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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Thank you very much Paul for standing
for board election again, and for all you have done previously for
OSM and OSMF.<br>
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Your concerns about conflicts of interest and “Support, but not
control” mappers are indeed crucial at this point for
OpenStreetMap, as can be seen in other recent threads…<br>
<br>
Kind regards,<br>
<br>
Jean-Guilhem<br>
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Le 25/11/2017 à 06:37, Paul Norman a écrit :<br>
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<p>I've announced my standing for board previously, after feedback
from a few people. I've now posted my manifesto, at <a
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href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/pnorman/diary/42816"
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<p>I'm Paul Norman, OSM user pnorman. I've been mapping since
2010, and involved in other facets of OpenStreetMap since 2011.
For the last three years, I’ve been on the OSMF board, and am
running for re-election. During my time I’ve seen the board grow
in productivity, the finances become more stable, and us make
good strides in transparency.<br>
<br>
Outside the board, I’m also involved with the OSMF on the Data
Working Group, License Working Group, and Membership Working
Group. As a software developer, I’m a maintainer of
OpenStreetMap Carto and osm2pgsql, as well as being involved in
many parts of rendering toolchain.<br>
<br>
In my work life I’m an independent software developer, working
on map rendering, cartography, and PostGIS for clients. My main
contract right now is with Wikimedia Foundation, as the
developer on their maps team. In the past I’ve worked for
CartoDB, Mapquest, and other companies.<br>
<br>
Looking back at what I put in my 2014 manifesto, I’m moderately
pleased with the progress we’ve made in both transparency and
productive board meetings. Neither are perfect, but they’re a
vast improvement over three years. Overall, I’m satisfied with
my time on the board. I accomplished some of what I wanted to,
and think my manifesto desires were realistic.<br>
<br>
My concerns are now<br>
<br>
<b>Conflicts of interest</b><br>
<br>
6/7 board members work with OSM somehow in their jobs. This
includes four with employers who sell services based on OSM data
and can easily run into conflicts of interest. We are not
managing this, which might have worked in the past, but is not a
good practice. There’s stuff we need to set up like having an
email discussion out of sight of the people with conflicts.
Right now it’s considered acceptable for a board member to take
part in discussions where they have a conflict of interest.
Clear rules would also protect board members from pressure from
their employer.<br>
<br>
On a working group whenever there’s occasionally been an
intersection between my work and the WG. In these cases I’ve
removed myself from the discussion. This is what we should all
be doing on the board.<br>
<br>
Unfortunately, as someone who is paid to work with OSM data, I
run into conflicts of interest myself, but in practice, I have
less than most with the nature of who I work for.<br>
<br>
<b>Support, but not control</b><br>
<br>
The job of the OSMF board is to support the mappers building the
map, but not control them. I worry we are losing sight of that,
and people increasingly want to exert control and consider the
mappers secondary. We need to protect the ability for people to
independently do activities, even if it’s not something the
board agrees with.<br>
<br>
<b>Volunteer capacity</b><br>
<br>
A lack of volunteers was an issue when I ran three years ago.
It’s a bit better, but still one of the biggest issues facing
the OSMF. Working groups need more people. A growing number of
members have been attending board meetings, but I’d like to see
multiple ones at every meeting. We need good people on the
board, but we also need an active membership who are interested
in what we do, watch us, what we do, track that we deliver, and
offer appreciation in return.<br>
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<p>Paul Norman<br>
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