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From: Clifford Snow <clifford(a)snowandsnow.us>
Date: Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 8:06 PM
Subject: [Talk-us] OSM Foundation’s Call for Microgrant Applications
To: talk-us <talk-us(a)openstreetmap.org>
In case you missed this announcement, I'm reposting it on talk-us mailing list.
2020 will be the first year that the OSM Foundation operates the new
microgrants project. In the coming weeks, we hope to hear from you
about a bold, community-driven, and impactive OpenStreetMap project
idea that will benefit from a microgrant of up to 5000 euros. We
welcome a broad range of projects, with the minimum requirement being
a clear connection to OpenStreetMap.
What is a microgrant? In our case, it is a modest amount of funds
awarded to applicants in order to fund direct expenses of a project.
For an idea of successful projects, you can take a look at the
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team’s 2019 microgrant awardees. Keep in
mind that the OSMF has a wider focus than the humanitarian sector,
spanning our global community, and welcomes applications with any
focus that relates to OpenStreetMap. We particularly encourage
applicants to consider the core values from the OSMF’s mission
statement and how any microgrant work can incorporate them.
The OSMF Microgrant Program focuses on simple grant proposals, and we
will swiftly decide on what to fund. Our goal is to avoid a
complicated and long application and decision process. You should
submit a brief and concise proposal, and we plan to quickly announce
the awardees.
We encourage submissions from individuals, groups, and organizations
who have a clear idea they want to pursue. Each project should be
completed within 12 months of the microgrant being awarded this
spring. Microgrants are open to all OSMF members, and can be submitted
in any language. If you are not yet a member of OSMF then you can
apply to join up until the time you submit a microgrant application,
and be eligible for an award. Please note there is a fee waiver
program that may allow you to join the OSMF at no cost.
In light of the ongoing health crisis regarding COVID19, we will not
be awarding microgrants for projects which require offline group
gatherings and in person meetings, although these ideas are certainly
valuable for future rounds.
Funding can be used for a variety of purposes. You may need tools and
supplies for mapping activity, funds for training materials,
technology expenses for a series of virtual mapathons, prizes for an
online coding, mapping, or writing contest, and many more examples.
Please embrace your own creativity and not feel limited by the range
of examples.
We encourage you to consult with your local OpenStreetMap community
when planning a microgrant application, and make sure you adhere to
community guidelines in the scope of the project. If accepted for a
microgrant, you will be responsible for reporting progress, signing a
grant agreement, and making sure to follow the detailed microgrant
rules. It is strongly suggested that your project uses the funding to
enable volunteer work to have a wider and stronger impact than it
would without funding.
The call for microgrants will open on April 19th, 2020 and we will
continue to accept applications through May 10th, 2020. In order to
submit, visit the OSM Wiki page and click on “Start your application”
to enter the template. When this is complete, send a message to
microgrants at osmfoundation.org. We also encourage sharing your
application on osmf-talk when it is submitted. If you need help with
the submission process, please feel free to contact the Microgrants
Committee for help. If you don’t have enough time to prepare your plan
and application, please consider submitting it in a possible future
round of microgrants.
Once the submission period closes on May 10th, we invite the community
to review the complete list of submissions and provide feedback on the
wiki page. We also will accept feedback by email to microgrants at
osmfoundation.org and via osmf-talk.
Complete timeline:
April 19: call for microgrant applications opens
May 10: final date for submission (23:59 Pacific Time Zone, USA).
May 10-TBD: community feedback period
Late May: announcement of awards
For more details, see the complete rules and guidelines on the OSM
wiki and contact us at microgrants at osmfoundation.org with any
questions. This is the first time the OSMF is sponsoring such an
activity, and we look forward to learning together about how this
benefits our community and how to build a transparent, effective, and
inclusive microgrants program for everyone involved. We are grateful
for the opportunity to make funds available to the community and hope
to hear your ideas in the coming weeks.
Clifford
Member of the OSMF Microgrants Committee
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I noticed the other day that HappyCow <https://www.happycow.net/> uses
OpenStreetMap tiles loaded from maps.wikimedia.org.
I guess it's a good thing (they're very visible in their niche and at
the same time it must not be a lot of traffic), although not a primary
purpose of the service. I'd argue it's a way to promote the importance
of privacy, because now you don't need to query Google to find a
restaurant with their internal search.
What cases of third-party usage of maps.wikimedia.org come to your mind
which could be considered positive examples?
Federico
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Från: Sarah R <srodlund(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: ons 25 mars 2020 kl 17:35
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia Technical Talks] Understanding
Wikimedia Maps and its challenges, 25 March 2020 at 5 PM UTC
To: <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi Everyone,
This will be taking place in a half hour. Hope to see you there!
Many kindnesses,
Sarah R.
On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 8:55 AM Sarah R <srodlund(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Just a reminder that we will be broadcasting this Technical Talk on *25
> March 2020 at 5 PM UTC*.
>
> Please note the time has shifted by an hour to reflect daylight savings
> time.
>
> Many kindnesses,
>
> Sarah R.
