[OSM-talk] Would you like to help shape the future of OSM?

2013-06-03 Thread Johan C 
OSMF chairman Simon Poole blogged on May 7, 2013: *“Now, with the new
editor and our plans for new hardware, we’re stepping up another level to
make OpenStreetMap, not Google, the default choice for mapping and map
data.” *
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Started as an initiative by some community members, four Openstreetmappers
are currently thinking about the future of Openstreetmap. How might OSM
look like in 2020? Is it necessary and, if so, possible to compete with a
50 bln dollar company which can buy anything it wants? What can people,
interested in geographic data, achieve when they cooperate? Is there a need
to increase the feeling to be part of a community? How can we get people to
use Openstreetmap apps and improve the data?

The four Openstreetmappers are Clifford Snow (USA), Dermot McNally (OSMF
board member, Ireland), Dave Corley (Ireland) and Johan de Ruijter (The
Netherlands). We would like to enlarge this 'future team' to a group of
about 10 people, preferrably geographically spread around the globe. If you
are also interested in thinking about the future of OSM, and have enough
time to spend 1 to 2 hours per week on this till Summer 2014, then you're
most welcome to join us by sending a mail to osm...@gmail.com. You can find
more info in the wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Future

Dermot, Clifford, Dave, Johan
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Re: [OSM-talk] Would you like to help shape the future of OSM?

2013-06-03 Thread Serge Wroclawski 
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Johan C osm...@gmail.com wrote:
 OSMF chairman Simon Poole blogged on May 7, 2013: “Now, with the new editor
 and our plans for new hardware, we’re stepping up another level to make
 OpenStreetMap, not Google, the default choice for mapping and map data.”

 Started as an initiative by some community members, four Openstreetmappers
 are currently thinking about the future of Openstreetmap. How might OSM look
 like in 2020? Is it necessary and, if so, possible to compete with a 50 bln
 dollar company which can buy anything it wants? What can people, interested
 in geographic data, achieve when they cooperate? Is there a need to increase
 the feeling to be part of a community? How can we get people to use
 Openstreetmap apps and improve the data?

I'm sure you have noble of intentions, but I have some practical questions:

1. How is this effort different from the efforts in the past of the
Strategic Working Group, for example?

2. What will this group actually do, write recommendation papers?

3. Of your recommendations, what then happens to them? Will these
people on this team then proceed to make them happen? For example, if
you were to suggest that the API needs updating, will you then write
the code? Will you be fundraising for the changes and pay for others
to do so?

4. If the answer to #3 is yes- how will you achieve this? If the
answer is no, then what is the point?

5. The OSM project is largely (though not entirely) a do-ocracy. How
does a group deciding what the future is effect that?

- Serge

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