[aprssig] A Proposal for the Continuation of APRS

Scott Howard showard at nd.edu
Mon Feb 14 12:33:06 EST 2022


On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 11:34 AM Georg Lukas <georg at op-co.de> wrote:
>
> I also happen to be a member of the XSF (a US-based 501(c)6)
> <https://xmpp.org/about/xmpp-standards-foundation/> which has very
> similar goals (advancing a rather niche protocol through means of an
> open community, limiting the influence of individual vendors, giving out
> licenses to a related trademark, holding the specification copyright),
> and that's running with ~50 volunteer members, of which just a handful
> are really active. This might be a good template to found an APRS
> non-profit.

Thanks for sharing - XMPP is an excellent model, very appropriate for APRS, IMO.



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