[Osmf-talk] A modest proposal for "spending some money"

[Andy Allan]

On 29 September 2016 at 12:14, Simon Poole <simon at poole.ch> wrote:
> and as chair of the likely largest spender (ignoring
> depreciation) of OSMF funds outside of the board

I think you overlooked OWG there :-)

> The projects that come to my mind immediately for 2017 would be
>
> - group messaging
>
> - news dropdown (this was part of the original redesign proposal but
> never got done)
>
> naturally opinions may differ on these, but they would seem to be
> reasonably non-controversial and not involve amounts of money that we
> can't afford.

I respectfully disagree. At the moment we have a large codebase and
very few people working on it. The moment the money is spent, we'll
have a larger codebase, and still very few people working on it.

I would rather see time, effort and/or money being spent with the
primary goal of encouraging more developers by making it easier to
contribute to the code. I have a big long list of things that can be
done in this regard, easily equal in terms of man-hours to what you
suggest above.

More information in a recent post:
https://blog.gravitystorm.co.uk/2016/09/15/refreshing-the-openstreetmap-codebase/

Thanks,
Andy