Working Group Minutes/EWG 2025-09-19
These minutes are a draft.
Formal proceedings
Attendees:
- Andrew Hain (at 9min)
- Adam Hoyle
- Minh Nguyen
- Tobias Knerr
- Emerson Rocha (at 11min)
- Hector Ochoa Ortiz (at 11min)
Guests:
- Pablo Brasero Moreno
Apologies:
- Roland Olbricht
Actual business
Microgrants
One applicant has reached out to ask for the status of the jury's process, Adam has responded.
OpenStreetMap Core Software Engineer
Pablo Brasero Moreno has joined as Core Software Engineer. A public blog post is coming up. The selection process has been very competitive.
Vector Tiles
Paul has submitted 4 things for SOTM.EU:
- 40min technical deep dive
- 20 min lightning talk on styling
- shortbread steering group meeting
- operations working group meeting.
In the issue tracker for https://switch2osm.org/, instructions for vector tiles are sorted out.
Should there be a public call for designers to step in and contribute to Street Spirit? Adam will take notes on our discussion to discuss them during the regular interaction with Paul.
GDPR
No recent developments. However, with the new Core Software Engineer position, we have additional capacity both in terms of planning and implementation. Minh plans to raise this topic with Pablo.
Floss Fund
Work in progress. Andrew volunteers to assist Hector with this task.
Next Projects to Commission / Projects Pipeline / Roadmap
There is the tension between being limited to the STF funding timeframe and more ambitious plans in the roadmap. This raises the question of funding and governance beyond STF. The things which got dropped on the cutting room floor might be used to entice potential funders.
EWG members are welcome to comment the roadmap on HackMD.
By the time Minh will be able to join an EWG meeting again (likely 4 weeks from now), there will probably be a community discussion going on.