<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>It looks structured and organised, and I have no reason to doubt the good intentions.<br><br></div>I however have mixed feelings that membership requires a fee (which is not listed, as far as I can see?) and that the board has to accept new members. If I read correctly, this leaves a path to refuse members without clear grounds, and a slow acceptance process, which might hold back people from getting involved.<br><br></div>Ideally, I'd love to see that part inverted: board can only REFUSE membership on very clearly communicated grounds (communicated to OSMF), and those grounds cannot be just race, gender, etc.. and possibly see membership be tied to contribution instead of finances.<br><br></div>I may have skimmed over it, but right now I'm unclear about if that's an annual recurring fee, or a 'once at signup'. If membership is not tied to activity (or subscription renewal) you risk ending to struggle to reach voting quota in a few years.<br><br></div>Is it common to have quota expressed as a ratio of the 'votes present' rather then total usercount?<br><br><br></div>Please consider the above as well-meant questions / suggestions / considerations. It's by no means my intention to try and halt the process, but other may have similar questions (or answers) to the above.<br><div><div><div><div><div><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Op ma 1 feb. 2021 om 22:13 schreef Mateusz Konieczny via osmf-talk <<a href="mailto:osmf-talk@openstreetmap.org">osmf-talk@openstreetmap.org</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>As one of local mappers from Poland I fully support this application.<br></div><div><br></div><div>And in my opinion this organization and people involved represent local mappers<br></div><div>and doing a good job (for example in case of some organizations having an official <br></div><div>foundation is useful to be treated seriously).<br></div><div><br></div><div>Feb 1, 2021, 21:52 by <a href="mailto:rory.mccann@osmfoundation.org" target="_blank">rory.mccann@osmfoundation.org</a>:<br></div><blockquote style="border-left:1px solid rgb(147,163,184);padding-left:10px;margin-left:5px"><div>Hello,<br></div><div><br></div><div>You may be aware that Stowarzyszenie OpenStreetMap Polska has applied to become an official Local Chapter of the OpenStreetMap Foundation for Poland. As part of the application process, we would like to ask you, the OSMF membership, about this. Do you support this application? Do you have any questions, comments or concerns?<br></div><div><br></div><div>You can find all the information about this Local Chapter application on the OSMF website: <a href="https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Local_Chapters/Applications/Poland" target="_blank">https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Local_Chapters/Applications/Poland</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>We will close this round of discussion two weeks from now (i.e. 14 Feb 2021).<br></div><div>You can reply here or contact the OSMF Board privately: <a href="mailto:board@osmfoundation.org" target="_blank">board@osmfoundation.org</a><br></div><div>Please tell anyone about this application who might be interested. We want feedback.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I am looking forward to hearing your responses.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thank you to the OSM Poland team for this submission. <br></div><div><br></div><div>-- <br></div><div><br></div><div>Rory McCann<br></div><div>Secretary<br></div><div>OpenStreetMap Foundation<br></div><div><br></div><div>Name & Registered Office:<br></div><div>OpenStreetMap Foundation<br></div><div>St John's Innovation Centre<br></div><div>Cowley Road<br></div><div>Cambridge<br></div><div>CB4 0WS<br></div><div>United Kingdom<br></div><div>A company limited by guarantee, registered in England and Wales.<br></div><div>Registration No. 05912761.<br></div><div><br></div><div>_______________________________________________<br></div><div>osmf-talk mailing list<br></div><div><a href="mailto:osmf-talk@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">osmf-talk@openstreetmap.org</a><br></div><div><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/osmf-talk" target="_blank">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/osmf-talk</a><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div> </div>
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