<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>Le 20 sept. 2012 à 18:59, Simon Poole a écrit :</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite">.<br></blockquote>While a more top down organisation of OSM a la Wikipedia or other organisations is imaginable, there has never been a community consensus that such a step would be desirable (if anything it is exactly the opposite). So while the OSMF provides the formal structure for the working groups, most policy decisions are not made or even vetted by the OSMF board, but are simply decided by the people interested in the issues at hand and (particularly in the case of the DWG) the people that do the work. Not to mention the far larger number of policies (tagging and others) that are not in the remit of any specific working group and are decided by the OSM community at large.<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; ">Yes, the OSMF has not be established as a topdown organization, but it has to fulfill </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; ">its commitments for maintaining the servers and the free data inside.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; ">Art. 4 of the Memorandum of Association :</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">"In support of the objects, but not otherwise, the Company shall have power to do </span></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">all things incidental or conducive to the attainment of the objects or any of them."</span></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; "><br></span></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">That includes responsibility for attaining the objects.</span></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; "><br></span></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">So, as we have a DWG a making tremendous efforts for maintaining a good policy</span></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">for the data (including the boring chase of proprietary ones), it may happen and it</span></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">will happen more and more that a projected decision exceed the field of the data</span></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">policy to </span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">jump into </span></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 24px; ">a "political" field.</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">In those rare cases, the Board of Directors has to be put in the loop, before going further.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">We have a good example with the recommendation of a special account muted without</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">announcement and explanation to an obligation.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">One more time, no personal reproach here.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">But from that example, the Board must think of the growing difficulties to handle and be</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">prepared for that.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">It will be no use saying DWG is appertaining to the community as it is no more and no</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">less than </span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 24px; ">an efficient working group fueled by the contributors propositions. </span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">Responsibility is up to the Board when speaking of rules applicable maybe to every </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">contributor </span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 24px; ">or for managing a tool or a resource specific to a part of the World.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 24px; "><br></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">Christian Rogel</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">OSMF Member</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; 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