[Osmf-talk] Elections: Avoid Mandate Creep

[ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen]

>>When was OSM-F given a "mandate to make decisions that the community then had to follow"? How?

>If it was not, what gave it legitimacy to exclude members from the community, for example?



 

 

Members were not excluded from the community, just excluded to contribute...

 

For the rest : OSMF mandate was self established, and supported later

by the community in a implicit way, I mean:  no-one send them away

and no-one approved.

 

 

 

Gert Gremmen

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Van: Jean-Guilhem Cailton [mailto:jgc at arkemie.com] 
Verzonden: Monday, November 14, 2011 2:08 PM
Aan: Tom Chance
CC: osmf-talk at openstreetmap.org
Onderwerp: Re: [Osmf-talk] Elections: Avoid Mandate Creep

 

Sorry, I forgot an important point.

Le 14/11/2011 13:43, Jean-Guilhem Cailton a écrit : 

Le 14/11/2011 12:14, Tom Chance a écrit : 

 

But it's not unusual for free software projects, artists collectives and other peers producing in a commons to adopt a mixed democratic/technocratic governance structure. I used to be a member of KDE e.V., for example, which had a mandate to make decisions that the community then had to follow, and gave legitimacy to technocrats who led on big technical decisions like major API changes.


I may have missed an episode since I joined OSM relatively recently (less than 2 years ago).

When was OSM-F given a "mandate to make decisions that the community then had to follow"? How?

If it was not, what gave it legitimacy to exclude members from the community, for example?


Jean-Guilhem




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