Hi Jorge and Luke
Thanks for the activity and welcome MapLibre!
OSGeo is always open to new community projects, please see how you can
apply here:
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Community_Projects
Please reach out to the board or the incubation committee if you need
more information.
Best,
Angelos
On 12/9/20 11:36 PM, Luke Seelenbinder wrote:
Hi List,
Thanks, Jorge.
Today, a few community members met to coordinate those initiatives and agreed to use the
"MapLibre" name as the Github and NPM namespaces to host the library's future
development.
I'm one of the people that's been working especially to coordinate a unified
community response, and as such, I have had cursory discussions regarding this
with Tom Chadwin, Tom Kralidis, and Angelos Tzotsos; I'm also aware of other
people who have discussed this with OSGeo via other channels.
I'm happy to answer any additional questions anyone on the list might have, as
I'm sure any of the other community members would, as well.
From initial discussions, we would like to see how we can proceed to a
possible incubation and eventual community project status, but for now we're
excited to have a clear path forward and are looking to support open source for
web mapping in the future.
Also, glad to be a member of the list, now!
Best,
Luke
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Stadia Maps | Founder
stadiamaps.com | (864) 735-8533
On 9 Dec 2020, at 21:38, Jorge Sanz <xurxos...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello OSGeo,
Some of you may have heard about yesterday's announcement regarding Mapbox GL
JS v2 having a license change[1] from BSD into a closed license. Since Mapbox
GL JS v1.13 is still Open Source (BSD), several people forked the main
repository to continue with the project.
Today, a few community members met to coordinate those initiatives and agreed to use the
"MapLibre" name as the Github and NPM namespaces to host the library's future
development.
One of the objectives pointed out during the meeting was to contact and start
establishing a relationship with the OSGeo Foundation so hence this email :-)
I think I can speak in the name of everyone that met today, to thank and
acknowledge Mapbox for the amazing job done in the library and the Open Source
world, respecting their decision, and hoping they maintain their commitment to
the vast number of many other Open Source libraries and components they have
developed over the years.
You can find more details about MapLibre in this initial coordinating
document[2]. If you are interested in this effort, please keep an eye on the
document, feel free to join the communication channels that suit you, and stay
tuned for a first release of the library under the MapLibre name.
Thanks!
[1] https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js/issues/10162
<https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js/issues/10162>
[2]
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UB8VJ6_vMD9Zxfem7cunwa_G-hXo_ZRY1IeF5iGlh4w/view
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UB8VJ6_vMD9Zxfem7cunwa_G-hXo_ZRY1IeF5iGlh4w/view>--
Jorge Sanz
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