<div dir="ltr">I hope it won't require much effort, I really just want to put the codebase on osgeo github (wider reach than our gitlab), and set up a page on the website (perhaps link to it from the sol katz award page).<div><br></div><div>Perhaps I missed something, I am not aware of any hardcopy materials, if there are any it would be up to <a href="mailto:secretary@osgeo.org">secretary@osgeo.org</a> to manage.<br clear="all"><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><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 8 Oct 2020 at 17:38, Bruce Bannerman <<a href="mailto:bruce.bannerman.osgeo@gmail.com">bruce.bannerman.osgeo@gmail.com</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"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">Hi Jody,<div><br></div><div>I’ve been following the discussions on the Board list.</div><div><br></div><div>I can still remember being trained in MOSS in the mid 80’s. It certainly made an impression on me having then come from a mainly Intergraph IGDS background.</div><div><br></div><div>I believe that:</div><div><br></div><div><ul><li>It is appropriate for OSGeo to be the ‘Home’ for the legacy MOSS IP and artefacts.</li></ul><div><br></div><ul><li>It will probably require some effort to put this together.</li></ul><div><br></div><ul><li>From the discussions that I’ve seen so far, I suspect that there is also hardcopy material as well that will need to be archived:</li><ul><li>I recall a similar discussion a year or two ago about some legacy GRASS hardcopy materials.</li><li>I don’t know that a group of virtual volunteers is necessarily the right forum for preserving these hardcopy artefacts.</li><li>Where could they be physically located and preserved?</li><li>However, the hardcopy artefacts may be very important as evidence of ‘prior art’, for those organisations and countries that need to deal with ’software patents’.</li></ul></ul><div><br></div><div>Kind regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Bruce</div><div><br></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 7 Oct 2020, at 14:54, Jody Garnett <<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" target="_blank">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Apparently the source code for the MOSS project, the work of Sol Katz, has been recovered.<div>Starting an email thread with respect to providing a "home" for this source code at OSGeo (figured the incubation committee was in the best position to act).<br></div><div><br></div><div><div>Holding on to inactive projects, is good in terms of IP precedence, and in this case as a historical artifact.<br></div></div><div><br></div><div>The discussion on the board has proposed a "heritage" status, we already have <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Project_Retiring_Process" target="_blank">project retiring process</a>, used for community mapbuilder (see <a href="https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/322" target="_blank">#322</a>).</div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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