<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span></span> <span style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;"><span><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span><b>2012-09-8 </b><b>Frederik Ramm</b>
frederik at remote.org
</span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span></span></span><pre><span style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">> DWG does not usually block people without talking to them first, unless
> they are in the process of breaking things.<br><span><br><span><span><span>Frederik,<br><br>Governance and role of local communities should be looked in a context of multinational, multicultural organization. OSM has to adapt to this reality.<br><br>I was surprised to see the long list of users blocked without the local community be involved in the process (http://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/). Spoken language and cultural aspects are important elements to consider.<br><br>The local community should have the responsability to first contact a mapper. The DWG role should be reserved for more serious matters.<br> <br>The Québec community is not important and I would like to see it progress. There are political and linguistic tensions in many countries. If a non-english speaking contributor receives an email, with more or less agressives expressions about his mapping, that is very
improductive for our organization. <br><br>The role of the local community should be looked more carefully and OSMF working groups should be more transparent.<br><br>How often the DWG group has communicate with the local communities to let them know what this group is doing? <br></span></span></span><br></span><span style="font-style:italic;color:rgb(0, 0, 191);font-weight:bold;"><span>Pierre </span></span></span></span></pre> </div><div><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div style="font-family: garamond, new york, times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </div> </blockquote></div> </div></body></html>