[MapProxy] MapProxy PSC

[Just van den Broecke]

Hi Oliver,

Kudos! You and team did so much to make MapProxy a/the Swiss (ok German 
;-) ) army knive for tiling. Thank you for that! As a daily user and 
promoter of MapProxy I would really like this great project to sustain 
and grow. Though I have not made (code) contributions, I hereby offer my 
help in any way, like PSC member. We have a growing GeoPython project 
community at https://github.com/geopython where I do contribute actively 
to several projects.

Kind regards,

Just van den Broecke
The Netherlands

On 03-04-20 15:31, Angelos Tzotsos 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
>>
> 
>