<div dir="ltr">The "OSGeo Community" badge was introduced to support projects such as MapProxy that are open source, but not in a position to pass incubation (due to governance model or bus number or ...).<div><br></div><div>The idea is to offer a cut down list of goals to provide a bigger tent for more open source spatial projects and encourage the on the open source aspect where we can.<br><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 at 00:33, Oliver Tonnhofer <<a href="mailto:olt@omniscale.de">olt@omniscale.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi Angelos,<br>
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we did not continue with the application because MapProxy was a single-vendor open source product and I realised, that this contradicts the community though of the OSGeo.<br>
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We will likely continue with the incubation process. I will discuss this with the PSC we are building.<br>
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Regards,<br>
Oliver<br>
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OpenStreetMap WMS and tile services | <a href="https://maps.omniscale.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://maps.omniscale.com</a><br>
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> On 3. Apr 2020, at 15:31, Angelos Tzotsos <<a href="mailto:gcpp.kalxas@gmail.com" target="_blank">gcpp.kalxas@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Hi Oliver, all<br>
> <br>
> I was wondering what happened with MapProxy and OSGeo incubation and found the following links:<br>
> <a href="https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/851" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/851</a><br>
> <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MapProxy_Incubation_Application" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MapProxy_Incubation_Application</a><br>
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> I think this is a good time to form a PSC and add MapProxy as an OSGeo Community Project.<br>
> <br>
> Best regards,<br>
> Angelos<br>
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> On 4/3/20 3:57 PM, Oliver Tonnhofer wrote:<br>
>> Hi all,<br>
>> <br>
>> I hope you are all doing fine in this difficult time.<br>
>> <br>
>> I'd like to share a few information about the MapProxy project and its future.<br>
>> <br>
>> You all might have noticed that my responses on this lists became rare, and<br>
>> that the development of new futures slowed down. This is related to how the<br>
>> business changed for our company Omniscale in the last few years and it is now<br>
>> clear for us, that we won't continue to work on MapProxy in the future.<br>
>> <br>
>> However, MapProxy is far from dead. It is in use all around the world and not<br>
>> only by end-users, but also by companies that have long term business interest<br>
>> in MapProxy.<br>
>> <br>
>> I think that being the single vendor of MapProxy hindered other developers from<br>
>> becoming more active in the past. We like to change this in the coming weeks<br>
>> and months.<br>
>> <br>
>> Right now we have a few developers that are working on improving the dimension<br>
>> support in MapProxy. We also talked to a few companies that would love to<br>
>> become more active in the development of MapProxy. So I'm confident that we can<br>
>> build an active developer community.<br>
>> <br>
>> I want to bring this forward by building a formal foundation for MapProxy aka<br>
>> Project Steering Committee (PSC), similar to a lot of other open source<br>
>> projects.<br>
>> <br>
>> You can read the PSC guidelines of OpenLayers and MapServer as an example:<br>
>> - <a href="https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/wiki/Steering-Committee" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/wiki/Steering-Committee</a><br>
>> - <a href="https://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-23.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-23.html</a><br>
>> <br>
>> I will ask a few users and developers off-list in the next week if they are<br>
>> interested in becoming a member of the PSC. Please feel free to e-mail me if<br>
>> you are also interested or if you want to nominate someone. I think we should<br>
>> start with 5-10 members.<br>
>> <br>
>> Please also let me know if you have any comments about the PSC in general and<br>
>> the PSC guidelines.<br>
>> <br>
>> <br>
>> Regards,<br>
>> Oliver<br>
>> <br>
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> -- <br>
> Angelos Tzotsos, PhD<br>
> President<br>
> Open Source Geospatial Foundation<br>
> <a href="http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos</a><br>
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