Standards Committee/Meetings/Meeting-2022-12-19

Date/Time

Monday 19 December 2022 12h - 13h UTC

Location

https://meet.jit.si/OSGeo

Attendees

Angelos Tzotsos Cordina Ilie Joana Simoes Rajat Shinde Tom Kralidis Torsten Friebe

Agenda

• roll call
• terms of reference
• TC representation
• participation
• work items
  • CITE
  • OGC workshop and dedicated onboarding sessions? https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/standards/2022-November/001301.html
    • timeline Q1 2023
    • call for interest Jan 2023
  • bidding for innovation initiatives (as a coordinated OSGeo)
    • how to govern funding from other organizations
    • selection of parts of a bid
    • joint sprint (locations TBC)
      • Q1 2023: Switzerland
      • Q2/Q3: US
      • Q4 2023: London, UK
  • OSGeo / OGC / ASF sprint

Notes

• Scope of committee
  • should be a standards committee
    • OGC (MoU)
    • ISO/TC211 (liaison)
    • other orgs?
      • INSPIRE (ask Marco M?)
      • ANZLIC (Adam S)
      • WMO?
      • ESA? Can be through OGC
      • CEOS?

• Terms of Reference
  • membership
    • any OSGeo standards representation is bound to Charter members
  • how decisions are made
  • how we vote
  • representation
  • communications
    • Draft: https://pads.ccc.de/EbvvxhSLkh
    • Target: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Standards_Committee
    • ACTION: complete draft by next meeting

• OGC TC participation
  • business and technical representative
    • business is ex-officio OSGeo president
    • need OGC TC technical representative
    • need procedure for technical rep selection (email to -standards, etc.?)
    • transparency: record of OSGeo decisions within DWG/SWGs?
    • participant can make decisions in DWG/SWGs
      • reports back on how they voted
      • if multiple participants in a single DWG/SWG, resolve among yourselves
      • report on status of standards/major initiatives to mailing list (pointing to wiki)

• bids
  • needs thinking/planning
  • how to deal with finances
    • managed by standards committee
    • socializing opportunities to community
    • need clear and transparent procedures

• product compliance (annually)
  • gathering test results
    • end of year: submit compliance request
    • on volunteer basis
    • email from OGC
    • forward to existing projects

• onboarding
  • OGC has fixed onboarding sessions for any member
  • can reuse / point community to existing onboarding
  • if a specific OSGeo specific need arises, we can discuss a dedicated session w/ OGC

• joint sprint (OGC/OSGeo/ASF)
  • need to clarify options (Q1 or Q4)

Actions

• ACTION: rename to standards committee (Tom)
• ACTION: reach out to INSPIRE/Marco (Codrina)
• ACTION: clarify with ANZLIC (Codrina)
• ACTION: complete terms of reference on https://pads.ccc.de/EbvvxhSLkh by next meeting (all)
• ACTION: add Rajat and Bruce to OGC membership (Angelos)

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