Working Group Minutes/EWG 2025-03-21
These minutes are draft minutes.
Formal proceedings
Attendees:
- Andrew Hain
- Adam Hoyle
- Tobias Knerr
- Héctor Ochoa Ortiz
- Emerson Rocha
- Salim Baidoun (after 20 minutes)
Apologies:
- Mikel Maron
- Roland Olbricht
Minutes of previous meetings
The minutes of the last meeting have been approved.
Actual business
Microgrants
Salim has conducted interviews with potential jurors and has a proposal for EWG.
Candidates:
- Jennings Anderson: EWG votes in favour
- Ramya Ragupathy: EWG votes in favour
- Martin Raifer: EWG votes in favour
- Ilya Zverev: EWG votes in favour
The vote on one candidate is postponed due to concerns about engineering experience. The vote shall take place asyncronously. After that, Salim will draft a public announcement.
For context the previous Microgrants round.
EWG help with recruitment for copyright page update
Rocha will send an email to Communications Working Group asking to someone act as a point of contact from Communications Working Group for topic related to this bid (reasoning: both Robert and Rocha are unsure about questions, such as this question, and having such contact would speed up).
Sovereign Tech Fund (STF)
Interviews continue for the OSM Core Software Development Facilitator role after a candidate has dropped out. Roland or Mikel will be involved on behalf of Engineering Working Group.
GDPR
Andrew has communicated with AntonKhorev. A current development priority is to make it possible to accept the ToU for old accounts.
iD Development
Contract extension negotiations are underway.
Next time: look into the "buildings" feature.
Any other business
DST meeting time adjustment
The Engineering Working Group votes to move the meeting to 1200 UTC to allow for European Summer Time.
Scheduling a Microsoft presentation
Mikel proposes to schedule a presentation by Microsoft at the next meeting, either at the beginning of the meeting or at the halfway point.
People on the Element Group
We would like the channel to be exclusive to EWG members.