End of life for Community Mapbuilder
We, the Mapbuilder Project Steering Committee, have agreed that the
time has come for the Community
Mapbuilder
project to gracefully retire. We will release a final, stable 1.5
version of the software, and afterwards there are no planned
enhancements to
Hello Cameron!
Excellent decision! It takes a lot of courage to admit that the value of
a project is decreased because of the competition. Despite the fact that
some components of mapbuilder are really great!
I hope the knowledge of the people who worked on mapbuilder will find
its way into the
Cameron - this is indeed an extremely interesting message.
I need to thank you (and your team) for drafting a communication that
may be of interest for many.
Just a sidebar note, below, as the concept of a retired application
made me smile...(see below)
2008/7/28 Cameron Shorter [EMAIL
Cameron Shorter wrote:
End of life for Community Mapbuilder
We, the Mapbuilder Project Steering Committee, have agreed that the time
has come for the Community Mapbuilder http://communitymapbuilder.org/
project to gracefully retire. We will release a final, stable 1.5
version of the
Hi Cameron and others,
Congratulations indeed for the decision and way forward!
Looking at what for instance the Apache Jakarta Project does, adding a
Retired projects page seems a good solution. Elegant and clear. See http://jakarta.apache.org/site/retired-projects.html
I have no problem with
I remember Mike Adair's demo of MapBuilder to me, long ago at an OGC
meeting, and how impressed I was. The kinds of things they were doing
were ground-breaking. I think the entire Geo FOSS community has been
strengthened by the accomplishments of this project. I can understand
the
Mike's mention of the key role of a BoF in cooperation among projects is as
good a reason as any to mention that you can plan your BoF session for 2008
here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G2008_BOF_Sessions. Who knows where it
will lead?
Gavin
FOSS4G2008 conference chair
Just a quick note to invite projects and committees to present a
brief update at the meeting. Just sign up here:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Annual_General_Meeting_2008
Tyler
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Thought this might interest you.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2008/07/28/ot-bomb-080728.html
It makes me wonder how in touch my local authorities are with the
suspicious packages I'm planting around our urban fringe. Hmmm...
I hope they know geospatial information is important and
Thanks to everyone for their kind words.
In specific answer to some of Frank's questions:
* Yes, feel free to forward on this announcement through whatever
channels you wish.
* Yes, we should:
1. Through the incubation committee set up a process for retiring projects.
2. Hide mapbuilder
Thank to Community Mapbuilder and CS.
I learned a lot from Mapbuilder.
Bui Hong Son
Deputy Chief of SCIREN
http://ciren.vn
http://www2.hcm.ciren.gov.vn/cirengis
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