[OSM-legal-talk] Copyright of OSM-Logo

[80n]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Jochen Topf <jochen at remote.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 04:52:32PM -0000, Peter Miller wrote:
> > One of the concerns might be that the low membership base of the
> foundation
> > would make it easy for 'bad-co' to dominate the membership and therefore
> > control the voting for the board. I think we may need to address this at
> the
> > same time as the foundation gains control of these core assets. Btw, is
>
> Good point. Until now I have always hold back on applying for membership,
> because I wanted to wait till it becomes clear whether it makes more
> sense to become the member of a local chapter or directly a member of
> the foundation.
>
> But this might be the time for myself to apply for membership and to start
> a
> membership drive to broaden the base to make the Foundation stronger
> against the threat of hostile takeovers.
>
> I looked on foundation.openstreetmap.org and am a bit confused as to the
> process. I can't find a membership application form. The articles of the
> association say the board needs to approve the membership. Is it enough
> to just wire the money? And do I get it back if the application is
> denied? :-)
>

Yes, you can just send the money, there's no complicated forms to fill in ;)

The current process is that everyone is automatically accepted.  The words
in the articles of association are standard boilerplate and I assume they
are there to give the board a way of defending against carpet bagging [1]
style attacks.

80n

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpetbagger





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