[Osmf-talk] Funding of iD Development and Maintenance

[Emilie Laffray]

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On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 3:42 AM Mateusz Konieczny via osmf-talk <
osmf-talk at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

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> Aug 3, 2020, 23:44 by osm at tobias-knerr.de:
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> 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.
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> Has anybody looked how such transition worked elsewhere?
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> Is anyone aware about successful cases?
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> I would prefer to be certain that we are not following in their footsteps.
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> 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.
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> (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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