Working Group Minutes/EWG 2024-08-16

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Formal proceedings

Attendees:

  • Andrew Hain
  • Adam Hoyle
  • Tobias Knerr
  • Emerson Rocha

Guests:

Apologies:

  • Mikel Maron
  • Robert Koeze
  • Roland Olbricht

Actual business

Membership applications

Two expressions of interest received via email about 3 weeks ago Robert was tasked to respond to them

Adam has messaged Robert in the Telegram/Element chat for an update.

Refactoring of OSM website notes

Postponed until Gregory can attend a meeting.

GDPR

Scope, Public discussion on GitHub.

Andrew is also currently preparing a talk for SotM. See the minutes of the preceding meeting for details.

Microgrants

Next step: figure out what changes are requested on issue #16 and whether we are comfortable with them.

See former minutes for a collection of links.

The EWG intends to post on community.osm.org that the templates are complete.

Microcosms / Community Tool

Adam makes the EWG aware of ongoing work on Microcosms. Adam is somewhat involved with the project (not in an EWG capacity).

Recent diary post.

Vector Tiles

Work continues to move forward.

Current action: Adam volunteers to prepare communications and get in touch with CWG early. Apart from that, the EWG shall revisit the topic in October.

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 - 55.4%
  • Infrastructure setup and optimization - 30.7
  • Other - 77%

Total Days spent - 34.9 days

Any other business

OSM Carto

The busway issue is highlighting disagreements between community members and Carto maintainers


Vector tiles may replace OSM Carto's technology at some point in the future. There is the shortbread steering committee.

No action for EWG to take besides continuing existing work on vector tiles.