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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On the advisory board of the Wikimedia
Foundation <a
href="http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Advisory_Board">http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Advisory_Board</a>
there are, at least, one representative from India and two from
Africa, from the Republic of South Africa and Namibia. <br>
<br>
I can reach this page of the Advisory Board and the page of Board
of Trustees from any page of Wikipedia just in two clicks. On
these pages there are photos and textual information about the
officers and trustees.<br>
<br>
There is good satellite imagery for the city of Windhoek, the
capital of Namibia, in JOSM, and there are many modern buildings
to map. Africa is going online via the network of very fast
submarine cables <a
href="https://manypossibilities.net/african-undersea-cables/">https://manypossibilities.net/african-undersea-cables/</a><br>
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It is not a big change to make the OSMF Officers & Board page
more visible and similar to the Wikimedia Foundation's analogue. <br>
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I agree that a political correctness for the sake of political
correctness is useless, but if in future there is a good mapper
and and an organizer from, say, Namibia or Tanzania, why not?
Especially if it attracts an attention, improves trust and helps
to map these immense countries.<br>
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brgds<br>
Oleksiy (Alex-7)<br>
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On 20.09.2014 10:47, Severin Menard wrote:<br>
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<p dir="ltr">Hi,</p>
<p dir="ltr">Representation of all the (sub-) continents would
also improve the diversity.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Sincerely,</p>
<p dir="ltr">Severin</p>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 3:34 PM,
Oleksiy Muzalyev <span dir="ltr"><<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:oleksiy.muzalyev@bluewin.ch"
target="_blank">oleksiy.muzalyev@bluewin.ch</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0
.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Perhaps
it's time to begin to think about a rule that the board
shall include at least two women? And in future 4/3?</blockquote>
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+1 - Even if the Board doesn't think that rule is
appropriate, we should reach out to encourage more gender
diversity on the Board. I don't know the make up of men vs
women in OSM, but I suspect we could do much more to promote
more to encourage more women to be involved. <br>
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