[Osmf-talk] Question to board members

[Mikel Maron]

> A wonderful example of what great things (feature wise in the rails port) we can do if we collectively put our heads together was the hackweekend in 2009 during which the internationalisation of osm.org was completed, 
> reviewed and deployed. It was an effective collaboration with a number of local rails_port developers in a room together with quite a bunch of other people helping out remotely, including non-coders, contributing from 
> updated code to translations and testing (and moral support). At the end of the weekend, an amazing amount was achieved which lead to its successful deployment.
> 
> If we could get this kind of coordinated collaboration and enthusiasm going again, I think we could relatively quickly complete a number of the long outstanding and desired features.
> 
> But this is getting rather off topic for the OSMF board elections.
 
Yes, a bit in the weeds on this specifically, but a good example. In this case, if a hackweekend could pull this together, than the OSMF could be asked to support it with venue, catering, travel. It would still require someone or someones to organize the event.

* Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron


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> From: Kai Krueger <kakrueger at gmail.com>
>To: Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> 
>Cc: Mikel Maron <mikel_maron at yahoo.com>; "osmf-talk at openstreetmap.org" <osmf-talk at openstreetmap.org> 
>Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 2:45 PM
>Subject: Re: Question to board members
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>On 08/24/2012 12:16 PM, Tom Hughes wrote:
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>On 24/08/12 17:29, Kai Krueger wrote: 
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>>With http://routing.apis.dev.openstreetmap.org/ there is also a 
>>>functional prototype for integrating routing into the osm.org. It 
>>>currently uses map.project-osrm.org as the default car routing backend 
>>>and gosmore as the default backend for other modes of transport.
        One can 
>>>also select MapQuest and CloudMade as routing engines to compare
        them. 
>>>
>>Prototype being the operative word - it is not in any way
      production ready code. 
>>
>The code is mostly concentrated  in two or three new files. Most of
    that is just code that transcodes the output from the routing
    backend into kml that openlayers can process as well as creating the
    routing sidebar. On top there are a few bits and bobs that interact
    with the rest of the code. Overall it is probably only a few hundred
    lines of code, i.e. nothing overly substantial substantial.
>
>So imho there is nothing in it, that couldn't be reviewed, fixed and
    improved and deployed in a single hackweekend. It could probably
    even be rewritten from scratch in a weekend.
>
>A wonderful example of what great things (feature wise in the rails
    port) we can do if we collectively put our heads together was the
    hackweekend in 2009 during which the internationalisation of osm.org
    was completed, reviewed and deployed. It was an effective
    collaboration with a number of local rails_port developers in a room
    together with quite a bunch of other people helping out remotely,
    including non-coders, contributing from updated code to translations
    and testing (and moral support). At the end of the weekend, an
    amazing amount was achieved which lead to its successful deployment.
>
>If we could get this kind of coordinated collaboration and
    enthusiasm going again, I think we could relatively quickly complete
    a number of the long outstanding and desired features.
>
>But this is getting rather off topic for the OSMF board elections.
>
>Kai
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>
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>>Therefore I think that all of the necessary components to integrate 
>>>routing into osm.org are now available. So as soon as OSMF buys
        the 
>>>necessary hardware, one could probably integrate routing into
        osm.org 
>>>comparatively quickly and easily. 
>>>
>>Getting hardware is not a problem, but there's no point doing that
      until we have production ready code, or at least expect to have
      such code within a few weeks. 
>>
>>Tom 
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