[OSM-dev] Restarting the EWG

[Paul Norman]

I'm just going to reiterate the call for interested people to contact 
me. I'm not on the board, but restarting or forming a working group 
isn't something that needs to the board to start off

On 2020-11-19 8:09 a.m., Paul Norman via dev wrote:
> The OSMF Board is looking at restarting the Engineering Working Group 
> with a revised scope to include handling paid software development. 
> This scope needs to be developed with existing and new volunteers, but 
> my ideas are that it would include
>
> - Google Summer of Code,
> - managing development to be paid by the OSMF by contracts and grants, 
> and
> - collaborating with other organizations for multi-organization grants.
>
> It would do this by by
> - placing calls for proposals for paid work on topics like top ten tasks;
> - accepting other proposals;
> - defining an approximate distribution of OSMF funds for development 
> between primary/secondary/tertiary services, external services, and 
> new services;
> - encouraging applications from skilled individuals who aren't 
> professional developers, professional contractors, companies, and others.
>
> Once the scope and funding distribution guidelines are defined we 
> would want to start with low-risk projects involving experienced 
> people who need less management.
>
> If you are interested in changing the EWG to handle these roles, 
> please let me know.
>
>
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