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

[Cameron Shorter]

Peter, have you tried looking for the source in the Internet Archive: 
https://archive.org/

On 29/3/19 1:21 am, Jody Garnett wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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 <mailto:peter.loewe at gmx.de>>
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