the "Engineering Working Group"[1] is a new group set up with the purpose of helping stimulate the development community surrounding OSM. you don't need to be a developer to join - we're interested in hearing from everyone and ideas are welcome. software enables us to do the mapping we love, and to make use of the data we collect, so making our software better is part of making OSM better.
although IRC isn't a perfect communication medium it's easy to set up and it's interactive, so i've set one up over at #osm-ewg on OFTC. just to kick off, i suggest a meeting next week on: Monday 22nd at 5pm GMT (5pm CEST, 6pm BST, 1pm east-US, 10am pacific-US)[2] to start the conversation. a very rough agenda for the meeting, including but certainly not limited to: * what are the barriers-to-entry for new developers? * are there small projects (perhaps mentored?) which new developers can take on? * what can be done to improve the usefulness of communication between developers and users? hope to see you there, matt [1] it's not necessarily the best or most descriptive name, but it'll do for now. other suggestions include "Development Support Group" and "Software Working Group". [2] yeah, i know, but no matter what time is chosen it'll be bad for someone. i suggest we start with this and i'm open to suggestions about rotating the time or setting up other communication channels which are less time-zone sensitive. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
