[Osmf-talk] Use of osmfoundation.org email addresses and role of opengeodata.org

[Henk Hoff]

The decision to go public has been made via the OSMF board.

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Henk

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Op 18 jan. 2012 om 11:00 heeft Andy Allan <gravitystorm at gmail.com> het volgende geschreven:

> On 18 January 2012 08:37, Steve Coast <steve at asklater.com> wrote:
> 
>>> I think that, to avoid confusion, @osmfoundation.org e-mail addresses should only be used in OSMF business and not when signing private publications.
>> 
>> You need to establish if it was in fact private for a start. Just because Tom went on a rant doesn't mean I, Mikel or Grant don't stand behind a post.
> 
> It's not a question of whether you "stand behind" a post or not, it's
> a question of misrepresentation of OSMF.
> 
> If you three were acting on behalf of OSMF, then I find your behaviour
> slightly surprising. As Tom was informed this is not a statement
> approved by the Foundation Board, nor the Management Committee, nor
> was it published by the Communications Working Group. Given that it
> wasn't approved by any of those three bodies, I don't see how it could
> be considered an official OSMF statement, and as an official statement
> it would be strange for it not to be on osmfoundation.org.
> 
> But if it's not an official OSMF statement, I find your behaviour even
> more strange. Acting as "members of the community", you took private
> information - IP addresses, server logs - that is not publicly
> available, and published them without any authorisation from the OSMF
> on a privately-run blog. Moreover, while acting completely outwith the
> remit of the OSMF, the three of you signed this personal blog post
> with your osmfoundation email addresses.
> 
> So which was it - an official OSMF statement, or three people posting
> a blog post?
> 
> There are clearly lessons to be learned from this, so first some
> clarity on this key point is required.
> 
> Thanks,
> Andy
> 
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