[OHM] Administrative changes to the OHM Github organization

[Albin Larsson]

Hi everyone,

While it has been a while since I last checked in I have been watching the
project from the sideline with great interest. There lately have been a lot
of great work on OHM related projects but there have also been growing
concern among some core OHM contributors[0] about the sustainability of the
project in conjunction with growing pressure on these individuals.

One contributing factor is the many members of the Github organization
contributing to many projects. One result of this is that it is no longer
clear what version of what software on Github is actually running on the
server if any of it (including the ohm-website one). As a result the Github
projects does not facilitate the OHM project in a way that enables
collaboration and contributions. To deal with this I have taken action and
removed all other people than myself from the Github organization. I’m
sorry for the possible disruption this might cause you, but we were at a
point with OHM Github having dozens of owners. This is not good practice.

Going forward you are free to fork or clone the project you are currently
working on or contact me to have one transfered to you. The final aim is
that the code on Github should represent the code hosted on
openhistoricalmap.org. This will allow legatime pull request to be merged
and actually deployed to production. Projects not claimed by November 30
will be archived and moved to another Github organization.

While this might disrupt your work and be unpopular this is solely done to
ensure the sustainability of the project and to ease pressure on fellow
contributors. Moving forward we would like to remind all of you that many
open source contributors including myself spend their free time on projects
like OHM and prioritize this among other things such as work and their
families. Please keep this in mind when you ask for help and support.

On a final note I would like to thank everyone who has contributed to the
project in various ways over the years, no matter if you have written blog
posts, done programming, experiments, mapping or fixed server problems,
without your efforts the project would not be around.

[0]: https://www.openhistoricalmap.org/about

Best regards

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Albin Larsson
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