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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The OSM Foundation
Board of Directors needs your feedback on actions it took in
2020 plus your sentiments regarding controversial questions, and
asks for some demographic data (optional) so we can understand
better both the survey data and the structure of the community.
Coincidentally, the survey is divided into “Feedback”,
“Community Sentiment”, and “Demographic Data (optional)”.<br>
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After seven days, the OSMF 2021 Survey of the OSMverse has
received 1,918 responses in total, of which 1,424 are “full”
responses (that is, they include the optional demographic data).<br>
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A sum of 1,918 total responses means the survey features a 2.24%
confidence interval at the 95% confidence level, and a 2.95%
confidence interval at the 99% confidence level. The survey thus
features a confidence interval under 3%! This is good validation
of the sample, though I suspect it still suffers from a European
and North American bias. Male respondents also dominate the
sample quite heavily. Therefore: please spread the word,
especially to colleagues in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, and
to women and non-binary mappers! And data users! And software
developers! And systems folks! Everyone in the OSM community!<br>
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We are shooting for a 2% confidence interval at the 95%
confidence level, for which we need a minimum sample of 2,401
“full” respondents, and preferably they will be distributed
geographically. Since about a quarter of respondents so far have
declined to provide demographic data, this implies we need to
hit 3,201 “total” responses or thereabouts.<br>
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So please encourage your mapping friends and colleagues, data
users, anyone involved in OSM you can think of, to take the
survey! It only takes about 5 to 10 minutes to answer 18
questions, and so far is available in 16 languages (English,
Chinese (Traditional; Taiwan), French, German, Indonesian,
Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Polish, Portuguese
(Brazilian), Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese).
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Please amplify this
message through your favorite communications channels (other
talk lists, social media, newsletters) and translate it into any
other languages you know. The Board needs the doocracy to help
get this message out!<br>
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The URL of the survey
is <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://osmf.limequery.org/281662">https://osmf.limequery.org/281662</a></font><br>
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<i>Allan Mustard, Chairperson</i><br>
<i>Board of Directors</i><br>
<i>OpenStreetMap Foundation</i></div>
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