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0 pointsmtmail2y ago0 comments

Wikimedia has about 350 employees. OpenStreetMap foundation afaik 2: one remote office admin and one system administrator. No offices. It’s very lean budget wise.

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matkoniecz2y ago

If anyone is interested in general budget see https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Board/Minutes/2023-02/Bu...

For paid staff see https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Contractors_and_employee... (note that for example accountant is not contracted full-time)

(and yes, donations are welcome! See https://donate.openstreetmap.org/ if you want to help)

disclaimer: I am an unpaid volunteer on OSMF board

stereo2y ago

Hi, I'm the OpenStreetMap Foundation chairperson. We have one employee (our site reliability engineer), one external admin assistant, one external developer for the iD editor, and one external bookkeeper. We do indeed run very lean, thanks to our amazing volunteer community.

Helmut100012y ago

Here it says 8 [1]. Still very interesting, I did not know!

[1]: https://www.datanyze.com/companies/openstreetmap/353811364

stereo2y ago

Hi from the OpenStreetMap Foundation chairperson. We have one employee (our site reliability engineer), one external admin assistant, one external developer for the iD editor, and one external bookkeeper. The "8" on that site probably counts the board of directors, who are seven volunteers.

mtmailOP2y ago

Yes, 8 might be correct. https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/w/images/3/3c/FY2021_Full_acc... "The average number of employees during the year was 7 (2020 - 7)"

I doubt the 12.4 million revenue. The 2021 financial report listed turnover of £350,000 with surplus of £160,000 and £740,000 in reserves.

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matkoniecz2y ago

If anyone is interested in general budget see https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Board/Minutes/2023-02/Bu...

For paid staff see https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Contractors_and_employee... (note that for example accountant is not contracted full-time)

(and yes, donations are welcome! See https://donate.openstreetmap.org/ if you want to help)

disclaimer: I am an unpaid volunteer on OSMF board

stereo2y ago

Helmut100012y ago

Here it says 8 [1]. Still very interesting, I did not know!

[1]: https://www.datanyze.com/companies/openstreetmap/353811364

stereo2y ago

mtmailOP2y ago

Yes, 8 might be correct. https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/w/images/3/3c/FY2021_Full_acc... "The average number of employees during the year was 7 (2020 - 7)"

I doubt the 12.4 million revenue. The 2021 financial report listed turnover of £350,000 with surplus of £160,000 and £740,000 in reserves.

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