[Incubator] [MapProxy] MapProxy PSC

[Jody Garnett]

Strictly speaking a PSC is not needed to run a community project, indeed
one motivation for the community project program is to support projects
without a PSC (either smaller projects or those wishing to maintain
corporate control).
--
Jody Garnett


On Fri, 3 Apr 2020 at 06:30, Angelos Tzotsos <gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com> wrote:

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