[Osmf-talk] Anonymous Membership for OSMF

[Simon Poole]

Not the board, but given that I was heavily involved in actually
implementing the associate membership scheme, I suppose I can comment.

The main reason for the associate membership was to circumvent the
requirement to make full personal information available of the members
to all comers on request (that is address, when they were members and
so, essentially for ever). The associate membership clearly solves this
issue.

At the time we had a longish discussion on what information we should
request and store for the associate members internally and while I'm not
totally sure, I think the conclusion was that we would at least store
e-mail and OSM display name.

Now while in principle that would allow more or less to become a member
with a pseudonym,  there are only a limited set of ways to pay the
membership fees anonymously and for all other, non-anonymous, payment
methods you are going to run afoul of legal record keeping requirements
in any case. As a result I don't think this is a big issue, as long as
this remain confidential OSMF information (because as pointed out above
the register of associate members is not available for public inspection).

Simon

PS: naturally the argument that the new CRM system requires real names
is ridiculous given that you can easily generate a pseudonym from the
OSM displayname



Am 18.02.2016 um 22:24 schrieb Christoph (TheFive at OSM):
> Hi Board,
>
> before 2 years i become a member of the OSMF Foundation. The associated member ship allowed me, not to publish my personal „identity“ as with the start of my OSM Work i decided to keep my real name as much as possible hidden.
>
> As we are all mappers, this is a comprehensible approach, mappers are publishing a lot personal data. 
>
> I have asked the Foundation, wether it is possible to become an anonymous (only with my OSM Username) registrated member. This was no problem,
> I was told, that the payment details are only for payment and not stored in the membership database.
>
> Time goes by, i prolonged my membership and the OSMF got a new membership system.
>
> As i tried to prolong my membership i was really scared, because the prolongation suggests my real name. 
>
> So - against that was told me at the start - my name was used for the database.
>
> I have ask the membership responsible to delete my data, as the trust i have brought against the OSMF, that they won’t use my real name was broken.
>
> The only answer i got was, that the new system makes real names necessary.
>
>
>
> Christoph 
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