I'll gladly help with the incorporation and structuring the finance. No good at hardware or software though, and not sure what a sysadmin does...
So I take your point! I guess I wasn't really saying "someone should" but "in principle could someone?" On Tue, 3 Dec 2019 at 17:09, Richard Fairhurst <rich...@systemed.net> wrote: > Edward Bainton wrote: > > Is there any reason why OSM can't set up a user co-op (for instance) > > that would offer a paid tileserver service? > > It's an idea that's been thrown around now and then. In OSM, of course, > "why > can't OSM..." is usually best rephrased as "hey, let's...". First person > plural. Thanks for volunteering! :) > > (Alternatively, if you want someone else to do it for you, then you can > consider voting for OSMF board candidates who are likely to pursue this. I > would really caution against this, though, because OSM infrastructure is > currently run by volunteers and partly served by donated hardware; turning > that into an, at least partially, paid-for service would probably > necessitate rethinking the sysadmin and hardware situation from the ground > up.) > > Richard > > > > > -- > Sent from: http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/Great-Britain-f5372682.html > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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