<story><title>A Growing OpenStreetMap Needs Your Support</title><url>https://donate.openstreetmap.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mtmail</author><text>The Operations Working Group, the sysadmins holding the servers together, are all volunteers. &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiki.osmfoundation.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Operations_Working_Group&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiki.osmfoundation.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Operations_Working_Group&lt;/a&gt;
and keeps a list of hardware and open issues. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;openstreetmap&amp;#x2F;operations&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;openstreetmap&amp;#x2F;operations&lt;/a&gt; (more help always welcome).&lt;p&gt;A frequent question is why the hardware bought and not rented hourly&amp;#x2F;yearly with a PaaS. First of all the bandwidth requirement are huge and it would put too much pressure on the organization to reach donation goals every year.&lt;p&gt;Besides the donation runs you can also become a member (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;join.osmfoundation.org&amp;#x2F;normal-membership&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;join.osmfoundation.org&amp;#x2F;normal-membership&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;) or you company a corporate member (&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiki.osmfoundation.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Corporate_Members&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiki.osmfoundation.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Corporate_Members&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;p&gt;Unlike wikipedia the donation drive won&amp;#x27;t need months. If I remember correctly last year two companies gave 20.000 USD each. That said: donate now please.&lt;p&gt;disclaimer: work at &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;geocoder.opencagedata.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;geocoder.opencagedata.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;, we&amp;#x27;re a corporate member</text></comment>
<story><title>A Growing OpenStreetMap Needs Your Support</title><url>https://donate.openstreetmap.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Doctor_Fegg</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not widely appreciated how efficient OSM is: the whole project runs on roughly $170k a year. Wikimedia spends around $65m (there are, obviously, many differences in what the organisations do, but it&amp;#x27;s an interesting comparison).</text></comment>