Thank you Logan for those explanations and the well wishes. I hope the same for your the people around you.

I agree fully about being watchful of corporate organizations getting additional power in OSM leadership.

Regarding tying seats on the board to nationality :

Board seat candidacy on OSMF are open to anyone as far as I am aware, and voters are at liberty of voting for their candidate of choice without external influence. If that’s not the case, that must (and have been in the past) investigated and acted upon.

Regarding voters, voters would have to have paid a yearly fee, that may restrict the pool of voters to “richer” countries. That was not the case for this election, and surely will stay the same for future elections.

The only problem I see is people with less income may not have as much time available to OSM, restricting their achievements in OSM. I understand that there economic inequality between countries, but the same can be said inside “richer” countries. Education has the same bias, poor people will on average have less access to education. Is is a poverty problem, not a coutry-of-residence problem.

And this problem seems way out of bounds of what a few OSMF Board seats may address.

Another problem is the language barrier : an english-speaking candidate will have an adventage over a non-english-speaking candidate. I’m not sure but I think most OSMF Board communication happens over email, so having using a translation service seems to close that gap.

Therefore the question that remains for me is : if the board election process is close to being totally fair, why is there a disparity between social groups in candidacy ? And in votes ?

What’s stopping heavily invested candidates to even propose their candidacy ? And what’s stopping (or discouraging) voters to vote for those if their contribution is recognized by their peers around the world ?

Hi Logan, can you expand on those two points please ?

I will give this cause my ear and my voice, pursuing all potential remedies, including a potential restructuring of the board

It is my priority to harden the OSMF against a hostile takeover.

They seem contradictory to me. The Call To Action specifically ask to restrict Board seats for one group of the population, and only allow people from groups selected by organizations outside the OSMF to run on those seats. That sounds like a hostile (partial) takeover to me.

But I’m happy to be corrected if I didn’t understand that right. Thank you !

I agree with you Smef09, the debate seems way too much heated to me, leading to a level disparing comments which I haven’t seen yet. Also most of those come from people “promoting inclusivity”.

@arnalielsewhere : One of the immediate change that this document calls is restricting Board Seats to persons based on discriminative traits : sex and country of origin.

Racism and sexism, and discriminative messages such as yours are rejected by a lot of people, so being wary of this document seems logical to me.

@᚛ᚏᚒᚐᚔᚏᚔᚋ᚜ 🏳️‍🌈 I can’t cite your offensive message, I’m refering to your first citation : I don’t think one should asume genders based on profile pictures. If they ask to be publicly identified as such (pronouns for example) then sure.

Do you think it would be inclusive and welcoming to tell that to transitionning people for example ?

Thank you for your candidacy !

Bienvenue :)

Il n’y a pas spécialement de règle pour les journaux, n’hésites pas à poster !

I have now removed the “source=Bing”

Thank you !

Thank you for this tutorial !

I don’t think we should move away from capacity either, but adding maxtents, maxcaravans etc. like lyx suggested would be a good idea imo.

Also, please indicate the source in changeset tags instead of on each object. When an object has source=* it isn’t clear what data is covered by this tag.

Thank you for this comprehensive diary !

I agree with the sentiment that data should be mapped as best as possible w.r.t. the mapper ability and available sources. Quantity is not better than quality : as aeonesa pointed out most often error/imprecisions or lack of details get overlooked for a while once acceptable data is put in OSM.

Nice work ! Looking forward to have it implemented on Nominatim endpoints !

Great writeup and good looking results, thank you for your work !

Great release, thank you for the writeup !

Thank you for this useful experiment !

Thank you for your analysis ! (I am not related to any party you mention)

Thank you for sharing this project

Thank you for the blog post ! Love to see more vector tile uses !

Bonjour et bienvenue sur OpenStreetMap,

Vous avez deux chemins possibles :

• Créer une note avec toutes les informations de votre galerie (sa position, nom, numéro de téléphone, site web…) sur la carte afin que des contributeurs habitués à OpenStreetMap l’ajoutent

• Modifier vous-même la carte avec l’éditeur.

Les deux approches sont décrites ici; la première est peut-être plus adaptée si vous ne souhaitez qu’ajouter votre galerie.

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