[Osmf-talk] AGM and board elections

[Oleksiy Muzalyev]

On the advisory board of the Wikimedia Foundation 
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Advisory_Board there are, at least, 
one representative from India and two from Africa, from the Republic of 
South Africa and Namibia.

I can reach this page of the Advisory Board and the page of Board of 
Trustees from any page of Wikipedia just in two clicks. On these pages 
there are photos and textual information about the officers and trustees.

There is good satellite imagery for the city of  Windhoek, the capital 
of Namibia, in JOSM, and there are many modern buildings to map. Africa 
is going online via the network of very fast submarine cables 
https://manypossibilities.net/african-undersea-cables/

It is not a big change to make the OSMF Officers & Board page more 
visible and similar to the Wikimedia Foundation's analogue.

I agree that a political correctness for the sake of political 
correctness is useless, but if in future there is a good mapper and and 
an organizer from, say, Namibia or Tanzania, why not? Especially if it 
attracts an attention, improves trust and helps to map these immense 
countries.

brgds
Oleksiy (Alex-7)

On 20.09.2014 10:47, Severin Menard wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Representation of all the (sub-) continents would also improve the 
> diversity.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Severin
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Oleksiy Muzalyev 
> <oleksiy.muzalyev at bluewin.ch <mailto:oleksiy.muzalyev at bluewin.ch>> wrote:
>
>     Perhaps it's time to begin to think about a rule that the board
>     shall include at least two women? And in future 4/3?
>
>
> +1 - Even if the Board doesn't think that rule is appropriate, we 
> should reach out to encourage more gender diversity on the Board. I 
> don't know the make up of men vs women in OSM, but I suspect we could 
> do much more to promote more to encourage more women to be involved.
>
>
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