>
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 11:16 AM Sarah R <srodlund(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello Everyone,
>>
>> It's time for Wikimedia Tech Talks 2020 Episode 2! This talk will take
>> place on *25 March 2020 at 6 PM UTC*.
>>
>> *Title: *Understanding Wikimedia Maps and its challenges
>>
>> *Speaker:* Mateus Santos, Software Engineer
>>
>> *Summary: *The WMF Product Infrastructure Team has been maintaining the
>> Wikimedia Maps service for the last year and a half with help from SRE.
>> This talk will share the challenges and work of creating a better
>> development environment to enhance productivity, solve technical debt and
>> keep up with platform modernization.
>>
>> The link to the Youtube Livestream can be found here:
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LH-pYdi9Ks
>>
>> During the live talk, you are invited to join the discussion on IRC at
>> #wikimedia-office
>>
>> You can watch past Tech Talks here:
>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Tech_talks
>>
>> If you are interested in giving your own tech talk, you can learn more
>> here:
>>
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Calendar/How_to_schedule_an_event#Te…
>>
>> Note: This is a public talk. Feel free to distribute through appropriate
>> email and social channels!
>>
>> Kindly,
>>
>> Sarah R. Rodlund
>> Technical Writer, Developer Advocacy
>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy>
>> srodlund(a)wikimedia.org
>>
>
>
>
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Från: Sarah R <srodlund(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: tis 10 mars 2020 kl 19:17
Subject: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia Technical Talks] Understanding Wikimedia
Maps and its challenges, 25 March 2020 at 6 PM UTC
To: <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello Everyone,
It's time for Wikimedia Tech Talks 2020 Episode 2! This talk will take
place on *25 March 2020 at 6 PM UTC*.
*Title: *Understanding Wikimedia Maps and its challenges
*Speaker:* Mateus Santos, Software Engineer
*Summary: *The WMF Product Infrastructure Team has been maintaining the
Wikimedia Maps service for the last year and a half with help from SRE.
This talk will share the challenges and work of creating a better
development environment to enhance productivity, solve technical debt and
keep up with platform modernization.
The link to the Youtube Livestream can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LH-pYdi9Ks
During the live talk, you are invited to join the discussion on IRC at
#wikimedia-office
You can watch past Tech Talks here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Tech_talks
If you are interested in giving your own tech talk, you can learn more
here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Calendar/How_to_schedule_an_event#Te…
Note: This is a public talk. Feel free to distribute through appropriate
email and social channels!
Kindly,
Sarah R. Rodlund
Technical Writer, Developer Advocacy
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy>
srodlund(a)wikimedia.org
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From: Rushforth, Peter (NRCan/RNCan) <peter.rushforth(a)canada.ca>
Date: Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 9:46 PM
Subject: [OSM-talk] W3C Maps on the Web workshop
To: talk(a)openstreetmap.org <talk(a)openstreetmap.org>
Dear Open Street Map community,
I apologize if you are seeing this email for a second time. I sent it
originally to the talk-ca list, and I was advised that this list might
be more appropriate.
My name is Peter Rushforth, and I’m with the Canada Centre for Mapping
and Earth Observation, at Natural Resources Canada (a Canadian
government department). We are planning a World Wide Web Consortium
(W3C) workshop on maps in the Web platform (specifically HTML),
together with the W3C and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). The
workshop will be collocated with the OGC Technical Committee meeting,
June 15-17 2020 in Montreal, Quebec.
I am sending this email to see if Open Street Map (especially the Web
client development teams) might be interested in being invited to
participate (by presenting a short position paper, in person) in this
workshop on the concept of better integrating mapping into the Web
platform standards, and if so, how does Open Street Map see this.
Even if you believe that the Web platform standards are already good
enough for mapping, it might be worthwhile staking that out as a
position. If you are interested, though, we would certainly welcome
OSM to also be part of the program committee.
The objective of the workshop will be to start the conversation
between the geospatial (and geospatial standards) and Web platform
communities, about how Web standards could better serve the needs of
Web mapping and most especially users of Web maps and the Web in
general.
Some topics of potential interest include:
a native map viewer, similar to that provided for video content
standards for how such a map widget might integrate with map services and APIs
accessibility of browser maps
privacy of user location information
security of browser-based maps
Integration / relationship of maps and location with other browser
APIs, e.g. geo-video, geolocation API, forms, SVG
crawling, indexing and searching map information
standardized browser elements and APIs
CSS styling of maps and map features
Map feature creation / input forms
federated map services with linking - aka the Web
Mostly the agenda will be driven by position papers, and what
organizations like yours want to discuss. If OSM is interested in
sending one or two people to present a position, please reply directly
to me, and I will ensure that you / they are invited.
Sincerely,
Peter
Peter Rushforth
Technology Advisor
Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation
Natural Resources Canada / Government of Canada
peter.rushforth(a)canada.ca / Tel: 613-759-7915
Conseiller technique
Centre canadien de cartographie et d’observation de la Terre
Ressources naturelles Canada / Gouvernement du Canada
peter.rushforth(a)canada.ca / Tél: 613-759-7915
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