[OHM] News regarding OpenHistoricalMap
SK53
sk53.osm at gmail.com
Thu May 24 10:16:27 UTC 2018
I'd just like to second everything Jeff has said.
Many thanks to all concerned.
Jerry
On 24 May 2018 at 05:48, Jeff Meyer <jeff at gwhat.org> wrote:
> 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
>
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> 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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