[Osmf-talk] Hiring help for OSMF administrative tasks

Michael Maier Michael.Maier at student.tugraz.at
Thu Mar 12 12:27:53 UTC 2015


On 10/03/15 22:15, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>    one of the things that came out of the board meeting in Berlin last
> month was that we decided to look into hiring part-time administrative
> help to take some of the day-to-day workload off of the shoulders of
> board members and other volunteers.
> 
> I am writing to ask your opinion of this idea (what tasks would you like
> to see OSMF do more of, and where an administrative assistant could
> help)

Hi,

I regularly do OSM related talks, and often get asked by companies or
customers how many People OSM(F) does employ to get all the amazing
things we do done.
When I say zero, everyone is surprised - OSM is seen as at least as
important as Wikipedia, some people call us irresponsible for relying on
voluntary work only.

I would strongly prefer do employ not one, but many people, e.g.:

• A real cartographer working on an "official" mapstyle, in terms of
design and another developer for taking off the burden of merging pull
requests from Andy et al.
• Community coordinators/moderators for the most important mailing
lists/Forums
• A lawyer going through the list of license violation in the Wiki doing
all the "paperwork" required
• Designers for "official" advertising material like Stickers, Flyers
• Set up a web shop for T-shirts, mugs and printed maps for OSMF fundraising
• Some interns for Wiki cleanup tasks noone cares about - e.g.
translating and syncing the different "How to Map a" pages.
• Someone to address the "diary spam" problem
• Someone for worldwide news-gathering. The German "Wochennotiz"-People
do a great job, but are struggling hard to find more people supporting.

On my personal wish-list there are also "official" routing services for
different profiles - OSRM is super-nice, but I haven't found an
equivalent for pedestrians or bike-routing yet.


People tend only to do only stuff voluntarily they like. If the grunt
work can be done by hired staff, who else than the OSMF should be
responsible?

> 
> Bye
> Frederik
> 

Greetings,
Michael

-- 
Michael Maier, Student of Telematics @ Graz University of Technology
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