Per the instructions, I’ve tried to reach out to maintainers over the repo without response in trying to maintain / update for ROS2. I’d like to take over maintainership or be added to the https://github.com/ros-geographic-info organization so I can keep it moving forward for ROS2. This is now blocking important packages like robot_localization which more or less blocks all of navigation on hardware in ROS2.
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For reference can you point to your attempted communications with the maintainers. It’s also valuable to mention them in these communications if they have an account. I don’t think Jack has an account but @bmagyar does.
Communication has been here https://github.com/ros-geographic-info/geographic_info/pull/28
Thanks for the tagging!
Hey guys,
Thanks for the ping. Unfortunately I can’t dedicate time to ROS2 geographic info… 
I’d also prefer to be made an owner, unfortunately I’m only a member so I can’t add new people to the org.
I’ve sent an email to Jack though 
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thanks for the email to Jack!
@smac I’ve now invited you as a member to the ros-geographic-info organization. Let me know if that works for you.
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@clalancette thanks! Adding to the org didn’t give me write access to the repos. Can you add me to at least geographic_info and its release repository so I can get ROS2 binaries out?
That’s annoying, I thought it would. Anyway, I just added you to the “Developers” team under ros-geographic-info, and I think that should give you write access to all of the repositories. Again, please let me know if it doesn’t and I’ll click more buttons .
Ah, it is now. Thanks for the assistance.
May I also suggest an icon for the organization? I was bored over lunch and it doesn’t have one.
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An updated logo would be fun, but I might suggest that one might have a bit of a trademark collision, and would likely not make sense to a worldwide audience 
When one’s picked it would be great to add it over here too: https://github.com/ros-infrastructure/artwork/tree/master/orgunits
yea… Perhaps replacing the center circle with a globe or cartoon of blue marble would work.
What’s life without a little trademark infringement?
@tfoote how about this? I made sure the base image was commercial/free/attributeless.
Edit: @ruffsl just beat me with your comment by seconds
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@clalancette do you mind updating the image on the org? Its been accepted into ros-infra/artwork.
I also don’t have permissions for that 
I’ve set it as the “avatar” picture for the ros-geographic-info organization. Let me know if I need to do anything else.