<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">There seems to be a lot of baby boomers retiring at the moment. Could we tap into them in some way? Find something that resonates with them?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Adding highways and settlements in Africa might be useful but the advantages of the work needs to be explained. Local detailed mapping would need a more complex explanation, i.e. wheelchair accessibility etc.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Yes HOT does this but I'm thinking more intellectually satisfying than mindless adding of buildings.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Thoughts?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Thanks John</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 4 May 2023 at 02:17, Craig Allan <<a href="mailto:allan@iafrica.com">allan@iafrica.com</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"><u></u>
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<p><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">OSMF Members:</span></p>
<p><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">There is a general circulation to OSM users asking for comments on the OSMF strategic Plan. Below you'll see the letter which has been sent out.</span></p>
<p><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">We especially ask OSMF Members to please review the Strategic Plan.</span></p>
<p><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Part B, about Community Development is the first part we ask you to review.</span></p>
<p><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">We'll send out invitations to review Part A, Part C and Part D at two week intervals.</span></p>
<p><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Please sent public responses to the OSM talk list or to the Discussion Board General Page. </span></p>
<p><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Private/Anonymous responses to <a href="mailto:strategy@osmfoundation.org" target="_blank">strategy@osmfoundation.org</a>.
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<p><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">thanks</span></p>
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<p><b><i>2023 Strategic Planning Cycle – Community Participation</i></b><br>
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The Board of the OpenStreetMap Foundation is revising its
Strategic Plan, and invites all OSMF members and the OSM
community to participate in this process.<br>
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The plan is quite large, so we want to discuss it with you in
four phases over the next two months. In each phase we focus on
a different aspect of strategic development for the OSMF.<br>
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The first phase will be “Cluster B: Community Development for
OSM”. We are looking for your comments for only this section for
the next two weeks. <br>
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If you click through the link to “<a href="https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Cluster_B" title="Cluster B" target="_blank">Cluster B: Community Development for OSM</a>”
you will find all the strategems in that cluster listed there.<br>
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We would especially like your feedback on just four questions:<br>
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<li>What is missing from the plan? Or put differently, what
should we add to the plan?<br>
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<li>Are there any inconsistencies in the plan? Does the plan
seem to be well aligned with the <a href="https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Mission_Statement" title="Mission Statement" target="_blank">OSMF Mission</a> and the direction
of the OSM movement? Where are any problems?<br>
</li>
<li>Which three strategems are most urgent? Which three must we
do really quickly?<br>
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<li>Which three strategems are very important? Which strategems
are critical for OpenStreetMap to succeed and grow?<br>
</li>
</ul>
<p>You may of course comment on anything else as well.<br>
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If there is debate on this topic on any of the hundreds of
social media sites that host OSM-related discussions, you could
help us greatly if a member of that site or channel please
prepare a summary of the comments and post it (in English) to
the team. We cannot follow all of the discussions on all social
media ourselves but we do care to hear your voices.<br>
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We will mainly follow feedback in these two places:<br>
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<li>The OSM community general forum on Discourse at <a href="https://community.openstreetmap.org/c/general/38/none" target="_blank">https://community.openstreetmap.org/c/general/38/none</a><br>
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<li>The OSM community mailing list which you can reach by
sending email to <a href="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">talk@openstreetmap.org</a><br>
</li>
</ul>
<p>You can send private comments to be read only by the strategy
team at <a href="mailto:strategy@osmfoundation.org" target="_blank">strategy@osmfoundation.org</a> or you can write individually
to Board members.<br>
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Due to our small team, we’d like comments to be in English.
Machine translation from your language is fine. We have used <a rel="nofollow" href="https://translate.google.com" target="_blank">https://translate.google.com</a>
and <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.deepl.com/en/translator" target="_blank">https://www.deepl.com/en/translator</a>
successfully but there are many others that work well.<br>
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Many Thanks<br>
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Craig Allan, Sarah Hoffmann, Allan Mustard
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