[Osmf-talk] Funding of iD Development and Maintenance

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Aug 3, 2020, 23:44 by osm at tobias-knerr.de:

> And once the OSMF makes use of paid work at all in order to achieve
> these benefits, the direct comparison isn't with a volunteer model, but
> with alternative suggestions on how to select and direct paid workers.
> If you have any, please share your thoughts! The "EWG revival" idea is
> still in its infancy at this point. So community input – including on
> the hard questions you justifiably pointed out such as what counts as
> "core" and on what basis to select people/projects – could be very
> valuable in shaping it, or replacing it with a better idea entirely.
>
Has anybody looked how such transition worked elsewhere?

Is anyone aware about successful cases?

It seemed to me that QGIS was succesful, but AFAIK
they went in quite different direction that is unlikely to be a good solution
for us.

WMF basically failed, or at least it went poorly and situation continues to degrade.
Has anybody tried to write a history of what went wrong?

I would prefer to be certain that we are not following in their footsteps.

It would be nice to also look how other projects dealt with that, especially
ones with long-term success at using such funding successfully. Without
destroying community of people making thing without getting paid,
without takeover by whoever provides funds and without uncontrolled
cancerous growth of management.

(failed cases also would be interesting, but it is much easier to fail and
you can easily fail in a new interesting ways, so success stories would be nice)
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