Strategic working group/needs
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To start, what do we all think are the priorities and needs. My suggestion is to brainstorm, open ended without critique.
- What needs budgeting / funding? (to inform the sections below)
- Estimates for future expenditures on existing line items (e.g: hardware, events, legal/accountancy)
- What should OSMF be doing that it currently isn't? How would it benefit the community?
- For which of the above would OSMF funding be appropriate and the best use of resources?
- Which can be better funded/resourced by the community itself, or local chapters?
Contents |
Generic OSM(F) needs
- Legal
- Consultancy to maintain and translate license
- Consultancy to fight breach of license
- Corporate users FAQ for new license usage
- Consultancy to verify license compliance with national laws
- "Making" donated data compliant with OSM license
- Data Privacy
- Auditing role, which user data and geo-information can be captured
- Operational
- Establishing and working with service levels to encourage corporate usage (eventually a business idea to have OpenStreetMap Ltd that runs the same service with service levels and professional services like MySQL)
- Stimulation of adoption
- Developer awards
- "Certified" programs to establish quality professional services around OSM
- Hall of Fame for applications based on OSM, regions with excellent coverage, interesting derived maps
- Sponsored Research & Development projects
- Preventive recognition of false data manipulation
- Quality assurance mechanisms to "certify" (important) roads and amenities
- Professional services
- Implementation of donated geodata
- Quality assurance for OSM documentation
- Communication
- ??
Operational Fundraising Needs
- A summary paper for funders
- explaining the OpenStreetMap project
- explaining what happens to donations
- describing success stories like Haiti
- statistics of the OpenStreetMap project per region
- extrapolation of how OpenStreetMap might evolve per region
- describing the place where funders are presented
- "wishlist" for projects that OpenStreetMap would like to execute but are on hold due to lack of resources (with money requirements by projects)
- Facilitating donations
- Donation receipts
- Easy accessable donation web page - seperated for individuals and for corporations
- Different payment systems
- Offering of separate projects for targeted donations
- Easily accessable Hall of Fame for funders/donors
- Incentive ideas for donations
- Hall of Fame
- Projects/Initiatives called after key funders
Financial Needs that Cannot Be Fixed by Volunteer Hours
- Hardware
- Travel
- Government Fees
Benchmarks
- Linux foundation (http://www.linuxfoundation.org)
- Mozilla foundation (http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/donate.html)
- Wikimedia foundation (http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fundraising)
