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 would allow for more participation by the open source community in OGC standard development.
I know form previous discussions wearing my GeoTools hat that you have to be a legally constituted body to join the OGC, having a mailing list, web site and SVN wasn't enough which is why GeoTools never became a member (even though a majority of our developers are members). I guess that OSGeo could become a member if the board thought that paying the money was worth it. 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. Ian -- Ian Turton http://www.geotools.org http://pennspace.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
