[Osmf-talk] 10th Annual General Meeting of the OSMF

[martin wass]

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I think I am allowed to post in here... Anyway,

The minuscule number of OSM members is appalling when considered against
the number of Projects which use OSM, often with large (paying)
memberships of their own. A common theme of the various Fora associated
with them is the lack of awareness that the OSM mapping is apart from
the user application. Could the various Projects be encouraged to
advertise the separate nature of OSM more and encourage financial
contributions? OSMAND already seems to do this by sending some money to
OSM contributors through their app; I don't know if it was initiated by
OSM or themselves.

Martin W

On 09/11/16 09:03, Christoph Hormann wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 November 2016, Frederik Ramm wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks - if i read this correctly that would mean membership
>>> numbers have dropped quite a bit (701 to 645) during the last year.
>>
>> Yes, that's what it looks like although I admit I was a bit surprised
>> myself when I compared the numbers. We have always had a certain
>> churn (often two-digit number of members dropping out every month)
>> but usually the new arrivals outnumbered those leaving. I, as well as
>> our membership workinggroup, have yet to get to grips with CiviCRM, I
>> bet it is possible to generate a month-on-month statistics like we
>> had before.
> 
> In the past significant increases in new signups were usually observab
le
> around events of publicity for the OSMF - like board elections or the 
> special GM in 2014.  From my perspective this year was very quiet 
> regarding OSMF matters.  Even things that happened (like the collectiv
e
> database guideline, the new corporate membership system and the OSM 
> awards) were kept fairly on the down low.
> 
> Depending on how competitive these elections are going to be there mig
ht
> be new signups during the remainder of the year that at least 
> compensate for the earlier decline.  But it is unlikely there will be 
an
> overall increase comparable to the last years.
> 
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