Working Group Minutes/EWG 2024-06-07
These minutes are a draft.
Formal proceedings
Attendees:
- Andrew Hain
- Adam Hoyle
- Tobias Knerr
- Robert Koeze
- Mikel Maron
- Roland Olbricht
- Emerson Rocha
Minutes of previous meeting
The minutes of 2024-04-26 and 2024-05-24 have been approved.
Tobias will fix some broken links.
Vector Tiles (Ongoing Projects)
Time spent so far:
- Software design and development phase - 80.8%
- Shortbread implementation - 121.4%
- Shortbread beta testing and user feedback collection - 55%
- Parallelism implementation - 28%
- Other - 11%
Total Days spent - 23.5 days
A blog post has been published. The Engineering Working Group strives to encourage a community conversation about the latest results, e.g. by featuring the blog post a little bit.
The demo is live.
The discussion in the thread is ongoing. Paul has a plan how to continue (see documents, "Street Spirit").
EWG would like:
- would like to have a discussion around it
- revised version of the initial proposal just covering the 2nd half, including costs
- more details on how Street Spirit would be maintained once funding was complete
- need clarity on what is in each phase
GDPR (Future Projects)
The venue to discuss the planned changes is here on GitHub.
Andrew has communicated with Kathleen from the License Working Group regarding manner of tracking and enforcing Terms of Use agreement control. The LWG asks the EWG to wait for reply of legal advice. The EWG decides to postpone the tender preparations for at least two weeks.
The talk at State of the Map about the work on the GDPR has been accepted.
A motion to solicit bids for work on the GDPR has been approved.
The next step: Andrew volunteers to create a draft for the call for bids to be published on our GitHub repo.
Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) (Future Projects)
Adam is working on this and in contact with Sarah. Pending reply from the Sovereign Tech Fund.
Refactoring of OSM website notes (Ongoing Projects)
See here for where the work currently stands.
Emerson volunteers to ping Andy Allan again, although Andy or Tom have not responded to this so far. Wait some more time.
iD Development (Ongoing Projects)
The last meeting with Martin has taken place on Wednesday. The Google Summer of Code is starting, and Martin is supporting projects for iD there. Martin started to write up some notes what is going on. Monthly meetings re ongoing, Mikel encourages more outreach.
Quincy has been interested in taking up some work. Martin and/or Quincy might apply for extra funding outside OSMF.
Guiding volunteers to funding opportunities
The mission here is to collect comprehensive information about opportunities in one place, including successful projects.
Given that the Engineering Work Group is rather busy as of now, it is postponed.
Responding to inquiries about contribution opportunities
(This is most likely a recurring task.)
The Engineering Working Group observed that it itself is not really prepared to answer questions about which projects really want support by extra developers.
One way can be: We shall outreach to maintainers to prompt them whether they want help, but have not the resources at the moment to gather attention.
The website, unrelated to OpenStreetMap, Good First Issue has also examples of good-first-issue in one OpenStreetMap related repo.
Another website for that mission.
Microgrants (Future Projects)
The next step is to set up operating rules for the scoring committee.
Post on community@ that the templates are complete. Salim volunteers to prepare the jury stuff.
Any other business
GSoC updates
List of accepted Google Summer of Code projects.
We'll send a delegate to the mentor summit.