Uh oh, a new working group. Let's just hope we don't find out 5 years from now that "computer scientist have told us that the current programming languages we use don't work for data" and that we have to change to a brand new untested programming language "because we need to do something, and this is something".
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 8:09 PM, Matt Amos <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
