join OpenEoX.org to help consolidate standards

[playphil]

endoflife.date team can ensure compatibility by joining with other industry leaders gathering around https://openeox.org/
It would be great to see additional partnership with the growing visibility of EoS/EoL publishing standards.

[hugovk]

Also mentioned here: #3484 (comment)

Too late to join with voting rights:

Last day to join with voting rights: October 26, 0223 First TC Meeting: November 2, 2023 @ noon ET

https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=openeox

And it would cost $1,700 to join, which I think is a bit steep for an open-source project:

https://www.oasis-open.org/join-a-tc/

[captn3m0]

Thanks @playphil, this looks quite relevant. We were trying something similar with a machine readable spec called releases.json. endoflife-date/releases.json#1

I've left a comment at OpenEoX/openeox#29 to see if we can get an invite.

[captn3m0]

Decided to apply for an organization membership. There's a cheaper individual membership as well ($430), but it is restrictive (other members can't join, no voting rights, and I had some IPR concerns). Going to apply as a non-profit and hope for the best (We aren't a registered entity).

$1700 isn't a small amount, so I'll try to offset it via direct sponsorships towards the membership. Will update with more details soon.