[OSM-dev] Restarting the EWG

[Christoph Hormann]

Replying to Jochen and Frederik together here for compacting things.

Thanks for the replies, although i would still be very much interested in the board's thoughts on the matter these comments already provide some valuable views.

Since neither you nor me are pure hobby volunteers in OSM, us discussing how convincing your replies to my first question are is pretty academic.  Actual hobby volunteers will ultimately have to answer that.

Regarding the second question both of you seem to see no problem with the preference for "people whose work we know and enjoy" paradigm regarding money spending and personnel selection choices in an organization like the OSMF.  That is where our views seem to fundamentally differ.  A deeper open discussion on the matter within the OSM community would be fundamentally important (and i tried to incite such a discussion in the past on several occasions) but this list is certainly not the right place for that.

Since Jochen brought the discussion a bit on personal motivation for volunteer work a few notes on that from my side - to maybe make it easier for others to understand why i choose to engage in certain volunteer activities but not in others.  For volunteer contributions in OSM i chose those fields where i can make difference through the quality of my work - either craftsmanship in practical work or solid analysis, arguments and reasoning in more abstract matters.  I deliberately and fairly categorically stay out of matters where i would have to negotiate with the interests of others independent of arguments and reason w.r.t. the common good.

If that disqualifies me for a leadership position or even fully in having a substantial influence on decisions in the prevailing organizational culture of the OSMF i am fine with that.

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Christoph Hormann 
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