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    <p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Joseph, et al,<br>
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    <p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">You'll be able to judge
        for yourself when you see the survey.  When the translations are
        done, we'll release it.  Until then, let's all observe the OSM
        Etiquette Guide [1] and "assume good faith".</font></p>
    <p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Surveys are conducted
        to collect information about what respondents think, believe,
        and prefer.  Those are the intentions of this survey, as they
        should be for all surveys.<br>
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    <p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">apm</font></p>
    <p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">[1]
        <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Etiquette">https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Etiquette</a></font></p>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/10/2021 12:30 PM, Joseph Eisenberg
      wrote:<br>
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              <div dir="ltr">Re: "<span
                  style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">As a
                  statistical economist, believe it or not I have
                  actually run surveys in the past, so am not a complete
                  novice, but if you have the names of people you'd like
                  the Board to talk to about surveys, please PM me."</span></div>
              <div dir="ltr"><span
                  style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br>
                </span></div>
              <div><span style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">We
                  are not questioning your competency or experience or
                  expertise. We are asking for transparency about the
                  intentions of this survey and how it was made.</span></div>
              <div><span style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br>
                </span></div>
              <div><span style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Since
                  you are an English-speaking American (like me), even
                  though you have international relations experience and
                  survey experience, it is quite possible that you and
                  the others who developed the survey have included
                  implicit biases.</span></div>
              <div><span style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br>
                </span></div>
              <div><span style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">It
                  is also possible that your pre-conceptions have led to
                  questions which presume a certain outcome. </span></div>
              <div><span style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br>
                </span></div>
              <div><span style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Please
                  read </span> <a
                  href="http://blog.imagico.de/on-surveying-the-surveyors/"
                  rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"
                  moz-do-not-send="true">http://blog.imagico.de/on-surveying-the-surveyors/</a> and
                respond especially to this comment about a previous
                survey: </div>
              <div><br>
              </div>
              <div><i>"<span
                    style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:"Droid
Sans",arial,sans-serif;font-size:15.199999809265137px">Due to the
                    cultural diversity of the OSM community surveying
                    the views of this community in a representative form
                    is practically impossible. The survey the OSMF board
                    made does not actually try to do this"</span></i></div>
              <div><span
                  style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:"Droid
Sans",arial,sans-serif;font-size:15.199999809265137px"><br>
                </span></div>
              Do you consider this survey to be an attempt to get a
              representative sample of views from the wider community? <br>
              <br>
              Do you expect to make changes to the OSMF board plans and
              priorities based on new ideas or unexpected problems
              brought up by the survey?
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                  color="#777777"><span
                    style="font-size:15.199999809265137px"><br>
                  </span></font></div>
              <div>Or do you expect the results to<span
                  style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:"Droid
Sans",arial,sans-serif;font-size:15.199999809265137px"><i> "more or
                    less confirm the image [you have] of the views and
                    priorities of the more articulated parts of the
                    English speaking parts of the international OSM
                    community].</i></span><font face="Droid Sans, arial,
                  sans-serif" color="#777777"><span
                    style="font-size:15.199999809265137px"><br>
                  </span></font></div>
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              <div>-- Joseph Eisenberg</div>
              <div><br>
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              <div>-- Joseph Eisenberg</div>
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      <div class="gmail_quote">
        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 8:43
          AM Allan Mustard <<a
            href="mailto:allan.mustard@osmfoundation.org"
            moz-do-not-send="true">allan.mustard@osmfoundation.org</a>>
          wrote:<br>
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            <p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">John:  We are
                casting the net as widely as possible, so please amplify
                this message through your preferred communications
                channels.  We will circulate the URL for the survey via
                talk lists, which will allow anyone with a valid email
                address to request a single-use token that will allow
                the respondent to participate in the survey once.  In
                theory individuals with multiple email addresses could
                respond multiple times, but we will abide by the OSM
                Etiquette Guidelines and "assume good faith".  The
                target audience is the broad OSM community--anybody who
                creates, supports, or uses OSM data.  <br>
              </font></p>
            <p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">As a
                statistical economist, believe it or not I have actually
                run surveys in the past, so am not a complete novice,
                but if you have the names of people you'd like the Board
                to talk to about surveys, please PM me.</font></p>
            <p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Imre:  Lime
                Survey allows only one entry for English.  BTW, if you
                live in Budapest, stop by Gerbeaud's and have a piece of
                Dobos tort for me...</font></p>
            <p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">cheers,<br>
                apm  </font><br>
            </p>
            <div>On 1/10/2021 9:56 AM, john whelan wrote:<br>
            </div>
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              <div dir="auto">One of the biggest problems is the
                sample.  Ideally you need to decide on your target
                audience.  Is it anyone who has ever signed up or anyone
                who has mapped more than five times in the last
                two years?  Or even anyone who has an interest?  That
                could be consumers of the data.
                <div dir="auto"><br>
                </div>
                <div dir="auto">I'd suggest a random sample, extract a
                  list of users who meet the criteria.  Then look at the
                  sample size.  There are mathematical rules about how
                  large a sample size should be.</div>
                <div dir="auto"><br>
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                <div dir="auto">You have their email addreses, check the
                  privacy laws but I think you should be able to contact
                  them directly.</div>
                <div dir="auto"><br>
                </div>
                <div dir="auto">Ballot stuffing, send the link with
                  number in it so it can only be used once.</div>
                <div dir="auto"><br>
                </div>
                <div dir="auto">Respondent burden, if you sample 10%
                  twice a year that should give you enough information
                  and mean you don't bug people very often.</div>
                <div dir="auto"><br>
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                <div dir="auto">Talk to people who run surveys.</div>
                <div dir="auto"><br>
                </div>
                <div dir="auto">Cheerio John<br>
                  <div dir="auto"><br>
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                  <div dir="auto"><br>
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              <div class="gmail_quote">
                <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jan 10, 2021,
                  09:30 Imre Samu <<a
                    href="mailto:pella.samu@gmail.com" target="_blank"
                    moz-do-not-send="true">pella.samu@gmail.com</a>>
                  wrote:<br>
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                  <div dir="ltr">> which is now being translated into
                    multiple languages, <br>
                    > and which we hope will be ready for release in
                    several languages on or about January 15<sup>th</sup>.<br>
                    <br>
                    Is it possible to add a "Simple/Basic English" [1] 
                    translation as an experiment ?
