on the web site yet, but I think its $400/year. You can qualify if no one else (such as a full-time employer) has legal rights to all your work. --- Raj On Jul 17, 2007, at 4:23 PM, Paul Ramsey wrote: That's not

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO & OGC spec development

2007-07-17 Thread Paul Ramsey
That's not an option any more, only members and prospective members may attend TC henceforth. Ian Turton wrote: You could also just attend the meetings as a non-member as Paul Ramsey does sometimes, or just ask some of us who do go to meetings to make your points for you. -- Paul Ramsey

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO & OGC spec development

2007-07-17 Thread Ian Turton
On 7/17/07, Landon Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: One of my biggest problems with the OGC is the lack of a practical membership avenue for open source projects and/or programmers. I think it would be great if the OSGeo or some of its participating projects could serve as a vehicle that woul

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO & OGC spec development

2007-07-17 Thread Landon Blake
community in OGC standard development. The Sunburned Surveyor From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeroen Ticheler Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 2:12 PM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO & OGC spec development

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO & OGC spec development

2007-07-17 Thread Jeroen Ticheler
Hi Lorenzo, On 17 Jul 2007, at 1:09 PM, Lorenzo Becchi wrote: Jeroen, all, very important thread to me too. generic questions: - what would it mean to create an OGC Committee? A place where those involved / interested in OGC spec development connect with each other and where OSGEO interest

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO & OGC spec development

2007-07-17 Thread Lorenzo Becchi
Jeroen, all, very important thread to me too. generic questions: - what would it mean to create an OGC Committee? - is it an overhead for the board? - will there be a board member to support this Commitee? is this needed? - does it mean to subscribe as OSGeo to OGC? how much does it cost? I thin

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO & OGC spec development

2007-07-16 Thread Jody Garnett
Thanks for the update Jeroen - going to add one more to your list... Jeroen Ticheler wrote: With this email I would like to touch upon two issues that I think are relevant to OSGEO. I hope bringing this up can trigger some discussion on how OSGEO would best benefit from the OGC spec development

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO & OGC spec development

2007-07-16 Thread Raj Singh
ns Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO & OGC spec development Hi all, Last week I attended the Open Geospatial Consortium Technical Committee (OGC-TC) meeting in Paris. For those not to familiar with this meeting, it consists of a series of Working Group (WG) meetings that mostly run around the

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO & OGC spec development

2007-07-16 Thread Michael P. Gerlek
ECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeroen Ticheler Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 2:12 PM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO & OGC spec development Hi all, Last week I attended the Open Geospatial Consortium

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO & OGC spec development

2007-07-16 Thread Jeroen Ticheler
Hi all, Last week I attended the Open Geospatial Consortium Technical Committee (OGC-TC) meeting in Paris. For those not to familiar with this meeting, it consists of a series of Working Group (WG) meetings that mostly run around the development of specifications (or standards if you wish)