Alan G Isaac wrote:
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Christopher Barker apparently wrote:
how does one get the open source community to be represented in this kind of thing?
Were you pointing us to any particular document there? Full membership (that is, with voting rights) requires a $2500.00 a year membership fee. I think it'll be a bit tricky for an open source project to raise that kind of cash. The result is that you have to buy your way into the group, which favors commercial entities. Granted, they have operating expenses, and $2500 isn't all that much, but it's probably too much for open-source groups to get representation. An associate membership is $250./year, which is far more manageable, but then you don't get voting rights: """ The Associate Membership with no voting rights will have full access to the consortium’s output and be engaged in some of the consortium’s activities and is typically for the user community, both academia and industry ($200 annual fee). """ The SciPy community is not a "user" group, it's a developer group. there are other open source projects worth of representation, such as the GNU Scientific Library. Oh well. -Chris -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer NOAA/OR&R/HAZMAT (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception Chris.Barker@noaa.gov