<div dir="ltr"><div>There is a Strategic Working Group, now dormant, in the OSMF. It was created with the intent of planning for the future and providing recommendations to the board and management team. Those interested first met on line on the strategic@[2] mailing list in May 2010, then in person, at State of the Map - Girona, in July 2010. <br>
<br>Minutes from SWG meetings[3] exist from November 2010 to December 2011, along with attendance and irc logs. <br><br></div><div>The major accomplishments that I recall from SWG were the guest tile policy, and the AoA subcommittee. SWG established a method by which tile sets (rendering styles, from a non-OSMF server) could be evaluated for inclusion in the layer switcher on <a href="http://osm.org">osm.org</a>[4]. This was a matter of some interest on the mailing lists, at the time. The AoA subcommittee examined the foundation articles of association for revision and refinement. <br>
<br></div><div>There were discussions of various other topics, including "what do do about the <a href="http://osm.org">osm.org</a> web page". That's a topic that was hardly ever discussed, before, or since. :-) <br>
</div><div><div><br></div><div>The future SWG will face some of the same challenges as the previous version. IMHO. Firstly, OSM can mean different things to different people. We are a diverse bunch. SWG is unlikely to put every diverse interest as first priority in their planning and advice. Secondly, attendance will continue to be a challenge. Thirdly, the work is without glamour and for little reward; advice from those non-first priority interests will be offered vigorously and often. Fourthly, the worthwhile accomplishments will be more time-consuming. <br>
<br></div><div>The members of future SWG will see the same benefits that members of other OSMF Working Groups see. Firstly, they'll get regular contact with awesome, committed, thoughtful, clever, OSM contributors from diverse backgrounds with diverse interests. Secondly, they'll get to collaborate with those people on interesting questions and to provide worthy, thoughtful potential answers. Thirdly, they'll get to learn and share their experiences. <br>
</div><div><br><br></div><div><br>[1] <a href="http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Strategic_Working_Group">http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Strategic_Working_Group</a><br>[2] <a href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/strategic" target="_blank">http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/strategic</a><br>
[3] <a href="http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Working_Group_Minutes#Strategic_Working_Group">http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Working_Group_Minutes#Strategic_Working_Group</a><br>[4] <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Strategic_working_group/New_Tile_Layer_Guidelines">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Strategic_working_group/New_Tile_Layer_Guidelines</a><br>
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