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Le 03/12/2017 à 03:54, Blake Girardot a écrit :<br>
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<pre wrap="">On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 2:12 AM, Jean-Guilhem Cailton <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jgc@arkemie.org"><jgc@arkemie.org></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">In HOT's CoC Nico would make a complaint and the folks who are part of
the community committee that have agreed to review CoC complaints, 7
people who are hot voting members who volunteered to review coc
complaints, would read his complaint and decide if what he was
complaining about violated the HOT CoC or not.
You could also have explained that this committee includes:
Heather Leson
Blake Girardot
Joseph Reeves
Mikel Maron
John Crowley
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Hi JGC,
Except the above is a mistaken statement.</pre>
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Sorry about that. I was tired indeed.<br>
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You are confusing the group of people who review code of conduct
complaints, people from the HOT voting members who have volunteered to
be in the group of folks who review complaints and the Governance
Working Group that drafted and submitted the CoC to the HOT membership
and Board.
The above list are some of the Governance Working Group members that
helped draft the CoC (I am on the WG but had no involvement in
drafting the CoC except to motivate the WG to re-write our previous
CoC, I drafted the complaint procedures and the WG modified them and
the membership adopted them by vote.)
It should also be noted that the Governance WG is open to anyone in
the HOT community, just like the OSMF working groups are. Nico was on
the HOT Governance WG as recently as last year, but stopped attending
meetings.
There is, as far as I know, no current group of volunteers to review
CoC complaints at HOT at the moment as there has been no need, but
someone can please correct me if I am wrong, since leaving the board I
do not read the meeting minutes often enough :)</pre>
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So Blake you can understand that i have now even less interest than
you in the details of the inner workings of HOT US Inc. (It is not
even my employer…)<br>
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And that seeing that the majority of the people who had been
involved in the CoC process were people by whom i had been seriously
abused and harassed (along with others – both abused and abusers),
repeatedly and over a long time stretch, it would be quite difficult
for me to have any trust in the result, anyway.<br>
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I hope i can find enough time and energy today to write about that
and inform the members of OSMF about some of the facts that
happened. <br>
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OSMF Members, if you want to be in a position to make an informed
vote, please, for OpenStreetMap’s sake, also take the time to read
and understand at least Séverin’s insider account of HOT US Inc.
governance history. This will give you an idea of the bleak future
that awaits OSM if Heather Leson is elected.<br>
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And also of the bleak future that looms for horizontal
volunteer-driven commons-based projects, among whom OpenStreetMap is
often quoted as a flagship model. Your responsibility as Voters is
even larger than you might have thought. So please do your homework
and get well informed. Specially if you intended to vote for the
controversial candidate, that is.<br>
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Also please do not be distracted by the made-up “scandal about
tone”, and do not forget the conclusion of Séverin’s first email.
Think about the huge economic and social value that OSM represents.
What would be surprising would be if the first superpower didn’t try
to control that part of cyberspace, as it does successfully with
other parts. And it should also be expected that some amount of
subtlety and of communication skills be involved in the process…<br>
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Finally even if you don’t mind US soft power taking control over OSM
– maybe because you are a US citizen, or maybe because you love US
series or films, or for whatever reason –, please realize that what
is at stake here – as you can see if you read and really understand
the statements on this list – is the horizontal nature of OSM, and
the freedom of OSM mappers. To give you an small idea of the threat,
emergency mapping projects during the response to major disasters
(that were of interest to some of the responders in the field) have
been blocked without discussion when they didn’t align with the
interests of the small group of connected people in control of HOT
(via HOT US Inc.)…<br>
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Basically, to put a name on the apparently invisible elephant in the
middle of the room, it is a group of people who are paid to control
the free labor of OSM (and HOT) mappers. They deny that there could
be any ethical question involved with this. And they actively
prevent raising the issue. In case you think that that might be ok,
in theory, IF (and that is a really BIG IF) high ethical standards
were met (in reality, and not only by waving nice words on a web
page), you need to become aware that that has NOT been the case in
practice, at least in the more than seven years for which I have
been involved in OSM. (Since the Haiti earthquake in January 2010,
that has been a founding landmark for the “humanitarian branch” of
OSM). So its is absolutely unlikely to happen now, especially with
the same group of people involved.<br>
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And in case you might be wondering why I quote Transparency
International in my signature, it is because the behavior of some of
the persons involved matches their definition of corruption…<br>
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Best wishes,<br>
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Jean-Guilhem<br>
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abuse of entrusted power for private gain.” Transparency
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