Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Stats site kickstarter

2017-04-17 Thread Tim Waters
At time of writing this email, the Kickstarter project has reached its goal with $1,085 and 18 hours left. This would mean in this case that the Universe cares about this project, but wouldn't in my mind indicate that this would mean that volunteers would magically appear to work on it! Regards,

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Stats site kickstarter

2017-04-14 Thread john whelan
I think my concern is more to do with if its worth doing then OSMF is probably a more efficient way to do it. Kickstarter takes a % and additionally what happens to any funds left over? It's very rare that any project spends the exact amount it was projected to cost. Cheerio John On 14 April

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Stats site kickstarter

2017-04-14 Thread Hakuch
On 12.04.2017 19:15, Steve Coast wrote: > To me, it’s really an experiment in micro-funding. There are lots of little > projects that use OSM that are built and run by volunteers using free or > cheap resources. And that’s great. Is there also space for tiny things to get > funded enough? I

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Stats site kickstarter

2017-04-12 Thread Steve Coast
The technical work to open source it is not huge (which is part of the reason why it’s only a $1k kickstarter) but it involves cleaning up the code, moving the repo, clicking some buttons on GitHub. The work to fix the code and the hosting is where most of the cash goes. The social work *to

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Stats site kickstarter

2017-04-12 Thread Hakuch
On 12.04.2017 18:45, Steve Coast wrote: > Ten years ago, I’d probably do the work for free to open it etc, but don’t > have the time now. Just to understand: whats the problem/work of just opening it? Is it because of libs which are not open source? I just feel a little blackmailed at the moment

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Stats site kickstarter

2017-04-12 Thread Hakuch
On 12.04.2017 17:28, Steve Coast wrote: > Else, it gets canned. what does that mean exactly? If you can't raise the money you will close the service? Why not just open sourcing it? 0x1E6B7645.asc Description: application/pgp-keys 0x1E6B7645.asc Description: application/pgp-keys

[OSM-talk] OSM Stats site kickstarter

2017-04-12 Thread Steve Coast
I’m attempting to raise $1k in a week via Kickstarter [1] to fix the OpenStreetMap Stats site[2] I built last year. The site lets you explore OSM data by country, time and data type: Sadly, it’s suffered bit rot and some countries are broken and not updating. The $1k goes toward fixing, open