Contractors and employees

The OSMF board, Working Groups and the Committees largely consist of volunteers. In some circumstance we also bring on individuals for paid work as employees or contractors for the Foundation, and additionally companies contracted for specific services.

Long term paid individuals

Employees

2022-05-01 onwards Grant Slater (Github profile) - Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Individual contractors

2025-04 onwards Minh Nguyễn (Github profile) to facilitate OSM core software development (blog post and call for applications post). Funding decision: 2025-04.

Long term

2021-09 onwards Martin Raifer (Github profile) to work on iD development. Funding/contract renewal decisions: 2024-08
2017-now Michelle Heydon - Accountant.
2016-now Dorothea Kazazi (OSM wiki profile) - Administrative assistant. Funding/contract renewal decisions: 2017-04, 2019-02, 2019-11, 2021-04, 2023-03, 2024-02, 2025-04

Recurring individual contractors

Recurring, Allen Gunn (Aspiration Tech and since 2022-05 member of the OSM Foundation's Finance Committee) for facilitating some of the annual board face-to-face or screen-to-screen meetings: 2024-05 (Funding decision), 2023-06, 2023-03 (decision), 2022-02, 2021-02 (Funding decision), 2020-10, 2020-03, 2019-05 (Funding decision), 2015-02, 2014-02

Prior contractors

2020-09 - 2021-04 Quincy Morgan (Github profile) - iD developer, Funding decision 2020-09
- 2017 Vivien Sheehan - Accountant (retired)

Service contracts

2023 to now [CWG related] Airtable
2023-12 to now Mailbox.org
2023-10 Agio Legal - Funding decision
2020-05 to now [CWG related] DeepL - machine translation services
2021-now Bank of Ireland Resolutions to open bank accounts: 2021/Res21, 2021/Res22
2021-now Fire.com
2020-now Triodos Bank
2020-now Cloud68 Renewal of contract 2021-04
2019-now Loomio Initial funding decision 2019-12
Recurring annually, Opavote (online voting platform): 2014 - present
Recurring annually, Pretix.eu (ticketing software for the international State of the Map conference): 2021, 2022
<2016-now PayPal
<2016-now [LWG related] Lawdit - Solicitors
<2016-now [LWG related] Clarivate (Compumark) - Trademark watch

Past contractors

2020-2021 Transferwise - financial services
2020 Chater Allan to prepare our statutory accounts, make the assessment of Corporation Tax and file our accounts with Companies House, Funding decision 2020-04
- 2020-06 Barclays Bank
2015-2016 Skrill - financial services (used to retrieve money donated to us through "Flattr").

Short term contracted individuals

Past contractors

2024 [CWG related] Bushaw Creative - Design website for OSM's 20th birthday.
2023 [EWG related] Paul Norman (OSM wiki profile: Pnorman) - Vector Tiles project. Funding decision 2023-12 (Page deleted)
2023 [EWG related] Gregory Igelmund (GitHub profile: grekko) - Ability to mute other www.osm.org users. Bid and EWG funding decision 2023-10. Duration: ~ 2023-10 to 2024-01.
2023 [EWG related] Paul Norman (OSM wiki profile: Pnorman) - Vector Tile rendering stack proposal by Paul Norman. Funding decision 2023-06
2023 Bushaw Creative - Redesign of donate.openstreetmap.org Funding decisions 2023-08: first and second. New website here.
2023 Courtney Williamson - Consulting for OSMF fundraising 2023. Funding decision 2023-03 - Cancelled 2023-07.
2023 [MWG related] Lemniscus for work on CiviCRM, Funding decision 2023-03
2022 Harry Wood (OSM wiki profile: Harry_Wood) - For two weeks work on the content migration from forum.openstreetmap.org to community.openstreetmap.org (powered by Discourse). Funding decision 2022-10.
2021 Guillaume Rischard (OSMF Treasurer, OSM wiki profile: Stereo) - For work to resolve the blockage of PayPal and TransferWise accounts. Funding decision 2021-05
2021 [MWG related] Lemniscus for work on CiviCRM, Funding decision 2021-01
2020 [MWG related] Jon Goldberg for work on CiviCRM
2020 Sarah Hoffmann (OSM wiki profile: lonvia) Proposal for work on Nominatim, Funding decision 2020-08)
- Parts of results from github.com/osm-search/Nominatim: Split addr:* tags into words before adding to the search index, POIs with unknown addr:place must add parent name to address, Reverse.md: fix two typos, Switch configuration to dotenv
- Parts of results from github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website: Improve guessing of labels for Nominatim results
2020 Richard Fairhurst (OSM wiki profile: Richard) Proposal for work on porting Potlatch 2 to the desktop, Funding decision 2020-08
- Potlatch 3 is here!] (diary entry on result of work)
2020 Jochen Topf (OSM wiki profile: Joto) - Proposal for work on osm2pgsql, Funding decision
- Report for OSMF-paid work on osm2pgsql on Jochen's blog.
- Presentation of work for OSMF after completion (and other work)
2012 Andy Allan (OSM wiki profile: Gravitystorm) openstreetmap-website implementation of license change to ODbL
2019-10 - 2020 [MWG related] Mollie, payment processor (Paypal-like service integrated with CiviCRM)

Microgrants

The Foundation's microgrants programs also makes funds available for project work. You can find details on the Microgrants program here

Notes

This page is a work in progress and contains data from the more recent years.
Working Groups can contract people directly. While this page was created initially to list people contracted/hired directly by the board, Working Groups are of course free to enrich it.