[OSM-np] Fwd: [Talk-de] Fwd: [OSM-talk] Knight awards $575k to improve OpenStreetMap infrastructure

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Michael Kugelmann <MichaelK_OSM at gmx.de>
Date: Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 12:14 AM
Subject: [Talk-de] Fwd: [OSM-talk] Knight awards $575k to improve
OpenStreetMap infrastructure
To: OSM talk deutsch <talk-de at openstreetmap.org>


FYI: 575k$ sind doch eine beachtiche Summe an Geld, die zur Verbesserung
innerhalb von OSM verwendet werden soll...


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Betreff:        [OSM-talk] Knight awards $575k to improve OpenStreetMap
infrastructure
Datum:  Thu, 20 Sep 2012 10:26:58 -0400
Von:    Alex Barth <alex at mapbox.com>
An:     talk at openstreetmap.org Openstreetmap <talk at openstreetmap.org>



Hello everyone -

I'm excited to announce that the Knight Foundation has awarded a grant of
$575,000 to Development Seed and MapBox to improve OpenStreetMap
infrastructure.

Myself and my colleages from the Development Seed and MapBox team are
looking forward to closely work with other OpenStreetMap community members
to put this money to good use. The goal is to improve editing
infrastructure to enable better and more focused editors, update
openstreetmap.org with social features to allow better interaction around
common tasks, and make it easier to access and use OpenStreetMap data.
These three components together aim to allow a fast growing community to
scale better. The community has already identified issues in these areas
and begun to make massive improvements. We'll collaborate with existing
efforts as much as possible and do all work in the open, on platforms like
GitHub and producing exclusively open source code.

These are broad brushstrokes for now, without much technical detail. Right
now we're getting our house in order - we will follow up in the next weeks
with more detailed thoughts on where we would like to go. In the meantime,
fire away with questions here or feel free to get in touch directly under
alex at mapbox.com.

Links to announcements:

http://mapbox.com/blog/knight-**invests-openstreetmap/<http://mapbox.com/blog/knight-invests-openstreetmap/>
http://www.knightfoundation.**org/press-room/press-release/**
six-ventures-bring-data-**public-winners-knight-news/<http://www.knightfoundation.org/press-room/press-release/six-ventures-bring-data-public-winners-knight-news/>

==

About the Knight Foundation

The Knight Foundation supports transformational projects in journalism,
media, community and the arts. Knight has a strong track record in
providing key funding to open source projects such as Document Cloud or
Panda. Development Seed has worked with Knight in more than one instance
before, noteably TileMill was launched on a Knight grant.

- TileMill http://www.knightfoundation.**org/grants/20094589/<http://www.knightfoundation.org/grants/20094589/>
- Panda http://www.knightfoundation.**org/grants/20110660/<http://www.knightfoundation.org/grants/20110660/>
- DocumentCloud
http://www.knightfoundation.**org/grants/20110146/<http://www.knightfoundation.org/grants/20110146/>

Alex Barth
http://twitter.com/lxbarth
tel (+1) 202 250 3633





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