I'm looking forward to the meeting. It's been a while since I wrote a grant proposal but I'd be interested in contributing to the process.
–Tod On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Jeff Meyer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Karl - > > I echo Rob's invitation to bring these questions to the hangout - they're > probably more interesting to answer in a group. > > That said, various parts of the OSM community have received grant funding > of some sort or another, both directly and indirectly. Mapbox's Knight > Foundation grants come to mind, along with some of the humanitarian grants > HOT has received. Both of those have made positive impacts on the community. > > We may be charting some new territory by trying to go after something like > this, but if we can use this type of funding to move OHM in a direction the > community supports, that would be great. > > And, obviously, if we can figure out a way to support the Orbis Initiative > with OHM in ways that benefit everyone, that would be even better! > > Looking forward to the hangout! > > - Jeff > > > On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 7:47 AM, Rob H Warren <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Karl, >> >> OHM is not OSM. This is actually the 'historic' mailing list of OSM. >> Occasionally, we highjack it for OHM matters and similarly, we try >> Susanna's patience by borrowing time on Wikimaps hangouts. >> >> OHM is not incorporated at the moment and has been supported >> out-of-pocket by a few people and topomancy. Given limited resources, >> decisions have been taken by whomever put in the time to implement them. >> >> There have been a number of grants submitted, sometimes successfully >> even, in the past years to build various bits that needed doing. We need to >> talk about what part of OHM fits within the current NEH call and the team >> that will handle it. >> >> Why don't you add to the etherpad agenda for the hangout? >> https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/OHM_Meeting_Dec_18 >> >> -rhw >> >> >> On Dec 14, 2014, at 8:00 AM, [email protected] wrote: >> >> > Message: 1 >> > Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 10:48:24 -0800 (PST) >> > From: Karl Grossner <[email protected]> >> > To: [email protected] >> > Subject: Re: [OHM] OHM Hangout - 18 Dec, 8am PT US / 4pm London >> > Message-ID: >> > <[email protected]> >> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" >> > >> > Hello OHMers, >> > >> > I'm planning to join the upcoming hangout and have a few questions I >> thought I'd put out in advance... >> > >> > The discussion of going for an NEH grant has me confused. I'm wondering >> how a large(ish) federal grant and the various norms for that sort of thing >> squares with OSM/OHM approached to development so far. For example, grants >> have submitting institutions, and PIs who formulate phasing and technical >> plans for deliverable work products and are then responsible to taxpayers >> for results; key staff are named, etc. etc. >> > >> > My impression of OSM development (no expert, though) is that it has >> come together ad hoc, dev decisions arrived at collectively and so on. Is >> that the case? Has OSM Foundation received government or foundation support >> in the past? If not, is OHM charting a different course? Is anyone "lead" >> or co-lead" from a grant perspective? As OSM Foundation is a UK >> corporation, is it even eligible for NEH funding? Also, it strikes me that >> "mapping what's on the ground" is different from mapping what's on old maps >> in some important ways, with some key research-y questions ahead. >> > >> > Separately, my own interest is in putting together an "Orbis >> Initiative" to build a global historical transport network data repository >> and some tools for ingest, creation, search/browse and analysis. So that >> limits it to settlements and inter-city data for the most part (plus >> maritime) and includes some network analytic tools. I plan to seek big(ish) >> funding and it would happen in a university research/library setting. I >> fully support the idea of OHM and hope for strong connections if not >> integration in the future. As I put this idea together I want to keep you >> all informed and welcome feedback/reaction. >> > >> > cheers, Karl >> > >> > ------------- >> > Karl Grossner >> > Stanford,CA US >> > www.kgeographer.org >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Historic mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic >> > > > -- > Jeff Meyer > Global World History Atlas > www.gwhat.org > [email protected] > 206-676-2347 > > OpenStreetMap: Mapping with a Human Touch > osm: Open Historical Map (OHM) > <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Historical_Map> / my OSM user > page <http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jeffmeyer> > t: @GWHAThistory <https://twitter.com/GWHAThistory> > f: GWHAThistory <https://www.facebook.com/GWHAThistory> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Historic mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic > > -- Tod Robbins Digital Asset Manager, MLIS todrobbins.com | @todrobbins <http://www.twitter.com/#!/todrobbins>
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