I guess it's not a big deal to someone who wasn't using / aware of OrganicMaps, but it is huge to us who loved OM.

The community is incredibly disappointed of the owners of the project (shareholders, original developers) when the volunteer force of the open-source map application wrote a revealing openletter to the owners.

The owners had been misusing the donations / funding of the project - as well as possibly (honestly, most likely) planning to sell out after years of people giving the project their free time (there is much more to this, but I'll keep it short. See the openletter for more info)

CoMaps is a community fork of OrganicMaps, so it is incredibly exciting that the FOSS volunteers have been able to fork the project, set up and organize everything, and are going forward at this speed!

It truly shows the power of FOSS and how companies can't just take something away from all the people who contributed for free and out of passion.

Hope that answers your question! :)

Edit: added more context.