Strategic working group/needs

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?

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)