Talk:Wikimedia Engineering/Maps & Geo Team

Focusing discussion here

only productive members ...
IMO it would be a real benefit if WMF would only take in persons who proved that they deliver "billable contributions", i.e. something donors would click on and give money: for _all_ roles. we have too many examples recently where it is really painful to interact with persons detached from the community, and anyway getting 5 or 6 digit dollar numbers out of the movement funds donated for free contents. as this is engineering, my suggestion would be to only take open source developers, especially for the community liaison and product management. --ThurnerRupert (talk) 05:51, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
 * one who contributes to wikipedia, wikisource, wikiversity, ... not talk page or meta, real contents
 * one who contributes to openstreetmap, either code, or data, not talk pages, mailing lists.
 * one who contributes code to one of the open technologies used, mediawiki, linux kernel, git, gerrit, mailman, postgres, mysql. not talk pages, mailing lists, bugzillas.

Synergy of OpenSeaMap, Wikipedia, Wikidata, Commons
Since years there is a aim to build an integrative Water-Sport-Wiki, using OpenSeaMap as geo visualisation and Mediawiki together with content of Wikipedia, Wikidata and Commons. The challenge is to integrate all this branches into a synergetic toolchain and application. Untl now we did not find a volounteer with all tis skills.

What we have:
 * Wikipedia integration
 * Port Pilot Book
 * Diving spots
 * Canoeing

What we need:
 * a specialist who can build the tool chain and the interfaces

Then we will get an impressive Watersport-Wiki and a formidable prototype how to make synergy between the Wikimedia projects :-)

--Markus Bärlocher (talk) 08:23, 5 March 2014 (UTC)