Bin ja gespannt, wie sie die OSM Community einbeziehen.
Am 21.09.2012 um 00:14 schrieb Michael Kugelmann <michaelk_...@gmx.de>: > 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 <a...@mapbox.com> > An: t...@openstreetmap.org Openstreetmap <t...@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 > a...@mapbox.com. > > Links to announcements: > > http://mapbox.com/blog/knight-invests-openstreetmap/ > 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/ > - Panda http://www.knightfoundation.org/grants/20110660/ > - DocumentCloud http://www.knightfoundation.org/grants/20110146/ > > Alex Barth > http://twitter.com/lxbarth > tel (+1) 202 250 3633 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > t...@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-de mailing list > Talk-de@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-de _______________________________________________ Talk-de mailing list Talk-de@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-de
