FYI: 575k$ sind doch eine beachtiche Summe an Geld, die zur Verbesserung
innerhalb von OSM verwendet werden soll...
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Betreff: [OSM-talk] Knight awards $575k to improve OpenStreetMap
infrastructure
Datum: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 10:26:58 -0400
Von: Alex Barth <[email protected]>
An: [email protected] Openstreetmap <[email protected]>
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 [email protected].
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/
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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
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