Isabel Drost-Fromm wrote on 7/4/18 7:56 AM: > Hi, > > I have been contacted by a friend who is working on a study about the topic > "Open Source and standardization" for the EU commission. He would like to > be put in touch with someone at the ASF, who can provide their perspective > wrt. to the following two questions: > > * Input on how the ASF views their collaboration (in whatever format) with > standardization organisations. > * Input from ASF projects that sit between open source licenses and IPR > rules and governance frameworks of standardization organisations.
As noted offlist I can provide perspective on the ASF's historical approach as well as some practical advice, at the foundation level. There are definitely a few EU-based members who have done work with standards organizations that would have a better perspective, especially since the relationship with governments and standards bodies is different there (much closer in some ways) than the US. Some of the science-based or geo projects that incubated in the past 5 years would also have good, and more specific comments if you can find the right people. Briefly, the ASF has had formal relationships with the W3C (currently) and JCP in the past. Each of these two cases we assigned an ASF member as a VP to serve as the formal representative, and in each case there were no fees due to our non-profit status. The officer is primarily a coordination point, as a way for any Apache committer to work with the officer to be able to give input to various standards committees in that organization. Note that the ASF as a foundation does not pursue these relationships: we only sign up for them when some of our projects express a clear need to be able to participate organizationally, and when some projects have volunteers who step up to join committees and the like. It's a way that the ASF supports it's projects; not a way to influence standards just for standards sake (so to speak). > I'm happy to put you in touch, if you have a few cycles and would like to > share your perspective. If you are receiving this in your inbox, than > you've been on bcc: to the mail to dev@community.apache.org because I > believe you could have valuable input to share. Let me know if you have a > bit of time so I can get you in touch. > > > Isabel -- - Shane Director & Member The Apache Software Foundation --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
