@simon regarding the "fixed pot", that's an attitude I cannot support. If we're talking about OSMF, it's far from fixed, though OSMF makes it look so. In development in general, "a return for money spent" is not how you get new things. Like, no company besides Cloudmade and MapZen innovated in OSM on their own money. Because R&D doesn't bring money. Is spending on it pointless? Well, if your goal is to make more money, then yes. Is the goal of OSMF to earn money?
@zverik the goal is to get more people mapping. So lets do the numbers, for simplicity lets assume the OSMF can spend $1/year on development per new mapper, so $152k for 2023 (this is substantially more than what the OSMF actually spends) and split that up