How is the development of OpenLayers ensured in the future?
The OpenLayers project is overseen by a Project Steering Committee which attempts to reflect the varied interests of the OpenLayers community. By having a number of users with commit access to the project, the project is not limited to the whims of any particular corporate decisions, and any questions where consensus is not straightforward/obvious require a vote by the Steering Committee. OpenLayers has graduated from the incubation process and is now a full fledged Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGEO) project. Similar to the Apache or Mozilla Foundations, OSGeo seeks to offer a home for projects to ensure that the project is maintained now and into the future. As part of that process, we are striving to create a project which is both useful and long-lived. We hope to create a self-maintaining project with a wide variety of disparate contributors, so that the community is not tied to any specific corporate interests. [ We have put a lot of time into making a project anyone can con
