[Osmf-talk] Funding of iD Development and Maintenance

[Michael Reichert]

Hi Joost,

Am 05.08.20 um 17:08 schrieb Joost Schouppe:
> By all means, don't just trust us - unfortunately getting elected to the
> Board does not suddenly make one perfect.
> 
> Doing these consultations is in large part exactly for things to be brought
> up that we might not have thought about. From your list just above, for
> example, not including donations from individuals is probably an oversight.
> It's not like we set out to exclude them.
> 
> Now when I say that we are risk averse, I don't mean to say we necessarily
> thought about everything that could potentially go wrong. It's rather that
> we were presented with a crisis and we found a way to turn this into a much
> better situation than it was before. Instead of relying on a single
> organization without any OSMF oversight, we now have a bunch of
> organizations all working through OSMF. And that without touching OSMF core
> funding; and doing it for something that we didn't do before (and hence
> could stop doing if that were necessary).

Even without paying a full-time or part-time iD developer, OSMF has some
influence on the development of iD. openstreetmap.org is the website of
the Foundation. The Foundation can decline to publish a version of iD on
openstreetmap.org if it does not agree with certain things in iD and
thereby guide the development. It just needs the courage to do so which
previous boards have not had.

Best regards

Michael

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