Indeed. Some background: Richard applied for a grant to port Potlatch 2 to the AIR framework, which would allow it to run as a stand-alone application outside the browser.
Unfortunately, the microgrant committee didn’t select this application as one of the grant recipients. But on the plus side, we now have a price tag. If someone in the OSM ecosystem – be it the OSMF, another organization, or individuals – is willing to spend 2500 € on this, we could get this migration done (assuming Richard is still willing to do it, of course).
Why should I need to add money to continue adding my 0,02 € to OSM like I always could, and gladly did? I am already spending a good deal of time and motivation. Potlatch is the perfect tool for my kind of contribution, if it becomes unavailable then my contributions will stop, too. Unless, of course, a look-and-feel-alike could be concocted.
Absolutely, yes. I’m reluctant to run a crowdfunder myself because I suspect it’d be a week of work in itself. But if OSMF or another organisation wanted to fund the work, I’d still be happy to do so.
Delighted to say that OSMF has agreed to fund the required work to P2 (as well as work to Nominatim and osm2pgsql), so there’ll be a standalone, browser-free version of Potlatch later this autumn.
I haven’t decided yet whether to call it Potlatch 3.
Firefox and Adobe Flash are more and more restrictive when starting Potlatch 2. It would not have been more than 400 000 nodes created by me without this smart map editor. So I hope very much the new standalone version will be ready before Flash will cease to work.
Hello Richard, how are you? Still more than a month left, but I think many of us “Potlatch-fans” are urgently waiting for the new software.
Best wishes
Axel