<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Good poll</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span>I chose the "more fine-grained answer".</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span>In super short, I think another related organization
might be best to work with corporate users and contributors, and that organization could relate to OSMF through the local chapters mechanism (which I think should support not only geographic chapters, but topical chapters). This is similarly to how HOT works with the humanitarian world. It gears OSMF towards a more federated governance model, where the key thing becomes how the Foundation and the Chapters relate. It could help increase participation and voice of the OSM community, by establishing a number of more organized channels for expression of membership voices.</span></div><div> </div><div>* Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> <div
dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Frederik Ramm <frederik@remote.org><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Talk Openstreetmap <talk@openstreetmap.org>; "osmf-talk@openstreetmap.org" <osmf-talk@openstreetmap.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, October 25, 2012 5:03 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Osmf-talk] Corporate OSMF Members<br> </font> </div> <br>Hi,<br><br> in the coming years, the OSMF will re-work their articles of association which are currently very old fashioned and geared more towards a British manufacturing firm than towards an international mass membership nonprofit (FSVO "mass").<br><br>This is going to be a long-ish process in which all of you will have a chance to participate. (If this sounds like the process was laid out already - rest assured not even
that is the case. I just know it is going to be long, and it would be stupid not to allow everyone to participiate.)<br><br>But there's one thing that I would like to get a quick straw poll on, from as many OSMers as possible: Would you like or dislike the OSMF to accept corporate members?<br><br>Corporate membership is a complex topic; there are myriad models of how it could be handled and this is certainly a discussion we are going to have in the future.<br><br>But for now, without further ado, would you be willing to record your opinion in this little poll I've made?<br><br><a href="http://polls.cc/cyzooQ/" target="_blank">http://polls.cc/cyzooQ/</a><br><br>The question is: "Should companies be accepted as members of the OpenStreetMap Foundation?" and the four options are<br><br>* No, only real people should be members.<br>* Yes, just like real people.<br>* Yes, as "supporting members" without voting rights.<br>* The poll needs to be more
fine-grained than this.<br><br>Bye<br>Frederik<br><br>-- Frederik Ramm ## eMail <a ymailto="mailto:frederik@remote.org" href="mailto:frederik@remote.org">frederik@remote.org</a> ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33"<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>osmf-talk mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:osmf-talk@openstreetmap.org" href="mailto:osmf-talk@openstreetmap.org">osmf-talk@openstreetmap.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/osmf-talk" target="_blank">http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/osmf-talk</a><br><br><br> </div> </div> </blockquote></div> </div></body></html>