[Incubator] [MapProxy] MapProxy PSC

[Jody Garnett]

The "OSGeo Community" badge was introduced to support projects such as
MapProxy that are open source, but not in a position to pass incubation
(due to governance model or bus number or ...).

The idea is to offer a cut down list of goals to provide a bigger tent for
more open source spatial projects and encourage the on the open source
aspect where we can.
--
Jody Garnett


On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 at 00:33, Oliver Tonnhofer <olt at omniscale.de> wrote:

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