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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Aug 3, 2020, 23:44 by osm@tobias-knerr.de:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>And once the OSMF makes use of paid work at all in order to achieve<br></div><div>these benefits, the direct comparison isn't with a volunteer model, but<br></div><div>with alternative suggestions on how to select and direct paid workers.<br></div><div>If you have any, please share your thoughts! The "EWG revival" idea is<br></div><div>still in its infancy at this point. So community input – including on<br></div><div>the hard questions you justifiably pointed out such as what counts as<br></div><div>"core" and on what basis to select people/projects – could be very<br></div><div>valuable in shaping it, or replacing it with a better idea entirely.<br></div></blockquote><div>Has anybody looked how such transition worked elsewhere?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Is anyone aware about successful cases?<br></div><div><br></div><div>It seemed to me that QGIS was succesful, but AFAIK<br></div><div>they went in quite different direction that is unlikely to be a good solution<br></div><div>for us.<br></div><div><br></div><div>WMF basically failed, or at least it went poorly and situation continues to degrade.<br></div><div>Has anybody tried to write a history of what went wrong?<br></div><div><br></div><div>I would prefer to be certain that we are not following in their footsteps.<br></div><div><br></div><div>It would be nice to also look how other projects dealt with that, especially<br></div><div>ones with long-term success at using such funding successfully. Without<br></div><div>destroying community of people making thing without getting paid,<br></div><div>without takeover by whoever provides funds and without uncontrolled<br></div><div>cancerous growth of management.<br></div><div><br></div><div>(failed cases also would be interesting, but it is much easier to fail and<br></div><div>you can easily fail in a new interesting ways, so success stories would be nice)<br></div> </body>
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