[Board] Sol Katz / MOSS sources -> new kind of "heritage project" ?

[Jody Garnett]

That is a great idea, amazing they did not keep a digital copy. Did any of
the previous versions ship source code that we could use as an archive?

On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 6:47 AM "Peter Löwe" <peter.loewe at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi board,
>
> a few weeks back I noticed that the sources of MOSS ("oldest open source
> GIS") were taken offline by BLM.
> Others have noticed this earlier as the fact is mentioned on the Sol Katz
> award wikipage (https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Sol_Katz_Award).
>
> In the meantime I contacted the library staff of BLM - they did not keep a
> digital copy of the MOSS sources.
>
> 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.
>
> In the meantime, I went ahead and created a wiki page with links to still
> existing MOSS-related documentation:
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOSS
>
> best,
> Peter
>
> PS: If anyone of y'all should have a local copy of the MOSS repo, please
> speak up :-)
>
> <peter.loewe at gmx.de>
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