[Osmf-talk] Funding of iD Development and Maintenance

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Aug 5, 2020, 18:16 by mike at teczno.com:

>> On Aug 5, 2020, at 7:01 AM, michael spreng <osmf at m.spreng.ch> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 05.08.20 14:14, Frederik Ramm wrote:
>>
>>> Or the other way round, possibly you meant that by "arms-length
>>> organisations", that the OSMF becomes the nondescript charity that only
>>> has a couple of trademarks and rights, and all the operative business is
>>> run by the "OpenStreetMap Services Ltd." or whatever, which would be the
>>> organisation that can fail without tearing down the project.
>>>
>>
>> I was just thinking the same thing. It would feel a lot better if we
>> could spin employing editor developers out into another organization.
>>
>
> I think you’re describing the prior status quo here, Frederik. iD editor development was owned by a collection of loosely-aligned organizations who recently decided to halt their support, leaving OSMF in a situation that resulted in this conversation
>
The proposal seems to have OSMF holding critical assets and OSMF-bis that would fund
capital intensive things like software development/employ poeple etc.

Frederik is not proposing to have this things funded directly by third-parties (status quo).


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