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<div dir="auto">Hi, i will not renew membership for my part. Became rathet annoyed by the takeover of osm politics by the same loud but small activist groups who want to dictate their ideas to the large but silent majority, wo rather want to map than do politics
not connecting with mapping. So i grew rather tired reading all this stuff and i had significantly less drive do use my time off fof this project...</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Heather Leson <heatherleson@gmail.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, December 3, 2021 11:19:34 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Frederik Ramm <frederik@remote.org><br>
<b>Cc:</b> OSMF Talk <osmf-talk@openstreetmap.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Osmf-talk] Renew your OpenStreetMap Foundation membership to be eligible to vote</font>
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<div>Dears, <br>
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<div>I know that this is a hard topic and it appears to be going on a tangent. Respectfully and warmly, let's focus on membership renewals rather than getting into this topic.
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<div>Thank you again to the Membership Committee for their effort to help us have a safe and healthy election.
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<div>Heather Leson<br>
<a href="mailto:heatherleson@gmail.com" target="_blank">heatherleson@gmail.com</a><br>
Twitter/skype: HeatherLeson <br>
Blog: <a href="http://textontechs.com" target="_blank">textontechs.com</a><br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="x_gmail_attr">On Fri, Dec 3, 2021 at 11:04 AM Frederik Ramm <<a href="mailto:frederik@remote.org">frederik@remote.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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Hi,<br>
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On 12/3/21 07:18, Johann Haag wrote:<br>
>> The politics in OpenStreetMap drove me into anonymity. <br>
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By "politics" he means having to listen to what other community members <br>
ask of him - other community members he continually accuses of secretly <br>
working for the Austrian government or shady commercial enterprises <br>
trying to bring OSM down.<br>
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By "anonymity" he means creating one sock puppet after another to evade <br>
the blocking of his account, and thereby wasting not only DWG's time but <br>
that of the whole Austrian OSM community.<br>
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This man has been suspended (countless times) on the Austrian forum for <br>
(among other things) spewing off-topic conspiracy theories. He has been <br>
moderated on the talk-at mailing list. His OSM account has been <br>
temporarily suspended many times (before finally being suspended <br>
indefinitely) and a lot of time has gone into trying to convince him to <br>
respect others in the community to no avail. The various account blocks <br>
on <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/beautifulplacesMMXX/blocks" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">
https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/beautifulplacesMMXX/blocks</a> are <br>
just a fragment of the whole but they give you an idea of what has <br>
happened, however the list of his accounts is long:<br>
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geocodec<br>
wiki the map<br>
addresshistory org<br>
addresshistory*org<br>
beautifulplaces1 through beautifulplaces9<br>
beautifulplacesMMXX<br>
beautifulplacesMMXXI<br>
et_excluduntur<br>
couninf<br>
KarliG<br>
Florian6345<br>
Florian6345_2<br>
osmeulenspiegel<br>
fun737max<br>
Dragoner12<br>
123fix<br>
32d2123<br>
77fix<br>
Sainihåns<br>
5020_eulenspiegel<br>
DWG_contributors_invited_to_geography_conferences<br>
nicht_negreheb<br>
nicht_negreheb2<br>
Pflug24<br>
derunbestechliche<br>
@Österreich<br>
@aus_OpenStreetMap_und<br>
lsbkascdakhcbdsdavci<br>
predatortutti<br>
Kirchgasse<br>
2History<br>
Wonder Women<br>
Superman Tirol<br>
DSalza<br>
AT6380<br>
trapp77<br>
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Some of these are just throwaway accounts, others contain long profile <br>
rants about injustices suffered, or various attacks against individuals <br>
or groups. Some are even given a "persona", for example he used his <br>
"Wonder Women" account to tell another mapper "I won't let a man dictate <br>
anything to me!" when asked to provide good changeset comments.<br>
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In one of the many interminable discussions about his mapping on <br>
<a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/104910470" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/104910470</a>, towards the end, he
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describes his strategy of actively suppressing productive mapping.<br>
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In addition to various OSM-controlled media, this user also regularly <br>
publishes accusations against other Austrian OSM contributors and DWG <br>
members on Twitter and his personal blog.<br>
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If anyone wants to form their own opinion, the above pointers should <br>
give you more than enough material.<br>
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Bye<br>
Frederik<br>
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Frederik Ramm ## eMail <a href="mailto:frederik@remote.org" target="_blank">frederik@remote.org</a> ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33"<br>
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