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<div>FWIW: Regarding MOSS I contacted the original programmer, Carl Reed (<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlreediii/" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlreediii/</a>). He still cares about MOSS (<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/reedsgishistory/Home/short-history-of-the-moss-gis" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/reedsgishistory/Home/short-history-of-the-moss-gis</a>) and is also investigating where to find a copy. If at a FOSS4G event a speaker is needed to tell the MOSS story, he would be the right guy. </div>
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<div>best,</div>
<div>peter</div>
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<div style="margin: 0 0 10.0px 0;"><b>Gesendet:</b> Donnerstag, 28. März 2019 um 14:57 Uhr<br/>
<b>Von:</b> "Brian M Hamlin" <maplabs@light42.com><br/>
<b>An:</b> "Peter Löwe" <peter.loewe@gmx.de><br/>
<b>Betreff:</b> Re: [Board] Sol Katz / MOSS sources -> new kind of "heritage project" ?</div>
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;"><span style="font-family: none;font-size: 14.0pt;color: rgb(0,0,0);background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">Hi Peter - thanks for your good attention here..</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;"><span style="font-family: none;font-size: 14.0pt;color: rgb(0,0,0);background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">In the coming years, the GMT project may also be a candidate for this</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;"><span style="font-family: none;font-size: 14.0pt;color: rgb(0,0,0);background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> best regards from Berkeley, --Brian</span></p>
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On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 14:46:55 +0100, "Peter Löwe" <peter.loewe@gmx.de> wrote:</p>
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a few weeks back I noticed that the sources of MOSS ("oldest open source GIS") were taken offline by BLM.<br/>
Others have noticed this earlier as the fact is mentioned on the Sol Katz award wikipage (https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Sol_Katz_Award).<br/>
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In the meantime I contacted the library staff of BLM - they did not keep a digital copy of the MOSS sources.<br/>
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If the source code of MOSS should be recovered, I would like to propose to make MOSS a OSGeo "heritage" project or something similar, and to preserve the sources in an OSGeo-controlled software repo. At the very least, we could make sure to deposit the code in the Zenodo archive.<br/>
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In the meantime, I went ahead and created a wiki page with links to still existing MOSS-related documentation:<br/>
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOSS<br/>
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best,<br/>
Peter<br/>
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PS: If anyone of y'all should have a local copy of the MOSS repo, please speak up :-)<br/>
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