[OHM] OHM Hangout - 18 Dec, 8am PT US / 4pm London

Mon Dec 15 18:09:02 UTC 2014

I'm looking forward to the meeting. It's been a while since I wrote a grant
proposal but I'd be interested in contributing to the process.

–Tod

On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Jeff Meyer <jeff at gwhat.org> wrote:
>
> Karl -
>
> I echo Rob's invitation to bring these questions to the hangout - they're
> probably more interesting to answer in a group.
>
> That said, various parts of the OSM community have received grant funding
> of some sort or another, both directly and indirectly. Mapbox's Knight
> Foundation grants come to mind, along with some of the humanitarian grants
> HOT has received. Both of those have made positive impacts on the community.
>
> We may be charting some new territory by trying to go after something like
> this, but if we can use this type of funding to move OHM in a direction the
> community supports, that would be great.
>
> And, obviously, if we can figure out a way to support the Orbis Initiative
> with OHM in ways that benefit everyone, that would be even better!
>
> Looking forward to the hangout!
>
> - Jeff
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 7:47 AM, Rob H Warren <warren at muninn-project.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> Karl,
>>
>> OHM is not OSM. This is actually the 'historic' mailing list of OSM.
>> Occasionally, we highjack it for OHM matters and similarly, we try
>> Susanna's patience by borrowing time on Wikimaps hangouts.
>>
>> OHM is not incorporated at the moment and has been supported
>> out-of-pocket by a few people and topomancy. Given limited resources,
>> decisions have been taken by whomever put in the time to implement them.
>>
>> There have been a number of grants submitted, sometimes successfully
>> even, in the past years to build various bits that needed doing. We need to
>> talk about what part of OHM fits within the current NEH call and the team
>> that will handle it.
>>
>> Why don't you add to the etherpad agenda for the hangout?
>> https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/OHM_Meeting_Dec_18
>>
>> -rhw
>>
>>
>> On Dec 14, 2014, at 8:00 AM, historic-request at openstreetmap.org wrote:
>>
>> > Message: 1
>> > Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 10:48:24 -0800 (PST)
>> > From: Karl Grossner <karlg at stanford.edu>
>> > To: historic at openstreetmap.org
>> > Subject: Re: [OHM] OHM Hangout - 18 Dec, 8am PT US / 4pm London
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>> >
>> > Hello OHMers,
>> >
>> > I'm planning to join the upcoming hangout and have a few questions I
>> thought I'd put out in advance...
>> >
>> > The discussion of going for an NEH grant has me confused. I'm wondering
>> how a large(ish) federal grant and the various norms for that sort of thing
>> squares with OSM/OHM approached to development so far. For example, grants
>> have submitting institutions, and PIs who formulate phasing and technical
>> plans for deliverable work products and are then responsible to taxpayers
>> for results; key staff are named, etc. etc.
>> >
>> > My impression of OSM development (no expert, though) is that it has
>> come together ad hoc, dev decisions arrived at collectively and so on. Is
>> that the case? Has OSM Foundation received government or foundation support
>> in the past? If not, is OHM charting a different course? Is anyone "lead"
>> or co-lead" from a grant perspective? As OSM Foundation is a UK
>> corporation, is it even eligible for NEH funding? Also, it strikes me that
>> "mapping what's on the ground" is different from mapping what's on old maps
>> in some important ways, with some key research-y questions ahead.
>> >
>> > Separately, my own interest is in putting together an "Orbis
>> Initiative" to build a global historical transport network data repository
>> and some tools for ingest, creation, search/browse and analysis. So that
>> limits it to settlements and inter-city data for the most part (plus
>> maritime) and includes some network analytic tools. I plan to seek big(ish)
>> funding and it would happen in a university research/library setting. I
>> fully support the idea of OHM and hope for strong connections if not
>> integration in the future. As I put this idea together I want to keep you
>> all informed and welcome feedback/reaction.
>> >
>> > cheers, Karl
>> >
>> > -------------
>> > Karl Grossner
>> > Stanford,CA US
>> > www.kgeographer.org
>>
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