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If you like Street Complete, please consider sponsoring it on Libera Pay [0], Github Sponsors [1], or Patreon [2]. For the last year, it was funded by OSMF by a

If you like Street Complete, please consider sponsoring it on Libera Pay [0], Github Sponsors [1], or Patreon [2]. For the last year, it was funded by OSMF by a grant to help develop alternative OSM editors. This grant has come to an end so they no longer have funding other than donations. [0] https://liberapay.com/westnordost https://liberapay.com/westnordost [1] https://github.com/sponsors/westnordost https://github.com/sponsors/westnordost [2] https://www.patreon.com/westnordost https://www.patreon.com/westnordost

matkoniecz 5y ago
To be more exact, OSMF funding was 3000 euro ( https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Microgrants/Microgrants_2020/Proposal/Map_Maintenance_with_StreetComplete https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Microgrants/Microgrants_... ) There was also funding from The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research "between 09.2020 and 02.2021" https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete#sponsors https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete#sponsors (I am one of contributors, and small part of my work was also grant-supported by NLnet foundation - I also definitely encourage to consider sponsoring the app author)
westnordost 5y ago
(Author here:) I got many emails about new patrons/sponsors yesterday and was astonished where this was all coming from, now I know! Thank you for posting this and thank you all for your support! This helps me a lot to find the time to maintain the app, in general a kind of work that I think is often underestimated, also in terms of time invested. For example, Google recently kicked the app out of their app store for spurious reasons so I had to act quickly to get it back ASAP. I kept track of the issue (and am still updating it, it's not over yet) here: https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/issues/2909 https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/issues/2909 This may be an interesting read and shed some light on how the Google Play Store team works and handles policy violations and appeals.

matkoniecz 5y ago

To be more exact, OSMF funding was 3000 euro ( https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Microgrants/Microgrants_2020/Proposal/Map_Maintenance_with_StreetComplete https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Microgrants/Microgrants_... ) There was also funding from The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research "between 09.2020 and 02.2021" https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete#sponsors https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete#sponsors (I am one of contributors, and small part of my work was also grant-supported by NLnet foundation - I also definitely encourage to consider sponsoring the app author)

westnordost 5y ago

(Author here:) I got many emails about new patrons/sponsors yesterday and was astonished where this was all coming from, now I know! Thank you for posting this and thank you all for your support! This helps me a lot to find the time to maintain the app, in general a kind of work that I think is often underestimated, also in terms of time invested. For example, Google recently kicked the app out of their app store for spurious reasons so I had to act quickly to get it back ASAP. I kept track of the issue (and am still updating it, it's not over yet) here: https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/issues/2909 https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/issues/2909 This may be an interesting read and shed some light on how the Google Play Store team works and handles policy violations and appeals.