Working Group Minutes/EWG 2024-10-25
These minutes are a draft.
Formal proceedings
Attendees:
- Andrew Hain
- Tobias Knerr
- Mikel Maron
- Roland Olbricht
- Emerson Rocha
Apologies:
- Adam Hoyle
- Robert Koeze
Minutes of previous meetings
The EWG accepted the minutes of 27 Sep 2024 and 11 Oct 2024 with one abstention.
Actual business
Refactoring of OSM website notes
Roland volunteers to solicitate Gregory for an invoice over 60% of the work performed. That fraction is based on payment milestones approved during previous meeting.
Microgrants
We are ready to start. Last remaining questions on Juror selection process were settled by emails between Salim and Mikel and with edits to the GitHub documents. Tobias is interested in helping with review of jury nominations.
Start compiling jury now with a call for nominations. Mikel is taking the lead and will also reach out to Salim again. Actual Microgrants will likely end up in next year's budget.
Relevant links:
GDPR
Affected Services, Public discussion on GitHub.
Andrew volunteers to start a thread on the Community Forum (can also serve as input for FAQ) The goal is for people to have a look at what we're proposing and get a final round of feedback.
Andrew also volunteers to update the GDPR project description on GitHub to include development of the code to assure that users must accept the ToS.
Payment milestones
Emerson has created a PR. Merged by Adam.
Q3 Budget Reconciliation
In 2023 the EWG has spent 64.000 GBP of 120.000 GBP on personnel. The EWG expects to stay well below budget in the whole year. Thus the EWG encourages Paul to continue work, but will earmark some money for Gregory's and Martin's work. The GDPR work will not get material before next year.
Mikel volunteers to update the spreadsheet.
Vector Tiles
Paul has announced the demo of tiles served from OSMF hardware. The EWG postpones the rest of the discussion until Adam is present.
Sovereign Tech Fund (STF)
The personnel committee (PC) has been preparing in case we get funded by the STF: PC is on preparing the application process for the facilitator (project coordinator). One of the facilitator's responsibilities would also be to hire someone for actual work. EWG shall prepare to give input to the interview process. Sarah has been proactive in talking to Andy and Tom about these plans and involve them in the potential selection process.
Roland volunteers to figure out the exact list of people to keep in CC to keep the maintainers informed.