<div dir="ltr">Agreed.<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Feb 13, 2022 at 12:56 PM Darafei "Komяpa" Praliaskouski <<a href="mailto:me@komzpa.net">me@komzpa.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Some thoughts:<br><br>"42 mapping days" will exclude:<div> - map consumers of all kinds, people who need to say "hey your tagging/servers/distribution/licensing is unusable".</div><div> - people from small places. My village I mapped in 5 days and generally I'm out of things to map there. <br> - people from low economy regions. Anyone who just does not have the luxury of 42 days of hobby in front of a computer.<br> - shy people who don't believe they are in position to prove themselves to someone.</div><div><br></div><div>"42 mapping days" will amplify:</div><div> - people who can focus on one thing for 42 days and more and don't have other life.</div><div> - paid mappers of all kinds (the only real way to get in is to work somewhere where you have an assignment to contribute for 42+ days).</div><div> - current, unbalanced, membership base. (this won't apply on renewals to remove people, right?)</div><div><br>"mapping or non-mapping" I can't really get what it means. On the coding side, anyone can generate a git history of any temporal shape quite quickly to fill in some github fork. Requiring to commit to some specific repo will make the maintainter of it a gatekeeper of OSMF membership.</div><div><br></div><div>I believe the proposal is ill-thought and will cause more damage than help in current form.</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Feb 13, 2022 at 7:29 PM Tobias Knerr <<a href="mailto:osm@tobias-knerr.de" target="_blank">osm@tobias-knerr.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi all,<br>
<br>
at the 2020 AGM, a 79% majority of the membership asked the board to <br>
propose prerequisites for membership in the OSM Foundation which would <br>
ensure that all applicants for membership have made a reasonable amount <br>
of contributions to OSM (not necessarily through mapping).[1]<br>
<br>
We would like to ask for your feedback to a first draft of this proposal <br>
which you can read below. It uses a definition for "reasonable amount of <br>
contributions" that is comparable to the active contributor <br>
membership[2], but has lower requirements: 42 days of contributions ever <br>
instead of 42 days per year. Existing memberships would not be affected <br>
by this change.<br>
<br>
The 2020 resolution called for a membership vote on this topic in 2021. <br>
Unfortunately, the board didn't produce a proposal in time for the 2021 <br>
AGM and we would like to apologize for this delay. Our current plan is <br>
to have the resolution ready for a general meeting on April 30, 2022.<br>
<br>
<br>
# Potential text of the resolution<br>
<br>
Using its powers under §15 of the Articles of Association, the board of <br>
directors shall reject applications for membership or associate <br>
membership if the applicant has not demonstrably contributed to <br>
OpenStreetMap on at least 42 days. The specific form of the <br>
contributions (e.g. mapping vs. non-mapping) does not make a difference <br>
for the fulfilment of these prerequisites. The board may delegate <br>
verification and rejection of membership applications to a working group.<br>
<br>
## Rationale:<br>
<br>
This change would more firmly establish the OSMF as an entity serving <br>
the people and communities who create OpenStreetMap. By ensuring that <br>
votes in Foundation elections and resolutions are cast by OpenStreetMap <br>
contributors, it becomes more likely that the Foundation will continue <br>
to support the the project well.<br>
<br>
The criteria take inspiration from the fee waiver (known as active <br>
contributor membership) to allow using a similar implementation. Unlike <br>
the fee waiver, eligibility will be evaluated as a one-time step during <br>
application for membership, rather than annually. As such, members do <br>
not have to fear losing their membership if their activity fluctuates or <br>
declines. Existing memberships won't be affected.<br>
<br>
## Considerations:<br>
<br>
This one-time check applies to all member applications including those <br>
that pay the regular £15 membership fee.<br>
<br>
<br>
# Footnotes<br>
<br>
[1] <br>
<a href="https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Annual_General_Meetings/2020/Suggested_resolutions#Vote_3:_Work_on_membership_prerequisites" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Annual_General_Meetings/2020/Suggested_resolutions#Vote_3:_Work_on_membership_prerequisites</a><br>
[2] <a href="https://join.osmfoundation.org/active-contributor-membership/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://join.osmfoundation.org/active-contributor-membership/</a><br>
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