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

[Rajeev Amatya]

just send them an email asking whether they support OSM activities abroad.
Looks like they are very US-focused.


On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 12:17 AM, bibekshrestha at gmail.com <
bibekshrestha at gmail.com> wrote:

> FYI
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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...
>
>
> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
> 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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