[Incubator] [MapProxy] MapProxy PSC

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi Oliver, all

I was wondering what happened with MapProxy and OSGeo incubation and 
found the following links:
https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/851
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MapProxy_Incubation_Application

I think this is a good time to form a PSC and add MapProxy as an OSGeo 
Community Project.

Best regards,
Angelos

On 4/3/20 3:57 PM, Oliver Tonnhofer wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I hope you are all doing fine in this difficult time.
>
> I'd like to share a few information about the MapProxy project and its future.
>
> You all might have noticed that my responses on this lists became rare, and
> that the development of new futures slowed down. This is related to how the
> business changed for our company Omniscale in the last few years and it is now
> clear for us, that we won't continue to work on MapProxy in the future.
>
> However, MapProxy is far from dead. It is in use all around the world and not
> only by end-users, but also by companies that have long term business interest
> in MapProxy.
>
> I think that being the single vendor of MapProxy hindered other developers from
> becoming more active in the past. We like to change this in the coming weeks
> and months.
>
> Right now we have a few developers that are working on improving the dimension
> support in MapProxy. We also talked to a few companies that would love to
> become more active in the development of MapProxy. So I'm confident that we can
> build an active developer community.
>
> I want to bring this forward by building a formal foundation for MapProxy aka
> Project Steering Committee (PSC), similar to a lot of other open source
> projects.
>
> You can read the PSC guidelines of OpenLayers and MapServer as an example:
> - https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/wiki/Steering-Committee
> - https://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-23.html
>
> I will ask a few users and developers off-list in the next week if they are
> interested in becoming a member of the PSC. Please feel free to e-mail me if
> you are also interested or if you want to nominate someone. I think we should
> start with 5-10 members.
>
> Please also let me know if you have any comments about the PSC in general and
> the PSC guidelines.
>
>
> Regards,
> Oliver
>


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Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
President
Open Source Geospatial Foundation
http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos