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 <presid...@osgeo.asso.fr> 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&org_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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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