Hear, hear! Huge props to Shekhar, Sanjay, and Tim. It's not easy keeping a site up and running.
In addition, Rob, you are too humble. I think the community also owes a debt of gratitude to you for all you've done to keep OHM alive. Many thanks & so glad to hear that Wikiwar is taking the lead on providing the continuity we need. There is undoubtedly a lot of blood, sweat, and tears behind your very kind and exciting update. Gratefully, respectfully, Jeff On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 4:19 PM, Rob H Warren <[email protected]> wrote: > > Initially, Open Historical Map was graciously supported by Topomancy LLC > who paid for both domain and hosting services for a number of years. Since > 2013, various unfortunate events have hampered OHM: catastrophic disk > failures, tragic deaths, predatory NGO's, loss of data, frustrated > contributors and significant donor fatigue in terms of the people-time > required to run the project. > > With Topomancy closing its doors, the domain name and DNS server need > rehosting and the Wikiwar Heritage Council has stepped up to the plate to > be the custodian for these. The Wikiwar Heritage Council is a registered > non-profit organization with the preservation of historical data as its > primary mission making it the ideal vessel to ensure continuity. Its board > of directors, which includes OHM task manager maintainer Bert de Bruijn, > has committed itself to ensuring ongoing management of the DNS and a > private donation will cover costs for the foreseeable future. A secondary > fallback DNS server is being stood up by long-standing OHM contributor > Richard Welty. > > If you need a change or addition to the openhistoricalmap.org domains, > please enter an issue in the website github at [1] and tag the issue with > the "DNS Ops" label. Someone will respond shortly. With this new support we > believe OHM will be able to grow into a much more stable project while > avoiding any more frustrations. > > In closing, I'd like to thank Topomancy, namely Shekhar Krishnan, Sanjay > Bhangar and Tim Waters for believing in the project from the beginning and > supporting it for so long, the Wikiwar Heritage Council for stepping in and > everyone who's worked on OHM, sometimes at significant personal cost, > because things needed to get done. > > [1] https://github.com/OpenHistoricalMap/ohm-website/issues > > > _______________________________________________ > Historic mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic > -- Jeff Meyer 206-676-2347 osm: Open Historical Map (OHM) <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Historical_Map> / my OSM user page <http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jeffmeyer> t: @OpenHistMap
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