The OpenStreetMap Foundation support but not controls OpenStreetMap. It is the legal entity that owns the hardware and holds the copyrights and trademarks for OpenStreetMap.

In recent time, it also employs an Senior Site Reliability Engineer, and that has proven useful to fend off multiple cyber attacks amongst other tasks to keep the platform going. Also, the Foundation finally delivered Vector Tiles to the community after it did not get done by purely volunteers. Funding the maintenance of iD has also effective brought perceived control back to the community.

However, the income of the Foundation does not meet its current spending level. In this workshop we ask the attendants as members of the OpenStreetMap community what sources of income the Foundation ideally should have and what measures it shall or at least may take. Shall we really ask our mappers although they volunteer already with time? Is this tenable still when it is recurring yearly? How much money do we want or accept from a single large donor before the influence is too big? Or shall we try the infamous Wikipedia style banners? Even if our actual users sit behind third party apps and never see the osm.org website?