Hi Paul, Thank you for this announcement.
Wouldn't improving OSM API with valuable features be appropriate with such a funding? https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API_v0.7 How does OSMF feel about that? All the best François Le jeu. 19 nov. 2020 à 17:13, Paul Norman via dev <[email protected]> a écrit : > The OSMF Board is looking at restarting the Engineering Working Group > with a revised scope to include handling paid software development. This > scope needs to be developed with existing and new volunteers, but my > ideas are that it would include > > - Google Summer of Code, > - managing development to be paid by the OSMF by contracts and grants, and > - collaborating with other organizations for multi-organization grants. > > It would do this by by > - placing calls for proposals for paid work on topics like top ten tasks; > - accepting other proposals; > - defining an approximate distribution of OSMF funds for development > between primary/secondary/tertiary services, external services, and new > services; > - encouraging applications from skilled individuals who aren't > professional developers, professional contractors, companies, and others. > > Once the scope and funding distribution guidelines are defined we would > want to start with low-risk projects involving experienced people who > need less management. > > If you are interested in changing the EWG to handle these roles, please > let me know. > > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev >
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