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> They employ nobody in the OSM community. I imagine many of the employees that do the work mentioned in the article would consider themselves part of the OSM
by ydlr 5y ago
> They employ nobody in the OSM community.
I imagine many of the employees that do the work mentioned in the article would consider themselves part of the OSM community.
- petee 5y agoI suspect they are suggesting a difference between working to contribute as part of the community, versus being solely to further their company's product.
- notreallyserio 5y agoI was hoping they'd include a comment describing what they mean when they talk about employing someone in the OSM community (and how they'd know).
- burkaman 5y agoHere's one example of a person employed by Apple to work on OSM: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/andrewwiseman https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/andrewwiseman Facebook and Microsoft are also "Gold Corporate Members" of OSM which costs €10,000 / year, and they are "Corporate Partners" of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, which does employ people to directly work on OSM: https://www.hotosm.org/ https://www.hotosm.org/. Also apparently "nearly 17% of the global road network was last edited by a corporate data-team member" (https://2020.stateofthemap.org/sessions/SPRQVZ/ https://2020.stateofthemap.org/sessions/SPRQVZ/), and lots of people must be employed by corporations to make that happen, even if it's mostly automated edits.
- PragmaticPulp 5y agoSeems like circular reasoning: Being a part of the OSM community means they aren’t employed by OSM as employees. If they employ the person, they’re no longer a community member but an employee. I don’t actually see the issue.
- matkoniecz 5y ago> they aren’t employed by OSM Note that OSM does not employ anyone (Open Street Map Foundation has very limited employees and contractors, see https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Contractors_and_employees https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Contractors_and_employee... )