I think you would have to hit OGC on a very good day. There
are
issues associated with feeding docs through an umbrella
organization,
and in as much as the Foundation could wind up making it
easier for
people to join the foundation than to join OGC, that could
be a bit
of a sticking point.
I have repeatedly pushed for more openness within OGC and
the use of
discussion papers is the result of a major brouhaha I
started in
Atlanta many years ago. I think it would be good for OGC to
be pushed
towards even more open access.
One way to work on the issue is to appoint liaison people
between the
Foundation and OGC and ISO. This works well for WGISS
(http://
wgiss.ceos.org) where we basically have many WGISS members
who are
also OGC members and/or ISO participants. The liaison people
feed
news from OGC/ISO into WGISS and bring issues back.
I would also hope that certain big members of OGC who are
also going
to be Foundation members (*cough* Autodesk *cough*) and
other could
push OGC for more access without the Foundation having to
spend hard
cash on an OGC membership.
Allan
On Jan 30, 2006, at 15:36, Kralidis,Tom [Burlington] wrote:
>
> I think this is a good idea, as the community can have
access to
> what's going on / coming up in the OGC community.
>
> One question I initially have is how does (if at all)
affect
> organizations dealing with open source who are already
OGC
> members? I'm guessing their memberships are different
(e.g.
> voting, etc.), but still worth pondering.
>
> Cheers
>
> ..Tom
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-bounces lists.mapserverfoundation.org on behalf of
> Chris Holmes
> Sent: Mon 30-Jan-06 15:26
> To: discusslists.mapserverfoundation.org
> Cc:
> Subject: [MSF-Discuss] foundation joining OGC and
TC/211?
>
>
>
> So I've been talking to the GeoTools community, and
one idea that
> some
> one suggested that has gained a lot of popularity
would be if the
> foundation was able to join OGC and/or TC/211 and get
access to
> the OGC
> and ISO specs. Not sure if this came up on this list
already, but
> didn't see it on:
> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/community/foundation/b
ackground/
> foundationtasks/
> As open source developers we generally can't afford
access to many of
> the specs that our work is based on and supports. The
OGC has been
> nice about allowing access in special circumstances,
but it would be
> great if the foundation was a member and anyone in a
project
> associated
> with the foundation could get access to the documents.
A non-profit,
> non-voting membership to the OGC only costs $1,100
>
> I'm not sure how feasible this is, or what others feel
about it,
> but for
> many in my communities this would likely be one of the
biggest
> benefits
> joining a foundation could offer.
>
> best regards,
>
> Chris
>
> ***
> Chris Holmes
> The Open Planning Project
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.com
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