                    <div><br>
                    </div>
                    <div>So expecting:<br>
                      -  basic english words ( <=1000 basic words) <br>
                      -  basic grammar , no short forms  ( so 'you're'
                      --> 'you are' ) </div>
                    <div>-  basic OSM knowledge ( no special words like:
                      SotM )<br>
                    </div>
                    <div>   - "State of the Map conference"  -->
                      "OpenStreetMap conference"</div>
                    <div><br>
                    </div>
                    <div>probably too late for this survey ... maybe in
                      the future.</div>
                    <div><br>
                    </div>
                    IMHO:   We need to invent a <b>polite MapSpeak </b>language<b>
                    </b>( ~ OpenStreetMap Community Mappers
                    Communication Phrases )
                    <div>    (  ~ "designed to facilitate <b>non-violent
                        communication </b>between mappers" ) <span
                        style="color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">like
                        a Seaspeak [2]</span>
                      <div><span
                          style="color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"> </span>
                        <div>thanks</div>
                        <div>  Imre</div>
                        <div>  ( native hungarian,  from a country with
                          ~20% total English speakers[3] )</div>
                        <div><br>
                        </div>
                        <div>
                          <div>[1] <a
                              href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_English"
                              rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"
                              moz-do-not-send="true">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_English</a></div>
                        </div>
                        <div>[2] <a
                            href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaspeak"
                            rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"
                            moz-do-not-send="true">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaspeak</a></div>
                        <div>[3] <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-speaking_population"
                            rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"
                            moz-do-not-send="true">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-speaking_population</a></div>
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                  <div class="gmail_quote">
                    <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Allan Mustard <<a
                        href="mailto:allan.mustard@osmfoundation.org"
                        rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"
                        moz-do-not-send="true">allan.mustard@osmfoundation.org</a>>
                      ezt írta (időpont: 2021. jan. 10., V, 2:47):<br>
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                          <p class="MsoNormal">Fellow mappers and OSM
                            community members,</p>
                          <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                          <p class="MsoNormal">The OpenStreetMap
                            Foundation Board of Directors has prepared a
                            survey, which is now being translated into
                            multiple languages, and which we hope will
                            be ready for release in several languages on
                            or about January 15<sup>th</sup>.  Please be
                            on the lookout for announcement of it, and
                            please alert your colleagues through other
                            communications channels (social media, talk
                            channels, whatever) that it is coming and to
                            be on the lookout for it.  Please feel free
                            to amplify this message in other languages
                            and through other comms channels.  We want
                            maximum participation in the survey!  We
                            want to know what you are thinking!  Please
                            participate in the survey when it comes out,
                            and please alert others so they participate,
                            too!  </p>
                          <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                          <p class="MsoNormal">While I have your
                            attention, Happy New Year—let’s hope we can
                            soon put COVID-19 behind us, all get
                            vaccinated, and look forward to a mappier
                            2021!</p>
                          <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                          <p class="MsoNormal">Cheers,</p>
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                            <p class="MsoNormal">apm</p>
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                          <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span
                                style="font-size:9pt">Allan Mustard</span></i></p>
                          <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span
                                style="font-size:9pt">Chairperson, Board
                                of Directors</span></i></p>
                          <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span
                                style="font-size:9pt">OpenStreetMap
                                Foundation</span></i></p>
                          <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span
                                style="font-size:9pt"><a
                                  href="http://www.osmfoundation.org"
                                  rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"
                                  moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.osmfoundation.org</a></span></i></p>
                          <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span
                                style="font-size:9pt"><a
                                  href="http://www.openstreetmap.org"
                                  rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"
                                  moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.openstreetmap.org</a></span></i></p>
                          <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                          <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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                      _______________________________________________<br>
                      talk mailing list<br>
                      <a href="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org"
                        rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"
                        moz-do-not-send="true">talk@openstreetmap.org</a><br>
                      <a
                        href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk"
                        rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank"
                        moz-do-not-send="true">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk</a><br>
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                  _______________________________________________<br>
                  talk mailing list<br>
                  <a href="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org"
                    rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"
                    moz-do-not-send="true">talk@openstreetmap.org</a><br>
                  <a
                    href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk"
                    rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank"
                    moz-do-not-send="true">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk</a><br>
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            <div>-- <br>
              -------<br>
              <i>Allan Mustard, Chairperson</i><br>
              <i>Board of Directors</i><br>
              <i>OpenStreetMap Foundation</i></div>
          </div>
          _______________________________________________<br>
          talk mailing list<br>
          <a href="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank"
            moz-do-not-send="true">talk@openstreetmap.org</a><br>
          <a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk"
            rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk</a><br>
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    <div class="moz-signature">-- <br>
      -------<br>
      <i>Allan Mustard, Chairperson</i><br>
      <i>Board of Directors</i><br>
      <i>OpenStreetMap Foundation</i></div>
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