Van: Martijn van Exel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Datum: 1 maart 2008 14:38:16 GMT+01:00
Aan: Gervase Markham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Onderwerp: Antw.: [OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] Trouble in Rangoon
Op 1 mrt 2008, om 08:42 heeft Gervase Markham het volgende geschreven:
Frederik Ramm wrote:
Well I have been asked whether I'd be willing to "oversee the
project
from a technical perspective and help [...] set up a technical
project description for the funding organisation", and replied with
the above.
Right; sorry, I didn't read back in the thread.
I may have misunderstood, but I thought NLnet were offering to pay
particular, named people to perform certain work.
Maybe, but that wasn't what was discussed in this thread. I said
that
the whole changeset/revert issue could likely be done on a weekend
if
the right people were there, to which Martijn replied that funding
for such an event could be available.
Well, he knows best of course, having negotiated with them. But it
would
surprise me if they funded something as unstructured as that.
I'm going to discuss the proposal with them first thing Monday. I
wouldn't actually be surprised if they would agree to fund a hack-a-
thon of sorts -- they do fund a lot of open source initiatives so
they should know these kind of projects defy most project management
defaults. See http://nlnet.nl/project/current.html for the projects
they support currently. We'll be in that list soon.
Followup: I spoke with my contact at NLNet and he's all for it, if
that's the way forward in our opinion. So now we got funding to get
some people together to kick off the rollback/history implementation.
I think it will be an excellent opportunity to lay out the foundations
for the SoC students to work on top of. Still a good plan? Who's in?
Who wants to take the lead?
--
martijn van exel -+- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -+- http://www.schaaltreinen.nl/
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