[Talk-ca] Status of openstreetmap.ca

[Darryl Shpak]

Hi everyone,

A couple weeks ago there was some discussion surrounding the 
Openstreetmap.ca domain. I'm here to clear things up :-)

I am the OSM user DShpak who owns and manages the domain. It has not 
expired or been scooped up by anyone else - apparently when I renewed 
it, the registrar (Domainsatcost.ca) changed something so the whois 
information looks different. False alarm - the domain is still in good 
shape. The email address I had linked to the domain (and my OSM account) 
were out-of-date, so it took a while for me to see the various attempts 
that people had made to contact me. My apologies.

I don't have any access to, or control over, the website contents; 
that's all Jason Reid. Over the last couple days, though, I've been in 
contact with a number of talk-ca members, and the net effect is:
- I will investigate what I can do to get multiple admins for the 
domain, to make sure this sort of thing doesn't happen again.
- It looks like I'll be getting involved in OSM again, after a couple 
years of inactivity. This is a good thing :)
- We are attempting to contact Jason Reid and figure out what the next 
steps for the website are.

Anyway, I'm very glad to see how much interest and activity there is in 
OSM in Canada -- it looks like things have picked up considerably from 
the last time I was active. Here's hoping the end result is a better, 
and better-managed, website!

- Darryl