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

Committee Membership

Issue tracker

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