[Incubator] [MapProxy] MapProxy PSC

[Oliver Tonnhofer]

Hi Angelos,

we did not continue with the application because MapProxy was a single-vendor open source product and I realised, that this contradicts the community though of the OSGeo.

We will likely continue with the incubation process. I will discuss this with the PSC we are building.

Regards,
Oliver

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Oliver Tonnhofer  | Omniscale GmbH & Co KG  | https://omniscale.com
OpenStreetMap WMS and tile services         | https://maps.omniscale.com







> On 3. Apr 2020, at 15:31, 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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