Potlatch: what is the status with Flash / Adobe Air?

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).

There are still 1284 users that contributed to OSM using Potlatch2 since the beginning of 2020. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Editor_usage_stats

If only 250 of them (including me) give 10 € we would get a new, better Potlatch. Richard, how about starting a crowd funding?

+1 I’m in.

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.

Funding Potlatch will be on the next OSMF board agenda: https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Board/Minutes/2020-07#Funding_of_projects_used_in_core_infrastructure_.28Nominatim.2C_osm2pgsql.2C_Potlatch.29

Good news! Potlatch is just too perfect for efficient work on OSM to let it die.

I put my endorsement under Richards application. Potlatch is the most effective tool for my kind of mapping.

Just to say: if you would like to continue to use Potlatch, please do add your name/comments to https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Microgrants/Microgrants_2020/Proposal/Potlatch_2_for_desktop as that will help make the case for the small amount of funding required.

Done.

Done.

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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. :slight_smile:

Good news! :slight_smile:

That’s excellent news.
and as Jan volunteered, happy to Beta test too.

@Richard: as time allows, I’d much like to be available as a beta- or even alpha-tester.

No problem. So far I have a proof-of-concept AIR version launching, but much still to do! I’ll keep this thread updated with progress.

Thanks to OSMF and you, Richard! I am looking forward to the new P3.

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