I have to say, my gut feeling would be to let them spend the money on what it is intended for and not try and divert the funds to something which, while important, doesn't quite fit the bill.
Particularly because the both our operations and those of companies and organisation in the OSM ecosystem will benefit from the intended improvements in any case. Simon Am 25.04.2014 05:28, schrieb Abhishek: > Is there any interest in the OSM community in applying for funds from > the Core Infrastructure Initiative? > http://www.linuxfoundation.org/programs/core-infrastructure-initiative > > While this initiative is "to fund and support critical elements of the > global information infrastructure" could we make the claim that having > a free and open reusable map is as important for the web as some of > the software elements? I'm not sure what people think, but I thought I > would put the idea out there. This could be used to support the > developers of tools / editors etc around openstreetmap. > > Abhishek > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >
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