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===Preamble=== The OpenStreetMap project is unique in its global diffusion of crowdsourced data collection, distributed responsibility for data quality control, and diversity of its community, ranging from individual volunteer mappers contributing highly specific local knowledge to large corporations contributing satellite imagery and artificial intelligence tools. It is unusual in its fostering of a commercial ecosystem that provides hundreds of jobs side by side with empowerment of localised civil society, small and medium businesses, and humanitarian organisations. The project and its community seek not growth ''per se'', but rather data quality, consisting of accurate and ever broader, deeper, and more detailed geographic coverage of its database, meanwhile ensuring that this database will remain free of charge and free to use, to allow anyone, anywhere, to create a “map of the world that anyone can use”. As a result of this philosophy, however, growth has found OpenStreetMap, and demand for its data now increases by no less than 20 to 30 percent year on year. This growth is straining the project’s volunteer workforce, its hardware and software platform, and it threatens the long-term viability of the project. Unlike most private companies, which seek growth and develop strategic plans to achieve it, OpenStreetMap is in the position of needing a strategy for coping with a growth rate it did not and does not intentionally encourage. The OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF) supports but does not control the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project. It is responsible for ensuring that the project has what is necessary not only to survive but to thrive well into the future. This responsibility calls for creation of a strategy for dealing with the demand growth thrust upon the project while simultaneously preserving the core philosophy that has made OSM such a success: focus on local knowledge and distributed intelligence; on empowering volunteer mappers; on providing tools mappers need to collect, enter, and check quality of data; on cross-border and cross-cultural collaboration; and on volunteer working groups. A limit on growth of expenditures on administration of the project is also core to OSM’s philosophy: we often hear the refrain that OSM should not become another opaque and inaccessible bureaucracy-heavy NGO, with large paid staff. Adherence to this core philosophy will ensure that OSM remains a free project, independent from influential donors. By empowering volunteers rather than staff, it will also remain a vibrant project that attracts enthusiastic contributors, because it will remain fun as well as useful – and we volunteer contributors, at the end of the day, are why OSM is today the success story that it is. ====Key Inputs and Process==== * Cluster D: Financial Management and Fundraising Under each of the major Clusters are Strategies and a level below that are Tasks. Tasks are designed to be implementable projects and each task is supported by a lot of detail related to timing, resources and managerial oversight. === Index to Sections === * [[Cluster A\|Strategy Cluster A - Technical]]

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