Hi folks: Well, the vote to join the OSG Foundation has ended in a landslide- 74 in favor with 1 (a user curiously named JackD) dissenter. With that, RFC 10 passes and the MapServer Project can proceed and join the foundation. How that happens is still a bit of a mystery. The interim foundation board is working to develop the formal process. To be sure, it will involve combing over the MapServer codebase to address any potential intellectual property or copyright issues.
So what does this mean for MapServer users? For the most part it will be business as usual. The same folks that have been working on the MapServer project will continue to do so. The Technical Steering Committee will remain intact and continue to oversee software development. In the short term you may start to see project infrastructure (bug reporting, mailing lists, etc...) move from University to Foundation servers. In the long term we hope you will continue to see MapServer flourish and benefit from living alongside other great Open Source projects. To learn more about the OSG Foundation and/or to join relevant mailing lists please visit: http://www.osgeo.org/ Steve Chair, MTSC
