2024-09-08 –, Maasai Mara
OpenStreetMap Foundation Board Ask Us Anything (i.e. AMA). We will take questions from the audience, or other questions that people can submit before the event, and we will talk about and answer them. We can talk about the past actions of the board, and what future plans we have.
This is a chance to ask the OSM Foundation Board questions, to engage with the board. Let’s have a conversation about the Foundation, the Board and how all the parts work together. If you know nothing about what the board is doing, this is a chance to find out. Find out what the Foundation does and doesn’t do, what it can and can’t do. Find out how you can help, how you can get involved. The Board is committed to openness and wants to engage with the community.
Feel free to ask us questions also outside this specific session.
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Affiliation:OpenStreetMap Foundation
Sponsors:OpenStreetMap Foundation
Sarah is a long term contributor to OSM. She started mapping in 2008 before increasingly getting involved with the programming side of OSM. She is now maintainer for waymarkedtrails, pyosmium, osm2pgsql and Nominatim. She's also been a board member of the OSMF since December 2022. She makes a living as a free-lance software developer.
Active OpenStreetMap mapper and contributor to software powering OpenStreetMap. Contributed some minor improvements to multiple editors and significant improvements to StreetComplete. Active in various places, including OpenStreetMap Foundation board.
Mapper active since 2013, especially interested in mapping bicycle infrastructure, hiking trails, parks. Mapping using Vespucci, StreetComplete, JOSM, level0, special editing tools and automated edits.
Involved in improving documentation about existing tagging schemas by contributing to OpenStreetMap Wiki. Active also in inventing new tagging schema where existing ones were insufficient.
Daniela Waltersdorfer, also known as Dani is from Lima, Peru, and also spent part of her childhood in Bogota, Colombia, and in a suburb of Miami in the U.S. She now resides in Washington, D.C. , U.S. As a professional, she works in the Transportation Industry, where she helps many transportation agencies with their transit, logistics, supply-chain, and asset management needs in the form of digital geospatial solutions. She’s been a leader of Maptime Boston and Miami, where (along with her awesome co-leads) provided GIS and mapping education to the local communities and led mapathons.
See https://osmfoundation.org/wiki/Board_Member_Bios#Current_Board for biographical details of board members:
- Arnalie Vicario
- Craig Allan
- Daniela (Dani) Waltersdorfer Jimenez
- Guillaume Rischard
- Mateusz Konieczny
- Roland Olbricht
- Sarah Hoffmann
Due to limits on text size, it was impossible to fit detailed info here. Please see OSMF wiki linked above to see more!