<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Paul,</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you for this announcement.</div><div><br></div><div>Wouldn't improving OSM API with valuable features be appropriate with such a funding?</div><div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API_v0.7">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API_v0.7</a></div><div><br></div><div>How does OSMF feel about that?</div><div><br></div><div>All the best</div><div><br></div><div>François<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le jeu. 19 nov. 2020 à 17:13, Paul Norman via dev <<a href="mailto:dev@openstreetmap.org">dev@openstreetmap.org</a>> a écrit :<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">The OSMF Board is looking at restarting the Engineering Working Group <br>
with a revised scope to include handling paid software development. This <br>
scope needs to be developed with existing and new volunteers, but my <br>
ideas are that it would include<br>
<br>
- Google Summer of Code,<br>
- managing development to be paid by the OSMF by contracts and grants, and<br>
- collaborating with other organizations for multi-organization grants.<br>
<br>
It would do this by by<br>
- placing calls for proposals for paid work on topics like top ten tasks;<br>
- accepting other proposals;<br>
- defining an approximate distribution of OSMF funds for development <br>
between primary/secondary/tertiary services, external services, and new <br>
services;<br>
- encouraging applications from skilled individuals who aren't <br>
professional developers, professional contractors, companies, and others.<br>
<br>
Once the scope and funding distribution guidelines are defined we would <br>
want to start with low-risk projects involving experienced people who <br>
need less management.<br>
<br>
If you are interested in changing the EWG to handle these roles, please <br>
let me know.<br>
<br>
<br>
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