[OHM] News regarding OpenHistoricalMap

[todd.d.robbins at gmail.com]

Here, here! Thank you all and I hope to have far more time to volunteer to
the project moving forward.


—Tod



On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 4:17 AM SK53 <sk53.osm at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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>> --
>> Jeff Meyer
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