Hi Bertrand, thank you so much for these precious informations.
Let's see if this contribution that I'm starting with an individual membership can bring some value also for the Foundation. I'll try to involve Chris to receive another opinion about a potential involvement. I'll update all of you about this during the next weeks / months. Cheers, PJ 2018-05-23 10:50 GMT+02:00 Bertrand Delacretaz <bdelacre...@apache.org>: > Hi PJ, > > On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 1:30 AM, Piergiorgio Lucidi > <piergior...@apache.org> wrote: > > ...I'm wondering if the ASF was never been involved in this kind of > > contributions or if it can be any problem with our involvement on this in > > terms of brand.... > > We have a VP of w3c relations (currently Andy Seaborne) but I'm not > sure what our status in the W3C is (due to my own ignorance and cannot > find that info right now). > > We also have connections with the Open Geospatial Consortium as per > https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/apachecon- > and-the-open-geospatial > but AFAIK no official status in there - I might be wrong (sorry about > being somewhat vague ;-) > > In general, we will only become a member of such organizations if we > feel *very* comfortable about that in terms of brand, respecting our > fierce independence principles, no pay-to-play etc. So that rarely > happens but it's not impossible. > > In this case the best is probably to approach projects which have > already shown interest in such things, like Tika, and start building > interest and maybe a more concrete proposal if you think some > membership makes sense after talking to those projects. > > -Bertrand > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > > -- Piergiorgio
