Standards Committee

OSGeo OGC Committee

Terms of Reference

This Terms of Reference are effective as of 2023-02-01 and will be ongoing until terminated by agreement of the Board.

Mission

The OSGeo Standards Committee aims to harmonize OSGeo representation and efforts with standards organizations to ensure coordination and consistency between OSGeo projects.

Responsibilities of this committee include (but are not limited to):

• Coordinating OSGeo membership to standards organizations (OGC, ISO TC211, etc.)
• Supporting MoUs, liaisons and agreements between OSGeo and standards development organizations
• Planning joint code sprints and meetings with standards organizations
• Contributing OSGeo representation within standards development efforts
• Encouraging projects to participate in the OSGeo Community and Incubation Programs

Membership

• To join the Committee, interested individuals are to send a nomination (self nomination is fine) with an introduction of the candidate/self. The committee will then make a motion at the next meeting
• Members shall add themselves to this page and request membership to a given standards organization via the Issue Tracker (see #Communications)
• Members shall subscribe to the OSGeo Standards Mailing List (see #Communications)
• Members are expected to attend Committee meetings, contributing to discussions, planning and issues

Voting

• Voting occurs as required
• Voting takes place once a Committee member opens a motion on the OSGeo Standards Mailing list
  • Voting period is one week
  • Committee members vote using the following rubric:
  • +1: support the proposal
  • -1: veto the proposal, but must provide clear reasoning and alternate approaches to resolving the issue
  • -0: mild disagreement, but has no effect
  • 0: no opinion
  • +0: mild support, but has no effect
  • Anyone can comment on proposals, but only Committee member votes will be counted
• A proposal will be accepted if it receives 50% quorum (including the author) and no vetoes (-1)
• If a motion does not gather quorum within the voting period, the Committee reserves the right to revisit its active member list and removing members that have not voted within the last year
• If a proposal is vetoed, and it cannot be revised to satisfy all parties, then it can be resubmitted for an override vote in which a majority of all eligible votes indicating +1 is sufficient to pass it
• Note that this is a majority of all committee members, not just those who actively vote
• Upon completion of discussion and voting the author should announce whether they are proceeding (proposal accepted) or are withdrawing (vetoed)
• The Chair gets a vote

Communications

• Communications take place on the OSGeo Standards public mailing list
• Issues and managed at the OSGeo Standards Committee issue tracker
• Meetings are held in public on Jitsi. Participation and attendance is open to anyone

Bootstrapping

• Prior to forming the Committee, this Terms of Reference must be distributed to the OSGeo Standards mailing list / community for review and comment.
• Tom Kralidis is declared initial Chair of the Committee
• Initial Committee members are listed in #Committee_Membership

Meetings

Meetings

Committee Membership

• Tom Kralidis
• Angelos Tzotsos
• Dimitris Kotzinos
• Jonah Sullivan
• Iván Sánchez Ortega
• Torsten Friebe
• Pirmin Kalberer
• Rajat Shinde
• Howard Butler
• Krishna Lodha
• Even Rouault

Issue tracker

https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/standards-committee (login with OSGeo id)