[OHM] News regarding OpenHistoricalMap

[Jeff Meyer]

Hear, hear!

Huge props to Shekhar, Sanjay, and Tim. It's not easy keeping a site up and
running.

In addition, Rob, you are too humble. I think the community also owes a
debt of gratitude to you for all you've done to keep OHM alive. Many thanks
& so glad to hear that Wikiwar is taking the lead on providing the
continuity we need. There is undoubtedly a lot of blood, sweat, and tears
behind your very kind and exciting update.

Gratefully, respectfully,
Jeff




On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 4:19 PM, Rob H Warren <warren at muninn-project.org>
wrote:

>
> Initially, Open Historical Map was graciously supported by Topomancy LLC
> who paid for both domain and hosting services for a number of years. Since
> 2013, various unfortunate events have hampered OHM: catastrophic disk
> failures, tragic deaths, predatory NGO's, loss of data, frustrated
> contributors and significant donor fatigue in terms of the people-time
> required to run the project.
>
> With Topomancy closing its doors, the domain name and DNS server need
> rehosting and the Wikiwar Heritage Council has stepped up to the plate to
> be the custodian for these. The Wikiwar Heritage Council is a registered
> non-profit organization with the preservation of historical data as its
> primary mission making it the ideal vessel to ensure continuity. Its board
> of directors, which includes OHM task manager maintainer Bert de Bruijn,
> has committed itself to ensuring ongoing management of the DNS and a
> private donation will cover costs for the foreseeable future. A secondary
> fallback DNS server is being stood up by long-standing OHM contributor
> Richard Welty.
>
> If you need a change or addition to the openhistoricalmap.org domains,
> please enter an issue in the website github at [1] and tag the issue with
> the "DNS Ops" label. Someone will respond shortly. With this new support we
> believe OHM will be able to grow into a much more stable project while
> avoiding any more frustrations.
>
> In closing, I'd like to thank Topomancy, namely Shekhar Krishnan, Sanjay
> Bhangar and Tim Waters for believing in the project from the beginning and
> supporting it for so long, the Wikiwar Heritage Council for stepping in and
> everyone who's worked on OHM, sometimes at significant personal cost,
> because things needed to get done.
>
> [1] https://github.com/OpenHistoricalMap/ohm-website/issues
>
>
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