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<p>Thar doesn't sound quite right, the current situation is<br>
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<p>- unchanged since the time associate membership was introduced
(2013), pay £15 and become either a regular or an associate
member, no other requirements</p>
<p>- alternatively since a couple of years with a couple of
different requirements, become a member through the membership fee
waiver scheme</p>
<p>The board is now implementing restrictions of the former, not
loosening the requirements for the later.</p>
<p>This goes back to the 2020 AGM and the vote on
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Annual_General_Meetings/2020/Suggested_resolutions#Vote_3:_Work_on_membership_prerequisites">https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Annual_General_Meetings/2020/Suggested_resolutions#Vote_3:_Work_on_membership_prerequisites</a></p>
<p>Simon<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 07.06.2022 um 16:28 schrieb Brian M.
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<div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jun 7, 2022 at 10:15 AM Mateusz Konieczny
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<div>That seems to be extremely low and very close to
"drop membership requirements"<br>
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<div dir="auto">I would be strongly against this.</div>
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<div>Right now, anyone can join the OSMF for a payment of £15,
and zero days mapping. So that membership requirement has
already been, as you describe, dropped. It seems to me that
reducing the mapping requirement helps to close the
accessibility gap. Paying £15 is trivial for many people in
more affluent parts of the world. So essentially today, if
you are economically advantaged, the barrier to entry is
low. If paying £15 is cost-prohibitive, you have to map for
a significant period of time, which is more of a burden to
those people than paying £15 likely is to you or I.
Reducing the mapping requirement helps to lower the barrier
for less economically advantaged people to something that
more closely approaches the monetary barrier for more
affluent folks.</div>
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