Lambertus, the only admin of the whole forum, is missing for some time already and can’t be reached, maybe anyone of you have closer contact with him? In case he really is out of reach, the plan is to migrate to a new server. Here’s a special thread about it:
Good you posted here, I thought of doing the same, considering the serious discussions now going on on Talk.
Personally, I can’t help you though, even though I live in the Netherlands. Was Lambertus actually Dutch or Belgium by the way, I can’t recall for sure?
Zoals jullie kunnen zien is er (weer) nogal wat discussie gaande op het engelstalige Talk over de onbereikbaarheid van Lambertus als enige forum admin van het OpenStreetMap Forum, en het risico van alles in de handen van 1 persoon en op een niet door de OSMF beheerde server, terwijl wel veel mensen het forum als zodanig waarderen als communicatiekanaal.
Er gaan nu stemmen op op Talk om een nieuw forum op te zetten met een klein team van admins (zodat dan dus ook niet meer alles in de handen van 1 persoon ligt).
Is er iemand hier die Lambertus persoonlijk kent? Lambertus kwam toch uit Nederland?
I suspect the last thing that will motivate Lambertus to respond is everybody going in to panic mode and banging on his door (and the door is really easy to find)
If sombody from the NL community knows him personally then getting in contact with him would be a good idea, otherwise I would suggest showing some restraint.
I don’t think anyone panicked here or really on Talk, I just summarized some of the communication that had been going on. In general it is just people who would like to see a better accessibility of a forum admin, and preferably a safely and accessibly managed forum server well into the future. It all depends on Lambertus how he perceives this. He may actually be relieved to learn there appear to be some other international forum users willing to step in and take a burden of his shoulders (but that is speculation as well).
That is exactly what I asked in my Dutch post here in this thread.