<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Van: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Martijn van Exel <<a href="mailto:mvexel@gmail.com">mvexel@gmail.com</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Datum: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">1 maart 2008 14:38:16 GMT+01:00</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Aan: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Gervase Markham <<a href="mailto:gerv-gmane@gerv.net">gerv-gmane@gerv.net</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Onderwerp: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Antw.: [OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] Trouble in Rangoon</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div>Op 1 mrt 2008, om 08:42 heeft Gervase Markham het volgende geschreven:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Frederik Ramm wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Well I have been asked whether I'd be willing to "oversee the project<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">from a technical perspective and help [...] set up a technical<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">project description for the funding organisation", and replied with<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">the above.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Right; sorry, I didn't read back in the thread.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">I may have misunderstood, but I thought NLnet were offering to pay<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">particular, named people to perform certain work.<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Maybe, but that wasn't what was discussed in this thread. I said that<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">the whole changeset/revert issue could likely be done on a weekend if<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">the right people were there, to which Martijn replied that funding<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">for such an event could be available.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Well, he knows best of course, having negotiated with them. But it would<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">surprise me if they funded something as unstructured as that.<br></blockquote><br>I'm going to discuss the proposal with them first thing Monday. I wouldn't actually be surprised if they would agree to fund a hack-a-thon of sorts -- they do fund a lot of open source initiatives so they should know these kind of projects defy most project management defaults. See <a href="http://nlnet.nl/project/current.html">http://nlnet.nl/project/current.html</a> for the projects they support currently. We'll be in that list soon.<br></blockquote></div><br><div>Followup: I spoke with my contact at NLNet and he's all for it, if that's the way forward in our opinion. So now we got funding to get some people together to kick off the rollback/history implementation. I think it will be an excellent opportunity to lay out the foundations for the SoC students to work on top of. Still a good plan? Who's in? Who wants to take the lead?</div><div><br></div><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>-- </div><div>martijn van exel -+- mvexel@gmail.com -+- <a href="http://www.schaaltreinen.nl/">http://www.schaaltreinen.nl/</a></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></div></div></body></html>