Thanks for your very significant part in making OpenLayers a success Schuyler! Especially in laying such a solid foundation to build on.
Tim On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 10:25 AM, Schuyler Erle <schuy...@nocat.net> wrote: > Dear friends, > > Recognizing that it has been a very long time since I have been able to > engage actively in the development or leadership of the OpenLayers project, > and writing with great regret, I would like to tender my resignation from > the Project Steering Committee. > > As near as I can tell, the project turns 7 years old next month. > OpenLayers has been wildly successful, by any standard that can be applied > to an Open Source project, or, for that matter, any software project. I > excerpt from http://www.ohloh.net/p/openlayers: > > In a nutshell, OpenLayers... > > * ... has had 6,632 commits made by 78 contributors representing > 118,331 lines of code > * ... is mostly written in JavaScript with a well-commented source > code > * ... has a well established, mature codebase maintained by a very > large development team > * ... took an estimated 30 years of effort (COCOMO model) with its > first commit in May, 2006 and its most recent commit 3 days ago > > That is an impressive accomplishment! > > I cannot tell you how proud I am of the OpenLayers project and our > community. We have fundamentally changed the nature of interactive > cartographic maps on the Web. We have made maps more accessible, and more > flexible, for increasing numbers of people and for an incredible variety of > use cases. We have driven technological innovation in the domain, and and > driven others to innovate. I think it is safe to say that millions of > people have used an OpenLayers map. Our efforts have demonstrably made the > world a better place. > > On a personal note, I can say that OpenLayers has changed my life for the > better. I would not be who I am, or where I am today, without the benefit > of the collaboration that I have enjoyed with you all. I am grateful to > have had the opportunity, and I look forward for the opportunity to > collaborate with any of you again. I thank you, from the bottom of my > heart. I promise I won't be a stranger. > > SDE > > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > d...@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/openlayers-dev > -- Tim Schaub OpenGeo http://opengeo.org/ Expert service straight from the developers.
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